THE AEROVONS | World Of You: The Complete Recordings coming soon…
• First-ever complete anthology of teenage American band who recorded an unreleased, heavily Beatles-influenced album at Abbey Road in 1969.
• Includes the full album, outtakes, demos, alternative versions, solo recordings and no less than eleven previously unissued tracks.
After a locally-recorded demo attracted the interest of Capitol Records, The Aerovons – Beatles-obsessed teenagers from St. Louis, Missouri - persuaded the company to let them approach EMI with a view to recording at Abbey Road.
Three separate visits to England followed, with an impressed EMI overseeing an Aerovons album, recorded March-June 1969 in between the group's trips to Carnaby Street and starstruck encounters with various Beatles and Hollies members.
Two singles – including the stunning 'World Of You' – were issued in the UK, but Parlophone cancelled the album's release at test pressing stage after the group suffered personnel issues that left them unable to promote it.
Leader Tom Hartman went on to record as a solo act before returning to his studies, but The Aerovons remained a dropped stitch in time until their lost-in-action album was finally disinterred and, as Resurrection, given a long-overdue release by the rpm label in 2003.
Greeted by ecstatic reviews, ‘Resurrection’ belatedly established The Aerovons as one of the forerunners of the 70s power pop genre, their heavily Beatles-influenced sound residing in the same ballpark as the likes of fellow Anglophiles Nazz and The Raspberries.
A 2CD digipack set, ‘World Of You’ features that stillborn 1969 album, various demos and alternative versions from the same period as well as Tom Hartman's 1971 solo single and a clutch of subsequent home studio recordings that follow the trail of musical breadcrumbs left behind by his teenage band.
Featuring eleven previously unreleased tracks, ‘World Of You’ is the final, definitive word on a group whose story reads more like a fan fiction fantasy than the real-life adventures of American teens suddenly transported to the heart of the late 60s British music industry.
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DISC ONE 1 WORLD OF YOU 2 RESURRECTION 3 SAY GEORGIA 4 WITH HER 5 QUOTES AND PHOTOS 6 WORDS FROM A SONG 7 BESSY GOODHEART 8 SOMETHING OF YOURS 9 SHE'S NOT DEAD 10 THE YEARS 11 EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT 12 THE CHILDREN 13 THE TRAIN 14 A SONG FOR JANE 15 HERE 16 WORLD OF YOU (original 1967 demo) 17 THE CHILDREN (alternative version, lead vocals Phil Edholm) 18 EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT (alternative version) 19 WORLD OF YOU (alternative version) 20 THE TRAIN (alternative version, rhythm track, no strings) 1, 3 Single, UK Parlophone R 5804, released September 1969 2, 4-12 Recorded 1969, first released 2003 13, 14 Single, UK Parlophone R 5790, released July 1969 15, 16 Demos, recorded 1967, first released 2003 17-20 Recorded 1968, previously unreleased
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DISC TWO 1 STOPPED! (original demo) 2 SUNSHINE WOMAN 3 A LITTLE MORE (original version) 4 SUNSHINE WOMAN (backing track) 5 STOPPED! 6 SHADES OF BLUE 7 ME AND MY BOMB 8 YOU AND ME 9 SO SORRY 10 A LITTLE MORE 11 THE WAY THINGS WENT TONIGHT 12 SWINGING LONDON 13 LITTLE RED ROCKET 14 HERE 15 AIRLINE 59 16 MARY'S PURPLE VILLAGE 17 1968 18 JUST WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR 1 Recorded 1970, first released 2004 2, 3 Tom Hartman solo single, USA Bell 998, released May 1971 4 Recorded 1970, previously unreleased 5-12 Recorded 1980-2020, first released 2021 13-18 Recorded 2020-2024, previously unreleased |
