Something Good for Your Head

Product Description:
Reissue of previously unreleased 1966 album of West Co ast, boy-girl & folk rock tracks by contemporaries of the Byrds & Jefferson Airplane, with members of Country Joe & The Fish, Grass Roots and Ventures/ Monkees session guitarist Jerry McGhee backing. 20 tracks, including the single 'Stranger In A Strange Land', plus 'Post-War Baby' & 'Pass This Way' (Backing Track) added as bonus tracks. 1999 release.

Tracks:

Stranger In A Strange Land
Yes Today
Takin' It Easy
Time
It's So Hard
Do You Realize
Sure Or Sorry
Unchain My Heart
Uptown-Downtown
Some Days I Feel Your Lovin'
Post-War Baby
Think
No Kidding
I Recall The Day
Every Day Brings Better Things
Stand Here
I Don't Want You Back Babe
Stop Leanin' On Me
Post-War Baby (Alternate Version)
Pass This Way (Backing Track)

Product Description

1. Stranger In A Strange Land (2:27)
2. Yes Today (3:24)
3. Takin' It Easy (3:23)
4. Time (2:56)
5. It's So Hard (3:07)
6. Do You Realize (3:35)
7. Sure Or Sorry (2:27)
8. Unchain My Heart (1:48)
9. Uptown Downtown (2:12)
10. Some Days I Feel Your Lovin' (3:09)
11. Post-War Baby (1:49)
12. Think (2:17)
13. No Kidding (1:57)
14. I Recall The Day (2:50)
15. Every Day Brings Better Things (3:18)
16. Stand Here (2:40)
17. I Don't Want You Back Babe (1:31)
18. Stop Leanin' On Me (2:15)
19. Post-War Baby - (alternate version) (1:45)
20. Pass This Way - (backing track) (3:12)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Why did this partnership not make it big?.......2004-01-10

If you've heard the instrumental version of Stranger In A Strange Land on the expanded Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! CD and wondered how it would have sounded with words, this is the long-lost album that you've been waiting for. If I were rating this track alone, I'd give 5 stars.

The song is credited to Samuel F. Omar, who is actually supposed to have been David Crosby and the lyrics are certainly original, but the melody is reminiscent of the traditional Wayfaring Stranger, covered by H.P. Lovecraft on their Live, May 11 1968 album.

However, that's not to belittle the other tracks on this album that went unreleased until 1999. 18 of the 20 were penned by Jeff Blackburn and the backing musicians include We Five and members of Country Joe & The Fish, The Grass Roots and Ventures/Monkees session guitarist Jerry McGhee.

Blackburn & Snow sound like a San Franciscan version of LA's The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, with shades of The Mamas & The Papas, Sonny & Cher, The Turtles and Paul Revere & The Raiders here and there. It's welcoming to discover from the extensive booklet that Sherry (Sharan) Snow knew Paul Kantner and was offered the position of lead vocalist in Jefferson Airplane in 1966. It wouldn't have happened, but imagining Sherry and Jeff fronting Jefferson Airplane instead of Grace Slick and Marty Balin is food for thought indeed.

Overlooked? Forgotten? Why?.......2003-10-08

I spend a lot of time looking for lost acts of the 60s and 70s. I consider myself something of a friend to the obscure and yet because I am an East Coaster I was never aware of this duo. Thanks to Richie Unterberger's dbl. volume set of writings on the Folk-Rock scene in the 60s I tracked this down. Damn. Kind of Mama's and Papas meets Buffalo Springfield or the Byrds? Blackburn sounds a little like Marty Balin. Snow's incredible. I'm in love. I'm 16 and it's 1967 and I wanna move to SF and put flowers in my hair man. She's incredible. Why did they only have one single! She's got the look. Was friends with everybody. Almost replaced Signe in the Airplane before Grace. Oh my oh my. And a total secret to me (And I pay attention!) until this week. All blonde and Cali gorgeous. If you like that folky 60's stuff at all this is for you. And guitarist Jerry McGee (of the Ventures, etc.) adds some tasty licks. And then of course the question remains--why do less talented folks make it? why do gifted folks fall by the wayside?

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