"The Rising Sun-Born To Be Wild-1969 Canada":

Totally unknown Toronto outfit The Rising Sun and their sole recorded effort, Born To Be Wild, with its fabulously-cheesy cover, duly appeared on Birchmount Records in 1969.

Psychedelics meets funk, some very inspired fuzzy cover tracks, like Hendrix (Fire), Steppenwolf (Born To Be Wild) and some pure joyful soul/funk ala Sly and the Family Stone.Many of the tracks on this album are self-penned and most of them are pretty good.

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"Christmas -S/T-1970 Canada ":

Christmas was formed in 1969 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, out of the ashes of the cult underground psychedelic band Reign Ghost.

In July 1970, Christmas released an independent self-titled debut that brought some media attention to the band and a contract with the Daffodil Records label. Their first album consists of three Bryden compositions characterized by lovely vocals and guitar work and two instrumentals composed by the whole band. One of these, the ambitious Jungle Fabulous, accounts for all of side 2.

Members:

Helge Richter: Drums

Robert Bulger: Guitar

Tyler Raizenne: Bass

Bob Bryden: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

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"Spring-S/T-1971 UK":

Spring, from Leicestershire was one of many British prog rock bands that was not very well known, but their album is a wonderful example of early progressive rock. And if you're a Mellotron fan, then you gotta own this album, since the band is credited with three guys playing Mellotron (vocalist Pat Moran, guitarist Ray Martinez, and keyboardist Kips Brown).
Another musician of note in this band was drummer Pick Withers (who was then known as Picque Withers). This guy would later be a member of Dire Straits, but Spring's music is way different from the sound of that band. In fact Spring's music is more like early British prog acts as Beggars Opera, Cressida, Fantasy, or even the Moody Blues.

Members:

Pat Moran: vocals, Mellotron

Ray Martinez: lead guitar, Mellotron, twelve-string guitar

Adrian `Bone` Maloney: bass

Pique Withers: drums, glockenspiel

Kips Brown: piano, organ, Mellotron

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"Thundertree-S/T-1970 US":

A Minneapolis band whose album transgresses psychedelia and progressivism.

Musically their 70s album was pretty impressive. Featuring all original material, tracks such as the side long suite "1225" which powered by Hallquist's solo, starts out like a ton of bricks.

"Head Embers", "Summertime Children" and "In the Morning" (the latter including a great fuzz guitar solo), offered up an attractive mix of psych and more rock oriented moves.It's now becoming a minor collectable and is hard to find.

There are lots of ideas on this album and if you're into psychedelic guitar and keyboards this is one for you.

Members:
BILL HALLQUIST:vocals, guitar
RICK Lia BRAATEN:drums
JOHN MIESEN:organ
TERRY TILLEY: bass
DERVIN WALLIN:vocals

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"Babe Ruth-First Base-1972 UK":

Formed in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, in 1971, this engaging progressive rock group was originally named Shacklock after founding guitarist Alan Shacklock.
Janita "Jenny" Haan (vocals), Chris Holmes (keyboards and organ), Dave Punshon (piano), Dave Hewitt (bass) and Dick Powell (drums) completed the initial line-up, which took its new name from the legendary American baseball player. First Base, which included "Wells Fargo', a popular stage favourite, enhanced the quintet's growing reputation, much of which rested on Haan's raw delivery.

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"The Uniques - Uniquely Yours - 1966 US":

Joe Stampley began his ascent to country stardom, he fronted a Louisiana rock band, the Uniques, who were quite popular in the South, although national attention eluded them. His interest in music dates to boyhood, when he listened to his father's Hank Williams records and learned to play piano before he was ten years of age.

The Uniques were based out of Shreveport, the largest city near Springhill, and began performing in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. They were adept at blue-eyed soul, covering William Bell's "You Don't Miss Your Water" and Art Neville's "All These Things," landing a huge regional hit with the latter tune.

They were also capable of waxing good, original, Southern-flavored pop-rock, especially on "Not Too Long Ago," another big Southern hit.

They also did an all-out, raunchy, R&B-hued garage-band stomp, "You Ain't Tuff," which gives the band a somewhat misleading image among garage band collectors.

Members:

Ray Mills:lead guitar

Mike Love: drums

Bobby Stampley: bass

Joe Stampley:organ,vocals

Bobby Sims:rhythm guitar

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by request: "Manfred Hubler- Siegfried Schwab- Vampyros Lesbos - Sexadelic Dance Party -1970 Germany":

For diehard fans of low-budget cult cinema, Jess Franco is among the great directors, his style somewhere between European versions of Roger Corman's Mondo sexploitation and Andy Warhol's hardcore improv. His films Vampyros Lesbos, The Devil Came from Akasava and Mrs. Hyde, She Kills in Ecstasy, all made in 1970 and starring Franco's doomed Portuguese seductress Soledad Miranda perfected "horrotica," Franco's melange of B-grade horror and twisted erotica. Collecting original music from the films' soundtracks, Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party pays tribute to Franco, Miranda (who died in a 1971 car crash) and the films they made together.
German composers Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab (recording as Vampires' Sound Incorporation) created music sufficiently groovy and go-go to accompany Franco's freaked-out vision. Their crazy sounds are a speed-hopped swinger's bash of blaring trumpet, booming trombone, slinky organ and spacy sitar, with a beefy foundation of mod guitar, bass, and drums. Eccentrically titled instrumentals like "The Lions and the Cucumber," "Droge CX 9," and "The Six Wisdoms of Aspasia" manage to be psychedelic in the way of both the Doors' haunting rock and the Fifth Dimension's up-up-and-away pop.

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"Janko Nilovic-Un Couple Dans La Ville- 1976 France":

Janko Nilovic is a pianist, poet and composer extraordinare from Montenegro who has lived in France since 1960. He is one of those musicians who devote themselves to music fanatically.

"Un Couple Dans La Ville" is a jazz/funk & female vocal scat enchantmen album, written by the legendary European composer Janko Nilovic.

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"Nino Ferrer - Nino and Radiah et le Sud-1974 France":

Nino Ferrer was born Agostino Ferrari on August 15th 1934 in Genoa in Italy. The son of bourgeois parents, an Italian father and a French mother, Nino declared having had a pleasant childhood in a cultivated art-loving family. He spent the first five years of his life in New Caledonia where his father, an engineer, worked in a nickel mine.

In 1974 he released an album entirely in English, "Nino and Radiahet le Sud". Radiah Frye is the young American singer on the album sleeve. Only one track was in French: "le Sud", one of Nino Ferrer’s biggest hits. Now a standard of the French repertoire, "le Sud" is in fact the umpteenth version of a song originally written in English.When it was released, it was a huge hit, selling over a million.

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