{"product_id":"various-classic-rock-1968-blowin-your-mind-cd-comp-vg-vg","title":"Various \/ Classic Rock 1968: Blowin' Your Mind - CD, Comp (VG+\/VG+)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e1.  The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire 2:52\u003cbr\u003e2.  Archie Bell \u0026amp; The Drells - I Can't Stop Dancing 2:22\u003cbr\u003e3.  Jerry Butler - Hey, Western Union Man 2:38\u003cbr\u003e4.  Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell - If I Could Build My Whole World Around You 2:20\u003cbr\u003e5.  Dusty Springfield - Son-Of-A Preacher Man 2:29\u003cbr\u003e6.  The Beach Boys - Darlin' 2:13\u003cbr\u003e7.  Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) 2:38\u003cbr\u003e8.  Willie Mitchell - Soul Serenade 2:21\u003cbr\u003e9.  Wilson Pickett - I'm A Midnight Mover 2:23\u003cbr\u003e10.  Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You 4:31\u003cbr\u003e11.  Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 2:55\u003cbr\u003e12.  Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy 2:23\u003cbr\u003e13.  Boyce \u0026amp; Hart - I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight 2:45\u003cbr\u003e14.  Derek (3) - Cinnamon 2:45\u003cbr\u003e15.  The Classics IV - Stormy 2:46\u003cbr\u003e16.  Merrilee \u0026amp; The Turnabouts - Angel Of The Morning 3:11\u003cbr\u003e17.  Bee Gees - Words 3:17\u003cbr\u003e18.  Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight 2:46\u003cbr\u003e19.  1910 Fruitgum Company - Simon Says 2:17\u003cbr\u003e20.  Gene Pitney - She's A Heartbreaker 3:17\u003cbr\u003e21.  The Marvelettes - My Baby Must Be A Magician 2:36\u003cbr\u003e22.  Shorty Long (2) - Here Comes The Judge 2:37\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eSleeve Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCat # : 2CLR-27, OPCD-2620\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBarcode : \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eRock, Funk \/ Soul, Pop \/ Rock \u0026amp; Roll, Pop Rock, Prog Rock, Blues Rock, Soul, Rhythm \u0026amp; Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock, Surf\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cpre style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;font-family: unset;\"\u003eVolume 27 of a 30 volume set.\n\nTrack durations obtained from software.\n\nComplete liner notes:\n\nOn June 8, 1968, Buddah Records presented eight acts in a special concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Buddah chief Neil Bogart did not bring classical, jazz or even politically concerned folk acts to the venerable auditorium. Instead, he presented a line-up of bubblegum pop acts that included the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the Ohio Express and the Lemon Pipers. The juxtaposition of pop artifice and the classic institution mirrored the turbulent times. \n\nEarlier in his career, while working as a promotion man, Bogart had made radio hits of the cheesy rockers Wooly Bully and 96 Tears. As general manager of Buddah, he followed the same simple formulas, turning the songs of Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz into gold. Among the label's many million-selling bubblegum classics were Simon Says from the Linden, New Jersey-based 1910 Fruitgum Company, and Yummy Yummy Yummy from Mansfield, Ohio's Ohio Express. \n\nLike Bogart, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart played party to teen-oriented contrivances. The song-writing team came up with Pretty Little Angel Eyes for Curtis Lee in 1961 and Come a Little Bit Closer for Jay and the Americans in 1964. Don Kirshner tapped Boyce and Hart to write songs for the Monkees' television show in 1966, and the duo provided the group's first No. 1 record, Last Train to Clarksville. Boyce and Hart struck out on their own in 1967. Their first release, Out and About, was a minor hit, but their second, the theme from Dean Martin's movie The Ambushers, didn't fare as well until its B side, I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight, cracked the top 10. Another teen idol, Johnny Cymbal, first charted in 1963 for Kapp Records with Mr. Bass Man, then inexplicably changed his catchy real name to \"Derek.\" The move must have been a good one - as Derek, Cymbal scored his biggest hit, Cinnamon, in late '68. \n\nDennis Yost and Wally Eaton formed their first rock band in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964. They then moved to Atlanta and worked for publisher Bill Lowery with drummer Kim Venable, bassist Joe Wilson and lead guitarist and songwriter James Cobb. Oddly enough, this quintet called itself Classics IV, and their first release, Spooky, went to No. 3. After Cobb left to concentrate on writing songs for the group with their producer, Buddy Buie, a new line-up struck with the Cobb-Buie composition Stormy. Some of the band's members went on to form the successful '70s group Atlanta Rhythm Section. \n\nGene Pitney, who hailed from Rockville, Connecticut, wrote songs for the Kalin Twins, Bobby Vee, Roy Orbison and Ricky Nelson. He was one of the first artists to record songs by the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, achieving his first top-10 hit with (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance. Ironically, Pitney's first million seller, Only Love Can Break a Heart (another Bacharach-David tune), failed to reach No. 1 in 1962 because one of Pitney's own compositions, He's a Rebel, produced by Phil Spector for the Crystals, occupied the top spot. She's a Heartbreaker, from 1968, is an outright R \u0026amp; B performance of a song written by Charles Foxx and Jerry \"Swamp Dogg\" Williams. \n\nDusty Springfield from London was another versatile performer. She began her professional career with her brother in the folk-pop group the Springfields, best known for Silver Threads and Golden Needles from 1962. Dusty went solo in '63 and later scored with I Only Want to Be with You and You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. She signed with Atlantic in 1968, and label vice president Jerry Wexler decided to record her at American Studios in Memphis. Son-of-a Preacher Man was the first and biggest hit to come out of her American Studios sessions. Wilson Pickett also borrowed some of that Memphis magic, and added his own, for I'm a Midnight Mover, cut at American with Atlantic producer Tom Dowd in 1968. Co-written by Pickett and Bobby Womack, the song recalls the theme of Pickett's 1965 hit, In the Midnight Hour. \n\nNot far from American Studios, Willie Mitchell had his own Royal Recording Studio. A mainstay on the Memphis music scene and at Joe Cuoghi's Hi Records, Mitchell had worked with the Stax\/Atlantic session men. But for his biggest pop success, Soul Serenade, Mitchell had assembled a younger, percolating R \u0026amp; B outfit that included his brother James on sax, drummer Howard Grimes and the sensational Hodges brothers - keyboardist Charles, guitarist Mabon (\"Teenie\") and bassist Leroy. Touring with this group in support of Soul Serenade, Mitchell was so impressed with one opening act at a show in Midland, Texas, that he asked Hi owner Cuoghi if he could bring the young singer to Memphis to record. Albert Greene, later known as Al Green, and Mitchell's group, the Hi Rhythm Section, produced a string of unsurpassed soulful hits in the '70s. \n\nShorty Long, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, modeled his vocal style after Johnny Ace and Little Willie John. His first release, Devil with a Blue Dress On, marked the debut of Berry Gordy's new Soul label, which he started to compete with the deep soul recordings of Stax and Atlantic in the South. Though Long's record failed to sell, Mitch Ryder's 1966 cover went to No. 4. In '68, Motown quality control chief Billie Jean Brown collaborated with Long on Here Comes the Judge, a humorous tune based on a Pigmeat Markham comedy skit popularized by Sammy Davis Jr. on Rowan and Martin's TV show Laugh-In. Sadly, Long drowned when a freighter swamped his small fishing boat in the Detroit River on June 29, 1969. \n\nHouston-bred Archie Bell was drafted immediately after Tighten Up, the B side of his single with the Drells, became a national hit, and he flew back from Frankfurt, Germany, to perform with the Drells whenever he could get a three-day pass. Philly soul producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff caught the group's show at Loretta's High Hat in Longside, New Jersey, and liked it so much they went backstage and offered to oversee the Drells' next recording, which turned out to be I Can't Stop Dancing, the group's second top-10 hit. \n\nFellow Houstonian Johnny Nash became a local television celebrity on an afternoon variety show while still a teenager. Nash won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts competition in New York in 1957 and so impressed the host that Godfrey signed Nash to appear each morning on his popular variety show, where he stayed until 1963. He had scored his first top-40 record in 1957 with A Very Special Love, but his first top-10 single came 11 years later with the reggae-influenced Hold Me Tight on his own JAD label. Following this success, he went to Jamaica (where he had filmed Take a Giant Step some years earlier) to work with producer Byron Lee and musicians Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. \n\nBritish eccentric Arthur Brown was influenced by the black-magic stage antics of the manic, pseudo-voodoo R \u0026amp; B singer Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Brown's group, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, had its only hit with Fire. Brown performed in flowing robes and painted face, wearing a helmet rigged to ignite on stage. His band included drummer Carl Palmer, who eventually moved on to progressive rock when he became one-third of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. \n\nThe son of a San Diego church organist, Doug Ingle had his own eccentric vision. With his band, Iron Butterfly, Ingle relocated to Los Angeles in late 1966, where the group opened shows for the Doors and the Jefferson Airplane. Iron Butterfly's debut LP, Heavy, stayed on the charts 50 weeks but did not yield a hit single. The title cut from the group's second album, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, clocked in at 17 minutes with a two-and-a-half-minute drum solo. A heavily edited version of the song lit briefly on the charts, while the album stayed on the charts for 140 weeks and sold more than three million copies - strange numbers for strange times. \n\n- Jay Orr\u003c\/pre\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/sell\/item\/4352871447\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eData provided by Discogs\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"IDshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49583224520963,"sku":"2CLR-27, OPCD-2620","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0030\/9765\/7390\/files\/581800-0702177864c457c74523464c457c745236169058912764c457c74523a.jpg?v=1788843800","url":"https:\/\/idshop.ca\/products\/various-classic-rock-1968-blowin-your-mind-cd-comp-vg-vg","provider":"ID Shop.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}