Boston Sound 1968 Revisited, Vol. 2
Various Artists
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plastic Raincoats / Hung Up Minds | Ultimate Spinach | 2:58 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Just Got Back | Orpheus | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Theme for the Masses | Ford Theater | 4:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | World Has Just Begun | Ultimate Spinach III | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Flowers In My Mind | The Rockin' Ramrods | 2:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Little Sister | Orpheus | 2:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Everybody Knows | Bagatelle & Willie Alexander | 2:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Camillia Is Changing | Chamaeleon Church | 3:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Prophecies / Morning Blue | Front Page Review & Steve Cataldo | 3:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Cold Wind Blues | Colwell-Winfield Blues Band | 4:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Fragmentary March of Green | Behold & See & Ultimate Spinach | 6:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Big Green Pearl | Stephen Martin | 2:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Songs |
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BOSTON SOUND-1968:HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
by IMG2”Stop the War”, was more the theme song of America in 1968, a radical confrontation, with Vietnam as the catalyst, and the counterculture its voice of opposition. Civil dissent, mind-consciousness, drugs, anti-establishment flower people fostered the nucleus which became the central core of this explosive time. It was 1968, the year of Nixon, the year of Vietnam's escalation, the year Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were killed, the year of "Rage," "Biafra," "Chicago". It was more like chord of America screaming!
The local Boston scene was a microcosm of the time, a smaller society reflecting the greater national picture. It was their big year, too, a dream year for this impassioned sports town when the Red Sox baseball team finally came close to winning the national championship (St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers played the World Series, to a Tigers' win). Masked in the subtle nostalgia of The Red Sox Are Winning, Peter Rowan's (Earth Opera) allegory best describes the voice of the city in 1968 within the conflict of a nation aflame. The group’s more deeply representative anti-war saga, American Eagle Tragedy, depicted the Lyndon Johnson years of the American presidency during the escalation of the Vietnam War.
Other depictions of the turbulence of the time are represented in Ultimate Spinach III’s description of the August 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention riots in The World Has Just Begun.
In the Front Page Review's unusual apocalyptic Prophecies/Morning is another devastating picture of humanity in a world which needed saving from itself.
In contrast, Ian Bruce-Douglas saw the future of a new generation in Fragmentary March of Green where he reflects on a late 60s hippie society giving way to suburbia, status-symbols, relationships, religion and success, the fragmentary march of "green 60s people into the 70s, beginning a new materialism, and ending anti-establishment ideals.
But Boston Sound marketing was successful for Boston itself. Record outlets prospered. Revenues of rock 'n' roll radio multiplied. Circulation of local music papers doubled. Boston clubs experienced overflow attendance. For some groups like Orpheus, their 'single Can't Find the Time was top 10 in most US markets. The first Ultimate Spinach album sold 110,000 copies its first week out.
Willie Alexander, co-founder of The Lost and member of Bagatelle recorded Everybody Knows three different ways. Ian Bruce-Douglas' first and second Ultimate Spinach albums with haunting sounds of Theremin and psychedelic guitars were played extensively on radio throughout the world. Ian's (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess, with the eerie vocals of Barbara Hudson, is a psychedelic standard today. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter found creative right-of-way with Ultimate Spinach III leading to his Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan fame. Chevy Chase found Chameleon Church as his stepping stone. Orpheus spoke mostly of love. Eden's Children sang with Doors-like vocals and be-bop guitar. Rockin' Ramrods and the Lost brought early 60s garage band roots. Ill Wind experimented with the group's bluegrass and folk orientation in psychedelic forms. Earth Opera fused John Coltrane-and Ornette Coleman- influenced jazz with bluegrass/folk and rock.
More than 30 years later the Boston Sound is continually revisited and reissued, leaving a legacy of the time. Articles on the Boston Sound continually appear. Tom Scholz, founder of his famous Boston group, credits Boston Sound as his influences on him as a teenager growing up in Ohio.
In 1988, in its encyclopedia of rock, Rock Of Ages, Rolling Stone conceded that "With an anti-Boston critical backlash, it was easier to put down Ultimate Spinach and the other Boston groups than it had been to like them”.
Whatever sense one makes of the 60s, the moral upheavals, the spirit, the rhythms, the freedom, the dreams and promises, defiance and love, killings and cleansing, baby-boomers giving way to a loss of innocence, there still exists the recordings by the artists of the Boston Sound, a record of the time, and a representation of a slice of rock 'n' roll history.
Lorber Steals "Little Sister" For iTunes Compilations
by LiberalscumAlan Lorber, the notorious producer who owns the rights to MOST of the music on this compilation, has illegally used the Norman Gimbel song, "Little Sister", which appeared in the 1969 film "Marlowe", starring James Garner. The song was performed by one of Lorber's bands called Orpheus, however the rights are currently owned by MGM and Warner Music. Neither Alan Lorber nor Iris Properties have been authorized to use the recording and both MGM and Warners have filed claims with ASCAP and are threatening legal action.
According to MGM, Iris Properties obtained an electronic copy of an original acetate recording from one John Eric Gulliksen, who will also be named in the pending suit.
