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12:33 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera ~ 1968 ~ Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera |
 genre: psych
country: uk
audio: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans, size: 371 mb)
time: 57'34"
Tapestry of Delights:
This Coventry band are best remembered for hard rock single, Flames, a cut from their first album which narrowly missed the charts in 1967. Featuring Richard Hudson and John Ford of The Strawbs and Hudson-Ford fame the album was full of variety spanning Motown, pop-psych and harder rock genres. Other tracks which catch the ear include the laid back Oscar Brown song I Was Cool, the instrumental Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey, the Eastern-influenced sitar-based Air, the Beatlesque What's The Point Of Leaving, the melodic Long Nights Of Summer and two tracks - Dream Starts and Reactions Of A Young Man - which veered towards psychedelia.
For the later single, Volcano, they shortened their name to Velvet Opera and also recorded a second album under that name. Although a popular underground band, commercial success eluded them. Ford and Hudson joined The Strawbs when The Velvet Opera disintegrated. In the seventies Elmer Gantry was in Stretch.
01. Intro 1:00
02. Mother Writes 2:06
03. Mary Jane 2:25
04. I Was Cool 2:59
05. Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey 3:10
06. Air 3:12
07. Lookin' For A Happy Life 3:02
08. Flames 3:11
09. What's The Point Of Leaving 2:11
10. Long Nights Of Summer 2:35
11. Dream Starts 3:02
12. Reactions Of A Young Man 2:37
13. Now She's Gone 2:33
14. Flames - Single Version 3:15
15. Salisbury Plain 2:37
16. Mary Jane - Single Version 2:34
17. Dreamy 2:32
18. To Be With You 3:25
19. And I Remember 2:46
20. Talk Of The Devil 3:03
21. The Painter 3:00
Colin Forster - guitar
Richard Hudson - drums
Elmer Gantry - guitar, vocals
John Ford - bass
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