Latest Mojo … Graham Coxon choose his most influential songs. (He brought Larry Byrom with him from TIME.) Come to think of it, I also bought the brilliant Simon Caine LP from that rack maybe I'll grace the GB with a link if YouTube can help.) From the same rack came "Jim Messina and the Jesters" on Audio Fidelity, the first TIME album (TIME, nee the Hardtimes, later Ratchell then Couchois) was the group where Toronto's Nick St Nicholas spent a year or so between the breakup of the Sparrow and his reunion of his old bandmates in Steppenwolf. I recall buying the album in the summer of '73 from the delete rack at the Radio Shack around the corner - probably $1.69. Now I hear both tracks as by a poor man's Traffic, though this one has the advantage of being sung by the group's Winwood rather than the group's Mason. In fack it was something of an FM radio hit here when it came out - meaning that it got played by John D and his cohorts at CHUM-FM most days, but nobody bought it. Peter V: Here's a link to what I think is a far superior track from the same Forevermore album. JRR adds some poetic commentary.Īs promised, here's a track from the Simon Caine LP from 1970. One thing that was new to me was his great cover of Dylan’s Tomorrow is a Long Time from 1966. I thought this HBO doc was top notch! Nothing particularly unknown but very well done. I've played it to younger people and say Just one of these was NOT a hit." No one chooses "Beautiful Afternoon" which has greatness all over it. I have it on a compilation of 1969 -1970 mega hits I made. However, the link here takes you to "Beautiful Afternoon." I've tried this one a few times. Every track on that album is great … it's Sophie's Choice to eliminate any. The Forever More sleeve pictured on YouTube is the Canadian one, in fact. That said, people like Supertramp, the Strawbs and Monty Python were initially and enduringly more popular in Canada than the US - so you never know for sure.įYI, two songs later, YouTube is playing the Buoys' execrable "Timothy" - totally unbid, I assure you! One reason for Forevermore's success in Canada MAY have been that their UK-prepared promo identified them not as Scottish but "from north of the border" - so they got played more often because the DJs and program directors thought they'd count towards the CanCon quota. These are the “US” mix as it appears on “Retrospective”.Peter V: "Beautiful Afternoon", beautiful song that I'd forgotten about, having dumped my album years ago. Herman’s Hermits (EMI Compacts for Pleasure CC251 (CDB 79121922)) Hits Of 1967 (EMI Music for Pleasure CD-MFP 5888) However, I have three other CDs that feature “A Kind Of Hush”: The UK “Best Of The EMI Years Vol 2” has the last verse totally double tracked, and has a very pronounced first note along with a slightly more noticeable slap echo. The bracketed words appear to me to be doubled tracked. The US “Retrospective” version of the last verse is as below. I've just received the Herman's Hermits "Retrospective" and that version of "Kind Of Hush" is available in the UK on various compilations, so it’s difficult to bracket them all together. We’re going to have to track down an original single.
I'm going to check my US Hermits LPs later on today to see. I'm also told that the Retrospective version may have been remixed to mono for the new collection, so if anyone has the original US ABKCO CD or an original US 45 to compare, check it out to see if it's the same version. This appears to be similar to the Animals "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" situation where the US version is MIA on CD until showing up on the new Retrospectives.
It could also be on the original ABKCO Greatest Hits CD, but I'm not sure because I threw that piece of junk out long ago. The "alternate" or "US" mix (with no echo or double-track vocals at the end) can only be found on the new Retrospective CD. This can be found on almost every HH import - Best Of The EMI Years, There's A Kind Of A Hush, Mrs. The original UK mix is the one with the slap-back echo on the lead vocal and double-tracked vocals at the end. Click to expand.I finally checked this out and here's the deal as far as I can tell:
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