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lemonade kid
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 Posted - 14/04/2011 : 20:57:26
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These young ladies wrote, sang, played guitar and drumes on their only album on SKYE label....called "GENESIS". Pretty remarkable as they were a mere 17 & 13 years old.
Wendy & Bonnie
Genesis, the sole album by SF-based sisters Wendy and Bonnie Flower, ranks as one of the most remarkable unheard albums of 1969. With melodic confections laced with radiant sisterly harmony, the breezy Brazilian splashes and soft-rock strains of Genesis convey a sophistication that belies the artists' tender ages (Wendy 17, Bonnie 13). Produced for reissue by Irwin Chusid (author of "Songs In The Key Of Z: The Curious Universe Of Outsider Music") with Wendy & Bonnie's full participation, Genesis makes its long-awaited official CD bow with 5 bonus tracks, interviews with Wendy & Bonnie, and a treasure trove of candid photos.
Wendy and Bonnie Flower were an American singing sister duo, who recorded the album, Genesis, in 1969 for Skye Records.
The album was produced by Gary McFarland. At the time, McFarland was part owner of the Skye label, along with Latin percussionist Cal Tjader (who was Wendy and Bonnie's godfather) and jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó.
Wendy and Bonnie grew up in Millbrae, California, in the San Francisco Bay suburbs. Their parents, Art and Jeane Flower, were professional musicians. In 1967, Wendy played and recorded with an early San Francisco psychedelic band called Crystal Fountain; Bonnie later joined the band as drummer. The following year, Tjader heard some of the Flower sisters' acoustic home demos and arranged a recording session with Skye. The sisters, who were teens at the time the album was recorded, composed all the songs. McFarland served as arranger on the sessions, crafting a post-psychedelic soft rock sound with Brazilian overtones. Musicians who performed on the album included guitarist Larry Carlton, drummer Jim Keltner, and keyboardist Mike Melvoin.
The Skye label went bankrupt shortly after the album's release. In 1971, while planning for additional recording with the Flower sisters, McFarland was murdered in mysterious circumstances in a New York bar.
In the early 1970s, Wendy and Bonnie provided background vocals on two Cal Tjader albums for Fantasy Records. Thereafter, the sisters pursued separate careers in music and entertainment, but did not record together again.
Genesis was reissued on CD in 2001 by the Sundazed Records label. In 2008, it was reissued in expanded format, including demos, alternate mixes, and vintage live recordings, on 2-CD and 3-LP vinyl sets.
Their recording "By the Sea" was sampled by the Welsh space rock band Super Furry Animals on a single "Hello Sunshine," which is also the opening track on the band's 2003 album Phantom Power. In 2010, French singer Laetitia Sadier of UK group Stereolab recorded "By the Sea" for release on her album, The Trip.
After singing guest harmony with Super Furry Animals at San Francisco's The Fillmore, New York's The Tonic and London's ICA, Wendy Flower performed (backed by Jane Weaver and The High Llamas) as one of the Lost Ladies of Folk at the 2007, Jarvis Cocker-curated Meltdown Festival. She sang on Weaver's "Fallen By Watchbird" album and, in 2013, released her own indie-pop album, "New."
GENESIS has been reissued by SUNDAZED as a double CD/triple vinyl with demos, outtakes and live material.
CHeck them out! ANother LOST GEM for all you 60's freaks!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViMNXRAKGtk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwHw6jo1E3M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmobsIrUWVw&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dFHD5bkLfQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmobsIrUWVw&feature=fvwrel
So much music..so little time!
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
not a fashion statement.
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 21/07/2013 20:00:50 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 16/04/2011 : 16:02:07
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| Dig the firts track! Kinda like a lighter Jefferson Airplane.Sounds kinda like music from a club scene of some 60's B cult film.Hey,Lemonade Kid,what hat are you pulling all these groovy rabbits from anyway?I can't believe all the really good artists you're turning me on to that have escaped my notice all these years.Being a teen of the 80's,I used to think Culture Club has now become somewhat obscure.Your posts are REALLY digging deep into the well of forgotten songcraft, |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 16/04/2011 : 18:15:28
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Originally posted by captain america and billy
Dig the firts track! Kinda like a lighter Jefferson Airplane.Sounds kinda like music from a club scene of some 60's B cult film.Hey,Lemonade Kid,what hat are you pulling all these groovy rabbits from anyway?I can't believe all the really good artists you're turning me on to that have escaped my notice all these years.Being a teen of the 80's,I used to think Culture Club has now become somewhat obscure.Your posts are REALLY digging deep into the well of forgotten songcraft,
One of my first sources is a friend's vinyl records shop that has over 200,000 vinyl classics...his private collection is over 100,000 records!
I hit blogs to find obscure and many times never reissued gems (for-free downloads!)....below are some very good blogs with some great gems for us all.
I also have two very good friends in music....
FIRST & foremost is our own RW, an LA area DJ icon & one time A&R guy (was it DCC Compact Classics records Rick? note: RW produced the great CD "Golden Age Of UNDERGROUND RADIO, Vol 2"--still a few available at Amazon) --RW has known and interviewed and played underground talent on radio since the early 70's. Every so often RW will post interviews of artists that he is having on and special shows of our favorite artists.....Rick has always played LoVE on his shows.
Another source is a friend/trader who has a list/with reviews of his library of mostly 60's psych & folk rock artists that is over 675 pages long!
For great sources for new music...with descriptions/pix of not so well known artists (or totally obscure) and their albums, capt' ---check these out. The first has 1000+ artists/albums "OLDIES" to read about and enjoy!! For your reading pleasure!! These are rock encyclopedias to cherish....you think I need to get a life?  I can't imagine the work that went into these sites!!
http://freemusic07.ucoz.com/blog/oldies/1-0-3 *****FIVE STARS
http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com/
http://oldishpsychprog.ucoz.com/
http://evermoreblues.blogspot.com/
http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
& this blog below also has a very good "Other Good Blogs" reference column to scroll on the right side.....HE FEATURES THE LoVE logo and ARTHUR LEE, so it's gotta be great!....
http://psychspaniolos.blogspot.com/search/label/Beau%20Brummels
& finally a really great one for never released live bootlegs of ...just about everyone we could ask for!!!
http://gratefulbreed.blogspot.com/
(click the "HERE" button for the cool Cover Flow feature of all the live albums here)
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
not a fashion statement.
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markk
Old Love
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Posted - 17/04/2011 : 18:18:49
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| LK, Yes you are posting some incredible tastes of music, many of which I'm not familiar with. Its good to know that this stuff is buried out there, like treasure. I appreciate your efforts and sentiment. I'm still singin that Tremloes song, Here comes my baby. |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 19/04/2011 : 15:36:25
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| You know, I DId get started with that record collector's convention thing as a teen in the eighties,but just as with several other ill-pursued personal ventures,I just didn't follow through.I did become a regular at a really handy used shop locally and am pretty sure I gave the owner-operator the sense I was indeed always on the hunt for either forgotten or almost totally obscure recordings.Of course,I always preferred to snag any thing that appeared to be an original or near original pressing,but in most cases I was just happy to own what I felt were the songs that could provide an artistically ample soundtrack for anyone making a documentary concerning hippie subculture or Radical politics during the Vietnam-Watergate era. The fact that even most of your more obscure postings sit as more than mild curiosities proves once and for all that there was such an explosion of youthful social idiom back then,there just wasn't even room on the room on the radar for many fantastic lyrical and instrumental assertions.In comparsion today,there is but a smattering of offerings with any degree of cerebaral challenge in an industry that is far more focused on the interests of Messrs. Hamilton and Jackson. |
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WENDY & BONNIE-most remarkable unknown psych
