Various Artists: March Of The Flower Children, The American Sounds Of 1967

​Album Details

Tracks

Disc One
1 It’s A Happening Thing – The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
2 !Que Vida! – Love
3 She Hangs Out – The Monkees
4 Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) – The Cryan’ Shames
5 Morning Dew – Tim Rose
6 Strange Mysterious Sounds – The Spike Drivers
7 Pipe Dream – Blues Magoos
8 No Time Like The Right Time – The Blues Project
9 Merry-Go-Round – The Youngbloods
10 Strangers From The Sky – Kim Fowley
11 Love Comes, Love Dies – The Troyes
12 Boil The Kettle, Mother – The Id
13 Help, Murder, Police – Thursday’s Children
14 Two Days ‘Til Tomorrow (Single Edit) – The Beau Brummels
15 Respect – The Vagrants
16 The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) – The Grateful Dead
17 Hey, Hey – The Sound Barrier
18 Him Or Me – What’s It Gonna Be? – Paul Revere & The Raiders
19 Six O’clock – The Lovin’ Spoonful
20 Groovin’ (Single Version) – The Young Rascals
21 Come To The Sunshine – Harpers Bizarre
22 Why Don’t You Do Me Right – The Mothers Of Invention
23 Transparent Day (Single Mix) -The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
24 No More – The Morning Dew
25 Egyptian Gardens – The Kaleidoscope
26 You Can Live In Our Tree – The Blue Things
27 Can’t Put A Thing Over Me – Eternity’s Children
28 Optical Sound (Promo Version) – The Human Expression
29 House Of Painted Glass – The Sandals
30 Rest In Peace (Single Edit) – Chad & Jeremy

Disc Two
1 Aries – The Zodiac
2 You Keep Me Hangin’ On – Vanilla Fudge
3 Hideaway – The Electric Prunes
4 Hurricane Fighter Plane – The Red Crayola
5 Fall On You – Moby Grape
6 Evergreen Part One – The Stone Poneys
7 March Of The Flower Children (Single Version) – The Seeds
8 Lady Friend – The Byrds
9 I Talk To The Sun – The Rare Breed
10 That’s How It Will Be – The Liberty Bell
11 Going Home – Ngc-4594
12 It’s A Happening World – The Tokens
13 It’s A Lazy Summer Day – The Peppermint Trolley Company
14 Penny Arcade – The Cyrkle
15 Mary Jane – The Everly Brothers
16 Parade Of Uncertainty – The Raggamuffins
17 I Live In The Springtime (‘Drum’ Version) – The Lemon Drops
18 Morning Glory – Tim Buckley
19 Little Toy – The Unforscene
20 She’s Got The Magic – The Parade
21 Next Plane To London – The Rose Garden
22 Electricity – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 23 The Expectation – Dutch Masters
24 Gonna Send You Back To Your Mother – The Endd
25 God Is Alive In Argentina – The Doppler Effect
26 Paisley Dreams – Tommy Roe
27 Pammie’s On A Bummer – Sonny

Disc Three
1 A Question Of Temperature – The Balloon Farm
2 I’m The Kind Of Guy – Richard Pash & The Back Door Society
3 No One Was There – The Gates Of Eden
4 She Laughed Loud – The Merry-Go-Round
5 Bluebird – Buffalo Springfield
6 The Proper Ornaments (Single Mix) – The Free Design
7 1941 – Nilsson
8 Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow – Strawberry Alarm Clock
9 East River Lovers – Culver Street Playground
10 The Ostrich (Single Version) – Steppenwolf
11 Foreverlasting Plastic Words – Lost & Found
12 She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) – The 13th Floor Elevators
13 Flying On The Ground – Summer Snow
14 I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
15 Love And Hate – Jan & Dean
16 Not This Time – The Jackson Investment Co.
17 Lazy – Georgy & The Velvet Illusions
18 Echoes Of Time – Lemon Fog
19 Astrologically Incompatible – The Bonniwell Music Machine
20 Lila – Fapardokly
21 Sand – Clear Light
22 White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground
23 Mirror Of Yesterday – The Zakary Thaks
24 Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers
25 Time Goes Backwards – Jim & Jean
26 Another Time – Sagittarius
27 A Moment Of Being With You – The Critters
28 Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – The First Edition

Een paar jaar na The British Invasion, kwamen de Amerikaanse popartiesten weer tot hun zinnen. In het kielzog van de hippiebeweging, werd hun muziek experimenteel, etherisch, bijwijlen harder of net zachter, vaak opgesmukt met rare geluidjes. Dit is 1967, het jaar van The Summer of Love en Amerika geeft weer het voorbeeld. Cherry Red heeft gepoogd al die nieuwigheden in drie cd’s te vatten onder de vlag ‘March of the Flower Children’, een nummer van The Seeds. Zoals dat met compilaties gaat, worden we zowel getrakteerd op grote namen als nobele onbekenden, van Steppenwolf en Vanilla Fudge over Strawberry Alarm Clock  en Harper’s Bizarre tot The Id en Summer Snow. Tot daar loopt alles goed. Vreemd genoeg, worden daar een boel artiesten aan toegevoegd die niets met Flower Power van doen hebben of simpelweg van de trend profiteerden, zoals The Everly Brothers, Nilsson en de teenypop van Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart. Captain Beefheart en The Velvet Underground deden zelfs geen poging om bij de blommenkinders te horen! Maar goed, de muziekkeuze blijft ook dan uitstekend en met een kerel als Tommy Roe kom je zelfs voor een leuke verrassing te staan!
Denk dus niet te vaak aan de officiële en wat geforceerde motivatie om deze drie cd’s te vullen, maar geniet van vier uur gevarieerde Amerikaanse pop uit dat wonderjaar.
Radio 68  draait een selectie op zondag 13 en dinsdag 15 augustus vanaf 12 uur.  

Eddy Bonte

After the musical deluge called The British Invasion, American pop artists took back control when Hippie became a real force in American society – culminating in the 1967 Summer of Love. Trying to provide a soundtrack to that highly spiritual movement, American pop became experimental, etherical, harder, folkier - adorned with sounds effects. Cherry Red have tried to capture this wide range of sounds onto 3 discs of music, recruiting the stars (Steppenwolf, Vanilla Fudge), the middle men (Strawberry Alarm Clock) and those we have forgotten or never ever heard of (The Id, Summer Snow). A great choice!
Strangely, the label felt the need to add quite some artists who were into Hippie for the money or to refurbish their image. Some, like Captain Beefheart, surely couldn’t have cared less and Tommy Boyce & Booby Hart probably never imagined ending up on a Flower Power compilation. Fortunately, the music is good throughout and good ol’ Tommy Roe actually surprised me. Never mind the official explanation, just get ready for four hours of splendid American pop from that year.
Radio 68  plays choice tracks on Sunday 13 & Tuesday 15 August from 11 a.m. GMT / 12 noon CET onwards