Playlist 1010

Ever wonder what a "typical" edition of Stuck in the Psychedelic Era sounds like? Well, this week is probably as typical as it gets. We have a couple of sets of songs from specific years, a set of album tracks, an artist-specific set, and something I call a "come up the years" set, plus a few miscellaneous tunes at the end of the show.

This first set is actually two of the above, as it is a set of album tracks from a specific year, in this case 1967 (which regular listeners will recognize as the peak year of the psychedelic era).

Artist: JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Song Title: "If 6 Was 9"
Source: CD: AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE (reissue of original LP)
Release Year: 1967
Best listened to with the headphones on. Cranked up.

Artist: DOORS
Song Title: "You're Lost Little Girl"
Source: LP: STRANGE DAYS (original vinyl pressing)
Release Year: 1967
A song that deserves more recognition than it gets.

Artist: KINKS
Song Title: "No Return"
Source: LP: SOMETHING ELSE (original vinyl pressing)
Release Year: 1967
Ray Davies definitely was moving into new territory with this one.

The next pair of album tracks are both from the year 1969, although in this case they are quite different each other.

Artist: LEIGH STEPHENS
Song Title: "Red Weather"
Source: LP: RED WEATHER (original vinyl pressing)
Release Year: 1969

Artist: GUESS WHO
Song Title: "A Wednesday In Your Garden"
Source: CD: WHEATFIELD SOUL (reissue of original LP+ bonus tracks)
Release Year: 1969

The following set is from the year 1965, even though some copies of the songs were actually released the following year.

Artist: WHO
Song Title: "It's Not True"
Source: CD: MY GENERATION (CD reissue of original LP)
Release Year: 1965 (UK) 1966 (US)

Artist: THEM
Song Title: "Baby Please Don't Go"
Source: 12" PROMO VINYL (from soundtrack of "Good Morning Vietnam") (originally issued in UK on 45 RPM vinyl, charted # 10)
Release Year: 1965

Artist: ROMANCERS (aka The Smoke Rings)
Song Title: "Love's the Thing"
Source: CD: WHERE THE ACTION IS-L.A. NUGGETS 1965-68 (originally released on 45 RPM vinyl)
Release Year: 1965/1966
Released three times on three labels under two different band names. Such was the studio scene in East L.A. in the mid-60s. Max Uballez, leader of the Romancers and East L.A.'s answer to Phil Spector, was the driving force behind this tune.

Next up, another set from 1967.

Artist: LOVIN' SPOONFUL
Song Title: "Six O'Clock"
Source: 45 RPM VINYL
Release Year: 1967
The last top 20 single from this iconic band.

Artist: ELASTIK BAND
Song Title: "Spazz"
Source: LP: NUGGETS VOL 9 - ACID ROCK (originally released on 45 RPM vinyl)
Release Year: 1967
Just plain weird. And probably politically incorrect, as well.

Artist: ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS
Song Title: "A Girl Named Sandoz"
Source: CD: BEST OF ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS (originally released on 45 RPM vinyl)
Release Year: 1967
The B side of "When I Was Young."

Artist: COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH
Song Title: "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine"
Source: CD: ELECTRIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY (reissue of original album)
Release Year: 1967

Here we have a couple of random tracks leading into an artist set.

Artist: BEATLES
Song Title: "Savoy Truffle"
Source: CD: THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM)
Release Year: 1968

Artist: JAMES GANG
Song Title: "Stone Rap"
Source: CD: YER ALBUM (reissue of original LP)
Release Year: 1968

Artist: CANNED HEAT
Song Title: "On the Road Again"
Source: 45 RPM VINYL (Silver Spotlight stereo reissue)
Release Year: 1968

Artist: CANNED HEAT
Song Title: "Future Blues"
Source: CD: BEST OF CANNED HEAT (originally released on LP: FUTURE BLUES)
Release Year: 1970

Artist: CANNED HEAT
Song Title: "Time Was"
Source: 45 RPM VINYL (Silver Spotlight stereo reissue)
Release Year: 1967

The second hour always starts off with a single track. Typically, it's a fairly well-known song like this one.

Artist: JOE COCKER
Song Title: "Feelin' Alright"
Source: CD: WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ON: BACK TO YASGUR'S FARM
Release Year: 2009 (recorded 1969)

Occasionally Stuck in the Psychedelic Era has a feature called "Come Up the Years." The idea is to start out with a song from a particular year, then follow it up with a song from the next year, and so on. Generally these sets stop at three songs, although I have been known to do longer ones as well. This week's set starts in 1965 with a band that would become a chart topping band in subsequent years.

Artist: ASSOCIATION
Song Title: "One Too Many Mornings"
Source: CD: WHERE THE ACTION IS-L.A. NUGGETS 1965-68 (originally released on 45 RPM vinyl)
Release Year: 1965

Artist: ROLLING STONES
Song Title: "Let's Spend the Night Together"
Source: LP: BETWEEN THE BUTTONS
Release Year: 1966

Artist: JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Song Title: "The War Is Over"
Source: LP: AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S (original vinyl pressing)
Release Year: 1967
After Bathing At Baxters' had a unique structure. The dozen or so songs were grouped into five suites, three on one side of the album and two on the other. The shortest of these was "The War Is Over," which was comprised of two songs. "Martha" and "Wild Thyme." A short film of "Martha", similar to those accompanying "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" earlier in the year, was shown on a Perry Como special in the fall of '67.

The term singer-songwriter came into common usage in the early 70s. We fill out the first half of the second hour with a couple of the artists who helped polularize the term.

Artist: NEIL YOUNG with CRAZY HORSE
Song Title: "(When You're On) The Losing End"
Source: LP: EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Release Year: 1969

Artist: JONI MITCHELL
Song Title: "Morning Morgantown"
Source: LP: LADIES OF THE CANYON
Release Year: 1970

The next two tracks have something in common. Both are from artists who had lost their original focus and were trying desperately to get back on track. The first case is a band that had lost its key members and had deteriorated to the point of actually changing personnel in the middle of not one, but two consecutive albums; the second is a vocalist who had been persuaded that her band was holding her back, only to realize too late that the band itself was an essential element in her own rise to fame.

Artist: BLUE CHEER
Song Title: "Fool"
Source: CD: LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970 (originally released on 45 RPM vinyl)
Release Year: 1970
This song actually appeared on the 1969 album Blue Cheer, but with a different vocal track. It sounds nothing like the original lineup. This is the first time I've played this track. In all honesty, I don't plan on playing it again.

Artist: JANIS JOPLIN with the KOZMIC BLUES BAND
Song Title: "Work Me, Lord"
Source: CD: WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ON: BACK TO YASGUR'S FARM (previously released on multiple LPs)
Release Year: 1969
I've said this numerous times before. Janis should never have left Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Some songs just naturally flow together. Such is the case with the next two tracks.

Artist: WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND
Song Title: "Unfree Child"
Source: LP: VOLUME 2 (original vinyl pressing)
Release Year: 1967

Artist: MOJO MEN
Song Title: "She's My Baby"
Source: CD: LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970 (originally released on 45 RPM vinyl)
Release Year: 1966

And to finish out this week's show, a song selected at random.

Artist: BLUES MAGOOS
Song Title: "Queen Of My Heart"
Source: CD: KALEIDOSCOPIC COMPENDIUM (originally released on LP: PSYCHEDELIC LOLLIPOP)
Release Year: 1966