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Very interesting cross range of songs some better than others Enjoyed the music all in all . More to the band other than Kites Which was a great number .
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This is "Big Beat Cabaret" Swirling organs, catchy 60s pop, all looking & sounding foxy for the beautiful people. They had to be seen out & about in their swinging & swirling clothes; so what better music for the post-beatboom & to far sighted(but had professions to get farouttasight) too groove to! Of course it didnt last long. The 70`s came. But put this to your ear and the farfisa & hammond brings it all back in swinging,swirling technicolor!
I was transfering my old single records to CD and found some Simon Dupree music that sounded good so decided to buy an album if it was available, so I did. Most of it is good but as with all albums there are good bits and bad bits. Good standard rock record with some outstanding tracks - worth a listen.
A really Good cd that replaces some of my scratched 60s Simon Dupree 45s, I'm really pleased with the track "For Whom the Bell Tolls2.
I have been hoping this would crop up as i liked this band in my youth all of thier music on two cds the second cd is just some original mono recordings so a bit pointless i thought but on the plus side a lot of history about the band and thier rise to success on the whole a good buy.
I bought this CD after hearing the track Kites on an old compilation CD from the 60's. I thought the track was enchanting & it became an instant favorite with me. I searched the groups name & dicovered they had done an anthology disk, I started looking on a couple of web sites & eventually settled on e-bay & bought it. Alot of the tracks are very typically 60's in style but there are the odd few that are boardering on 70's psychedelia which is great. Unfortunately they didn't have many hits but Kites was one of them & what a fantastic track it is. Great musicians, great CD which I will listen to time & time again.
Lovely old Farfisa organ sounds, its just what you expect from that era I loved it. I loved the Kites single, which is differenr thab the rest of the album, but then singles always are.
Excellent value
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A comprehensive collection of the work of this group, known mainly for their 1967 hit 'Kites'. Charts their beginnings as a blue-eyed soul band, the singles and album they made before the hit brought them into the public eye with a totally different image. Includes the singles afterwards, the vain search for another success and the second album they recorded that was never released, up to their eventual split in 1969 and their metamorphosis into the 70s band Gentle Giant. A fascinating journey with some excellent examples of almost psychedelic pop which deserved much more attention than they received. Highly recommended.
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