Artist: Flower Pot Men
Title: Let's Go To San Francisco
Year Of Release: 1967/1993
Label: Repertoire [REP4344-WZ]
Genre: Psych sunshine beat,pop,rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:18:06
Total Size: 483mb(+5%)
The Flowerpot Men were a studio construct created by British songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis, who had previously been in the Ivy League, notable for providing background vocals on the early Who albums and for first recording the cult song "My World Fell Down," later a famous non-hit by Sagittarius. Carter and Lewis (as the Flowerpot Men) crafted the Beach Boys-influenced "Let's Go to San Francisco," which was a minor hit at the close of the Summer of Love, as well as a couple of albums' worth of psychedelic-tinged sunshine pop, the highlights of which are included here. Aside from the two-part single "Let's Go to San Francisco" (and its reprise, "Let's Go Back to San Francisco"), this release from C 5 also includes the very Byrds-ish "Blow Away" and the epic Mellotron-laced "Mythological Sunday." None of this is major stuff, but some of the recordings are gorgeously produced, and fans of 1960s sunshine pop and psychedelia should definitely give the Flowerpot Men a try. by Steve Leggett:
"Let's Go to San Francisco" was written and recorded by songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis. The composition, psychedelic in nature, took vocal and instrumental inspiration from The Beach Boys. The name The Flower Pot Men was derived from the BBC children's show Flower Pot Men, with the obvious psychedelic era puns on flower power and "pot" (cannabis). In the US, they were commonly deemed The Flower Men on radio airplay to avoid the drug reference.
The duo licensed the recording to Deram Records, who had a hit but no group to promote it. Carter and Lewis, having no interest in going on the road to promote the record, created the group from a hand-picked collective of recording studio session musicians and vocalists. Led by vocalist Tony Burrows, who had been in the Ivy League with Carter and Lewis, the band also included Billie Davis's backing band, and for a while (though not for recordings) later Deep Purple members Jon Lord, who replaced Billy Davidson on keyboards in January 1968, and Nick Simper on bass.
Carter and Lewis continued to write, record and produce most of the band's subsequent recordings over the next three years. wikipedia:
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Tracks:
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01. Let's Go To San Francisco, Part 1 & 2 (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 6:17
02. A Walk In The Sky (John Carter, Ken Lewis, Russell Alquist) - 3:51
03. Am I Losing You (John Carter) - 2:00
04. Man Without A Woman (John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 4:00
05. You Can Never Be Wrong (John Carter, Ken Lewis, Russell Alquist) - 2:35
06. Piccolo Man (John Carter, Ken Lewis, Russell Alquist) - 2:17
07. Mythological Sunday (Russell Alquist) - 5:18
08. In A Moment Of Madness (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway) - 2:59
09. Young Birds Fly (Bill Swofford) - 2:27
10. Sweet Baby Jane (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter) - 3:35
11. Journey's End (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter) - 4:22
12. Silicon City (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter) - 4:05
13. Busy Doin' Nothing (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 2:54
14. White Dove (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 4:09
15. Let's Go Back To San Francisco, Part 1 (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 2:35
16. Let's Go Back To San Francisco, Part 2 (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 2:46
17. Cooks Of Cake And Kindness (John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 2:56
18. Gotta Be Free (Peter Barnfather, John Carter) - 3:29
19. Heaven Knows When (Peter Barnfather, John Carter) - 3:39
20. Brave New World (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 3:13
21. Children Of Tomorrow (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 7:57
Personnel:
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Tony Burrows - Vocals
Neil Landon - Vocals
Robin Shaw - Vocals
Pete Nelson - Vocals
Ged Peck - Guitar
Carlo Little - Drums
Nick Simper - Bass
Jon Lord - Organ
