2020 Updates

Well, that wasn't very nice. Work hard drive decided to go on permanent vacation. Some upgrades, fresh Windoze install (what fun), fix network shares, restore work files (up to end of November anyway), reinstall ftp program (WinSCP) and we're back to work updating the site. Was working on noting cover artists—not sure how far I got. Looking at log files, the following had album graphics refreshed: Brian Auger, Big Brother, Blue Cheer, and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Some album inserts. And, for John Mayall's 87th birthday (Nov 29): added his first UK single. First post-SSD update? An ad for the great Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks' live album, Where's The Money (last note—thanks eBayer). Been wondering since 1971 what those dates were! Working on crediting cover artists/photographers (working my way up thru F). Some of this info is real hard to discern. And making minor updates as work progresses. Did you know that The Beatles appear on a Stones record? Find out here. Whilst adding cover art details, been updating practically each artist page with improved graphics or adding missing artwork (like inside art or lyric insert sheets). Updating now done thru "K"—this might raise the version to 2.1! One big addition was the revised UK album artwork for Jimi's Band Of Gypsys live album. First issue was the "puppets" cover that was replaced by a gatefold with photos from his Isle Of Wight concert. Updated Carole King's list of cover recordings. Added Xmas Bulbs from my very old Songs By Sinatra website—Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate at this time of year—and a link (or just click on the bulbs) to the Easter Egg page full of songs to bring a smile. Rhino Records put out four great Christmas comp albums in the 80s—just added to the page. Cover artwork updates done thru "M." You know, if you want detailed info on who played what on what track (much more detail that what's here)—please go to Discogs or Wiki. They have the breakdowns you're looking for. Updated album graphics, adding missing images and refreshing others. More cover art updates, with only "WXYZ" and some scattered few are left. Done! Cover art credited to almost every album on the site (Easter Eggs next). Also added standard tripartite Links to all artists on the One-Offs page. Some of the albums came with elaborate booklets inside. Before, I made crappy little gifs of them. Now you can see them in all their glory—one readable page at a time—at links to 45worlds (or Discogs). This includes both of The Who booklets (Tommy & Quadrophenia), Traffic, and a few others. Thanks to the scanners at 45Worlds (and a few at Discogs). What a year its been—so long 2020, you won't be missed.   November 2020:

Today (Nov 27) would've been Jimi's 74th birthday. Time to make some updates to his page. Added their first UK single to show where it all began. In England, you could've bought Electric Ladyland in two separate volumes. Of course being Brits, they put Sides 1 & 2 on Part 2 and Sides 3 & 4 on Part 1. Love the wild Part 1 cover, though. Put in a text box to describe how the Band Of Gypsys were formed. Now to change all in-line text boxes to look the same. Over the course of several hours was able to finally straighten some code out so things look better. Updated Badfinger, including adding Straight Up, their late 1971 album, partially featuring George Harrison. Refreshed the Pearls Before Swine snd the Ten Wheel Drive pages. Watched documentary on The Turtles (look for The Turtles History: Happy Together on Youtube), so updated the credits a bit, added Ray's early group to the Doors page, and a note to Spanky & Our Gang. Even Bunky & Jake's page got a slight update. All from one video! Added Happy & Artie Traum, two fixtures of the Woodstock Folk community (with a sidebar to Mother Earth). Refreshed Judy Collins' page—some new graphics and updated Whales credits. Updated Insect Trust credits via Discogs. Started to add a what happened to the band or artist post 1971/2. This'll take awhile! Joni Mitchell's birthday present (11/7) is the addition of For The Roses, her 1972 album Added Street to 1 Hit Wonders page. Added British proggers Rare Bird. October 2020:

Added T Rex to the party. The page includes their early UK albums. Fixed the poster in Mandrake Memorial's Puzzle album. Added Dennis Wilson's Europe only 1970 single to the Beach Boys page. Also added the cover to their Stack-O-Tracks album, with a link to a Discogs page. Updated the musician credits to all the Captain Beefheart albums (Wiki source) and a link to a Vox video about our favorite 60s record, Trout Mask Replica. Also included a link to an excellent short history of the group by a Discogs member. Updated The Lovin' Spoonful page. Added an ad by Cal Schenkel for The Mothers At The Fillmore East and a brief blurb and two links for Cal at the top of the Mothers page. Peter, Paul & Mary appeared on the Jack Benny show in January, 1964. The TV Guide listing (& ad) plus a link to the complete show were added to their page. A picture sleeve for the first Blues Project 45. Added Al Kooper's first single—a UK only release. Added an early Delaney Bramlett single, plus a link to 45cat for others. Also minor updates to other pages. For the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, I made a special CD for a Facebook group. I added the track info and a link to the 6-page booklet that accompanied the project. Updated the credits for Santana's marvelous album, Caravanserai. More minor typo and layout updates. Revised Richie Haven's page to update release date of his first album and some of the singles. Updated album graphics for Gordon Lightfoot (thanks, eBay seller!). Likewise, Jesse Colin Young's first album, Soul Of A City Boy, now has the original back cover. Updated Nilsson's page to add info on his first album and a sticker that RCA put on the second album to boost sales (didn't help). September 2020:

Watched the great documentary Festival when it was on TCM this summer, so I updated the performances in the film. Minor updates to Santana, Procol Harum, and Quicksilver Messenger Serivice pages. Added a note about the personel changes in The Left Banke, with a link for further info. Also some updates to the Blues and Legends pages. Finally added those nasally falsettos known as The Bee Gees. Added live recording info to The Doors' Absolutely Live. Added Viv Stanshall's solo 45 to The Bonzo Dog Band. page. Updated graphics and info for The Rascals albums. Updated graphics for The Incredible String Band, including the UK Wee Tam/Big Huge double album. Joe Bauer (& Banana) of The Youngbloods made a solo album for their Raccoon label in the spring of 1971. It's a bunch of (probably stoned) laid-back musicicans groovin' at home. I've heard worse. It's called Moonset. Added changes to Johnny Winter's line-up changes in 1970. Added some covers to Jerry Lee Lewis on the Legends page. Happy birthday, Killer! August 2020:

Updated The Yardbirds page by adding their first UK album, Five Live Yardbirds, and added info about the remixed 1971 album Live Yardbirds. The 1st of August is the anniversary of the first benefit concert put together by rock musicians. Thanks George. Too bad it took so long to get the funds to the people. The page for the event is an easter egg (and not August 71, as that was reserved for another concert-related event), but in the spirit of the event, here is the link. Updated the lead story a little bit; added some photos; improved musician credits (based on CD/DVD and Wiki); and added a link to setlist.fm for the two shows (there were minor changes). Also made special standard links: Discogs goes to the Master page of 90+ editions of the album; 45Cat goes to a listing of George's single issued around the world (plus a few others); and the Wiki link goes to the page on the album. From there, please visit the concert and film pages. BTW, did you notice the change to the home page graphic? Updated the Manfred Mann page. The US info was correct, it's the UK sources that were updated, including an alphabetical PDF. Many tracks from the UK EPs and albums never made it to the US (during this time frame). Added "songs as they appeared" to The Beatles first two movies (AHDN & Help!) on the Movies page. Minor updates to Big Brother, Zappa/Mothers (Weasels info & graphics), Canned Heat, Mamas & Papas, and Dononvan—mostly typos and added info. The Grateful Dead got a new link: the blog "Grateful Dead Guide"—if you're a deadhead, I'm sure you know about this—if not then go visit! When I added Steeleye Span awhile ago, I forgot to update the Vitals page. Sorry Maddy, Ashley, Martin, and Dave (actually the last three shoulda been there from the get-go). Updated links on The Beatles page, based on this Steve Hoffman Forum thread. July 2020:

Once again, thanks to the Steve Hoffman Forum (Music Corner) for providing impetus for looking at the Mark-Almond page to see what it needed. Found a nice photo on eBay that shows the flip-top jacket. Seriously, you should vist that forum and check out some of the threads. Guaranteed you'll learn sumthin'. The Visual Arts forum there is real good, too. Speaking of Visual Arts, added the quiet film, Two Lane Blacktop to the movie page. As it stars James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, don't why it took so long to be there! Revised writer credits (per original album label) and personel credits (via Wiki [Craig Slowinski] & SHF) for all The Beach Boys albums. Mike Love's name was added to many songs after a 1994 lawsuit. These revisions were not included. Also updated album art, including complete gatefold for the 1964 Concert album. And added their only "starring" movie, The Girls On The Beach. Updated the Woodstock page with new performer start times (based on an attendee's notebook—with link) and revised the Woodstock Performers' Set List PDF booklet with four pages of cool emphera photos. June 2020:

In October, 1969 at a music festival in Belgium, Frank Zappa (the Emcee for the event) joined Pink Floyd on stage to jam on "Interstellar Overdrive." Nobody involved remembered this, yet video of the event surfaced on Pink Floyd's The Early Years box set in 2016. I added links to the Youtube video on both Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa pages. Also added the British back cover (and label details) to their sliced/diced version of The Mothers' Freak Out. After watching this excellent documetary: Duane Allman - Song Of The South: Duane Allman And The Rise Of The Allman Brothers (available on Amazon Prime and other outlets), updated The Allman Brother Band page and added Cowboy, whose earlier incarnation, The 31st Of February, had Butch Trucks as drummer. Minor update to the factory published track timings on Fleetwood Mac's Future Games. Some were way off. Added two very loud, very popular Michigan groups, Grand Funk Railroad (that's for you, Cutie! She was at the Shea Stadium concert.) and The Frost. (The Frost was big in the thumb, but lack of label marketing doomed their national success.) Since I had to add folks to the Vitals page, made more links there—mostly to those on the Legends/Oldies But Goodies section. Whilst making these updates, discovered that the Palm Beach Music & Art Festival link was left out during individual artist pages updates. Fixed. Made some strictly visual changes to the top menu. Since one of the menu items was for Brian Auger, wrote up a short piece on Steampacket, the revue that gave us Jools, Auge, Rod, and a few others. Updated all the montage images—added "new" album covers and updated the Fall 1970 Easter Egg—five hour job, but it's done. This temporarily displaced the Richard Brautigan EE page—it'll be back somewhere (if you know where to look, you'll find him). The Amchitka concert, the one that helped start Greenpeace, graduated to that page. It's real easy to spot. When new artists are added to the website, it takes awhile to add the covers to the montages. Sometimes there's no more room, but we try. Note that there is no EE for Winter 1970. Workin on it! Oh, and I updated this update. Refreshed Spanky & Our Gang—added early folk group from Chicago where the group originated and replaced some old graphics. Updated Monkees Head soundtrack album details. Added McGuinness Flint to the Manfred Mann page. Listening to Monterey Pop (53rd anniversary), so expect minor updates to the artists who were there, like Paul Butterfield (fixed movin' in/outs). Added a "covers" section for James Taylor Lots of minor updates, including some additions to the concerts pages (Sep/Oct 70). Added the booklet & index PDFs that were created for Willard's Wormhole when he presented the entire Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders series on his blog many years ago. For years, The Turtles disowned the album Wooden Head, as it was a scrape-the-floor kinda release by White Whale records. My how times have changed, as it is now considered "canon" and was included in the 6-CD box set. It's been added to The Turtles page. May 2020:

Only minor updates as research on a book about TV Guide And The Space Race takes priority. Part of the 20/20 update should have included updating the Alpha Listings (Animals, Beatles, etc). Forgot. All fixed now. Added one of the Hickory cash-in albums to Donovan's page as it contained some 45s and a couple of stray UK cuts. Poor Duncan Browne got left behind during the 20/20 update. Welcome back! Added John Denver and for cosmic balance, The Deviants. Adjusted Neil Young's quiting (June 67)/rejoining (Aug 67) in Buffalo Springfield, based on info from this excellent website: Buffalo Springfield Concert Chronology. Fixed the credit for the amazing acoustic guitar fills on Dylan's Desolation Row. It was Charlie McCoy who was in town that day and was invited to play. Added some TV Guide scans to The Beatles (US network premieres of "A Hard Days Night" & "Help!") and Simon & Garfunkel's 1968 Kraft Music Hall appearance. Paul's brother Eddie duets on "Angie"—really great performance. Interesting story on how the classic Crosby, Stills & Nash cover came about linked to Best Classic Bands. And an early It's A Beautiful Day concert that was recorded at the Fillmore before their first album was released. April 2020: Updated The Mamas & The Papas to include their early history. Added the Chicago-based blues group The Siegel-Schwall Band. Added a record to the Earth page that'll help us all relax. Added the movie The Savage Seven, as both Cream and Iron Butterfly contributed to the film. Also added the soundtrack album to Petulia (did not know there was one!). Made some changes to The Nice and Humble Pie based on new information on their releases via Immediate Records in the US. Columbia had production and distribution (LPs with "Z12" prefix). In October, Immediate sued CBS (parent co) for not meeting contract (poor distribution, advertising, etc). Immediate switched to Capital for production and independent distributors. These albums got caught up in the hassle. Humble Pie's As Safe As Yesterday Is was the first Capital-produced Immediate record (IMOCS-101) and The Nice was the second (Everything As Nice As Mother Makes It—IMOCS-102. Both were released in November, 1969 and were featured in Billboard magazine's Album Review on 11/22. However, that exact same third Nice album, as just self-titled, was released the month before (or even weeks) as a Columbia-produced record (Z12-52022) and was featured in Billboard's Album Review on 10/18. They shipped the records, but did no promotion at all. Doesn't really matter, as the London-based Immediate Records folded early the next year, leaving both groups in the lurch. March 2020:

Big changes this spring. See the 20/20 Update page for details. Didn't want these great artists to get lost in the changes: Patrick Sky, a leading figure in the Village folk scene. Harvey Mandel finally gets his page. Tina & David Meltzer get a page for their group Serpent Power and the Poet Song album. And, a New York group with a vocalist who made it big in the 80s. As noted in the Update page, there's a new "X" page: Great eXpectations. This for the new kids jus startin out (Doobies, Prine, Browne). More artists coming after the dust settles on the update.