Kaleidoscope

Larry Williams

Gotta Start Somewhere...

The Rodents

And Your Bird Can Sing / Come And Live With Me Lennon-McCartney (?) / ? (?) Pequod ?, ?/66

Please³ / Elevator Man¹ Feldthouse-Freedman (2:55) / Feltdhouse (2:50) Epic 10117, 1/67

Magic Mountain Music Festival(6/10/67)

	Side Trips
	Epic BN-26304
	5/67 [UK: N/R]
	Back Cover

Side One
Egyptian Gardens	Feldthouse	3:05
If The Night	Darrow	1:45
Hesitation Blues	Poole	2:25
Please	Feldthouse-Freedman	3:10
Keep Your Mind Open	Darrow	2:15
Side Two
Pulsating Dream	Darrow	1:58
Oh Death	Reedy	3:25
Come On In	Darrow	2:07
Why Try	Lindley	3:43
Minnie the Moocher	Calloway-Gaskill-Mills	2:15

Note: According to Chris Darrow, "cover was done by an artist that Columbia picked who did covers for ESP Records" (source)
 

Why Try?² / Little Orphan Nannie¹ Lindley (2:46) / Crill-Darrow (1:54) Epic 10219, 8/67

I Found Out / Rampe Rampe¹ Shackleford (2:15) / Kaleidoscope (3:33) Epic 10239, 10/67

Kaleidoscope provides backing on two tracks for Leonard Cohen's first album

Nobody¹ / Find Yourself Someone To Love¹ Cooper-Shelby (2:45) / Watson (2:01) Okeh 730, 11/67 A-side as by Larry Williams & Johnny Watson with The Kaleidoscope

	A Beacon From Mars
	Epic BN-26333
	11/67 [UK: N/R]
	Back Cover   Original Sheet Music

Side One
I Found Out	Shackleford	2:15
Greenwood Sidee	Traditional	4:12
Life Will Pass You By	Darrow	3:17
Taxim	Kaleidoscope	11:20
Side Two
Baldheaded End Of A Broom	Traditional	3:12
Louisiana Man	Kershaw	2:42
You Don't Love Me	Cobb	3:57
A Beacon From Mars	Kaleidoscope	12:35

Note: Taxim and A Beacon From Mars recorded live with no overdubs
According to Chris Darrow, "The album cover was a re-working of an old piece of sheet music that we changed to the title,
'A Beacon From Mars'"—see note 2 (source)
 

Chris Darrow to The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Vidican quits.

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival(May 18-19, 1968)

Just A Taste¹ / Hello Trouble¹ Feldthouse (2:08) / Chouchani-McDuff (2:00) Epic 10332, 5/68

Newport Folk Festival(7/25, 28/68)

Newport Folk Festival: "Kaleidoscope ," 7/28/68, Audio only of amazing set. Introduced by Theo Bikel (no stranger to weird stringed instruments).

The Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair(8/31-9/1/68)

	Incredible
	Epic BN-26467
	5/69 BB [UK: N/R]
	Full Cover   Inside Cover

Side One
Lie To Me	Brotman-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley-Parcely	2:45
Let The Good Love Flow	Lindley-Smith	2:10
Tempe Arizona	Burnett-Brotman-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley-Parcely	2:44
Petite Fleur	Tournemire	3:29
Banjo	Lindley	3:34
Side Two
The Cuckoo	Traditional	4:15
Seven-Ate Sweet	Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley-Parcely	11:37

Let The Good Love Flow / Lie To Lindley-Smith (2:10) / Brotman-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley-Parcely (2:45) Epic 10481, 5/69

Tempe Arizona / Lie To Me Burnett-Brotman-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley-Parcely (2:44)/ Brotman-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley-Parcely (2:45) Epic 10500, 7/69 Tempe is actually Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor

The Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair(8/30-9/1/69)

	Zabriskie Point(2/9/70)
	Two unique tracks on the soundtrack album

	Bernice
	Epic BN-26508
	2/70 [UK: 3/70]
	Back Cover

Side One
Chocolate Whale	Feldthouse	2:27
Another Lover	Lindley	2:45
Sneakin' Thru The Ghetto	Crill-Lagos	3:20
To Know Is Not To Be	Lagos	2:16
Lulu Arfin Nanny	Brotman-Crill-Darrow-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley	3:12
Lie And Hide	Brotman-Crill-Lagos-Lindley	2:52
Side Two
Ballad Of Tommy Udo	Lindley	2:48
Bernice	Crill	2:44
Soft And Easy	Feldthouse	2:58
New Blue Ooze	Brotman-Crill-Feldthouse-Lagos-Lindley	9:42

Note: UK release as by American Kaleidoscope.
 

	Captain Milkshake(11/10/70)
	Couple of unique songs in the film

After four albums group split up. 1976 reunion album. Lindley does session work and forms El-Rayo-X band.

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