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ERIK - "Why Come Another Day" (Vanguard VRS-9267) December 1967
My weekend's album under the spotlight is this obscurity by folk singer Erik Heller. The recordings for his album date from late 1967 and it appears to have been released during December. A full page advert promoting the album and a single from it was published in Cashbox trade magazine and Billboard gave it four stars in their new releases column.

The music contained within can best be described as loner folk with orchestration. Erik's songs are moody and desolate. Most here are stripped down acoustic based folk songs with Erik's mournful 'spoken' vocals increasing the anxiety. Samuel Charters' production adds psychedelics especially on the song I've chosen and my pick from "Look Where I Am." Some research reveals that the latter produced the first four Country Joe & the Fish albums so he was very familiar with the underground acid scene and in some ways was perfect fo…

"THEE ŒARLY DAYZE OF HYGHE KNYGHTES" - THEE TREASURE IN THEE TOWER

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Keith B29 February 2012 at 10:06
Wow!!! You cannot get much more
psychedelic than Ultimate Spinach!
This is the Mk2 line up: l-r Russell Levine (drums), Geoffrey
Winthrop (lead gtr, sitar & bass), Richard Neese (bass & gtr), Barbara
Jean Hudson (vcls & gtr), Ian Bruce-Douglas (vcls, keys, gtr & sitar) and Carol Lee Britt (vcls)
EXPO6729 February 2012 at 16:01
Keith's the man....I posted it cos I'd never seen this picture before....maybe first time on the web anywhere?
GaragePunk6629 February 2012 at 21:29
Love the paint scheme on that guitar!
Jonas1 March 2012 at 22:12
You can see this picture from the March 23 issue, 1968, and much more in the KRLA Archive.

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ERIK - WHY COME ANOTHER DAY

"THEE ŒARLY DAYZE OF HYGHE KNYGHTES" - THEE TREASURE IN THEE TOWER