Monthly Archives: April 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 790) O.P.M.C. — “Easter Song” Richie Unterberger says that this yearning and affecting folk-rocker “sounds like the late-’60s Hollies trying to go a little folkier.” (https://www.allmusic.com/album/amalgamation-mw0001282367) “Hey, come on home for Easter.” Discogs calls O.P.M.C.* a “Dutch hippy blues-folk band”. (https://www.discogs.com/artist/918956-OPMC). Unterberger dismissivelyContinue reading “O.P.M.C. — “Easter Song”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 9, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 789) Powder — “Flowers” Before Thomas and Richard Frost had a minor hit and created one of the great lost albums of the 1960s (see #209, 211, 247, 385, 595, 775), they had ignited Powder (as in gunpowder), the first and greatest U.S.Continue reading “Powder — “Flowers”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 8, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 788) The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band — “Flowers Never Cry” ’67 A-side is L.A. psych/sunshine/baroque pop heaven from the band’s first album The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band Featuring Steve Hoffman. Man, people either love or hate this band. In the former category, AlbethContinue reading “The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band — “Flowers Never Cry”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 7, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 787) Mojo — “Flower of Love” This wonderful ’69 B-side alternates between gentle balladry and jaunty interludes, with “The Entertainer”-style piano on occasion, all about a woman “sad and lonely somewhere . . . waiting for someone to love”. The Mojo Men wereContinue reading “Mojo — “Flower of Love”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 6, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 786) Joyce’s Angels — “Flowers for My Friends” Where have all the flowers gone? This “Great Hippie Dippie Track about some Cheerful Guy giving Flowers away” (Vintage Vinyl Via Valves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tMQ1Z9I-8), “a nice Psych Pop Hippy dancer track about a happy chappy givingContinue reading “Joyce’s Angels — “Flowers for My Friends”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 5, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 785) Alan David — “Flower Power” Flower power. What is it good for? Absolutely everything! Say it again! Happening45 calls this British ode to flower power, titled appropriately “Flower Power”, “probably a bandwagon zeitgeist jumping effort, or a pee-take, or a genuine odeContinue reading “Alan David — “Flower Power”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 4, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 784) John Williams — “Flowers in Your Hair” Staying with the flower children theme, here is a ’67 A-side from John Williams, no, not that John Williams — I’m talkin’ about the one who hung out with Jimmy Page! (see #402 for theContinue reading “John Williams — “Flowers in Your Hair”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 3, 2023″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 783) The Crazy World of Arthur Brown — “Give Him a Flower” The Crazy World’s ’67 B-side proves that even the god of hellfire can be won over by flower power and give a flower to the eight stone bully who kicks sandContinue reading “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown — “Give Him a Flower”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 2, 2023”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 782) The Masked Marauders (John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan) — “I Can’t Get No Nookie” Before there were the Travelling Wilburys, there were the Masked Marauders. The supergroup included future Wilburys George Harrison and Bob Dylan, plus JohnContinue reading “The Masked Marauders (John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan) — “I Can’t Get No Nookie”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 1, 2023″