THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
902) Tangerine Peel — “Talkin’ ‘Bout a New Day”
From the pen of ’70s superstar songwriter/producer Mike Chapman comes this ode to mindfulness (starting at 20:54 on the album) with a propulsive groove and the immoral words “I walked to the corner, looked at the trees and listened to the bees, and the dogs bark.” Within a few years, Chapman would be talkin’ ’bout a new wave!
It comes from an album with many strong points, but of which Vernon Joynson says “[t]he best thing . . . was the psychedelic artwork on the sleeve. The contents were very disappointing.” (The Tapestry of Delights Revisited)
Bruce Eder unpeels the Tangerine:
Tangerine Peel was best known during the second half of the 1960s as a five-man psychedelic band, specializing in a slightly light but pleasant brand of the music. Their principal claim to fame was the presence of future songwriter/producer Mike Chapman in their ranks during the late ’60s, when they cut records such as their version of the Bee Gees’ “Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You,” cut for British United Artists in 1967. Subsequent singles included “Solid Gold Mountain” and “Talking to No One” for British CBS, and “Never Say Never Again” and “Play Me a Sad Song and I’ll Dance” for British MGM. Chapman left before the group recorded its one and only LP, Soft Delights, in 1970. By that time, the group had abandoned its psychedelic influences in favor of a more conventional pop/rock sound.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tangerine-peel-mn0001626969
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