THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,819) Sunset Love — “Run to the Sun”
Here is a real treat. The best sounding version I have ever heard of this haunting, “sweet and slightly spooky” (Dusty Groove, https://www.dustygroove.com/item/215159/Sunset-Love:Run-to-the-Sun) pop psych jewel just landed on YouTube a few weeks ago. Thank you, BWSCD Inc. The song is “heavenly [and] harmonious . . . yield[ing] impressions of the Mamas and the Papas [see #1,734] on a pot-infested paisley binge”. (Beverly Paterson, https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2013/10/various-artists-green-crystal-ties.html) The band’s “lush harmonies, soaring vocals, superior song writing, and flower power consciousness pervade[] their songs with a depth and quality unheard of from most 60s’ bands”. (tasos epit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSkafUvHNq0)
Who were Sunset love? Lion Productions tells us that:
Sunset Love was a quasi-mystical flower-power band from New Mexico who blended influences of The Mamas and Papas, Spanky And Our Gang and The Beatles to create a unique pop-psych sound. Sunset Love were recruited in 1968 to record at Westex Studios in Odessa, Texas. Westex was the brainchild of Tommy Allsup (original member of Buddy Holly’s Crickets) and Gorman Maxwell . . . . Allsup asked producer Buzz Cason (also a former member of The Crickets) to come from Nashville to work with Sunset Love. The resulting recording sessions yielded a total of sixteen songs, of which twelve were originals. Sunset Love singer and songwriter, Victor Kay Lindsey, says: “we thought we were going to be superstars; we had big plans, we were sure an album was going to be put out.” Unfortunately, soon after the sessions, Allsup dissolved his partnership with Maxwell, sold out his half on the studio, and moved to Nashville. Sunset Love hung around waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever did. As Lindsey recalled, “We should have taken our tapes to Los Angeles like Zager and Evans and found a producer, but we didn’t and we broke up in the summer of 1969”.
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