THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,917) Rejoice! — “Spring Flew In Today”
Rejoice! — spring is here, and here is some beautiful and “lilting” (Ted, https://wendy-city.blogspot.com/2019/) Marin Country folk rock backed by Hal Blaine and Larry Knechtel of the Wrecking Crew. It’ll put a spring in your step!
Ted writes of Rejoice’s LP, Rejoice:
[T]he album is an intriguing late entry in the ampersand co-ed folk duo movement that spanned across the entire decade of the ‘60s. The proficient musical bed tilled by the Wrecking Crew musicians on lilting, albeit fleeting songs [like] “Spring Flew in Today” . . . makes it sounds like that Tom & Nancy Brown are layering their flowering vocals over a sweeping ’60s motion picture soundtrack. In other spots, you can hear the underlying tension of a ramshackle Bay Area couple bereft of their familiar Marin County-based accompanying band and not quite coalescing with the professional approach of the top flight L.A. studio musicians (Joe Osborn on bass and Larry Knechtel on piano & organ, besides the aforementioned Blaine). . . . While Rejoice! lacked the crystalline harmonic interplay of Blackburn & Snow or the turn up the AM radio factor of Friend & Lover, their opportunity to combine forces and record with members of the Wrecking Crew is beyond compare.
Ray McGinnis tells us of Rejoice:
Rejoice was a band made up of guitarist Tom Brown, bass player Nancy Brown, pianist Dick Conte and drummer Michael Patrick Moore. They were from Marin County, north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Browns’ were a husband and wife duo and their harmonies bear strong echoes of the coffee house folk circuit blended with the gentle, hazily psychedelic Bay Area sounds of the day. Rejoice was signed by Jay Lasker, then president of the Dunhill label. Rejoice originally went into the studio with Terry Melcher as producer in April 1968. Melcher was the only son of singer Doris Day and he had previously produced the Byrds’ [see #1,430, 1,605] albums Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn, Turn Turn[ and] all the albums for Paul Revere & The Raiders [see #109] from 1965 to 1968, including their string of hit singles . . . . Melcher had also been the producer of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. . . . While in the middle of recording . . . album, Melcher’s father passed away and [he] was gone for about a week. . . . Months later, Tom and Nancy Brown, the singers and main songwriters, went back to Los Angeles with Steve Barri as producer and completed the Rejoice album. Bari was a successful producer for The Grassroots, most of Mama Cass’s solo career hits, Tommy Roe . . . and Alan O’Day . . . . Rejoice used the following studio musicians to complete the album: drummer Hal Blaine, bass player Joe Osborne and pianist Larry Knechtel. Hal Blaine and Larry Knetchel were both . . . with the legendary Wrecking Crew from Los Angeles. The Rejoice album was released in January 1969 and a single co-written by Nancy and Tom Brown, “Golden Gate Park”, spent one week on the Billboard Hot 100 at #96. This was mostly on the strength of the tune climbing to #10 in San Francisco and #20 in Seattle. It was a fine example of the sunshine pop tunes populating the charts in the late 60’s. . . . With no commercial success, later in 1969 Rejoice broke up . . . .
https://therockasteria.blogspot.com/2022/06/rejoice-rejoice-1968-us-pleasant-folk.html
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