THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
2,046) Tee and Cara — “I Don’t Think I Know Her”
I sometimes say that a song is impossibly gorgeous. Well, here is another impossibility, “a melancholic standout” (recorddigger, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/tee_and_cara/as_they_are/) by “a boy/girl duo whose light flickered brilliantly for this album before fading altogether. . . [whose sole LP] is truly worthy of the oft-misused ‘buried treasure’ tag, defying exact characterisation other than resting in an early folkish singersongwriter vein.” (Kingsley Abbott, https://rockasteria.blogspot.com/2013/10/tee-and-cara-as-they-are-1968-us-lovely.html?m=1)
Robert Cochran writes:
A perfect fading Polaroid of the way they were. It makes you want to relive lost days in old sunshine. These teenagers may not have charted, but they wrote songs that are as beguiling as telegrams. They sound so innocently sophisticated. . . . Cara [Beckenstein] is . . sixteen . . . . Tee Saroff . . . . eighteen . . . . They both . . . play guitar, having met at John Adams High School in New York. . . . [Their] sound is effortlessly cool. Mellow and breezy, they build a subtle bridge between California folksongs and New York’s Tin Pan Alley pop. . . . If there were a genre captioned “urban pastoral,” Tee and Cara would be major exponents . . . . [I]n the summer of 1968 a boy and a girl in New York got something right. . . . [with this] intriguing work of tender charm.
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