Неизвестные 60-е. Часть 37. Группа Simon Dupree And The Big Sound

врубаем ответку! на вызов психоделии американского ответим нашим, родным, английским! ну не хотел я трогать этот стиль, в нем просто утопнем! одна из немногих групп с психо композицией, достигшей десятки топа, но она того стоит! совсем не хуже флойда.

Simon Dupree and The Big Sound

Personnel:
ERIC HINE keyb'ds A
PETE O'FLAHERTY bs A
TONY RANDELL drms A
DEREK SHULMAN vcls A
PHIL SHULMAN sax A
RAY SHULMAN bs, gtr, vcls A

ALBUMS:
1(A) WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (Parlophone PMC/PCS 7029) 1967 R1 39
2(A) AMEN (See For Miles CM 109) 1982 -

EP:
1 SIMON DUPREE AND THE BIG SOUND (EMI EMI 2893) 1978

45s:
1 I See The Light/It Is Finished (Parlophone R 5542) 1966 -
2 Reservations/You Need A Man (Parlophone R 5574) 1967 -
3 Day Time, Night Time/I've Seen It All Before (Parlophone R 5594) 1967 -
4 Kites/Like The Sun Like The Fire (Parlophone R 5646) 1967 9
5 For Whom The Bell Tolls/Sleep (Parlophone R 5670) 1968 43
6 Part Of My Past/This Story Never Ends (Parlophone R 5697) 1968 -
7 Thinking About My Life/Velvet And Lace (Parlophone R 5727) 1968 -
8 Broken Hearted Pirates/She Gave Me The Sun (Parlophone R 5757) 1969 -
9 The Eagle Flies Tonight/Give It All Back (Parlophone R 5816) 1969 -

Reissue 45:
10 Kites/(Flip by different artist) (Old Gold OG 9655) 1987 -

Simon Dupree started out The Howling Wolves and later became The Road Runners, a Portsmouth-based R&B band. 'Simon Dupree' was actually vocalist Ray Shulman and the band got the new name in 1966. Their early music was almost entirely soul, mostly Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding covers.

Their debut 45, I See The Light, was a good stomping R&B number, but it made little impression on the record buying public. The flip side was more soul-based with lots of brass. Their follow-up, Reservations, was an uptempo, organ-driven R&B number, which was certainly one of their better singles. It's sales were quite encouraging although it failed to make the Charts. The flip side, You Need A Man, was frankly nondescript.

Their next release, Day Time, Night Time, was another organ-led R&B belter. A fine record of its type but again it failed to Chart. The flip side was similar in style but a weaker composition.

Their album, Without Reservations, released at the start of August 1967, included much of the material from their live act. There's the soul medley, 60 Minutes Of Your Love/A Lot Of Love, a cover of Sam Cooke's Amen, as well as some self-penned compositions like Who Cares and Get Off My Bach. The only remotely psych-pop track was There's A Little Picture Playhouse and the album certainly isn't worth purchasing for connoisseurs of psychedelia, but it is if soul or R&B is your scene.

The release of the quasi-psychedelic Kites in October 1967 marked a drastic change of image and musical direction. Recorded at the Abbey Road studios it's full of interesting sound effects and instruments like the mellotron, gongs and vibraphone. It shot them into the Top Ten but gave them an image that was at odds with their R&B roots which they had difficulty reconciling themselves to. The flip side, Like The Sun Like The Fire, also had a hint of Sgt. Pepper about it but wasn't quite as good.

From here on the band's career was in decline through their failure to score another Top Twenty hit. Of their later singles, For Whom The Bell Tolls and Broken Hearted Pirates, are the most interesting. The former did reach No 43 in the Charts in April 1968. It features some pleasant flamenco-style guitar and another strong vocal performance from Ray Shulman as well as tolling bells, naturally. They also recorded a single called We Are The Moles Pts 1 And 2 (Parlophone R 5743) under the pseudonym of The Moles in 1968. When the group dissolved in 1969, the Shulman brothers went on to form Gentle Giant.

Особо выделим последнюю фразу:
>When the group dissolved in 1969, the Shulman
>brothers went on to form Gentle Giant.

I See The Light
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=60

Kites
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=61

Reservations
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=62

Я встречал на одном сайте утверждение, что их сингл про кротов - одна из лучших песен британской психоделии. Хотя, на мой взгляд, просто довольно типичная.

Хорошая группа. И было неожиданно и приятно услышать голоса братьев Шульманов в такой ипостаси.

Выходила в свое время такая пластинка. Хотелось бы, чтобы знающие люди поделились информацией о ней. Чем больше инфы, тем лучше. Вот что я прочел по этому поводу:

В 1968 году SIMON DUPREE & THE BIG SOUND (будущие GENTLE GIANT то есть)анонимно записала и выпустила в продажу сингл "We Are The Moles Part 1 / We Are The Moles Part 2", на сегодня больше известный как "Was it The BEATLES in disguise?". На нем группа настолько отчетливо подражала "Битлам", что многие попались на удочку, когда был пущен слух, что запись на самом деле принадлежит великой ливерпульской четверке. По некоторым сведениям, организовал эту акцию ни кто иной, как Джордж Мартин.

Это сообщение было перемещено из темы "THE MOLES - "Was it The BEATLES in disguise?"".

Специально переслушал. Нет, ничего общего с битлами. Тяжелая оркестрованная психоделия с искаженными голосами, единственная более-менее близкая ассоциация - I am the Walrus. Так что не верьте

Слушаю с огромным удовольствием.
https://music.yandex.ru/album/45068

Рекомендовать можно кучу треков, но особенно конечно "Kites"!