BEAR Greetings Children Of Paradise LP VERVE FORECAST 1968 USorig+insert FTS3059
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BEAR
ARTIE TRAUM guitar, ERIC KAZ keyboards, STEVE SOLES vocals,
plus DARIUS DAVENPORT drums, SKIP BOONE bass
Bear were part of Boston's music scene in the late sixties. Their album is worth investigating. Two of its better tracks include, What Difference?, a laid back, jazzy number and It's Getting Very Cold Outside. The group was helped out by Steve Soles and Darius Davenport from Autosalvage.Eric Kaz played in The Blues Magoos during 1969 and 1970, and in Mud Acres (during 1972) with Artie Traum. All three members became session musicians during the seventies...(Fuzz Acid & Flowers)
"GREETINGS, CHILDREN OF PARADISE"
Produced by John Boylan
1968 LP VERVE FORECAST RECORDS FTS-3059 STEREO
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
[Verve Folkways was an American folk and blues label, originally founded in 1965 as a partnership between Verve Records and Moses Asch's Folkways Records. In June of 1967, by which time the original partnership with Folkways had ended, the label was officially renamed Verve Forecast. Verve Forecast was created in 1967 as a subsidiary of the legendary jazz label for releasing folk, psychedelic rock and experimental music. It lasted until 1970, when parent label MGM shut it down.]
SINGLE SLEEVE + INSERT
THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
NOTES: Label variant with STEREO and catalog number on left side of center-hole,
full names in songwriter credits and no label matrix numbers printed on labels.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: VERVE FORECAST - GREEN LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: FTS-3059
Catalog on labels: FTS 3059
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): FTS-3059 S-1 MGS 1822 F.B.G.
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): FTS-3059 S-2 MGS 1823 F.B.G. W.C.
On labels: rim text reads "MGM Records ? A Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. ? Made in U.S.A.'
All Selections Publ. By EmbassyMusic-BMI
Produced By John Boylan
Arranged And Conducted By The Bear And The Guerrilla
On insert: Lyrics & Notes
On back cover: Produced for Music Sales Corporation.........
Manufactured by MGM Records Division.......N.Y. 10019
tracklisting
Side 1: GREETINGS!* - SO LOOSE AND SO SLOW - LIKE CATS - HAPPY DAYS - WHAT DIFFERENCE
*Title Song From The Motion Picture "Greetings!"
Side 2: IT'S GETTING VERY COLD OUTSIDE - IT WON'T BE HANGIN' 'ROUND - DON'T SAY A WORD
DON'T YOU EVER WANT TO THINK ABOUT THEM? - THE HUNGRY DOGS OF NEW MEXICO
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Another one-shot late-'60s psychedelic band, Autosalvage, might serve as a point of comparison, as two members of that group (Skip Boone and Darius Davenport) play on Greetings, Children of Paradise. Bear's record, though, is even more diffuse than Autosalvage's in its dodges between various circa-1968 underground rock styles, made even more erratic by some aspects which seem to aim for a bit of pop appeal. There's a little of the Lovin' Spoonful's good-time rock from time to time, but more often it's an uneasy mesh of free-floating American hippie rock with some Beatlesque harmonies and melodies. Sometimes there are jazzy beats and arrangements; at other times there are moderately heavy psychedelic guitar solos; at others, their basic folk-blues roots poke through (as on "Hungry Dogs of New Mexico")...(AllMusic)
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