GENTLE SOUL (S/T) - 1ST PRESS YELLOW EPIC label LP - folk psych - 1968 - BEST $
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GENTLE SOUL
“GENTLE SOUL”
Epic BN 26374 (Matrix number in vinyl runoff)
1968
EX / EX-
FIRST PRESSING (yellow label)
BEST PRICE COPY ON EBAY AS OF 10-24-2016. One other copy is sitting at $120 and is the later second pressing black Epic label.
Original analog LP pressing.
Very rare first pressing. The LP was peopled around California based singer / songwriter Pamela Polland. Polland is an American who made three albums for Epic and Columbia Records in the 60s and 70s and whose songs have been recorded by a number of popular artists. In the 80s, she re-emerged as an independent recording artist and vocal coach, later working in film and TV scoring and Hawaiian music.
Polland composed her first song at the age of nine and by her teens was playing folk clubs. During this period, she formed a two-year alliance with Ry Cooder who accompanied her for performances of blues material. Her recording career began a few years later, in 1966, when she and singer/songwriter Rick Stanley became The Gentle Soul, a folk band with psychedelic influences and an emphasis on creative and elaborate vocal harmonies. Their self-titled album appeared on Epic Records.
Following the dissolution of The Gentle Soul, Pamela set up home in Mill Valley, California before joining Joe Cocker and Leon Russell for the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour in 1970. She can be heard and seen in the ensuing double album and film documentary respectively.
Rick Stanley has had a long career in folk music as a guitarist and singer/songwriter. He started performing in the coffee houses of Boston, New York. Under Byrds producer Terry Melcher, Rick Stanley and Pam Polland as “The Gentle Soul” made the charts with two singles, and their self-titled album on the Epic label was called “Most beautiful…album of the year” by Billboard Magazine.
Personnel
Pamela Polland - female vocals, guitar
Rick Stanley - vocals, guitar
Ry Cooder - guitar
Mike Deasy - guitar (Recorded early Charles Manson tracks but was scared off by The Family)
Van Dyke Parks – harpsichord
Tony Cohan – tabla
Paul Horn – flute (The Wrecking Crew)
Ted Michel – cello
Larry Knechtel – organ (Pianist on “Bridge Over Troubled Water”)
Bill Plummer – bass
Gayle Levant – harp
Riley Wyldflower – guitar
Jerry Cole – guitar (The Wrecking Crew)
Joe Osborne – bass (The Wrecking Crew)
Sandy Konikoff – drums (Joe Cocker, Maddogs & Englishmen)
Hal Blaine – drums (The Wrecking Crew)
Terry Melcher - producer
Stored vertically in a smoke free environment for 48 years.
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