GOLIATH - PORT & LEMON LADY - UK CBS DEMO 45
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45
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60
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** RECORD COLLECTOR **
GOLIATH
Port & Lemon Lady
Original UK Promo 7" Single released on CBS Records in 1970. Comes in Plain sleeve.
Goliath were a short-lived but very promising UK band who were fronted by Linda Rothwell. The other members were Eric Eastman on drums & percussion, Joe Rosbotham on tenor sax & flute, Malcolm Grundy on guitar and John Williamson on bass. Their music had elements of rock, folk and blues, as well as an Eastern touch. The single was taken from their eponymous album, released in 1970 on the CBS label. A band with fantastic potential, they faded into obscurity.
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As the sixties waved goodbye and everyone wept - or so popular culture would have us believe, but it's safe to say that wasn't universally true - the old guard didn't so much change their stripes as gently mutate into other beasts. The bubblegum brigade largely turned their attentions to glam (Mud and The Sweet had both been around and been ignored during the sixties). The garage rock acts frequently morphed into full blown hard rock bands. And then the psychedelic hippies, seemingly for want of anything better to do, carried on exploring their pastoral and experimental influences until, in some cases, we got something rather like this lot.
Goliath were one of several prog-folk acts to emerge almost exactly at the same time as the sixties faded, and whilst as a genre it didn't really have any big-hitting names like Floyd or Zeppelin, it nonetheless ploughed its own particular furrow for a rather long period of time. Unlike many of their rivals, however, Goliath had a distinct blues influences to their work as well, and were probably one of the only acts of the era to combine raunchy vocals - courtesy of Linda Rothwell - with puffing flutes. As the various cultures clash and compete for your ear's attention across the grooves, it should be a tremendous mess, but amazingly it all hangs together very well.
"Port and Lemon Lady" (CBS's choice for the single off their sole album) is a rather merry little number, but the B-side "I Heard About a Friend" is rather more serious and satisfying and displays the band's strengths much more successfully.
Some critics referred to them as being the British Jefferson Airplane - whether that's the case or not, they never had an opportunity to record another album, and petered out a few years later. Their sole long player is now extremely collectible.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
Port & Lemon Lady
Side Two
I Heard About A Friend
The 45 is in fantastic condition, a few sleeve removal marks(only visible when held under a bright light). I have graded this as excellent but it's probably pushing a near mint. The labels are in excellent condition, just a few light spindle marks. It has obviously been very well look after! There is no original CBS sleeve but it would be easier to find a sleeve than this rare demo!!
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