The Sopwith Camel (Remastered) Sopwith Camel

• 1 Hello, Hello 02:27
• 2 Frantic Desolation 02:15
• 3 Saga of the Low Down Let Down 01:48
• 4 Little Orphan Annie 02:53
• 5 You Always Tell Me Baby 01:47
• 6 Maybe In a Dream 02:02
• 7 Cellophane Woman 02:27
• 8 The Things That I Could Do with You 02:12
• 9 Walk In the Park 02:25
• 10 The Great Morpheum 02:57
• 11 Postcard from Jamaica 02:25
• Total Runtime 25:38

Info for The Sopwith Camel (Remastered)

Sopwith Camel war eine 1966 in San Francisco gegründete Popgruppe. Man kombinierte psychedelische Westcoast-Fragmente mit Pop- und Rock'n'Roll-Rhythmen zu Good-Time-Music. Sopwith Camel traten u.a. im Vorprogramm von Jefferson Airplane und den Rolling Stones auf. Sie gelten als Vorreiter des Psychedelic Rock aus San Francisco. Als eine der ersten Bands dieser Ära bekamen sie einen landesweiten Plattenvertrag und mit dem Titel Hello, Hello (in Deutschland auf dem Kama Sutra Label erschienen) waren sie die erste Band dieser Stilrichtung mit einem größeren Hit in den US-Charts. Die Band konnte jedoch nicht an ihren Erfolg anknüpfen und löste sich 1967 auf. Sopwith Camels Debütalbum wurde bereits zweimal wiederveröffentlicht, aber die Version auf Talking Elephant enthält einen verschollen geglaubten Bonus Track.

Sopwith Camel

Sopwith Camel

Digitally remastered

The Sopwith Camel
gained some passing mentions in rock histories as one of the first San Francisco psychedelic era bands to record for a national label; in fact, they were the first to have a Top 40 hit, with the vaudevillian "Hello, Hello" in early 1967. They were not, however, one of the best San Francisco bands, nor were they even very good or psychedelic. Usually they sounded like a second-rate Lovin' Spoonful (with whom they shared producer Erik Jacobsen), emulating the more unfortunate camp aspects of that group with sleepy, good-timey pop-folk. Personnel changes delayed completion of their first album until nearly a year after "Hello, Hello" was a hit. The record, which would have been dated had it come out a year earlier, sounded hopelessly out of touch when it finally emerged; after the group moved to Warner Bros., The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon was released in 1972. Those two would be the Sopwith Camel's only albums, and the band split for good in 1974. (Richie Unterberger, AMG)

This album contains no booklet.