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Thought I would do a new thread about this as I'm going to upload quite a few pictures. Dr Demento was a musicologist and he wrote a quite a few articles about musical movements. I found a bunch that he wrote for Hit Parader. He wrote about things like the Pacific Northwest Rock Movement or Country Rock or the one below about Tex Mex from 1968.
Rolling Stone was not the first serious Rock mag. Crawdaddy! was but Hit Parader kind of beat them both to the punch as they were covering serious rock topics as early as 1965.
Searching for the Barret Hansen articles I found a few other interesting things, actually those Hit Paraders have a boatload of interesting material but for time's sake. I narrowed it down to three items.
First the Barret Hansen article
An AD for The Mothers of Invention
Article the group Renaissance. The group is interesting because most people who know the band remember the Annie Haslam era but the band was actually formed by Keith Relf and Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds and also included Relf's sister Jane. The concept of the original group was the same as the popular version. Classical influence and a female singer however between the first and third album there were no original group members left but they continued with the same name and there was one member on the second album that stayed with the group for the third album and beyond. Was watching some Youtube videos about the group last week and today I came across this article about the Keith Relf version of the group.
A Feature on the pre Steppenwolf band - The Sparrow
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Aww. Remember Renaissance?
Some may remember Carpet of The Sun from 1973 during the Annie Haslam era but there is a demo version of the song from earlier with Jane Refl on lead vocals.
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Aww. Remember Renaissance?
I still like their song “Northern Lights”, from ‘78/‘79 I think, had the album “A Song for all Seasons” back in the day.
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Please permit me to expand this rabbit hole.
I have liked the Yardbirds from way back and have been aware of Keith Relf's involvement with Renaissance. The Yardbirds are mainly Known for their very famous alum Clapton, Beck and Page but Relf as well as Paul Samwell Smith also had notable post Yardbirds careers.
After Renaissance Relf formed Armageddon who are a one hit FM wonder with the song Silver Tightrope. Used to hear this on the Toronto/Buffalo prog stations and the song got a second life in Toronto via Andy Frost and Psychedelic Sunday.
Continuing with the lead singer theme. Rod Evans was the lead singer in Deep Purple MK 1 and he sang with Captain Beyond after. They had a FM hit with Sufficiently Breathless and I think this song also got a second wind in Toronto thanks to Psychedelic Sunday. Mr Frost also single handedly kept the Little Feat catalog alive on Toronto radio. Always liked Breathless and also the Kentucky Woman and Hush era of Deep Purple.
My earliest recollection of listening to CHUM FM is hearing Reiner Schwarz playing a track from a Timothy Leary album and I talk to the Wind by King Crimson. loved the song immediately , the lyrics and atmosphere were unusual and not anything like Top 40 radio.
Anyway around 1976/77 I bought an album Called "A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson" and it had an early version of I Talk To the Wind with vocals by Julie Dybal who was the original singer for Fairport Convention before the sublime voice of Sandy Denny took over. This version was hard to find for many years as the album may not have been released on CD but the version is available again again now.
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