Crazy Elephant - Crazy Elephant (1969)

After failing to secure a recording contract with Buddah Records, the Kasenetz-Katz production team-sponsored band Crazy Elephant found a home with Bell Records and released a self-titled album. This Rock in Beat release is a straight reissue of that lone album from the band originally released in 1969 and includes one bonus track. The album contains mainly original compositions by band members and Kasenetz and Katz together with an odd psychedelic R&B cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" and the very strange heavy version of the Leonard Bernstein song "Somewhere." While the music on this album does have a bubblegum feel to it, the entire album is more overtly psychedelic with swirling organ, fuzz guitars, and even horns, in the style of a less heavy Vanilla Fudge or Rare Earth. Crazy Elephant did manage to produce a hit single in 1969 with the song "Gimme, Gimme Good Lovin'" that featured vocals by Robert Spencer, former lead vocalist from the '50s band the Cadillacs.

01 - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' [00:02:03]
02 - Respect [00:07:25]
03 - Pam [00:02:32]
04 - Come To The Farm [00:03:16]
05 - Somewhere [00:03:45]
06 - My Baby (Honey Pie) [00:02:13]
07 - Sunshine, Red Wine [00:02:30]
08 - (Heartless) Hertie Gertie [00:03:03]
09 - Love Strike [00:02:23]
10 - Try This When You're Ready [00:02:56]
11 - Higher And Higher [00:03:36]
bonus tracks:
12 - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (Mono Single Version) [00:02:01]
13 - Dark Part Of My Mind (Single B-Side) [00:02:52]
14 - Sunshine, Red Wine (Mono Single Version) [00:02:30]
15 - Pam (Mono Single Version) [00:02:32]
16 - Gimme Some More (Single A-Side) [00:02:08]
17 - My Baby (Honey Pie) (Single B-Side) [00:02:17]
18 - There's A Better Day A'Comin' (Na Na Na Na) - Single A-Side) [00:03:14]
19 - Space Buggy (Single B-Side) [00:02:25]
20 - There Ain't No Umbopo (Single A-Side) [00:03:05]
21 - Landrover (Single B-Side) [00:02:37]
22 - Respect Revisited (Alternate Take) [00:04:59]
23 - In A Castle (Radio Broadcast) [00:02:54]
24 - Hips And Flips (Single B-Side) [00:01:55]
25 - Splif Dna Spih (Single B-Side) [00:01:56]

**Enjoy**