Title Of Album: Let's Go To San Francisco
Year Of Release: 1967/1993
Label (Catalog#) : Repertoire [REP4344-WZ]
Country:: UK
Genre: Psych sunshine beat,pop,rock
Codec : MPEG 1 Layer III / Lame 3.98 / 320 kbps
Time: 01:18:06
Full Size: 191mb(+5%)
"Let's Go to San Francisco" was written and recorded by songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis. The composition, psychedelic in nature, took vocal and instrumental inspiration from The Beach Boys. The name The Flower Pot Men was derived from the BBC children's show Flower Pot Men, with the obvious psychedelic era puns on flower power and "pot" (cannabis). In the US, they were commonly deemed The Flower Men on radio airplay to avoid the drug reference.
The duo licensed the recording to Deram Records, who had a hit but no group to promote it. Carter and Lewis, having no interest in going on the road to promote the record, created the group from a hand-picked collective of recording studio session musicians and vocalists. Led by vocalist Tony Burrows, who had been in the Ivy League with Carter and Lewis, the band also included Billie Davis's backing band, and for a while (though not for recordings) later Deep Purple members Jon Lord, who replaced Billy Davidson on keyboards in January 1968, and Nick Simper on bass.
Carter and Lewis continued to write, record and produce most of the band's subsequent recordings over the next three years. wikipedia:
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01. Let's Go To San Francisco, Part 1 & 2 (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 6:17
02. A Walk In The Sky (John Carter, Ken Lewis, Russell Alquist) - 3:51
03. Am I Losing You (John Carter) - 2:00
04. Man Without A Woman (John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 4:00
05. You Can Never Be Wrong (John Carter, Ken Lewis, Russell Alquist) - 2:35
06. Piccolo Man (John Carter, Ken Lewis, Russell Alquist) - 2:17
07. Mythological Sunday (Russell Alquist) - 5:18
08. In A Moment Of Madness (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway) - 2:59
09. Young Birds Fly (Bill Swofford) - 2:27
10. Sweet Baby Jane (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter) - 3:35
11. Journey's End (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter) - 4:22
12. Silicon City (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter) - 4:05
13. Busy Doin' Nothing (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 2:54
14. White Dove (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 4:09
15. Let's Go Back To San Francisco, Part 1 (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 2:35
16. Let's Go Back To San Francisco, Part 2 (John Carter, Ken Lewis) - 2:46
17. Cooks Of Cake And Kindness (John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 2:56
18. Gotta Be Free (Peter Barnfather, John Carter) - 3:29
19. Heaven Knows When (Peter Barnfather, John Carter) - 3:39
20. Brave New World (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 3:13
21. Children Of Tomorrow (Gillian Shakespeare, John Carter, Russell Alquist) - 7:57
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Tony Burrows - Vocals
Neil Landon - Vocals
Robin Shaw - Vocals
Pete Nelson - Vocals
Ged Peck - Guitar
Carlo Little - Drums
Nick Simper - Bass
Jon Lord - Organ
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