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Midsummer Dreaming: An Anthology 1967-1970 (Uk)
Artist:
Flower Pot Men
Format: CD
New: Not in stock
Wish
Formats and Editions
1. Let's Go To San Francisco Parts 1 and 2 (original mono version)
2. Mythological Sunday (John Carter lead vocal)
3. A Walk In The Sky
4. Blow Away
5. Say Goodbye To Yesterday
6. Now And Then
7. Cooks Of Cake And Kindness
8. Children Of Tomorrow
9. Mythological Sunday (Tny Burrows lead vocal)
10. Midsummer Dreaming
11. Let's Go To San Francisco Parts 1 and 2 (stereo mix)
12. E=MC2/Musha Hada
13. Let's Go To San Francisco-BBC session
14. California Dreamin'* BBC session
15. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall- BBC session
16. Don't Worry Baby- BBC session
17. A Walk In The Sky- BBC session
18. Prologue
19. These Heavy Times
20. Mythological Sunday
21. Colours
22. Blow Away
23. Cooks Of Cake And Kindness
24. Gotta Be Free
25. Heaven Knows When
26. White Dove
27. Epilogue
28. Now And Then
29. Say Goodbye To Yesterday
30. Memories Of Tomorrow
31. Autumn Love
32. Morning Prayer
33. Blues
34. I Am Me
35. Journey's End
36. All I Have Is You
37. Brave New World
38. Children Of Tomorrow
39. The Laughing Man
40. Mr. Light
41. Magic People
42. In The Sky
43. Conversations (In A Station Light Refreshment Bar)
44. A Letter To Josephine
45. Tahiti Farewell
46. Pantomime People
47. A Night To Be Remembered
48. Goodbye To Rosalie
49. Sunday In The Park
50. Going Round And Round
51. Life Is Living
52. Roberto Billow
53. When I Was Born
54. Rain, Rain, Rain (John Carter lead vocal version)
55. Going Nowhere
56. I Think I'll Be Leaving Tonight
57. (Tony Burrows lead vocal)
58. Land Of Love
59. Take Me Along
60. Lady Of The Blue Lagoon
61. Am I Losing You
62. Man Without A Woman
63. You Can Never Be Wrong
64. In A Moment Of Madness
65. Young Birds Fly
More Info:
An anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro John Carter and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men. Summer of Love hit 'Let's Go To San Francisco', further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue. Inspired equally by the Haight-Ashbury scene, the worldwide Summer of Love and Brian Wilson's recent groundbreaking work, in mid-1967 former Ivy Leaguers John Carter and Ken Lewis pieced together the hugely ambitious, six-minute 'Let's Go To San Francisco'. The result was a UK Top Five hit, a success that encouraged Carter to record more material in the same vein including follow-up 'A Walk In The Sky', which flopped at home but became another Top Ten hit in mainland Europe. When psychedelia withered and died, Carter abandoned the name in public but continued to work on a brace of Moody Blues-style concept albums that failed to appear at the time. A four-hour set, 'Midsummer Dreaming' gathers up all four Flower Pot Men singles, those two aborted albums and sundry other material that either didn't gain a release or was issued under other aliases, such as the highly regarded 'Mythological Sunday' (credited to Friends) and 'Midsummer Deaming' (John Carter & Russ Alquist). An essential item for lovers of intelligent, melodic, harmony-based late 60s British pop and psychedelia, 'Midsummer Dreaming' includes five hitherto-unissued studio tracks as well as a brace of late 1967 Radio 1 sessions that are also gaining their first-ever official issue.
