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Land Of Sensations & Delights: Psych Pop Sounds Of White Whale Records [1965-1970] [RSD20]
This is an exclusive release for Record Store Day 2020. Available over the counter from Saturday 20th June. Any remaining stock will be available online from Sunday 28th June, strictly one per customer.
Various Artists - Land Of Sensations & Delights: Psych Pop Sounds Of White Whale Records [1965-1970] [2LP] (gatefold, limited to 2000, indie exclusive)
Featuring 26 hits and rarities from the '60's, The Land of Sensations and Delights: The Psych Pop Sounds of White Whale Records, 1965-1970, unearths the best gems from the Los Angeles label. Founded by Ted Feigin and Lee Lassef in 1965, White Whale Records was instantly put on the map, thanks to its debut single, the Turtles' It Ain't Me Babe, which hit the Billboard Top 10 that summer. Throughout the next five years, the short-lived but enterprising label issued over 150 singles, as well as 24 albums. Though not every release had the same success at the Turtles' output, Feigin and Lasseff signed a wide range of artists: from singer-songwriters to psychedelic pop acts. The Land of Sensations and Delights celebrates the "myriad of obscurities and curiosities" that came from the White Whale catalog, as the Grammy® - nominated compilation producer, Andrew Sandoval, explains in his in-depth liner notes.
Tracks: Professor Morrison's Lollipop - You Got The Love, The Answer - I'll Be In, Smokestack Lightning - Got A Good Love, The Odyssey - Little Girl, Little Boy, XL's - We Must Find A Way, The Everpresent Fullness - Darlin' You Can Count On Me, Kris Jensen - I Can't Get Nowhere With You, Lyme & Cybelle - Song #7, The Laughing Gravy - Vegetables, The Motives - The Chair, The Bears - Goin' It Alone, Kenny O'Dell - Sunshine Dreamin', J.K. & Co. - Land Of Sensations & Delights, The Clique - Superman, Bazooka - Look At You Now, Dalton & Montgomery - All At Once, Bobby Lile - Time To Be A Woman, The Brothers - Love Story, The Committee - You For Weren't It If Mournin', Do - Summer Dream Horses - Cheyenne, Rainy Daze - My Door Is Always Open, The Reivers - Constantly, The Buster Brown - The Proud One, The Rockets - Won't You Say You'll Stay, Triste Janero - In The Garden.
Craft Recordings
LP
RSD 2020
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Peanuts Greatest Hits [picture disc - Snoopy]
70th Anniversary Picture Disc Vinyl LP Pressing featuring Snoopy On Side A and Best Friend Woodstock On Side B!
Craft Recordings offers two vinyl reissues in 2020 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz's beloved Peanuts comic strip, which debuted in seven newspapers across the country on October 2, 1950. The first is a picture disc of Peanuts Greatest Hits, featuring the faces of Snoopy and Woodstock with window jacket packaging. The second release is the very first vinyl pressing of Peanuts Portraits. Both titles feature the enduring music of the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Peanuts Portraits, meanwhile, includes several recordings from Guaraldi and pianist George Winston which have never been available on vinyl.
While the Peanuts comic strip appeared daily in newspapers across the world, Vince Guaraldi’s music helped bring the gang to wider audiences through his jazzy Peanuts television and film soundtrack recordings. Charles M. Schulz created the world of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and Snoopy from his outpost in the Midwestern city of St. Paul, Minnesota. Meanwhile, westward in California, pianist Vince Guaraldi was helping put San Francisco on the jazz map through a series of early recordings with the likes of Cal Tjader, Woody Herman and Conte Candoli.
In early 1964, when Lee Mendelson began work on a television documentary about the world of Peanuts, he heard Guaraldi’s Grammy Award-winning instrumental hit “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” on the radio, while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Mendelson knew he’d found precisely the right musical foil for Peanuts. Over the next decade, Guaraldi composed and performed scores for numerous Peanuts TV specials — including the evergreen A Charlie Brown Christmas — along with a feature film, A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
Peanuts Greatest Hits is a 12-song survey of some of the most popular music from the Guaraldi Peanuts soundtracks. The compilation features "Linus and Lucy," the song that most frequently comes to mind when one thinks of Peanuts, as well as "Oh, Good Grief" and several seasonal pieces ("Great Pumpkin Waltz," "Thanksgiving Theme," "Christmas Is Coming"). Most selections feature Guaraldi backed by one of his long-time trios: Monty Budwig, bass; and Colin Bailey, drums; or, in later years, Fred Marshall, bass; and Jerry Granelli, drums. You'll also hear some notable additions to the core trio format: "Little Birdie" features Guaraldi's own vocals, with the addition of horns as well. Two versions of "Christmas Time Is Here" appear: one by the trio, the other adding the young members of the St. Paul's Church Choir.
Craft Recordings
LP
Vince Guaraldi Trio
A Charlie Brown Christmas: Peanuts 70th Anniversary Edition
70th Anniversary Vinyl LP Pressing includes "Dancing" Lenticular Print of Charles Schultz's Original 1965 Album Cover Illustration!
Ever since its debut in 1965, the Vince Guaraldi Trio's album A Charlie Brown Christmas has reigned supreme as a Yuletide classic. The beloved Peanuts animated special from which it sprang was a sensation the first time it aired on CBS-TV, and so was its cool soundtrack by the veteran Bay Area pianist, which introduced countless children to the joys of jazz. Buoyed by annual airings of the program, the album has remained extremely popular ever since and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA in late 2016.
While A Charlie Brown Christmas may well be Vince Guaraldi's best-known recording (it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry five years later), it was by no means his first success. The San Francisco native emerged as vibraphonist Cal Tjader's rock-solid pianist before forming a trio and launching his own recording career during the mid-50s on the Bay Area-based Fantasy label. In late 1962, Guaraldi's irresistible original "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" became a surprise national hit - a rare example of a jazz pianist cracking the upper reaches of the pop charts.
Television producer Lee Mendelson heard "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" and asked Guaraldi to write the score for A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was such a triumph that Guaraldi composed the music for 17 Peanuts television specials in all, a spectacular streak ended only by his untimely death in 1976 at the age of 47. However, A Charlie Brown Christmas remains the pianist's crowning achievement! Peanuts and Vince Guaraldi historian Derrick Bang even goes so far as to say, "Back people into a corner and limit them to just one holiday album for the rest of their lives, and I suspect that an impressive number of folks, jazz fans or not, would select this one!"
In celebration of Peanuts' 70th anniversary, a "dancing" lenticular print of the original 1965 album cover featuring the classic Charles Schultz illustration is included in this pressing.
Craft Recordings
LP
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