PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS - "The SPIRIT OF '76" COLUMBIA MONO 1st PRESS ***VERY GOOD 8/10***

PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS "The SPIRIT OF '76"

COLUMBIA MONO 1st PRESS

***VERY GOOD 8/10***

The Spirit of '67, Paul Revere and the Raiders' third gold-selling, Top Ten album to be released in 1966, marked the triumph of the group's in-house writing team of lead singer Mark Lindsay, Paul Revere, and producer Terry Melcher. "Hungry," the Top Ten follow-up to "Kicks," was written, like the earlier hit, by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, but Lindsay-Revere-Melcher then hit the Top 40 with "The Great Airplane Strike" and the Top Ten with "Good Thing." (Actually, Revere was not a writer on "Good Thing," as subsequent releases indicated.) Those hits anchored this collection, which was filled out by showcases for bassist Phil Volk and drummer Mark Smith (guitarist Drake Levin had been replaced by Jim Valley), plus some secondary material by the group's leaders. As usual, they were listening closely to their peers, and much of the material had the twangy guitar-rock sound common to 1966, though some of the experimental eclecticism that would lead to the elaborate productions of 1967's Sgt. Pepper psychedelic era was also apparent in songs like "Oh! To Be a Man" and "Undecided Man" (the latter a near-copy of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby"). This stylistic trend-following did not bode well for the future, but for the moment Paul Revere and the Raiders were riding high. The CD reissue on Sundazed adds three bonus cuts, including the 45-single version of "The Great Airplane Strike," and an alternate version of "Hungry." (AMDB)

Paul Revere & The Raiders ‎– The Spirit Of '67
Label: Columbia ‎– CL 2595
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US Released: Nov 1966

Track List:
A1 Good Thing
A2 All About Her
A3 In My Community
A4 Louise
A5 Why, Why Why? (Is It So Hard)
A6 Oh! To Be A Man
B1 Hungry
B2 Undecided Man
B3 Our Candidate
B4 1001 Arabian Nights
B5 The Great Airplane Strike

Arranged By, Conductor – Mort Garson (tracks: B2), Terry Melcher (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B5)
Bass, Vocals – Philip Volk*
Leader, Organ – Paul Revere
Liner Notes – Derek Taylor (2)
Performer – Jim Valley, Mark Lindsay, Michael Smith*
Producer – Terry Melcher

Notes: Red 360 labels with white rim lettering and arrows.

Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout): XLP115573-1D (Etched)
Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout): XLP115574-1D (Etched)

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