Lee Hazlewood - The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (1968-71)

The Jay Five (Heimatliche Klaenge vol.132)

The Hollies - Hallo! The Hollies!

Heimatliche Klaenge vol.134

The Hot Jumpers - Very Best Of

 

The Hot Jumpers where one of the best Indo Rock bands from Holland in '57 and '65 that became famous due to the way they played American Rock 'n Roll with an Indonesian touch. This album is a great compilation with their best work and recommended to fans of good old rock & roll and Indo Rock. Lead singer Jim Pownall also made a solo album and 4 together with his wife Eve and their band Jim & Eve Selection

 

 http://www.temanteman.nl/biografieen/hotjumpers.htm

 http://indorock.home.xs4all.nl/hotjump.htm

 http://latitudes.nu/indo-rock-an-indo-european-hybrid/

Hickory Wind - Hickory Wind (1969)

The Indiana band Hickory Wind made just one self-titled album in 1969, pressed in a run of 100 copies. The record's a strange, amateurish, yet intermittently tuneful blend of teen pop, garage rock, psychedelia, and country-rock, sung in a fashion that makes it uncertain whether the record was a low-key joke or a naïvely earnest effort to do the best they could. The band later changed its name to B.F. Trike and recorded an unreleased album for RCA in Nashville in the early '70s, though it was eventually issued on a small collector label in the late '80s. This Hickory Wind, by the way, is not the same as the folk group named Hickory Wind that recorded for Flying Fish in the late '70s.

Just 100 copies of this album were pressed originally making it extremely rare.

Like many a late-'60s album pressed in extremely minute quantities, Hickory Wind's self-titled record is a mighty odd bird. It's not so much that any one song is weird. It's more the cumulative effect of the record, in which the band not only don't seem to be seriously pursuing one direction in particular, but don't seem to be particularly serious about pursuing anything. The nonchalant, naive, slightly off-key way they trundle through this mixture of garage rock, country-rock, and melodramatic teen pop almost gives the impression of B-grade session players recruited to record an exploitation album. It's not nearly as bad as that comment might indicate; actually, there's a fair amount of charm that bleeds through, almost in spite of itself. Their vocals and harmonies are engagingly tremulous, the production refreshingly lo-fi. And there are some rather good songs here, particularly the country-rockish "The Loner," which sounds almost like a youthfully naive attempt to emulate early Neil Young (and it's entirely unrelated to the Young tune of the same name); "Country Boy," which comes as close as any song here to being a normal solid late-'60s country/psychedelic rocker; the waltz-like organ swirls of "Father Come with Me"; and "Judy" and "I Don't Believe," which are yearning teen garage pop. This is broken up, though, by the is-this-a-joke-or-what "Mr. Man," a melodramatic recitation that sounds as if the band were trying to make fun of solemn religious devotional records. It's hardly great, but it's worth hearing if you enjoy quirky collisions of garage rock and late-'60s psychedelia.

Holy Ghost Reception Committee #9 - The Torchbearers (1968)

Dennis Blair Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Vocals

Rich Esposito Guitar, Vocals

Elmer Gordon Producer

Bob Kearney Guitar, Vocals

Mark Puleo Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals

Christian psychedelic quintet the Holy Ghost Receptive Committee #9 was the brainchild of Anthony Myers, a teacher at New York City's Regis High School -- assigned circa 1967 to work with students to write and perform contemporary minded songs that could be played at Mass. He assembled guitarists Dennis Blair, Rich Esposito, Bob Kearney and Mark Puleo, along with bassist Larry Johnson. The project proved so successful that Myers landed the group a recording contract with ecumenical publisher Paulist Press, and in 1968 the Holy Ghost Receptive Committee #9 (so named by a fellow student) issued its first LP, Songs for Liturgical Worship. After a 1969 follow-up, The Torchbearers, the group dissolved; Blair later enjoyed a career as a stand-up comic, opening for the legendary George Carlin for over a decade.

"Dennis Blair" (guitar), "Larry Johnson" (bass guitar, organ and rhythm guitar), "Bob Kearney" (guitar),"Rich Esposito" (guitar) and "Mark Puleo" (lead guitar and harmonica) met while attending New York's "Regis Jesuit High School".

Their intentions was to find a way to alleviate the monotony of weekly mass by writing and singing their own songs.

They started writing and playing their own music at daily Catholic masses. 

Somehow convincing Jesuit Anthony Myers and school administrators to support their Rock star visions, they ended up with a recording contract with the Catholic "Paulist Press". 

On The Torchbearers, the band continues in not glossing over life’s difficulties with a “smile, God loves you” kind of approach. In fact the cover photo shows them seated in a vacant trash-filled lot with faceless expressions. The Torchbearers is even heavier than their debut in joining raw garage band enthusiasm with that jangled ‘60s electric Byrds sound. There’s some straightforward Jesus folkrock here such as ‘Walk Across The Waters’ and ‘Rise Up’ (both in a lively classic Byrds style), but they also tackle issues like compassion and poverty (‘Know They’re You’, where clashing garage and fuzz guitars meet up against heavily echoed vocals) and segregation (the garage-rocking ‘Them’s A-Comin’). Nice bass action and fast electric strums on ‘Hey Lord’. Other cuts: ‘You Think Differently’, ‘Magnificat 70’, ‘Jesus H. Clown’ and ‘What Do You Ask Of Me?’. Dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King – the title ballad alludes to them with the words “we’ll take up your fallen cross and fool the world; because the killers really think that they have killed you.” Not afraid to ask some probing questions along the way and include a touch of Ecclesiastes in the lyrics (the back describes their statement as “one crying out for a concerned Christianity”).

Also : http://psychedelic-rocknroll.blogspot.ru/2009/03/

holy-ghost-reception-committee-9.html

Heimatliche Klaenge vol.136

Heimatliche Klaenge - Deutsche Schallplatten-Labels 

Native Sounds - German Record-Labels

vol.136     The Jay Five

vol.5    Strictly Instrumental   Cornet 15014

01. Mame

02. Lara's Theme

03. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

04. There's A Kind Of Hush

05. Days Of Wine And Roses

06. Simon Smith

07. Wizzball

08. I Got Rhythm

09. Detroit City

10. With A Little Help From My Friends

11. What Now My Love

12. Goin' Out Of My Head

13. Good Day Sunshine

14. No Milk Today

Heimatliche Klaenge vol.135

Heimatliche Klaenge - Deutsche Schallplatten-Labels 

Native Sounds - German Record-Labels

vol.135     The Jay Five

vol.4    A' One  A' Two  A' Three  Cornet 15007

01. Music To Watch Girls By

02. The More I See You

03. Daydream

04. You've Got Your Troubles

05. Don't Go Breaking My Heart 

06. Our Day Will Ccome

07. Black Is Black

08. 98.6

09. Winchester Cathedral

10. Un Homme Et Une Femme

11. Sunny

12. Bluesette

13. 31st Of June

14. Call Me

Heimatliche Klaenge vol.133

Heimatliche Klaenge - Deutsche Schallplatten-Labels 

Native Sounds - German Record-Labels

vol.133    The Jay Five  

vol.2  Big Beat Bombs   Cornet 15001

01 - Hold Tight

02 - With A Girl Like You

03 - Bus Stop

04 - Early Bird

05 - Keep On Running

06 - Keep An Eye On Summer

07 - Hideway

08 - Super Girl

09 - Wild Thing

10 - Paperback Writer

11 - Sunny Afternoon

12 - Taxman

13 - The Girls On The Beach

14 - God Only Knows