"Forever Changing" The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 - disc 1 - 5 TWILIGHTZONE

 Another really interesting historical album looking at Elektra and the home of Arthur Lee and Love to name but one (sic!) 

Forever Changing - The Golden Age of Elektra Disc I - TWILIGHTZONE

Forever Changing - The Golden Age of Elektra Disc II - TWILIGHTZONE

Forever Changing - The Golden Age of Elektra Disc III - TWILIGHTZONE

Forever Changing - The Golden Age of Elektra Disc IV - TWILIGHTZONE

Forever Changing - The Golden Age of Elektra Disc V - TWILIGHTZONE

From RYP and Gyro1966 comes this: 

Whether you were there or missed it the first time around and want to hear what the big deal was, Forever Changing is as close as we're likely to get to the sound of the Sixties in the 21st century. The dates don't match, but the cultural explosion was so extensive it couldn't be contained by the calendar, and here is audible proof. Ostensibly a tribute to Jac Holzman, Elektra Records founder in 1950 and president until 1973, this 5-CD box set fascinates with its breadth and depth...[contd. on the link above]

 

CD 1:
1. Turn, Turn, Turn! / To Everything There Is A Season (LP Version) - Judy Collins 2. He Was A Friend (LP Version) - The Greenbriar Boys 3. High Flying Bird - Judy Henske 4. Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song) (LP Version) - Bob Gibson 5. Casey (LP Version) - Dick Rosmini 6. Shady Grove (LP Version) - Dick Rosmini 7. Little Brown Dog (LP Version) - Dick Rosmini 8. Linin' Track - Ray And Glover Koerner 9. The Even Dozens (LP Version) - The Even Dozen Jug Band 10. Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin & Fred Neil 11. Good Luck Child - Spider John Koerner 12. Downtown Blues (LP Version) - The Blues Project 13. I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs 14. The Last Thing On My Mind - Tom Paxton 15. Pride Of Man - Hamilton Camp 16. Tomorrow Is A Long Time (LP Version) - Judy Collins 17. Black Mountain Rag (LP Version) - The Dillards With Byron Berline 18. Green Rocky Road - Kathy Larisch & Carol McComb 19. Cocaine (LP Version) - Phil Boroff 20. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (LP Version) - Richard Fariña 21. West Egg Rag (LP Version) - Dave Ray 22. Two Trains Running (LP Version) - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis 23. Breeze (LP Version) - Oliver Smith 24. Joshua Gone Barbados - Tom Rush 25. Other Side To This Life (LP Version) - Fred Neil 26. Birdses - Dino Valente 27. Blues With A Feeling (LP Version) - Paul Butterfield Blues Band 28. Moonlight Drive (Early Version) - The Doors

CD 2:

1. My Little Red Book - Love 2. Wings - Tim Buckley 3. So Easy She Goes By - David Blue 4. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living - The Butterfield Blues Band 5. The Magic Carpet - Pat Kilroy 6. First Girl I Loved - Incredible String Band 7. The Invisible Backwards-Facing Grocer Who Rose To Fame - Alasdair Clayre 8. One Time And One Time Only - Tom Paxton 9. Changes - Phil Ochs 10. Hard Lovin' Loser - Judy Collins 11. She Comes In Colors - Love 12. Light My Fire - The Doors 13. Black Roses - Clear Light 14. Once I Was - Tim Buckley 15. Virgo - Zodiac Cosmic Sounds 16. Buy For Me The Rain - Steve Noonan 17. Nevertheless - Eclection 18. Fields Of People - Ars Nova 19. Dame Fortune - The Holy Modal Rounders 20. Girl Of The Seasons - Bamboo 21. Magazine Lady - "Spider" John Koerner & Willie Murphy 22. The Red Sox Are Winning - Earth Opera 23. I Want You - The Waphphle

CD 3:

1. Alone Again Or - Love 2. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins 3. No Regrets - Tom Rush 4. Jennifer's Rabbit (Electric Version) - Tom Paxton 5. Swift As The Wind - Incredible String Band 6. Frozen Warnings - Nico 7. Down River - David Ackles 8. Mad Lydia's Waltz - Earth Opera 9. Sing A Song For You - Tim Buckley 10. The Sun Comes Up Each Day - David Stoughton 11. Early Morning Blues And Greens - Diane Hildebrand 12. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune - The Dillards 13. Arthur Comics - Stalk-Forest Group 14. Five To One - The Doors 15. Apricot Brandy - Rhinoceros 16. When The Battle Is Over - Delaney & Bonnie 17. Mt. Healthy Blues - Lonnie Mack 18. Kick Out The Jams - MC5 19. I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges 20. Go Back - Crabby Appleton 21. Dismal Day - Bread 22. August - Love

CD 4:

1. Down On The Street (single version) - The Stooges 2. Louise - Paul Siebel 3. Amazing Grace - Judy Collins 4. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon 5. Riders On The Storm - The Doors 6. The Future's Not What It Used To Be - Mickey Newbury 7. Still Living - Farquahr 8. Taxi - Harry Chapin 9. True Story Of Amelia Earhart - Plainsong 10. I Hardly Know Her Name - The Wackers 11. Ballad Of The Ship Of State - David Ackles 12. The Guitar Man - Bread 13. You're So Vain - Carly Simon 14. You Don't Grow Old - Courtland Pickett 15. Dolphins - Cyrus Faryar 16. Shadows On The Wall - Skymonters w/Hamid Hamilton Camp 17. Burning Love - Dennis Linde 18. Keep Yourself Alive - Queen

and finally disc 5

 CD 5:

1. Wind Chimes - Electra 2. Don't Be Long - Beefeaters 3. I'll Be Back - Joshua Rifkin 4. Baldheaded End Of The Broom - Dry City Scat Band 5. We Shall Be Happy - Joseph Spence 6. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful 7. Born In Chicago - Paul Butterfield Blues Band 8. Crossroads - Eric Clapton & The Powerhouse 9. I'll Keep It With Mine - Judy Collins 10. She's A Woman - The Charles River Valley Boys 11. Sunshine Sunshine - Tom Rush 12. Bird Song - Holy Model Rounders 13. She's Ready To Be Free - Clear Light 14. Wayfaring Stranger - Tim Buckley 15. Laissez-Faire - David Ackles 16. Alphabet Song - David Peel & The Lower East Side 17. Voodoo Woman - Simon Stokes & The Nighthawks 18. Please (Mark II) - Eclection(Mark II) 19. Flames - Leviathan 20. No Words Between Us - Show Of Hands 21. Listening To Music - Jack S. Margolis 22. Lotus - Rainbow Band 23. The Persecution & Restoration Of Dean Moriarty (On The Road) - Aztec Two-Step 24. P.O.W. - Godhunter 25. All Around My Grandmother's Floor - Andy Roberts 26. World Without End - Jobriah

Some are predictable (The Doors - Light My Fire, Love - Aloneagainor) but some are unexpected (Joseph Spence, Incredible String Band, Spider John Koerner) and some are new to me (Cyrus Faryar covering Fred Neil's Dolphins!? Dick Rosmini?) but all in all a great collection and well worth the patience to download all of these gems

Thanks Twilight! 

NORMAL SERVICE IS RESUMED! - Great Lost Elektra Singles Vol. 1 (1964-70 USA 2005 remaster) - PLAIN & FANCY

 Well that was weird . . . . . . couldn't get online without waiting for over 20+ minutes for a page to load yesterday and what with one thing and another and being an honorary fellow of  The Son's of Nargo The Bort's Deviant Subculture I have been feeling a tad paranoid so this didn't help (just because your paranoid and have the fears doesn't mean they're not out to get you . . . . . .) So I did a mini tidy round the vaults, swept out the dungeon and threw some bleach down me Ha-Ha and cleaned off the blood from the Iron Maiden and gave the scold's bridle a polish and we seem ( I say "seem") to be back to business as normal (what IS normal around here? Never met anyone normal yet . . . . . . )

Here then this is nice . . . . . . . I loved Elektra. They had Love and Arthur Love who introduced The Doors to their A&R men etc etc so I always rather liked that profile but this is a fascinating article and lost treasure

GREAT LOST ELEKTRA SINGLES - PLAIN & FANCY

"For most of its early history, the Elektra label concentrated almost exclusively on the album market. Prior to Love's "My Little Red Book" in 1966, they never had a significant entry on the national singles charts; prior to the same band's "7 and 7 Is" later that year, they never had a Top Forty hit. In 1967, this would change to some degree when the Doors' "Light My Fire" soared to #1, followed in the rest of the 1960s by several other Doors smashes and the Top Ten success of Judy Collins's "Both Sides Now." Yet even into the first half of the 1970s, Elektra's product and aesthetic would remain firmly geared toward the long-playing record. . . . . . . read on McDuff

Judy Collins - Who Knows Where The Time Goes