Green Tambourine (album)

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Green Tambourine
Green Tambourine cover
Studio album by The Lemon Pipers
Released February 1968
Recorded Cleveland Recording Studios, Cleveland, Ohio
Olmstead Recording Studios, New York
Genre Bubblegum Pop
Label Buddah BDM-1009 (mono)/BDS-5009 (stereo)
Producer Paul Leka
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars link
The Lemon Pipers chronology
Green Tambourine
(1968)		 Jungle Marmalade
(1968)

Green Tambourine is the first album by the band The Lemon Pipers. It was released in 1967 after the band's bubblegum single of the same name had topped the charts in the US.

The album revealed the wide division between the musical tastes of the band and the commercial demands of the label, which hoped to replicate the success of the "Green Tambourine" hit single.[1] It contained extended blues-inspired psychedelic tracks "Fifty Year Void" and "Through With You" (the latter, running to more than nine minutes, written by guitarist Bill Bartlett and bearing influences of The Byrds) as well as five bubblegum tracks written by New York songwriting team Paul Leka and Shelley Pinz.[1]

Liner notes on the album, written by Buddah Records label boss Neil Bogart, described the band as "five very intelligent young men with a solid sound and a real interest in all kinds of music. They perform folk ballads, soul, psychedelic, blues, country and western and write much of their own material."

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Side 1

  1. Rice Is Nice - 2:16
  2. Shoeshine Boy - 3:19
  3. Turn Around Take a Look - 2:42
  4. Rainbow Tree - 2:16
  5. Ask Me If I Care - 3:03
  6. Straggling Behind - 2:32
  7. Green Tambourine - 2:22

Side 2

  1. Blueberry Blue - 2:19
  2. Shoemaker of Leatherwear Square - 2:00
  3. Fifty Year Void - 5:41
  4. Through With You - 9:09

[edit] Personnel

  • Bill Albaugh – drums
  • Bill Bartlett – lead guitar
  • Ivan Browne – rhytm guitar, lead vocals
  • R. G. Nave – organ, tambourine, fog horn, toys
  • Steve Walmsley – bass guitar

[edit] Additional personnel

  • Irv Spice Strings – string section
  • Kenny Hammond – engineer (Cleveland)
  • Bill Radice – engineer (New York)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Eds, Cooper, Kim & Smay, David (2001), Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Feral House, ISBN 0-922915-69-5