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ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS                     

         HIPPIE ROCK FUZZ PSYCH & HEAD GROOVES

                       STILL FACTORY SEALED

                                               

                          

                                               K A N G A R O O                 

                KANGAROO

      

                                                   

                          USA - MGM - SE 4568 ((stereo))

FINAL COLLECTION COPY

STILL FACTORY SEALED

Original 1968 first pressing vinyl hippie rock supported by the strong vocals of Barbara Keith ...there's loud fuzz guitar all over the album...

Showcasing the talents of singer/multi-instrumentalist John Hall, vocalist Barbara Keith, drummer N. D. Smart II and lead guitarist Teddy Spelies, Kangaroo was much too talented to be completely ignored, but poor label promotion led the group to vanish into obscurity...well, almost.

Released by MGM, 1968's cleverly titled "Kangaroo" teamed the quartet with producers Bobby Wyld and Art Polhemus. Musically the set served as a spotlight for the multi-talented Hall. In addition to writing most of the material (post MOUNTAIN drummer N.D. Smart credited with two tracks (including the bizarre 'Frog Giggin''), Keith and Spelies one each), Hall handled an arsenal of instruments, as well as most of the lead vocals. While Hall has a decent voice, Barbara Keith was far better; the dreamy 'Daydream Stallion' and 'The Only Thing I Had' providing two of the set's highpoints. Powered by Spelies take-no-prisoners guitar 'Such a Long, Long Time', 'Make Some Room In Your Life' and 'I Never Tell Me Twice' offered up a sound more accurately labeled light-psych. Pulling a page out of the Moby Grape marketing catalog, MGM simultaneously released three singles from the album.

There are few other albums of the late '60s besides Kangaroo's only self-titled affair on which so much talent is evident. There's a variety of collectible styles, running the gamut from redneck-rock ("Frog Giggin'," "Happy Man") and sunshine pop-psychedelia ("Such a Long, Long Time") to strident folk-rock ("Daydream Stallion") and avowedly Beatlesque sounds ("Happy Man," "Make Some Room in Your Life"). There are also gratuitous insertions of backwards guitars, San Francisco-type acid rock riffing, soul vocal posturing, descendants-of-West Coast male-female backup harmonies, and a crazed monologue about killing frogs and having sex at the same time. The songwriting has sky-high ambitions but sometimes confused construction and execution. The highlights are particularly the vibrato folk-rock vocals of Barbara Keith as heard on the strident yet haunting folk-rock-psych outing "Daydream Stallion."
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(side 1)
Such a Long, Long Time
You're Trying To Be a Woman
Daydream Stallion
Make Some Room In Your Life     Frog Giggin'
You Can't Do This To Me

(side 2)
 If You Got Some Love In Mind
I Never Tell Me Twice
 Tweed's Chicken Inn
 Happy Man
The Only Thing I Had    Maybe Tomorrow

 

CONDITION: NEVER OPENED in 46 years!!! STILL FACTORY SEALED... a perfect original with 4 sharp corners, flat & square ...All sharp and clean has no delete marks (rare for this LP)... original colors, no writing and no split seams...HIGHLY collection worthy rarity ... never played SEALED from 1968

                       

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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