JOHN BRYANT I Bring The Sun 1968 IMPOSSIBLE LENNON BEATLES PSYCH POP 45 LISTEN
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JOHN BRYANT "I Bring The Sun" b/w "Columbine"
Original 1968 45 on the UK MCA label
Vinyl plays EXCELLENT to NEAR MINT
Holy crap, where did this one come from? And for me to say “holy crap” means either something really just blew me away, or I just wanna sell it. Trust me, this time it’s the former. But the sound byte’s below, so if I were lying, you’d know. And trust me also when I tell you I’ve been looking for this single for years – so yeah, it’s a very, very hard one to turn up. My interest was piqued after reading this review on the sadly-missed Marmalade Skies website: “Psychedelic pop manna from heaven, with mellotron, wah wah and tripped-out daydream lyrics. The B-side is almost as fantastic. A lost classic and pretty scarce.” So okay, now that we’ve finally scored one, is it really all that and a bag of peyote-laced chips?
Yeah, it is. I haven’t heard John Bryant’s album, which came out three years later in 1971, but this single – “I Bring The Sun” b/w “Columbine” – came out smack dab in the psych-o-delic Summer of ’68 (ask David Gilmour), which explains its healthy infatuation with all things Beatles. “I Bring The Sun” is a brilliant Lennon-ized psych pop masterpiece with terrific catchy bouncy melody and a mellotron that sounds right out of “Strawberry Fields Forever.” It’s actually so proficient, it sounds later than 1968, like an early Seventies distillation of the Beatles, like something you’d hear from early ELO, or the Idle Race, or basically anything Jeff Lynne got his hands on. “I bring the sun, I bring the rain, I have a remedy for everything,” John Bryant sings, obviously emboldened by the innovative and cosmic sounds he was creating. And what he created was a mini-masterpiece of sorts, and why in the world it got left off those twenty volumes of Rubble could only mean that they couldn’t find a copy.
Flipside “Columbine” is obviously not about the school shootings (too soon), but, like the age-old review that got me interested in the first place said, it’s nearly as great. Both feet are still firmly planted in psychedelia on “Columbine,” but now instead of Carnaby Street Beatles, we have a woozy late 60’s Kinks vibe going on, with a lilting lazy minor key Vaudeville melody and a plethora of wah wah effects. “Follow me, Columbine, I will take you where the flowers grow. We will make them know.” No doubt the “flowers” in question are of the poppy variety, and this little opium love song makes a fitting companion for the field of psychedelic strawberries suggested by “I Bring The Sun.” Tell you what, John. You bring the sun, you bring the rain and you bring the lovely opium-eating lass named Columbine too. Me, I’ll bring the brownies.
HEAR IT!
UPDATE: SORRY, I NO LONGER SHIP TO ITALY DUE TO A CORRUPT POSTAL SYSTEM (THERE, NOT HERE).
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