JUDY HENSKE & JERRY YESTER - Farewell Aldebaran - Lp 1st press 1969 NM
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Description
Vinyl is Near-Mint - Cover is Excellent
NOTE: All records are U.S. pressings unless otherwise noted)
Record Grading: SS (Still Sealed), Near-Mint (near perfect), Excellent (Just a few signs that the record has been played keeping it from being NM), Very Good Plus (VG+ = A used, reasonable copy. Will show several signs of play but still perfectly good). Very Good (VG = Record will show quite a bit of signs of play. Will likely have some surface noise, especially at the begining and in quite passages. Should play without skipping or popping). I do not sell records below VG grade unless they are scarce or for the jacket).
NOTES:Recorded for Frank Zappa's Straight Records, probably because Zappa and Judy Henske shared a manager in the album's executive producer Herb Cohen, Farewell Aldebaran bears some of the previously heard elements of its principals. Henske, the big-voiced folksinger, gets most of the lead vocals and is identifiable as the woman who sang "High Flying Bird." Jerry Yester, a former member of the Modern Folk Quartet and fresh from a stint with the Lovin' Spoonful (in which he replaced Zal Yanovsky, who co-produces the LP with him and co-writes leadoff track "Snowblind"), displays some of the arranging skills he introduced in his work with the Association. But Farewell Aldebaran is something new for both Henske and Yester, an eclectic pop album made in the spirit of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, mixing folk and rock with country, psychedelia, Renaissance music, and several other styles. Yester orchestrates tracks full of keyboards, strings, and horns, creating attractive art-pop tunes over which he and Henske sing Henske's lyrics, which sound like they were written as poetry, often in an Old English style full of coachmen, horses, angels, eagles, knights, ravens, and stars. ("Aldebaran" is a double star in the Taurus constellation.) One exception is "St. Nicholas Hall," given the style of an old hymn, which is a religious satire. It doesn't sound as though Henske and Yester always had the budget to execute their ambitions fully, and the playing doesn't always live up to the arrangements, but the album remains a delightful exploration of the possibilities of progressive pop in the wake of the Beatles' 1967 breakthrough.
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