JUDY HENSKE & JERRY YESTER [Farewell Aldebaran] WL PROMO [Straight] '69/1A:
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Description
1969 STRAIGHT Records STS 1052
WHITE LABEL PROMO
GATE-FOLD
* VINYL is EX++ beautiful, top copy!
COVER is VG+ light edge/surface wear
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A cult treasure, though few picked up on it in its day and few have picked it up since. Not readily comparable to much other late-'60s psychedelia, it's rare that rock combines pretty, accessible melodies and off-the-wall eclecticism and experimentalism so well.
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Success is a matter of luck as well as talent. Given different circumstances, Henske could have certainly been a much bigger star than she was. Instead she's a hazily remembered figure, known if at all for some recordings that faintly prefigured folk-rock, and tangential associations with more famous performers. Her strong, bold, and versatile delivery would have been well-suited for the folk-rock era; her timing was just a bit off.
Before beginning her solo career, Henske worked with ex-Kingston Trio member Dave Guard in the Whiskeyhill Singers in the early '60s. Soon she was recording under her own name for Elektra. High Flying Bird is the best of her Elektra efforts, anticipating folk-rock with full arrangements that featured drums (by top session musician Earl Palmer), guitars, and bass. Certainly someone in the Jefferson Airplane must have heard a copy, as the group recorded the title track at their first studio session in 1965.
A stay at Mercury later in the '60s presented her as an all-around entertainer, capable of folk, pop, blues, and Broadway, all backed by middle-of-the-road production. Henske wasn't bad at this, but one got the feeling that her truest talents were being under-utilized. She finally got her chance to blossom on the 1969 LP Farewell Aldebaren, a collaborative effort with Jerry Yester that appeared onFrank Zappa's Straight! label (an association that probably arose because Henske and Zappa were both managed by Herbie Cohen).
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Jerry Yester had a minor but very interesting role, usually as a supporting player, in 1960s folk-rock and (to a lesser extent) psychedelic music, as both a performer and a producer. Yester first rose to prominence as a recording artist as part of the Modern Folk Quartet, who did some standard folk-pop albums in the early- to mid-'60s. The Modern Folk Quartet did make the transition to electric folk-rock, but their electric phase is barely documented at all, with just one noted track, "This Could Be the Night," produced byPhil Spector. This was not released when it was recorded in the mid-'60s, although it came out on the Phil Spector Back to Mono box set. The track actually sounded less like folk-rock than it did like the mid-'60s Beach Boys, with suitably Spectorian production.
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