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STALK-FORREST GROUP

For a band that issued only one single, and that only pressed in a quantity of a few hundred, the Stalk-Forrest Group 

have a very confusing history, and are very well-known by collectors. Much of this notoriety stems from the fact 

that the group evolved into Blue Öyster Cult shortly after the one Stalk-Forrest Group 45 was issued by Elektra. 

The Stalk-Forrest Group did manage to record an entire unreleased album for Elektra in 1970, in a much lighter 

and more psychedelic style than that for which Blue Öyster Cult became known. In the late '60s, the nucleus 

of the Long Island band that would become Blue Öyster Cult was playing under the name of Soft White Underbelly. 

With Les Braunstein as lead singer, they were signed by Elektra; Buck Dharma has recalled that Elektra exec 

Jac Holzman may have been looking for an East Coast Doors. An album was attempted, but eventually abandoned, 

in early 1969, and Braunstein was replaced by the band's equipment manager and soundman, Eric Bloom. 

Soft White Underbelly had been signed in large part because of Braunstein, and it took them a while 

to convince Elektra that they would be viable with the higher-voiced Bloom as lead singer.......

"'ST. CECILIA - THE CALIFORNIA ALBUM"

<originally recorded but never released in 1970>

LP     NOT ON LABEL RECORDS

PRINTED IN U.S.A.(?)    MID-90s UNOFFICIAL PRESSING

LIMITED EDITION

EMBOSSED & SIMILAR TEXTURED HEAVY WHITE CARD SINGLE COVER

[Thick Cardboard Paste On Sleeve]

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  NOT ON LABEL -  ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: none   

Catalog on labels: none

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): Stalk Forrest A   Hi

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): Stalk Forrest B   Hi

On labels: rim text reads "Unauthorized copying..........work reserved"

Recorded in USA

On back cover: Stalk-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia © 1970

Produced by Sandy Pearlman

tracklisting

Side A: GIL BLANCO COUNTY - RAGAMUFFIN' DUMPLIN

BONOMOìS TURKISH TAFFY - ARTHUR COMICS

CURSE OF THE HIDDEN MIRRORS - WHAT IS QUICKSAND

Side B: ST. CECILIA - DONOVAN'S MONKEY

I'M ON THE LAMB, BUT I AIN'T NO SHEEP - A FACT ABOUT SNEAKERS

grading

RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

In early 1970, however, the band, now renamed the Stalk-Forrest Group, was able to record an album 

for Elektra in Los Angeles. Co-produced by Sandy Pearlman and Jay Lee, the group was under the 

impression that it would get released, but it never was. Material from the album circulated among collectors 

for a long time, and shows a band considerably different than Blue Öyster Cult. 

The songs were psychedelic and tuneful, somewhat in the manner of two other Elektra acts, Love and the Doors, 

although poppier than either of those two groups. The arrangements were full of high harmonies 

and fluid, accomplished, psychedelic guitar interplay, and the songs were dominated by rather fanciful 

and oblique trippy imagery, as was evident from titles like "Ragamuffin's Dumplin," "Bonomo's Turkish Tuffy," 

"Arthur Comics," and "A Fact About Sneakers." Though perhaps in need of fine tuning 

or embellishment, it was certainly up to release quality...(AllMusic)