Smokey And His Sister ?ST LP 1968 Folk Rock VG+++ Warner WS 1763 Smokey Mims
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Description
Smokey And His Sister ?– Smokey And His Sister
Label:
Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records ?– WS 1763
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:
US
Released:
1968
Genre:
Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Folk Rock, Soft Rock
Tracklist
A1 Sausalito Bay 2:26 A2 Some People 3:31 A3 The Morning Comes As Swiftly As Rain 3:25 A4 For All Intents And Purposes 3:40 A5 Sheridan Square 3:26 A6 Imagination (Strange As It May Be) 2:42 B1 Welcome To The Mighty East 2:28 B2 Lonely Together 3:38 B3 The Time Is Now 3:55 B4 Someday Morning 3:44 B5 Dancing Lights 2:48 B6 My Fondest Dream 3:52Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc.
Credits
- Arranged By, Producer – Paul Harris (2)
- Art Direction – Ed Thrasher
- Liner Notes – Hal Halverstadt
- Written-By – Smokey*
VINYL: VG+++ Very glossy and clean, a few light marks Cover: VG+ + Glossy and firm, scotch tape middle bottom seam, corner wear
AllMusic Review by Stewart Mason [-]
Okay, first off, gaze upon the wonder that is Smokey Mims' hairstyle. Amy Winehouse would kill for a beehive that good. Briefly, Smokey and Viki Mims were siblings from Cincinnati who supposedly moved to New York in the mid-'60s in thrall to Bob Dylan. You would not guess that inspiration from these songs, recorded in 1966 and 1967 for a never-released Columbia LP (a later album on Warner Brothers did make it out, barely) produced by staff freak David Rubinson, who was working with Moby Grape and the United States of America around the same time. There is none of the freaky majesty of either of those bands on Smokey and His Sister: instead, think of a cross between Petula Clark's Tony Hatchorchestrations and the folkier side of sunshine pop acts like Harpers Bizarre, Spanky and Our Gangand the whole Curt Boettcher/Gary Zekley axis. This is twee pop decades before the term existed, featuring the Mims siblings' equally wispy, delicate voices in front of a full orchestra and the usual batch of session musicians, playing 12 Smokey Mims originals that are long on the ethereal harmonies and languid melodies, but not so much on the whole concept of memorable hooks. Sunshine pop fans will be at least moderately enchanted, but this is no kind of great lost masterpiece of the style, just an entertaining curio.
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