THE POPPY FAMILY - PSYCH POP SITAR FUNK CANADA 1968

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THE POPPY FAMILY – Which way you goin’ Billy?  (1970)

12" LP LONDON PS 574 ORIGINAL ISSUE

The Poppy Family was a late 1960s-early 70s Canadian pop musical group based in Vancouver, British Columbia. A product of the "Hippie generation," they brought a cleaner cut image, capitalizing on the vocal talents and good looks of Susan Jacks. Some have described the group as Canada's equivalent of the Carpenters in that both groups featured a female vocalist and specialized in catchy but ultimately melancholy middle-of-the-road pop tunes (although, unlike the Carpenters, which were a brother-sister duo, the Poppy Family was fronted by a husband-wife team).

Managed and produced by Susan's husband Terry Jacks (vocals/guitar), with Craig McCaw (guitar) and Satwan Singh (drums), the group recorded two albums, from which came their best known songs "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" (No. 1 in Canada and No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard charts) and "That's Where I Went Wrong" (1969). The Poppy Family placed a few other songs on the U.S. and Canadian charts through 1972, including "Where Evil Grows" (a top five hit on influential Windsor, Ontario Top 40 station CKLW and No. 45 on the U.S. national Billboard chart), "I Was Wondering," and "Good Friends?".

The album Which Way You Goin' Billy? earned the group two 1970 Gold Leaf (Juno) Awards, one for best-produced middle-of-the-road album, and the other in the best-produced single category for the album's title track.Watch my other auctions for more psychedelic or psyche pop records.

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