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THE YOUNGBLOODS

JESSE COLIN YOUNG, JOE BAUER, BANANA (Lowell Levinger)

Boston folk band emerged from the 1960s to score a definitive hippie-era hit with "Get Together."

The Youngbloods could not be considered a major '60s band, but they were capable of offering 

some mighty pleasurable folk-rock in the late '60s, and produced a few great tunes along the way. 

One of the better groups to emerge from the East Coast in the mid-'60s, 

they would temper their blues and jug band influences with gentle California psychedelia, 

particularly after they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area

"ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN"

<reissue, originally published in 1969 on RCA Victor orange label>

Produced by CHARLES E. DANIELS

LP     RCA VICTOR RECORDS      AFL1-4150  STEREO

PRINTED IN U.S.A.    MID/LATE-70s REPRESSING

This Version: Without barcode 

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  RCA VICTOR -  BLACK LABEL - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: AFL1-4150   

Catalog on labels: AFL1-4150-A / AFL1-4150-B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): XPRS 0158 35S     (Etched): AFL1 4150A 

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): XPRS-0159-35S     (Etched): AFL1 4150B

On labels: TMK(s) ® Registered Marca(s) Registrada(s)

Radio Corporation of America-Mase in U.S.A.

(Side A only): 2. Arranged by The Youngbloods

(Side B only): 3, 5. Arranged by The Youngbloods

On back cover: Produced by Charles E. Daniels

Cover and Liner Photos: Charles L. Heald

Public performance clearamce-BMI

Recorded in RCA's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, California

*Produced by The Youngbloods and Bob Cullen

DYNAGROOVE is the product of............

Printed in U.S.A.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: DARKNESS, DARKNESS - SMUG* - ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

SUNLIGHT - DOUBLE SUNLIGHT - BEAUTIFUL - TURN IT OVER

Side B: RAIN SONG - TRILLIUM - QUICKSAND*

BLACK MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN - SHAM* - RIDE THE WIND

  grading

RECORD  STRONG EX, NEAR MINT (please, read above description)

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

Elephant Mountain (1969) is the Youngbloods' third long-player and marks their debut 

as a trio -- featuring Jesse Colin Young (bass/guitar/vocals), Joe Bauer (drums), 

and Lowell "Banana" Levinger (keyboards) -- after the departure of co-founder Jerry Corbitt (guitar/vocals).

This effort contains some of the band's strongest material to date, building on the considerable

 momentum of their 1967 self-titled release and further enhanced by their remarkable instrumental capabilities. 

Young's contributions are particularly notable as he vacillates between the edgy and electric 

"Darkness, Darkness" to the light and earthy "Sunlight" and "Ride the Wind," or the bouncy tales "Smug" 

and "Beautiful." Banana honors his new surroundings with the gorgeous and catchy instrumental 

"On Sir Francis Drake" (named after a heavily traveled Bay Area motorway). 

On this cut the textural combination of electric piano and harpsichord provides a jazzy counterbalance 

to Young's propulsive basslines and Bauer's nimble drumming. 

The "Rain Song (Don't Let the Rain Bring You Down)" is left over from Corbitt's tenure 

and recalls the earlier Youngbloods' sound which was more akin to the Sopwith Camel or 

the Lovin' Spoonful than the trio's then-current folk-rock leanings. "Trillium" is a hidden gem 

of a jam that examines the band's remarkably strong improvisational interaction. 

"Sham" is perhaps the most straightforward rocker on the album and recalls Bay Area acts 

like the Sal Valentino-led Stoneground. The disc concludes with the sublime