ROCK-A-RAMA
THE SOPWITH CAMEL - In Hello Hello (Kama Sutra):: The story behind this is that a record company hears that another name of a moderately successful rock group is not gonna die, and (record company) decides to pick up free publicity by reissuing the group’s first album.
ROCK-A-RAMA
THE SOPWITH CAMEL - In Hello Hello (Kama Sutra):: The story behind this is that a record company hears that another name of a moderately successful rock group is not gonna die, and (record company) decides to pick up free publicity by reissuing the group’s first album. A San Francisco group too gang; notice how all this ties in? Second-rate Spoonful from the selfsame era and hence nifty. Listen first.
LABELLE — Pressure Cookin’ (RCA):: This is an uneven album. Which means that some of it is really good. Seven out /of the nine songs are by Nona Hendryx, but only three of them match catchy lyrics with tightly paced music, and it’s really hard to remember them afterwards. But you can hum “Open Up Your Heart” all alone after a few listens and still want to hear Patti LaBelle over and over. Friend Stevie Wonder wrote it for them, and it’s the best song on the album — which is a left-handed compliment.