Curt Boettcher was a musician and producer who played a formative role in the sunshine pop genre, and had worked with artists I’ve listened to lately such as the Association, the Millennium,…
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The Guess Who – Wheatfield Soul (1968)
The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band that has been active since 1965 with different iterations of band members, except for a relatively brief period from October of 1975 to around…
Karen Dalton – It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to… (1969)
Karen Dalton is another artist I’ve heard about on the internet in my discovery of folk artists in the Greenwich Village scene. Though Karen didn’t produce a studio album until this album,…
The Association – Birthday (1968)
This album, Birthday (1968), by The Association, is one that I added to my queue the other night after coming across the band on Apple Music. The Association is a sunshine pop…
The Fugs – First Album (1965)
Tonight I added a lot of albums to my queue of music I plan on listening to soon, and this album, The Fugs First Album (1965), is one of those albums. I’m…
Les Paul & Mary Ford – The Hit Makers! (1953)
As a guitar player who owns a Les Paul style guitar, I’ve been wanting to check out an album from Les Paul for a while. I heard someone playing “Josephine”, a song…
Sagittarius – Present Tense (Expanded Edition) (1968)
Sagittarius was a studio sunshine pop rock group from the late 1960s, formed by Gary Usher, a record producer and songwriter who worked with groups like The Byrds, Gene Clarke’s solo work,…
The Weavers – The Weavers’ Almanac (1962)
While looking into artists like Pete Seeger and the folk artists that followed in the early 1960s during the folk revival in America, I’ve seen The Weavers mentioned from time to time….
Peter, Paul & Mary – Album 1700 (1967)
Peter, Paul and Mary was a folk group formed in 1961 in New York City. The group broke up in 1970 to pursue solo careers, but reformed temporarily for an album, Reunion…
The Millennium – Begin (1968)
The Millennium was a psychedelic rock band from California that only produced a single album, Begin (1968), which featured flavors of psychedelic rock and sunshine pop, according to what I’m seeing online…