About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelEl Records, El

UPC5013929335530

eBay Product ID (ePID)23046099699

Product Key Features

Release Year2020

FormatCD

GenreRock

ArtistFree Design

Release TitleButterflies Are Free: Original Recordings 1967-1972

Dimensions

Item Height0.53 in

Item Weight0.29 lb

Item Length5.04 in

Item Width4.93 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks92

Number of Discs4

Tracks1.1 Kites Are Fun 1.2 Make The Madness Stop 1.3 When Love Is Young 1.4 The Proper Ornaments 1.5 My Brother Woody 1.6 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 1.7 Don't Turn Away 1.8 Umbrellas 1.9 Michelle 1.10 Never Tell The World 1.11 A Man And A Woman 1.12 Stay Another Season 1.13 You Could Be Born Again 1.14 A Leaf Has Veins 1.15 California Dreamin' 1.16 The Windows Of The World 1.17 Eleanor Rigby 1.18 Quartet No. 6 In D Minor 1.19 I Like The Sunrise 1.20 I Found Love 1.21 Daniel Dolphin 1.22 Happy Together 1.23 Ivy On A Windy Day 1.24 An Elegy 2.1 My Very Own Angel 2.2 Now Is The Time 2.3 If I Were A Carpenter 2.4 You Be You And I'll Be Me 2.5 Girls Alone 2.6 2002 - A Hit Song 2.7 Summertime 2.8 Where Do I Go 2.9 Hurry Sundown 2.10 Memories 2.11 Dorian Benediction 2.12 Don't Cry, Baby 2.13 Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street? 2.14 Children's Waltz 2.15 Scarlet Tree 2.16 Little Cowboy 2.17 Love You 2.18 Ronda Go 'Round 3.1 Bubbles 3.2 Daniel Dolphin 3.3 Kites Are Fun 3.4 Lullaby 3.5 Bubbles 3.6 Tomorrow Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life 3.7 Kije's Ouija 3.8 Butterflies Are Free 3.9 Stay Off Your Frown 3.10 Starlight 3.11 Time And Love 3.12 I'm A Yogi 3.13 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 3.14 Howdjadoo (Fly Me Down) 3.15 That's All People 3.16 One By One 3.17 Felt So Good 3.18 Friendly Man 3.19 Light My Fire 3.20 Like To Love 3.21 You Are My Sunshine 3.22 Go Lean On A River 3.23 Going Back 3.24 Love Me 3.25 Friends (Thank You All) 4.1 Canada In Springtime 4.2 Kum Ba Yah 4.3 Peter, Paul And Mary 4.4 Pineapple Crabapple 4.5 The Symbols Ring 4.6 Stay 4.7 I Wanna Be There 4.8 There Is A Song 4.9 A Child Is Born 4.10 Love Does Not Die 4.11 Chorale 4.12 Fugue 4.13 Kites Are Fun (Mono Single) 4.14 The Proper Ornaments (Mono Single) 4.15 You Be You And I'll Be Me (Mono Single) 4.16 Never Tell The World (Mono Single) 4.17 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (Mono Single) 4.18 I Found Love (Mono Single) 4.19 Umbrellas (Mono Single) 4.20 Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas) (Single) 4.21 Christmas Is The Day (Single) 4.22 Ellen Dedrick Nature Boy (Single) 4.23 Ellen Dedrick Settlement Boy (Single) 4.24 Butterflies Are Free (Single Version) 4.25 To A Black Boy (Recorded 1970 – Unreleased Until 2004)

NotesFour CDs. The Dedrick children, Chris, his brother Bruce, their sister Sandra and their younger sisters Ellen and Stefanie, were born into a world of music. Rather than be dictated to and diluted by the majors, they chose to commit to the artistic freedom and potential to develop offered them by the producer Enoch Light through his independent set up, Project 3. During the 1990's The Free Design enjoyed a renaissance. The enthusiastic reevaluation of their work by a new generation of international musicians; Cornelius, Beck, Stereolab and the High Llamas, who insisted that The Free Design be placed among the all-time greats of vocal harmony; to be spoken of in the same sentence as The Beach Boys and The Carpenters. With exceptions, The Free Design were at their most pure in recordings of their own compositions. 'Kites Are Fun', 'Bubbles', 'Kije's Ouija', 'My Brother Woody', 'Ivy On A Windy Day', 'Starlight', 'Daniel Dolphin', 'I'm A Yogi', 'My Very Own Angel,' and the 'Dorian Benediction', each adorned by the baroque fantasy quality which is uniquely theirs. Breathtakingly original songs full of playful, nostalgic lyrical imagery; sometimes surprisingly dark; always enormously listenable. Whilst the arrangements reflected Chris Dedrick's classical training and eclectic taste, the beautifully detailed sound must be attributed - at least in part - to the legendary sound engineer Phil Ramone, a magician whose emphasis on subtlety and nuance in performance conceived such creations as 'The Girl from Ipanema' by Astrud Gilberto, 'Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard' by Paul Simon, the Bob Dylan album, "Blood On the Tracks", and, of course, 'Bubbles' by The Free Design.