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Candy Floss: Lost Music of Midamerica by Various (CD, 2006)
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Product Identifiers
Record LabelCdb, CD Baby
UPC0600638979121
eBay Product ID (ePID)7046052916
Product Key Features
Release Year2006
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistVarious
Release TitleCandy Floss: Lost Music of Midamerica
Dimensions
Item Height0.40 in
Item Weight0.19 lb
Item Length5.60 in
Item Width4.90 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks24
Number of Discs1
TracksTwenty Years Ago in Speedy's Kitchen, Flannigan's Circus, WW II in Cincinnati, Light of Rome, The Countess, I Can't Love You Anymore, I Once Had a Dream, It's All a Dream, Without Love, Keep It Simple, Holly Go Lightly, The Out Crowd, Need Your Lovin' Oh No, Love Is Just, Black Spiders, 7:30 Sunset, Find That Woman, Oscar Crunch, Here Come Da' Judge, Have You Ever, Happy Like This, Red Rover Red Rover, Give Me Love, Bring Back the Carnival
NotesWeekend Records - along with Barry T. Goldberg, Gary Paulak, and Arne Fogel- proudly (and finally) presents: CANDY FLOSS-THE LOST MUSIC OF MIDAMERICA. ----------------- This just in: When we released the Candy Floss project, we had no idea who wrote and recorded two of the cuts: "The Out Crowd" and "Give Me Love". Well, mystery solved! Both cuts were written by Greg Maland and recorded by his band, "Gregory Dee and The Avanties" at Dove Recording studios. In a letter from Greg, dated 10-31-06, he writes, "I got the idea for the "Out Crowd" from a song called "The In Crowd" by the Ramsey Lewis Trio. I wanted it to sound like "The Grind" live. I simply turned the title around. (Note: "The Grind" was one of Greg's most popular hits ) Neither song was ever released because at the time of the recording, Greg's band was under contract to George Garrett, a Minneapolis record producer. The players were: Greg Maland, Frank Prout, Bruce Madison, and Mike Valentine. ---------------- "The music of Candy Floss was all about carnivals, calliopes, tight harmonies, and hope. The songs were whimsical, not edgy; it's instrumental attitudes were fun, not angry. It was Leonard Cohen meets Mother Goose. It was George Martin meets Spike Jones. Peter Steinberg, Dale Menten, Barry Thomas Goldberg and Gary Paulak-the original Candy Floss song writing team-would sit around the piano in Dove Recording Studios in Bloomington, Minnesota and weave lyrics of fantasy with melodies that "bounced". The songs were alive, and they would make you smile. In 1968, with America's music becoming loud and political with angry agendas and endless drum solos, Candy Floss offered an alternative that some major labels found very refreshing. There were the orchestral productions released on ATCO, PARROT, and SIRE RECORDS and the lighter, bubble gum tracks released on MERCURY and SIRE. But all too quickly America lost it's desire to laugh, and suddenly, everything was so serious. So Personal. Somewhere in the middle of 1969, Candy Floss packed up it's bag of un-recorded songs, closed it's door, and disappeared, leaving behind a legacy that has all but been forgotten. Our goal in releasing "CANDY FLOSS-THE LOST MUSIC OF MIDAMERICA", is to provide you with an opportunity to re-live those days of carnivals, calliopes, tight harmonies, and hope. The last number in the compilation, "Bring Back The Carnival", is something we pulled out of the Candy Floss bag of un-recorded songs. It was 1968. It was Candy Floss. And you really should have been there. Of course, if you buy this compilation, it will be close to being there. MUSICAL BACKGROUND: The artists featured on this CD are: TC Atlantic, Hot Half Dozen, The Avanties, Michael Yonkers, Seraphic Street Sounds, Longan & Fogel, Eric Marshall & the Chymes, The Shambles, Nickel Revolution, Barry T. Goldberg, Gary Paulak, Dale Menten, The Trippers, The Puddle, and Peter Steinberg. "The Beginning of Candy Floss" in the words of Barry Thomas Goldberg Our band, the Shambles, went into Dove studios for the first time in July 1966. After nervously trying to tune our guitars for what seemed like an eternity, we laid down a couple of tracks. Sadly, we were so out of tune that recording engineer, Daryl Arvidson, stopped the session, gave us the tape of the two songs, and told us to come back again someday. (Showing great kindness, he didn't charge us for the session). We were dejected, but we didn't give up. In July of 1967, we returned and recorded '7:30 Sunset' and 'Black Spiders". We began writing in September of 1967 with Peter Steinberg and Dale Menten in their new company, "Candy Floss". Over the course of that early autumn we wrote many songs. It was then that Peter asked us to borrow money so we could record the first Goldberg, Paulak, Steinberg, Menten collaborations, "Twenty Years Ago (in Speedy's Kitchen)", "World War II in Cincinnati", "Lights of Rome", and "Flannigan's Circus". Borrowing from our families, the Shambles
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