Fever Tree

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Fever Tree was an American psychedelic rock band hailing from Houston, Texas. During the late 60's they had modest success with their hit "San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)." They also notched two USA Top-100 albums (another peaking at #156) & several low charting singles. The group broke up in 1970 & briefly re-formed in 1978 with just one original member.

RECOMMENDED SONG: Love Makes the Sun Rise (song video below + lyrics)

Lyrics: Love Makes the Sun Rise

Love makes the sunrise

Love makes the sunset

Love is the only thing I haven't had yet

Love

Ooooh love

Come with me before it's colder girl

Come with me before we're older girl

Come with me, tell me a story of....

Show me the glory of love

Teach me

Teach me

Teach me to love every flower, every tree

Teach me to love, even me oh

Cause love makes the sunrise

Love makes the sunset

Love is the only thing I haven't had yet

Love

Oooh love

Love makes the sunrise and love makes the sunset

Love is the only thing

The only thing I haven't had

Oh

I haven't had it....

Yet

Love

Oooooh love

Federal Duck

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Federal Duck was a soft psychedelic pop/rock Haverford, Pennsylvania (USA) college band. For $100 (or even less) the band would play nearly anywhere on or near campus. Along with standard instruments they would also incorporate flutes, horns, violin, banjo, and more into their repertoire. Their lifespan as a recording group was brief and unceremonious. Their lone self-titled psychedelic 1968 album was recorded at Groove Sound Studios in New York City. It, however, was probably more deserving that its actual fate.

RECOMMENDED SONG: Peace in my Mind (song video below + Lyrics)

Lyrics: Peace in my Mind

Can't find nothin' where I'm goin'

Guess I'll have to find another road

Can't look back, can't turn around

Can't find the ground on which to stand

Where have I gone away from you

Ever to find peace in my mind

What do I do when I am alone

I sit and think and watch the sun go down

Sunsets in the west that's where I'm goin'

To see where all journeys end

Where have I gone away from you

Ever to find peace in my mind

Flower Pot Men

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The Flower Pot Men (sometimes spelled as one word - FlowerPot), were a quintessential 60's psychedelic vocalist pop band comprised of several session vocalists. The group's distinct sound was characterized by rich, three-part vocal harmonies. The unit was put together by two main songwriters of the vocally rich Ivy League, John Carter & Ken Lewis. Together the two recorded the worldwide hit "Let's Go To San Francisco." However when Carter & Lewis decided they had zero interest in touring, the Deram record company had a dilemma - a hit but no band to promote it. Carter & Lewis, who would still write & produce the unit's records through 1968, hand-picked various studio session musicians & vocalists to carry on the physical presence and sound of the Flower Pot Men. After some success with the follow-up single "A Walk in the Sky" (#4 in the Netherlands & popular in Germany), the remainder of the decade would see several singles but diminishing returns. By 1969 there was little left of the original hand-picked members, as well as Carter & Lewis' contributions. The band had dissolved by 1970. NOTE: In America, they were frequently referred to "The Flower Men" on radio due to the then controversial nature of their name.

RECOMMENDED SONG: A Walk in the Sky (song video below + lyrics)

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Lyrics: A Walk In The Sky

You got wings of a bird (Wings of a bird)

So you think you can fly (So you think you can fly)

Well now, get up and go (Get up and go)

Take a walk in the sky

You can sell the meadows of crystal blue

Where the trees are chocolate bars

And when darkness covers your avenue

You can help to polish the stars (Help to polish the stars)

Help to polish the stars

Love birds looking for trees (Looking for trees)

Have a look in their eyes (Have a look in their eyes)

If you know what I mean (Know what I mean)

Take a walk in the sky

Take a walk in the sky

Tell your mother goodbye

Won't be back home for tea

Take a walk in the sky

And you'll find out why

That you're gonna be free (You're gonna be free, oh yeah)

Take a walk in the sky

If you're gonna go wild

There are meadows of blue (And reality)

Take a walk in the sky

And you'll never deny what is true

(Never deny, never deny, no, no, no, no, no, no)

You got wings of a bird (Wings of a bird)

So you think you can fly (So you think you can fly)

Well now, get up and go (Get up and go)

Take a walk in the sky

There are rainbows ready to ride upon

And the clouds are peppermint green

And you'll never know where your life has come

Till you lived your life in a dream (Lived your life in a dream)

Lived your life in a dream

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Fairytale

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The Fairytale formed in February 1967 in Lancashire, England. They split one year later. They released two singles in 1967 on Decca records. The 2nd and more memorable of the singles, "Lovely People," should be included in any compilation of hippie anthems of the psychedelic era.

RECOMMENDED SONG: Lovely People (song video below + lyrics)

LYRICS: Lovely People

Lovely people, lovely people

Lovely people like you and me

People hanging around you like mist on a morning lake

Focus your eyes upon them, don’t let them slip away

The world is out to make you one of its living dead

So lift your head up slowly, reach out for the morning sun

Reach out for the morning sun

Do-do-do-do-do do do, do-do-do-do-do do do

Do do do do, do do do do, do do do do, do

Do-do-do-do-do do do, do-do-do-do-do do do

Do do do do, do do do do, do do do do, do

Do-do-do-do-do do do, do-do-do-do-do do do

La la la la la la, la la la la la

La la la la la la, la la la la la

La la la la la la, la la la la la

La la la la la la, la la la la la

Lovely people, lovely people

Lovely people like you and me

Faine Jade

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From Long Island, New York, guitarist Faine Jade began as a member of the Rustics in the mid-'60s. He released his one-and-only solo record in 1968. Though obscure at the time, the album "Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital," is an eccentric, Syd Barrett inspired odyssey of psychedelia. Today the album is highly coveted by collectors of psychedelic music. He recorded an album with another band in 1970 & has since been mostly inactive.

RECOMMENDED SONG: On The Inside There's a Middle (song video below)

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