Rymes With Orange

Soho Orange - Soho Orange
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 282 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Witch & Warlock # W & W 002 | Country/Year: Germany 1989, 1971
Genre: Rock | Style: Hard Rock, Prog Rock, Psychedelic

"The music you're about to hear is rough, fresh and sometimes strange. The power of the Picts once more . Soho Orange (Glasgow natives) did the tracks you hear on this record in 1971.The mists of time cover the knowledge about the guys who called themselves Soho Orange…"

A somewhat late-in-the-day attempt at psychedelic pop, this album does have a few advantages, mostly in the way it's executed - for starters, it isn't as wimpy as a lot of U.K. psychedelic pop was during this period; Orange Bicycle plays hard and generates a fairly hard sound, despite their pop orientation, the wattage turned up fairly high and the vocals pretty intense. The album is top-heavy with outside songwriting, Elton John, Bob Dylan, and Denny Laine all playing prominent roles as composers, with Laine giving the group perhaps their best moment with his "Say You Don't Mind", where they even sound a little bit like the original (Roy Wood-era) Electric Light Orchestra.

Anita Bryant - The Story & Songs Of The Orange Bird
MP3 CBR 320 | 1971 | 67 MB
Jazz, Pop, Classical, Easy Listening, Children | Walt Disney/ Disneyland records | Music & Lyrics by The Sherman Brothers

The Orange Bird was by most accounts one of the first mascots for Walt Disney's adventureland, created by means of a commercial sponsorship agreement with Florida Orange Growers. The bird was to be "the friendly face of Florida sunshine and fresh squeezed Florida orange juice". This LP was created when the Florida Citrus Fruits Commission approached Anita Bryant, a former Miss America contestant to sing & narrate with music created by the Sherman brothers.