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Friday, August 18, 2023

Pre-10cc Godley & Creme recordings unearthed for Fly Away vinyl collection

Prior to assuming the Godley & Creme handle, Graham Gouldman & Eric Stewart were briefly called Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon.

Here's the scoop...

Spain's Guerssen Records has just released the first-ever vinyl version of the long rumoured 1969 studio album – plus related acetate and 45 only tracks – from pre-10cc duo GODLEY & CREME, during their days as Frabjoy And Runcible Spoon. Classic UK late 60s psychedelic/folk/pop sound recorded at Advision Studios with support from future 10cc colleagues Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart.

In mid-1969, legendary British R&B/psychedelic entrepreneur Giorgio Gomelsky signed two Manchester-based art students, renaming them Frabjoy And Runcible Spoon. Seeing the talented pair as a British Simon And Garfunkel, Gomelsky recorded an LP with them for release on his Marmalade label. A pre-LP single appeared (listen below), but sadly the album’s release was aborted.

Then in 2022 – some 53 years later – Grapefruit Records released "Frabjous Days: The Secret World of Godley & Creme 1967-1969, a 19-track CD version of this missing piece of the pre-10cc jigsaw puzzle. Now Guerssen presents a vinyl version (with five fewer tracks than the CD), liner notes by David Wells along with rare photos and memorabilia.

Get a copy via Bandcamp right here.

Check out the original Marmalade single release of "I'm Beside Myself," "To Fly Away" (100 Proof Album Version) along with "Take Me Back" and "Today" following the tracklisting below.

Godley & Creme – Fly Away: The Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon Sessions 1968-1969

Side A: A1. I'm Beside Myself - A2. Chaplin House - A3. Cowboys And Indians - A4. It's The Best Seaside In The World - A5. Fly Away (Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon Album version) - A6. Take Me Back - A7. Today

Side B: B1. Hot Sun - B2. Virgin Soldiers - B3. To Fly Away (100º Proof Album Version) - B4. Seeing Things Green - B5. Easy Life - B6. I'm Beside Myself (single version) - B7. Animal Song

Friday, January 14, 2022

Whaddya mean you don't know The Northwest Company

Vancouver's Northwest Company released "Hard To Cry" on Grenadier in '67 which is on Out-Sider's Eight Hour Day comp LP.

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Dave Wyndorf's pre-Monster Magnet recordings from 1989 resurface

Guerssen's Galactic Archive imprint is reissuing Mistress of the Perpetual Harvest by Dave Wyndorf's band Acid Reich.

Here's the scoop from Galactic Archive's Steven Krakow...

SO STOKED to announce pre-orders for this archival LP release of pre-Monster Magnet band Acid Reich! Featuring original MM members Dave Wyndorf (post-Shrapnel), Tim Cronin, and JP McBain, plus Shaune Kelley (Ripping Corpse) and Joe Paone. They recorded a lone cassette in 1989, 'Mistress of the Perpetual Harvest', released on Cronin's Cool Beans tape label. This is the first ever vinyl/digital release on my Galactic Archive imprint and Guerssen Records! 400 copies pressed, 100 hand-numbered on green vinyl. This project has also been in the works for over a year, AND I got to do some of the logos/art on this, and liner notes via some hilarious interviews, so this one is VERY near n dear to my heart--plus some TRULY DEMENTED AND FUZZED PSYCHO-DELICK SOUNDS!!!! (I mean, there's an early Floyd cover too, c'monnnnn) Check links below to sample a track/pre-order, and for a feature on the always-heady/informative It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine! Huge thanks to Alex Carretero and Tim C for making this all happen!

Have a listen to a cassette copy of Mistress of the Perpetual Harvest right here.