THE OUTSIDERS - IN LP MINT *RARE* (PSYCH)

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THE OUTSIDERS

IN

***CAPITOL ST 2638***

 **RARE** 60'S  

COVER MINT / RECORD MINT

STEREO

 ***REALLY NICE COPY***

***THIS IS A VERY RARE AND HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE LP***

 

The Outsiders had been riding the crest of a wave, driven by talent and luck up to that point, but in the second half of 1966, their luck changed somewhat. The group recorded "Help Me Girl" and released it as a single, but soon found themselves battling for radio play and sales against a rival version by Eric Burdon and his current version of the Animals. Additionally, they had access to "Bend Me, Shape Me" ahead of anyone else, but turned it down as a single release, thus allowing the American Breed and the Amen Corner to rack up hundreds of thousands of singles sales with the song in America and England, respectively, in 1968. In, the group's third album, released in April of 1967, never charted and none of the group's singles subsequent to "Help Me Girl" (which peaked at number 37) reached the Top 100, though "Gotta Leave Us Alone" rose to number 121, which apparently was sufficient to get the band a tentative go-ahead for a fourth album. By that time, King and Kelley had begun working with a Cleveland-based songwriter named Bob Turek, and the group's lineup had shifted somewhat -- Mert Madsen had decided to get married and get off the road, and was succeeded on bass by an ex-member of the Starfires, Richard D'Amato. The new Outsiders' lineup soldiered on through 1967, occasionally with outside help, most notably from Shadows of Knight guitarist Joe Kelley, who guested on lead guitar for "Gotta Leave Us Alone." The intended fourth album was scrapped partway through and, instead, a very strange faux "concert" album, entitled Happening Live, appeared in its place. In contrast to many "live" albums of the era that were the product of mixing studio recordings with crowd-machines, however, Happening Live actually enjoys a decent reputation among some serious '60s music enthusiasts because of the way it was produced. Rather than simply adding crowd noise to the existing finished recordings, the producers went back to the multi-tracks of the originals and removed the overdubbed strings, brass, and horns, which allowed listeners to appreciate even better the playing of the group members -- coupled with some new sides by the current band, featuring Geraci, King, D'Amato, Richie D'Angelo on drums, and ex-Starfire Walter Nims on lead guitar, the album represented a last hurrah for the group on LP.

SONG LIST:

KIND OF A DRAG

GIMME SOME LOVIN'

HELP ME GIRL

YOU GOTTA LOOK

I WANNA BE FREE

BEND ME, SHAPE ME

I'M NOT TRYIN' TO HURT YOU

I'LL GIVE YOU TIME

HAUNTED BY YOUR LOVE

IT'S YOUR LOVE

CHARLENA

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