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The Electric Prunes first three LPs re-released today 10 October 2000
The band’s full length debut was 1967’s I Had Too Much To Dream, whose new CD version includes their first single, 1966’s Ain’t It Hard/Little Olive. Most of the album’s tracks, including the title, were penned by the songwriting team of Nancie Mantz and Anette Tucker who also wrote for surf band The Ventures. The more experimental Underground LP followed the same year, with all the original members and most songs now written by vocalist Jim Lowe and bassist Mark Tulin. The new CD version of Underground includes the bonus tracks You’re Not In Love and You Never Had It Better. Their third album Mass In F Minor—an early and not very important example of rock opera—also appears today with the Hey Mr. President/Flowing Smoothly single as bonus tracks. Like some prototypical boy band, all the original members were dropped in 1968 but The Electric Prunes’ name lived on with six new musicians. Release Of An Oath and 1969’s Just Good Old Rock ’N’ Roll are, thankfully, left to the mists of history at least for now. For more info on the Prunes, check the tribute site we’ve linked or read their bio in Rock: The Rough Guide. | tribute site | | Rock: The Rough Guide | | bio | | discography | | sample from I Had Too Much To Dream | | CD | | top of page | |
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