American Spring - Spring...Plus (Reissue, Remastered) (1972/1989)
Artist: American Spring
Title: Spring...Plus
Year Of Release: 1972/1989
Label: See For Miles Records
Genre: Psychedelic Pop Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 45:55
Total Size: 119/288 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Spring...Plus
Year Of Release: 1972/1989
Label: See For Miles Records
Genre: Psychedelic Pop Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 45:55
Total Size: 119/288 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. Tennessee Waltz (Redd Stewart) 02:04
02. Thinkin' bout You Baby (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) 03:26
03. Mama Said (Luther Dixon, Willie Denson) 02:35
04. Superstar (Leon Russell, Bonnie Bramlett) 03:32
05. Awake (Floyd Tucker) 03:25
06. Sweet Mountain (Brian Wilson, David Sandler) 04:13
07. Everybody (Tommy Roe) 02:20
08. This Whole World (Brian Wilson) 03:11
09. Forever (Dennis Wilson, Greg Jakobson) 03:15
10. Good Time (Brian Wilson, Alan Jardine) 02:50
11. Now That Everything's Been Said (Carole King, Toni Stern) 02:17
12. Down Home (Carole King, Gerry Goffin) 02:44
Bonus Tracks:
13. Shyin' Away (Diane Rovell, David Sandler, Marilyn Wilson) 02:55
14. Fallin' in Love (Dennis Wilson) 02:37
15. It's Like Heaven (Rovell, Brian Wilson) 02:37
16. Had to Phone Ya (Brian Wilson, Love, Rovell) 02:03
Line-up::
Diane Rovell – lead, harmony and backing vocals
Marilyn Wilson – lead, harmony and backing vocals
Keith Allison - bass
Alan Beutler - horns
Larry Carlton - guitar
David Cohen - guitar
John Guerin - drums
Igor Horoshefsky - cello
Al Jardine – bass guitar
Mike Love – harmony and backing vocals
Ray Pohlman - bass
Jack Rieley – backing vocals
David Sandler – harmony and backing vocals, keyboards
Brian Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, piano, baldwin organ, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, "everything"
Carl Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, twelve-string guitar
This 1971 album by Brian Wilson's then wife Marilyn and her sister Diane Rovell (both ex-The Honeys) is a pure pop masterpiece, somewhere between the country pop of Bobbie Gentry and a less polished version of The Carpenters. And, of course, there's a generous hint of The Beach Boys too as it was co-produced - and many of the songs co-written - by Brian (other members also lend a hand here and there). Featured here is one of Brian's most brilliantly strange songs, the atmospheric and Moog-heavy Sweet Mountain, and there's also a gorgeous version of Dennis Wilson's Forever. On this edition there are also bonus tracks in the form of a couple of excellent post-LP singles (but sadly not the still unreleased track Snowflakes). So basically, it's a mystery that it's not better known, and a scandal that it's currently unavailable...
Marilyn Rovell married Wilson and became part of the extended family that constituted the Beach Boys operation during those years, from the mid-'60s onward. It was Diane Rovell who got her and her sister back into the singing business, while hanging around the Wilson kitchen with Marilyn and her brother-in-law. And the result was Spring, a harmony duo of the Wilson/Rovell siblings, produced by Brian and every bit as contemporary as any act working in 1970, doing lost treasures from the Carole King songbook and rewrites and rearrangements of Brian Wilson (and Mike Love) tunes (most magnificently, "This Whole World"), plus renditions of Rita Coolidge and Leon Russell repertoire and standards like "Tennessee Waltz." They didn't last past the one album and the sessions that went into it - the group wasn't a full-time or even an ongoing commitment, just something to have fun with and to see where it took them, which may be why it took them so far. The record, like the group, became one of the great lost chapters of the Beach Boys' post-psychedelic history, and a stunning musical document in its own right. Released by United Artists, it died on the vine and became a choice collectable within just a few years. Various CD reissues have enhanced its exposure and raised the demand for the recordings.
Marilyn Rovell married Wilson and became part of the extended family that constituted the Beach Boys operation during those years, from the mid-'60s onward. It was Diane Rovell who got her and her sister back into the singing business, while hanging around the Wilson kitchen with Marilyn and her brother-in-law. And the result was Spring, a harmony duo of the Wilson/Rovell siblings, produced by Brian and every bit as contemporary as any act working in 1970, doing lost treasures from the Carole King songbook and rewrites and rearrangements of Brian Wilson (and Mike Love) tunes (most magnificently, "This Whole World"), plus renditions of Rita Coolidge and Leon Russell repertoire and standards like "Tennessee Waltz." They didn't last past the one album and the sessions that went into it - the group wasn't a full-time or even an ongoing commitment, just something to have fun with and to see where it took them, which may be why it took them so far. The record, like the group, became one of the great lost chapters of the Beach Boys' post-psychedelic history, and a stunning musical document in its own right. Released by United Artists, it died on the vine and became a choice collectable within just a few years. Various CD reissues have enhanced its exposure and raised the demand for the recordings.