Fat City (The Sons of Champlin album)
Fat City | ||||
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Studio album by The Sons of Champlin | ||||
Released | 1967 | |||
Recorded | 1966-1967 | |||
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Length | 53:06 | |||
Label | Trident Productions | |||
Producer | The Sons of Champlin | |||
The Sons of Champlin chronology | ||||
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Singles from Fat City | ||||
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Fat City is the debut album on the Sons of Champlin, formerly known as the Opposite Six released in 1967 on Trident Productions. The Sons of Champlin were a more straight-laced rock band who did many recordings from 1966 to 1967.[1] It is very concise in structure and effort than their later looser psychedelic-based material they released in the late 1960s.[1]
Background
In 1965, the Sons of Champlin were a garage band but forceful band. After re-investing earnings from a Kingston trio's success into a small domain of properties and music-related corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of which became known as Trident Productions, Frank Werber signed the Songs of Champlin in 1966 hoping they would be a promising success. Werber sent the band into Trident's own Columbus Recorders with crew producer Randy Steirling in late 1966 to conditionally work on a full album via a lease deal with MGM Verve. Due to a variety of difficulties, it never happened and the Sons left Trident with antipathy in June 1967.[2]
The split resulted in only two songs on Fat City that were previously released which were Sing Me a Rainbow and Fat City, which they still perform today. The remaining 18 tracks are covers of other artist tracks.[2]
Track listing
- "Sing Me a Rainbow" (3:22)
- "She Said" (2:39)
- "Don't Talk to Strangers" (2:33)
- "1,000 Miles from Nowhere" (2:52)
- "One of These Days" (2:41)
- "I Wouldn't Put It Past You" (3:03)
- "It's Gonna Rain" (2:25)
- "Fat City" (3:45)
- "To Me" (3:46)
- "Green Monday" (2:36)
- "Don't Stop" (1:58)
- "Little Fugue" (1:54)
- "Shades of Grey" (3:47)
- "Say You Know" (2:44)
- "I Wish You Could Be Here" (2:50)
- "One of These Days" (2:10)
- "It's the End" (2:55)
- "Pillow" (2:52)
- "Don't Stop" (1:59)
- "KCPX Radio Spots" (0:51)
References
- 1 2 Unterberger, Richie. "All Music Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
- 1 2 "The Sons Of Champlin were Werber's great white hope". Ace Records. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
External links
- "CD Universe Overview". CD Universe. Retrieved July 27, 2016.