DON & THE GOODTIMES So Good - Original US LP - Garage Rock Psych

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DON & THE GOODTIMES

So Good

Original US LP released on Epic Records in 1967.

Don and the Goodtimes were a Pacific Northwest group formed in 1965 by Don Gallucci (keyboards) and Bobby Holden (drums), veterans of the band scene in Portland and the surrounding area. They cut records for Scepter Records' Wand label and for the Jerden label, and had some local success with the latter label.

The group didn't find a national audience, however, until Dick Clark chose them as the house band on his 1967 ABC afternoon program Where The Action Is. They made the move to Los Angeles and a contract with Epic Records followed that year, along with a single and an album. Their debut single, "I Could Be So Good To You," only got to No. 56 nationally, although it did better in several key markets, ascending to No. 15 in Los Angeles and reaching the top 40 in New York, indicating that its impact was far greater on the two coasts than in the middle of the country. The group lasted for another year, issuing three more singles that didn't do nearly as well. Holden and bassist-singer Ron "Buzz" Overman quit in 1968, and Gallucci and the other members, Jeff Hawks (lead vocals) and Joey Newman (guitar), organized a new group called Touch, with Bruce Hauser (bass, vocals) and John Bordonaro (drums, vocals), a psychedelic band that got one self-titled LP out in 1969, before breaking up.

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Don & the Goodtimes started life as a Pacific Northwest rock & roll band stomping out frat rock and hard R&B in the manner of the Wailers and Paul Revere & the Raiders (Don Gallucci, the band's keyboard player, had played with fellow Northwesterners the Kingsmen for a spell and added that memorable electric piano part to "Louie Louie"), but by the time they signed with Epic Records in 1967, they had cleaned up their act, landed a regular spot on the Dick Clark-produced pop series Where the Action Is, and started working on their vocal harmonies.

So Good was the group's first long-player for Epic and a far cry from their earlier work; Jack Nitzsche produced and arranged the album, and with the band supplemented by a handful of A-list studio musicians (among them Ry Cooder, Glen Campbell, and Hal Blaine), they recorded ten tracks of first-rate sunshine pop, best exemplified by the minor hit single "I Could Be So Good to You." There isn't a wealth of original personality in this material (this music carries Nitzsche's stamp more than the credited artists), but the craft is superb, the band's harmony vocals are excellent, and the song selection is fine (the inclusion of "A Girl Like You," a minor hit for the Troggs, is a nice touch). So Good is in many respects a fairly typical piece of assembly-line pop from the L.A. studio system of the 1960s, but it reveals just how much soul this particular machine could generate back in the day. Overall, this represents the best of the band's Epic Records repertoire and is a good pick for anyone interested in their pop period.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

I Could Be So Good To You

The Music Box

I Could Never Be

Gimme Some Lovin'

If You Love Her, Cherish Her And Such

Side Two

With A Girl Like You

My Color Song

And It's So Good

Sweet, Sweet, Mama

Good Day Sunshine

Released on 'Epic Records' in 1967

Catalogue No. LN 24311

Disc is in EX condition

Sleeve is in EX condition (deletion hole punched through corner)

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