Jeff St John’s Copperwine Joint Effort LP 1970 Australian R&B rare
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Jeff St John’s Copperwine Joint Effort LP 1970 Australian R&B rare
Original Australian pressing on Spin.
Jeff St John’s Copperwine was a Sydney-based band, who played between 1969-72.
‘Joint Effort’ (1970) is a psychedelic/progressive crossover album with some soul influences. It includes a surging, organ-based cover of The Temptations' ‘Cloud Nine’ and competent versions of Sly and The Family Stone's ‘Sing A Simple Song’ and Blind Faith's ‘Can't Find My Way Home’. There's lots of good self-penned material too; a long instrumental ‘Any Orange Night’, the fragile psychedelic-tinged 'Fanciful Flights Of Mind' and 'Days To Come'. A worthwhile album.
'Cloud Nine' and 'Days To Come' were culled for ? 45 release, but surprisingly failed to chart. This situation was corrected by the follow-up, a cover of The Rotary Connection hit 'Teach Me How To Fly'. This brought them a significant hit and had a good flip side too in the soul-influenced 'Freedom Blues'. The band toured relentlessly during 1971 and appeared live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. They also released another good single, the delicate ‘Hummingbird’. By late 1971, friction had emerged between Jeff St. John and Copperwine. He left them early in 1972 to form his own band and pursue a solo career. Alan Ingham had earlier played with Glen Ingram and The Hi-Five.
Taken from "Dreams, Fantasies and Nightmares" © by Vernon Joynson
Side 1:
Cloud nine
Sing a simple song
Fanciful flights
Any orange night
You don’t have to listen
I been treated wrong
Side 2:
Days to come
Reach out
Can’t find my way home
Train
I remember
Environment in 3 parts
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: EX+++ Laminate A1, small dent at right of group picture.
RECORD: VG— Side 1 has some surface noise and a scratch which is clearly audible in tracks 3 & 4. Side 2 has minor scuffs and a bit of crackle.
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