Pop Psych LP FREE DESIGN “Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love” PROJECT 3 orig nm

$

40

Artist:  THE FREE DESIGN

Title:   “Stars/ Time/ Bubbles/ Love”

Label:   PROJECT 3 ~ PR 5045.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl. 

Label is red and white with black text.  Gatefold jacket with glossy laminate.    

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:  Glossy gatefold jacket is NEAR MINT with flawless inner and outer panels.  Nice seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or other cutout indications.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.    

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Bubbles
• Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of my Life
• Kije’s Ouija
• Butterflies are Free
• Stay Off Your Frown

Side Two:

• Starlight
• Time and Love
• I’m a Yogi
• Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
• Howdjadoo (Fly Me Down)
• That’s All People

Review:

“On the Free Design's 1970 record, Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, not much has changed with the Dedrick clan.  The group's amazing vocal harmonies are still very much in evidence, the lush arrangements are still fuller than Grizzly Adams' beard, and the songs, like the cute and silly "Kije's Ouija" and the finger-snappingly groovy "Keep Off Your Frown" (which sounds like an unlikely cross between Oscar Brown, Jr. and the Zombies), are still lighthearted and fun.  Most of the songs sound like they exist in the Dedricks’ own strange little world of harmony and childlike innocence; the only one that sounds influenced by the times is "I'm a Yogi," which has sitars, a mild psychedelic break, and groovy lyrics.  It sounds more like Yogi Bear than the Maharishi, but then that is the charm of the Free Design.  The record is filled with some of the band's best work: the bouncy, perky "Bubbles" (a song later covered by Dressy Bessy on the Powerpuff Girls soundtrack record); the sweet "Butterflies Are Free," which features the Dedrick sisters on lead vocals; the brash (for them) "That's All, People," which sounds like a lost Jimmy Webb track, with great vocal interplay among the siblings; and the strangely bossy Christmas tune "Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)."  The only track that falls short is their cover of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," which is the rare Free Design effort that sounds like run-of-the-mill elevator music.  Pretty much any Free Design recording is going to be a treasure for fans of intelligent, witty, and above all, sophisticated sunshine pop.  Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love is no exception.”

(courtesy Tim Sendra, allmusic.com.)

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