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In April 1967, Record Mirror's 'Names & Faces' column introduced Dead Sea Fruit. 'The Dead Sea Fruit used to be known as Some Sloane Squares, their first record is Kensington High Street / Put Another Record On, and they're on the Camp label,' it ran. 'So far, so good. They are gentlemen who met through an advertisement in the Times, no less. They worked the debutante circuit, making money, then went to the South of France. There's an LP on the way by this rather unusually talented outfit, which comprises lead vocalist Clive Foster Kennedy, a Freeman of the City of London, lead guitarist David Lashmar, who started up with skiffle, Simon Winsloe Clifford, who plays organ and is a jazz fan, bassist Christopher Hall, who was once a solicitor, and drummer John Errington-Townsend, who used to go to Portsmouth Grammar School (where also went Paul Jones)?
The band had formed the previous year. After briefly being known as Some Sloane Squares, they adopted the more modish moniker Dead Sea Fruit, after a line in Thomas Moore's 1817 romantic poem Lalla-Rookh: 'Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye / But turn to ashes on the lips!' were promptly arrested for wearing carnival clothes on a non-carnival day – though I fact was just their standard hippie attire, Thereafter they found some success playing covers in local clubs, and more widely around; France, A good-humored, highly theatrical act more in the vein of the New Vaudeville Band than their more psychedelic peers, they recorded for the local Disquez A-Z label, and had a big hit with the old-timey Loulou, Put Another Record On To promote it, they made some TV appearances (which can be seen online), involving a strikingly long trumpet invented by Kennedy One appearance was with Salvador Dali.
Back in the UK in early 1967, they signed to the new Polydor offshoot label Camp, who put out their debut single in March. The disc c id not prove a hit, but an album ensued, which appeared in April 'Dead Sea Fruit's first album chalks up the first LP release from Camp Records, and really they needn't have bothered,' wrote Disc & Music Echo.
`Musically the group seem to fall somewhere East of Winchester Cathedral and considerably West of Waterloo and its sunsets. They should have got together before making any tapes, and decided what sort of music they were going to play. The album is further distinguished by a nauseatingly pretentious sleeve note.' Sales were pool; and the release of their single in the US (on Atlantic's Atco subsidiary) in June did nothing to alter their profile. On Friday 30th of that month they supported psychedelic legends Tomorrow at the UFO club in London (along with the Knack), but didn't play many gigs in the UK. They did, however, perform in front of Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney in their time. September saw the release of their second and final UK 45, Love At The Hippiedrome / My Naughty Bluebell. Around this time Hall departed, and was replaced by Arthur Marsh. Before long, Kennedy and Clifford decided to return to the UK from their French base, upon which Lashmar, Townsend and Marsh accepted a residency in a club in Dakar, Senegal. However, when it became clear that the club only wanted them to play covers, the band splintered.
Discography
Album
- Dead Sea Fruit (1967)
EP
- Loulou (Put Another Record On) (1967)
Single
- Kensington High Street / Put Another Record On (1967)
- Love at the Hippiedrome / My Naughty Bluebell (1967)
V/A Compilation
- Magic Spectacles (1999)
- Piccadilly Sunshine, Part Three: British Pop Psych and Other Flavours 1967-1970 (2010)
- Piccadilly Sunshine, Part Three: British Pop Psych and Other Flavours 1967-1970 (2010)
Dead Sea Fruit (1967)
Tracklist
- A1. The 8.15 And The 5.45
Written-By – Lashmar
- A2. Put Another Record On
Written-By – Kennedy
- A3. Psychiatric Case
Written-By – Hall
- A4. Mr. Barman
Written-By – Kennedy
- A5. Matters
Written-By – Lashmar
- A6. Seeds Of Discontent
Written-By – Lashmar
- B1. I'll Come With You
Written-By – Lashmar
- B2. I've Been Away Too Long
Written-By – Kennedy
- B3. Mr. Coffee Pot
Written-By – Lashmar
- B4. Time Waits For No One
Written-By – Kennedy
- B5. I Should Have Guessed
Written-By – Kennedy
- B6. Kensington High Street
Written-By – Townsend
Credits
- Electric Bass [Electronic Bass], Guitar, Vocals – Christopher Hall
- Electric Guitar [Electronic Guitar], Vocals – David Lashmar
- Engineer – Noel Cantrill
- Grand Piano [Piano-forté], Organ [Electronic] – Si Clifford
- Percussion, Electric Bass [Electronic Bass], Vocals – John Townsend
- Producer – Parmenter, Collier
- Vocals – Clive Kennedy
Source
- rockasteria.blogspot.com/2023/12/dead-sea-fruit-dead-sea-fruit-1967-uk.html
- discogs.com/artist/1658871-Dead-Sea-Fruit
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In April 1967, Record Mirror's 'Names & Faces' column introduced Dead Sea Fruit. 'The Dead Sea Fruit used to be known as Some Sloane Squares, their first record is Kensington High Street / Put Another Record On, and they're on the Camp label,' it ran. 'So far, so good. They are gentlemen who met through an advertisement in the Times, no less. They worked the debutante circuit, making money, then went to the South of France. There's an LP on the way by this rather unusually talented outfit, which comprises lead vocalist Clive Foster Kennedy, a Freeman of the City of London, lead guitarist David Lashmar, who started up with skiffle, Simon Winsloe Clifford, who plays organ and is a jazz fan, bassist Christopher Hall, who was once a solicitor, and drummer John Errington-Townsend, who used to go to Portsmouth Grammar School (where also went Paul Jones)?
The band had formed the previous year. After briefly being known as Some Sloane Squares, they adopted the more modish moniker Dead Sea Fruit, after a line in Thomas Moore's 1817 romantic poem Lalla-Rookh: 'Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye / But turn to ashes on the lips!' were promptly arrested for wearing carnival clothes on a non-carnival day – though I fact was just their standard hippie attire, Thereafter they found some success playing covers in local clubs, and more widely around; France, A good-humored, highly theatrical act more in the vein of the New Vaudeville Band than their more psychedelic peers, they recorded for the local Disquez A-Z label, and had a big hit with the old-timey Loulou, Put Another Record On To promote it, they made some TV appearances (which can be seen online), involving a strikingly long trumpet invented by Kennedy One appearance was with Salvador Dali.
Back in the UK in early 1967, they signed to the new Polydor offshoot label Camp, who put out their debut single in March. The disc c id not prove a hit, but an album ensued, which appeared in April 'Dead Sea Fruit's first album chalks up the first LP release from Camp Records, and really they needn't have bothered,' wrote Disc & Music Echo.
`Musically the group seem to fall somewhere East of Winchester Cathedral and considerably West of Waterloo and its sunsets. They should have got together before making any tapes, and decided what sort of music they were going to play. The album is further distinguished by a nauseatingly pretentious sleeve note.' Sales were pool; and the release of their single in the US (on Atlantic's Atco subsidiary) in June did nothing to alter their profile. On Friday 30th of that month they supported psychedelic legends Tomorrow at the UFO club in London (along with the Knack), but didn't play many gigs in the UK. They did, however, perform in front of Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney in their time. September saw the release of their second and final UK 45, Love At The Hippiedrome / My Naughty Bluebell. Around this time Hall departed, and was replaced by Arthur Marsh. Before long, Kennedy and Clifford decided to return to the UK from their French base, upon which Lashmar, Townsend and Marsh accepted a residency in a club in Dakar, Senegal. However, when it became clear that the club only wanted them to play covers, the band splintered.
Discography
Album
- Dead Sea Fruit (1967)
EP
- Loulou (Put Another Record On) (1967)
Single
- Kensington High Street / Put Another Record On (1967)
- Love at the Hippiedrome / My Naughty Bluebell (1967)
V/A Compilation
- Magic Spectacles (1999)
- Piccadilly Sunshine, Part Three: British Pop Psych and Other Flavours 1967-1970 (2010)
- Piccadilly Sunshine, Part Three: British Pop Psych and Other Flavours 1967-1970 (2010)
Dead Sea Fruit (1967)
Tracklist
- A1. The 8.15 And The 5.45
Written-By – Lashmar
- A2. Put Another Record On
Written-By – Kennedy
- A3. Psychiatric Case
Written-By – Hall
- A4. Mr. Barman
Written-By – Kennedy
- A5. Matters
Written-By – Lashmar
- A6. Seeds Of Discontent
Written-By – Lashmar
- B1. I'll Come With You
Written-By – Lashmar
- B2. I've Been Away Too Long
Written-By – Kennedy
- B3. Mr. Coffee Pot
Written-By – Lashmar
- B4. Time Waits For No One
Written-By – Kennedy
- B5. I Should Have Guessed
Written-By – Kennedy
- B6. Kensington High Street
Written-By – Townsend
Credits
- Electric Bass [Electronic Bass], Guitar, Vocals – Christopher Hall
- Electric Guitar [Electronic Guitar], Vocals – David Lashmar
- Engineer – Noel Cantrill
- Grand Piano [Piano-forté], Organ [Electronic] – Si Clifford
- Percussion, Electric Bass [Electronic Bass], Vocals – John Townsend
- Producer – Parmenter, Collier
- Vocals – Clive Kennedy
Source
- rockasteria.blogspot.com/2023/12/dead-sea-fruit-dead-sea-fruit-1967-uk.html
- discogs.com/artist/1658871-Dead-Sea-Fruit
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