Safe in My Garden: American Pop in the Shadows: Safe In My Garden: American Pop In The Shadows 1967-1972 / Various - VINYL LP
Artist: Safe in My Garden: American Pop in the Shadows
Label: Ace Records Uk
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 029667028011
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2025-11-07
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
Peace and love in late 60s America did not come without parallel feelings of fear and confusion about the social situation - specifically about Vietnam. "Safe In My Garden" is the latest Ace compilation in an acclaimed series compiled by Bob Stanley. The music on "Safe In My Garden" is harmony-laden, beautifully produced soft rock. Sunshine pop, even - a melodic, innovative style of American music that grew in the mid-60s out of the folk and surf scenes, exemplified by the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. You will hear orchestral arrangements, and soft boy-girl vocals. But it wasn't made in isolation from what was going on in the outside world. There are clouds and minor chords, plenty of melancholy in those harmonies. "Safe In My Garden" includes songs of escape (Mark Eric's 'Move With The Dawn', the Groop's 'A Famous Myth'), loss (the Eighth Day's 'How Can I Stop Loving You', the New Colony Six's 'Prairie Grey'), dreamscapes (Tommy James and the Shondells' 'She', Nancy Priddy's 'Christina's World'), rebirth (Smokey and his Sister's 'Creators Of Rain'), a simpler world (the Free Design's 'My Brother Woody') and a philosophically sounder future (Chad & Jeremy's 'The Ark', Best of Friends' 'Summer Sound'). It contains some surprisingly dark messages paired with beautiful melodies, as well as songs of hope. Thousands of young musicians in cities, suburbs and small towns across the States from the mid to late 60s spent their mornings hiding from the mailman, dreading the draft. This is the Sound of Young America in the late 60s, keeping it's fingers crossed.
Tracks:
1.1 Always You - The Sundowners
1.2 Move With The Dawn - Mark Eric
1.3 She - Tommy James ; The Shondells
1.4 A Famous Myth - The Groop
1.5 Dreamin' In The Shade (Down In L.A.) - Brewer ; Shipley
1.6 I Don't Think I Know Her - Tee ; Cara
1.7 Knock On Wood - Harpers Bizarre
1.8 The Visit (She Was Here) - The Cyrkle
1.9 I See It Now - Fargo
1.10 Summer Sound - Best Of Friends
1.11 A Moment Of Being With You - The Critters
1.12 Blight - The Millennium
2.1 Jill - Gary Lewis ; The Playboys
2.2 I Can See Only You – Roger Nichols ; The Small Circle Of Friends
2.3 Little Dreams - The New Wave
2.4 My Brother Woody - The Free Design
2.5 Christina's World - Nancy Priddy
2.6 The Ark - Chad ; Jeremy
2.7 Creators Of Rain - Smokey ; His Sister
2.8 How Can I Stop Loving You - The Eighth Day
2.9 Love Is A Rainy Sunday - Love Generation
2.10 Springtime Meadows - The Sunshine Company
2.11 The Word Is Love - Thomas ; Richard Frost
2.12 Prairie Grey - New Colony Six
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