[2025-05-23] The Flower Pot Men "Midsummer Dreaming: An Anthology 1967-1970" 3CD set (Grapefruit UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Mar 01, 2025 1:26 pm

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Description
• 3CD anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro John Carter and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men.

• Includes Summer of Love hit ‘Let’s Go To San Francisco’, further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue.

Inspired equally by the Haight-Ashbury scene, the worldwide Summer of Love and Brian Wilson’s recent groundbreaking work, in mid-1967 former Ivy Leaguers John Carter and Ken Lewis pieced together the hugely ambitious, six-minute ‘Let’s Go To San Francisco’.

The result was a UK Top Five hit, a success that encouraged Carter to record more material in the same vein including follow-up ‘A Walk In The Sky’, which flopped at home but became another Top Ten hit in mainland Europe.

When psychedelia withered and died, Carter abandoned the name in public but continued to work on a brace of Moody Blues-style concept albums that failed to appear at the time.

A four-hour set, ‘Midsummer Dreaming’ gathers up all four Flower Pot Men singles, those two aborted albums and sundry other material that either didn’t gain a release or was issued under other aliases, such as the highly regarded ‘Mythological Sunday’ (credited to Friends) and ‘Midsummer Deaming’ (John Carter & Russ Alquist).

An essential item for lovers of intelligent, melodic, harmony-based late 60s British pop and psychedelia, ‘Midsummer Dreaming’ includes five hitherto-unissued studio tracks as well as a brace of late 1967 Radio 1 sessions that are also gaining their first-ever official issue.

Tracklist
[CD1]
Singles and sessions 1967-70:
1. Let’s Go To San Francisco Parts 1 and 2 (original mono version)
2. Mythological Sunday (John Carter lead vocal)
3. A Walk In The Sky
4. Blow Away
5. Say Goodbye To Yesterday
6. Now And Then
7. Cooks Of Cake And Kindness
8. Children Of Tomorrow
9. Mythological Sunday (Tony Burrows lead vocal)
10. Midsummer Dreaming
11. Let’s Go To San Francisco Parts 1 and 2 (stereo mix)
12. E=MC2/Musha Hada
13. Let’s Go To San Francisco * (BBC session)
14. California Dreamin’ * (BBC session)
15. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall * (BBC session)
16. Don’t Worry Baby * (BBC session)
17. A Walk In The Sky * (BBC session)

[CD2]
The album Peace, recorded 1968-69, unreleased at the time:
1. Prologue
2. These Heavy Times
3. Mythological Sunday
4. Colours
5. Blow Away
6. Cooks Of Cake And Kindness
7. Gotta Be Free
8. Heaven Knows When
9. White Dove
10. Epilogue
The album Past Imperfect, recorded 1970, unreleased at the time:
11. Now And Then
12. Say Goodbye To Yesterday
13. Memories Of Tomorrow
14. Autumn Love
15. Morning Prayer
16. Blues
17. I Am Me
18. Journey’s End
19. All I Have Is You
20. Brave New World
21. Children Of Tomorrow

[CD3]
Singles and demos 1967-69:
1. The Laughing Man
2. Mr. Light
3. Magic People
4. In The Sky
5. Conversations (In A Station Light Refreshment Bar)
6. A Letter To Josephine
7. Tahiti Farewell
8. Pantomime People
9. A Night To Be Remembered
10. Goodbye To Rosalie
11. Sunday In The Park
12. Going Round And Round
13. Life Is Living
14. Roberto Billow
15. When I Was Born
16. Rain, Rain, Rain (John Carter lead vocal version)
17. Going Nowhere *
18. I Think I’ll Be Leaving Tonight * (Tony Burrows lead vocal)
19. Land Of Love *
20. Take Me Along *
21. Lady Of The Blue Lagoon *
22. Am I Losing You
23. Man Without A Woman
24. You Can Never Be Wrong
25. In A Moment Of Madness
26. Young Birds Fly

* previously unreleased

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:08 pm

All of the pre-order links in the first post are now active.

[2025-05-23] The Flower Pot Men "Midsummer Dreaming: An Anthology 1967-1970" 3CD set (Grapefruit UK)

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