Alive and Well in Argentina
February 23, 2010

Product Description
CD Description
When Zalman Yanovsky was controversially ousted from The Lovin Spoonfull in 1967, the fans took it hard...as both the only folkie to ba a master of the electric guitar log before folk rock, and an arch humourist and mugger, Zally had been the most popular member of the band...girls practically wetting themselves to cries of ZALLYYYYYYY!! Were common at Spoonful gigs...but Zally didn't go off and become a waiter..oh no..(although he later opened the wonderfull restaurant Chez Piggy's..) Bizarrely, he and his replacement in the Spoonful, ex.MFQ-er Jerry Yester formed a production company, successfully working with artists such as Tim Buckley...
Then there was this...sadly his only solo album, Alive and Well In Argentina was crafted by Zally and jerry as almost a deconstruction of pop, with odd covers of boyhood favourites and Zappaesque malarkey jostling with folkpop gems....a surreal composite of psychedelic pop and wry piss-taking, it remains a vital artifact of it's time and place....and in the evenings they were producing Happy/Sad...genius guys....we've added on the epochal non album single, Bonner/Gordon's As Long As You're Here...which has the album's whole intent squeezed into one radio friendly should-have-been-hit...wonderful!

** Beautifully re-mastered by our interlinked pair of bipolar bears,
Joe Foster and Norman Blake

** Lovely packaging by the sexy Pepperbox...

** Full on notes in true RevOla style

** A must for all fans of the Spoonful, psychpop and the deconstruction thereof...an unknown classic which will become your new favourite record...

Track Listings
1. RAVEN IN A CAGE
2. SCHTINCKHAUSEN
3. YOU TALK TOO MUCH
4. LAST DATE
5. LITTLE BITTY PRETTY ONE
6. ALIVE AND WELL IN ARGENTINA
7. BROWN TO BLUE
8. PRISCILLA MILLIONAIRA
9. I ALMOST LOST MY MIND
10. HIP TOAD

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A different cover from my Japanese first edition CD. Might get it again if the sound is better.