Product Description
Rev-Ola proudly presents the first CD release of one of the most enigmatic pop albums of the 1960s...Playback by The Appletree Theatre . The project was set up by brothers Terry and John Boylan. Essentially a loosely-woven concept album, divided into three acts. It’s an inventive pop album with great songs, strange sound effects, comedy bits and trippy dialogue comprising a collage of interlaced vocal narratives, sound effects, and song fragments, recalling the Golden Age of radio, and prefiguring the antics of The Firesign Theatre, along with top quality pop songs such as "Hightower Square" and "I Wonder If Louise Is Home", with its distorted megaphone vocals and soaring horns. Some of the tracks suggest the boys may have indulged in too many psychedelic drugs. It's not for us to say….

1. In The Beginning
2. Hightower Square (The Start Of It All)
3. Lullaby
4. Saturday Morning (About A Saturday Morning)
5. Nevertheless It Was Italy (A Deja Vu In A Pizza Parlour, And A Bit Of Merry Ole England)
6. I Wonder If Louise Is Home (A Bit Of Tragic Relief)
7. Chez Louise
8. E Train (The Jello Song)
9. Meanwhile
10. Brother Speed (Vocal With Didactic Chorus)
11. You're The Biggest Thing In My Life (Being As It Is A Pause In The Proceedings)
12. Don't Blame It On Your Wife (The Fellini Song)
13. The Sorry State Of Staying Awake
14. A Barefoot Boy (A Bit Of Johnny Appleseed)
15. Lotus Flower (Michael John And Boona)
16. What A Way To Go (Yes)

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terence boylan's first album.

john lennon praised this album in its day.

definitely psychedelic, in every sense of the word.

the japanese issue of this has been going for big bucks, when, and if, you could find it.

nothing at all like terence boylan's next 3 albums, which were more in the singer/songwriter vein of the '70's.