Complete Hearts & Flowers

Artist: Hearts & Flowers
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 617742032123
EAN: 0617742032123
ASIN: B00006RYJ7

Release Date: 2003-01-21

Complete Hearts & Flowers

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Tracks:

Now Is The Time
Save Some Time
Try For The Sun
Rain, Rain
The View From Ward 3
Rock And Roll Gypsies
Reason To Believe
Please
1-2-3 Rhyme In Carnivour Thyme
I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
Road To Nowhere
10,000 Sunsets
Now Is The Time For Hearts And Flowers
Highway In The Wind
Second-Hand Sundown Queen
She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
Ode To A Tin Angel
When I Was A Cowboy
Legend Of Ol' Tenbrookes
Colour Your Daytime
Two Little Boys
Medley: Extra Extra/Rock And Roll Gypsies/Extra Extra

Tracks:

Rosana
Extra Extra
Walls
She Like Her Loving Like I Like Mine
Six White Horses
Flower Lady
When I'm With You
Gypsy Blue
Everybody's Talkin'
California Sunshine Girl
Jones Vs. Jones
Brandy
Other Side Of This Life

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Product Description

<b>Disc 1: </b>
1. Now Is The Time
2. Save Some Time
3. Try For The Sun
4. Rain, Rain
5. View From Ward Three, The
6. Rock And Roll Gypsies
7. Reason To Believe
8. Please
9. 1-2-3 Rhyme In Carnivour Thyme
10. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
11. Road To Nowhere
12. 10,000 Sunsets
13. Now Is The Time For Hearts And Flowers
14. Highway In The Wind
15. Second Hand Sundown Queen
16. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
17. Ode To A Tin Angel
18. When I Was A Cowboy
19. Legend Of Ol' Tenbrookes
20. Colour Your Daytime
21. Two Little Boys
22. Extra Extra giRock And Roll Gypsies giExtra Extra

<b>Disc 2: Previously Unreleased Tracks:</b>
1. Rosana
2. Extra Extra
3. Walls
4. She Like Her Loving Like I Like Mine
5. Six White Horses
6. Flower Lady
7. When I'm With You
8. Gypsy Blue
9. Everybody's Talkin'
10. California Sunshine Girl
11. Jones Vs. Jones
12. Brandy
13. Other Side Of This Life

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Little known and long forgotten country-tinged folk-rock gems.......2005-09-22

This Los Angeles based trio is among a handful of '60s groups to turn out stellar major-label releases to little or no acclaim, and only faint memory among the few who heard them at the time. Their two Capitol albums of West Coast country-inflected folk-rock predated or paralleled many which found fame, such as efforts from The Beau Brummels, Byrds, Dillards and Flying Burrito Brothers, and matched them in quality and innovation. This is a perfect storm of folk and rock, with country touches, sunshine-pop production and age-of-Aquarius sensibilities that lends both albums the magic glow of 1960's social awareness and utopian hope.

The band's debut, 1967's "Now is the Time For... Hearts and Flowers," combines light-psychedelic touches with Nik Venet's crystal-clear production across a combination of originals and songs selected from the pens of Donovan ("Try for the Sun"), Tim Hardin ("Reason to Believe," popularly recorded by Rod Stewart), Hoyt Axton ("10,000 Sunsets"), Goffin & King ("Road to Nowhere" - the B-side of their first single), and a fine cover of the Merle Haggard hit "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive." The entire album balances folk and country influences similarly to Brewer & Shipley's best work. Sadly, despite prominent opening slots on tours by The Doors and Simon & Garfunkel, the album went nowhere commercially.

Before recording their second album, 1968's "Of Horses, Kids and Forgotten Women," guitarist/vocalist Rick Cunha departed and was replaced by future Eagle, Bernie Leadon. This sophomore LP includes a more generous helping of originals (including a reprise of the title track from the debut!), along covers of Arlo Guthrie's "Highway in the Wind" and James Lee Kincaid's "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune." The band's original "Two Little Boys" would become a hit for Rolf Harris a couple of years later. Nik Venet added more orchestration to the second release, resulting in heavier psychedelic influence on cuts like "Ode to a Tin Angel." Though more in line with popular LPs of '68, the band still found little commercial success, and were drifting apart by the time the album hit the stands. One could argue that they left the stage set and the amplifiers warmed up for The Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and Gram Parson's post-Byrds recordings.

Edsel's 1995 and Rev-Ola's 2002 CD issues collect all twenty-two tracks from the original pair of albums. Collectors' Choice 2003 CD issue adds a second disc with thirteen previously unreleased tracks that are well worth having. [©2005 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]

It's been a while........2003-12-13

I last heard this album, the first part anyway, sometime back in the late 60s. For 30 plus years I could remember "Reason To Believe" and bits and pieces of a few others. I knew the name of the group but had little hope of finding a copy of their work. They came and went in a flash. Now I see a reissue of a group that 99.999% of the world never even knew existed.

Besides a great version of "Reason To Believe", a song that Rod Steward later made famous, they did the only apparent copy of "10,000 Sunsets", a Hoyt Axon song, and "Highway In The Wind", a beautiful song by Arlo Gunthrie. "Try For The Sun" was taken from Donovan, the original fairy like spaced out singer of the 60s. I don't know about the rest of the material. Most of the first set of songs is quite good while the second half is pretty much filler.

The sound is sometimes twangy, other times folksy. They were not really rock although they certainly weren't C&W. This was a style of music that was pretty much on the outskirts of mainstream and has never really left that space in the years since. Unlike much of what was produced during that era, you can listen to this music and not feel like you are in some sort of a time warp. It is easy, mellow, pretty, harmonious, etc. You get the picture.

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