![]() ![]() Tim Gilbert, the main songwriter, also released a solo 45 Early October/If We Stick Together (UNI 55045) 1967 - folkie fare which has been compared to Tim Buckley. He would go into songwriting and his compositions (with J. Carter) would appear on Hardwater (fellow Coloradans The Astronauts in disguise), Yankee Dollar, Horses and Strawberry Alarm Clock LPs. Their album includes the first 45 and Discount City, a sorta bluesy honky tonk, which was the 'A' side of their third 45. Aside from an almost four minute medley of Shake, Knock On Wood and Respect, other notable songs include a pretty good cover of Stephen Stills' For What Its Worth, a fuzzy Taxman-like song called Weatherman and an Eastern-style slice of psychedelia, Snow And Ice And Burning Sand. However, the album's finest moment was In My Mind Lives A Forest (the flip to their first 45) - an exquisite slice of pop-psychedelia. ![]() Recommended.Ĭompilation appearances have included: Absurd Bird on Kicks & Chicks (LP) Make Me Laugh on Of Hopes And Dreams & Tombstones (LP) and Psychedelic Unknowns, Vol. 7 (LP & CD) That Acapulco Gold on Psychedelic Visions (CD) In My Mind Lives A Forest on Psychedellc Archives, Vol. 6 and Acid and Flowers (CD) and Fe Fi Fo Fum on Highs In The Mid Sixties, Vol. It’s all history, it’s all music and it often makes no sense.Smith” b/w “Discount City” (B side by others) – April, 1967 (The Rainy Daze)Ĥ5 – Chicory CH-403 – “Crazy Bicycle” b/w “The Diamond Mine” (B side composed by Colorado’s Dave Diamond) – June, 1967 (The Higher Elevation)Ĥ5 – Uni 550256 – “Fe Fi Fo Fum” b/w “Stop Sign” – July, 1967 (The Rainy Daze)Ĥ5 – Uni 55026 – “Blood of Oblivion” b/w “Stop Sign” 18 (LP).“Blood of Oblivion” is the alternate title for “Fe Fi Fo Fum” – The KIMN survey below lists the song as “Blood of Oblivion” at the number 50 spot (click to enlarge and view listing). So the likelihood of hearing a Stereo version of this track are remote at best.īut with all that in mind, you can’t keep a great song down and this is one of the many overlooked classics that are hidden away on the b-sides of singles, or the dusty tape shelves or the initially poorly received follow-up singles. Making matters worse, the original 4-track masters were destroyed in the great fire at Universal City a couple of years ago. Sadder, this track never wound up on the debut Rainy Daze album and has subsequently never been reissued by anyone even recently (as far as I know). I remember hearing it once when it first came out via my local Top-40 station, and then it was never heard from again. Despite the title change, it didn’t fare well for the band and the single went almost nowhere. ![]() Tonight it’s the follow-up single, first issued in May of 1967 under the title Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum and later reissued around August as Blood of Oblivion. Which was a shame, as The Rainy Daze had a lot more to say than merely Acapulco Gold (their big claim to fame). I realize there are a bunch of you out there who are new to this site, never having heard of the old one, so all this is new to you.Īnd even if you’ve been following the old site, this is still a great almost totally unknown track by a band that quick got pigeonholed as a One-Hit Novelty Act. I originally posted this track a couple years ago on my now-defunct Newstalgia site. The Rainy Daze – Pigeonholed as one-hit novelty wonders.
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