Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The Legend
Company: Megaphone
Catalog: S-101
Year: 1968
Grade (cover/record): VG/VG
Comments: --
Available: 1
Price: $75.00
Signed by the small California Megaphone label, 1968's "The Legend" teamed the band with producers Marty Brooks and Tony Sepa. Offering up a mixture of originals and popular covers (Bob Dylan, The Troggs, The Who), musically the set wasn't particularly original. With Corso and Brooks/Romans credited with half the material, tracks such as "The Sky That Is Blue", "Zepplin's Good Friday" and "Yesterday's Child" showcased a tasty blend of tight, Bealteaque harmonies and surprisingly commercial melodies. It wasn't perfect; the band occasionally drifting too close to Mamas and Papas-styled MOR ("Gigi"). Far more impressive were the band's stabs at a harder rock sound; the fuzz guitar and feedback propelled "Where Oh Where Is Mother" and their vox-powered cover of Dylan's "Baby Blue" (always liked the sitar fadeout). All told, the results weren't half bad; an album we pull out from time to time. Call us anal, but wasn't Townshend's song actually entitled "The Kids Are Alright" (single "l")? The album vanished without a trace, followed in short order by the band.
"The Legend" track listing:
1.) With a Girl Like You (Reg Presley) - 2:17
2.) The Sky That Is Blue (B. Corso) - 2:47
3.) Zepplin's Good Friday (E. Brooks - S. Romans) - 2:42
4.) Where Oh Where Is Mother (B. Corso) - 3:03
5.) Yesterday's Child (B. Corso) - 2:31
6.) Eyes of the World (D. McGinnis) - 2:27
7.) The Kids Are Allright (Pete Townshend) - 2:53
8.) Cold Wind In August (B. Page) - 2:32
9.) Sunny Day (E. Brooks - S. Romans) - 2:11
10.) You'll Be Sorry Someday (B. Corso) - 2:41
11.) Gigi (Lerner - Loewe) - 2:17
12.) Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) - 5:27