West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 1906 b/w Shifting Sands (1967) | LA Psych | Full 45 Rip

Four of the five men on this record were already a band. The fifth one paid to be let in. The 1967 Reprise promo, catalog 0552, styrene, white label, stamped PROMOTION and NOT FOR SALE. Both songs are also on the album Part One at exactly these lengths, so neither side is an edit. Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen. Michael Lloyd, Shaun Harris, his brother Danny and drummer John Ware were a Los Angeles group called the Laughing Wind. In August 1965 Kim Fowley introduced them to Bob Markley, the adopted son of an Oklahoma oil tycoon, who offered to finance them and get them a record deal in exchange for a place in the band. Markley talks his way through the A-side rather than singing it, over a song about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake he wrote with guitarist Ron Morgan. The B-side is by Baker Knight, who wrote Lonesome Town for Ricky Nelson and The Wonder of You for Elvis Presley. Jimmy Bowen had just produced Strangers in the Night for Frank Sinatra, who owned Reprise. Michael Lloyd went on to run MGM Records at twenty and to supervise the music for Dirty Dancing, Ron Morgan helped start Three Dog Night and joined the Electric Prunes, and Shaun Harris later ran Barry Manilow's publishing company. 0:00 1906 2:25 The flip 2:45 Shifting Sands 🎧 Rare 45rpm Vinyl Rips - promo singles and obscure 7-inches: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pZAodT9-v-Lehtz7BPAlxi 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips - rare psych and rock LPs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 🔴 Live Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:30am PT, one record from my collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9qEwJJg-w9RXM0MsbSk5H3F 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #WestCoastPopArtExperimentalBand #LAPsych #RareVinyl #45RPM #VinylCollector