The Rose Garden
A TRIP THROUGH THE ROSE GARDEN (1968)
Here's Today*
I'm Only Second*
Look What You've Done
Coins of Fun
If My World Falls Through*
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Til Today*
The World is a Great Big Playground+
Rider
Long Time
Down to the Wire+
Next Plane to London (live)+
(* = mono 45 mix / acetate ; + = previously unreleased)
This is my revision of the band's eponymous 1968 LP for Atco. "Next Plane to London" was a minor hit--although a suitable guitar solo wasn't ready at the time of its recording. The live version included on the recent compilation, A Trip Through The Garden: The Rose Garden Collection resolves that. I included it at the end of the album (as a fitting send-off). The acetate versions of "Til Today" and "I'm Only Second" I included in place of LP mixes for consistency's sake. The non-LP follow-up 45, "Here's Today" and its flipside "If My World Falls Through" I included in place of a couple inferior tracks (IMHO). A couple more outtakes round out the collection, including "Down to the Wire" by Neil Young (!)--that actually features the original Buffalo Springfield backing track. Young himself was said to be present for the overdub session where RG vocalists Diana De Rose and Jim Groshong added their parts to the then-still unreleased epic that Young would finally release with his own vocals in 1977 (as part of his 3xLP retrospective--Decade). Overall, this is a more solid listen than the group's original album. For more info and pics (like the ones I borrowed) you can go here or there.
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