Chad & Jeremy - The Ark 1968 (@320)

 

Chad & Jeremy - The Ark

The Ark Review by William Ruhlmann.

While The Ark contained nothing quite as elaborate as "The Progress Suite" that had taken up one whole side of Of Cabbages and Kings, it was another psychedelic mishmash of styles -- Indian one minute, musichall the next -- of a kind so many popular performers had been indulging in at the time in hopes of making the next Sgt. Pepper. The difference was that most of Chad & Jeremy's peers had gotten it out of their systems the year before. But C&J were upper-class types who took naturally to the pretensions of the form -- they thought they were making Art. Their listeners thought differently: The Ark missed the charts, and Chad & Jeremy broke up.

Tracklist:

1. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Emancipation Of Mr. X

2. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Sunstroke

3. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Ark

4. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Raven

5. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Imagination

6. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Painted Dayglow Smile

7. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Pipe Dream

8. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Transatlantic Trauma 1966

9. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Sidewalk Requiem Los Angeles June 5th and 6th

10. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Pantheostic Study For Guitar And Large Bird

11. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Paxton Quigley's Had The Course

12. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - You Need Feet (You Need Hands)

13. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Song Of The Love Child (Tobey's Song)

14. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Letter To A London Girl

15. Chad Stuart/Jeremy Clyde - Pipe Dream

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