Giant Crab - Cool It.... Helios (1968)

Artist: Giant Crab Album: Cool It .... Helios Release: 1968 Bitrate: 192 Genre: Pop-Psych File Size: 73.6 MB ============================================== Track List: 1. Giant Crab - The Invasion Of Helios (2:47) 2. Giant Crab - Cool It (2:41) 3. Giant Crab - Hello Yesterday (2:05) 4. Giant Crab - Trust Somebody (2:52) 5. Giant Crab - Don't Make Me Leave You (2:09) 6. Giant Crab - What Became Of Yesterday's Hero (2:26) 7. Giant Crab - Welcome To The World (2:06) 8. Giant Crab - Help Yourself (2:30) 9. Giant Crab - It's Getting Harder (2:17) 10. Giant Crab - Who Can Teach A Songbird How To Sing (2:23) 11. Giant Crab - Everything Comes Sooner Or Later (2:01) 12. Giant Crab - Cleo (2:46) 13. Giant Crab - Don't Jump To Conclusions (2:26) 14. Giant Crab - Popcorn Double Feature (2:42) 15. Giant Crab - Walking In Different Circles (2:36) 16. Giant Crab - I Don't Want To Live This Way (2:31) ================================================= The Giant Crab were a Southern California group that included Ernie Orosco (vocals-guitar), Raymond Orosco (guitar-bass-clavinet-special effects-vocals), Ruben Orosco (bass-drums-saxophone-special effects-vocals), Dennis Fricia (drums-horns-special effects-vocals), and Kenny Fricia (keyboards-horns-percussion-special effects-vocals). The group was produced by Bill Holmes who worked in the same capacity for the Strawberry Alarm Clock, there’s another SAC connection, that being Johnny Fairchild who narrates the opening of this lp, Fairchild was music director at K.I.S.T. radio in Santa Barbara California, SAC dedicated their first lp “Incense And Peppermints to Johnny. Though the group was from the West Coast, but the sound on this album has a certain “East Coast” feel to it at times, bringing to mind the R&B sound of the Long Island bands of the mid-sixties, the only difference is this lp is loaded with fuzz guitar and special effects making it a bit more psychedelic. The group recorded one more album for UNI ,“Cool It Helios” before disbanding, Ernie Orosco would go on to form Big Brother with brothers Ruben and Cory releasing two albums for All American Records, “Con Fusion” in 1970 and “South East Tour” in 1971. The second Giant Crab album opens again with Johnny Fairchild narrating, and the Strawberry Alarm Clock connection continues, listen to the backing track for "Invasion Of Helios" it's actually the SAC's "Black Butter" (i know, BIG DEAL!!!), whereas on the first album the songs were mostly composed by Ernie Orosco, here they rely more on the songs of S. English and staff writers, the group was certainly prolific in 1968, recording 32 tracks over that period. =====================================================

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