1970 DICK DOMANE LP on MAP CITY (Self Titled) / RARE SUNSHINE POP FUZZ PSYCH

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1970 DICK DOMANE LP on MAP CITY (Self Titled) / RARE SUNSHINE POP FUZZ PSYCH

DESCRIPTION
Description ARTIST      :DICK DOMANE
TITLE         :SAME
FORMAT   :VINYL LP RECORD
LABEL       :MAP CITY Stereo MAP-3013

Ignore the horrible cover, which looks like half the cast of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters threw up on it.  And ignore Dick’s muttonchops, which beat up Mike Nesmith’s in a fistfight.  It might not look like its got anything going for it (which is probably why it’s been ignored for nearly 40 years), but Dick Domane’s 1970 LP on the Map City label is actually a pretty nifty little slice of sunshine pop psych, if you can believe it.  Your first clue is that label – Map City , home of such well-regarded (and rare) albums by the Yesterday’s Children, the Purple Image and the Blue Jays - who, by the way, back Dick up on this one. Only one of his songs, “Bad Dreams,” made a compilation (Mystic Males), and that ain’t even his best song.  Yet everyone who’s heard his album compares it favorably to other big orchestrated baroque popsike solo masterpieces like Del Shannon’s Adventures of Charles Westover.
 
Why hasn't this gem been reiissued? Maybe it’s the green jello mold cover.  Or the Mike Nesmith-on-steroids muttonchops.  But it ain’t the music, that’s for sure.  “Hey Don’t You Know” is a killer catchy pop song riding a whirlybird calliope rhythm, much like Tommy Roe’s “Dizzy,” and that was a big hit.  “Sane One” is the kind of slinky soul pop number that would work magic on a dancefloor, while the orchestrated ballad “I’m Only Dreaming” sounds like a cross between a big Bee Gees number and a 1967 single by British freakbeat champs the Creation, thanks to a half-asleep swaying fuzz guitar which adds a bit of credence to the title. 

COVER     :VG++
VINYL        :NEAR MINT

 
SONG TRACKS

 A1         I'm Only Dreamin'
A2         Such An Early Hour
A3         Since You Left Me
A4         I Can't Imagine
A5         Hang On
A6         Bad Dream
B1         Sane One
B2         Fragmented People
B3         Hey Don't You Know
B4         Maybe
B5         The Sun Never Shines
B6         Saturday Mornin'

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