CARROT TREE 1969 DEMENTED TRIPPY CIRCUS PSYCH 45 LISTEN
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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…
CARROT TREE "Dum Dum" b/w "Circus Time"
Original 1969 45 on the RCA label
Vinyl: Plays VG++
Someone at RCA shoulda been fired for this one. Lost his job. Period. Don’t get me wrong – I ain’t saying that Carrot Tree’s 1969 single “Dum Dum” is BAD – ‘cuz it ain’t. I’m just saying that if someone – ANYONE with an ear, for example – at RCA coulda just FLIPPED the solid but been-there-done-that-before bubblegum pop throwaway “Dum Dum” A-side for the absolutely acid-fried bonkers psych-o-freakout Ray Bradbury killer klown mindblower “Circus Time,” well…let’s just say the saga of Carrot Tree just MIGHT have extended beyond this one single. It’s amazing to me just how MANY late 60’s mind-fryers there were relegated to obscure-oh B-side territory, and I for one remember as a kid how many precious few times I would actually bother flipping a single over and even LISTENING to the B-side. Which means that, for most people, the saga of Carrot Tree probably began and ended with the organ-led bubblegum soul pop of “Dum Dum.” And call-and-respond lyrics like “Who gets the girls? Dum Dum! Who’s gonna make it? Dum Dum!” which fit on the lyrical importance scale somewhere between the Archies and the theme song to Mary Tyler Moore. That being said, “Dum Dum” sounds a bit heavier than most of the gum of its time. More in line with the Raiders or the Music Machine if they’d written for the Bugaloos. But that flip – Sweet Baby Jesus, I can’t imagine the number of kids in 1969 who would NEVER be able to go to a circus again – much less even get to sleep at night – after this demented circus parade marches across their fragile little eggshell minds for the first time. With its calliope belching out the very white hot flames of Hell, creepy echoed-out Killer Klown vocals, and wild Mickey Dolenz-on-mescaline “Star Collector” synth freakouts…if this is REALLY circus time, then the parking lot is probably littered with the bones of children. Perhaps the biggest selling point of all comes from a blog where “Circus Time” songwriter Don Oriolo himself writes in: “I’m pretty sure it was my band…maybe Ed or I played bass…it was a long time ago…late Sixties.” Ahh yes. Late Sixties indeed, man.
HEAR IT!
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SHIPPING AND PACKAGING
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NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…
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