DEAR MR TIME Grandfather V Rare orig UK Private Prog
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Dear Mr Time
Grandfather
Very Rare Original UK LP released on Square Records in 1972. 1st and only UK pressing, the sleeve is laminate don the front. Only 1000 copies of this were originally pressed on the tiny private label.
Dear Mr Time were an obscure British outfit who straddled the late-period psych/early prog divide with their sole album, a concept piece entitled Grandfather. It (loosely, of course, in true concept album style) tells the story of one man's life from his birth around the turn of the century to his own death, as recounted by his grandson. Birth - The Beginning makes for a pastoral enough start, but the pace picks up quickly enough as the story races towards the protagonist's experiences as a soldier in the trenches. The rest of the album veers between acoustic and electric, but quality's maintained throughout, avoiding the 'only two or three decent tracks' syndrome. On reflection, the concept actually owes a little to the Pretty Things' seminal SF Sorrow, but it's a very different album and, let's face it, a fairly universal subject.No-one's credited with Mellotron, so I'll assume keyboard player Barry Everitt was responsible for the excellent MkII strings on Prelude (To Your Country Needs You?) and the rather shorter part in closer Grandfather. Pity they didn't use it more, but there you go. Incidentally, the cellos in Prelude are real.All in all, this is really rather good, and undeservedly obscure, especially when you consider some of the third-rate stuff that's been available for years.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Birth - The Beginning 4:01
2. Out of Time 4:30
3. Make Your Peace 5:23
4. Your's Claudia 2:54
5. Prelude (To "Your Country Needs You?") 3:01
6. Your Country Needs You? 3:40
Side Two
1. A Dawning Moonshine 3:50
2.. Years and Fortunes 4:09
3. A Prayer For Her 2:57
4. Light Up a Light 3:26
5. On a Lonely Night 4:19
6. Grandfather 2:44
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Released on 'Square Records' in 1972
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Catalogue No. SQA 101
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Disc is in Vg condition (surface marks and a couple of light scratches)
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Sleeve is in Ex condition (the back cover hasn't been printed quite right, see pictures)
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