LIFE 'N' SOUL Ode to Billy Joe UK 45 7" SINGLE PS 1967 PSYCH PROG POP FREAKBEAT
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£ 23 Sold For
Sep 11, 2020 Sold Date
Sep 1, 2020 Start Date
£   19 Start price
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LIFE 'N' SOUL Ode to Billy Joe / peacefully asleep The original UK pressing was issued in the Netherlands in a unique picture sleeve printed in the Netherlands.  The sleeve and the record are in EX condition. 

LIFE 'N' SOUL - Peacefully asleep - YouTube

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[isdntekvideo] The flipside to this single "Peacefully Asleep" was compiled on both the "British Psychedelic Trip" and Rubble series of psychedelic compilation LPs, and remains readily available to this day - it's a distinctly woozy, strange kind of record where the band delivered strangulated, delirious vocals and added a doomy, disorientating cello line. It shimmers, buzzes and meanders away, never having much of a coherent chorus (unless those "bap-ba-ba-da-bap-ba-ba-da-baaaaah!" moments are supposed to it) but holding your interest through sheer use of atmosphere. 
Interesting, then, that the band really weren't fully paid up members of the UFO Club, but a pop group from Manchester, consisting of Stuart Charles on lead vocals, and John Brennan, Colin Brock, Clem Lee and Andy McCann (I can't find any references to who played what). The A-side is a version of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe" which makes their usual direction perfectly clear. Taking a choppy, stripped-back acoustic approach to the track, it reduces the level of mystery and intrigue in the original and turns it into something slightly more uptempo. 
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