ROBERT GEBELEIN - Uncle Bobby's Record - '74 PRIVATE NM moody loner folk LP
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ROBERT GEBELEIN - "Uncle Bobby's Record"
(private; Stereo; 1974). RARE. (**Click on the pictures above for more info - *Double click for larger image**).
**This is an original (not a modern reissue) NM vinyl copy of this PRIVATE 60's style coffeehouse moody loner folk LP.
**NOTE: From Gebelein: " I never imagined I could write an original song until I uncovered my creativity in psychotherapy, and then it became a challenge for my creativity. "Down in Washington Square" in 1962 was the outcome of that challenge, the first original song I ever wrote. My company moved me from New York to Sunnyvale, California, in 1963, and there I composed "Running down the Road" and "Civilized Blues" in 1964. Also in 1964, I moved back to Provincetown, Massachusetts, my home of 50 summers and 20 winters. As I started north through the redwood forests of California, the 4 notes came to me: B, C, A, G. They became the theme for "In Search of Something," and later for "Seven Seasons". I thought that I could communicate my philosophy better if I could sing it in a song, following the lead of Bob Dylan. But that didn't work. My philosophy is a huge complicated system (read my books). These songs are only bits and pieces. "Hymn to Karma" is my answer to the wishful thinking of "Blowin' in the Wind." "Who Needs It" suggests that happiness, self-esteem, and freedom might be more valuable than money, fame, and power. (A New York promoter called it "Sour grapes.") A song-contest judge heard "Touch my lips, my fingertips," and said "Cliche," and didn't wait to hear even the next line of "Touch My Soul". My three years in Provincetown from 1964 to 1967 were the best years of my life and the best years for my music. I was able to perform at music nights at the Art Association, and also at the Act IV Coffeehouse in the summer of 1966. I performed "Provincetown Girls" and "Backwards World" for the first time on March 25, 1966 to a packed audience at the Provincetown Art Association. The waitresses at the Act IV used to help me with the high notes of "Provincetown Blues". The death of my idol John F. Kennedy was such a shock to me that it took me three years to find the words to compose "The Dark Days". "Growl we may, but go we must" was a poetic saying of the Provincetown fisherman. This song is a salute to them and a memorial to those who lost their lives on the Patricia Marie in the fall of 1976 and the Cap'n Bill in the winter of 1978.
I threw out 275 copies of "Uncle Bobby's Record" in 1992, thinking that would be 275 fewer pounds of baggage to carry around with me, and keeping what I thought was a "lifetime supply" of about 140 copies.
Bob Gebelein,
**NOTE: Hear/sample this song (not this copy) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7NkMWuCYHw.
**Heavy vinyl pressing (160 grams) is NEAR MINT; only 500 copies or so pressed.
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