TONY CARO & JOHN All On The First Day LP psych folk
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TONY, CARO & JOHN
All On The First Day
classic psyche folk album
with Original lyric and personnel insert (LP sleeve size)
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
- The Snowdon Song
- Eclipse Of The Moon
- Meg II
- Snugglyug
- Apocalypso
- Sargasso Sea
- Swordman Of Samoa
- There Are No Greater Heroes
- Waltz For A Spaniel
- Hole In My Heart
- Morrison Heathcliff
- Don't Sing This Song
- Homecoming
Main picture is stock photo of the sleeve, back image is scan of the album, as is the label photo.
Sleeve, insert and disc are EX
** please see question / answer below. Additional info: Have just seen on spine, cat. info. RRLP000(?) - can't tell if/what final number is as printed on end of print area of spine. Matrix is ALL 01 & ALL 02
Tony, Caro and John, a two-man-one-woman folk-rock trio, recorded the extremely rare All on the First Day album in 1972. The threesome took much of their inspiration from the Incredible String Band's brand of leprechaun-ish folk-rock, though songwriter and frequent lead singer Tony Dore's compositions were more conventionally melodic than the ISB's. Dore's vocals were much like those heard on the early ISB records, as well. Tony, Caro and John were also wont to embellish their basic male-female vocal harmonies, and one electric guitar-one-acoustic-guitar-bass line-up, with weird touches of hippie psychedelia in the occasional electronic effects, tinkling percussion, flageolet (a type of small flute), wah-wah, and violin. Yet despite the Incredible String Band references, the record does have a sound of its own. Slightly sardonic but cheerfully playful, and with strong tunes effectively blending major and minor modes, they're more approachable for listeners with conventional rock and pop tastes than the Incredible String Band, or Incredible String Band-like bands of the period, such as Forest and Dr. Strangely Strange. Tony Dore and bassist John Clark met each other as boys in Derby, England, playing together both in rock bands and on the folk circuit. When they went to University in 1967, they headed separate ways musically but reunited in 1970, when Clark came to London to join Tony and Caro Dore, who had played University folk clubs together. The songs comprising All on the First Day were done on primitive technology, recorded on Clark's tape recorder; they could overdub in mono only by re-recording the backing track at the same time. They self-pressed the LP in a small edition of 100 copies. Expanding the band line-up with other musicians, Tony, Caro and John did continue for a little while under the name Forever and Ever, though that group didn't issue any recordings. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
"All On The First Day by Tony, Caro and John was first issued in 1972, the result of a one year burst of creativity triggered by a lucky encounter between us -- three hippy folkie musicians and our first decent tape recorder... A lot has been written about the sixties and seventies as a social phenomenon, as a time of upheaval of values. However, at the time we had no idea that we were in some kind of historical transition. We were just being there. For all we knew, the eighties and nineties were going to be equally radical, or maybe there was not going to be any eighties and nineties at all. Vietnam was still raging, the Cold War was at its height, and nuclear destruction was just around the corner. But man, did we have a lot of fun. The only rule was anything goes, everything is equally valid. The songs were recorded by John on a Ferrograph tape recorder with track-to-track facility -- quite low tech even for the time, but the best we could do with almost no budget. The machine allowed us to overdub in mono but only by rerecording the backing track each time. That meant you had to play the part right and mix the backing track in at the right level all in one go -- tricky even on a good day. Luckily we didn't know the rules or we probably never would have started... After a while we figured enough people had told us they liked the tracks, and that we had enough outlets through friends, clubs etc., to put it out on a record, so we saved up our cash, chose our favorite tracks at the time and had them mastered at Eden Studios in South London. We pressed 100 copies, we sold them quite quickly, then moved on..." -- Tony Dorè
Recording information: London Flats (1971-1972).
Tony, Caro & John: Tony (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, violin, organ, percussion, sound effects); Caro (vocals, kazoo, percussion, tambourine); John (vocals, electric guitar, bass, percussion, sound effects).
Additional personnel: Julie Dore (vocals); Simon Burrett (electric guitar); Jonny Owen (harmonica); Road Jones (keyboards).
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