- Sopwith Camel (band)
Sopwith Camel was a
rock music band associated with the San Franciscopsychedelic rock scene of the late 1960s.Career
The band formed in late 1965 [http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Sopwith_Camel.htm] and their lineup consisted of vocalist and
saxophone player Peter Kraemer,guitarist s Terry MacNeil and William Sievers,bassist Martin Beard anddrummer Norman Mayell. Sopwith Camel is best known for being the second San Francisco band to get arecording contract with a nationalrecord label [http://www.sopwithcamel.com/history.html] and the first to have aTop 40 hit. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:leamqjkbojsa~T1]Sopwith Camel released their first
album (and only album recording during the 1960s), the eponymous "Sopwith Camel", in 1967 on theKama Sutra Records label [http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Sopwith_Camel.htm] . The band's only hit single, "Hello, Hello", became the first hit title to emerge from the San Francisco rock scene and reached #26 on the U.S.pop music charts in January 1967. The band's first album, and the vaudevillian "Hello, Hello" in particular, had more in common soundwise with earlier songs byThe Lovin' Spoonful than typical 1960s psychedelic rock; producerErik Jacobsen produced for both Sopwith Camel and The Lovin' Spoonful. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:leamqjkbojsa~T1] The band was unable to follow up the success of their first album and hit single and disbanded later in 1967. [http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Sopwith_Camel.htm] Sopwith Camel's debut album has been re-released twice as "Frantic Desolation" in 1986 and as "Hello Hello Again" in 1990. [http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Sopwith_Camel.htm]Sopwith Camel reformed in 1971 [http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sopwithcamel] and recorded their second album, 1972's "The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon" on
Warner Bros. Records ' Reprise label. The band broke up again in 1974. After sitting in the Warner Bros. vaults for 30 years, the Camel's 1972 album, "The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon," became a CD in 2001. It was called, "The Millennium Edition." In 2006, the 2nd CD release of the "The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon," is called "Remastered 2006."ource
*"The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits", Joel Whitburn, 2000 (7th ed.)
External links
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:leamqjkbojsa~T1 AllMusicGuide - Sopwith Camel biography]
* [http://www.sopwithcamel.com Official Sopwith Camel website]
* [http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Sopwith_Camel.htm Grateful Dead Family Discography - Sopwith Camel discography page]
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