RARE BEAT - GARAGE ROCK AND PSYCHEDELIC
The group started in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, though during the group's long disbandment,
rumors circulated that they were from Seattle, probably because their records were very popular in that city.
Before evolving into The Electric Prunes, the band started life as The Sanctions and then Jim and The Lords.
Guitarist James Lowe, bassist Mark Tulin, lead guitarist Ken Williams and drummer Michael Weakley were practicing
in a garage one day when a real estate agent named Barbara Harris heard them. She approached the band and said
that she knew someone in the record business and that she could introduce them to him.
That someone turned out to be Dave Hassinger, the resident engineer at RCA studios,
who had helped record many of the Rolling Stones' albums. Hassinger sent them over to Leon Russell's
house to record some demos. Convinced that the band couldn't write their own songs, Hassinger brought in some
material by professional songwriters Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz. One of those tunes was
“I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night”, a song that was originally conceived as a slow piano ballad.
It finally peaked at number 11 in early 1967 and also reached number 49 in the U.K. charts.
The success of this single brought the Electric Prunes instant success and the band toured constantly.
The 'Mass in F Minor' LP seemed to mark the beginning of the end for the original Electric Prunes. The band started to
go in a totally different direction to what it originally been set out to do. James Lowe left the band in the
middle of a tour of Texas. The band continued for about two months after he left. It has always been assumed that
some of the session musicians on the 'Mass' LP became the New Electric Prunes.
Even the band's label - Reprise - were confused with the band's line-up and image at this time. By early 1970,
with record buyers and concert goers no longer interested, the band members went their separate ways.
new chapter in the Electric Prunes biography opened in 1999 when James Lowe, Mark Tulin and Ken Williams got
back in the recording studio for the first time in over 30 years!
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James Lowe - Vocals
Ken Williams - Guitar
Mark Tulin - Bass
Michael Weakley - Drums
Dick Hargrave - Organ
The Electric Prunes
Dr. Do-Good
Hideaway
Germany
Reprise RA 05 94
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Dr. Do-Good
Hideaway
Italy
Reprise R 02088
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Everybody Knows You're Not In Love
You've Never Had It Better
France
Reprise RV 20149
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Everybody Knows You're Not In Love
You've Never Had It Better
Germany
Reprise RA 0652
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Everybody Knows You're Not In Love
You've Never Had It Better
Italy
Reprise R 02103
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Finders Keepers
Losers Weepers
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Reprise RA 0858
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Get Me To The World On Time
Are You Lovin' Me More
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Reprise RA 0564
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Get Me To The World On Time
Are You Lovin' Me More
Japan
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Get Me To The World On Time / Bangles
Try Me On For Size / Are You Lovin' Me More
Spain
Reprise HRE 297-54
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Red Border
Get Me To The World On Time / Bangles
Try Me On For Size / Are You Lovin' Me More
Spain
Reprise HRE 297-54
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Yellow border
Hey Mr. President
Flowing Smoothly
France
Reprise RV 20198
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Hey Mr. President
Flowing Smoothly
Germany
Reprise RA 0805
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Hey Mr. President
Flowing Smoothly
Turkey
Reprise 69712
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Hey Mr. President / Flowing Smoothly
Dr. Do-Good / Children of Rain
Mexico
Reprise GX 07-565
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I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
Germany
Reprise RA 0532
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I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
Holland
Reprise Negram R 0532
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I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
Italy
Reprise R 02077
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I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
Japan
Reprise JET-1735
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alternative sleeve
I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
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Reprise JET-1735
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I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
Peru
Reprise 9881
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I Had Too Much To Dream
Luvin'
Spain
Reprise Hispovox H 148
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I Had Too Much To Dream / Are You Loving Me More
Get Me To The World On Time / About A Quarter To Nine
Japan
Reprise SJET-460
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I Had Too Much To Dream / Luvin'
Ain't It Hard / Little Olive
France
Reprise RVEP 60098
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I Had Too Much To Dream / The Animals
Shirley Bassey / Michel Polnareff
Iran
TOP4 EX-4143
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I Had Too Much To Dream / Try Me On For Size
Get Me To The World On Time / Luvin'
Mexico
Reprise GX 07-412
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Live In Stockholm
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Reprise
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Long Day's Flight
Dr. Do-Good / The Great Banana Hoax / Capt. Glory
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Reprise RVEP 60110
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Violent Rose
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Reprise RA 0833
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The Great Banana Hoax
Wind-Up Toys
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Reprise RA 0607
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The Great Banana Hoax
Wind-Up Toys
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Reprise R 02094
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