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Reissue: 10-02-2023 (C 1967)<\/p>\n

Sopwith Camel’s first album (and only album recording during the 1960s), the eponymous\u00a0Sopwith Camel<\/span>, was released in 1967 on the\u00a0Kama Sutra Records<\/span>\u00a0label.\u00a0The single “Hello, Hello” became the first hit to emerge from the San Francisco rock scene and reached No.\u00a026 on the US\u00a0Billboard<\/span>\u00a0Hot 100<\/span>\u00a0chart in January 1967 and No.\u00a09 on the Canadian\u00a0RPM<\/span><\/span>\u00a0magazine chart in February. A second hit, “Postcard from Jamaica”, peaked at No. 88 on the\u00a0Billboard<\/span>\u00a0Hot 100 in April 1967. Some songs on the band’s first album, the\u00a0vaudevillian<\/span>\u00a0“Hello, Hello” in particular, were more reminiscent of earlier songs by\u00a0The Lovin’ Spoonful<\/span>\u00a0than of most other San Francisco psychedelic rock of the time; producer\u00a0Erik Jacobsen<\/span>\u00a0produced for both Sopwith Camel and The Lovin’ Spoonful.\u00a0On the other hand, “Frantic Desolation” was chosen by\u00a0Jon Savage<\/span>\u00a0as one of “The Psychedelic 100”, an annotated list first published as a booklet by\u00a0Mojo Magazine<\/span>\u00a0and reprinted in the book\u00a0I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era 1965\u20131969<\/span>\u00a0(an accompaniment to an exhibit of the same name), published by\u00a0The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum<\/span>\u00a0(Chronicle Books, 1997). The band was unable to follow up the success of their first album and hit single and disbanded later in 1967.\u00a0Sopwith Camel’s debut album has been re-released twice: as\u00a0Frantic Desolation<\/span>\u00a0in 1986, and as\u00a0Hello Hello Again<\/span>\u00a0in 1990.<\/p>\n

The band was defunct by the end of 1967.\u00a0Beard and Mayell continued for a period in music, as\u00a0session musicians<\/span>\u00a0under the direction of Eric Jacobsen. Both appeared on\u00a0Norman Greenbaum<\/span>‘s hit album\u00a0Spirit in the Sky<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(1969). Mayell later joined\u00a0Blue Cheer<\/span>, replacing\u00a0Paul Whaley<\/span>\u00a0as drummer.<\/p>\n

Tracklist:<\/p>\n