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Tracklist CD „Psychedelic & Other Situations“

Track	Songtitle	Artist	Year
01	Love Sweet Love	Jimmy Curtiss	1961
02	Without You	Jimmy Curtiss	1961
03	Five Smooth Stones	Jimmy Curtiss	1961
04	Let’s Dance Close	Jimmy Curtiss & The Regents	1965
05	The Girl From The Land Of 1000 Dances	Jimmy Curtiss	1965
06	You’re What’s Happening Baby	Jimmy Curtiss	1965
07	Gone But Not Forgotten	Jimmy Curtiss	1967
08	Psychedelic Situation	Jimmy Curtiss	1967
09	Down To Middle Earth	The Hobbits	1967
10	Daffodil Days	The Hobbits	1967
11	I’m Just A Young Man	The Hobbits	1967
12	Treats	The Hobbits	1967
13	Break Away	The Hobbits	1967
14	The Journey	The Hobbits	1968
15	Strawberry Children	The Hobbits	1968
16	Will You Be Ready For Tomorrow	The Hobbits	1968
17	Artificial Face	The Hobbits	1968
18	University Of The Street	The Hobbits	1968
19	Let Me Make My Own Mistakes	The Hobbits	1968
20	You Could Have Made It Easy	The New Hobbits	1969
21	Love Can Set You Free	The New Hobbits	1969
22	Growin’ Old	The New Hobbits	1969
23	The Devil’s Gonna Get Me	The New Hobbits	1969
24	Child Of Clay	Jimmy Curtiss	1969
25	Where Can I Hide	Jimmy Curtiss	1969
26	Johnny Get Your Gun	Jimmy Curtiss	1969
27	Sunday Son	Jimmy Curtiss	1969

This first CD contains some of the early Teen Pop and Doo Wop influenced Songs Jimmy Curtiss recorded for United Artists, Warner Brothers, and later Laurie Records. Without You and Five Smooth Stones he co-wrote with one D. Fleischhacker. The other early tracks were written by Ernie Maresca and others. Psychedelic Situation, Gone But Not Forgotten and also Child Of Clay he co-wrote with Ernie Maresca, who also produced the 1967 single by J.C. The songwriting on the first two Hobbits albums was mostly done by Jimmy Curtiss, Marcia Hillman, and Terry Philips. The latter also produced. As arranger the cover of Men And Doors names Jerry Vance, conducter is Dan Mahony. So we see the same names here, that appear again concerning further ventures of Jimmy Curtiss and his company Perception Productions. The songs on Back From Middle Earth were written by members of The Bag and Jimmy Curtiss. Producer was Terry Philips again. Jerry Vance also appears on Jimmy Curtiss’ solo LP Life on piano. The songs here were written by Curtiss, Hillman and the musicians who played on the album. So it seems Perception was a kind of family with the same people working together on various projects.

Tracklist CD „Jimmy Curtiss – Songwriter & Producer“

Track	Songtitle	Artist	Year
01	Child Of Clay	Jimmie Rodgers	1967
02	Artificial Rose	Lost Souls	1968
03	Freak Show	Velvet Night	1968
04	Velvet Night	Velvet Night	1968
05	Edge Of The Woods	Velvet Night	1968
06	Don’t Let Them Stand In Your Way	Velvet Night	1968
07	Up In The Morning	The Bag	1968
08	I Want You By My Side	The Bag	1968
09	Red, Purple And Blue	The Bag	1968
10	Nickels ‘n Dimes	The Bag	1968
11	Nobody’s Child	The Bag	1968
12	Freak Show	Jon Bartel Thing	1969
13	There’s Gotta Be Something Better	Jon Bartel Thing	1969
14	Listen To The Silence	Jon Bartel Thing	1969
15	Headin’ On	Jon Bartel Thing	1969
16	This Girl In Springfield	Jon Bartel Thing	1969
17	Where Can I Hide	Jon Bartel Thing	1969
18	Love, Anyway You Want It	The Sweet Bippies	1969
19	Da-Da-Da-Da	Changing Colours	1969
20	I Could Hear The Grass Growin’	The New Hobbits	1969
21	Underground	The New Hobbits	1969
22	Flora	The New Hobbits	1969
23	Goin’ Back	Floyd Westerman	1969
24	35 More Miles	Floyd Westerman	1969
25	Humboldt County	John Simson	1971
26	Just A Matter Of Time	John Simson	1971

This second CD contains music written and/or produced by Jimmy Curtiss or Perception Productions respectively. The Jimmie Rodgers single Child Of Clay was as far as I know the only chart success Jimmy Curtiss enjoyed as a songwriter let alone artist. It’s interesting to see that Joe DiMarzo and Jay Savino as well as Danny Mahony of The Bag appear again as songwriters – and possibly musicians – on the New Hobbits album. The New Hobbits album was probably a half-hearted affair and never officially released. Anyways, The Bag album was produced by Terry Philips again. Here as well as on the Velvet Night LP we come across the name Steve Kanyon. Steve and J.C. co-produced the Velvet Night. And Steve appears on the New Hobbits LP as well. It’s hard to tell which record came first, The Bag or the Velvet Night. Probably both were recorded and released in 1968. Here on this CD I included the 7” versions of The Bag’s I Want You By My Side and Red, Purple And Blue. At least the first one is shorter and a little different from the album version. The Jon Bartel Thing LP was recorded in New York, despite the fact that the band is said to be from California. Well, I’m not too sure about that, anyway. Producers were J.C. and Terry Philips (again). Songwriting credits go mostly to Jimmy Curtiss, Terry Philips, Steve Kanyon, and Marcia Hillman. Meanwhile they had their own publishing as well, Popdraw Music Corp. Compare the two versions of Freak Show by Velvet Night and The Jon Bartel Thing. Also Where Can I Hide (written by Curtiss / Hillman) appears again on J.C.’s solo LP of the same year.

The songs on the Floyd Westerman album where mostly written and arranged by Jimmy Curtiss. The record was recorded in New York and Nashville. Finally, the John Simson LP We Can Be Everything was produced in New York and England by J.C. and Terry Philips, with Humboldt County coming from the US sessions and Just A Matter Of Time from the English Morgan Sound Studio in Willesden.

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