info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh

Subject: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,Miriam
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 03:36 PM

Does anyone remember a folk-rock group in the mid-to-late 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area who played Middle Eastern instruments? I believe the lead singer played an Oudh. They were at the Berkeley Folk Festival in 1965 and had an album with a song with the lyrics:

Stand by me, you don't need to say a word
If I stumble or I fall
Or I can't see the writing on the wall
Please don't say nothin' at all.

I'd appreciate any leads. I've just about Googled myself into the ground over this.

Thanks from chanteyranger's sister.

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 09:11 PM

I'm sure that someone knows the answer. I really need it. It's for a book and both my memory and Google have fallen down on the job--have pity--please help me!

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,punkfolrocker
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 09:36 PM

sounds a bit like kaleidoscope [the US band; not UK one with same name]..


one of my all time most favourite groups..

and if its not them..

its definitely a group i'd like to know more about..

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 09:40 PM

http://www.pulsatingdream.com/

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 09:42 PM

BTW.. i'm not Jimmy Page..
would'nt mind some of his guitars and money though..

Kaleidoscope:
"They're my favorite band of all time - my ideal band." - Jimmy Page

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 09:57 PM

I would have guessed Kaleidoscope, too... One of my favorites, although my favorite album of there's hasn't been re-issued on CD.

Jerry

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,Miriam
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 10:06 PM

I KNEW you were out there. That's the group. Thank you so very much! I first saw them at the Berkeley Folk Festival--I think in 1965--and went nuts about them--heard them perform many times and then lost track over the years. Can you tell me anything more about Kaleidoscope and their music?

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 10:09 PM

hi.. check the link i posted..
http://www.pulsatingdream.com/


loads of good stuff in the archive there..


ps.. there was a recent low price 3cd anthology released
containing most of their official recordings

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker[must refresh cookie one day]
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 10:19 PM

http://www.pulsatingdream.com/Kaleidoscope%20-%20Pulsating%20Dream.html

Evangeline Recorded Works, Ltd has just released Pulsating Dream - the Epic Recordings, a 3CD set that includes all four of the albums Kaleidoscope recorded for Epic, along with the singles. Also included are the rarities that were previously only available on the Epic compilation, Egyptian Candy. The liner notes by David Biasotti incorporate new interviews with Stuart Brotman, Chester Crill, Chris Darrow, Solomon Feldthouse, David Lindley, &Frazier Mohawk.

Disc One

Egyptian Gardens
If the Night
Hesitation Blues
Please
Keep Your Mind Open
Pulsating Dream
Oh Death
Come On In
Why Try
Minnie the Moocher
Elevator Man
Little Orphan Nannie
I Found Out
Greenwood Sidee
Life Will Pass You By
Taxim
Baldheaded End of a Broom
Louisiana Man
You Don't Love Me
Disc Two

Beacon from Mars
Rampé Rampé
Nobody
Love Games
Egyptian Candy
Hello, Trouble
Just a Taste
Lie to Me
Let the Good Love Flow
Killing Floor
Petite Fleur
Banjo
Cuckoo
Seven-Ate Sweet
Disc Three

Sefan
Chocolate Whale
Another Lover
Sneakin' thru the Ghetto
To Know is Not to Be
Lulu Arfin Nanny
Lie and Hide
Ballad of Tommy Udo
Bernice
Soft and Easy
New Blue Oooze
Why Try (single version)

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: M.Ted
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 10:19 PM

Never realized that Klezmer/Balkan musician Stu Brotman had been in the band--

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: open mike
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 10:39 PM

also sounds like something that you might hear from
David Lindley http://www.davidlindley.com/ who, with
Henry Kaiser has recorded a couple of albums:
http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Kaiser.shtml
A World Out Of Time 1 - Henry Kaiser, David Lindley (CD)
SWEET SUNNY NORTH - KAISER,HENRY/LINDLEY,DAVID (CD)
he played with Jackson Browne and has used some unusual
instruemtns from around the world including Oud, etc.
http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Kaiser.shtml

Subject: RE: info pls: 60s group w/ Mid-Eastern oudh
From: M.Ted
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 11:29 AM

Mike, you know that Lindley was in Kaleidoscope, right?

Incidentally, their is a list of all the places that Kaleidoscope played at the website, and sure enough, the Berkeley Folk Festival is on the list--