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What Is Quicksand? I'm On The Lamb Gil Blanco County Donovan's Monkey Ragamuffin Dumplin' Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors Arthur Comics A Fact About Sneakers St. Cecilia Ragamuffin Dumplin'* I'm On The Lamb* Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors* Bonomo's Turkish Taffy Gil Blanco County* St. Cecilia* A Fact About Sneakers* What Is Quicksand?# Arthur Comics#

Pre Blue Oyster Cult: "Stalk Forrest Group" Demos for Unreleased "The California Album/LP" St. Cecilia Stalk Forrest Group, The band that would become Blue Oyster Cult created two albums' worth of recordings for Elektra, using a different name for each album's sessions, first Oaxaca and then The Stalk-Forrest Group, and, after delivery of the finished recordings to Elektra, neither album was ever released. Though they were signed as Soft White Underbelly, and are now known as The Stalk-Forrest Group, they began recording tracks for their first Elektra album using the name Oaxaca. Ten tracks were completed in early 1970. Though recollections are sketchy, it appears that Elektra Records were none too pleased with these recordings, and all of them were shelved. Sandy Pearlman, ever persuasive, convinced Elektra to take yet another chance with this version of the band. Elektra finally agreed, and in early 1970, the band began recording masters for another album. This time the recordings were made as The Stalk-Forrest Group. And this time an album was completed, mixed and mastered. However, Elektra decided again not to release any Stalk-Forrest Group recordings at all. Soon after recording the second unreleased Elektra album, Andrew Winters left the band and soon after that The Stalk-Forrest Group was under no further obligation to Elektra's recording contract. Other than an Elektra MONO promotional single of "What Is Quicksand?" and "Arthur Comics" and other than the appearance of "Arthur Comics" on a 1986 Elektra Records compilation entitled Elektrock (The Sixties), all of these marvelous psychedelic Stalk-Forrest Group recordings have remained unreleased in their original tape boxes on a dusty tape vault shelf. St Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings collects together all of the surviving Elektra Archive STEREO masters for both the final Stalk-Forrest Group albums as well as the unused masters from the initial Oaxaca sessions. We say "unused masters" because three Oaxaca sessions tracks, "What Is Quicksand?" "Donovan's Monkey," and "Arthur Comics," were snipped out of the first album master tapes by the original producers so that they could be included without change in the delivered Stalk-Forrest Group album master. In addition, we’ve included the MONO masters from both sides of The Stalk-Forrest Group single.

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