SPANKY & OUR GANG / スパンキー&アワ・ギャング / COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS (4CD) / CD

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Spanky And Our Gang are a complete trip down the psychedelically-tinged sunshine days of the late Sixties. With harmonies unrivalled by almost any other band save The Mamas And The Papas, and a songbook that included Broadway classics (“The Music Man’s “Trouble”), Tin Pan Alley standards (“Brother, Can You Spare A Dime”) and socially-conscious anthems (“Give A Damn”), Spanky And Our Gang hold a unique place in pop history.

Led by Elaine “Spanky” MacFarlane, the group embodied the eclectic, artistic, and free-spirited feeling of the era; but with roots in folk, jazz, and blues, and with sometimes as many as six members, their sound took on a complex and multi-layered character. Their collective persona was zany and theatrical -- and extraordinarily popular.

This set, completely remastered by Ellen Fitton at Universal Mastering Studios East and produced by Grammy-winning producer Bill Levenson, includes all of the studio albums released by the band, seven previously-unreleased rarities, and an entire disc of the mono mixes of the band’s singles. It also includes extensive liner notes by Richard Barton Campbell and rare photos of the band. Spanky herself was involved throughout the course of the development of the set, and is almost as excited as we are ― well, maybe even more― to see this out on CD, as much for the band’s legion of fans as for herself.


Disc 01
1. Lazy Day
2. (It Ain't Necessarily) Byrd Avenue
3. Ya Got Trouble (In River City)
4. Sunday Will Never Be The Same
5. Commercial
6. If You Could Only Be Me
7. Makin' Every Minute Count
8. 5 Definitions Of Love
9. Brother Can You Spare A Dime
10. Distance
11. Leaving On A Jet Plane
12. Come And Open Your Eyes (Take A Look)
13. The Swingin' Gate
14. Prescription For The Blues
15. Three Ways From Tomorrow
16. My Bill
17. Sunday Mornin'
18. Echoes (Everybody's Talkin')
19. Suzanne
20. Stuperflabbergasted
21. Like To Get To Know You
22. Chick-A-Ding-Ding
23. Stardust
24. Coda (Like To Get To Know You)

Disc 02
1. Anything You Choose
2. And She's Mine
3. Yesterday's Rain
4. Hong Kong Blues
5. Nowhere To Go
6. Give A Damn
7. Leopard Skin Phones
8. But Back Then (spoken)
9. Mecca Flat Blues
10. Without Rhyme Or Reason
11. 1-3-5-8 (Pedagogal Round # 2)
12. Jane
13. Since You've Gone
14. Sunday Will Never Be The Same
15. Makin' Every Minute Count
16. Lazy Day
17. Commercial
18. It Ain't Necessarily Bird Avenue
19. Everybody's Talkin'
20. Sunday Mornin'
21. Like To Get To Know You
22. Give A Damn
23. Three Ways From Tomorrow
24. And She's Mine
25. Yesterday's Rain

Disc 03
1. Nagasaki
2. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
3. Waltzing Matilda
4. Brother Can You Spare A Dime
5. Steel Rail Blues
6. Oh Daddy
7. Dirty Old Man
8. The Klan
9. That's What You Get For Lovin' Me
10. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
11. Wasn't It You?
12. You Got Trouble
13. Crying
14. Chick-A-Ding-Ding
15. Give A Damn
16. Yesterday's Rain
17. Anything You Choose
18. Everybody's Talkin' (Echoes)
19. Give A Damn Public Service Announcement

Disc 04
1. And Your Bird Can Sing
2. Sealed With A Kiss
3. Sunday Will Never Be The Same
4. Distance
5. Making Every Minute Count
6. If You Could Only Be Me
7. Lazy Day
8. (It Aint Necessarily) Byrd Avenue
9. Sunday Morning
10. Echoes
11. Like To Get To Know You
12. Three Ways From Tomorrow
13. Give A Damn
14. The Swinging Gate
15. Yesterdays Rain
16. Without Rhyme Or Reason
17. Anything You Chose
18. Mecca Flat Blues
19. And Shes Mine
20. Leopard Skin Phones
21. Everybodys Talkin At Me
22. (It Aint Necessarily) Byrd Avenue