Feelin Groovy [Extra tracks]

Harpers Bizarre | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1967
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B00005QZ76
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,274 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come To The Sunshine

2. Happy Talk

3. Come Love

4. Raspberry Rug

5. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

6. The Debutante's Ball

7. Happyland

8. Peter And The Wolf

9. I Can Hear The Darkness

10. Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear

11. Bye, Bye, Bye

12. Lost My Love Today

Editorial Reviews

With heavenly harmonies and an upbeat sound, California soft-rock gurus Harpers Bizarre launched their career with Paul Simon's '59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)', a 1967 chart smash. Using almost every big gun in Los Angeles' studio arsenal (Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Jack Nitzsche, and Lowell George), Harpers Bizarre then proceeded to weave these four tapestries-now with 2 bonus tracks per CD, on Sundazed Music!

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good music, poor remastering job, August 19, 2011

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Tascam48 "Tascam" (Nashville, Tn) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feelin Groovy (Audio CD)

I really enjoy the music, but the sound quality stinks from an audiophile perspective. I have the original LP which blows this away. I find the sound edgy and grainy in the vocals; just a lousy digital transfer. This is fine to listen to in a car or a boom box. I can't listen to this CD on a high performance system. Enjoyable music. Mediocre sound. UGHHHHHHHHH

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars feelin' groovy indeed, May 8, 2010

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G. Bereschik (north of San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feelin Groovy (Audio CD)

Harper's Bizarre is one of my favorite 60s groups. And this is a great selection.
You know Simon and Garfunkle's version of "Feeling Groovy," but give a listen to the harmonies of their version.
"Peter and the Wolf" is a great pop version of Prokofiev.
Very mellow, very nice.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Debut Of Classic Sunshine Pop/Rock Group, December 24, 2008

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Boomertunes (Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feelin Groovy (Audio CD)

If any group and song was the prototype for sunshine pop, it would be Harpers Bizarre and their hit version of "Feelin' Groovy". Their high range choir boy harmonies, positive themed material, and sophisticated arrangements were all part of the genre's model.
Along with Spanky and Our Gang, The Association, The Sunshine Company, The Free Design, The Cowsills, and the Fifth Dimension, Harpers Bizarre produced music that poured out of AM radios in the 1960's.
"Feelin' Groovy featuring 59th St. Bridge Song" was the first LP release for the group in 1967 and the first release in the Sundazed CD reissue series of the group. The complete ten song track list is intact and includes two bonus cuts.
The production pattern ,set on this release, was as follows: regardless of the song style, each song is gussied up in the Harpers Bizarre sound of Ted Templeman and Dick Scoppettone's voices singing soft and high; lush background harmonies weaving in and out of orchestration with strings, flutes, oboes, horns; and John Petersen drumming with brushes to tie it all together.
The title song reached #13 on the charts in 1967 and its soaring Van Dyke Parks composed follow up "Come to The Sunshine" reached #37 that same year.
The LP contained a catchy version of "Happy Talk" from the musical "South Pacific"; a couple of smooth pop nuggets ("Come Love"and "Raspberry Rug"); and three Randy Newman tunes("Simon Smith and The Amazing Dancing Bear", "Happyland", and "The Debutante's Ball").
Bonus tracks include two original songs recorded when the group was known as The Tikis-"Bye Bye Bye" and "Lost My Love Today". The vocals are similar, but the accompaniment is pure British Invasion garage guitar and drums.