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Neon

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There are some excellent cuts on this album as well as a few clunkers. During that time of the 60's many a band tried some sort of novelty and the Cyrkle was no exception. Problem Child and Weight of Your Words come to mind.
However there was some beauty. Michael Losekamp singing The Visit (She Was Here) is a great track. Maybe it should have been a release. I Wish You Could Be Here, In my opinion just never received the air time it should have. It is a beautiful song and Don Dannemans voice made a good song better.
Terry's Theme and Camaro give the album some good balance.
Don't Cry No Fears, No Tears Coming Your Way, might have been a top twenty song had it been released.
All in all it is a good album and a die hard Cyrkle fan would want this for their collection.

The Cyrkle had some great songs, but none better than the very short "Two Rooms." This song has terrific lyrics, an interesting musical arrangement and a great tune, with a unique tone colour.

The album, Red Rubber Ball had several good songs, especially the title track and [on the Best Hits album of that name] We Had a Good Thing Goin'. This Neil Sedaka-Howard Greenfield composition was originally a single with Two Rooms on the reverse side.

What memories, what memories!

How you feel about Cyrkle depends what you are expecting. The band recorded Paul Simon's "Red Rubber Ball" in 1966. A delicious pop tune, perhaps too chipper for Simon and Garfunkel, but a perfect slice of melodic AM pop.

Neon does not contain this track. Nor does it have a track as brilliant. Most of this is jangly pop, or ballads played by the band with little orchestration. Nothing here is bad, but has the bite of "Red Rubber Ball." The bonus tracks are actually better than the proper album ones, featuring some pop soul and a beautiful instrumental boss nova.

As an album, you may find pieces of Neon a little nondescript, but if you are curious, you may find it enjoyable.

Nearly anyone who cares can make do with the basic Cyrkle collection or a handful of downloads. But in retrospect this must have been one of the more enjoyable pure pop LPs of 1967, nicely programmed (except for the awful "Problem Child"), & expectations were quite high given the band's connection with The Beatles & two earlier hits. But Neon skewed a little more offbeat than maybe the group had intended - a lot of pop groups had confused directions around that time, felt a need for "hip" production touches. Other fine vocal groups were also casualities of the era because their hair wasn't long enough & they didn't jam at the Fillmores. Now we can admire the deft use of electric sitars, lovely string arrangements, & the imaginative, tight vocal harmonies.