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Tenderness Junction [Vinyl]

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It was a night in 1967 and I was driving from Melbourne to Coral Gables, when the DJ introduced a song (The Garden Is Open), saying it was virtually the only cut on the album that he could play over the airwaves. I loved the song, which was not really clean, but the sexual references were not too overt. Spotting a mall, I pulled over and bought the album (I still have the vinyl) and played it for my wife as soon as I got home.

The most memorable songs, besides "The Garden", are "Knock, Knock" and "Wet Dream". "Wet Dream" is a spoof on the Platters style and is a fantasy about the "Queen of the Prom" sitting on the throne (and "sitting on my face"). There is a little gem of a Hare Krishna sung by Alan Ginsberg, with a nude picture of the poet by Richard Avedon, who did all the cover art.

To be fair, the B side is a bit tedious with a hymn to Aphrodite and the exorcising of demons from the Pentagon, but remember, it was 1967. Side A is worth the cost of the album.