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The most inexplicable aspect of Rotary Connection's debut is that its strange and experimental qualities are often referred to as charming but dated, while Love's Forever Changes (released the same year), a record that is just a shade less bizarre and no more psychedelic, is universally viewed as timeless. There's no mistaking that this is hardly a flawless record -- this band, more an experiment than anything else, was only beginning to find its feet. For every cover that radically reshapes the original and either stuns ears or elicits screams of blasphemy ("Like a Rolling Stone"), there's one that falls completely flat in its blandness ("Soul Man"). And for every original that is rife with otherworldly melodies and luscious combinations of countless musical styles ("Memory Band"), there's something like the ghostly "what you've just heard" audio collage/megamix that closes out the album ("Rotary Connection"). The consensus seems to be that this is the only essential record this group released, and that they were such an oddball entity that this is all one can take of them. That's just plain silly, evident from any number of the sparkling moments found on the LPs that followed. Minnie Riperton had yet to take the spotlight she deserved in this group -- so in a sense, this could be seen as the least-representative Rotary Connection record, as fascinating as it is. Some strange force carried it to the Top 40 of the album chart, not that it was undeserving.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Charles Stepney, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Paul, ComposerLyricist - Sidney Barnes, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Bobby Simms, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Chess, Producer - Mitch Aliotta, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Judy Hauff, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Vincent Donlinger, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charles Stepney, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Paul, ComposerLyricist - Sidney Barnes, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Bobby Simms, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Chess, Producer - Mitch Aliotta, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Judy Hauff, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Vincent Donlinger, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sidney Barnes, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - GREGORY S. PERRY, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Charles Stepney, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Paul, ComposerLyricist - Sidney Barnes, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Bobby Simms, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Chess, Producer - Mitch Aliotta, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Judy Hauff, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Vincent Donlinger, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charles Stepney, Producer - KEITH RICHARDS, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Marshall Chess, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - David Porter, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Charles Stepney, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Paul, ComposerLyricist - Sidney Barnes, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Bobby Simms, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Chess, Producer - Mitch Aliotta, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Judy Hauff, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Vincent Donlinger, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charles Stepney, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Sidney Barnes, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - John Sebastian, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Bobby Simms, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Chess, Producer - Mitch Aliotta, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Judy Hauff, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Vincent Donlinger, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charles Stepney, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Paul, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Charles Stepney, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Richard Rudolph, ComposerLyricist - Sidney Barnes, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rotary Connection, MainArtist - Bobby Simms, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Chess, Producer - Mitch Aliotta, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Judy Hauff, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Vincent Donlinger, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
KEITH RICHARDS, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Charles Stepney, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Paul, ComposerLyricist - Rotary Connection, MainArtist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Album review
The most inexplicable aspect of Rotary Connection's debut is that its strange and experimental qualities are often referred to as charming but dated, while Love's Forever Changes (released the same year), a record that is just a shade less bizarre and no more psychedelic, is universally viewed as timeless. There's no mistaking that this is hardly a flawless record -- this band, more an experiment than anything else, was only beginning to find its feet. For every cover that radically reshapes the original and either stuns ears or elicits screams of blasphemy ("Like a Rolling Stone"), there's one that falls completely flat in its blandness ("Soul Man"). And for every original that is rife with otherworldly melodies and luscious combinations of countless musical styles ("Memory Band"), there's something like the ghostly "what you've just heard" audio collage/megamix that closes out the album ("Rotary Connection"). The consensus seems to be that this is the only essential record this group released, and that they were such an oddball entity that this is all one can take of them. That's just plain silly, evident from any number of the sparkling moments found on the LPs that followed. Minnie Riperton had yet to take the spotlight she deserved in this group -- so in a sense, this could be seen as the least-representative Rotary Connection record, as fascinating as it is. Some strange force carried it to the Top 40 of the album chart, not that it was undeserving.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:36:16
- Main artists: Rotary Connection
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 1968 Geffen Records ℗ 1968 Geffen Records
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