Flamingo (Flamin' Groovies album)

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Flamingo
Studio album by
The Flamin' Groovies
ReleasedJuly 1970
RecordedMarch 1970
StudioPacific High (San Francisco)
Length38:02
LabelKama Sutra[1]
ProducerRichard Robinson[2]
The Flamin' Groovies chronology
Supersnazz
(1969) 		Flamingo
(1970) 		Teenage Head
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Flamingo is the second studio album by the rock band the Flamin' Groovies.[5] It was released in 1970.[6] Following the group's departure from the Epic record label, it was the first of their two albums for Kama Sutra Records.

Flamingo was produced by Richard Robinson at Pacific High Recording in San Francisco. It was recorded on an unusual 12-track machine built by Scully Recording Instruments. It used the same one inch tape as professional 8-track studio recorders but with a slightly narrower track width. Guitarist Cyril Jordan later blamed the "squelched" sound of the album on the 12-track recorder.[7][8] The 12-track system was used by other artists, such as Tom Scholz of Boston, who raved about the sound quality.[9] However, 12-track was soon overtaken by the two inch 16-track format and the Flamin' Groovies used this for their next album.

Critical reception[edit]

The A.V. Club wrote that Flamingo "is passionate, stripped-down revival music as it should be: It's riveting through and through, and brimming with a conviction contrary to the indulgences that marked San Francisco's music scene at the time."[6]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney except where noted.

Side 1

  1. "Gonna Rock Tonight" (Loney)
  2. "Comin' After Me"
  3. "Headin' for the Texas Border"
  4. "Sweet Roll Me on Down"
  5. "Keep a Knockin'" (Richard Penniman)

Side 2

  1. "Second Cousin" (Loney)
  2. "Childhood's End" (Loney)
  3. "Jailbait"
  4. "She's Falling Apart" (Loney)
  5. "Road House"

1995 Big Beat CD bonus tracks

  1. "Walking the Dog" (Rufus Thomas)
  2. "Somethin' Else" (Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley)
  3. "My Girl Josephine" (Dave Bartholemew, Fats Domino)
  4. "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)
  5. "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" (Huey "Piano" Smith, John Vincent)
  6. "Going Out Theme"

1999 Buddha CD bonus tracks

  1. "My Girl Josephine"
  2. "Around and Around"
  3. "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"
  4. "Somethin' Else"
  5. "Rumble"
  6. "Going Out Theme"

Personnel[edit]

Flamin' Groovies

References[edit]

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "The Flamin' Groovies: Flamingo [US Bonus Tracks] - Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 301.
  5. ^ "Flamin Groovies". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Flamin' Groovies: Flamingo". Music. 29 March 2002.
  7. ^ Gross, Jason (February 2014). "Flamin' Groovies: Cyril A. Jordan Interview". Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  8. ^ Cyril Jordan, liner notes for Slow Death (2002). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  9. ^ Podolinsky, Gil (July 1979). "Interview with: Tom Scholz" (PDF). Modern Recording. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
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