Moses K and The Prophets

Personnel incl:
KENNY McDOWELL (MOSES K)
BILLY WILLIAMSON	vcls, gtr	A

 

45:
1	I Went Out With My Baby Tonight/So Long	(Decca F 12244)	1965

 

Moses K and The Prophets evolved from a Belfast band The Madlads who took over Them's residency at Belfast's Maritime Club. The band was managed by Eddie Kennedy (who later managed Taste) and they also played The Rhythm & Blues Club and The Bastille Club in Dublin.

The Mad Lads were an excellent live band, with a tough Blues / R&B repetoire, much influenced by Them, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson. Both Billy and Kenny were members of the group and I remember Kenny telling me that they were going to make a record for Decca. I think Mervyn Solomons helped Eddie Kennedy secure the Decca deal as he was the Decca distributor for Ireland at the time. Presumably the band had to change its name to avoid problems with the Stax Records group of the same name.

Kenny McDowell was later in Them.

Compilation appearances have included: I Went Out With My Baby Tonight, and as The Mad Lads: I Can Tell, Strangers, Little Queenie and Answer Your Phone on Belfast Beat Maritime Blues (CD).

(Ted Carroll/Vernon Joynson)

Kajanus - Pickett

Personnel:
KAJANUS (GEORG JOHAN TJEGODIEV-SAKONSKI KAJANUS)	vcls	A
PHIL PICKETT	vcls	A

 

ALBUM:
1(A)	HI HO SILVER	(Signpost )	1973

 

45s:
1	Movin' On/Cold Harbour Morning	(Signpost SGP 753)	1972

 

A folk act. Kajanus' real name is shown above. He was from Norway originally and had earlier been in Collection. Pickett also played in Blues United and both were later in Sailor.

Kala

Personnel:
PETER ARNESEN	piano	A
JOHN BARHAM	cello	A
PAUL BENNETT	vcls	A
DAVE CODING	gtr, vcls	A
SID GARNER	bs, vcls	A
CAROL GRIMES	vcls	A
SHIVA SHANKAR JONES	keyb'ds, vcls	A
JOHNNIE MILES	drms, vcls	A
LES NICOL	gtr, vcls	A
PERRY SINCLAIR	gtr, vcls	A
DAVE SKINNER	piano	A
JACK STEVENSON	perc	A

 

ALBUM:
1(A)	KALA	(Bradleys BRADL 1002)	1973 SC

 

45:
1	Travelling Home/Still Got Time	(Bradleys BRAD 302)	1973

 

I haven't heard this album, but Shiva Shankar Jones and Dave Coding had previously been in Quintessence. Carol Grimes was with Delivery, Uncle Dog and also had solo recordings.

Kaleidoscope

Personnel:
PETER DALTRY	keyb'ds	A
EDDIE PUMER	gtr	A
DANNY BRIDGMAN	drms	A
STEVE CLARK	bs	A

 

ALBUMS:
1(A)	TANGERINE DREAM	(Fontana (S)TL 5448)	1967 R2
2(A)	FAINTLY BLOWING	(Fontana STL 5491)	1969 R3

NB: (1) and (2) reissued on 5 Hours Back (Tock 005) and (006) 1987 (SC) and also pirated on CD (Fingerprint CDTD 2156 and CDTD 2166 respectively) 1994 with bonus tracks. There's also a legitimate compilation CD Dive Into Yesterday (Fontana 534 003-2) 1996. (1) reissued legitimately on CD (Repertoire PMS 7074-WP) with the following bonus tracks: Flight From Ashiya (Mono single version), Holiday Maker (Mono single mix), A Dream For Julie, Please Excuse My Face (Mono single mix), Jenny Artichoke and Just How Much You Are. Also worth seeking out is White Faced Lady (UFO BFTPCD 001) 1991, a previously unreleased album recorded after the band had changed its name to Fairfield Parlour. This was issued on CD originally by Kaleidoscope Records (KRC 001) 1991, with a different cover and as a double vinyl LP. White Faced Lady also reissued in 200 as Kaleidoscope: The Fairfield Parlour Years (NMC ), a double CD package, with the 2nd disc containing From Home to Home, All A + B sides of single releases as Fairfield Parlour, the previously unreleased film theme, `Eyewitness`, the I Luv Wight single, Let The World Wash In and a new recording of Bordeaux Rose.  

45s:
1	Flight From Ashiya/Holiday Maker (Some PS)	(Fontana TF 863)	1967
2	A Dream For Julie/Please Excuse My Face	(Fontana TF 895)	1968
3	Jenny Artichoke/Just How Much You Are	(Fontana TF 964)	1968
4	Do It Again For Jeffrey/Poem	(Fontana TF 1002)	1969
5	Balloon/If You So Wish	(Fontana TF 1048)	1969

 

45s:	BBC Transcription discs:
1	Flight From Ashiya/The Murder Of Lewis Tollani	(Top Of The Pops 152)	1967
2	A Dream For Julie/Dive Into Yesterday	(Top Of The Pops 168)	1968
3	Music/Jenny Artichoke	(Top Of The Pops 203)	1968
4	Do It Again For Jeffrey/Snapdragon	(Top Of The Pops 232)	1969
5	Jump In My Boat/Balloon	(Top Of The Pops 248)	1969

 

Based in West London, this interesting psychedelic group started life in 1964 as The Side Kicks and later changed their name to The Key. Apparently, their drummer made an acetate of recordings from this era. By 1967, they had changed their name again to Kaleidoscope and signed to Fontana.

Their first 45, Flight From Ashiya, was an amalgam of pop and psychedelia, it told the story of the pilot of a crashing aeroplane. It picked up quite a lot of airplay but failed to chart. Some collectors seek out the Dutch release, which came with a different picture sleeve. After a further, equally good 45 (A Dream For Julie), sadly also flopped, the group were afforded the opportunity to record an album. The result, Tangerine Dream was a varied collection of psychedelic pop with whimsical lyrics often delivered in that breathless style that characterised the UK genre. It featured both sides of their debut 45 and the flip of their second (Please Excuse My Face). The opening track was fittingly called Kaleidoscope. Other highlights were Dive Into Yesterday, a typical slice of whimsical pop psychedelia; (Further Reflections) In The Room Of Percussion, which had some great vocals and out of tune strings; A Lesson Perhaps, with its spoken lyrics; and The Sky Children, a fairytale dream, which was very much a preview of some of the material on their second album. Tangerine Dream came in a superb psychedelic sleeve.

The band appeared on several BBC radio shows for overseas broadcast which brought them into contact with deejay David Symonds who became their manager. BBC transcription discs of this material exist but are rarely offered for sale and are obviously expensive. There's also been a bootleg EP containing versions of Flight From Ashiya, A Dream For Julie, The Murder of Lewis Tollani and Dive Into Yesterday from these sessions, and the sessions also make up the bonus material included with the Footprint CD reissues.

Their next 45, Jenny Artichoke, was distinctly less psychedelic than the previous two. Its singalong style makes it less interesting too, but the fact it was not featured on either of their albums has made it collectable.

Their second album Faintly Blowing had a slightly more 'progressive' feel and contained psychedelic gems like Music with its liberal use of phasing and electronic sound effects, and Snapdragon, along with acoustic numbers like Poems and I'll Kiss You Once. Many of the songs had a story line or moral, none more so than A Story From Tom Blitz, the fictional story of an unfortunate traveller who tries to chat up a pretty female on a train journey in the USA. The girl slips him a potent liquid which gets him drunk and he ends up in the County Jail with a sentence of six months hard labour. Whilst in jail he pals up with an old cowboy, for whom he is caught trying to steal a horse and duly receives an extended sentence!

Their last two 45s, Do It Again For Jeffrey and Balloon, were very much in the style of Jenny Artichoke and were less interesting. The 'B' sides were from the Faintly Blowing album but the fact the 'A' sides were unavailable elsewhere has made them minor collectables.

With the decade at a close and a commercial breakthrough still eluding them the group agreed a change of name to Fairfield Parlour and with it came a different musical direction and label (Vertigo), although they also recorded a one-off 45 for the Isle of Wight festival (under the name I Luv Wight).

Sadly, on 1st May 1999, Steve Clarke was killed by a car as he walked across Chelsea Bridge in London.

Compilation appearances have included:- Flight From Ashiya on Psychedalia - Rare Blooms From The English Summer Of Love (CD), and Sgt. Salt And Other Condiments; Flight From Ashiya and A Dream For Julie on Rubble Vol. 4: 49 Minute Technicolour Dream (LP) and Rubble Vol. 3 (CD); A Dream For Julie on Illusions From The Crackling Void (LP); Jenny Artichoke on the British Psychedelic Trip, Vol. 3 (LP) and the previously unreleased Nursey Nursey (later released as part of the White Faced Lady album) came on a disc (BOB 23) given away with the fanzine 'Bucketful of Brains No. 29'. Peter Daltrey also had a solo album released on Voiceprint in 1995.

Fans of this essential psychedelic band, are advised to check out Peter Daltrey's website, for the full lowdown: http://www.geocities.com/sunnysidecircus/','Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour');">http://www.madasafish.com/~chelsearecords and the official Kaleidoscope site http://www.geocities.com/sunnysidecircus/.

Amory Kane

ALBUMS:
1	MEMORIES OF TIME UNWOUND	(MCA MUP (S)348)	1968
2	JUST TO BE THERE	(CBS 63849)	1970

 

45s:
1	Reflections Of Your Face/Four Ravens	(MCA MU1036)	1968
2	You Were On My Mind/All The Best Songs And Marches	(UNI UNS 518)	1970
3	Him Or Me/Forever Waiting	(CBS 5111)	1970

 

Another interesting singer/songwriter/guitarist of the period. Kane's first album was one of the many for which John Paul Jones worked on arrangements prior to joining Led Zeppelin, and it was produced by Steve Rowland of Family Dogg. It's best described as a mixture of rock, pop psych and ballads.

On the second album the "Heads" side is a dramatic suite of four stark songs linked by jagged psychedelic noise although the album concludes more conventionally on Side Two (the "Tales" side). Ron Geesin was involved in creating the 'sounds' and Dave Pegg (later of Fairport Convention) played bass.

Kane was an associate of Peter Sarstedt and Tim Hollier; indeed, some of the songs on the second album were also recorded by Hollier.

You can also find The Inbetween Man on the CBS double compilation album Fill Your Head With Rock.

(Neil Murray)

Kansas Hook

Personnel incl:
CHRIS EVANS		A

 

45s:
1	Echo Park/Manhattan Woman	(Uni UNS 5151)	1970
2	Nervous Shakin'/Mr. Universe	(Decca F 13117)	1971

 

This band featured ex-World Of Oz member Chris Evans.

Kaplan

45s:
1	Do You Believe In Magic/I Like	(Philips BF 1636)	1968
2	I Love It/Trousers Down	(Philips BF 1699)	1968

 

A short-lived pop outfit.

Compilation appearances include: I Like on Justavibration (LP), Psychedelic Voyage Vol. 1 (LP) and Psychedelic Voyage (CD).

Katch-22

Personnel incl:
PAUL BONNER
MARTIN WAYNE

 

ALBUM:
1	IT'S SOFT ROCK AND ALLSORTS	(Saga EROS 8047)	1968

 

45s:
1	Major Catastrophe/Hold Me	(Fontana TF 768)	1966
2	Makin' Up My Mind/While We're Friends	(Fontana TF 874)	1967
3	The World's Getting Smaller/Don't Bother	(Fontana TF 930)	1968
4	100,000 Years/Pumpkin Mini	(Fontana TF 984)	1968
5	Out Of My Life/Baby Love	(Fontana TF 1005)	1969
6	Missus Jones/It's The Sunshine	(CBS 4644)	1969

 

A straight-forward four-piece pop band whose best recording is generally considered to have been Major Catastrophe. They came from the Midlands.

Compilation appearances include: Major Catastophe on Voyage Through The Sugarcube (LP & CD).

Kat

A very obscure band whose Tell The World was originally featured on a limited edition promotion album from 1970 called Transworld. The band were never heard of again and having heard Tell The World I can't say I'm surprised.

Compilation appearances include: Tell The World on Syde Tryps, Vol. 1 (LP & CD).

Kate

Personnel incl:
BARRIE EDWARDS	drms	A
HRAITON GARABALDIANNE	vcls	A
CHRIS GILBY	ld gtr	A
ROBERT GOLD	organ	A
ALFRED TURNSTALL	bs	A
VIV PRINCE	drms	A

 

45s:
1	Strange Girl/I Don't Make A Sound	(CBS 3631)	1968
2	Hold Me Now/Empty World	(CBS 3815)	1968
3	Shout It/Sweet Little Thing	(CBS 4123)	1969

 

Originally formed in London with line-up (A). They split late in 1968 after achieving little success.

They were reformed in 1969 by former Pretty Things' drummer Viv Prince. Shout It could easily have been a hit - powerful vocals, chorus girls and some good organ work, the production just let it down.

Compilation appearances include: Don't Make A Sound on Circus Days, Vol. 6 (CD); Shout It on Circus Days Vol. 3 (CD) and Circus Days, Vol. 4 (LP); Strange Girl on Fading Yellow (LP).

The Kayes

45:
1	It's No Secret/Remember Me	(Major Minor MM 515)	1967

 

A long forgotten pop band.

John (Speedy) Keen

ALBUMS:
1	PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS	(Track 2406 105)	1971
2	Y'KNOW WOT I MEAN	(Island ILPS 9338)	1975

NB: (2) reissued on CD (Edsel EDCD 462) 1995.  

45s:
1	Old Fashioned Girl/That's The Way It Is	(Track 2094 103)	1973
2	Let Us In/Keep On The Grass	(Track 2094 108)	1973
3	Someone To Love/Fighting In The Streets	(Island WIP 6230)	1975
4	Your Love/Heaven	(Island WIP 6314)	1976

NB: (1) and (2) as John Keen. (3) and (4) as Speedy Keen.  

In the sixties this guy was a songwriter and roadie for John Mayall among others. He was also the drummer in a pre-July outfit called The Tomcats for a spell. In 1969 he was in Thunderclap Newman and wrote their classic and timeless hit Something In The Air. After they split in 1970 he embarked on a solo career and his output in this capacity is highly-rated by those that know it. He also wrote The Who's Armenia City In The Sky.

Ace Kefford Stand

Personnel:
DAVE BALL	gtr	A
DENNIS BALL	bs	A
ACE KEFFORD	vcls	A
COZY POWELL	drms	A

 

45:
1	For Your Love/Gravy Booby Jamm	(Atlantic 584 260)	1969

 

Dennis Ball and Cozy Powell had earlier played in Cirencester outfit The Sorcerers who spent much time in Germany. The Sorcerers didn't make it onto vinyl and later changed their name to Youngblood, becoming Ace Kefford Stand when the former Move bassist joined their line-up in April 1968. The above 45 was their sole slab of vinyl - the 'A' side was a inferior cover of The Yardbirds hit.

After its release, Kefford seems to have drifted out of the music business, whilst the remaining members went on to Big Bertha and were later in Bedlam. Cozy Powell was with The Jeff Beck Group in the early seventies for a while, then had his own band Cozy Powell's Hammer in the mid-seventies. He was later in Rainbow. Between Big Bertha and Bedlam John Ball was in Procol Harum and briefly played for Long John Baldry as did Dennis Ball.

Compilation apearances have included:- For Your Love on Perfumed Garden Vol. 2 (CD) and Rare 60's Beat Treasures, Vol. 3 (CD); Gravy Booby Jamm on Rubble Vol. 16: Glass Orchid Aftermath (LP) and Rubble Vol. 9 (CD).