Feelin' Groovy is the debut album by the American sunshine pop band Harper's Bizarre, released in 1967.

Feelin' Groovy Review by Matthew Greenwald

...Enter producer Lenny Waronker and session musician/arranger/songwriter/general musical architect Van Dyke Parks. The two of them brought then-drummer Ted Templeman up to the front as co-lead vocalist, along with Dick Scoppettone, and created a soft rock identity for the group, renaming them Harpers Bizarre...songs by Van Dyke Parks ("Come to the Sunshine"), Randy Newman ("Debutante's Ball"), and others. An excellent and definitive slice of California soft pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPhxPvCVx8&list=OLAK5uy_mNIbemcxGpkoXEreKBtQXih6OHfpFQmhg

#HarpersBizarre #VanDykeParks #WreckingCrew #LeonRussell #Music #SunshinePop #60spop #RandyNewman

Straight Up

Tag-team produced by Todd Rundgren and George Harrison -- Badfinger release Straight Up on December 13, 1971. The Quiet One does some guitar work, too. Leon Russell helps out on piano and guitar and Gary Wright and Al Kooper appear, too. The album is generally regarded as a cornerstone of the power-pop genre. Listen to Straight Up by Badfinger on Amazon Music ... #Badfinger #straightup #70srock #70smusic #powerpop #georgeharrison #toddrundgren #leonrussell…

http://robinbannks.com/2025/12/13/straight-up/

Down in L.A. is the debut album released in 1968 by Brewer & Shipley.

Upon its reissue in 2012, Luke Torn wrote in Uncut, that the album " was instantly forgotten upon release, but ... the duo's dazzling vocal arrangements - intricate, soulful, brotherly - coincide with a pristine studio effort to startling effect". He praised the pairs "hypnotic songwriting that burns through". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkDq1-_rQas&list=PL13EE61D91AF6EFEB

#BrewerandShipley #FolkRock #TheWreckingCrew #Music #LeonRussell

Willie Nelson & Leon Russell, One for the Road, 1979 on Columbia

The first in a series of duet albums from Willie Nelson, released in 1979. Nelson went on to release duet albums with Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Webb Pierce, and Roger Miller all in the early 80s. (There were also many more later of course).

Double LP from two of my musical heroes – joined by Bonnie Raitt on “Trouble in Mind.” Some find it all a bit schmalzy but I really enjoy it. (Of course Willie famously recorded “Song For You” back on 1973’s Shotgun Willie).

My copy—via the Worcester Record Riot—is a Pitman pressing on “Columbia all round” red labels.

#1970s #1979 #bonnieRaitt #duet #leonRussell #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #willieNelson #worcesterMa #worcesterRecordRiot