ULTIMATE SPINACH
"PLASTIC RAINCOATS / HUNG UP MINDS"
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PLASTIC RAINCOATS/HUNG UP MINDS
Ultimate Spinach - Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBA80uS8b4g

"Plastic Raincoats" is a fun song. The Ultimate Spinach, a prime example of The Boston Sound, was a better group than I remembered. If any band members ever stop by, I will apologize.

The Boston Sound, which came to be called Bosstown, was a major label promotion (MGM Records). It fizzled and Bosstown became a joke; but this was not entirely deserved. Some very good music came out of the Boston Sound and the better tracks recorded then hold up very well to this day.

At the time, I was of the view, which would seem to put me in the minority now, that the Jeff "Skunk" Baxter lineup of the Ultimate Spinach was the best.

Hooray for the all-around great John Cooke, Earth Opera, David Grisman, The Ramrods (renamed "Puff"), Peter Rowan, Teddy and the Pandas, the Ultimate Spinach, John Lincoln Wright, and a whole host of others. New England hippies had a wicked good time.

One of the Bosstown-era singers, who came out of Boston, went on, in the 1970s, to become the biggest dance music star in the world: - Donna Summer. I am a big fan. Donna Summer's late '60s Boston band, The Crow, played innovative psych/pop arrangements at the Psychedelic Supermarket.

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Music Museum of New England (MMone) Ultimate Spinach article

https://www.mmone.org/ultimate-spinach-2/

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Music Museum of New England (MMone) article about The Boston Sound (Bosstown)

https://www.mmone.org/the-boston-sound/

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RAMRODS
"(GHOST) RIDERS IN THE SKY"

Ramrods - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
from The Backbeat Of Rock And Roll by Famous Flames

https://famousflames.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-riders-in-the-sky

The earliest hits of "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" were by Vaughn Monroe and Burl Ives; but this version by the Ramrods may be the earliest hit version remembered by people who are still living. I am an old guy and I was age 1 when the Burl Ives record hit in 1949. Most people today seem to associate this song with Johnny Cash but his record did not chart until 1979. So, for most of us, the Ramrods are the Riders in the Sky granddaddies. Their single charted on February 20, 1961. Strange to say, this classic only reached No. 30 and it fell off the Billboard pop Top 40 after a single week. Nonetheless it seems to have cast a very long shadow. The song was a country hit for Roy Clark in 1973.

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