1967: Vacations In The Past

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2024-09-13

Label: Tiny Ghost Records

Yellow vinyl. Available from the Tiny Ghost Records web store. 500 copies pressed.

"1967: Vacations in the Past" is a collection of covers from 1967 (with one original song by Robyn) recorded to accompany his memoir, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left."

Here's a note from RH about the album:

For me, 1967 was the portal between childhood and the adult world, where these songs flickered in the air to greet me like hummingbirds. They're full of saturated colour and melancholy, just as I was charged with hormones and regret as one part of me said goodbye to the other. Perhaps I peaked then - at the supernova of boyhood
- the black hole of the grownup world awaited me with its dwarf
-star mentality, all beige and hell and compromise.

Forever after, I've wandered beneath the dayglo Waterloo Sunset and burned the MidnightLamp, yearning for that time. A Whiter Shade of Pale, she's the wan ghost that haunts me in summer twilight, all the way down to the river where the spectre of Emily plays, Ophelia-like, with strands of green waterweed. Look - they're full of dead minnows! See, now she's draping wet strips of it over her hair!

By coincidence, the world was changing as fast as I was, and music embodied that change. The world grew hair, became infused with new desires and crawled out of its grey nest to test its fresh, multicoloured plumage. We all crash eventually, but at least some of us take off first: if we are left only with sullen cravings and a sense of loss, well, so be it. 1967 is a phantom heart that glows inside me, lighting me up like a lamp on a good day. "So long, Mum! Thank you, Dad! I'm off to infinity! Please leave my dinner in the oven."
Love on ya, Robyn Hitchcock

Side A

A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

(Gary Brooker, Keith Reid & Matthew Fisher)
Essex Music Inc.

Robyn Hitchcock -lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - guitar
Charlie Francis - keyboard

ITCHYCOO PARK
(Steve Marriott & Ronnie Lane)

Universal Music Corp, EMI Music Publishing and Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc.

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kimberley Rew - guitar & backing vocals
Lee Cave-Berry - backing vocals
Charlie Francis - keyboard

BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP
(Jimi Hendrix)
Experience Hendrix LLC

Robyn Hitchcock- lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kimberley Rew - guitar

I CAN HEAR THE GRASS GROW
(Roy Wood)
Essex Music Inc.

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kimberley Rew - guitar & backing vocals
Lee Cave-Berry - backing vocals
Kelley Stoltz - sitar, percussion & backing vocals

SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR)
(John Phillips)
Universal Music Corp.

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kelley Stoltz - sitar
Charlie Francis - keyboard, reverse piano

WATERLOO SUNSET
(Ray Davies)
Abkco Music Inc. and Unichappell Music, Inc.

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kimberley Rew - guitar & backing vocals
Lee Cave-Berry - backing vocals

Side B

SEE EMILY PLAY 2:51
(Syd Barrett)
Essex Music Inc.

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kimberley Rew - slide guitar

MY WHITE BICYCLE
(Keith West & Ken Burgess)
Unichappell Music, Inc. o/b/o Gunnell Music, Ltd

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - guitar, reverse guitar & backing vocals
Charlie Francis - reverse piano

NO FACE, NO NAME, NO NUMBER
(Steve Winwood & Jim Capaldi)
Kobalt Music Publishing and Universal Songs of Polygram International Inc. Tiny Ghost and BMG

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Charlie Francis - keyboard

WAY BACK IN THE 1960s
(Robin Williamson)
Warner - Tamerlane Pub Corp.

Robyn Hitchcock - lead & backing vocals, acoustic & electric guitars

VACATIONS IN THE PAST
(Robyn Hitchcock)
Tiny Ghost and BMG

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - guitar, backing vocals, keyboard & bongos
Charlie Francis - piano
Kelley Stoltz - sitar

A DAY IN THE LIFE 5:18
(John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
Sony/ATV Tunes LLC dba ATV o/b/o ATV (Northern Songs Catalog)

Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - piano & backing vocals
Charlie Francis - keyboard, sound effects
Kelley Stoltz - sitar

Mixed & mastered by Charlie Francis at Stwdio Penty
Produced by Robyn Hitchcock & Charlie Francis
Front cover design: Nico Taylor & Robyn Hitchcock
Artwork and layout: Jeremy Fetzer
Special thanks to Team Tiny Ghost: Emma Swift, Gina Bacon & Geoffrey Weiss
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