Neighb'rhood Childr'n - Yesterday's Thoughts (1969)

The Neighb'rhood Childr'n were an American psychedelic pop/rock band from San Francisco, California., who started in 1963 in Phoenix, Oregon as The Navarros, playing surf music and R&B. The original members were Rick Bolz, George Gleim, Dyan Hoffman, John Morrison, and Gary Campbell, and after cutting a single on a local Oregon label, the band began recording in San Francisco and got caught up in the psychedelic rock movement. Morrison was drafted and replaced by Tom Ryan on drums, and later Campbell and Gleim joined the reserve, and Ryan also decided to quit the band. These three were replaced by Ron Raschdorf on guitar and W. A. Farrens on drums, and this is the line-up that recorded their self-titled album on the Acta label as Neighb'rhood Childr'n, which was released in 1968. They toured constantly in support of the album, opening for The Who, The Grass Roots, Deep Purple, and The Beau Brummels and going on a short tour with The Turtles, but after encountering problems on tour, the band developed a religious focus and changed their name to White Horse. A second album that was recorded for Dot Records was not released because of the closure of the company, and as the couldn't find another label to release their second album, the group disbanded in 1970. Their sound was compared to that of Jefferson Airplane, especially because of the vocal interplay between Dyan Hoffman and Rick Bolz, and their Atco album is well worth seeking out by fans of the genre. The songs they recorded for their second album have turned up on compilations, mixed in with tracks from the Atco release, along with others recorded before the album came out, and so this album extracts just those unreleased recordings, and adds in their very first, non-album single from 1968, as well as a rare promo single from 1969, to make up a great album of late 60's psychedelia from an unjustly over-looked band. 

Track listing

01 That's What's Happening (previously unreleased 1967)
02 Sunday Afternoon (previously unreleased 1968)
03 Can't Buy Me Love (previously unreleased 1968)
04 I Want Action (single 1968)
05 Little Black Egg (previously unreleased 1967)
06 Tomorrow's Gone (previously unreleased 1967)
07 Louie Louie (previously unreleased 1967)
08 I Need Love (previously unreleased 1967)
09 Yesterday's Thoughts (previously unreleased 1967)
10 On Our Way (promo single 1969)
11 Woman Think (b-side of 'On Our Way')
12 Behold The Lillies (b-side of 'I Want Action')
13 Feeling Zero (alternate take 1967)
14 Long Years In Space (alternate take 1967)