Turquoise was a British pop-psych group who only officially released two singles in their short existence as a band, but the four songs on those two releases became beloved by collectorsu of the genre. The group were initially called The Brood, and was formed in North London's Muswell Hill area in 1966 by Jeff Peters, Ewan Stephens, and Vic Jansen, with fourth member Barry Hart joining later. They were all friends and neighbours of the Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies, and Dave actually produced a batch of demos for The Brood in 1966, with a second batch being produced by the Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle a year later in 1967. Eventually The Brood was signed to Decca Records, and after a name change to Turquoise, released two double-sided singles, '53 Summer Street'/'Tales Of Flossie Fillett' and 'Woodstock'/'Saynia', but neither release really took off, and the band called it quits in 1969. Peters and Hart went on to form Slowbone, releasing an album, 'Tales Of A Crooked Man', in 1974, but those two singles refused to fade away, and collectors of 1960's British psyche/pop re-discovered them, and Turquoise became a sort of long-lost cult band. They had recorded other tracks while laying down those other four songs, and so there is enough material out there to imagine what an album from the band could have sounded like if the record-buying public who love the singles so much now had been around in 1968 to buy them.
Track listing
01 Tales Of Flossie Fillett
02 53 Summer Street
03 Sunday Best
04 Stand Up And Be Judged
05 The Sea Shines
06 Sister Saxophone
07 Flying Machine
08 Village Green
09 Woodstock
10 Saynia
11 What's Your Name
12 Mindless Child Of Motherhood
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