Innocence and Despair

Back in 1976-1977 a group of middle school kids recorded themselves singing some of the hits of the day and their favorite songs. Over the years they had their copies and lost their copies and threw away their copies ... and one made its way into the hands of a producer who turned it into the recording below ... a recording true to the original as it is the original - no dubbing or polishing, just the music raw and unvarnished as the kids played the music and sang them those many years ago.

It is a must have for any record collection!

"The backing arrangement is astounding. Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in.me." --David.Bowie (on the Langley students' rendition of "Space.Oddity")

TRACK LISTING
(& original recording artists):

01) Venus and Mars/Rock Show
---- (Paul McCartney &.Wings)
---- >>listen to clip
02) Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
---- >>listen to clip
03) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
04) Space Oddity (David Bowie)
---- >>listen to clip
05) The Long and Winding Road
---- (The Beatles)
06) Band On The Run
---- (Paul McCartney & Wings)
07) I'm Into Something Good
---- (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits)
08) In My Room (The Beach Boys)
---- >>listen to clip
09) Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
10) I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
11) Mandy (Barry Manilow)
12) Help Me, Rhonda
---- (The Beach Boys)
13) Desperado (The Eagles)
---- >>listen to clip
14) You're So Good To Me
---- (The Beach Boys)
---- >>listen to clip
15) Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
16) To Know Him Is To Love Him
---- (Teddy Bears)
17) Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
18) You're Sixteen *
---- (Johnny Burnette/Ringo Starr)
19) Little Deuce Coupe *
---- (The Beach Boys)
20) Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy)
21) Calling Occupants of
---- Interplanetary Craft
---- (The Recognized Anthem
---- of World Contact.Day)
---- (Klaatu/The Carpenters)

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