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Kaleidoscope (originally the Kaleidoscope) was an American psychedelic folk group who recorded four albums and several singles for Epic Records between 1966 and 1970. The band membership included David Lindley, who later released numerous solo albums and won additional renown as a multi-instrumentalist session musician, and Chris Darrow who later performed and recorded with a number of groups ...
The band's fourth album, White Faced Lady, which they financed independently, was recorded in Morgan Studios in London. [ 13 ] [ 15 ] Attempts at finding a record company failed and the album was shelved until 1991 when it was released under the name Kaleidoscope on an independent label.
After forming in 1966, the group known then as The Kaleidoscope won a recording contract with Epic Records. Their first single "Please", backed by the non-album track "Elevator Man", was released in December 1966. The album Side Trips was released in May, followed in August by the album cut "Why Try" backed by non-album track "Little Orphan ...
The album was released again in 2017 on 180-gram "tangerine" orange vinyl to commemorate the album's 50th Anniversary. This pressing was a limited run of 1,000 copies hand-marked by the band and included a digital download code, along with a bonus 45rpm single featuring the earliest recordings of "Kaleidoscope" and "A Dream for Julie"
A Beacon from Mars is Kaleidoscope's second album. It was published in November 1967 by Epic Records along with the single "I Found Out" b/w "Rampè Rampè". At the time it was released it received good reviews, [1] but like Kaleidoscope's other albums, it was commercially unsuccessful.
White Faced Lady is an album by UK band Kaleidoscope (who by this time were calling themselves Fairfield Parlour).It is a concept album that tells the story of a pale-skinned girl named Angel, from her troubled youth to her sudden rise to fame as a movie star to her tragic decline and untimely death.
Christopher Lloyd Darrow (July 30, 1944 – January 15, 2020) was an American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. [1] He was considered to be a pioneer of country rock music in the late-1960s and performed and recorded with numerous groups, including Kaleidoscope and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
In 1997, Daltrey worked with Universal Records on the compilation album Dive into Yesterday (Fontana 534003-02), a collection of tracks from Kaleidoscope's two 1960s albums. The band re-emerged from obscurity with reissues of their albums, beginning in 1987; their "lost" double concept album, White Faced Lady (UFO BFTP 001), was released in 1991.