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The Electric Prunes are an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. [1] Much of the band's music was, as music historian Richie Unterberger described it, possessed of "an eerie and sometimes anguished ambiance."
The Electric Prunes, sometimes referred to as I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), is the debut album by American garage rock band The Electric Prunes, released in 1967 on Reprise Records. The album’s opening track, "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)", was a hit single and became the band's signature tune.
The Electric Prunes originally formed as the Sanctions at Taft High School in Los Angeles. They were introduced to record producer Dave Hassinger, and after a series of rehearsals at Leon Russell's house released the single "Ain't It Hard". Despite this single's commercial failure, Reprise Records agreed that the band could record a second.
Just Good Old Rock and Roll was the first Electric Prunes album almost entirely written and performed by the band members. While the record received some critical praise at the time, its sales were middling, and this would be the final Electric Prunes studio album until another lineup (with members from prior versions of the band) released Artifact decades later, in 2001.
The Electric Prunes performed the album's songs in concert twice. At the recently finished Robert Frost Auditorium in Culver City, after a well received set featuring songs from their first two albums, the band announced that the remainder of the performance would be songs from their just released album, Mass in F Minor.
Although credited to the Electric Prunes, the album is largely the work of composer and producer David Axelrod and a group of session musicians.The rights to the name "The Electric Prunes" were owned by producer David Hassinger, who was encouraged by the success of the previous album, Mass in F Minor, also written and arranged by Axelrod but issued as by the Electric Prunes, to assemble a new ...
Artifact is an album by The Electric Prunes, self-released in 2001. [3] [4] It was their first studio album since 1969. The album is said to be the "real third" album by the band since past efforts did not include material by the actual group. The sleeve notes state that it "was the album we never got to make."
The Electric Prunes Musical artist Thaddeus James Lowe (born 1943) is an American musician and record producer, best known as the lead singer of 1960s psychedelic rock band The Electric Prunes and as an audio engineer and producer with Todd Rundgren and the band Sparks .