The Palm Beach Band Boys – Winchester Cathedral (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 21:20 minutes | 827 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
The Palm Beach Band Boys was studio recording group ostensibly assembled by RCA Victor to capitalize on the success of The New Vaudeville Band’s hit single, “Winchester Cathedral”. They performed in a style for which the New Vaudeville Band’s promoters coined the term, newstalgia, a kind of faux 1920s/1930s sound, featuring nasal vocals, banjo, brass, electric guitar, rock drums, and bassoon. (Mort Goode uses the term in his liner notes for their first album.) According to a December 1966 TIME article, the vocalist is actually “an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose.”
Tracklist:
01. The Palm Beach Band Boys – Winchester Cathedral (02:25)
02. The Palm Beach Band Boys – A Little bit Independent (01:51)
03. The Palm Beach Band Boys – Boo-Hoo (01:56)
04. The Palm Beach Band Boys – Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (02:13)
05. The Palm Beach Band Boys – I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (01:49)
06. The Palm Beach Band Boys – Bend It (02:21)
07. The Palm Beach Band Boys – It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane (02:00)
08. The Palm Beach Band Boys – I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (02:13)
09. The Palm Beach Band Boys – Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider (02:20)
10. The Palm Beach Band Boys – Gypsy Caravan (02:09)
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