The Wind in the Willows (band)

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The Wind in the Willows was an American psych folk band, best known for being the first band of Blondie co-founder, Debbie Harry. [1] [2] The group took its name from British writer Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows , a classic of children's literature. [3]

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The band's only album, the self-titled The Wind in the Willows (1968, Capitol Records LP2956), [4] grazed the Billboard Top 200 album chart at #195. The band broke up the following year, after failing to achieve commercial or critical success. Artie Kornfeld, the album's producer, went on to be the music producer of the Woodstock festival in August 1969. [5] [6] Debbie Harry went on to join The Stillettoes in 1973 [7] and other bands until subsequently achieving success fronting the new wave band Blondie, which she co-founded in 1974 with guitarist Chris Stein.

Wind in the Willows recorded a second album in 1969, which remains unreleased. The tapes are with band member Paul Klein’s second wife Alice Anne. According to Cathay Che's biography of Harry, the tracks have never surfaced, but Harry was said to have contributed more vocals than on the first album, as well as writing lyrics for a song titled "Buried Treasure". [8] Another song originally slated for the second album, "A Quite Respectable Older Lady", was released by its writer, band member Wayne Kirby, in 2022. [9]

The Wind In The Willows

Vinyl

During 1968 the album was released by Capitol Records, appearing in the U.S. as a stereo vinyl LP with a "Unipak" gatefold sleeve as catalog no. SKAO-2956 (and on 8-track tape as 8XT-2956). [10] The vinyl LP was also released in mono in the UK and Brazil only, along with stereo versions in those countries and in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, South Africa, and the Netherlands. [11]

Compact disc

A mono version of the album on compact disc was issued in 1993 in the UK by Drop Out Records. [12] The album was digitally remastered and released on compact disc in the UK by Edsel Records on 8 March 2000. [13] On 6 March 2007 the original (unremastered) album was reissued on compact disc [14] [15] by Fallout Records in the UK.

Track listing

Side One
  1. "Moments Spent" (Paul Klein, Stephen De Phillips) 2:56
  2. "Uptown Girl" (Paul Klein, Art Petzal) 2:55
  3. "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" (Don Everly) 3:12
  4. "My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died" (Roger Miller) 2:15
  5. "There Is But One Truth, Daddy (Reading from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows)" (music by Paul Klein) 8:18
Side Two
  1. "The Friendly Lion" (Paul Klein, Wayne Kirby) 3:18
  2. "Park Avenue Blues" (Paul Klein, Stephen De Phillips) 3:45
  3. "Djini Judy" (Paul Klein, Wayne Kirby) 2:40
  4. "Little People" (Paul Klein, Wayne Kirby) 4:04
  5. "She's Fantastic and She's Yours" (Paul Klein, Peter Brittain, Fred Ruvola) 3:43
  6. "Wheel of Changes" (Paul Klein, Peter Brittain) 4:30

Singles

Two singles were released:

Worldwide discography:

Musicians

Assisting breezes:

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Telegraph – Glastonbury 2014: Hip, hip Harry.
  2. ↑ Discogs – Wind In The Willows, The (images).
  3. ↑ Last.fm – the Wind in the Willows.
  4. ↑ The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum – Blondie.
  5. ↑ "Jewish Music businessmen". Jewish Biography. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  6. ↑ Barbara Maranzani (2013). "Remembering Richie Havens: Ten Things You May Not Know About Woodstock — History in the Headlines". history.com. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  7. ↑ archive.blondie.net: Blondie Gig List.
  8. ↑ Che, Cathay (1999). Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde. André Deutsch Ltd.
  9. ↑ YouTube.com: Wayne Kirby and Debbie "Blondie" Harry - "A Quite Respectable Older Lady".
  10. ↑ Discogs – The Wind in the Willows – 1968 vinyl-LP, Capitol Records (SKAO 2956) US
  11. ↑ Discogs – The Wind in the Willows – (master).
  12. ↑ Discogs – The Wind in the Willows – 1993 mono CD, Drop Out Records (DOCD 1985) UK.
  13. ↑ allmusic – The Wind in the Willows – 2000-03-08th remastered CD, Edsel Records {EDCD 642} UK.
  14. ↑ allmusic – The Wind in the Willows – 2007-03-06th – The Wind in the Willows – 2007 reissued CD, Fallout (FOCD2035) UK.
  15. ↑ Discogs – The Wind in the Willows – 2007 reissued CD, Fallout (FOCD2035) UK.
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