Mercury Records Collection: SR-61161: Like To Get To Know You

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SR-61161: Like To Get To Know You / Spanky And Our Gang

Label Type :	red Mercury custom
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR-61161-A2-SIDE 1 R-I MR
	SIDE-B	SR-61161-B1-SIDE 2 RII MR

Comments

custom red label.

original gatefold cover, with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

Their nice album ever, including the great tune "Like To Get To Know You".

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

For me (and many other "Spanky" fans), it is sure enough to have this album, only because a famous psychedelic-flavoured colourful single "Like To Get To Know You" is on the record. The song is such awesome psyche-popper (of course, this song is much better in "single version" arrangement). Another smash hit "Sunday Mornin'" is also great.

Other songs are nice, some of them are jazzy, others are "good-old-days" like harmonic tunes, even pretty but funny songs.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	The Swingin' Gate (G. Myers - J. Farrell)	2:14
A-2	Prescription For The Blues (R. Saunders - Little Brother Montgomery)	3:07
A-3	Three Ways From Tomorrow (L. Baker)	3:25
A-4	My Bill (D. Greenburg - M. Ghertler - B. Dorough)	2:27
A-5	Sunday Mornin' (M. Guryan)	3:54
SIDE-B
B-1	Echoes (Everybody's Talkin') (F. Neil)	3:10
B-2	Suzanne (L. Cohen)	3:47
B-3	Stuperflabbergasted (F. Summers - R. Bruce - C. Bernal)	1:10
B-4	Like To Get To Know You (S. Scharf)	2:15
B-5	Chick-A-Ding-Ding (S. Schart)	2:23
B-6	Stardust (M. Parish - H. Carmichael)	3:32
B-7	Coda (Like To Get To Know You)	0:59

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Spanky And Our Gang:
Spanky (Elaine) McFarlane (vo) with Malcom Hale (lead-g, vo), Nigel Pickering (g, vo), John Seiter (ds, vo), Kenny Hodges (b, g, vo), Lefty Banker (g, banjo, vo).

At New York:
with Artie Schroeck (org, p), Donald MacDonald (ds), Richard Davis (b), Bill LaVorgna (ds), Chet Amsterdam (b), Walter Raim (12-string g).

At Chicago:
with Little Brother Montgomery and the Blues Band,

At Los Angeles:
Hal Blaine (ds), Larry Knechtel (b), Mike Deasy (g), Red Rhodes (steel g), Lee Katzman (tp).