Product Description:
The Buckinghams: Jon-Jon Poulos, Dennis Tufano, Carl Giamarese, Marty Grebb, Nicky Fortune.
Producers: Jimmy "Wiz" Wisner, James William Guerico, John Hill
Originally released on Columbia (9703). Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
Digitally remastered by Bob Irwin (Sundazed Studios, Coxsackie, New York).
The Buckinghams' 1968 swan song is easily their most adventurous album; there's only one song in what most people would consider their usual style, the failed single "Back in Love Again" (actually, it's a pretty sophisticated update of "Kind of a Drag"). Mostly, though, the music here is jazzy, horn-driven pop, precisely the sort of thing that would dominate the charts in another couple of years courtesy Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Chicago.
There are also a couple of oddball tracks that shouldn't be missed. "This is How Much I Love You" is prime pop psychedelia, with a baroque trumpet line lifted from the Beatles "Penny Lane," and a swirling fuzz guitar raga rock solo. "Our Right to Be Wrong" is a demented country breakdown which sounds for all the world like an early attempt at a deliberate low-fi esthetic. Best of all is "The Time of My Life," a metallic guitar workout (sans horns), that could be the Monkees crossed with the Who--it's far and away the hardest-rocking thing these guys ever did.
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