WICHITA FALL - Life Is But A Dream .1968. Imperial-LP-12417.US .
John Guerin, Jim Gordon, Hal Blaine - Drums
Artie Butler - Arranger, Conductor
Larry Watson - Bass
Philip Black - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
David Roush - Guitar, Vocals
Dallas Smith - Producer
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Liberty Records evidently had great hopes for this obscure late 1968 LP, seeing it as an attempt to fuse classical and rock into a concept album that told, if obscurely, \"the story of a life\" (as guitarist/singer David Roush remembers in the liner notes to the 2011 CD reissue). The label even put $50,000 into the recording budget, a high sum by 1968 standards, using the string section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and arrangements by the respected Artie Butler. Heard many years later, you have to wonder what Liberty was thinking. For this album (a commercial flop, and the only one Wichita Fall would make) is a pretty tepid attempt at making an ambitious pop masterwork. This channel owns nothing - the copyrights remain with the appropriate people. This material is shared here under the applicable laws for fair non-commercial use.
