Friday, August 5, 2011

Penthouse 5 - The WordD Is Love (1966-67)

Often misspelt as "The World Is Love" this CD (Collectables COL-0683 / 1997) centres around Dallas resident Jon Williams and his involvement in three great garage/acid punk bands, Penthouse 5, By Fives and The WordD. It contains all the singles (except for the By Fives B-Side) and alternate versions as well as unreleased material, which is equally good. The WordD got another airing on the latest Cicadelic release "It's A Happening! - Texas Girls Of The 60's" that is strongly recommended.

Tracklist:
- Bad Girl
- Don't Mess Around With My Dream
- In His Shadow
- I Saw You Walking • by The By Fives
- Keep On Walking (unreleased version) • by WordD
- You're Gonna Make Me • by WordD
- You're Gonna Make Me
- Vertigo Blue Sometime (previously unreleased version)
- It's All My Own Bizarre Dream (prev. unreleased version)
- La, La, La (previously unreleased version)
- Twelve String Jangle (previoulsy unreleased)
- You're Always Around (previously unreleased)
- You're Always Around • by The WordD
- Today Is Just Tomorrow's Yesterday (demo) • by WordD
- Today Is Just Tomorrow's Yesterday (4 track) • by WordD
- The Years Have Passed (backing track)
- It's All My Own Bizarre Dream (demo)
- Don't Mess Around With My Dream (demo) • by Ron Price
- Vertigo Blue Sometime (pbacking track)
- Today Is Just Tomorrow's Yesterday (early rehearsals)

Personnel [Penthouse 5]:
Rob Graham (vcls) [A]
Justin Brown (lead gtr) [A]
Steve Wood (gtr, keyb'ds, vcls) [AB]
Bill Looney (bs) [AB]
Mark Porter (drms) [A]
Jon Williams (lead vcls, keyb'ds, hrmnca) [B]
Richard Keathley (lead gtr, vcls) [B]
Mike Echart (drms) [B]
(Becky Durr (lead vcls) [B]

Band origin:
Dallas (Texas)

Discographie:
45's:
1. (A) Bad Girl/In His Shadow (Solar 7665-4211) 1966
2. (A) You're Gonna Make Me/
   Don't Mess Around With My Dream (Hawk 1-1-67) 1967

[2. as Penthouse]



Personnel [The WordD]:
Genie Geer (lead vcls)
Jon Williams (lead vcls, keyb'ds, hrmnca)
Richard Keathley (lead gtr)
Pat Whitefield (bs)
Bob Johnson (drms)


Band origin:
Dallas (Texas)

Discographie:
45's:
1. You're Always Around/You're Gonna Make Me
   (Caprice 609V-4983) 1966




Personnel incl. [By Fives]:
Jon Williams (lead vcls)

Band origin:
Dallas (Texas)

Discographie:
45's:
1. I Saw You Walking/That's How Strong My Love Is
   (Tomi 106) 1966




Get it here (Artwork included)

Listen to Penthouse 5 - It's All My Own Bizarre Dream

Listen to The WordD - Keep On Walking

4 comments:

Cassy said...

Love their music. The instruments are well played.

Cassy from Teach Yourself To Play Guitar

Jaime said...

Thank you very much. I love this cd.

Dr Faustroll said...

Yep... good tunes here...

Thanks for sharing !

Anonymous said...

Good CD!!! Thankyou

Al