{"product_id":"midsummer-dreaming-an-anthology-1967-1970","title":"Midsummer Dreaming - An Anthology 1967-1970","description":"\u003ch5\u003eMore Info\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e • 3CD anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro John Carter and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men.  \u003cbr\u003e• Includes Summer of Love hit 'Let's Go To San Francisco', further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue. \u003cbr\u003e• Inspired equally by the Haight-Ashbury scene, the worldwide Summer of Love and Brian Wilson's recent groundbreaking work, in mid-1967 former Ivy Leaguers John Carter and Ken Lewis pieced together the hugely ambitious, six-minute 'Let's Go To San Francisco'. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result was a UK Top Five hit, a success that encouraged Carter to record more material in the same vein including follow-up 'A Walk In The Sky', which flopped at home but became another Top Ten hit in mainland Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen psychedelia withered and died, Carter abandoned the name in public but continued to work on a brace of Moody Blues-style concept albums that failed to appear at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA four-hour set, ‘Midsummer Dreaming’ gathers up all four Flower Pot Men singles, those two aborted albums and sundry other material that either didn't gain a release or was issued under other aliases, such as the highly regarded 'Mythological Sunday' (credited to Friends) and 'Midsummer Deaming' (John Carter \u0026amp; Russ Alquist). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential item for lovers of intelligent, melodic, harmony-based late 60s British pop and psychedelia, ‘Midsummer Dreaming’ includes five hitherto-unissued studio tracks as well as a brace of late 1967 Radio 1 sessions that are also gaining their first-ever official issue.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Let's Go To San Francisco Parts 1 and 2 (original mono version) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Mythological Sunday (John Carter lead vocal)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 A Walk In The Sky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 Blow Away\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Say Goodbye To Yesterday \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 Now And Then \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Cooks Of Cake And Kindness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Children Of Tomorrow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 Mythological Sunday (Tony Burrows lead vocal)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Midsummer Dreaming \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Let's Go To San Francisco Parts 1 and 2 (stereo mix)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 E=MC2\/Musha Hada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Let's Go To San Francisco* BBC session\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 California Dreamin'* BBC session\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15 Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall* BBC session\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 Don't Worry Baby* BBC session\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17 A Walk In The Sky* BBC session\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Single, Deram DM 142, released August 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Alternative version of Peace track, recorded 1968, unreleased at the time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Single, Deram DM 160, released November 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4-8 Alternative versions of Peace and Past Imperfect tracks, unreleased at the time, recorded 1969-1970\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 Single, credited to Friends (Tony Burrows lead vocal), Deram DM 1968, released July 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Single, credited to John Carter \u0026amp; Russ Alquist, Spark SRL 1017, released October 1968 11 Later stereo mix, unreleased at the time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 From the musical Seasons, recorded c. 1970, unreleased at the time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13-14  BBC session, recorded September 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15-17  BBC session, recorded November 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDISC TWO\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Prologue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 These Heavy Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Mythological Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 Colours\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Blow Away\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 Cooks Of Cake And Kindness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Gotta Be Free\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Heaven Knows When\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 White Dove\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Now And Then\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 Say Goodbye To Yesterday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Memories Of Tomorrow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 Autumn Love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15 Morning Prayer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17 I Am Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18 Journey's End\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19 All I Have Is You\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20 Brave New World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21 Children Of Tomorrow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1-10 The album Peace, recorded 1968-69, unreleased at the time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11-21 The album Past Imperfect, recorded 1970, unreleased at the time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDISC THREE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 The Laughing Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Mr. Light\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Magic People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 In The Sky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Conversations (In A Station Light Refreshment Bar)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 A Letter To Josephine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Tahiti Farewell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Pantomime People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 A Night To Be Remembered\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Goodbye To Rosalie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Sunday In The Park\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 Going Round And Round\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Life Is Living\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 Roberto Billow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15 When I Was Born\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 Rain, Rain, Rain (John Carter lead vocal version)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17 Going Nowhere*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18 I Think I'll Be Leaving Tonight* (Tony Burrows lead vocal)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19 Land Of Love*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20 Take Me Along*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21 Lady Of The Blue Lagoon*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22 Am I Losing You\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23 Man Without A Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24 You Can Never Be Wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25 In A Moment Of Madness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e26 Young Birds Fly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Single, credited to John Carter \u0026amp; 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