Compact Discs

High-Flyin' Surf Rock From Southern California on Compact Disc!Adrian Lloyd and his backing band The Sunsets were still teenagers when they recorded this highly-prized slab of pure California surf-rock. Long desired amongst collectors both for its brand of high-energy, drum-driven rock ‘n’ roll and for the crazy swirly vinyl it was pressed on, Breakthrough is a prime example of a genre that still excites fans of early ‘60s music. Featuring the should-have-been-a-hit title track and many other...

LIMITED QUANTITIES!The Style that's attracting all this admiration is built around the funky guitar of Davie Allan, a young but extremely successful Hollywood studio musician who decided he would rather make music with his own group. The writhing, pulsing rhythm of The Arrows is supplied by Steven Pugh on electric bass, Larry Brown on drums, and Mike Curb on keyboards -- an expert combination, as you can hear for yourself!--original LP liner notesTrack Listing:1. Apache '652. Tee Pee3. Blue...

LIMITED QUANTITIES!The genius of Davie Allan is very apparent throughout this recording. His fresh interpretations of "William Tell," "Thunderball," and "Ghost Riders in the Sky" give the Arrows a very distinctive and versatile sound. Also introduced in this album are five exciting original compositions. They are "Theme from the Unknown," "Action on the Street," "King Fuzz," "Sorry 'bout That," and "Fuzz Theme."Sidewalk Productions and Tower Records have rush released this album in answer to...

LIMITED QUANTITIES! Building on the roaring radio success of Blue’s Theme, Davie Allan & the Arrows went full throttle on Cycle-Delic Sounds! While known primarily for his aggressive attack, the album features a variety of guitar tones and offers full evidence of Davie’s wide-ranging guitar prowess. The standout selection is the epic, almost seven minute title track, which sees Davie’s Mosrite Fuzzrite battle for supremacy with his wah-wah pedal, resulting in victory for guitar fanatics...

Whether going by the alias Richie Allen or his real name Richie Polodor, this fiery young guitarist/engineer/producer would leave an incredible mark on the recording industry. Allen would soon engineer or produce rock legends like Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night, but California never sounded more enticing than on Surfer's Slide, the second of his Imperial Records LPs from 1963. Wild and raw, the way surf music was meant to sound, it corrals all the big Los Angeles session names for a...

First playing guitar on Sandy Nelson's "Teen Beat," then as a session man for many Gary Usher-produced surf sides, Richie Allen would cut two stellar albums of pier-shooting, California magic of his own for Imperial Records. Whether engineering or producing rock legends ranging from Iron Butterfly to the Electric Prunes, Allen (under his real name of Richie Podolor) would strongly make his mark on the recording industry. 1963's Rising Surf, the first of his solo LPs, is a pounding slice of raw...

THE LOST POP-PSYCH CLASSIC OF THE ’60s! The late, great composer/pianist/producer/MENSA member Tandyn Almer first emerged in pop culture consciouness as the writer of the 1966 smash single by The Association, “Along Comes Mary.” Its seemingly innocuous lyric about a girl became a point of intense scrutiny as rumors of marijuana references wafted through a society fraught with generational conflict. One of those listeners on the far side of the gap, Leonard Bernstein, recognized the song’s...

2017 Record Store Day Limited Edition!Available at local independent record stores on April 22nd, 2017!LIMIT 1 COPY PER CUSTOMERSwirling guitars and proto-ambient electronica sounds from many light years away!The Astro-Sound of Magnificence, from Beyond the Year 2000...a unique capsule of a funky, psychedelic rhythm section jamming, with snarling, stabbing and swooshing cranked-up-to-infinity electric guitar voyages piloted by Wrecking Crew veteran Jerry Cole, polished and primed for takeoff...

Blue Cheer’s second album, Outsideinside, fully matches its predecessor’s primal power. The last Blue Cheer release to feature the beloved lineup of Stephens, Peterson and Whaley, Outsideinside is a bracing orgy of volume, distortion and aggression, with such highlights as “Just a Little Bit,” “Come and Get It,” the instrumental “Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger” and the band’s distinctive take on the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.”Sundazed’s compact disc edition is sourced from the original...

Blue Cheer looms large in the annals of hard rock, laying down the sonic foundations of heavy metal and serving as a crucial influence on the birth of punk, grunge and stoner rock. While the rest of the rock world was mellowing out and embracing the spirit of the Summer of Love, the seminal San Francisco power trio was churning out ballsy blues-rock anthems whose fuzz-heavy, adrenaline-charged intensity helped to alter the course of contemporary music.Vincebus Eruptum, Blue Cheer's landmark...

First-ever domestic CD issue of the group’s in-demand second album, featuring “Ride Captain Ride” When Blues Image launched into their 1970 chart smash, “Ride Captain Ride,” the smoking lamp was always lit. But, with their subtle use of Latin Rhythms — featuring tantalizing fretboard work by Mike Pinera and the addictive conga drums of Joe Lala — this Tampa, Fla. combo proved themselves anything but a one hit wonder on their out of nowhere classic, Open.

Garage/punk/psychedelia pioneers! The Blues Magoos launched their recording career with the LP Psychedelic Lollipop. The equally impressive Electric Comic Book refines the band's mix of rock 'n' roll and day-glo psychedelia. That punchy yet playful approach animates such distinctive numbers as "Pipe Dream," "Rush Hour," "There's a Chance We Can Make It" and "Albert Common Is Dead." This '60s garage-psych nugget is now available on Sundazed as a Limited Edition compact disc (1000 copies only!),...

Hailing from NYC, The Blues Magoos took the folk/blues soundtrack of their mid-sixties Greenwich Village contemporaries and forged it into a tough, garage/psych hybrid that attracted fans as quickly as it angered folk club owners, incensed by the band’s volume and unhinged stage show! Signed by Mercury Records in 1966, their inaugural single for the label, a reading of John D. Loudermilk’s “Tobacco Road,” was a churning 4 1/2 minute(!) plunge into crazed guitar/organ/drum/bass pyrotechnics...

Garage/punk/psychedelia pioneers! The Blues Magoos launched their recording career with a major smash, hitting the Top Five with the brash garage-punk anthem "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet." That tune is just one of the multiple pleasures of Psychedelic Lollipop, notable as one of the first albums (along with the 13th Floor Elevators' debut) to use the word "psychedelic" in its title. The band balances swaggering proto-punk attitude, a Beatlesque pop sensibility and adventurous acid-pop...

The Blues Project was one of the most innovative and influential bands of the 1960s. Rising from the vibrant Greenwich Village music scene, the New York quintet created a visionary fusion of electric blues, folk-rock, jazz and psychedelia, and delivered it with gritty, effortless expertise.1966's Projections is generally regarded as the Blues Project's best--the studio album features the legendary lineup of keyboardist Al Kooper, guitarists Danny Kalb and Steve Katz, bassist Andy Kulberg and...

Stop pacing the floor, surf and hotrod aficionados; here's the collection you've awaited for decades, the package you feared might never see legitimate release, the definitive legacy of the missing third of the Jan & Dean/Beach Boys/Bruce & Terry triumvirate. The Best Of Bruce & Terry illuminates two important missing links in the history of rock music: that between the Brill Building pop of the early 60's and surf and hotrod music, and the other between surf/rod and the folk-rock...

Spotlighting the flying fingers of Buckaroos guitar-picking whiz Don Rich, the full-bodied pedal steel of Tom Brumley and the rocksteady rhythm of bassist Doyle Holly backed by the solid beat of drummers Willie Cantu and Jerry Wiggins, this Buckaroos smorgasbord is the perfect introduction to the band that created the Bakersfield Sound behind country music Hall of Famer Buck Owens. Here's the definitive example of their forward-thinking style — an electrified honky-tonk sound that wowed the...

2 Albums on 1 Disc! In 1967 and 68, the dam burst for Chicago's Buckinghams, and the airwaves were awash with that wonderful sound: heartfelt vocals riding over lush horn arrangements. By year's end, Dennis Tufano, Carl Giammarese and company had scored major hits with "Don't You Care," "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)," "Susan," and more. Each album jam-packed with all the hits, unseen photos, interviews and, as they used to say on Top Forty radio, much, much more.

LAST REMAINING COPIES!Bigger than life. That's the most accurate way to describe the regally expansive Solomon Burke: his magic carpet voice fills any room with the sweet, uplifting sound of timeless soul. And Solomon was seldom more soulful than when he ventured down to Muscle Shoals to cut his classic 1969 album Proud Mary for Bell Records. Here's that historic collection -- on CD for the first time -- with several ultra-rare Bell singles and three unreleased tracks added to make the package...

From their earliest days as 12-string-wielding folk-rockers, to the thrilling psychedelic excursions of their raga-rock period to their 1968 birthing of country-rock, the Byrds were always accorded a hero’s welcome in England.What better place to record founding Byrds member/guitarist/singer Roger McGuinn’s new version of the band—featuring fretboard ace Clarence White, bassist Skip Battin and drummer Gene Parsons—than London’s Royal Albert Hall!Rescued from a tape that had sat forgotten in...

Before turning rock ‘n’ roll on its ear in the spring of ‘65, the Byrds spent countless hours creating and refining their unique sound at LA’s World Pacific Studios. Hear history literally in the making as McGuinn, Crosby, Clark, Hillman and Clarke record newborn, spine-tingling versions of classics-to-be like “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “You Won’t Have To Cry,” “I Knew I'd Want You” and “Here Without You” as well as lost gems such as “The Reason Why,” “Tomorrow Is A Long Ways Away” and “You Showed...

If you were going to envision the ultimate avant-garde meeting-of-the-minds jam session, who would you pick? Even the most hopeful fan of strange and innovative music couldn't have seen this one coming: on one afternoon in 1986, at Coney Island's dilapidated freak show, space-age avant-jazz genius Sun Ra met avant-garde "serious music" composer John Cage in an unforgettable performance. You couldn't imagine two figures more opposite. Cage was known for his unusual approach to composition,...

Mono Edition! Captain Beefheart’s 1967 debut album Safe As Milk introduced the world to a one-of-a-kind visionary whose unique output had no precedent in contemporary music. Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, filtered the raw influence of the blues and R&B through his own singular musical sensibility and left-field lyrical wordplay, and surrounded himself with some of the most talented and inventive young musicians around. The result was an album that, even in the heady year in which it was...

To hear Johnny Cash’s swaggering Sun Records-era material is to marvelat one of the primal source-streams of what was fast becoming the headwaters of rock ’n’ roll. Cash’s craggy, lunch-bucket vocals on gleaming original versions of songs like “Cry! Cry! Cry!,” “Get Rhythm,” “Big River,” and “I Walk the Line,” backed by the signature guitar style of Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant’s steady bass, are really just the tip of the iceberg corralled on this stunning collection. “Folsom Prison...

No one did lush orchestral pop better than Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde. In 1966, while other moptop combos were falling by the wayside, Chad & Jeremy created Distant Shores—their most sparkling and mature album yet. Recorded between TV appearances (Batman and My Three Sons among others), Distant Shores is the album of swirly, baroque pop Chad & Jeremy were destined to create.

With the 1965 release of Chad & Jeremy's sweeping second Columbia LP, the shaggy-haired troubadours began to weave timely folk-rock anthems by Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs into their British Invasion-style repertoire. Of course, the dynamic duo still retained that magical ability to break young girls' hearts with their stirring harmonies on chart-bound singles like "I Don't Wanna Lose You Baby" and "I Have Dreamed."

“A stellar job collecting, organizing, and packaging…ranges from glistening orch-pop to hushed, acoustic Simon & Garfunkelisms to exquisitely appointed pre-Pepper baroquedelia.” –The Big TakeoverBy the time the ambitious gem Of Cabbages and Kings was released, the paisley transition for Chad & Jeremy was complete: from the Dickensain tombstone-tale of “Rest in Peace” to the ambitious five movements of “The Progress Suite,” it’s a perfect slice of ’67 pop/rock.Original album includes “Rest in...

No Way Out, the thrilling debut album by the Chocolate Watch Band, immediately finds that cosmic sweet-spot of perfect garage-rock traction: where the rubber meets the road and the train keeps a-rollin.' Nobody ever did Mick Jagger any better (even Mick, himself) than the Watch Band's frighteningly superb frontman Dave Aguilar. "Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In)" and "Let's Talk About Girls" are on everyone's list of Top 20 garage rock anthems of all time. And that's just the tip of the...

The Inner Mystique, the hypnotic second album by the Chocolate Watch Band, takes up exactly where its sacred predecessor left you: looking for your perfect match at the local Love-In. When Watch Band lead singer par excellence Dave Aguilar grabs you by the lapels and tells you "I'm Not Everybody Else," you have no choice but to believe him. He's not. And when he cools down enough to extol the virtues of "Medication," who could doubt his sincerity? Especially when he stokes the fires to the...

Groundbreaking album that helped define country-rock!In 1965 Missouri-born Gene Clark was riding the crest of unprecedented success and adulation as a member of the Byrds. Anointed as America’s answer to the Beatles, the Byrds topped the charts with folk-rock anthems like “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and “Eight Miles High.” Gene was front and center as tambourine player, singer and principal songwriter for the group. But in early 1966 he flew the Byrds’ coop. A gifted songwriter,...

On the first solo album by an ex-Byrd, Gene Clark doesn't stray too far from the nest. Cut in 1966 upon Clark's departure from the iconic L.A. combo, with current Byrds Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke forming the rhythm section, and spotlighting brothers Vern and Rex Gosdin, a pair of former bluegrass pals of Hillman's who chime in with sweet harmony vocals, Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers stands as one of Clark's supreme achievements. Add session guitarists Glen Campbell and Jerry Cole...

Legendary Gene Clark album assembles abandoned 1972 sessions and more!By 1972, singer/songwriter Gene Clark had settled into a new life in Mendocino far from the intrusive media glare and fan adulation that still surrounded someone of his stature as a former member of the Byrds. However, he still owed A&M Records one more album. Gathering together the cream of the Los Angeles country-rock fraternity—innovative guitarist Clarence White, Chris Ethridge on bass, ex-Byrd and Burrito Brother...

Former Byrds singer/songwriter’s stark 1971 masterpiece!As founding member of folk-rock pioneers the Byrds, Gene Clark had emerged as a uniquely gifted singer/songwriter and master of the minor key melancholy ballad. His departure from the group in 1966 was met with critical anticipation and commercial indifference. Tiring of the Hollywood fast lane by 1969, Gene and new wife Carlie moved up to Mendocino on the Northern California coast where the tranquility, pastoral beauty and laid back...

20 maximum guitar-driven cuts from Jerry Cole. Put on some Coppertone so you don't get a guitar burn! Includes Power Surf; Night Drag; Surf Age; Deep Surf; Stinger , and more.Track Listing1. Power Surf2. Night Drag3. Surf Age4. Deep Surf5. Stinger6. Midnigth Surfer7. Rosarita Surf8. Driving Little Deuce9. Bronze Surfer10. The Strut11. Night Rumble12. Movin' Surf13. Outer Limits14. One Color Blues15. Martian Surf16. Roadster Run17. Point Panic18. T. Roadster Rock19. Dancing Mags20. Racing Waves ...

Could anything be better than surf music played by crazed spacemen? Not likely! And here’s the proof: Guitar-wrangler Jerry Cole and His Spacemen’s stupidly rare 1964 album, Surf Age!While most of Cole’s albums were cranked out at the astounding pace of up to two or three per day, Surf Age, was by comparison a production of epic proportions. For the sessions, Cole and his hand-picked all-star crew of LA studio cats labored to create an album unlike any other, an endlessly inventive amalgam of...

Pure Rock N' Roll from the Midwest on Compact Disc and !80 Gram Vinyl!With a lowdown bass lick, uptown R&B horns and surging organ punctuating a catchy chorus, “Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games With Me)” hit the Top 20 like a comet in 1969 and propelled Crow from Midwest club band into national touring act overnight. Thanks in part to covers by Black Sabbath and Ike and Tina Turner, it’s one of the most recognizable hits of the era and, inexplicably, one of the few to not make the transition...

Chicago’s local heroes the Cryan’ Shames topped the Midwest charts on a regular basis from 1966-1969 with their harmony-fueled pop confections. From their straight-outta-the-garage debut, Sugar & Spice (which stars the indelible hit of the same name) to the more mature psychedelic orchestrations of A Scratch in the Sky and Synthesis, these compact discs—graced with bonus tracks a-plenty—contain some of the most memorable pop-rock of the ‘60s!

Chicago’s local heroes, the Cryan’ Shames topped the Midwest charts on a regular basis from 1966-1969 with their harmony-fueled pop confections. Their straight-outta-the- garage debut, Sugar & Spice (which stars the indelible hit of the same name) contains some of the most memorable pop-rock of the ‘60s!• First-time CD releases of rare album by Midwestern hit-makers of “Sugar And Spice” fame!• Direct from original masters, w/ bonus tracks!• Liner notes by group historian Clark Besch feature...

In ’66 the Cyrkle inked a contract with Columbia Records, scored a #2 chart hit with “Red Rubber Ball,” gained a coveted spot on the Beatles’ Final U.S. tour and recorded Red Rubber Ball and Neon –two longplayers with some of the most soaring three-part harmonies and intricate arrangements that ‘60s pop had to offer. Each disc comes with a dazzling array of bonus tracks, interviews and great unseen photos!TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO SAMPLES:1. Don’t Cry, No Fears, No Tears Comin’ Your Way2. The...

To say 1966 was a good year for the Cyrkle is putting it mildly: in rapid succession, they inked a contract with Columbia Records, scored a #2 hit with Paul Simon's "Red Rubber Ball," gained a coveted spot on the Beatles' final U.S. tour, and recorded Red Rubber Ball with some of the most soaring three-part harmonies and intricate arrangements that '60s pop music had to offer.

A highly-sought-after collector’s item, The Minx soundtrack is full of the Cyrkle’s trademark three-part harmonies, intricate arrangements, and paisley-psychedelic sounds (the percussion intro of “Nicole” has become a break-beat classic). Recorded in 1967—following the Cyrkle's pop chart success with Paul Simon's “Red Rubber Ball” and their own “Turn-Down Day”—and shelved until the film's release two years later, The Minx has eluded...

Though he was renowned as “The King of the Surf Guitar,” Dick Dale detoured onto the drag strip in 1963 and created Checkered Flag, a landmark album of the hot-rod genre. Backed by studio pros like Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Plas Johnson and Steve Douglas, Dick laid down tough, reverb-soaked instrumentals like “Night Rider” and “The Wedge,” highlighting his unique technique and deeply varied sonic textures. The album also features vocal numbers, like lead track “The Scavenger,” penned by some of...

During his string of intense, sold-out 1961 shows at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California, Dick Dale is credited with creating the surf guitar sound. An avid surfer himself, Dick strove to recreate the feeling of riding the waves in his music. He accomplished that feat through innovative use of reverb and a rich playing technique that incorporated everything from from short staccato picking to long, legato melody lines. Known far and wide as “The King of the Surf Guitar,” Capitol...

1964’s Mr. Eliminator, the second album of hot-rod songs from Dick Dale, is another fuel-injected fun ride down the asphalt aisle! Once again, Dick shreds his way through scorching guitar instrumentals like “The Victor, ” “Nitro Fuel” and the tenacious title track. But that’s not all! Vocal selections like the Bo Diddley-beat-driven “50 Miles to Go” and “My X-KE” paint vivid portraits that any gear-head can appreciate. The studio pit-crew assisting Dick includes top-notch players Glen...

The one that started it all in 1962! On his debut album, Dick Dale managed to capture on tape the ferocious surf sound he was creating for over-the-top audiences at the Rendezvous Ballroom. Songs like “Let’s Go Trippin’,” “Miserlu Twist” and “Surf Beat” helped define the surf genre and send untold aspiring guitarists in search of their own Stratocasters and Fender Showman amps. None of them could match the intensity and directness of Dick’s approach to the instrument. But at least one acolyte,...

Country Pickin’ is the first-ever round-up of the signature guitar, fiddle, and vocal genius of the late Don Rich, the sorely-missed trail boss of Buck Owens’ Buckaroos. This edition corrals 24 fiery yet precise cornerstones of the Bakersfield sound, and adds a career overview, rare photos, heartfelt tributes from Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart and many more country legends. Included are Rich's signature recordings, from "Buckaroo" to later chart...

Fever Tree's lone hit single, the haunting 1968 tribal anthem "San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)," perfectly captured the spirit of the psychedelic era. Although their signature hit led many to assume that they were a Bay Area band, Fever Tree actually hailed from Houston, Texas. "San Francisco Girls" is also the centerpiece of Fever Tree's self-titled first LP, one of the period's most distinctive debuts--the quintet was adept at perfectly incorporating psychedelic, jazz and...

Complete Career Overview—Contains Every Chart Hit!Few pop smashes can be instantly IDed by something as deceptively simple as the “Dit-dit-dit-dah-dit” staccato keyboard hook introducing the Five Americans’ ‘67 hit “Western Union.” To celebrate Sundazed’s purchase of the entire Abnak tape vault, here’s a stomping Five Americans compendium—assembled with the band’s full participation. With 25 smash tracks, it’s the very best of this groovy Dallas garage-frat combo, including chart-toppers like...