Johnny Farfisa: The Sky Is Falling: The Best Of Johnny Farfisa - VINYL LP

Johnny Farfisa: The Sky Is Falling: The Best Of Johnny Farfisa - VINYL LPTitle: The Sky Is Falling: The Best Of Johnny Farfisa Artist: Johnny Farfisa Label: Munster Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 8435008837518 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2017 12 01 Number of Discs: 1 Growing up in the town of New Rochelle, New York, young Andy Cahan was also a gifted piano player with a good musical ear. Like thousands of American kids, his life changed forever when The Beatles debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. His first surf

Title: The Sky Is Falling: The Best Of Johnny Farfisa
Artist: Johnny Farfisa
Label: Munster Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 8435008837518
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-12-01
Number of Discs: 1

Growing up in the town of New Rochelle, New York, young Andy Cahan was also a gifted piano player with a good musical ear. Like thousands of American kids, his life changed forever when The Beatles debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. His first surf band The Jaguars became The Tokays, named after a brand of sweet white Hungarian wine. The group started to play some of Andy's original material, inspired by The Beatles and other British invaders like The Zombies and The Dave Clark Five. One of those tracks, the plaintive minor-key ballad "Where Young Lovers Go", is included here. Soon after, Andy traded his Thomas organ for the new Farfisa Combo Compact red organ. He purchased Beatle boots, as did his bandmates, and they changed the name to The Individuals. The group found time, in between band contests, to go into the studio in 1965 and 1966 to record demos - most of which can be heard on this album. The Individuals broke up around 1967 when Larry Kramer elected to go to college rather than pursue music full-time. Andy, Sandy Reiner, and Reno Franze reconfigured as The Boys In Dutch, adding Jerry Delesio on guitar, and gigged around New York throughout 1967. After that band ran it's course, Andy decided to start a new project, Euphorian Railway, with Reno on lead vocals, Vinny Derminity on guitar and vocals, Ken Lennington on bass and vocals, and Frank McConville on drums. Euphorian Railway cut an album's worth of original material in one five-hour session in March 1968 and. Five tracks are featured here, including dynamic new material. The influence of The Rascals is strong, especially in Reno's impassioned Eddie Brigati-like vocals, but Cahan's electric harpsichord provides some distinctive touches. The band was short-lived. In the summer of 1968 Cahan relocated to Los Angeles, where he quickly made a name for himself as a keyboard player and arranger, working with such people as Graham Bond, Dr John, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Harry Nilsson, and Flo & Eddie of The Turtles. He was also a founding member of Geronimo Black, along with ex-Mothers Jimmy Carl Black, Denny Walley, and Bunk and Buzz Gardner, and one-time Love member Tjay Contrelli. As for his Johnny Farfisa alias, that originated with David Gibson of Moxie Records, who in 1980 released an EP of The Individuals' mid-60s recordings titled Johnny Farfisa's Greatest Hits.

Tracks:
1.1 She's Gone Away
1.2 I Don't Play
1.3 It May Be
1.4 The Sky Is Falling
1.5 I Don't Play
1.6 Monkey on My Back
1.7 My Baby's Bad
1.8 Where Young Lovers Go
1.9 I Don't Play (12 String Version)
1.10 The Sky Is Falling
1.11 She Showed Me
1.12 On My Way to the Sun
1.13 I Thought I Knew You
1.14 Nothing and No One
1.15 She's Gone Away