THE RED SQUARES/IT'S HAPPENING KSX 6 (-67) DENMARK

 

 Band founded 1964 in Boston, England. After a couple of years struggling without securing a record contract or getting any kind of breakthrough on home turf they moved to Denmark 1966, and there within only six months succeeded to be one of the most auspicious outfits in Scandinavia at the time. For exemple their 1966 cover of The Four Seasons "Sherry " topped the Swedish list and the 1967 "Lollipop" reached #2. Between 1966-69 the original setting released eight singles and two albums. Later the band has seen a fair share of hiatuses and member changes, but as I understand they're still at it in some form. This was their second album, for the eponimous debute check earlier post. Musically rather ordinary garage pop mixing self-penned with cover versions, but what makes it special are the vocals. These guys could really hit the high notes and do it with the honor.  Both leads and backgrond quires works beautifully and they even manage to create their own remarkable versions of already perfectly harmonized originals as "Silence Is Golden" and "When I Grow Up".  It certainly works for this old lover of male high-pitch vocals and I guess could do it for a couple of others into that rather special genre.  Favorite tracks apart from the two mentioned - "Walk Like A Man" and "Don't Laugh If I Cry".  To my knowledge this was the only vinyl issue. Also on Danish EMI CD (Elap-46513CD). First had label as shown here in a fully laminated flip/back cover.  (SCÄ*)  (CCÖ*) (BRBÄ*)