Are they loved in Wales still? Dave Edmunds of course!!
LOVE SCULPTURE....Forms & Feelings
Love Sculpture were a Welsh blues-rock band [1] of the late 1960s, led by Dave Edmunds (born David Edmunds, 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Glamorgan, South Wales), plus bassist John Williams - stage name John David (born John David Williams, 19 January 1946, Cardiff, South Wales) and drummer Rob 'Congo' Jones (born Robert Jones, 13 August 1946, Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales).
Love Sculpture formed in Cardiff in 1966 out of the remnants of another local band called The Human Beans,[2] and disbanded in 1970, although Edmunds went on to enjoy solo success in the 1970s. The band itself was essentially a showpiece for Edmunds' considerable technical ability on the guitar. Love Sculpture mostly performed blues standards, slightly revved-up, but still largely reverent to the originals, releasing their debut album, Blues Helping with such songs as "Summertime", "Wang Dang Doodle" etc.
They are best known for their 1968 novelty hit in the UK Singles Chart, a high speed cover version of the classical piece "Sabre Dance", by Aram Khachaturian, released on the Parlophone label (R 5744), which reached #5 in the UK singles chart in December 1968.[3] The recording was inspired by Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements.[4] "Sabre Dance" became a hit after garnering the enthusiastic attention of British DJ John Peel.[4] In December 1968, the UK music magazine, NME, reported that Love Sculpture had signed a U.S. recording contract with London Records, guaranteeing £250,000.[5] The band were also given an invitation to perform "Sabre Dance" live, on the German Beat-Club television programme of Radio Bremen, being broadcast in monochrome at that time.
This was followed by a second album Forms and Feelings, with songs including: "In The Land of the Few", "Farandole", "People People", "Seagull (West Coast Oil Tragedy)", written by Paul Korda, and the equally fast cover of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me". The U.S. version of the album also featured a recording of "Mars" from Gustav Holst's The Planets, but Holst's estate refused to license the tune for the U.K. version.
They recorded three times for BBC Radio 1's John Peel sessions in 1968 (twice) and 1969. -wiki
Their first is great too but today I am into this psych classic that I wore out back in the day!!!
FORMS & FEELINGS...side one
Land Of The Few
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVs0Uls4cvw
Seagull (with oil on your wings)...an ecology song ahead of it's time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXH7LFo ... re=related
People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9_wDFoR ... re=related
Nobody's Talking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hW57Oem76E
Why (How Now)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MteMv8U--NM
Farandole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gxmWHXZ ... re=related
