HELLO YOU ARE LOOKING TO BUY A THE RARE THE BUDDAH BOX SET SAMPLER RELEASED IN 1993 BY ESSEX ENTERTAINMENT BB-1. THIS CD IS A PROMOTIONAL ONLY PRESSING AND WAS NEVER AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN STORES. ITEM IS SEALED, BRAND NEW & IN MINT CONDITION. CD COMES STORED IN POLY BAG SLEEVE. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES. THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AND HAPPY BUYING! SEE OUR OTHER ITEMS FOR THIS ARTIST
The "Buddah Box Sampler " hails from 1993 and is a U.S.12-track promo sampler CD promoting the box set of the same name, and comes housed SEALED with a nice picture sleeve (catalog number BB1). Tracklisting Lovin’ Spoonful – Do You Believe In Magic Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy Edwin Hawkins Singers – Oh Happy Day Melanie – (Lay Down) Candles In The Rain Steve Goodman – The City Of New Orleans Curtis Mayfield – Superfly Stories – Brother Louie Gladys Knight & The Pips – Midnight Train To Georgis Trammps – Hold Back The Night Norman Conners – You Are My Starship Michael Henderson – Wide Receiver The record charts may have given the illusion that all was fine at Kama Sutra in early 1967, but disenchantment with the MGM distribution pact was about to bring forth another Art Kass-led venture that summer ... Buddah Records. Contractually obligated to continue producing acts for Kama Sutra/MGM, Kass decided to form his new label as an outlet for new artists that wouldn't fall under the Kama Sutra agreement. Kama Sutra would continue to release Lovin' Spoonful records (their "Six O'Clock " single that Spring would be their last Top 20 hit), and a few oddball releases by Vince Edwards (TV's "Ben Casey "), Erik & The Smoke Ponies and soul singers Bobby Bloom and Billy Harner (who scored a small hit I with "Sally's Sayin' Somethin "' that July), but their attention would be paid primarily to the new Buddah venture. The very first Buddah single - "Yes, We Have No Bananas " by the Mulberry Fruit, was a studio collaboration/joke between Anders & Poncia and film producer Richard Perry. Kass went one step further in establishing his new label - he brought in record executive Neil Bogart, whom he had met at MGM when Bogart spent a brief spell there in the early '60s as General Manager. If you had to describe Neil Bogart's career in two words, "bubblegum " and "Casablanca " would be your choice (although the two words hardly do the record magnate justice). Bogart's introduction to the industry had come as a recording artist when, billed as Neil Scott, he had a mild hit (#58) with a song called "Bobby " on the Portrait label in 1961. Bogart (originally Bogatz, and from where else but Brooklyn) left the performing side of music soon after and began working for Cashbox; from there, he jumped to MGM as a promotion man and eventually ended up at Cameo-Parkway as VP and Sales Manager. After Allen Klein acquired Cameo-Parkway in early '67, Bogart became disenchanted and jumped at Kass' offer at Buddah. The hustling Mr. Bogart also brought with him one of his former label's best acts, a black family group called the Stairsteps. Once at Buddah, Bogart hooked up with another 2-man production team: the so-called "Super K " guys, Jeff Katz and Jerry Kasenetz. Bogart had met the two when they did production work for Cameo-Parkway, bringing that label one of their last hits, "Beg, Borrow And Steal " - a note-for-note theft of "Louie Louie " - by a midwest garage band originally called the Rare Breed but renamed the Ohio Express on Cameo. After a few follow-ups failed, Kasenetz and Katz recruited some studio musicians to form a new Ohio Express, led by the nasal-voiced Joey Levine. With this crew, the K&K boys began crafting a series of incredibly simple yet dynamic pop recordings that would soon be dubbed "bubblegum music " in reference to its obvious appeal to pre- and early teens ... as opposed to much of the more experimental rock that was flooding the FM airwaves by groups like the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Bogart, who would garner the cover of Time Magazine the next year for launching the bubblegum program, said at the time: Bubblegum music is pure entertainment. It's about sunshine and going places and falling in love and dancing for the fun of it. It's not about war and poverty and disease and rioting, and frustration and making money and lying and all the things that 'really' matter. It's not about these things and that is why it is so popular. It's about the good things in life... that sometimes (you) lose sight of ... but can find again. |
