WCPAEB was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. Their music resembled a traditional Byrds-esque folk rock ensemble, but the WCPAEB also, within the same body of work, recorded avant-garde music marked by multi-layered vocal harmonies.
Aspiring musician and scenester Bob Markley managed to join the group the Laughing Wind in exchange for his connections in the music industry and substantial bankroll. The original five-piece line-up consisted of Michael Lloyd (rhythm guitar, vocals), Shaun Harris (bass guitar, vocals, Danny Harris (lead guitar, vocals), John Ware (drums), and Markley (tambourine, vocals).
The band debuted with the album Volume One in 1966 on the small FiFo record label. In the early years of the group, much was made of the WCPAEB's elaborate psychedelic light shows, which became the focal point of their live performances in Los Angeles. Following the release of Volume One, the WCPAEB signed with Reprise Records, recording three albums with the company, including arguably their most accomplished work Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil in 1968. Two additional albums, Where's My Daddy? and Markley, A Group, were distributed on independent labels before the group disbanded in 1970.
sources: Wikipedia and various CD booklets
1. Volume One - Fifo 1966
Tracks:
1. Something You Got / 2. Work Song / 3. Louie, Louie / 4. Don't Break My Balloon / 4. You Really Got Me / 5. Don't Let Anything!!! Stand in Your Way / 6. I Won't Hurt You / 7. If You Want This Love / 8. Insanity / 9. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / 10. She Belongs to Me / 11. She Surely Must Know* / 12. Sassafras* / 13. She May Call You Up Tonight* / 14. One Day* / 15. Funny How Love Can Be* / 16. Bad* / 17. Endless Night* / 18. Tell Me What You Want to Know* / 19. You and Me* / 20. Chimes of Freedom* / Scuse Me Miss Rose*
Rating : 6
2. Part One - Reprise 1967
Tracks:
1. Shifting Sands / 2. I Won't Hurt You / 3. 1906 / 4. Help, I'm A Rock / 5. Will You Walk With Me / 6. Transparent Day / 7. Leiyla / 8. Here's Where You Belong / 9. If You Want This Love / 10. 'Scuse Me Miss Rose / 11. High Goin' / 12 Transparent Day* / 13. Help, I'm A Rock*
Rating : 8
3. Vol. 2 - Reprise 1967
Tracks:
1. In The Arena / 2. Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes / 3. Buddha / 4. Smell Of Incense / 5. Overture: Wcpaeb, Pt. II / 6. Queen Nymphet / 7. Unfree Child / 8. Carte Blanche / 9. Delicate Fawn / 10. Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday / 11. Smell Of Incense* / 12. Unfree Child*
Rating : 6
4. A Child's Guide to Good & Evil - Reprise 1968
Tracks:
1. Eighteen Is Over The Hill / 2. In The Country / 3. Ritual #1 / 4. Our Drummer Always Plays In The Nude / 5. As The World Rises And Falls / 6. Until The Poorest Of People Have Money To Spend / 7. Watch Yourself / 8. A Child's Guide To Good And Evil / 9. Ritual #2 / 10. A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death / 11. As Kind As Summer / 12. Anniversary Of World War III / 13. Shifting Sands* / 14. 1906*
Rating : 7
5. Where's My Daddy - Amos 1969
Tracks:
1. Where's My Daddy / 2. Where Money Rules Everything / 3. Two! Hup Two! / 4. My Dog Back Home / 5. Give Me Your Lovething / 6. Outside / Inside / 7. Everyone's Innocent Daughter / 8. Free as a Bird / 9. Not One Bummer / 10. Have You Met My Pet Pig / 11. Come of Age in L.A. / 12. Two People
Rating : 7
6. Markley, A Group - Forward 1970
Tracks:
1. Booker T and His Electric Shock / 2. Next Plane to the Sun / 3. Roger the Rocket Ship / 4. Elegant Ellen / 5. Little Ruby Rain / 6. Message for Miniature / 7. Sarah the Bad Spirit / 8. Truck Stop / 9. Zoom! Zoom! / 10. Sweet Lady Eleven / 11. The Magic Cat / 12. Outside/Inside
Rating : 7
7. The Smoke - Sidewalk 1967
Tracks:
1. Cowboys And Indians / 2. Looking Thru The Mirror / 3. Self-Analysis / 4. Gold Is The Colour Of Thought / 5. Hobbit Symphony / 6. The Daisy - Intermission / 7. Fogbound / 8. Song Thru' Perception / 9. Philosophy / 10. Umbrella / 11. Ritual Gypsy Music Opus 1 / 12. October Country / 13. Odyssey
Rating : 8
8. Companion ( Various/Related - Sunbeam 2011
Tracks:
1. Will We Meet Again? / 2. Tia Juana Bell / 3. Summer's Comin' On / 4. It Should've Been Me / 5. The Green Itch Got The Bear / 6. Money Back Guarantee / 7. Valley Of Tears / 8. Teardrops From My Eyes / 9. I'm Such A Fool / 10 A Swingin' Door / 11. If You Want This Love / 12. Wanted: Dead Or Alive / 13. Good To Be Around / 14. Don't Take Very Much To See Tomorrow / 15. John Works Hard / 16. The Bells / 17. Sassafras / 18. I Won't Hurt You / 19. Hello Mr. Sun / 20. End Of The Line / 22. Blame It On The Pony Express / 23. Amblin' / 24. I'll Cry Out From My Grave (God I'm Sorry) / 25 Misty Mornin' / 26. My Wife Likes To / 28. Rainbo / 29. Leiyla & The Poet
Rating : 6
9. Underneath Butterfly Skies (66-68 - Cherry Red Records 2023 (CD 4 on boxset "A Door Inside Your Mind"
Tracks:
1. I Feel Sorry For You / 2. I Feel Sorry For You - Master / 3. A Child of a Few Hours is Burning to Death (alt.) / 4. A Child's Guide to Good and Evil (alt.) / 5. Ritual #1 (alt.) / 6. Ritual #2 (alt.) / 7. Watch Yourself - acoustic / 8. Watch Yourself (alt.) / 9. Eighteen is Over the Hill (alt.) / 10. Until the Poorest People Have Money to Spend (alt.) / 11. In the Country (alt.) / 12. As Kind as Summer (alt.) / 13. As the World Rises and Falls / 14. Our Drummer Always Plays in the Nude / 15. Help, I'm a Rock (single) / 16. Smell of Incense (single) / 17. Unfree Child (single) / 18. A Child's Guide to Good and Evil - Radio Spot
Rating : 6
10. A Door Inside Your Mind (4 Cds Boxset - Cherry Red Records 2023 (CD 4 on boxset
CDs:
1. Part One / 2. Vol. 2 / 3. A Child's Guide to Good and Evil / 4. Underneath Butterfly Skies
Rating : 9
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - October 29 - 2017
123 Part One - 1967
149 A Child's Guide to Good & Evil - 1968
154 The Smoke - 1968
192 Vol. 2 - 1967
400 Volume One - 1966
864 Markley, A Group - 1970
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Nov. 1 - 2017 - "rateyourmusic.com"
My Suggestion For a 160 minutes (app.) 2 CD's Best Of Compilation:
1. High Coin ( Parks ) Part One
2. Transparent Day ( Markley/Harris) Part One
3. Here's Where You Belong ( P.F. Sloan) Part One
4. If You Want This Love ( Knight) Part One
5. Don't Let Anything Stand in Your Way ( Markley/Fowley) Volume One
6. Smell of Incense ( Markley/Morgan ) Vol. 2
7. Sassafras ( Wheeler) Volume One*
8. One Day ( Lloyd) Companion / Volume One*
9. She May Call You Up Tonight (Brown/Martin) Volume One*
10. I Won't Hurt You ( Markley/Harris) Part One
11. Queen Nymphet ( Markley/Harris ) Vol. 2
12. Tracy Had a Hard Day Sunday ( Markley/Harris ) Vol. 2
13. Eighteen is Over the Hill ( Markley/Morgan ) A Child's Guise to Good and Evil
14. My Dog Back Home ( Markley/Harris ) Where's My Daddy
15. Delicate Fawn ( Markley/Harris ) Vol. 2
16. Next Plane Home ( Markley/Lloyd ) Markley a Group
17. Little Ruby Rain ( Markley/Harris ) Markley a Group
18. Truck Stop ( Markley/Harris ) Markley a Group
19. Ritual #1( Markley/Harris/Ware ) A Child's Guise to Good and Evil
20. Where's My Daddy ( Markley/Lloyd ) Where's My Daddy
21. Booker T & His Electric Shock ( Markley/Harris ) Markley a Group
22. As The World Rises and Falls ( Markley/Morgan ) A Child's Guise to Good and Evil
23. Where Money Rules Everything ( Markley/Lloyd ) Where's My Daddy
24. Roger the Rocket Ship ( Markley/Harris ) Markley a Group
25. A Child's Guise to Good and Evil ( Markley/Harris ) A Child's Guise to Good and Evil
26. Everyone's Innocent Daughter ( Markley/Harris ) Where's My Daddy
27. Elegant Ellen ( Markley/Harris ) Markley a Group
28. Free as a Bird ( Markley/Harris ) Where's My Daddy
29. Outside / Inside ( Markley/Harris ) Markley a Group
30. Will You Walk With Me ( Dobson/Harris) Part One
31. Ouverture WCPAEB Pt. II ( Markley/Harris ) Vol. 2
32. Until the Poorest People Have Money to Spend ( Markley/Harris ) A Child's Guise to Good and Evil
33. Hup Two Hup Two ( Markley/Harris ) Where's My Daddy
34. A Child of a Few Hours Is Burning to Death ( Markley/Morgan ) A Child's Guise to Good and Evil
35. Unfree Child ( Markley/Harris ) Vol. 2
36. Scuse Me Miss Rose ( Johnston ) Part One
37. Cowboys And Indians ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
38. Gold Is The Colour Of Thought ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
39. The Daisy Intermission ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
40. Fogbound ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
41. Song Thru' Perception ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
42. Umbrella ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
43. Philosophy ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
44. Odyssey ( Lloyd ) The Smoke
45. Wanted Dead or Alive ( Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
46. Good to be Around ( Lloyd ) Companion
47. Amblin ( Lloyd ) Companion
48. My Wife Likes to ( Harris ) Companion
49. John Works Hard ( Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
50. The Bells (Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
51. End of the Line ( Lloyd ) Companion
52. Amblin ( Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
53. I'll Cry From my Grave (Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
54. Misty Morning (Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
55. My Wife Likes to (Lloyd/Harris ) Companion
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