(Classic Rock) Sagittarius - 2 альбома - Reissue - 1967-1969, MP3, 320 kbps

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01.Another Time 00:02:40
02.Song To The Magic Frog (Will You Ever Know) 00:02:48
03.You Know I've Found A Way 00:02:01
04.The Keeper Of The Games 00:01:53
05.Glass 00:02:26
06.Would You Like To Go 00:02:37
07.My World Fell Down 00:02:54
08.Hotel Indiscreet 00:02:12
09.I'm Not Living Here 00:02:27
10.Musty Dusty 00:03:12
11.The Truth Is Not Real 00:02:49

Bonus track:

12.My World Fell Down (Mono Single Version) 00:03:47
13.Hotel Indiscreet (Mono Single Version) 00:02:21
14.Another Time (Mono Single Version) 00:02:42
15.You Know I've Found A Way (Mono Single Version) 00:02:02
16.The Truth Is Not Real (Mono Single Version) 00:03:01
17.I'm Not Living Here (Mono Single Version) 00:02:22
18.The Keeper Of The Games (Mono Single Version) 00:01:47
19.Virgo 00:02:24
20.Libra 00:04:04
21.Pisces 00:02:53

All 11 tracks from the 1967 LP, with the addition of seven previously unreleased items and a couple cuts from non-LP singles. Although the production is beautiful and the songwriting melodic, the material is really too cloying to qualify this as a lost classic. When there's even a bit of a serious or melancholic edge — as on the graceful opening track "Another Time," or Gary Usher's strange and stunning slice of psych-pop, "The Truth Is Not Real" — it's much more memorable. Otherwise, this is kind of like the lesser fairy-tale, sing-songy British psychedelia of the time, but with state-of-the-art L.A. '60s production. The bonus cuts are similar to the album, highlighted by the gorgeous instrumental "Sister Marie," although the non-LP single "Hotel Indiscreet" is silly fluff. The version of "My World Fell Down" that appeared on Present Tense was brutally edited, but fear not: one of the bonus cuts is the classic original single version, all of its glory (and avant-garde bridge of found noise) intact.

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01. In My Room 00:02:09
02. From You Unto Us 00:01:48
03. Will You Ever See Me 00:02:14
04. Gladys 00:02:47
05. I Sing My Song 00:02:46
06. The Blue Marble 00:03:00
07. Lend Me A Smile 00:03:12
08. I Still Can See Your Face 00:02:53
09. I See In You 00:03:12
10. Cloud Talk 00:02:26

Bonus Tracks:

11. In My Room (Single Version) 00:02:08
12. Navajo Girl 00:02:39
13. I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City 00:02:30
14. I Still Can See Your Face (Single Version) 00:02:54
15. Will You Ever See Me (Unreleased Version) 00:02:22

The Blue Marble was the second (and final) Sagittarius album, released in 1969 by the newly-formed Together Records. The title song is by Lee Mallory and Gary Usher. By and large a Gary Usher creation, the album remained in obscurity for most of its post-release, due to the collapse of Usher's Together Records Label. On this album, Usher used the Moog Synthesizer extensively, and left lead vocals relatively bare (in contrast to previous Sagittarius material, on which the vocals were showered with harmonies). Also in contrast to Present Tense, Usher takes the majority of the lead vocals, with collaborator Curt Boettcher singing lead only on In My Room and Will You Ever See Me and Chuck Girard (whom Gary Usher had known during his days producing the Hondells) singing lead on Gladys and I See In You. Most of the songs were written in the psychedelic pop mold. The album is also notable for its forays in to Country and Western music styles, at many times utilizing pedal steel guitar (played by Red Rhodes). The record spawned a minor hit with the cover of the Beach Boys' In My Room (which Usher Co-wrote with Brian Wilson), which featured Curt Boettcher on vocals and reached #86 on the charts.

The album was reissued on CD by Poptones, and features 5 bonus tracks. 4 of the tracks were from singles (two of which weren't included on the original release, the Sandy Salisbury/Gary Usher composition Navajo Girl, sung by Chuck Girard, and a cover of Harry Nilsson's I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City ), and the fifth track is an alternate version of Will You Ever See Me. The track listing below is for the original LP.

On October 28, 2008, Sundazed Records reissued the album on both CD and Vinyl. The new reissue is sourced from the original analog master tapes, unlike previous reissues which were sourced from a vinyl copy. The reissue includes the Navajo Girl and I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City singles as bonus tracks.

Usher had been involved with music as a songwriter since the early 1960s (including writing lyrics for some of Brian Wilson's earliest songs), and soon branched out into production work. After considerable success as a producer, he eventually became a staff producer for Columbia Records. It was at this position that, during 1967, he produced Chad & Jeremy. They had played him several songs, which he felt lacked any commercial potential. He had heard a demo around that time for a song called "My World Fell Down" (also recorded by the British pop group The Ivy League), and he played it for them, thinking that it was a sure-fire hit. They balked at the idea of covering the song, and Usher felt that he would do it himself.
He brought in Los Angeles session musicians, as well as drafting friends such as Beach Boys touring alumni Glen Campbell (who did the lead vocal on the track)[1] and Bruce Johnston for vocals. He finished off the recording by adding a musique concrète bridge. He presented it to Columbia executives under the group name Sagittarius, named after his astrological sign.
The single, reached #70 in the Billboard Hot 100. When there was pressure from Columbia for the group to tour, it was revealed that a group did not exist. Usher did, however, start working on an album for Columbia under the Sagittarius name. Most of this work was done in conjunction with Curt Boettcher.
Usher had met Boettcher when he was working with a group that he led and produced called The Ballroom. They were signed to Warner Bros. Records, and they recorded an album which was not released at the time. Usher, however, was impressed enough by Boettcher's talents that he utilized him as a songwriter, musician, and producer (two of the album's tracks were the same recordings made for the unreleased Ballroom album, though they appeared in stereo) throughout the album.
Prior to releasing an album, another single appeared, with the song "Hotel Indiscreet" as the A-side. The B-sides for some of the Sagittarius singles consisted of instrumentals that Usher had originally recorded for another studio project. As was the case with "My World Fell Down", the bridge featured an unrelated comedy bit by The Firesign Theatre, another Usher discovery, but unlike the previous single, it failed to chart.
In 1968, the Present Tense album was released, though it was a commercial failure. Because Clive Davis disliked the usage of musique concrete in the two singles, Usher removed these segments from the album versions. The album version of "My World Fell Down" featured a few bars of additional music between the first and second verses, that did not appear in the single version, and both were mixed in stereo for the album.
However, in 1969, Usher left his job at Columbia Records in order to start his own label, Together Records. Usher started work on another Sagittarius album, The Blue Marble, but this time, he contributed more as a musician, particularly as a vocalist. As he had done with the Byrds album The Notorious Byrd Brothers, he made extensive use of a Moog synthesizer throughout the record.
A cover of "In My Room", culled as a single from The Blue Marble, became a minor hit, peaking at #86 on Hot 100, though the album failed to chart. Several more non-album singles were released by Together Records, before then end of the label.
Both Sagittarius albums have been reissued on CD, and both contain bonus tracks (including single versions of Sagittarius songs, which in some cases differ from the album versions).