slowed nation

sped up nation

The Sandpipers

Burt Russell

Wes Farrell

One Kind Media

Hang On Sloopy (slowed + sped up + reverb)

Overdue (With Bonus Tracks)

Guantanamera

Original Soundtrack

The Strawberry Alarm Clock

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Gary Lane

Chris Beckett

Silver Dollar Saloon

Favorite Children's Songs

Overdue

Misty Roses

The Wonder Of You

Party Playtime

A&M Digitally Remastered Best

Hang On Sloopy / Skidrow Joe

Overdue (Extended Version)

Hang on Sloopy

A Gift Of Song

Come Saturday Morning

Spanish Album

Softly

All over but the Crying / Ballad to a Missing Lover

Worldwide CD debut of the folk revivalist's 1967 debut album. 12 tracks, including their first chart hit, the top 10 title smash.

Judging by the popularity of the Sandpipers' debut long-player, Guantanamera (1966), the mid-'60s were primed for an easier contrast to the increasingly raucous strains of rock  roll. The idea of overhauling modern material ? from a variety of sources and genres ? into soft and affective ballads and in English and Spanish was (and remains) a novel concept. Behind the scenes, staff producer Tommy LiPuma and musical arrangers Nick DeCaro and Mort Garson were molding vocalists Jim Brady, Mike Piano, and Richard Shoff ? and the often uncredited Pamela Ramcier. They wanted to create a product structurally similar to what Herb Alpert ? co-owner of the Sandpipers' A&M Records label ? had done with his Tijuana Brass. The plan worked as the LP went all the way to a very respectable number 13 on the Pop Album chart. The title track ? from Pete Seeger's adaptation of a poem by Cuban writer Jose Marti ? fared even better, landing in the Top Ten Singles survey. It was followed into the countdown by a rich and dreamy Latin-flavored reading of the "garage" classic "Louie Louie" ? in Spanish, no less. That bilingual performance style permeates several melodies that would have been familiar to the intended audience.The former evokes the sanguine quirkiness of the mid-'60s Harpers Bizarre quintet, while the latter embodies the opposite end of the emotive spectrum as the Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil selection is a noir ballad that offers darker sonic shading than the more popular versions by Scott Walker, Gene Pitney, or the Sandpipers' easy listening rival Percy Faith. In 2000, Collectors' Choice Music paired Guantanamera with the combo's eponymous The Sandpipers (1967) onto a single CD ? making both available for the first time in decades.

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