
ITALIAN IMPORT: 2CD UNIQUE 5 FOLD PACKAGE 20 BIT MASTERING
(INDIVIDUAL CDS OF EACH ALBUM ARE ALSO AVAILABLE)
This 2CD compilation contains the complete four albums released by premier 1967 Boston artist, Orpheus. Orpheus music spanned the broadest spectrum of all the Boston Sound artists. Their first major hit, "Can’t Find The Time To Tell You”, which after 35 years still remains a standard, was most-recently featured in Jim Carrey’s motion picture “Me, Myself & Irene”, performed by Atlantic artist, Hootie & The Blowfish, and has had at least a dozen other covers. As live performers Orpheus toured regularly with The Who, 10 Years After, Blood Sweat and Tears, Janis Joplin, and Cream. Their vocal sound and unique harmonies ranked them #10 in the 1969 Playboy Best Vocal Album Poll for their second album “Orpheus Ascending” which includes outstanding singles such as "I'll Fly", the group's live show-stopper,"Borneo" and "Just got back". For the 3rd album, "Joyful”, well known songwriters contributed specially written material such as the haunting album/chart single "Brown Arms in Houston" written for them by lyricist Joe Henry, John Denver's co-writer, and the cross-pop/gospel, "By The Size of My Shoes" written for them by "Rhinestone Cowboy" composer, Larry Weiss. The song "Joyful/Of Enlightenment" concludes an all too brief but lasting chronicle of the beauty of the original Orpheus group. After this third Orpheus album was released, the original group broke up. Two years later, original lead, Bruce Arnold and Orpheus writer Steve Martin formed the basis of what became the 4th Orpheus album, an extraordinary mixture of old and new. Steve Martin (not heard until the 4th album) had written Door Knob Song, Music Machine, and Congress Alley for the early group, and fit into the group’s end period with the majority of the album’s songs and its musical progression and ultimate end. Martin's poignant, Tomorrow Man, on the 4th album signified a looking back then moving on.
DISC 1: (1ST ALBUM)
1. I'VE NEVER SEEN LOVE LIKE THIS
2. LESLEY'S WORLD
3. CONGRESS ALLEY
4. MUSIC MACHINE
5. DOOR KNOB
6. I'LL STAY WITH YOU
7. I CAN'T FIND THE TIME TO TELL YOU
8. NEVER IN MY LIFE
9. THE DREAM
(4TH ALBUM)
10. BIG GREEN PEARL
11. MONKEY DEMON
12. I GETS WORSE EVERY TIME
13. I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER
14. NUNNERY
15. BY THE WAY
16. SWEET LIFE
17. LUCIANNE
18. TOMORROW MAN
19. RAINBOW PEDDLER
20. I'LL BE THERE
21. BIG GREEN PEARL VERSION 2
DISC 2:
(2ND ALBUM)
1. I'LL FLY
2. JUST GOT BACK
3. MINE'S YOURS
4. DON'T BE SO SERIOUS
5. SO FAR AWAY IN LOVE
6. SHE'S NOT THERE
7. LOVE OVER HERE
8. BORNEO
9. JUST A LITTLE BIT
10. WALK AWAY RENEE
11. ROSES
12. MAGIC AIR
(3RD ALBUM)
13. BY THE SIZE OF MY SHOES
14. ME ABOUT YOU
15. MAY I LOOK AT YOU
16. TO TOUCH OUR LOVE AGAIN
17. LOVIN' YOU
18. BROWN ARMS IN HOUSTON
19. AS THEY ALL FALL
20. I CAN MAKE THE SUN RISE
21. JOYFUL
22. OF ENLIGHTENMENT