The Exciters - Tell HimUK first pressing, 1963 VG+ VG

They wanted to go beyond the darkness and gloom which seemed to surround so much of their music until that point

Thee Oh Sees’ album “Help” (whose Brigid Dawson hand-sewed the tapestry adorning the album’s front cover)

a hidden gem

and how a home can become unrecognizable

+Pull out poster*

predicting the arrival of the Islamic Revolution

but connoisseurs of 60’s music have gradually become aware of its charms

The album includes the singles ‘Drink The Sunshine’

Dancer and B3 Hammond player Leon Gardner moved from his Texas to Los Angeles sometime in the mid '60s

his original label home with The Beach Boys

its title’s origin a jumbled misremembering of the lesser-known Motown song “He Was Really Saying Something

the group metamorphosed into the leading exponents of British folk rock