New Colony Six - At The River's Edge

We've posted about Chicago's New Colony Six before. It was a write-up on their debut single, I Confess/Dawn Is Breaking. You can read that here. Today we return with the Flip-Side of their second single, At The River's Edge. The single was released in April of 1966 on Centaur Records, a subsidiary of Cameo Parkway Records, and was composed by band member, Craig Wally Kemp. The band soon took a softer approach to their music, but this was a raver in the first order.

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!

Song of the Week: The New Colony Six - I Confess/Dawn Is Breaking

I Confess

Dawn Is Breaking

A very astute reader from Nitro-Retro noted from our post on The Scorpions' song, Too Many Lovers, that the organ work on that song shared a nice similarity to the Flip-Side of the debut single from US band, The New Colony Six. I sauntered (cooly) to the record collection, played the song and thought to myself: "yeah, that's a cool coincidence." So we of course have to follow our flowing stream of consciousness all the way from Manchester to the Netherlands to San Diego and now to Chicago.

I Confess/Dawn Is Breaking was the debut single for The New Colony Six way back in November, 1965 on the Centaur Records label. The band was at this point, Ray Graffia, Chick James, Pat McBride, Craig Kemp, Wally Kemp and Gerry Van Kollenburg. Kollenburg and Graffia wrote the A-Side; Kemp the Flip-side.  I Confess is the stronger of the two, but Dawn Is Breaking is pretty cool...and of course, you can compare it to The Scorpions 1965 Flip-Side, Too Many Lovers. Go crazy kids!

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!