One of the best things about buying records nowadays is often they are cheap, so a cat can dig crazy sounds at a low low price. And sometimes if the record looks interesting I just pick it up like it ain't no thing, even if I've never heard anything about it before. Such was the case when I bought Anita Harris' Somebody's In My Orchard. It was strictly wowsville. It has a very odd cover. It shows an attractive woman, being Harris, holding a handgun. This seemed very strange since it came from the peace and love era. Later I found the cover with the odd album covers on Facebook. I couldn't even believe it. That blew my mind.
It's not an easy album to like. It's off the beaten track. Hepcat Hermits often like things that are off the beaten track, as such things are much more mind expanding than, say, drugs. However, we rarely like something just because it's off the beaten track. We like things because they're good. We also like things for the best darn reason in the world. We like them because we like them.
I listened to the record and my life was changed. Well, actually my life stayed the same, just like I wanted it to, but I loved the album a lot. She's a heckuva singer from England. She also apparently acted in some movies, including one of the Carry On movies of the sixties. Here she is doing judo and performing back in 1966 which is the year it always is in my mind. It was a year before the summer of love, which sucked. It sucked so much, that it didn't even not suck. That's pretty darn sucky. The summer of love was when they started to come up with the idea that if you want to be a "real" person you have to go to outdoor festivals or else you're a sellout or fake. That's, dare I say it, wrongo bongo.
Hepcat Hermits may dig the summer of love in retrospect, but would very likely not attend an outdoor festival. If they did it would be only by themselves or in the company of a groovy chick with Hepcat Hermit sympathies.
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