However, the album's finest moment was In My Mind Lives A Forest (the flip to their first 45) - an exquisite slice of pop-psychedelia. Aside from an almost four minute medley of Shake, Knock On Wood and Respect, other notable songs include a pretty good cover of Stephen Stills' For What Its Worth, a fuzzy Taxman-like song called Weatherman and an Eastern-style slice of psychedelia, Snow And Ice And Burning Sand. Their album includes the first 45 and Discount City, a sorta bluesy honky tonk, which was the 'A' side of their third 45. Carter) would appear on Hardwater (fellow Coloradans The Astronauts in disguise), Yankee Dollar, Horses and Strawberry Alarm Clock LPs. He would go into songwriting and his compositions (with J. Tim Gilbert, the main songwriter, also released a solo 45 Early October/If We Stick Together (UNI 55045) 1967 - folkie fare which has been compared to Tim Buckley. One of the best, a beautifully crafted piece of pop-psych was originally released as Fe Fi Fo Fum, but was almost immediately withdrawn and reissued with a different title Blood Of Oblivion, even securing a U.K. Although they never again equalled this commercial success they continued to make some excellent 45s. However, it was quickly leased to UNI and became the band's best known song making the No. Almost unbelievably they were unearthed by Phil Spector who signed them to a management contract and a giant publicity campaign was planned but never really materialised.Ī year or so later That Acapulco Gold appeared on the local IP label and Frank Slay, a local producer, bought the rights and released it on his Chicory label. They first formed in 1965 when they specialised in playing beat and R&B and they were a regular attraction at local frat parties.
Only the first 45 appears on their album which is recommended.
"O, tis a precious apothegmatical Pedant, who will find matter enough to dilate a whole day of the first invention of Fy, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an English-man".A great pop-punk-psychedelic outfit from Denver, Colorado. It is also referred to a year later by the English dramatist Thomas Nashe, in Have with you to Saffron-walden, 1596 - this version being the first to use the 'I smell the blood of an Englishman' line that is now well-known from Jack the Giant Killer: The earliest citation of it in print that I know of is in a play by George Peele, The Old Wives' Tale, which was printed in England in 1595:Ĭonquer him that can, came for his lady bright, The source is anonymous and the date is unknown. It is best known from the English fable - Jack the Giant Killer, which was first published in 1711, although the elements of the story were undoubtedly repeated verbally long before then: As with many early English expressions the spelling is arbitrary and there are many variants in print: Apart from when quoting Shakespeare or Jack the Giant Killer, there's little reason ever to use it. The words are nonsense and the phrase has no allusory meaning. What's the origin of the phrase 'Fie, fih, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman'?
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