Elmer Gantrys Velvet Opera. Brilliant Album ahead of its time. I still have the original vinyl copy of this album which includes Hudson & Ford who went on to many other bands such as the Strawbs, I was pleased to find this copy on CD.

Jan 15,  · After the release of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, the band quickly began to disintegrate. Guitarist Colin Forster left first, quickly followed by Terry/Gantry himself. Trimming the name to Velvet Opera, the band soldiered on and released a second album, Ride a Hustler’s Dream, in Shortly thereafter, Ford and drummer Richard Hudson.

Elmer Gantry went on to lead Stretch, a band with a hit single and subsequently notorious for being booked out on tour as a fake Fleetwood Mac. The second Elmer Gantry LP is less well formed - more rock and soul and less complex psych - a sad step backward/5(8).

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, an Album by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. Released in on Akarma (catalog no. AK; CD). Genres: Psychedelic Rock.

Brand new to me but a staggering forty five years old Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera’s eponymous album is enjoying a re-release on Grapefruit Records and it’s a really entertaining listen indeed. Starting out as an R&B/Soul band called the Five Proud Walkers, EGVO took a pretty dramatic change in direction in after supporting Pink Floyd.

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Elmer Gantry is a American opera by Robert Aldridge to a libretto by Herschel Garfein based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis of the same isoomenuchmilanrilitiparficat.xyzinfo Nashville Opera presented the world première in November Elmer Gantry was conceived almost two decades before its première. The Boston Lyric Opera and Boston Music Theatre Project put on a workshop production of the first act in

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The sole album to be made by the original line-up, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera was one of the most original and consistently entertaining albums to emerge from the British psychedelic scene.