go back, the crabby appleton anthology

• First-ever complete anthology of highly-regarded early 70s American proto-power pop band Crabby Appleton.
• Includes both albums, alternative mix/non-LP singles and the restoration of two brief tracks only included on original 8-track release.

After the demise of Curt Boettcher’s late 60s project The Millennium, gifted singer and songwriter Michael Fennelly joined forces with LA club band Stonehenge to form Crabby Appleton.

Signed to Elektra, they made their debut with the glorious ‘Go Back’, a hit single that married a mid-60s pop sensibility with early 70s studio advances to stand as a proto-power pop classic.

A slightly different mix of the track featured on their self-titled debut album, which attracted rave reviews from the underground press and sold reasonably well.

But the band were unable to follow ‘Go Back’ with another hit single, and after second album ‘Rotten To The Core!’ made little impact, they disintegrated.

The first-ever complete compilation of the band’s work, ‘Go Back: The Crabby Appleton Anthology’ includes both albums and a raft of singles (including rare mono mixes and non- LP tracks) as well as two miniature tracks that were only included on the first album’s 8- track release and are therefore making their first digital appearance.

Featuring a new 5000 word essay on the band, and housed in a stylish digipak, ‘Go Back’ is the definite document of a fine group that deserve to be remembered as far more than one-hit wonders.

Track Listing:

1. GO BACK
2. THE OTHER SIDE
3. CATHERINE
4. PEACE BY PEACE
5. TO ALL MY FRIENDS
6. LAST NIGHT IN YOUR SLEEP, JOHN
7. TRY
8. CAN’T LIVE MY LIFE
9. SOME MADNESS
10. HUNGER FOR LOVE
11. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE
12. LAST NIGHT IN YOUR SLEEP, FRED
Bonus tracks
13. GO BACK (mono single, alternative version)
14. TRY (mono single, alternative version)
15. MY LITTLE LUCY (mono single, alternative version of Lucy)
16. SOME MADNESS (mono single)
17. GRAB ON
18. CAN’T LIVE MY LIFE (mono single, alternative version)
1-12 The album Crabby Appleton (Elektra EKS-74067, released June 1970) (tracks 6 and 12 only on 8-track, Elektra ET8 4067)
13-14 Single, Elektra EKM-45687, released April 1970
15-16 Single, Elektra EKM-45702, released October 1970
17-18 Single, Elektra EKM-45716, released January 1971

1. SMOKIN’ IN THE MORNING
2. TOMORROW’S A NEW DAY
3. IT’S SO HARD
4. MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
5. YOU MAKE ME HOT
6. ONE MORE TIME
7. LUCY
8. PAPER TO WRITE ON
9. LOOKIN’ FOR LOVE
10. LOVE CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING
11. GONNA SAVE YOU (FROM THAT)
Bonus tracks
12. TOMORROW’S A NEW DAY (mono single)
13. IT’S SO HARD (mono single)
1-11 The album Rotten To The Core! (Elektra EKS-74106, released October 1971)
12-13 Single, Elektra EKM-45754, released November 1971