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14 mars 2007

The SOPWITH CAMEL

Sopwith Camel was a rock music band associated with the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene of the late 1960s.

The band formed in late 1965 and their line up consisted of vocalist and saxophone player Peter Kraemer, guitarists Terry MacNeil and William Sievers, bassist Martin Beard and drummer Norman Mayell. Sopwith Camel is best known for being the second San Francisco band* to get a recording contract with a national record label  and the first to have a Top 40 hit.

*( Sopwith Camel was the second San Francisco band to be signed by a major record company -- right after Jefferson Airplane and before the Grateful Dead)  

Sopwith Camel released their first album (and only album recording during the 1960s), the eponymous Sopwith Camel, in 1967 on the Kama Sutra Records label . The band's only hit single, "Hello, Hello", became the first hit title to emerge from the San Francisco rock scene and reached #26 on the U.S. pop music charts in January 1967. The band's first album, and the vaudevillian "Hello, Hello" in particular, had more in common soundwise with earlier songs by The Lovin' Spoonful than typical 1960s psychedelic rock; producer Erik Jacobsen produced for both Sopwith Camel and The Lovin' Spoonful.  The band was unable to follow up the success of their first album and hit single and disbanded later in 1967. 

Sopwith Camel reformed in 1971 and recorded their second album, 1972's The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon on Warner Bros. Records' Reprise label. The band broke up again in 1974. Sopwith Camel's debut album has been re-released twice as Frantic Desolation in 1986 and as Hello Hello Again in 1990.

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SOPWITH CAMEL "Hello, hello"

 

Le Sopwith Camel fut un avion de chasse britannique de la Première Guerre mondiale. Le Sopwith Camel fut sûrement le meilleur avion construit par le bureau d'étude de Sopwith. Environ 6 000 Sopwith Camel ont été produit à partir du 22 décembre 1916.

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