Grass and Wild Strawberries

by The Collectors

Grass and Wild Strawberries cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1969
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 38:09
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Claire Lawrence, Glenn Miller, Ross Turney, Dave Hassinger, Howie Vickers, Bill Henderson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally conceived as the soundtrack for an experimental stage play by Canadian author George Ryga, this Vancouver group's sophomore effort is deeply ambitious. The sweeping, orchestrated arrangements push their soaring vocal harmonies into expansive, progressive-leaning conceptual territory.

Genres

Descriptors: experimental, orchestral, storytelling, retro, vintage

Tracklist

  1. Prelude (4:51)
  2. Grass and Wild Strawberries (2:03)
  3. Things I Remember (2:49)
  4. Don't Turn Away (From Me) (3:12)
  5. Teletype Click (2:57)
  6. Seventeenth Summer (3:31)
  7. The Long Rain (2:58)
  8. My Love Delights Me (2:25)
  9. Dream of Desolation (2:35)
  10. Rainbow of Fire (2:54)
  11. Early Morning (3:35)
  12. Sheep on the Hillside (4:16)

Credits

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