Kites Are Fun

by The Free Design

Kites Are Fun cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1968
  • Label: Project 3
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:04
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut from the Dedrick siblings is an exquisite, harmonically complex masterclass in sunshine pop and easy listening. Featuring complex, jazz-inflected vocal arrangements and incredibly bright, optimistic lyricism, the album has gained significant cult status as a high-water mark of sophisticated 1960s pop production.

Genres

Descriptors: vocal-group, melodic, harmonies, orchestral, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Kites Are Fun (2:34)
  2. Make The Madness Stop (3:07)
  3. When Love Is Young (2:49)
  4. The Proper Ornaments (2:45)
  5. My Brother Woody (2:34)
  6. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (2:50)
  7. Don't Turn Away (3:55)
  8. Umbrellas (2:21)
  9. Michelle (3:08)
  10. Never Tell The World (2:28)
  11. A Man And A Woman (3:02)
  12. Stay Another Season (4:31)

Credits

  • The Free Design - primary artist
  • Charles E. Murphy - artwork [cover art]
  • Sandy Dedrick - vocals, keyboards
  • Bruce Dedrick - vocals, trombone, guitar, written-by
  • Russ Savakus - bass
  • Bill Lavorgna - drums
  • Sandy Zynczak - written-by
  • Stephanie Dedrick - written-by

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