Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: Who's Gonna Buy? The Lemon Dips
Company: De Wolfe Ltd.
Catalog: DW/LP 3114
Year: 1969
Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+
Comments: UK issue; mono pressing
Available: 1
Price: $350.00
We're not sure what to make of this one. We bought it from noted UK dealer Peter Bonner who didn't know all that much about it either. Released by the small De Wolfe label, it's what the English call a "library" record; literally an album that was recorded in miniscule quantities for use by films, television or radio shows (typically as background/soundtrack) music. Unlike soundtracks, "library" albums were never intended for public sale, hence their rarity.
Recorded by an anonymous studio band, musically the set's a major curiosity, divided into a side of vocals and a side with instrumental versions of the same material. Assuming J. Hawksworth and P. Reno were the main members (they're given writing credits for all 14 selections), 1969's "Who's Gonna Buy The Lemon Dips" offers up a wonderful selection of psych moves. Tracks such as "I Am the Man", "Who's Gonna Buy?" and "Unpack Your Bags" offered up great tunes, excellent vocals, all punched up with tons of feedback guitar and walls of keyboards.
"Who's Gonna Buy? The Lemon Dips" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) I Am the Man (J. Hawksworth) - 2:52
2.) Who's Gonna Buy? (P. Reno) - 2:40
3.) Traveling Man (P. Reno) - 2:25
4.) Unpack Your Bags (J. Hawksworth) - 2:06
5.) Poor Lonely Woman (J. Hawksworth) - 2:34
6.) Winter Song (P. Reno) - 3:37
7.) Wild Types (instrumental) (J. Hawksworth) - 2:27
(side 2)
1.) Who's Gonna Buy? (instrumental) (P. Reno) - 2:40
2.) Traveling Man (instrumental) (P. Reno) - 2:25
3.) Unpack Your Bags (instrumental) (J. Hawksworth) - 2:06
4.) Poor Lonely Woman (instrumental) (J. Hawksworth) - 2:34
5.) Winter Song (instrumental) (P. Reno) - 3:37
6.) Wild Types (instrumental) (J. Hawksworth) - 2:27
7.) Leather People (J. Hawksworth) - 0:54
(In case you were wondering where was this music used? Three of the tracks were used in the soundtrack to the forgotten film "The Haunted House of Horror" (released as "The Dark" in the States). Sound familiar? Probably not. The film was released by the infamous American International and is renown among cult fans for starring a then 30 + year old Frankie Avalon as a drug addicted London teenage loser who may have killed his best friend while goofing off in a supposedly haunted house.)
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