FLYING CIRCUS
FLYING CIRCUS - PREPARED IN PEACE
FLYING CIRCUS "PREPARED IN PEACE" WAS ONLY ALBUM RELEASED IN UK ON HARVEST LABEL IN 1970, WITH UNDERGROUND COUNTRY ROCK. BEING JUST AS GOOD LP THEN CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG "DEJA VU". THE ONLY COMPLAINT IS ALBUM COVER SLEEVE, BEING WORST EVER.
FLYING CIRCUS
FLYING CIRCUS SINGED TO EMI RECORDS IN LATE 1968 AND MADE ONE OF THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE AT AN OUTDOOR CONCERT IN SYDNEY'S DOMAIN ON AUSTRALIA DAY 1969. THEIR FIRST HIT SINGLE IN AUSTRALIA WAS WRITTEN BY BUZZ CASON & MAC GAYDEN, WHO WERE FROM NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA, & ROCK SINGER, MUSICIANS. THE TRACK WAS CALLED "HAYRIDE" RELEASED IN EARLY 1969 AND WAS LABELLED BUBBLEGUM GROUP BECAUSE CHIMPMUNKS SOUND. ALTHOUGH THERE STAGE PERFORMANCE AND ALBUMS WAS IN COUNTRY ROCK VEIN. OF NOTE IS SIDE 2 WHICH WAS A BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST COVER "EARLY MORNING". FLYING CIRCUS RELEASED TEN SINGLES (OF WHICH HAD FIVE HIT'S IN SINGLES CHARTS), ONE EP AND 5 STUDIO ALBUMS UP UNTIL 1974 WHEN THEY RUN THEIR COURSE. "PREPARED IN PEACE" WAS ONLY ALBUM RELEASED IN UK ON HARVEST LABEL IN 1970, WITH UNDERGROUND COUNTRY ROCK. BEING JUST AS GOOD LP THEN CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG "DE JA VUE".
FLYING CIRCUS WAS ACTIVE 1968 - 1975, IN FOLK ROCK, SOFT ROCK, PSYCHEDELIC ROCK, UNDERGROUND COUNTRY ROCK GENRES.
SINGLES
HAYRIDE/EARLY MORNING 1969 (#3 SYDNEY, #1BRISBANE, #23 NATIONALLY).
LA LA /TRAIN 1969 (##5 SYDNEY, #1BRISBANE, #1 ADELAIDE, #4 MELBOURNE, #9 NATIONALLY).
RUN RUN RUN/ALL FALL DOWN 1969 (#9 SYDNEY, #36 BRISBANE, #25 MELBOURNE, #21 NATIONALLY).
GISELLE/ISRAEL 1970 (#15 BRISBANE)
TURN AWAY/LONGEST DAY 1970 (#27 BRISBANE, #51 ADELAIDE)
IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE/SOMERVILLE 1971
FINDING MY WAY/BALLARD OF SACRED FALLS 1971
OLD ENOUGH TO BREAK MY HEART/TRAIN RIDE 1972 (#19 CANADA)
MAPLE LADY/GREEN PATCH 1972
JABBER JABBER/GYPSY ROAD 1974
EP
FRONTIER - "I REMEMBER JO ANNE"/I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT"/"THE DAY THE RAINS CAME"/ "WHEN WILL I SEE YOU AS YOU"
ALBUMS
FLYING CIRCUS (SELF TITLED) 1969
PREPARED IN PEACE 1970
BONZA BEAUT & BOOM BOOM (1971)
GYPSY ROAD 1972
LAST LAUGH 1974
STEAM TRAINS & COUNTRY LANES 1977 ("BEST OF" ALBUM)
FLYING CIRCUS 1969 - 1971 ("BEST OF" ALBUM)