The Fugs: It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest LP
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Reprise 1968, Saksa-painos.
The Fugs – It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
Label:
Reprise Records – 6305, Reprise Records – RS 6305
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
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A1Crystal Liaison
Arranged By – Dan Kootch*, Ken Pine, Richard Alderson, Warren Smith
Written-By – Sanders*, Pine*, Weaver*
A2Ramses II Is Dead, My Love
Arranged By – Al Schactman*
Written-By – Sanders*
A3Burial Waltz
Arranged By, Conductor – Warren Smith
Written-By – Sanders*, Warren Smith
A4Wide Wide River
Written-By – Weaver*, Goldbart*
A5Life Is Strange
Written-By – Kupferberg*
B1Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel
Written-By – Sanders*
B2Marijuana
Written-By – Bob Dorough, Sanders*, Kupferberg*
B3aLeprechaun
Written-By – Weaver*
B3bWhen The Mode Of The Music Changes
Arranged By – Dan Kootch*, Ed Sanders, Ken Pine, Warren Smith
Written-By – Kupferberg*
B3cWhimpers From The Jello
Written-By – Sanders*
B4aThe Divine Toe (Part I)
Arranged By – Arthur Jenkins
Written-By – Sanders*
B4bWe're Both Dead Now, Alice
Written-By – Sanders*, Weaver*
B4cLife Is Funny
Written-By – Kupferberg*
B4dGrope Need (Part I)
Written-By – Sanders*
B4eTuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus
Written-By – Kupferberg*
B4fMore Grope Need (Grope Need - Part II)
Written-By – Sanders*
B4gRobinson Crusoe
Written-By – Weaver*
B5Claude Pelieu And J. J. Lebel Discuss The Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments
Arranged By, Conductor – Randy Kay
Lead Vocals – Doug Franklin
Vocals – The Bread Crust Choral Society
Written-By – Sanders*
B6aThe National Haiku Contest
Written-By – Sanders*, Weaver*
B6bThe Divine Toe (Part II)
Arranged By – Arthur Jenkins
Vocals – Leslie Dorsey
Written-By – Sanders*
B6cIrene
Written-By – Sanders*
Arranged By [Instrumentals] – Bob Dorough (tracks: A4 to B1)
Arranged By [Vocals] – Bob Dorough (tracks: A4 to B1), Doug Franklin (tracks: A1 to A3, B2 to B16)
Bass – Charles Larkey
Chorus [The Fugs Chorus] – Barbara Calabria, Bob Dorough, Bob Hanson, Earl Baker, James Jarvis, Jennifer Brown (15), Kenneth Bates, Leslie Dorsey, Marlys Trunkhill
Drums – Bob Mason (3), Ken Weaver
Engineer, Co-producer, Coordinator [Music Coordination] – Richard Alderson
Guitar – Ken Pine
Liner Notes [Notes], Design [Babble Design] – Ed Sanders
Other [Futution] – Tuli Kupferberg
Other [Routines] – Ken Weaver
Producer – Ed Sanders
Vocals – Ed Sanders, Ken Pine, Ken Weaver, Tuli Kupferberg
First cat. number is on front cover, the second is on spine, label and back cover.
Profile:
The Fugs were a band formed in New York City in 1964 by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Later that year they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of The Holy Modal Rounders.
The band was named by Kupferberg who borrowed it from the euphemistic substitute for the word “fuck” famously used in Norman Mailer’s novel, The Naked and the Dead. Incidentally, the band is featured in a chapter of Mailer’s book, Armies of the Night as they play at the 1967 march on the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War (with Scott Rashap on upright bass).
The Fugs were a satirical and self-satirizing rock band that performed at protests against the Vietnam War nationwide. Their 1968 Transatlantic Records album It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (TRA 181) also helped to make them more widely known on the European side of the Atlantic. This album (minus LP artwork, of course) can also be found as tracks 11 to 30 on Electromagnetic Steamboat. The band’s frank lyrics about sex, drugs and politics aroused a hostile reaction in some quarters and enthusiastic interest in others. One of their better known songs was an adaptation of Matthew Arnold’s poem, Dover Beach. Another was a William Blake poem.
The Fugs played their “final” concert of the 1960s in 1969 at the Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania with the Grateful Dead.
The band (minus Weaver, plus Rashap) reunited in 1984, with several performances at the Bottom Line in New York.
A reunited Fugs toured in the fall of 2004, with Josh Lieberman on glass harmonica, in several Chicago performances.
