We plan to present a history of the musical efforts of the members of ORPHEUS REBORN
that is as complete as possible.
In most cases, copyright issues will prevent us from posting complete performances.
We will, however, post sound clips from them if they are available.
Some of these performances have been reclaimed from media that has suffered from
age or use, and thus may not be of optimal quality.
Writers, publishers and copyright acknowledgements have been presented when known.
March, 2010, set a new record - almost 34,000 plays for the sound clips on these pages! Click on the blue song titles to hear YOUR favorites! Each play "casts a vote" for that song in our Monthly Top 75 Chart!
All clips and songs are in .mp3 format.
Pre-Orpheus
The Wanderers
The Minute Men
Blue Echo Productions
The Blue Echoes
The College Boys
Kenny and the Night Riders
The Chanelles
Ronnie Dowd
The Villagers
The Mods
Orpheus
Original Demo Recording
Commercial Recordings
Other
Cover Versions
Orpheus Contemporaries
Two Foot Lamb Door
Stephen Martin
Post-Orpheus
Robert Emmet Dunlap
Eric Gulliksen
Stephen Martin
Jack McKennes
Harry Sandler
Sandler & Dunlap
Stephen and The Snake
Kathi Taylor
Orpheus Reborn
Monthly Top 75 Clip Play Charts
Cumulative Clip Play Rankings
ORPHEUS REBORN Home Page
STEPHEN AND THE SNAKE Web Site
ORPHEUS
Original Demo Recording
Note: One of the founding members of Orpheus has requested that his name be removed from this page. As a courtesy to this individual we have complied with this request, despite the fact that his identity is a matter of public record. This individual has been designated (name deleted).
Furthermore, this individual has asked that any audio clips of performances including his voice or his instrumental work, or of songs that he has written, be removed from this page. Again as a courtesy we have partially complied with this request, in that we have removed those clips that were from the original demo recording below, which comprised performances that have never seen commercial release.
Personnel: (name deleted) - vocals, guitar; Jack McKennes - vocals, guitar; Eric Gulliksen - vocals, bass;
Harry Sandler - drums
Recorded: August, 1967
Location: Emerson College, Boston, MA
Engineer: Dr. Bill Wolk
Release information: Songs marked with an asterisk (*) were re-recorded and released later. See below.
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Don't Be Cruel
(clip no longer available)
Can't Find The Time *
(clip no longer available)
As They All Fall *
(clip no longer available)
I Have Got It (Yeah!)
(clip no longer available)
I've Got Time
(clip no longer available)
I'll Fly *
(clip no longer available)
I Like The Evening
(clip no longer available)
Rider
(clip no longer available)
The Dream *
(clip no longer available)
Blackwell
(name deleted)
(name deleted)
(name deleted)
(name deleted)
(name deleted)
Gulliksen
Young
(name deleted)
(2-7, 9) - Interval Music, Inc. / Iris Properties, Inc.
(8) - Alley Music / Trio Music
All performances copyright Iris Properties, Inc.
Note: One of the founding members of Orpheus has requested that his name be removed from this page. As a courtesy to this individual we have complied with this request, despite the fact that his identity is a matter of public record. This individual has been designated (name deleted).
Furthermore, this individual has asked that any audio clips of performances including his voice or his instrumental work, or of songs that he has written, be removed from this page. We have not, however, removed the clips of the commercially released songs below, because:
our posting of these short clips constitutes "fair use;"
similar clips of these performances are widely available on dozens, if not hundreds of web sites; and
rights to these songs and / or performances reside with Iris Properties, Inc., not with the aforesaid individual, and we have posted
these clips with the permission of the copyright holder.
Release information:
(1) Orpheus - MGM, 1968
(2) Ascending - MGM, 1968
(3) Joyful - MGM, 1969
(4) Orpheus - Bell, 1971
(5) The Best Of Orpheus - Ace Big Beat, 1995
(6) The Very Best Of Orpheus - Varese Sarabande, 2001
(7) The Complete Orpheus - Akarma, 2001
(8) The Best Of Orpheus - Iris Music Group, 2009
(9) 2009 Remixes (active links)
(s) single release
Location: 1-4: NYC. 5-8 are compilations comprising previously released material, except where noted.
9 is a reissue which includes remixed and remastered tracks from 2
Producer: Alan Lorber
Engineers: 1-3: Eddie Smith; 4: Fred Weinberg
Personnel:
1-3: (name deleted) - vocals, guitar; Jack McKennes - vocals, guitar; Eric Gulliksen - vocals, bass;
Harry Sandler - vocals, drums
4: (name deleted) - vocals, guitar; Stephen Martin - vocals, guitar; Elliot Sherman - vocals, keyboards;
Howard Hersh - vocals, guitar; K.P. Burke - vocals, harmonica; Bernard Purdie - drums
5-8: all of the above
numbers after the song titles refer to the album release as above
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As They All Fall (3, 5, 7)
Big Green Pearl (4, 6, 7, s)
Big Green Pearl (reprise) (4, 7, 8)
Borneo (2, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Brown Arms In Houston (3, 5, 6, 7, s)
By The Size Of My Shoes (3, 5, 6, 7, s)
By The Way (4, 7)
Can't Find The Time (1, 5, 6, 7, 8, s)
Can't Find The Time (uncovered) (5)
Congress Alley (1, 5, 6, 7, 8, s)
Don't Be So Serious (2, 7, 9)
Doorknob Song (1, 5, 7, 8)
Dream, The (1, 5, 7)
I Can Make The Sun Rise (3, 5, 6, 7, s)
I Wanna Be Your Lover (4, 7)
I'll Be There (4, 5, 7)
I'll Fly (2, 5, 6, 7, 9)
I'll Stay With You (1, 5, 6, 7)
It Gets Worse Every Time (4, 7, 8)
I've Never Seen Love Like This (1, 5, 6, 7, s)
I've Never Seen Love Like This, Anatomy of
(with Alan Lorber) (5)
Joyful (3, 5, 6, 7, s)
Just A Little Bit (2, 5, 6, 7, 9)
Just Got Back (2, 5, 7, 9)
Lesley's World (1, 7, s)
Love Over Here (2, 5, 7, 9)
Lovin' You (3, 5, 7)
Lucianne (recorded in 1971;
personnel as in 4) (7, 8)
Magic Air (2, 5, 7, 9)
May I Look At You (3, 5, 7)
Me About You (3, 5, 6, 7)
Mine's Yours (2, 5, 7, 9)
Monkey Demon (4, 7, 8)
Music Machine (1, 5, 7, 8)
Never In My Life (1, 5, 6, 7)
Nunnery (4, 7)
Of Enlightenment (3, 5, 7)
Rainbow Peddler (4, 7)
Roses (guitar: Eric Gulliksen) (2, 5, 7, 8, 9)
She's Not There (2, 5, 7, 8, 9)
So Far Away In Love (2, 5, 7, 9)
Sweet Life (4, 7, s)
To Touch Our Love Again (3, 5, 6, 7)
Tomorrow Man (4, 5, 6, 7)
Walk Away Renée (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
(name deleted)
Martin
Martin
arr. Orpheus
Miller-Henry
Weiss-Williams
Martin-(name deleted)
(name deleted)
(name deleted)
Martin
(name deleted)
Martin
(name deleted)
(name deleted)-Gulliksen
Martin
Martin
(name deleted)
(name deleted)-Gulliksen
Martin
(name deleted)-Gulliksen
(name deleted)-Gulliksen-Lorber
(name deleted)-Gulliksen
(name deleted)
Martin
Miller-Miller
(name deleted)-Gulliksen
(name deleted)-Gulliksen-McKennes
Martin
Sandler
(name deleted)
Bonner-Gordon
(name deleted)
Martin
Martin
(name deleted)
Martin
(name deleted)
Martin
Gulliksen
Argent
(name deleted)
Martin-(name deleted)-Sherman
(name deleted)-Gulliksen
Martin
Calilli-Lookofsky-Sansone
All performances copyright 1968-1971, 1995, 2001 by Alan Lorber Productions, Inc. / Iris Properties, Inc.
All songs )1968-1971 by Interval Music, Inc. / Iris Properties, Inc. except
No. 6: EMI Longitude Music; No. 31: Carlin Music Corp. / Trio Music Co., Ltd.;
No. 40: CPE Music / Marquis Music; No. 45: Alley Music Corp. / Trio Music, Inc.
Album (1) is available for digital download from eMusic, iTunes, amazon.com, msnMusic, Napster and Rhapsody.
Album (2) is available for digital download from eMusic, iTunes, amazon.com, msnMusic, Napster and Rhapsody.
Album (3) is available for digital download from eMusic, iTunes, amazon.com, msnMusic, Napster and Rhapsody.
Album (4) is available for digital download from eMusic, iTunes, amazon.com, msnMusic, Napster and Rhapsody.
Album (8) is available for digital download from iTunes and amazon.com.
Note: One of the founding members of Orpheus has requested that his name be removed from this page. As a courtesy to this individual we have complied with this request, despite the fact that his identity is a matter of public record. This individual has been designated (name deleted).
Furthermore, this individual has asked that any audio clips of performances including his voice or his instrumental work, or of songs that he has written, be removed from this page. We have not, however, removed the clip below, because:
our posting of this short clip constitutes "fair use;"
similar clips of this performance are widely available on dozens, if not hundreds of web sites; and
rights to this performances reside with Iris Properties, Inc., not with the aforesaid individual, and we have posted
this clip with the permission of the copyright holder.
Personnel: Jack McKennes, (name deleted), Eric Gulliksen, Harry Sandler - vocals
Recorded: 1968
Location: NYC
Engineer: Eddie Smith
Release information: This song was not released on record, but was featured in the film and on the associated video.
"Marlowe")
Performance copyright Iris Properties, Inc.
We're pleased to announce that Little Sister has now been released on the Iris Music Group CD
Boston Sound Revisited Vol. 2 (IMG777).
Click here for ordering information.
The song can be downloaded from iTunes and amazon.com.
If you're interested in seeing the album art along with hearing the clips,
you can find it on the Stephen & the Snake website.
Click here.
Brown Arms In Houston:
Sandra Alexandra - album cut from The Intimate Side Of Sandra Alexandra, Universal Records, 1969
Mike Melvoin, aka The Plastic Cow - album cut from The Plastic Cow Goes MOOOOOOG;
Dot Records, 1970
By The Size Of My Shoes:
The Elders - album cut from Looking For The Answer, Audio Fidelity Records, circa 1971
Reissued on CD by RetroDisc Records, 2006
Can't Find The Time:
Note: One of the founding members of Orpheus has requested that sound clips of any songs that he has written be removed from this page. We have not removed the clips below, because:
our posting of these short clips constitutes "fair use;"
similar clips of these performances are widely available on dozens, if not hundreds of web sites; and
rights to these songs reside with Iris Properties, Inc., not with the aforesaid individual, and we have posted
these clips with the permission of the copyright holder.
(name deleted) - recorded in 1989, released for digital download on Orphus Again; BAM! Records, 2010
(clip not available)
The Capris - recorded in 1971, released on the CD Here's A Song! (You Might Have Missed) Vol. 2; Iris Music Group,
2007
Devonsquare Trio - 45 RPM single release, OMNI Records, 1969
(we have been unable to confirm the existence of this recording)
Dino Take Five - 45 RPM single release, Take-Five JAC-1973-B, 1971
(clip not available)
Groovin' Strings - album cut from Groovin' Strings And Things; Cub Records, 1968
Hands Down - album cut from Color My World; St. George Records, 1970
(we have been unable to confirm the existence of this recording)
The Invictas - 45 RPM single release, Recycle Records, 1970
(clip not available)
Hootie and the Blowfish - from "Me, Myself and Irene" soundtrack; Elektra / Asylum Records
Theatrical & CD Release 2000; DVD Release 2001
Read excerpts from an article about a 2006 Worcester appearance by Hootie and the Blowfish here
Johnny Dollar - album cut from Quit While You're A Head; Ripete Records, 2002
Lonesome And Then Some - album cut from Strangers At The Gate; independent CD release, 2006
Red Peters - parody, entitled Jala-La-La-La-La-Bad; Internet, 2002
without the permission of the original writers, performers or publishers;
the song referenced above is an example of this practice.
Mr. Peters' web site includes the following note:
'...with thanks and apologies to the Boston band "Orpheus"'.
released in the United Kingdom on President Records,
single reissued on Solid Gold Records, 1973
included in several CD compilations
Spiritz - album cut from 100 Proof; Spiritz Records, 1972
(clip not available)
Stellwagen - limited distribution CD demo, track available on the Internet, 2008
Wasabi - album cut from Wasabi; Shaka Records, 2006.
The Wits End - 45 RPM single release on Dimension Records, 1969.
Note that this is NOT the Dimension Records founded by Nevins and Kirshner in the early 60s.
The X-Ceptions - album cut from Live At The Gables; East Coast Records, 1971.
Others may exist as well.
Congress Alley:
Clean Living - album cut from Clean Living, Vanguard Records, 1972
The group included Norman Schell (see Martin, MacKay and Schell,
in the Post-Orpheus section on the next page, under Stephen Martin).
Former Orpheus (II) keyboardist Elliot Sherman was also a part of this group.
Performance copyright by Iris Properties, Inc.
Orpheus Reborn - cut from Orpheus Reborn (limited distribution demo); Trak12 Records, 2005
Just A Little Bit:
The Villagers - album cut from The Best Of Orpheus; Ace Big Beat Records, 1966 / 1995
This is a live performance, recorded by Dr. William Wolk
Performance copyright by Iris Properties, Inc.
Orpheus Reborn - cut from Orpheus Reborn (limited distribution demo); Trak12 Records, 2005
Steve Kaczorowski - album cut from What Time Are You?; United Artists Records (claimed, but bogus), 1971
Monkey Demon:
Steve Kaczorowski - album cut from What Time Are You?; United Artists Records (claimed, but bogus), 1971
Steve Kaczorowski was a high school senior from Long Island who issued the album and cited himself as performer and songwriter in an effort to impress his friends. Apparently Big Green Pearl was re-recorded, but Monkey Demon (which he titled Monkey Demond) was an example of "karaoke rock," wherein Kaczorowski simply electronically deleted portions of the original recording from Orpheus 4, replacing Steve's voice with his own. Kaczorowski also claimed writers and publishers rights. The full story can be found at http://www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/Kacz/lamaKacz.htm.
Steve Drake - album cut from Cold Sweat; Odyssey Records (claimed, but bogus), 1976
The original Orpheus vocals can clearly be heard in the chorus.
Thanks to Patrick the Lama from http://www.lysergia.com for the Big Green Pearl and Rainbow Peddler Clips, above.
Included in the CD reissue of The Lotus Palace on Ace Big Beat, 1997
Reissued as part of digital download package Infusions, Volume 2, Iris Music Group, 2010
Ever Been To Singapore? - This is based on the orchestration for Lesley's World.
Included on the CD Dancefloor Soloists Vol. 2, Iris Music Group, 2008
The Gospel Paul - This is based on the orchestration for By The Size Of My Shoes.
Included on the CD Here's A Song (You Might Have Missed), Vol. 9, Iris Music Group, 2008
All others by Interval Music, Inc. / Iris Properties, Inc.
ORPHEUS CONTEMPORARIES
Two Foot Lamb Door
Note: One of the members of Two Foot Lamb Door has requested that his name be removed from this page. As a courtesy to this individual we have complied with this request, despite the fact that his identity is a matter of public record. This individual has been designated (name deleted).
Furthermore, this individual has asked that any audio clips of performances including his voice or his instrumental work, or of songs that he has written, be removed from this page. Again as a courtesy we have partially complied with this request, in that we have removed those clips that were from the demo recording below which comprised performances that have never seen commercial release.
Personnel: (name deleted) - vocals, guitar; Stephen Martin - vocals, guitar; Howard Hersh - vocals, bass;
Elliot Sherman - vocals, keyboards; K.P. Burke - vocals, harmonica
Recorded: 1969, 1970
Location: unknown
Engineer: N/A
Release information: This group, led by Steve and without (name deleted), was originally called Congress Alley.
(name deleted) began to "sit in" during the fall of 1969. After the original Orpheus disbanded in December, 1969, this
group evolved into Orpheus' "second incarnation" to record the fourth (Bell) album.
Songs marked with an asterisk (*) were re-recorded and released later (see Orpheus, above).
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Mushroom Cowboy
(clip no longer available)
Big Green Pearl *
(clip no longer available)
Shalla
(clip no longer available)
It Gets Worse Every Time *
(clip no longer available)
Lucianne *
(clip no longer available)
Rainbow Peddler *
(clip no longer available)
Double Vision
(clip no longer available)
Black Beauty
(clip no longer available)
Far Away
(clip not available)
I Wanna Be Your Lover *
(clip not available)
I'll Be There *
(clip not available)
Nunnery *
(clip not available)
I Need You
(clip not available)
Monkey Demon *
(clip not available)
Martin
Martin
Martin
Martin
Martin
Martin
Martin-Bradford
Martin
Arnold
Martin
Martin
Martin
George Harrison
Martin
(13) - Northern Songs, Ltd.
Performances copyright Iris Properties, Inc.
Jaime Brockett - album cut from Jaime Brockett 2;
Capitol Records, 1970
Gregory Havrilak - 45 RPM release, produced by Alan Lorber
United Artists Records, 1970
The logo design depicted above is copyright 2004 by Orpheus Reborn.
"Orpheus" is a Registered Trade Mark of the Iris Music Group; Reg. No. 3,466,258.
All rights reserved.