The Collage - The Collage

The Collage - The Collage

The Collage - The Collage
Mercury/Smash Records MGS 27101 (1968)


Side One
1. Lookin' At A Baby
2. Driftin'
3. Rainy Blue Memory Day
4. Any Day's A Sunday Afternoon
5. My Mind's At Ease 

Side Two
1. Virginia Day's Ragtime Memories
2. Can I Go
3. She's Just Laughing At Me
4. Ragged Clown
5. Would You Like To Go
 


Personnel Include:
Steve Douglas - producer
Perry Botkin, Jr. - arrangements
J.J. Cale - engineer
Donna Byrd - vocals
Jerry Carego - vocals, guitar, composer
Ron Joelson - vocals, composer
Jodie Cline - vocals
Hal Blaine - drums
Joe Osborn - bass
Larry Knechtel - keyboards
Mike Deasy - guitar
Curt Boettcher - composer
Roger Nichols - composer
Harry Nilsson - composer

Notes:
"The Collage" was just that. One of the many manufactured mid-sixties Sunshine Pop "bands" that was put together by record companies of singers to compete with groups like The Association, Spanky & Our Gang, The Mamas and the Papas and The First Edition. Two singles from this album and a third non-album single were released. After many TV appearances and numerous Vegas gigs, lack of radio interest eventually sent the members on their own ways in the early 70s. Ron Joelson stayed active in music as a songwriter until his death in 1997. Donna Byrd joined an Arizona band called The Gringos.

Album tracks were recorded at several studios including Amigo, United Recorders and Gold Star in late 1967 and released January 1968. Re-issued on CD from the master tapes, including ten bonus tracks by Cherry Red Records, UK.