Rose Garden - Rose Garden 1968

The Rose Garden was a folk-rock group from Los Angeles, California which was active in 1967 and 1968. In 1967, they signed with Atco Records and released the hit single Next Plane To London which reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the end of that year. They released their self-titled album in April 1968 which includes the hit song. Subsequent releases were unsuccessful and dissention within the group led to its break-up by the end of 1968.

Two songs on the album, Till Today and Long Time, are written by one of the Byrds’ main songwriters, Gene Clark. Clark wrote them for Rose Garden and they were never recorded by anybody else. Much of the album, and particularly Noreen's 12-string guitar playing, has a nice Byrds feel to it.

Personnel:
Diana DeRose - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
John Noreen - lead 12-string guitar, vocals
James Groshong - lead vocals, guitar
William Fleming - bass
Bruce Bowdin - drum

Tracks:
1 Next Plane To London
2 I'M Only Second
3 February Sunshine
4 Coins Of Fun
5 Rider
6 She Belongs To Me
7 Flower Tone
8 Till Today
9 Look What You've Done
10 Long Time

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