The Rainy Daze.

[buckeyebeat]

I've seen a yellow label 45 with Acapulco Gold on one side and something called "King Toke" on the flip on a few different occasions. It looked like a later pressing, something that would have been done in 1970s for the post 1960s stoners. I don't remember anything about an IP label, the label name wasn't obvious. I didn't really pay attention to it, I don't like "Acapulco Gold" at all.

 

[Clear Light]

Right, it's sub Winchester Cathedralesque in it's awfulness, not their finest moment at all. The Chicory 45 has "In My Mind Lives A Forest" marked as the top side, a much better tune all round. It seems to me that Acapulco Gold was picked up by naive DJ's who didn't have a clue to the true meaning of the song, at a time when just having the word "high" in the title or lyric of a song it amazes me that such an overt drug song placed so highly in the charts before the penny finally dropped.

I wonder if that yellow label release was a tie in with the Acapulco Gold movie released in 1976?

 

[vinyl01]

A little more evidence to indicate the UNI 45 came out first - a chart from January 1967 with the Rainy Daze in at number five.

http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/surveys_item.php?svid=262

The survey on the right shows the label as Chicory at # 7 and # 5 is Spyder Turner. Can you explain or show the survey you are using if different?

 

[Clear Light]

Ha ha! My bad, I've obviously been smoking too much Acapulco Gold. Wrong chart!

 

[Clear Light]

Here's the chart I meant to link to - number five in mid February, down from number two the previous week, listed as the UNI release.

http://www.las-solanas.com/surveys/KIMN/KIMN_1967-02-13_1.jpg

 

[buckeyebeat]

I saw the 45 again. It does say IP records in small print. I suppose this is the release under question. It seems to be a 1970s release, possibly related to some kind of commercial tie in.

I've seen a yellow label 45 with Acapulco Gold on one side and something called "King Toke" on the flip on a few different occasions. It looked like a later pressing, something that would have been done in 1970s for the post 1960s stoners. I don't remember anything about an IP label, the label name wasn't obvious. I didn't really pay attention to it, I don't like "Acapulco Gold" at all.

 

[Clear Light]

I saw the 45 again. It does say IP records in small print. I suppose this is the release under question. It seems to be a 1970s release, possibly related to some kind of commercial tie in.

I think this must have been a tie in with the Acapulco Gold movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002579/

 

[beccabear67]

I'd buy a CD/LP collection for them (to sit near the Hardwater one), but having had the title stuff the song doesn't really put me in mind of it... then again I am much more a fan of the Maui Wowie.

 

[Clear Light]

I understand that Now Sounds are in the process of putting together a Rainy Daze collection.