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FLYING UP THROUGH THE SKY features the entire original LP, singles released prior to this album and demos for a never released, second Oxfords album.

This compilation is a lovely surprise. The fourth installment in Gear Fab's Louisville music series is the absolute last word on the Oxfords. Starting off with all but one cut from the sole 1970 LP and filling out the story with the two pre-Jill DeMarco 45s, the band's one post-album single, and five previously unreleased cuts from its final incarnation, Flying Up Through the Sky constitutes the Oxfords' entire recorded legacy. The material from the original LP tends toward the lighter side of the '60s pop spectrum. The melodies are largely Technicolor bright and the sentiments have a paisley-eyed optimism that seems endemic to the late '60s alone. The harmonies of leader Jay Petach and DeMarco approach the sort of oxygenated buoyancy of the 5th Dimension or the Free Design, but with an earthier charm along the lines of Spanky & Our Gang. The music may strike some as a tad naïve, but it fits the insouciant mood of the period perfectly and 30 years after the fact still sounds fresh. At times ("Come on 'Round," the wah-wah laced "Young Girl's Lament") the band flashes more substantive hints, sounding something like the Jefferson Airplane's tough but yet deflowered younger sister, unsettled but still unspoiled. The rearrangement of the Quechua Indian song, "Sung at Harvest Time," is beautifully, eerily psychedelic, and the avant-orchestral experiment of "Two Poems by e.e. cummings," while not really successful as a pure listening experience, is bizarrely appealing. The tracks from the initial unit are much more derivative (specifically of the Beatles, Kinks, and Monkees) but they are a great window into Petach's developing sense of songcraft, especially the Bandstand-thumbed "Sun Flower Sun," which sounds terribly quaint but is still infectious. It is the last version of the band, circa 1972, that most impresses. The band had obviously found a quite exciting -- perhaps even forward-looking -- niche, very much enthralled with sophisticated jazz and blues. On songs like the whirlwind "Those Winds" and "Tornado Baby," it is consistently in the pocket, while "Sweet Lover Man" even predicts the loose, laid-back, and country-funky songs that Essra Mohawk sang for Bob Dorough's Schoolhouse Rock series several years later. The album includes CD-ROM content (additional band photos and lyrics, a song-by-song commentary from Petach himself) for the ultimate band package. Flying Up Through the Sky is a time capsule, to be sure, but it is a superb one that transcends its era on sheer exuberance alone. ~ Stanton Swihart

Louisville, Kentucky band's 1969 LP features the psychedelic female vocals of Jill Demarco. The group had a sound similiar to Spanky & Our Gang, Jefferson Airplane, and The Mamas & The Papas. The album features their earlier fuzzed-out garage single plus

This is part of the Louisville Music series.

The Oxfords includes: Jill Demarco (vocals).
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List Price $13.98 (You save $2.29)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Oldies, Folk Rock, 60's
Label Gear Fab
Orig Year 2001
All Time Sales Rank   71448  
CD Universe Part number 1739136
Catalog number 168
Discs 1
Release Date May 22, 2001
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Oxfords Flying Up Through The Sky Songs


Oxfords Flying Up Through The Sky Album Track Listing



1.My World
2.Lighter Than Air
3.Sung at Harvest Time
4.Two Poems
5.Flying up Through the Sky
6.Always Something There
7.Come on 'Round
8.Young Girl's Lament
9.Trix Rabbit
10.Good Night
11.Time and Place
12.Sun Flower Sun
13.Come on Back to Beer
14.Say It Your Own Way
15.City, The
16.Flute Thing
17.Cuttin' You Loose
18.Sweet Lover Man
19.Those Winds
20.Tornado Baby
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Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

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After searching for this release, I finally found it on your site. It was a gift for my brother for his birthday and within a week of finding and ordering it, he had it and it was delivered right on his birthday! He loves it. I still have the original "45" recording of Come on Back to Beer. I am a Louisville native and was always proud of the Oxfords.
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