Performer: Sound Foundation
Genre: Rock / Funk / Soul / Pop
Album: Sound Foundation
Released: 1969
Style: Prog Rock, Funk
MP3 version ZIP size: 1154 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1935 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1585 mb
Rating: 4.4
Votes: 491
Other Formats: DXD VQF XM TTA APE VOX MIDI

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A1	Morning Dew (Walk Me Out In The) Vocals – Rick KellisWritten-By – Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose	3:02
A2	Magic Carpet Ride Vocals – Nick FarkasWritten-By – Joachan Kraulpat*, Rushton Morev*	4:42
A3	Dear Prudence Vocals – The Sound Foundation*Written-By – John Lennon & Paul McCartney*	2:50
A4	Clean Up Your Act Vocals – Lenny MacalusoWritten-By – Rick Kellis	2:58
A5	Aquarius (From The Tribal Love-Rock Musical "Hair") Vocals – Danny Dick*, Sound Foundation Written-By – Galt McDermot*, Jerome Ragni*, James Rado	5:26
B1	Bruised Vocals – Rick KellisWritten-By – Rick Kellis	2:58
B2	Get Out Of My Life, Women Vocals – Nick FarkasWritten-By – Allan Toussaint*	3:54
B3	Love Loves To Love Love Vocals – Rick Kellis, Sound Foundation Written-By – Don Thomas , Estelle Levitt	3:55
B4	Gossimer Morning Vocals – Rick Kellis, Sound Foundation Written-By – Rick Kellis	3:39
B5	Soul Foundation (Instrumental) Written-By – Rick Kellis	4:55

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Buddah Records

Credits

• Arranged By, Orchestrated By – Rick Kellis
• Art Direction – Les Weisbrich & Associates
• Bass – Kim Kesterson
• Drums – Billy Ray Morris
• Guitar, Bass, Vocals – Lenny Macaluso
• Liner Notes – Tommy Smothers
• Organ, Reeds, Vocals – Nick Farkas
• Photography By – Tom Gundelfinger
• Producer – Barry Kane, Steve Douglas
• Trumpet, Vocals – Daniel Dick
• Woodwind, Vocals, Arranged By – Rick Kellis

Notes

Rick Kellis - Aries
I appeared in High School plays. I got a Master in Psychology at Temple. I had my own band when I was 10. I studied music theory at the Philadelphia Conservatory.
I was an A&R man in Philadelphia. When the Sound Foundation elected a leader, I won hands down. I was the only one with lunch money.

Nick Farkas - Capricorn
I used to play in concert ensembles. I used to play clubs along the Mississippi. I used to be a studio musician in New Orleans. I used to sit in with the Sound Foundation in Las Vegas. I don't think about the future much or the past.

Daniel Dick - Gemini
I like many things. Jazz, the trumpet, singing, writing poetry, Tom Smothers, Ferlinghetti. Many of these things like me, including Tom...
I haven't heard from Ferlinghetti.

Lenny Macaluso - Gemini
I had my own band with my brother Al. I went on the road when I was seventeen. I traveled the entire United States. That's where I met Rick and Daniel.
We've been together three years. I hope it lasts another 10.

Kim Kesterson - Leo
I studied classical guitar. I played jazz in clubs around Hollywood. I went to Las Vegas and heard the Sound Foundation. They let me sit in.
They liked me. I liked them. Now we like each other together.

Billy Ray Morris - Scorpio
I played with different groups until I found the Sound Foundation. Now I sit in the dark a lot and watch for a friend.

I feel very strongly about the right of artists to exercise integrity in their creations. SMO-BRO RECORDS (short for Dick and I) want to be able to provide a platform for artists to express themselves without compromise. The SOUND FOUNDATION is a group of unique, creative young men, and is also their first release for SMO-BRO RECORDS. We think it's a great choice to launch this record company.

Some time ago, I was invited to The Factory (a night club in L.A.) to see a very talented act. This group was excellent, but the band backing the up caught my eye. That was the SOUND FOUNDATION, which, by the way, had organized in Las Vegas, unique in today's pop music scene because of it's plastic commerciality. None of this rubbed off on the SOUND FOUNDATION, though.

The SOUND FOUNDATION makes an audience "ear-up and listen." They are sophisticated musical craftsmen. Rick Kellis, the arranger, digs laying on and playing with complicated musical figures. It's not always easy to dance to some of their arrangements, but it's always fun and interesting to listen to them. Some of the songs (i.e. MORNING DEW, MAGIC CARPET RIDE and BRUISED) are direct and easy to understand. On the other hand, with each hearing of CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, LOVE LOVES TO LOVE LOVE, and GET OUT OF MY LIFE, WOMEN, you become more aware of the hard-driving, sophisticated "time figures' and enjoyment grows with each subsequent exposure.

I once made a rule for myself that I would never get involved with anything that didn't really "knock me out." The SOUND FOUNDATION has not broken that rule for me. Another thing: regardless of the amount of talent that someone has, they have to be GOOD PEOPLE. The SOUND FOUNDATION has soul, integrity, and they are six beautiful people whom I am proud to be associated with. Their first album, as good as it is, is only an indication of the potential they possess.

Tommy Smothers

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SBS 9001, SB-9001	Sound Foundation	Sound Foundation ‎(LP, Album)	Smo-Bro Records, Smo-Bro Records	SBS 9001, SB-9001	US	1969
SB-9001	Sound Foundation	Sound Foundation ‎(LP, Album)	Smo-Bro Records	SB-9001	Canada	1969
SBS 9001, SB-9001	Sound Foundation	Sound Foundation ‎(LP, Album)	Smo-Bro Records, Smo-Bro Records	SBS 9001, SB-9001	US	1969
2318 002	Sound Foundation	Sound Foundation ‎(LP, Album)	Buddah Records	2318 002	Mexico	1970