Fat City is the debut album on the Sons of Champlin, formerly known as the Opposite Six released in 1967 on Trident Productions. The Sons of Champlin were a more strait-laced rock band who did many recordings from 1966 to 1967.[1] It is very concise in structure and effort than their later looser psychedelic-based material they released in the late 1960s.[1]

Background

In 1965, the Sons of Champlin were a garage band but forceful band. After re-investing earnings from a Kingston trio's success into a small domain of properties and music-related corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of which became known as Trident Productions, Frank Werber signed the Sons of Champlin in 1966 hoping they would be a promising success. Werber sent the band into Trident's own Columbus Recorders with crew producer Randy Steirling in late 1966 to conditionally work on a full album via a lease deal with MGM Verve. Due to a variety of difficulties, it never happened and the Sons left Trident with antipathy in June 1967.[2]

The split resulted in only two songs on Fat City that were previously released which were Sing Me a Rainbow and Fat City, which they still perform today. The remaining 18 tracks are covers of other artist tracks.[2]

Track listing

1. "Sing Me a Rainbow" (3:22)
2. "She Said" (2:39)
3. "Don't Talk to Strangers" (2:33)
4. "1,000 Miles from Nowhere" (2:52)
5. "One of These Days" (2:41)
6. "I Wouldn't Put It Past You" (3:03)
7. "It's Gonna Rain" (2:25)
8. "Fat City" (3:45)
9. "To Me" (3:46)
10. "Green Monday" (2:36)
11. "Don't Stop" (1:58)
12. "Little Fugue" (1:54)
13. "Shades of Grey" (3:47)
14. "Say You Know" (2:44)
15. "I Wish You Could Be Here" (2:50)
16. "One of These Days" (2:10)
17. "It's the End" (2:55)
18. "Pillow" (2:52)
19. "Don't Stop" (1:59)
20. "KCPX Radio Spots" (0:51)

References

External links

• "CD Universe Overview". CD Universe. Retrieved July 27, 2016.