New Neighborhood

Description

The self-titled debut album by the American pop combo New Neighborhood was released on Creative Sound in 1972. The album was produced, arranged, and conducted by Bob Sisco, assisted by Margy Sisco. Vocal arrangements by Don Norville.

Six happy co-eds with a big brassy pop style that mirrors Ralph Carmichael projects like Natural High and Tell It Like It Is. Some of these songs have appeared on the Creative Sound sampler albums Mystery Revealed, Jesus Festival Of Music and Ultima Thule. Appears to be mostly original songwriting, skipping around from gospelized rock to groovy now sounds to ragtime pop to soulful moods, all of it heavily nuked in strings and horns. Renditions of «Love Lifted Me» and «In The Garden» are worked in. Those nostalgic for that whole 1969 «One Tin Soldier» pop radio sound might find meaning here. Love the flower power threads. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “I Believe In You” (Solo Vocal: Don Norville) – 3:20
A2. “I Know A Man” (Solo Vocal: Carol Walker) – 3:21
A3. “Someone’s In Love With You” – 2:58
A4. “Coming Back” – 2:15
A5. “I Want To Know You” – 2:45

Side Two
B1. “Hale Hale” (Solo Vocal: Don Norville) – 2:45
B2. “Love Lifted Me” (Solo Vocal: Carol Walker) – 2:55
B3. “Soul’d Out” (Solo Vocal: Don Norville) – 3:35
B4. “A Friend” – 3:24
B5. “In The Garden” (Solo Vocal: Carol Walker) – 3:21
B6. “Power” – 2:11

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