The Peanut Butter Conspiracy-Dark On You Now

[wregerg1]

i used to have two of there records they have some good songs some too commercialized though allot of good groups got stuck in that just trying to make it in the music industry is rough and only those able to break through the those barriers made it not to mention that there were so many good groups not so long ago in the distant past but the lemon pipers were another good group that was only recognized for a few songs

[wp4866]

groovy trip, man.

[queenmaryellen]

What a GREAT song. It reminds me of "The Moody Blues"

[vegasshowgirlshoes]

I've listened to the covers , not even close to this original version

[joplinfantasy]

I used to love this version...until I heard the original version the group recorded as The Ashes and it's infinitely better! Now I can't listen to this one. lol Try looking for the Ashes version, it will blow your mind!!

[Hellsichtiger]

Swallow the sun!

[TheStatue1]

PBC sounds way ahead of their time-who plays the fine bass guitar line?

[grguragu]

Dark On You Now 2 Verse Lyrics

Intro

1st Verse: You wonder why people / You sit and cry people / You don't know what y'r doin / while y'r laughin/talikin / Your moon falls down on you / Dark shines a frown on you / You never listen all the time you're / speakin/walkin / Oh

Chorus: Swallow the sun baby now / Your flowers run baby now / Loves voice feels dark on you now

[grguragu]

Intro

2nd Verse: Just never mind my friend / Just get behind my friend / Your silver love tells you what a fool you're makin / Your statue falls kind one / Your blackbird calls blind one / Your heart of gold is laughin but will soon be / breakin / Oh

Chorus (Twice)

Intro changes and out

[h4zre]

Only the 60's could come up with a name like this! legendary!!

[RoyFive]

I read about them in the rock magazines but our local radio station mercilessly shunned them, but unabashedly played Engelbert Humperdinck. Go Figure.

[bixbyglaser]

Groovy, man!

[Topicarmno]

@bixbyglaser

Joyful Grooove

[JaysEatingWorld]

psychedelic rock rocks

[mhantholz]

This side was done by PBC earlier when they were known as The Ashes, on a '67 album called something like "San Francisco Love-In" [?]. *That* version, slower tempo/deeper key is *the pick*. The Ashes had two tunes on that album, which featured early Big Brother & The Holding C.

[rollingold1]

I remember this group, I thought at the time what a strange name for a group.

[1Didirock]

Wonderful!!

the whole album is excellent!

[victoriadaniel]

EXCELENTE BANDA , saludos desde

lima - PERU

[noahf67]

I do remember the world sounding a lot like this when I came into it....

[garageband66]

You could hear this over all your screaming when you "came" in?

Man you've got some good ears and some pretty forward thinking parents.

[noahf67]

Ha! Well, within a few years, anyway...

It's what I recall radios and jukeboxes sounding like back then, decades before

Bon Jovi would become Lite-FM medical office wallpaper music. Seems to me life was much more melodic at one time.

[garageband66]

Ah! So you are one of those that wish maybe they would've been born a few years earlier?

Well don't fret, the good thing is the music is still around and many groups like The Red Button, The Grip Weeds, The Shake, Marmalade Souls, and others are still keeping the sound alive.

[noahf67]

I'd just be entertained if the harmony style

cultivated by The Groop or the arrangment

styles of The 5th Dimension could return

into vogue. Somehow, music meant more when Rock, R&B and AC were all

distinct genres.

[garageband66]

"Sunshine Pop" has fallen out of vogue in such a cynical, de-sensitized world we live in now. That type of vocal arrangment went hand-in-hand with that genre. Really that genre only ran for a few years late 60's and became bubblegumish into the early 70's. If you really want to hear some good vocal arrangments like these, check out some "best of college acapella" competitions on CD and the tube. There is some good stuff on there.

[Botany101]

Oh come on todays happygolucky music is black metal! lol jk

[Khultan]

No, the 60s and 70s sounds, as I'm discovering to my wonderment, is quite wide 'everywhere', and the sound itself could come back with all of the potential to bring different generations together and to pick up instruments but the expressions would have to reflect current modernity, mores, affectations and sensibilities. I think it's possible.

[forestghost7]

OMG I remember my mom had this record when I was like 7!! Forgotten all these years LOL what would we do without Youtube? THANKS for posting this!! :)

[garageband66]

We'd probably spend our hours trying to replenish our record collection with mp3's and such.

[joannajetson]

I was a fan of PBC when I was 16 - I thought they looked cool on their album cover (hey, I was 16!). I went to see them at the Whiskey on Sunset - I thought they were great - then they brought out the headliner, some SF band called Jefferson Airpiane... Within 2 minutes, I was thinking, Peanut What...?

[pigboycooter]

I saw them play a couple of times when I was 17 yrs old @ Love-ins in Hwd. Fun times!

[garageband66]

You were very lucky. Memories like those are one in a million.

[GuitarSabbath]

@pigboycooter

Definitely lucky.

[GuitarSabbath]

@pigboycooter

Definitely lucky.

[ReyZame]

I visited Kindergarten when my late brother had this record with a grey cover titled: That's Rock

It contained a PBC song with some text

I wouldn't leave my wooden wife for you, sugar...

and every Saturday we sit around the pool"

Is there anyone who can tell me the name of the song, or even better, listen to it again after some 30 years?

Thanks!

[joannajetson]

Actually, that line isn't from the PBC - it's from the United States of America, one of the first bands to use a moog. And while that's not one of the USA's better songs, listen to "Love Song for the Dead Che" - still beautiful after all these years.

[pigboycooter]

How do you find that band USA. I think the moog guy was don or robert byrd. they moved into my friends house in santa monica canyon and He would let us play the Moog. All those patch chords! Wendy Carlos (Switched On Bach) was the only other Moog we new about. Byrd went on to work with Matell Toys, I don't know in what capacity. Didja go to the Love-ins too?

[joannajetson]

I was hanging out at a coffee house on Fairfax Ave. and met USA's bass player, Rand Forbes. He got some people together and we litterally swept the Strip that New Year's Eve (yes, with brooms!). Wierd. Joe Byrd was the moog guy. Missed the love-ins, but remember when the Airplane and the Moody Blues played the free concert in Elysian Park?

[pigboycooter]

yeah, Joe Byrd. I went a few times to Elysian Park. What coffee house on Fairfax? It's great that some of the people I hung with back in the day keep in touch with me. Those were some heady days, and we sure did some trail-blaizing huh?

[joannajetson]

The Fifth Estate - remember that? Donovan at The Trip, Love at the Ivar, The Byrds at Ciro's - dang, I miss those days!

[pigboycooter]

was the Fifth Estate that old house on Sunset next to Art Lebos Original Sound? no I remember that was the Epecurian...Ah, lucky to have memories after all that. From '69 to '71 I had a record store in S.M. called Mother's Records. I found my old bus rec's and inside was my lease agreement for 210 Broadway where the S.M. mall is. Rent? $150 per month for storefront and back room. can u believe that? I did Venice, Topanga SFO Amsterdam and San Blas Mex b4 I settled down. &U?

[ReyZame]

Thank you so much Joanna for correcting my faulty memories. How come you know this so well? I will certainly follow up on your recommendation. Right now. A hug.

[captainsoul1953]

It was called I wont leave my wooden wife for you sugar...not likely to be played these days far too un PC and a little pervy the last line goes" i just couldnt stand it when you come home late from school"

Will try and post it

Jim

[ReyZame]

Being no first class pervert I can handle that, moreover, your idea is great, I want to thank you a lot. 1953 is the year my late brother was born, you know, the one with the magic "That's Rock" album from my early years.

Lots of gratitude for your reaction.

[citizenintime]

This song was covered by a local Fresno band called Sedate Sunshine Colony in the late 60s.

[garageband66]

The 60's had the coolest band names.

[daysailor4055]

fantastic post thanks so uch. I use to own this album. it ahd a great song called "Down in the Market Place".

[garageband66]

Been looking for that one for a while.

[tlcompanion]

Great tune...

[artlongjr]

There is an earlier and better version of this song that is worth checking out, it is by an earlier line up of the same group, they were then called the Ashes, in 1966. I first found it on a 1967 compilation LP called "West Coast Love-In" that was on Vault Records. The Ashes also featured Sandy Robison on lead vocals.

[garageband66]

PBC came from the "Ashes" of Ashes so to speak. That was a title of one of their albums.

[joplinfantasy]

The Ashes version is much, much better, with a simple, chilling sound to it, without the over-production of this version.

[garageband66]

Both versions had their merit but you can't deny Sandi's vocals on either version. She was really over-looked as female leads go during that time.

[joplinfantasy]

Oh yes, Sandi was a great vocalist, but this version transforms the brooding original into a light, frothy pop tune. Not a good thing. BTW Sandi did a great job on backing vocals on the BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS soundtrack.

[garageband66]

I had forgotten she was on that project.

[pestarzt]

awesome!

[garageband66]

Thanks for the view and checking it out.

[Stacela]

She's a great singer what ever her name is.

[garageband66]

She was, she passed in 1988.

[larry1955]

I still have the original LP

[garageband66]

That's probably worth a lot to the right collector.

[Viznel137]

LOL I have it on a PEBBLES collection!

[Viznel137]

I Just rememebered-it was the Vejables!

[garageband66]

There you go!

[Viznel137]

wasnt this song called "Swallow The Sun"

I used to have their album-it had a song called "Why did I Get So High?" seriously!

They ARE spreading!LOL thanks

[garageband66]

It was also done by another one-hit wonder that titled it "Swallow the Sun" by another band; I can't remember who they were.

[kingkandy]

"Swallow the Sun" was recorded by The Love Exchange and can be found on "Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 3"

[tlcompanion]

Awesome band....

[starviego]

A hidden classic! Thanks.

[garageband66]

My pleasure!

[garageband66]

Most definately!

[bucksheespins]

The Peanut butter Conspiracy is spreading! lol!

[rumpraisin]

Yeah, and it ain't crunchy, it's real smooth.