GTO's - Circular Circulation

[unoalice333]

love, love, love!!!

[ggreenwood4]

Miss Christine was my roomate on LaBrea with Joey (Gold Hill) Richards. We wrote a love song for her, "Helplessly Hoping"!

[Echobelly10]

I had that album! Loved this song, couldn't remember who did it.

[phoebecatgirl]

I was in college, 1972 or so, when I bought a vinyl copy of an assortment of new and upcoming artists from Warner/Bizarre, and this was on it, along with other fablous recordings, like Alice Cooper singing "Refrigerator Heaven". What a treat! This GTO album "Permanent Damage" has come out on CD since, which I bought in the early 90s, but don't know if it is still "in print". Really good stuff from back then, and nothing like it is being done now.

[MegaLamka]

Great shit.

[zeromeobass]

These are very special women who should be in the Rock Hall for groundbreaking women's music and sociology.

[jackhillty1]

the great lost Little Feat song

[TheGratefulghost]

have a talk with me!!!

[Thejohnjackjoe]

well that's something new...(that i didn't know..) nice!

[LarryMcN]

Great song, Thanks for uploading Mery.

[rolandrog]

This album is a special treat from the 60's. I would have loved to see them perform. They're dancers, too.

[KernowFilms]

I love this song, even the eccentric vocals. In the hands of somebody with a really good voice it would be a classic.

[thewall696969]

Definitely Pamela singing. The song just drips of Lowell George, NO???

[BognarRegis]

@thewall696969 Yes it does and there's a reason for that. He wrote the music and played slide guitar on it.

[jackhillty1]

who sang lead on this? who wrote it? christ on a stick!

[TheQuestionOfEvil]

I don't know who sang lead, but Lowell George co-wrote this song.

In the hands of someone who could actually sing, this would be a kickass song, although this version is not without its charm.

[unclemeat2u]

I'm pretty sure Frank Zappa produced this album

[jackdelawack]

That's right!!!You win the prize!!!!

[mirandarosepetal]

I'm pretty sure it's Pamela Des Barres singing lead.

[pekoe]

Mescaline Kicking in man!! damn

wild 60's girls

[theledzeppguy]

I LOVE IT!!! Great girls.

[lovechild98]

lovelovelove!

[swtlilsoni]

i like her voice though, its pretty and delicate

[lecagot2]

I agree

[lecagot2]

I remember the song about Captain Beefheart's shoes by the GTO's. Wish someone would post it.

[mangograss]

In addition to the Permanent Damage LP, this song was included on the Zapped promotional collection issued around 1970:Alice Cooper, Captain Beefheart, Judy Henske & Jerry Yester, Tim Buckley, Wild Man Fischer,Tim Dawe, Lord Buckley, Jeff Simmons,

The Mothers of Invention, GTOs: Do Me In Once And I'll Be Sad, Do Me In Twice And I'll Know Better (Circular Circulation),

and Frank Zappa. It was promoted in other Warner/Reprise records and could be purchased via mail for one dollar.

[lecagot2]

I has that album. Never knew what became of it.

[mangograss]

This is one of my favorite tunes of the era!

[4rainbowed]

None of them sang on key. Most of them were connnected to Frank Zappa He'd encourage them to "be creative". Too bad he didn't see that they were talentless.

[cynthiacher]

None of them could sing, period! Zappa thought it might be fun to get these drug-addled, dingbat girls in a recording studio to see what would happen. I think he thought it might be amusing. He probably did find the results funny; they were laughably bad.

[BognarRegis]

I guess it depends on what you define as "singing." Tuvan throat singing can sound just as wretched to closed minded people.

[cynthiacher]

Oh, I'm as "open-minded" as the next person. But the GTO's effort's to be entertaining did nothing for me. I found the totally bizarre Wild Man Fischer much more fun than the GTO's feeble attempts to be a SINGING girl group. Wild Man Fishcher had a song of sorts called "Merry-Go-Round" that is inspired in its lunacy. Give it a listen sometime, you'll see what I mean.

[BognarRegis]

I am familiar with the vocal stylings of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer. In fact his "Evening With" album sits comfortably next to my copy of "Permanent Damage" on my record shelf. I don't believe that Zappa ever really felt there had to be any talent quotient to most of the artists he signed to Bizarre/Straight. He just wanted something different. Another band he got behind a few years later was The Smegmates and they were just as strange as the GTO's.

[UselessLass]

It's definitely had it's effect upon the younger generation~!

[VirginSuicide77]

PERMANENT DAMAGE is one of my all time favorite albums. It's so much fun!

[cinnamontwirl1021]

my friend played this song like 20 times in a row...kinda sticks to your head

[watzername27]

they were all so beautiful!!!i've seen miss pamela and miss mercy in person and they are both still gorgeous gals

[eriktheviking2006]

RIP Miss Christine, Miss Lucy, Miss Sparky x

[xSakuSanx]

@eriktheviking2006 Miss Sparky is still alive.

[MetryRoad]

Brilliant ! Thanks for posting.

Best wishes

[luuubauuuba]

they're just amazing!

[SaintTidewolfe]

Nicely done fan video. I love the album and the girls.