Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus

The title track from Second Hand's 1971 album "Death May Be Your Santa Claus".

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Music

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• second
• hand
• death
• may
• be
• your
• santa
• claus
• progressive
• rock
• psychedelic

[nickersby]

My vinyl copy has Funeral instead of this track, so thanks for posting it.

[skeleto]

You're welcome.

[jacoljam]

I used to love this.

What was i thinking?

[skeleto]

C'mon, this is a great tune still.

[OriTheEep]

Vincent Crane and Arthur Brown rolled into one with a helping of early Dave Stewart (Egg). I quite like this and wish I'd known of them at the time. I'm sure it will grow on me, although I wish the main theme hadn't been repeated so often.

Thanks for the listen :)

[skeleto]

No problem

[MoonchildTheKing]

Beautiful.

[elephanta2]

I like this Brit band. Very fantastic.

[gietek]

They (Second Hand) play this song live on the 'Death May Be Your Santa Claus' film which is nowhere to be found except one place in London where you can watch old underground movies. I forgot the name of the place, what a shame.

[Cochituate7Lake]

@HanBaby82 That's on their Album BRAIN CAPERS, also 1971. These two tracks must both be named after the 1969 movie called (wait for it) DEATH MAY BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS. Looks like the two songs are not related to each other beyond the title.

[tlm315]

@facelesshorseman yup i paid nearly nothing for mine too i already had all the young dudes which i thought was pretty cool then i came across this i like i think was the first track your own backyard and of course death maybe your santa claus anyway a cool record that im sad to say i lost along the way that will never be replaced .....peace

[facelesshorseman]

@tlm315 : When I read Bowie was working with them, they were unknown, so I was able to get their back catalog for nothing in cut-out bins. I got Brain Capers for .75c at a Muntz Sight and Sound store (they sold those egg-shaped stereo chairs in which we would "test drive" our new music).

[tlm315]

@facelesshorseman yea i was here for the same reason thats just to weird anyway its nice to know that someone else remembers brain capers

[budmotor]

this is not Brain Capers

[noel2711]

Thanks for posting. It brings back some happy memories.

[DAVWAVE]

if you find it let me know. in the mean time I will have to pull out my vinyl of Mott's version.