Active until 1970 | Years active 1969 – 1970 Genre Jazz fusion | |
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Origin Boston, Massachusetts, United States Albums ...Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, 1969, The Stark Reality Discover Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, Now Similar Koushik, Dudley Perkins, Karl Hector & The Malcouns, The Heliocentrics, Funkaho | ||
Stark reality 1969 full album
Stark Reality was an American jazz/rock fusion band most famous for their 1970 album The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, a heavily-improvised reinvention of a 1958 children's album by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, to be used for the show Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop which aired on PBS. The album was re-released by Stones Throw in 2003. Previously unreleased songs were released by Now-Again Records as a compilation called 1969. Now-Again Records reissued the group's entire catalog again in 2013.
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Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, most of the band's members attended the Berklee College of Music.
Members
Songs
All You Need to Make MusicNow · 2003
Junkman's SongDiscovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop · 1970
Too Much TendernessNow · 2003
References
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