The Association
The Association is an American pop band from California in the folk rock or soft rock genre. During the 1960s, they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts (including "Windy", "Cherish", and "Along Comes Mary") and were the lead-off band at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival.
History
Beginnings
Jules Alexander (born September 25, 1943, Chattanooga, Tennessee) was in Hawaii in 1962 serving a stint in the Navy when he met Terry Kirkman (born December 12, 1939, Salina, Kansas, who had grown up in Chino, California, and attended Chaffey College as a music major), a visiting salesman. The two young musicians jammed together and promised to get together once Alexander was discharged. That happened a year later; the two eventually moved to Los Angeles and began exploring the city's music scene in the mid-1960s, often working behind the scenes as directors and arrangers for other music acts. At the same time, Kirkman played in groups with Frank Zappa for a short period before Zappa went on to form The Mothers of Invention.
The Association (album)
The Association is the group's eponymous sixth album (# 32). It is an eclectic LP with songs in many different styles including rock, pop, blue-eyed soul, psychedelic, country and novelty, while still staying in the realm of sunshine rock and sunshine pop. Although generally well received by the critics, it did not spawn any hit singles.
It was the last studio album featuring guitarist Russ Giguere, who left for a solo career in 1971.
Track listing
References
Just Drifting
Just Drifting is a single by Psychic TV for their album Force The Hand Of Chance. It was on 7" and 12" vinyl.
The B-side run-out groove reads: BREAKTHROUGH IN THE GREY ROOM.
Personnel
Some Bizarre Records / Warner *Music performers: Alex Fergusson, Peter Christopherson
7" vinyl notes
Some Bizzare Label "This is a Zuccarelli Holophonic TM recording made with the assistance of Mike King. This system gives 360 degree sound or Three Dimensional sound. For best effect place speakers opposite each other and sit in the middle, or use headphones. Close your eyes, play quite loud and try and read the pictures. Walk through the rooms of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth."
"If you sit with fear, a star too far, almost lost in this storm of Life. A blazing ghost can become the host, and you breakthrough to the room of dreams."
12" vinyl notes
"Ov Power - A method to be used by the Individual to break through to their deeper consciousness, where fantasies, ambitions and real wishes reside, the place where all dreams meet."
Podcasts:
The Association
ALBUMS
The Association
ALBUMS
- Insight Out released: 2011
- From the Original Master Tapes (Greatest Hits) released: 2002
- Just the Right Sound: The Association Anthology released: 2002
- The Essentials released: 2002
- French 60's EP & Sp Collection released: 1999
- Birthday released: 1999
- Stop Your Motor released: 1971
- The Association released: 1969
- Greatest Hits! released: 1968
- Renaissance released: 1967
- And Then... Along Comes the Association released: 1966
- Songs That Made Them Famous released:
- Just The Right Sound: The Association Anthology released:
Insight Out
Released 2011- Wasn't It a Bit Like Now (Parallel '23)
- On a Quiet Night
- We Love Us
- When Love Comes to Me
- Windy
- Reputation
- Never My Love
- Happiness Is
- Sometime
- Wantin' Ain't Gettin'
- Requiem for the Masses
- Autumn Afternoon
- Windy (Mono 45)
- Sometime (Mono 45)
- Never My Love (Mono 45)
- Requiem for the Masses (Mono 45)
- We Love Us (instrumental)
- When Love Comes to Me (instrumental)
- Windy (instrumental)
- Sometime (instrumental)
- Never My Love (instrumental)
- On a Quiet Night (instrumental)
From the Original Master Tapes (Greatest Hits)
Released 2002- One Too Many Mornings
- Along Comes Mary
- Cherish
- Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies
- No Fair at All
- Windy
- Never My Love
- Requiem for the Masses
- Everything That Touches You
- We Love Us
- Time for Livin'
- Six Man Band
- Enter the Young
- The Time It Is Today
- Message of Our Love
- Birthday Morning
- Rose Petals, Incense and a Kitten
- Goodbye Columbus
- P.F. Sloan
- Dreamer
Just the Right Sound: The Association Anthology
Released 2002- The Machine
- One Too Many Mornings
- Forty Times
- Along Comes Mary
- Your Own Love
- Don't Blame It on Me
- Cherish
- Standing Still
- I'll Be Your Man
- Remember
- Enter the Young
- Changes
- Better Times
- I'm the One
- Memories of You
- Pandoras Golden Heebie Jeebies
- You Hear Me Call Your Name
- Looking Glass
- No Fair at All
- Windy
- On a Quiet Night
- We Love Us
- When Love Comes to Me
- Reputation
- Never My Love
- Happiness Is
- Requiem for the Masses
- [untitled]
French 60's EP & Sp Collection
Released 1999- Cherish
- Don't Blame the Rain
- Along Comes Mary
- Your Own Love
- No Fair at All
- I'm the One
- Looking Glass
- Come to Me
- Windy
- Sometime
- Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies
- Standing Still
- Never My Love
- Requiem for the Masses
- Everything That Touches You
- We Love Us
- Time for Livin'
- Birthday Morning
- Six Man Band
- Like Always
Songs That Made Them Famous
- Enter The Young
- Your Own Love
- Don't Blame It On Me
- Blistered
- I'll Be Your Man
- Along Comes Mary
- Cherish
- Standing Still
- Message Of Our Love
- Round Again
- Remember
- Changes
- Wasn't It A Bit Like Now (Parallel '23)
- On a Quiet Night
- We Love Us
- When Love Comes To Me
- Windy
- Reputation
- Never My Love
- Happiness
- Sometime
- Wantin' Ain't Gettin'
- Requiem For The Masses
Just The Right Sound: The Association Anthology
- The Machine
- Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
- One Too Many Mornings
- Forty Times
- Along Comes Mary
- Your Own Love
- Don't Blame It on Me
- Cherish
- Standing Still
- I'll Be Your Man
- Remember
- Enter the Young
- Better Times
- It'll Take a Little Time
- You Hear Me Call Your Name
- Memories of You
- Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies
- Looking Glass
- No Fair at All
- Windy
- On a Quiet Night
- We Love Us
- When Love Comes to Me
- Never My Love
- Happiness Is
- Requiem for the Masses
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ALBUMS
- The X-Mas Compilation 2013 released: 2013
The X-Mas Compilation 2013
Released 2013- Disassosiaatio
- Deformation
- Revelation
- Blue Horizons Lost Amongst The Ice Fields I
- An Empty Chair at Christmas
- The Heart of Things Holy
- Just Drifting
- Dysprosis
- Dreams of a Kyoto Snowflake
- Beyond Mars: Dr. Bowman's Dream
- Sleigh
- Scident
- Chiron VII
- Feels Like Rain
- My Contribution to Your General Sense of Well-Being
- In The Red Room
- Midnight
- Simple Spirals
- Psylocybus Methyl Ethyl Keytone Zombinal Tetrahydra Corticaine
- Awakening
- All or Nothing
- Bedtime Story
- Aux Confins Avant Le Temps
- Under The Stone
- Mueli
- Virginis B Intercept
- Diamond Oceans on Neptune
- Jade Rabbit
- Our Last Christmas Together
- Last Nail in The Coffin
- Stalingrad 25.12.42
- The Sacred Cave
- The Power of Blindless
- Spacejunk 1.0
- Pan Demonio
- Tempus Fugit
- 3rd
- Pain Wave
- Glimmer
- The Gray
- Keyboard Nostalgia
- Snowflakes
- Oil and Gas of Arctica
- Farewell to Childhood
- Spiritual
- Scalding Cells
- The Unwinding Hours
- Toy Phone Mangle Op. 27, No. 2
- Cherophobic Christmas
- Ups & Downs
- Sharpstick
- Lonely Room
- Withering in Snow
- Strates
- Earth Bound
- I Wonder
- Go
- Casual Apparitions
- Rumble Grumble
- Binaural Fog
- Alienation
- Don Ta Da (instrumental)
- Yellow With a Hint of Black
- Shapeless Formation at The Shores of Nightmare
- Førpestat Ljus
- Frozen Spirits
- Aurora Borealis
- The Particle Elements of Enchanted Birds
- Nivelar Your Alertness
- Inner Effect
- Emancipation
- Waiting for Santa Claus
- Light
- All Rhodes Lead to Santa
- Winter Spoke to Me That Night
- Yesterday Was Spent Screaming at Paint
- State of Minde
- Glitching
- Bleed Me Dry
- The Blue Robins
- Arctic Blizzard
- Piano Sketch # 1
- San Galgano
- Colony Two (X-Mas edit)
- Merry Christmas to You
- Sleigh
- The Long Journey From Spooky Santa
- Byakui
- Christmas Prelude
- Ces Matins Gris Si Doux
- Gothic Toys for Dead Boys
- Holiday Fire
- Don't Know What Happens Tomorrow
- Ride The Sun to Room Night
- So That Sheep Can Graze Safely
- Surrounding Fog
- The Austerity Machines
- Moonbeam
- Astronomical Bodies
- We Keep
- Don't Step Too Far Into Those Rocks, My Dear
- On The Safe Side
- In Memorian (Drone edit)
- Scienze Della Formazione
- Null
- Full Moon
- Plutonian Snowwave Rider
- Confined
- Pond Life by Night
- ISON
- Merry X... My Boot
- Reflication
- Romanscape
- A Toxicology Report on Powdered Reindeer Antler
- Still Mine
- Persia
- Eee
- Link
- I-II-III-IV-V-VI-VII-VIII-IX-X-Mas
- Concierto Franco de Gemini
- Nights Embrace Silence
- Last Global Warning
- Chimp Register
- Padrta Gen Kurz Nun
- The Hunting Grounds
- And Farhowl Drank Deep From The Tankard of Dreams
- Wilt
- Etched Circles (Yet Another Homeless Winter)
- Mind Meld #1
- Ohm2
- Driving Through The Snow to a Place You're Not Wanted
- The Christmas Before The Last
- She's Not Coming Home for Christmas
- Shapeshift
- Floatpoint
- Ishtar
- Apical Meristem Edit
- Shivering
- Falling Snowflakes
- Lost in Thought
- Double F
- Grinder
- Arenanterior
- Merry Christmas Mister Johnson
- Grasschopper
- Petroglyph Special Edit Eqd
- Ocells 11 09 2012
- Chant for Peace (Matthies) 12-12-13
- Graduale
- Winter Flight
- Busking Under The Influence of Holiday Cheer
- Crippling Daylight
- Healing a Cut II
- The Eaten Pails
- Ambispace
- Dead Spaces
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Everything That Touches You
by: The AssociationIn my most secure moments I still can't believe
I'm spending these moments with you
On the ground I am walking, the air that I breathe
Are shared in these moments with you
You love for real
You show the feel
Of everything that touches you
In the songs I've been singing quite often a phrase
Comes close to the feeling of you
But I never suspected that one of those days
The wish of the song would come true
[repeat chorus]
You are of gracefulness
You are of happiness
You are what I would guess to be most like
What I've been singing of
[repeat intro]
[repeat verse 1]
[repeat chorus]
Coda [repeat to fade]:
Love love
Love