The Tingling Mother's Circus - A Circus of the Mind. 1968 USA-New York

The Tingling Mother's Circus' sole album is a type of charming orchestrated pop psych, with dual male and female vocals - and small bouts of organ and fuzz guitar to definitely give it that late 60s edge. If you can conjure up a 1968 image of 'Sunday Kind of Feeling' and 'Happy Bubble', then I think you already know how this album will sound without having to hit the YouTube samples first.

Ownership: LP: 1968 Musicor. Comes in a fine uni-pak gatefold on Musicor, a major label that pretty much eschewed the entire psychedelic rock movement. One of the few obscure US psych albums that can still be found for dirt cheap.

No reissues exist.

Last listen: Summer 2014