The Sons of Champlin

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The Sons of Champlin are an American rock band that was formed in the mid-1960s and is still going today.

history

The Sons of Champlin

The Sons of Champlin emerged in 1967 from the band "The Opposite Six," which Bill Champlin formed at his high school in Mill Valley , California . In 1967 they recorded an album and released the single Sing Me a Rainbow . The album was not released; the material did not appear until 1999 under the name Fat City .

The Sons of Champlin were popular as a live band in the 1960s. They played regularly at the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore West in San Francisco . They have appeared with the Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane , Quicksilver Messenger Service , Country Joe and the Fish and The Youngbloods , among others , and they opened up for The Band when they first used the name.

In 1968 the Sons of Champlin got a record deal with Capitol Records , where three albums were released - the second under the shortened band name "The Sons" - before the group split up in 1970. Bill Champlin and Jerry Miller from Moby Grape founded the short-term band "The Rhythm Dukes".

1971 saw the reunification of the Son of Champlin with a new line-up, initially under the name “Yogi Phlegm”; from 1972, however, they reappeared under the original name. In 1972 the album Welcome to the Dance was released , which was released by Columbia Records and is one of their best.

In 1975 they recorded the album The Sons of Champlin in their own studio; this and the next two albums were released by Ariola . With A Circle Filled with Love they had their greatest success in the charts at number 117 in 1976. When the follow-up album did not meet expectations, the group broke up again in 1977; Champlin went on solo and eventually went to Chicago .

On November 25, 1985, ten years after the breakup, the Sons of Champlin made a surprise appearance at the Fillmore in San Francisco, along with Huey Lewis & the News , the KBC Band and the reunited Country Joe and the Fish . This concert remained a unique event until 1997 when Champlin called the Sons back together. Since then several new albums have appeared.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1969: Loosen Up Naturally ( Capitol Records )
  • 1969: The Sons (Capitol Records)
  • 1970: Minus Seeds & Stems (in-house production)
  • 1971: Follow Your Heart (Capitol Records)
  • 1973: Welcome to the Dance ( Columbia Records )
  • 1975: The Sons of Champlin ( Ariola )
  • 1976: A Circle Filled with Love (Ariola)
  • 1977: Loving Is Why (Ariola)
  • 2005: Hip Li'l Dreams (Dig Music)

Live albums

Compilations

  • 1993: The Best of the Sons of Champlin (Capitol Records)
  • 1999: Fat City (Big Beat)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Web presence of the Sons of Champlin, see web links
  2. a b Allmusic, see web links