Американская группа (не путать с британской Flying Machine). В ее состав входили Tony Newman, Steve Jones, Sam Kempe, Stuart Colman и ударник Paul Wilkinson. Группа пела в стиле bit или sunshine-pop. Продолжение такой музыки в 70-м выглядит неким анахронизмом, но мне показалось, что все выполнено довольно хорошо, разнообразно. Иногда они поют на грани эстрады. Две-три песни очень похожи на Hollies и Del Shannon. Вокалистов несколько. Есть проходные песни. Оптимистичная часть альбома вполне симпатична. Альбом на твёрдую четвёрочку. Можно один раз послушать...
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The Flying Machine was a British pop band, which was in 1969, renamed from Pinkerton's Assorted Colours.During the approximate one year of their existence as a band, from 1966 until 1967, the American quartet called the Flying Machine -- not to be confused with the English Flying Machine of the same era -- were referred to as just that, the Flying Machine. But starting approximately three years or so after their breakup, they were usually referred to as "James Taylor & the Flying Machine," a reflection of their onetime lead singer's emergence to stardom between 1969 and 1971. The short-lived East Coast band was most notable for featuring James Taylor as its singer, but the Flying Machine did leave behind a small but interesting body of recordings, most never intended to represent their actual sound and all the more interesting for it. The initial impetus for organizing the group came from guitarist Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, who had previously played in a band called the Kingbees. In the summer of 1966, while staying in Martha's Vineyard after departing from that band, and crossing paths with his friend James Taylor, Kortchmar proposed putting the group together with Taylor as lead singer and himself on lead guitar, and Joel O'Brien on drums. In the absence of any experienced bassists in their circle of acquaintances, they recruited an old friend, Zachary Weisner, whom they had to teach to play the instrument.
