Of all the compilation / sampler CDs I own (a lot!) Nothing has ever hit me harder than "Stood In The Rain", the leadoff track in the Power Pop compilation CD "Yellow Pills Volume 4". No other song has so reminded me of the Beatles at (to me) their 1966 peak - soundalikes? "Rain", "Paperback Writer", "Doctor Robert", "And Your Bird Can Sing". The name of the band is Four O'Clock Balloon and th...
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(Fourth in a series)After discovering Four O'Clock Balloon on the Yellow Pills compilation and acquiring their sole CD, I thought I was done. But then through a Google search I found 4 tracks NOT on that CD on some music website. Finally, Tommy Anthony (their leader) filled in the gaps in an e-mail: "Undaunted, we recorded our second cd, "More Hot Air". Again the regional press went nuts, our f...
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(Third in a series)Only one other commercially released CD featured anything by Four O'Clock Balloon - a compilation CD entitled Yellow Pills 4, which featured Stood In The Rain as the leadoff (and best) track on the power pop collection. It was released in 1997, the same year as the sole FOCB solo CD (see last post).In those old pre-internet days, exposure to new music was a very hit-or-miss t...
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(Second in a series) When we last left Tommy Anthony & Goza (the first incarnation of Four O'Clock Balloon), they had just broken up as a Latin band. Here's Tommy Anthony's take:"Within weeks after disbanding, we became the Four O'Clock Balloon by simply dropping the keyboardist and percussionist. Why that happened was that Jack Allen [Goza's lead guitarist] had been nudging me to go back to...
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(Fifth in a series)Unable to get a major label commitment to their second, unreleased CD (see the prior post), the Balloon attempted one last time to get off the ground. Here's Tommy's description:"Still stubborn, I began demos for what would be our final cd, "Up , Up and Away ". I completed about 8 songs on my own, playing everything myself initially, then replacing my parts with each guy on h...
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(Blame mogger inrumford, who encouraged me sharing more of my powerpop collection). Four O'Clock Balloon is much too obscure for their level of talent. They only put out one CD as a pop/rock group. They actually started as an Afro-Cuban band, and released a CD doing that genre of music under the name Tommy Anthony and Goza. I have Mogged about them three times previously, but I was out raking l...
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