Ain't It Hard! Garage And Psych From Viva Records

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	1.	The Sound Sandwich - Apothecary Dream 02:50
	2.	The Second Helping - Let Me In 02:52
	3.	The Leathercoated Minds - Psychotic Reaction 02:29
	4.	The Wailers - I Don't Want To Follow You 02:23
	5.	Gypsy Trips - Ain't It Hard 02:24
	6.	The Second Helping - Hard Times 02:09
	7.	The Leathercoated Minds - Eight Miles High 02:08
	8.	The Second Helping - On Friday 02:44
	9.	The Sound Sandwich - Tow Away 02:04
	10.	The Shindogs - Who Do You Think You Are 02:28
	11.	The Second Helping - Floating Downstream On An Inflatable Rubber Raft 02:28
	12.	The Sound Sandwich - Zig Zag News 03:21
	13.	The Leathercoated Minds - Non-Stop 02:12
	14.	Sunday Servants - I'm Puttin' You On 02:17
	15.	Sunday Servants - Who Do You Love 02:21
	16.	Roger Tillison - Nobody's Lover 02:12

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The short-lived Viva Records label was one wildly eclectic outfit. Helmed by hitmaker Snuff Garrett, this Los Angeles-based imprint targeted the teen marketplace with a series of extraordinary garage / psych / pop singles. The label’s command of popular styles prevailed across these Top 40 hopefuls, ranging from the stomping beat of the Shindogs to the psych-fuzz nirvana of the Sound Sandwich. And there’s Class of ’66 garage-grunge from the Wailers and the Second Helping (yes, that’s a teenage Kenny Loggins howling at the moon on the positively snarling “Let Me In,” among other selections). With a supporting cast led by Leon Russell and J.J. Cale and bolstered with choice Snuff Garrett Productions like Gypsy Trips and Sunday Servants, Ain’t It Hard! stands as an essential anthology of Sunset Strip sixties sounds!

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released June 11, 2018

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