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Re: first Mellotron usage ever on a record?

2005-02-21 by turmelpierrolivier

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "mellotrongirl" 
<mellotrongirl@h...> wrote:
> 
> Do I recall right it was on an album by Graham Bond Organisation? I
> found a mildly worn out old 45 rpm single at a yard sale called Long
> Tall Shorty. Well, no Mellotron on that one or on the flip side. 
Well,
> I guess it was worth a quarter to find out! I don't know anothing
> about Graham Bond really (except the late great Dick Heckstall-Smith
> blew sax with them) and have no other recordings by them.

Hi, 

According to the mellotron book by Frank Samagaio, the first use of 
the mellotron is by Graham Bondc on "Baby, can it be true" single
in 1965.

Pierre-Olivier-Turmel
M400/#719

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