It's A Beautiful Day - Today (1973)


Here goes this very hard to find album(at least for me), from the very well known band from the San Francisco Bay Area, i couldn´t find it anywhere so for those who are looking this one enjoy, im not sure if this is the right cover but is the best i could find...Theres no David LaFlamme on this album so there is a different sound, also we can appreciate more the beautiful voice of Pattie Santos and the compositions of Pattie and Bud cockrell.


- Val Fuentes / drums, vocals
- Pattie Santos / percussion, vocals
- Bill Gregory / guitar
- Fred Webb / keyboards, vocals
- Greg Bloch / mandolin, violin
- Bud Cockrell / bass, vocals
- Greg Bloch / horn

Enjoy
Posted at 6:07 PM by nahavanda

12 comments:

  1. kwaDecember 9, 2007 at 9:45 PM

    Hello,

    Thanks for this post.

    As for the original cover, the "background" of the one you posted is indeed the original one.

    I have a french book on psychedelia with a better copy of cover, so I can scan it if nobody else has a better image.

    My book also says that there is a participation on this LP of guitarist David Jenkins (later forming group "Pablo Cruise")

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  2. Peter HammillDecember 10, 2007 at 2:20 PM

    Hello, Good People.....

    PLEASE, PLEASE re-post this true gem.......

    This link is quite DEAD!!!!

    I've been waiting for this post for years......but this album is very hard to find...here in Brasil..it's just impossible!!!!!

    So make my dream come true and IOU for life!!!!


    Good Vibrations for You...

    Peter Hammill

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  3. Peter HammillDecember 10, 2007 at 4:30 PM

    Hello Good People....

    Forgive me... my last comment....my pc was cracked.....I was wrong....

    The link works fine.....so forget all I've been said before....

    Good Vibrations for you!!!!

    THanx for this true gem!!!!

    Peter Hammill.

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  4. Henry ChinaskiDecember 11, 2007 at 9:42 AM

    hey peter, the link is alive i checked out myself ;)

    try again


    cheers

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  5. AnonymousDecember 11, 2007 at 11:58 AM

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!
    A school-mate gave me this album in the seventies and I recorded it on reel-to-reel. The first half of the tape was Sabbath´s Paranoid, so I listened quite often. It´s A Beautiful Day was the perfect antithesis to Black Sabbath and I liked this album a lot. In fact I like it better than the all too pretentious, well-known first LP.
    While the tape wore out and the transfer to cassette and then CDR didn´t make it sound better, I was searching all my life for a real copy of the LP - nowhere to be found.
    Why don´t the suckers of CBS/Sony reissue that thing?

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  6. GumbyDecember 13, 2007 at 9:20 AM

    Hello,

    I've just started my own blog, called FinnArctic. Finnish music, at the time there's mainly proggy stuff there, but there will be postings covering other genres as well. Check it out if you're interested.

    http://finnishrock.blogspot.com/

    Regards,
    Jan

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  7. mike-floydDecember 14, 2007 at 5:15 PM

    This one is REALLY pretty hard to find!
    Thanks

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  8. AnonymousDecember 15, 2007 at 10:27 AM

    Please!Choice quality stuff?

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  9. mathalaaFebruary 3, 2008 at 2:18 PM

    thank you very much for this. Greatly appreciate this man. IOU

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  10. AnonymousMarch 6, 2008 at 6:01 AM

    .......thanks a lot for this rarity.
    If someone got the original cover as large as possible please share it with us.
    Thanks again.......

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  11. AnonymousMarch 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM

    really nice share on what amounts to something of a collector's item. :)

    however i do not believe David Jenkins participated in the actual recording of this project, and he is certainly not listed in any of the officially published credits. as far as i know, Bill Gregory was still doing the guitar licks for IABD on this release.

    there is a chance, however, that Jenkins participated (albeit briefly) in the concert tour that followed the album's release, before joining the departing Bud Cockrell and Stoneground bandmates Cory Lerios and Steve Price later in the year to form Pablo Cruise.

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  12. AnonymousAugust 13, 2008 at 1:27 AM

    I´ve looked for this Album since Years (was it 28 years oder 32 - I don´t remember...)

    So, I thank you veeeeeery much for your posting!

    saludos: Robb

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