The Outlaws landed a recording contract with Joe Meek in 1960, Meek intending to have them act as backing band for an artist named Mike Berry. Upon realizing the band's talent, however, Joe decided that they needed to make a record of their own as well as back damn near every other recording artist under his auspices.
"Dream of the West is a concept album on the topic "The Wild West"... All 12 tunes are composed by Joe Meek under his standard pseudonym Robert Duke." The album is "interesting... because Joe Meek's trick of using a composition several times is played in triplicate here: the tracks 03, 08, and 12 can be found with different arrangements and titles on Meek's outer space suite I Hear A New World..." "...a twelve-part suite around the subject "life on the moon." Meek recorded the tracks mainly at his bedroom studio at Arundel Gardens on a borrowed stereo tape recorder (and probably secretly at night at Lansdowne Studio.) As Meek wrote in the liner notes "this is a strange record, I meant it to be."An altogether fascinating man was Meek. These and other recordings I can't suggest or praise highly enough.
Dream of the West
I Hear A New World
Here's a really cool video someone put together of several songs from both albums.
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Both links are the same - Dream of the West. Thanks for the share, though. it's very cool
Thanks for letting me know. I updated the link for 'I Hear A New World.'
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