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Featured Collection

The Museum’s collection continues to grow due to the generosity of Museum members, private collectors and the community at large. The staff is dedicated to collecting and caring for the Museum’s artifacts.

In Featured Collection we profile an object from our archive in order to inform and learn from the museum community.

The Youngbloods: Elephant Mountain

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Album, Record
2006.21.1.a-b
Richard Torney
1968
12 inches x 12.5 inches
Vinyl/Paper
Vinyl record album in paper sleeve/The Youngbloods/Elephant Mountain/RCA Victor Stereo/verso: images of musicians/recto: painted image by LOVE with Mount Tamalpais in background/verso: stamped Not For Sale Promotion Use Only/Handwritten in ink H.D.

History
The Youngbloods offered some mighty pleasurable folk-rock in the late '60s and produced a few great tunes along the way. One of the better groups to emerge from the East Coast in the mid-'60s, they would temper their blues and jug band influences with gentle California psychedelia (sic), particularly after they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area [Marin County]. For most listeners, they're identified almost exclusively with their Top Ten hit "Get Together," but they managed several respectable albums as well, all under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jesse Colin Young.
by Richie Unterberger, www.allmusic.com

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