Midsummer Dreaming - An Anthology 1967-1970

Midsummer Dreaming is a 3CD anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro John Carter and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men.

The anthology includes the Summer of Love hit "Let's Go To San Francisco", further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums, and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue.

Inspired equally by the Haight-Ashbury scene, the worldwide Summer of Love, and Brian Wilson's recent groundbreaking work, in mid-1967 former Ivy Leaguers John Carter and Ken Lewis pieced together the hugely ambitious, six-minute "Let's Go To San Francisco". The result was a UK Top Five hit, a success that encouraged Carter to record more material in the same vein.

When psychedelia withered and died, Carter abandoned the name in public but continued to work on a brace of Moody Blues-style concept albums that failed to appear at the time.

A four-hour set, Midsummer Dreaming gathers up all four Flower Pot Men singles, those two aborted albums, and sundry other material that either didn't gain a release or was issued under other aliases, such as the highly regarded "Mythological Sunday" (credited to Friends) and "Midsummer Dreaming" (John Carter & Russ Alquist).

An essential item for lovers of intelligent, melodic, harmony-based late 60s British pop and psychedelia, Midsummer Dreaming includes five hitherto-unissued studio tracks as well as a brace of late 1967 Radio 1 sessions that are also gaining their first-ever official issue.