Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad / A Woman Of Distinction download free

One of the first uses of the wonderful 'phasing' effect on a record, pre-dating those famous sky-defying drum runs on "Itchycoo Park" by a couple of months. This 45 is totally drenched in it too, mirroring the stoned haziness and blissed-out confusion of the lyrics. More famous for his collaborations with a certain Elton John, who is rumoured to play on this record, Caleb Quaye was apparently obsessed with Hendrix at the time and set out to produce his own psychedelic opus with this. It sold virtually nothing and received only one documented play on the airwaves - on Radio Scotland 242 where the DJ apparently played the B side accidentally. Reviews were also pretty lukewarm, with the anti-psychedelic Penny Valentine commenting in Disc and Music Echo that the vocalist should check his own singing before criticising anyone else. The single languished in obscurity until it was picked up again in the early 80s by the Bam Caruso label on their 49 Minute Technicolour Dream compilation, with the B side appearing on The Psychedelic Snarl.