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Despite the reputation surrounding their highly sought-after 1968 LP, New York quartet Mortimer are probably best remembered for their association with The Beatles’ Apple empire. Indeed they recorded a whole album with Peter Asher in 1969 which remains unreleased to this day, largely due to the arrival of Allen Klein at Apple and his culling of several projects.
It wasn’t the first time that Klein had axed the release of an album by the band. In 1966 the pre-Mortimer garage rock band The Teddy Boys were signed to the Cameo Parkway label where they issued two fine and furious singles and cut an album’s worth of material. Klein entered the picture at Cameo in 1967 and nixed the release of the album. Regardless of these misfortunes, The Teddy Boys were hot property in the New York clubs and were soon signed up by B,B & D Productions, a company co-run by Englishman Daniel Secunda, brother of notorious UK pop manager Tony Secunda. They installed the band at their trendy manhattan night club, Arthur, and gave them a flat where they wrote new material in a more acoustic and melodic vein.
An album was duly recorded for Mercury using this acoustic approach and a couple of promo singles lifted. The irresistable opener ‘Dedicated Music Man’ received heavy airplay in the New York area and the album reportedly sold 35,000 copies.
Despite the reputation surrounding their highly sought-after 1968 LP, New York quartet Mortimer are probably best remembered for their association with The Beatles’ Apple empire. Indeed they recorded a whole album with Peter Asher in 1969 which remains unreleased to this day, largely due to the arrival of Allen Klein at Apple and his culling of several projects.
It wasn’t the first time that Klein had axed the release of an album by the band. In 1966 the pre-Mortimer garage rock band The Teddy Boys were signed to the Cameo Parkway label where they issued two fine and furious singles and cut an album’s worth of material. Klein entered the picture at Cameo in 1967 and nixed the release of the album. Regardless of these misfortunes, The Teddy Boys were hot property in the New York clubs and were soon signed up by B,B & D Productions, a company co-run by Englishman Daniel Secunda, brother of notorious UK pop manager Tony Secunda. They installed the band at their trendy manhattan night club, Arthur, and gave them a flat where they wrote new material in a more acoustic and melodic vein.
An album was duly recorded for Mercury using this acoustic approach and a couple of promo singles lifted. The irresistable opener ‘Dedicated Music Man’ received heavy airplay in the New York area and the album reportedly sold 35,000 copies.
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rirriri wrote:
wow...the 1967 Mortimer is amazing...the story behind them is amazing too. The Beatles signed em to Apple Records...and then dropped them....then they broke up, and their recorded album dissappeared.
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pandammonium wrote:
I went to Uni with one of the guitarists in Mortimer (the UK one).
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MikeManger wrote:
Fuzzy felt man. :D
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Crazeefingers wrote:
mortimer, at least the one from London, is awesome
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GardenElvis wrote:
Most of these songs are not the band from 1968 check out http://www.themortimer.com
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josecasas added Mortimer to the lineup of Mortimer at Wah Wah. last month
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Txarly added Mortimer to the lineup of Mortimer at Matisse. last month
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Raphaelxxx tagged Mortimer with spanish punk, punk rock and punk. October 2009
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zjebBartek tagged Mortimer with ‘pop’. October 2009
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dwarfgene and pornpkra added Mortimer to their libraries. August 2009
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josecasas added Mortimer to the lineup of Mortimer at Wah Wah. August 2009
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malapekora, phung13, weltraummuell and 1 other person added Mortimer to their libraries. July 2009
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djgizmoe, fireuix and holini added Mortimer to their libraries. May 2009
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djgizmoe tagged Mortimer with ‘indie’. May 2009
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GardenElvis updated the wiki page for Day Friend. (diff) April 2009
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