The Loved Ones - Magic Box (50th Anniversary Edition)

Original Australian LP first released October 1967

This compilation first released April 2018

CD 1: THE LOVED ONES’ MAGIC BOX… PLUS

01 - The Magic Box

02 - Shake, Rattle And Roll

03 - More Than Love

04 - Ever Lovin’ Man

05 - Blueberry Hill

06 - Love Song

07 - A Love Like Ours

08 - The Woman I Love

09 - I Want You To Love Me

10 - The Loverly Car

11 - Sad Dark Eyes

12 - The Loved One

13 - The Magic Box

14 - Shake, Rattle And Roll

15 - More Than Love

16 - Ever Lovin’ Man

17 - Blueberry Hill

18 - Love Song

19 - A Love Like Ours

20 - The Woman I Love

21 - I Want You To Love Me

22 - The Loverly Car

23 - Sad Dark Eyes

24 - The Loved One

25 - This Is Love

26 - Ever Lovin’ Man

27 - Sad Dark Eyes

28 - The Loved One

Tracks 1-12 and 13-24 previously released as The Loved Ones’ Magic Box LP (stereo and mono), October 1967.

Track 25 previously released as the B-side of ‘The Loved One’, April 1966.

Tracks 26-28 recorded at Melbourne Festival Hall, 21 April 1967. Introduced by Stan Rofe. Previously released on Magic Box, Raven Records RVLP-23 (1985 LP) and Karussell 551 130-2 (1995 CD).

CD 2: LIVE AT THE FERNTREE GULLY HOTEL, MELBOURNE, 7 OCTOBER 1987

01 - More Than Love

02 - I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man

03 - Sad Dark Eyes

04 - I Want You To Love Me

05 - The Loved One

06 - Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy

07 - The Woman I Love

08 - Lonely At The Top

09 - Ongo Bongo Man

10 - Tight Like That

11 - Blueberry Hill

12 - Ever Lovin’ Man

13 - Rave On

Produced by Ian Clyne and Michael Wickow.

Previously released as Live On Blueberry Hill LP, April 1988.

==About the album==

"Magic Box" was not so much an album as a collection of previously available tracks with a couple of unreleased studio warm-up numbers thrown in for good measure. Indeed, it wasn’t even the band’s idea. Of the LP’s dozen tracks, ten had previously been released in either EP or single form (‘This Is Love’ being the sole omission), and the other two were 12-bar numbers recorded by the Danny De Lacy line-up just prior to doing the last single. The album was released during the same month that the band split up.

"Magic Box" is one of the few Australian albums that has never been out of print. However, while you can buy the album on CD, you will be sorely disappointed. For reasons seemingly unknown, all but one main album track was mastered to mono from the left channel of the stereo tape! This explains why there's silence, or quiet bleedthrough, during most of the solos, for they were in the right channel!

This makes these previous releases neither representative of the original stereo or mono album... something that has finally been rectified with this release, which not only brings you the original stereo and mono mixes in all their glory (or not!), but the 1988 "Live On Blueberry Hill" album, as well as ‘This Is Love’ and the three existing 1967 Melbourne Festival Hall tracks. ALL FROM BEST SOURCES POSSIBLE.

==CD 1 tracks restored and mastered by Q==

Artwork -- including a 15 page history on the band -- included

CD Quality (652mb)

Artwork samples: