It’s a Beautiful Day

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic folk-rock device It’s a lovely Day time was primarily the automobile of virtuoso violinist David LaFlamme, given birth to Apr 5, 1941 in New Britain, Connecticut but raised in Sodium Lake Town, Utah. After starting his musical education at age group five, LaFlamme later on served like a soloist using the Utah Symphony, pursuing an military stint by settling within the Bay Region in 1962. There he immersed himself in the neighborhood underground music picture, jamming alongside famous brands Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin; after his short-lived Electric powered Chamber Orchestra splintered, LaFlamme also co-founded an early on incarnation of Dan Hicks & His Sizzling Licks before assembling It’s a lovely Day time in mid-1967. The group — which originally included LaFlamme’s keyboardist wife Linda, vocalist Pattie Santos, guitarist Hal Wagenet, bassist Mitchell Holman, and drummer Val Fuentes — released its self-titled debut LP on Columbia in 1969, rating their biggest strike using the haunting Radio staple “White colored Parrot.” Linda LaFlamme remaining It’s a lovely Day immediately after, going to type Titus’ Mom; keyboardist Fred Webb authorized on for the follow-up, 1970’s Marrying Maiden, while Holman exited ahead of 1971’s Choice Quality Stuff, documented with fresh guitarist Expenses Gregory and bassist Tom Fowler. In 1973, ongoing disputes over royalties pressured LaFlamme from the group he developed, and upon setting up fresh violinist Greg Bloch, the rest of the members released It’s a lovely Day time…Today before dissolving within the wake of 1974’s 1001 Evenings. LaFlamme installed a solo profession in 1977 with White colored Bird, carrying on his protracted legal tussle with ex-manager Matthew Katz for a long time to follow; unfortunately, Pattie Santos passed away in a Dec 14, 1989 car crash.