“Half Angel”

by Richie Marsh and The Hoodwinks
1961 song

The B-side of Richie Marsh and The Hoodwinks’ 1961 single was "Half Angel", backing up the flip "Baby Baby Baby". "Half Angel" was written by Li’l Rascal Darla Hood, whom Richie (a.k.a. Sky Saxon) met while working as a swimming pool digger. She sings backup on the song, which was released on her husband’s label Acama Records.

"Half Angel" is playful and gentle, the least offensive early rock music imaginable. “A half angel is better than no angel at all,” he sobs. The only life in the track, really, is Richie’s proto-buzzsaw vocals. He’s playing it super sweet on "Half Angel" but it isn’t a great leap from this high-pitched teen croon to the rambunctious shouting hippie rabble-rouser he’d become with The Seeds.

The 1982 oddities compilation LP Bad Part Of Town included "Half Angel" among its vinyl-sourced rarities. The song is also included on the 2003 LP Sky Saxon Presents "A Starlight Date With Richard Marsh" but has had extreme noise reduction applied to it, rendering it thin and muffled.

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Sky Saxon Presents "A Starlight Date With Richard Marsh"

album by Dick Marsh, etc. (2003)

The ultimate place to get all twelve of Sky Saxon's known 1960-1964 single sides on one compilation is this 2003 vinyl LP from Norton Records.

Masters Of Psychedelia

album by Sky Sunlight Saxon Universal Stars Peace Band (1984)

Sky Saxon released this album in 1984 featuring one side of newly-recorded heavy-metal psych songs and one of sparser recordings from the late 1970s.

Rare Seeds

album by The Seeds (2001)

Rare Seeds isn't really a Seeds album per se. Rather, it's the second half of a disc called Raw & Alive/Rare Seeds, issued

"Baby Baby Baby"

song by Richie Marsh and The Hoodwinks (1961)

"Baby Baby Baby" was Sky Saxon's second solo single, released in 1961 under the name Richie Marsh and The Hoodwinks. It's a corny stroll through

Bad Part Of Town

compilation by Sky Saxon and The Seeds (1983)

At the time this 1983 compilation album was a welcome source for Sky Saxon's early 1960s teen-pop attempts and The Seeds' wonderful post-GNP singles.

Back To The Garden

CD by The Seeds (2008)

One of Sky Saxon's final albums, Back To The Garden is from a 1990s project with Mike Oak and features Seeds keyboardist Daryl Hooper on three songs.

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