Fazon - Sopwith Camel

[@randysantana9174]

This song was playing on the radio when I was at my grandma's house.. I was running around the back yard and it stopped me in my tracksi went over to the radio and just listened and turned it up! My grandma loved it.. whenever I listen to this song I can see her in the distance. It is so hypnotizing to this day.

[@NormMayell]

I made this video and as always read the responses which for this tune are always so positive. The second verse was removed because I was going to run out of those great stage photos from Ebbets Field in Denver, CO photographed in 1972. And therefore I decided to use the format of Fazon as a 45 rpm when it was released as a single-w/o the 2nd verse. The video portions were shot in the studio at KEMO TV/Radio in San Francisco in 1971. Very early example of a Rock Video. Norm Mayell - Drummer

[@MrIsomer]

Thanks for creating this video Norm. I just heard this song play again on the radio yesterday - first time I'd heard it since the 70's! Re-kindled some fabulous memories. You boys had a great thing going back then.

[@richardjuarez7749]

My brother recently passed away, I received his vinyl collection. This is definitely one of my favorites. RIP Bro.

[@levonpoe]

Fazon Everyone. This piece of music just refuses to age. 40 plus years later and it still sound fresh. Fazon Everyone.

[@slimturnpike]

Yep

[@kidcremezoo]

indeed, i discovered this track on spotify, was sure it was a 2018 hipster kind of band...

[@jamespilgreen5331]

Leo song ghost songs

[@ToolsForKids]

probably one of the best songs ever made

[@nugsymalone1247]

I'm 28, I love when old heads try to test my music taste and I pull this out. Love this song, such a hidden gem.

[@rebeccagoede998]

Good for you, sonny, lol

[@bkiene]

love this...takes me back almost 40 years crusing in my VW bug down the highway with a good little buzz on...

[@LuizPauloRochaLP]

Sopwith Camel was a British plane in the service of the Royal Naval Air Service in WW I. Sopwith Camel is also the name of this San Francisco psychedelic rock musical group from the 60's -- and I only took notice of them today, in 2019. The band sounds incredibly contemporary.

[@jeffwhite3625]

45 years of obsessive record collecting and over 8000 + records in my collection, this LP is in my top ten list of all time. The record is just perfect.

[@MeHomer]

This song is too short. That easily could have extended to fill a 25 min. LP side. And no one would complain. Hynotic tune I love it.

[@denknee8237]

This is the single edit. The LP version can also be found on KZbin.

[@takearight.]

Genius stuff...I didn’t a Marantz to get the background good stuff just a 70’s record player lol

[@janellepitcher1631]

One of my all time favorite songs! Never tire of it.

[@ThatGuySteveH]

Holy moly! I’ve had this tune in my head since 1973. I heard it on a radio station out of Elizabeth City, NC called K-94 when I was away at school in the 11th grade. I never heard it played anywhere else and I’d forgotten the artist and the song name. I’ve been racking my brain for 51 years! About 20 minutes ago I saw the Google app had a music recognition thingy where it said to hum or sing so I tried my best hum because I really only remembered the tune and not the words. It found it!! I’m tickled shitless! It sounds even better than I remember! Thank you for having this posted on KZbin for Google to find!! ❤

[@rebeccagoede998]

Had this given to me on an 8-track. Such a cool, cool song; now and then. Ageless, awesome and so copacetic. Mmmmmmmm

[@Toyboy789]

still as hauntingly beautiful today as it was in the early 70s . . . thanks fof this wonderful post!

[@WyoStory]

One of the greatest lesser known songs from the late '60s/early '70s rock era. Was at Ebbets Field in Denver myself back in the day. Saw a band called "Night City", that included Ray Manzarek on keyboards back in '77. If I'm not mistaken, The Ramones opened at that show. That was indeed a great venue

[@oringinalbeefeater]

Back in the mid 70's there were "progressive" FM stations that only played album music; no top 40 stuff. I was going to college in Marshall, MN and would tune into a station out of Willmar, MN which had an amazing DJ who played music like this and was unsurpassed in its music repertoire. They played numerous songs from Miraculous Hump and I bought the album. It is still among my favorites. I'd play the album and people would ask what it was and go buy the album themselves. Doesn't get any better than this

[@doorswhofan]

OMG, I thought the world had forgotten this tune altogether! Absolutely intense! THE MIRACULOUS HUMP RETURNS FROM THE MOON! :-)

[@gtrjay55]

Played alot on good old Kfml radio Denver when it was new .Good times.

[@bowzerbird]

I knew those guys, lived in SF [CA]. So sad they didn't make it. What great Jazz. What great music!

[@angryspider44]

I was 18 when I first heard this at school in the UK 1975 Literally have not heard it till now and love it!!! So many memories 55 now....

[@TweetyAliceHippies]

Truly a great hippie song! To all my Melbourne and St Kilda hippy friends who loved Sopwith - here it is again! Tweety - Hippies are Back in St Kilda

[@derfzus]

One of my most prized albums!! Yes, this was truly underground music to space out with!!

[@anthonypappas3877]

From Hello, Hello to the progressive Miraculous Hump...this was on my turntable forever. Friends woujld stop by and go: Hey what is that? Oh really? Man that's great. Have another hit!

[@ajhoncantara]

Still come back to this amazing "record" after all these years and it's still amazing. I love the blank stare I get when friends ask who it is.

[@use100ame]

This is great and the album filled a great void in my life at one time. Never forgotten.

[@JoePadilla]

Saw this band live when I was a teenager in downtown Denver Colorado at a small club named Ebbets Field.Great performance. Fazon......... Some of the bands that performed there were broadcast on local FM radio.

[@madmax6144]

One of my back-in-the-day all time favorites, float on with your head on right!

[@adolphlopez4343]

Shockingly unexpectedly and unbelievably it's the most sensational lost in space journey oddysey of the class jazz from the past electronic masterpiece ever as of all generations.

[@davidluna8372]

Simply far - out !

[@RudyardGott]

Found at a record store on Dickson Street Fayetteville 1975. So Great.

[@LendallPitts]

Sopwith Camel opened their set at the Great American Music hall in San Francisco on Halloween, 2015, with this song, which sounded great, as did everything else they played. They also have new material that is at least as good. Check out Nandi Devam's channel here on KZbin.

[@harryblevins7853]

There has been so much good music made, and you only hope you come across some of it in your life. I saw a very positive review of " The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon" by Sopwith Camel in Stereo Review magazine, and I took a chance and bought the record. I was only aware of the group from their song "Hello, hello" that I had heard on radio. If I had not bought this album, I might have missed one of the most marvelous and unique musical experiences ever put on a record. Luck was with me, and I was introduced to an enduring musical treasure.

[@Non-disjunction]

This song is truly a hidden gem

[@davidluna8372]

What an awesome group , fazon !

[@seamusmacdonald7966]

I get high just listening to the Camel. Great '60's band and still great, timeless!!

[@harryblevins7853]

If you can make music that is ageless then you have had the greatest success of all.

[@imtalkingheadsyaknow3360]

When the DJ said this bands name I never knew what he was really saying. So you can imagine how hard for me to find the band on this site! It paid off, through much trial & error. Luckily when I saw this post it all came back to me. Thanks!

[@jeanettewilliams4626]

Love this song, takes me way back to my hood and friends, peace,❤

[@RCDetanico]

Awesome track! She is stuck in my mind for the last whole month!

[@burningmom]

Love this song, and I saw Sopwith Camel play it last night in Nevada City, California --they're back! If you're a fan, check out their website.

[@adolphlopez4343]

And that 70s pass jazz electronic odyssey funk punk new wave jamming is groovy and funky

[@coolsmoothie1]

Haven't heard this is soooo long. Thank you for the upload. Fantastic!!

[@sixbladeknife44]

Acid jazz/trip hoppy before there was such a thing, these guys were wayyyyy ahead of the curve.

[@ceepatton7172]

In the Chi,this is a steppers classic.

[@adolphlopez4343]

I've wrongly thought as back in the pass as way back as far as back in the earlier 70s, that the group, Sopwith Camel was either from India, Pakistan, Pakistan or even even from Afghanistan, but now as at of this present time, this group are nothing but hippies. And as I was wrong, I just can't stop my tears from falling down.

[@WmJoseSinclair]

that terrific SAX should have us asking what the F has happened to pop music?

[@jameshabiniak266]

sopwith camel has been forgotten , but still xists with me and i enjoy letting others hear their music

[@LendallPitts]

+James Habiniak It's hard to forget them while listening to them play live.

[@slimturnpike]

same here, just sent one to a much younger guy and he was like 'i love this'

[@LendallPitts]

slimturnpike Check out Nandi Devam's channel on KZbin. It will (to coin a phrase) blow your mind. I last saw them in SF on Halloween 2015. Hope they show up again this year.

[@DrSimon-wf6cf]

Thanks to college radio programming in the 60s and 70s for exposure to so 'underground' pieces such as this one..

[@rawcoyote]

ahhhhhhh baby! Was such a young thing, had it on 8 track, lol. Have it somewhere on CD. What an absolute lovely thing. As I recall, was about 20, 21, 60th birthday comin up. Still sounds soooooooo good, yeah, Pittsburgh was and is the shit.

[@sailorgregor]

one of the best LPs of the age

[@michaelfuria4257]

soprano sax rules.

[@georgekucharo1960]

One of the best songs ever

[@Agoateeman]

Most excellent. So glad to see this up on here. Yeah!!!!

[@PabloSing]

I grew up in Denver and saw several shows at Ebbets Field. Great, small, intimate place.

[@lrmcvan]

have been trying to find this song for years. just couldn't remember enough of the lyrics.

[@scillyautomatic]

I think Martin Beard was one of the best rock bassists ever! RIP

[@sequentialable12]

super cool Jazzy aficionados

[@NIXAM56]

amazing. The voice sounds like Mos Def.

[@AnthonyChopra]

Love to listen when drinking my coffee in the early morning before Starbcuks Work or if I'm going in just to have coffee or a drink before my other work :-)

[@hagharris7030]

OOF, spot on. I thought it was Jonathan Wilson's song - I stand corrected.

[@piercehawke3777]

I agree; it IS a beautiful song...............

[@RudyardGott]

Fayetteville Arkansas, in school, top ten of life

[@erikcortez1611]

Fazon has a Smooth Jazz vibe..............almost as if many of the latter's musicians used Fazon as their inspiration.

[@daniellasdow8893]

Great song! Have you heard Jonathan Wilson's cover. Also great!

[@Toyboy789]

" After a hundred generations, and a billion miles from the sun, all these spaced-out people finally find another one . . ." There's something so hauntingly sad about these lyrics . . . We fuck up own world and solar system, only to have to travel across the immensity of space - many generations living and dying simply in ther quest - to find . . . what? Exactly what we've all been forced to leave in the first place . . .

[@danthebugman62]

Thanks for sharing. Excellent.

[@adolphlopez4343]

And I was shocked to find out just now in a present time that instead of these groups are a bunch of hippies, I've mistakenly thought that this group is somewhere from India and even from Pakistan or even from Palistan.

[@BenBen01010]

Came here due to a BMX video with this song, Nathan Williams for Cinema wheels, check it out, it's really good

[@frizzlefrap]

hey norm ..... get the group back together and start makin' some new sounds, and go on tour ....... (don't be like the beatles ... and be too late)

[@joeyrider]

whooshhhh great find I love that miracoluous hump Camel

[@mysterbear]

Copacetic, baby. Their very best track.

[@richardblakeslee8733]

Awesome tune!

[@johnlewis1640]

Add the bud to the mix and take off!

[@sirsirdrone]

utter jam

[@jameshabiniak266]

the best ive heard from that time

[@nickschneider4219]

fazon equals change; an amalgam of futures and buzz. watch the video; makes being high look like fun again

[@adolphlopez4343]

And with all these mistakes as from the past, as in thinking that these guys are from India Pakistan or from Palestine, instead of up to now that I've shoulda think instead that they are a bunch of hippies, I'll still cannot stop these tears from falling down to my cheeks.

[@madmax6144]

Great song!

[@haileysvomit]

beauty and cool..............

[@stephenmeier4658]

This came from the future, man

[@croiners4166]

Wow!

[@EndOfEntertainment]

cool stuff :)

[@vinnievintage7725]

Frontman has the proverbial 70zz porn star stash! Great song!! Great band!!!

[@adolphlopez4343]

Question. What does Fazon means. Can anybody tell me?

[@davidluna8372]

I'm still asking the same question , since the time I first heard it back in the sixties ?

[@airguitarmaster]

I feel like assuming this was some modern "hipster band" really eschews the assumption. Especially if you're giving the band props for being old and being "playing the music of the time", that opinion I feel leads to a lessening of impact and importance in your own view of this kind of music. The modern and the old sounding similar should invigorate you into a realization that music is timeless and should be enjoyed and evaluated on it's merits regardless of which era it came from. The timelessness of this song should jolt you into an understanding that whats old is new again and that music isn't supposed to be compartmentalize into boxes of jazz, rock, blues, old, new , hipster and that we ought to identify the pieces and segments that push forward these feelings that we enjoy but feel compelled to label and apply unjust connotations to. Be it relevancy, time period or instrumentation. Doing so really has to buck the obvious inclinations of the brain as we love to apply subconscious opinions onto everything we encounter. Such is a nearly impossible task. However identifying situations in which you are applying the status quo regarding valuation of media, it's creation and the mode in which it's presented will help enjoy and appreciate art in all of it's forms.... fuck.. I'm drunk while writing this. I really shouldn't have. Look what a pretentious dumb shit I am. But I've typed it so... I'm not gonna just delete it.

[@nugsymalone1247]

I'm the only person that I personally know that knows this song and I'm friends with a lot of old heads. Still not sure if its real, or if its as good as I think it is?

[@nickysantoro1164]

Can someone explain the meaning of “fazon”? Thanks

[@piercehawke3777]

Actually; some of today's 'New Age' music seems to have that same spirit............

[@ginozulli6267]

Good

[@sawdustking11]

Send the children out to play!

[@Circuit7Active]

lol

[@irlandos1]

Fa Fa Fa FaFa Fantastic! thx

[@kozasmrk]

MOMCI JE SE VI IZ FAZONA ZOVETE FAZON A!??!?!

[@lukameridzejn2621]

ne brate sopwith camel

[@adolphlopez4343]

I've even wrongly thought that this group was from Palestine.

[@RONJAN2]

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