Pool-Pah - The Flasher (50TH Anniversary Black with White Swirl Night Sky Vinyl Edition)

1973: the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever closer to the mainstream. Against this backdrop, a talented New York band with theunlikely moniker of Pool-Pah teamed up with up-and-coming singer-songwriter, musician, and arranger Rupert Holmes to write and record an unforgettably far-out soundtrack blending rock, psychedelia, jazz, prog, pop, and electronica. It had to be heard to be believed�and far too few heard it. Thesoundtrack was to an X-rated film initially called Forbidden Under Censorship of the King (Get it? Think acronym) which was quickly retitled The Flasher. The movie even inspired a first-of-its-kind theatrical concert at New York's Beacon Theatre, but when the brass at Paramount Pictures affiliate Greene Bottle Records got wind of the fact that Pool-Pah's debut album was, in fact, the soundtrack to a porno, promotion stopped and the album disappeared. Rupert Holmes, of course, went on to score the final No. 1 hit of the 1970s and one of the first of the 1980s with his timeless Escape (The Pi�a Colada Song) and forge careers as a best-selling mystery novelist and Tony Award-winningplaywright and songwriter. Over time, the cult reputation of Pool-Pah's The Flasher grew. Grammy winner Beck famously featured The Flasher in a 2001 Vanity Fair feature (A Superfly version of electronic music for plants) while the Holmes-penned groove Sour Soul became a favorite sample of hip-hop artists including Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, and Big Sean on O.T.T.R. in 2011. Now, in time for its 50th anniversary, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to expose The Flasher in its first-ever reissue in any format. This incredible soundtrack�recalling The Beatles and The Bee Gees one minute, and Shaft and Superfly the next�returns to black with white swirl night sky vinyl as sourced from the pristine original tapes housed in the Universal vault. The LP features a four-page insert with rare photos and brand-new liner notes by The Second Disc's Joe Marchese drawing oninterviews with Pool-Pah�lead singer Lenie Colacino, bassist/trumpeter Bruce Handelman, guitarist/saxophonist Seth Handelman, guitarist Billye Arrington�and Rupert Holmes. If you like spacey synths, heavy guitars, funky rhythms, and just-plaingreat songs and vocals (pi�a coladas don't hurt, either!), comewith us and escape. The ultra-rare soundtrack to The Flasher is no longer forbidden.