The Id – “I Just Don’t Understand You Baby” / “Morning Dew” (Cinema Records CRC 109) October 1966
New England Teen Scene | An acquaintance of Jay Sneider saw an advert for AAA Studio in Dorchester, MA. The group took their money from the live shows and booked a session.
They recorded “So Fine” along with a folk rock original by Jimmy Drown “I Just Don’t Understand You Baby”. While at AAA, they made the connection with staff producer Charles Pinckney Reed.
He liked the band and asked them to come back to the studio free of charge. They returned and cut Anthony Newley’s “The Joker” along with a new version of “I Just Don’t Understand You Baby,“.
This new version featured a stronger backbeat and different approach from their earlier primitive recording.
New England Teen Scene | “Morning Dew”
During a follow-up session, Reed introduced the song “Morning Dew” to the group who incorporated into the production two drummers (one was a female session player from Canada).
They also had, an acoustic 12-string session guitarist, and some innovative harmonica playing. These elements were integrated into the group’s sound that employed an early ’60s Stratocaster, a Lowrey portable organ and a blue pearl Slingerland drumkit.
Other instruments included, a Kay bass guitar, a Fender Tremolux, Fender amplifiers, and of course a Bogen PA system. Reed was trying to achieve a feel similar to Barry McGuire‘s protest hit “Eve Of Destruction” and Sonny & Cher‘s patented sound.
Also a decision was made for a change of group name and as a result of reading Freud in high school. Sneider suggested changing the name of the group to The Id.
A few hundred copies of “Morning Dew” backed with the recut “I Just Don’t Understand You Baby” were pressed up on AAA’s in-house Cinema label.
Although not setting the world on fire, it did receive some airplay on WIDE out of Biddeford. (partial liner notes from New England Teen Scene CD on Arf Arf).
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