“My Love Is” taken from the LP ‘The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union’ | (MGM Records SE-4517) January 1968
“Blue Avenue” and “My Love Is” are good rock numbers, while “Sportin’ Life” is rich in blues. (Billboard, 02/68)
A harsh underground LP here, and apart from the recitations (by Tom Wilson) sounding like a spoof from Kim Fowley, the LP is imaginative and entertaining.
Their jazz-tinged version of the traditional folk number “This Sportin’ Life” is nice, and their light-hearted “Beautiful Delilah” comes across very well, but Chuck Berry might not like it. (Record Mirror, 06/68)
MGM Push on Beacon Street Union
New York – MGM Records has introduced a promotion campaign featuring huge posters and a TV film to back the Beacon Street Union in their series of discotheque appearances around the nation.
The Boston group appeared Friday and Saturday (2 & 3) at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit; they’re slated for the Los Angeles Cheetah Feb. 16-18, the Chicago Cheetah Feb. 23-24, and then an extended engagement at the Scene in New York.
The TV film, which features the group playing cuts from their “The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union” album, is available to any TV station that wants it, said MGM Records’ Lenny Scheer. (Billboard, 02/68)
The Beacon Street Union | My Love Is | (MGM) 1968
A new mystery is dying and with it Spring. The last band of coastal brigands is crawling down the mountain to visit us but it will never find the road back, good, good, let them rot in the stifling air of their flowerspun graves.
Look to another mountain far from the international date line. Find the desert’s mystic dawn, the cave where eyes are nothing, the glacier where the living die – and there is the beauty they could never find.
Look into the grave, into a truth that is still. Into the land of the prophet.
Look past the living streets of Boston. Finally, into the eyes of the Beacon Street Union. (recitation by Tom Wilson)
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