“Garden Of Eden” / “Lela” (MTA Records 112) November 1966
The Descendants | Lela (MTA Records) 1966 | The gentle and soothing soft psychedelia of ’Garden Of Eden’ by New York group The Descendants has escaped the compilers over the years so I was pleased to put that right on my recent Cavestones series. ’Garden Of Eden’ is the type of song I’d imagine Simon & Garfunkel to come up with had they ever started to ease their minds with lysergia.
On the other side ’Lela’ is a fabulous burst of Bo Diddley shuffling energy and has cropped up several times on lame sounding compilations. Curiously, this 45 saw a release in England on CBS Records during January 1967.
Reader comments:
I actually wrote Lela. We did that in one take. The drum solo could have been recorded better. We spent 7 days doing Garden of Eden, then had 1 hour to do Lela. I copied the feel etc from the Rolling Stones song MONA.
In New Zealand this single was released on the Salem label: XS.119
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