Flamingo (Flamin' Groovies album)

Flamingo is the second studio album by the garage rock band the Flamin' Groovies.[5] It was released in 1970.[6] Following the group's departure from the Epic record label, it was the first of their two albums for Kama Sutra Records.

Flamingo
Studio album by
The Flamin' Groovies
ReleasedJuly 1970
RecordedMarch 1970
StudioPacific High Recording Studio, San Francisco, California
Genre
Length38:02
LabelKama Sutra[1]
ProducerRichard Robinson[2]
The Flamin' Groovies chronology
Supersnazz
(1969)		 Flamingo
(1970)		 Teenage Head
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Critical reception

The A.V. Club wrote that Flamingo "is passionate, stripped-down revival music as it should be: It's riveting through and through, and brimming with a conviction contrary to the indulgences that marked San Francisco's music scene at the time."[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney except where noted.

Side 1

  1. "Gonna Rock Tonight" (Loney)
  2. "Comin' After Me"
  3. "Headin' for the Texas Border"
  4. "Sweet Roll Me on Down"
  5. "Keep a Knockin'" (Richard Penniman)

Side 2

  1. "Second Cousin" (Loney)
  2. "Childhood's End" (Loney)
  3. "Jailbait"
  4. "She's Falling Apart" (Loney)
  5. "Road House"

1995 Big Beat CD bonus tracks

  1. "Walking the Dog" (Rufus Thomas)
  2. "Somethin' Else" (Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley)
  3. "My Girl Josephine" (Dave Bartholemew, Fats Domino)
  4. "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)
  5. "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" (Huey "Piano" Smith, John Vincent)
  6. "Going Out Theme"

1999 Buddha CD bonus tracks

  1. "My Girl Josephine"
  2. "Around and Around"
  3. "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"
  4. "Somethin' Else"
  5. "Rumble"
  6. "Going Out Theme"

Personnel
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References
  1. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
  2. Deming, Mark. "The Flamin' Groovies: Flamingo [US Bonus Tracks] > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 301.
  5. "Flamin Groovies". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  6. "Flamin' Groovies: Flamingo". Music.
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