Album Details

Red Rubber Ball

RELEASE
1966
LABEL
Sony Music Distribution
GENRES
Pop/Rock, AM Pop, Sunshine Pop

Album Review

The Cyrkle's debut was a pleasant, if marginal, album, blending a light folk-rock flavor with fluffy pop/rock production and songwriting. "Red Rubber Ball" and the follow-up hit, "Turn-Down Day," were, as one might expect, by far the best cuts. The rest was split between group originals and odds and ends from an assortment of other writers, including a cover of the Paul Simon-Bruce Woodley composition "Cloudy" that predated its appearance on Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme album later in 1966. On the whole, it's feel-good and not terribly deep 1966 pop/rock, heavy on the breezy harmonies, occasionally using mild touches of experimentation, like the sitar on "Turn-Down Day," and inventively reverbed guitars.
Richie Unterberger, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Red Rubber Ball
  2. Why Can't You Give Me What I Want
  3. Baby, You're Free
  4. Big, Little Woman
  5. Cloudy
  6. Cry
  7. Turn-Down Day
  8. There's a Fire in the Fireplace
  9. Bony Moronie
  10. How Can I Leave Her
  11. Money to Burn
  12. Straighten Out My Messed Up Life
  13. Downtown Blues
  14. How Can I Leave Her (Demo)
  15. Money to Burn (Demo)
  16. We Had a Good Thing Goin'
  17. Reading Her Paper
  18. Penny Arcade
  19. The Words