Sopwith Camel - The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon. 1972

The Camel goes to Hollywood
and signs with Warner Bros. For
their second album cover, the studio
suggested the use of the Elvis Presley
set from the movie "King Creole"
and the costumes from the
"Court Martial of Billy Mitchell"
to create Armistice Day, 1918.
All tracks were recorded at Wally
Heider Studios in San Francisco.

The Hollywood cover was rejected but is now on the inside cover of the CD.

Sopwith Camel - Sopwith Camel 1967 ( 2006 Remastered)

"Postcard From Jamaica" was the
second single in 1967. Recorded
in New York, as was most of the first
album. The cover photo was taken in
the dead of winter in Washington
Square, NYC.

While staying in "the Village," they played the Night Owl Cafe, stayed
at the Albert Hotel and toured the East Coast with the Lovin' Spoonful.

The third single (1967) and final attempt for another hit before the
band left Kama Sutra.

"Saga of the Low Down Let Down" written by William Sievers.

Sopwith Camel -Sopwith Camel 1967

Sopwith Camel - HISTORY


HISTORY ACCORDING TO WARNER BROTHERS, 1973
Formed in 1966, the Sopwith Camel was the second San Francisco band to be signed by a major record company -- right after Jefferson Airplane and before the Grateful Dead. They might also have been the first San Francisco group to break up, disbanding after only one album and a "wildly commercial" single "Hello, Hello."
The Sopwith Camel began in a San Francisco bookstore when Terry MacNeil met Peter Kraemer. Peter had been writing poetry for some time and, remembers Terry, "I met him at the Big Little Bookstore on Polk Street. He was bopping around with some lyrics he'd written. 'Well,' I told him, 'I play guitar.' We got together at a party later that evening and again the next day." A month later they decided to audition musicians for a group. PETER KRAEMER AND TERRY MACNEIL Terry had been a graphics student at the San Francisco Art Institute. He'd learned to play piano and classical guitar somewhere along the way and had been working in groups since he was sixteen. Peter was originally