Can't Seem To Come Down: The American Sounds Of 1968

Various Artists

Grapefruit Records

A 3 CD box set of American music from 1968. The collection includes the single version of Dark Star by the Grateful Dead.

Tracks

CD 1:

• Fresh Garbage - Spirit
• Come Alive - Things To Come
• The Shoemaker Of Leatherwear Square - The Lemon Pipers
• Come Ride, Come Ride - The Merry-Go-Round
• Draft Morning - The Byrds
• All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan
• Here She Comes Now - Velvet Underground
• No Regrets - Tom Rush
• Everybody's Next One - Steppenwolf
• Thing In 'E' - Savage Resurrection
• You Can't Erase A Mirror - Children Of Mushroom
• Which End Is Up - Diamond Rings
• Words Of The Raven - Piece Kor
• Who Needs The Peace Corps - Mothers Of Invention
• Pretty Song From Psychout - Strawberry Alarm Clock
• Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time - The Nomads
• Strawberry Tuesday - Sidewalk Skipper Band
• Silver Birch - Del Shannon
• Delilah - Brian Hyland
• You Are Your Only Mystery - The Baroque Monthly
• Freaky Girl - Spontaneous Corruption
• The Garden Of Earthly Delights - United States Of America
• Dedicated Music Man - Mortimer
• Fields Of People - Ars Nova
• The Setting Of Despair - Crystal Chandelier
• Dark Star (Single Version) - Grateful Dead
• Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) - Hearts And Flowers

• When I Arrive - We The People
• (Poor Old) Mr. Jensen - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
• Just A Taste - Kaleidoscope
• The Face - Human Beinz
• Eighteen Is Over The Hill - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
• Summer - Lemon Fog
• Awake In A Dream - The Critters
• Rupert White - Eternity's Children
• Light Your Windows - Quicksilver Messenger Service
• Three-Part Invention (Too Many Trees In The Forest) - Phoenix Trolley
• Laughing Stock - Love
• Little Bird - Beach Boys
• Oscillations - Silver Apples
• Shadows - Electric Prunes
• You're In My Mind - Graf Zepplin
• Dark Is The Bark - The Left Banke
• Cowboys And Indians - October Country
• The Island - The Millennium
• Wheel Of Changes - The Wind In Willows
• Lantern Gospel - The World Column
• This Wheel's On Fire - The Band
• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Edit) - Iron Butterfly
• P. S. (Prognosis Stegnosis) - The Truth
• Green Knight - The Movement
• Paisley Haze - The Vectors
• Never Sad - Sunstone Lollypop
• Trust - Peppermint Trolley
• Can't Seem To Come Down - Mother's Worry

• Questions - Buffalo Springfield
• Satisfy You (Single Mix) - The Seeds
• Maypole - The Children
• Johann Sebastian Cheetah - Yankee Dollar
• Crystal Liaison - The Fugs
• Everything's Changing - Kak
• Feathers From Your Tree - Blue Cheer
• Lasy Day On Earth - Velvet Haze
• Daystar - SRC
• Mobius Trip - H. P. Lovecraft
• Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
• I'll Drive You From My Mind - The Fallen Angels
• Mr. Tripp Wouldn't Listen - The Little Boy Blues
• Back Of Your Mind - Nazz
• Psychedelic Movement - The Ravelles
• Crowd Pleaser - The Yellow Payges
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Alternative Take 2) - Moving Sidewalks
• Hell Will Take Care Of You - Brass Buttons
• Turn Around - Beau Brummels
• Johnny Silver's Ride - Glad
• Rich Man's Fable - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty
• Crimson And Clover - TommyJames & The Shondells
• An Elegy - Free Design
• Can You Dig It - Monkees

The musicians on Dark Star are:

• Tom Constanten - keyboard
• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart - percussion
• Robert Hunter - vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann - percussion
• Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
• Pigpen (Ron McKernan)- vocals, congas
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

Dark Star is the single version, originally released on;

• Dark Star / Born Cross-Eyed, Grateful Dead, 1968