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The Complete Deity Recordings

The Masked Marauders

Initial release : 2006

Rhino Handmade

This CD comprises the music from the LP and single released by the Masked Marauders in 1969.

Tracks

  • I Can't Get No Nookie
  • Duke of Earl
  • Cow Pie
  • I Am the Japanese Sandman
  • The Book of Love
  • Later
  • More or Less Hudson's Bay Again
  • Season of the Witch
  • Saturday Night at the Cow Palace
  • Cow Pie (single version)
  • I Can't Get No Nookie (single version)
Musicians

The musicians involved were possibly;

  • Phil Marsh - guitar, vocals
  • Hank Bradley - fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, vocals
  • Brian Voorhees - harmonica, guitar, vocals
  • Gary Salzman - steel guitar
  • Langdon Winner - piano, vocals
  • Vic Smith - bass
  • Richard Saunders - bass
  • Anne Rizzo - drums
  • Mark Voorhees - drums, vocals
  • Anne Johnston - percussion, vocals
  • Allen Chance - vocals
Notes

The Masked Marauders album had it's beginnings in a spoof album review in Rolling Stone.

The fictitious review, by Greil Marcus, was of a bootleg album by The Masked Marauders, supposedly featuring a super group that involved, among others, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. It claimed that the album was released without any information as the participants wanted to remain anonymous.

The joke though backfired as many readers of the review believed it and started searching for the album. Rather than admitting the truth at this point Marcus and Langdon Winner got the musicians of the Berkeley group, The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, to record songs with titles used in the review and to make it 'convincing' by imitating the various supposed famous participants.

A single and LP were released by Warner Brother / Reprise but issued as if on the Deity label - the non-existent label that was cited in the review. Though at this point Rolling Stone did publicise the fact that it was a spoof release.

Related releases

The first 9 tracks of the CD were originally released on;

The last 2 tracks of the CD were originally released on a single;
  • I Can't Get No Nookie / Cow Pie, The Masked Marauders, 1969, Deity 0870
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