Prog/Psyche Fans! Strings Unlimited - South Land '69. Contains circa 1968-69 extremely rare pop/psyche material. Read below for more details! Jadale Music #1009 stereo 12" LP record album. Condition: Record is NM. Cover has edge wear and factory corner punch. Tracks: This particular group most likely also recorded under the name Morning Reign. In fact as unlikely as it sounds the title song of Morning Reign's album "All of These Eyes" didn't even appear on that album, but it is on this album! Other songs include: At the End of Summer, Lady Fair, Am I Lonely, School Days, The Elder, All of These Eyes, You Can't Come Back, Our Love, Too Late, Matador. All the songs are written by Jack Kreem about teenage angst and young love. Very much representative of the 60s pop sound, not unlike Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Herman?s Hermits and some of the early British bands. Standard guitar, drums, piano, occasional strings and layered background vocals. I hesitate to call this sunshine/bubblegum, but it leans more in that direction than towards hard rock. Comments: PAMA Productions operated out of Sherman Oaks, California from approximately the late 60s into the mid-70s. In some cases their records were issued under the Jadale label, and other times only with a serial number and "PAMA Productions" sticker. Very little information is available on the studio, although it is known they released a variety of music formats from pop psyche, surf/hot rod instrumental, soul R B, to easy listening. It has been suggested they purchased original music from various artists, particularly based in Canada, and then issued the material under different names. Some of the artist names included Morning Reign, Velvet Strings, Spirit of '76, Metropole Orchestra, and Strings Unlimited. One web description of PAMA Productions theorized that less than 100 copies of each album was pressed. One thing is certain, this record is extremely rare and it is unlikely you will ever run across it again, and nearly as unlikely you will even find it in a web-based search. Additional Information: (The following information appeared in a recent listing of the Morning Reign album.) Apparently, this California band recorded their album in L.A., in 1968~9. Whether they recorded it in Johnny Kitchen's studio or not, somehow, Kitchen ended up with the tapes. According to The Acid Archives, he had some kind of deal going with the owner of the Condor record label in Canada, wherein he would send album tapes up north, to be released on Condor, with different and/or completely made up artist names. The exact number of these albums is not known, but may have been as many as 30, and this album was one of those included in the transactions. Condor re-released the album in 1970 as The Blues Train, totally without Morning Reign's knowledge or consent, just as they did with so many of the other albums involved in these shady dealings. This original issue of their album is way rare, and doesn't even have an entry in Acid Archive, or Hans Pakora's 1000's of Record Collector Dreams book series, though the much more common Blues Train version makes it into both. The exact number pressed is unknown, but most likely less than 50.