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IT HURTS TO SEE YOU

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IT HURTS TO KNOW THAT

YOU'VE BEEN ALL ALONG

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HEART ATTACK

 Aorta

self titled 1969 album

Columbia records.

It features

Jim Donlinger aka James Vincent

who released

Jazz fusion albums

very tasty and unique.

He Also played with

The Rotary Connection.

Also played on Lovecraft

Valley Of The Moon,

Electronic Concept Orchestra

and Coven .

This is a tasty inexpensive

slice of heaven.

Their 2nd album

sounds nothing

like this one

A Little Bit About Them :

Aorta 

was an

American psychedelic 

rock band from

Chicago that recorded

 two albums

 in the late 1960s 

and early 1970s.

History

The band developed from a soul, 

pop and rock'n'roll group

 who had originally formed 

in Rockford, Illinois

in 1962 as

Kal David and the Exceptions. 

Its members were 

Kal David

(b. David Raskin - vocals and guitar), 

Peter Cetera

(bass, vocals), 

Denny Ebert

 (drums, vocals), 

and

Marty Grebb

(saxophone, keyboards, guitar, vocals). 

David left in 1965,

 to join 

The Rovin' Kind,

 later to become

Illinois Speed Press, 

and was replaced by 

James Vincent

later known as 

Jim Donlinger

 The band was then known as 

The Exceptions. 

They released several singles

 on local labels, 

and an EP,

Rock and Roll Mass, 

on the Flair label,

 before Grebb left

 to join

The Buckinghams, 

being replaced by

 Jim Nyeholt. 

Ebert also left

 to be replaced by

 Billy Herman. 

As The Exceptions,

 Vincent 

(Donlinger),

 Cetera,

 Nyeholt 

and Herman

 recorded several singles

 for Capitol Records, 

but Cetera left

 when the other members 

expressed a desire to

 perform more

psychedelic material.

 Cetera joined

The Big Thing, 

who became

 Chicago Transit Authority 

and then

Chicago.

After recruiting 

Bobby Jones 

as the new bass player,

 the group changed

 their name to

 Aorta

 in 1967, 

for a short period

 also adding

 Dan Hoagland

 (born Daniel Hoogland)

 on tenor sax. 

With Jim Donlinger

 on lead vocals,

 the band recorded a single, 

"The Shape Of Things To Come",

 a song written by 

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil 

and included on

 the soundtrack to the movie 

Wild in the Streets

by the fictional group 

Max Frost and the Troopers.

 Aorta 

signed to 

Dunwich Productions, 

a company formed by

 Bill Traut, 

and the single was

 leased for release on 

Atlantic Records

 Under Traut's management, 

the band were then signed

 to Columbia Record

s to record an album. 

Their first LP

was produced by

 Traut and Donlinger. 

Entitled

Aorta,

 it was issued in

 early 1969,

 as part of a drive by

 Columbia to promote 

"the Chicago sound"

 the company simultaneously

 released albums by

 Chicago,

 Illinois Speed Press, 

and

The Flock

 and reached No. 167 

on the Billboard 

album chart.

The album has been 

described as a

 "startling record which was a 

mix of psychedelia,

 soul, jazz,

 folk, and rock...

 housed in a beautiful, 

graphic sleeve that

 has always overshadowed

 the great music from within....

Aorta is solid throughout, 

featuring strong musicianship,

 inventive studio wizardry,

 superb songs with a 

healthy dose of

 fuzz guitar 

and wonderful string

 and 

horn arrangements.

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