The first Sparks album by any other name, this then-curious offering hit American stores in 1970, flopped around unnoticed for a few months, and was then repackaged under the now-familiar new band name -- at which point it promptly spawned a hit single. "Wonder Girl" topped the local chart in Montgomery County, AL. "They were a funny band," producer Todd Rundgren once mused, "and a lot of their stuff was strange, the words were strange and the whole approach was very left field." It would take sev...   [ read more ]

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