A singer and songwriter with whizzkid producer Curt Boettcher's cult 1960s symphonic popsters the Millennium, these solo recordings from Sandy Salisbury have gathered dust in the vaults ever since being committed to tape in 1969. That was a travesty. No afficionado of the Mamas and Papas or the Beach Boys, for example, can afford to overlook this brilliantly arranged, melodious collection of top-drawer 1960s pop. Produced by Boettcher (with sometime Beach Boys collaborator Gary Usher looking on) and also featuring, among others, Doug Rhodes and Jerry Scheff from The Millennium, there are surprises at every turn. "On and On She Goes" is a retitled version of Brian and Carl Wilson's "With Me Tonight", transforming the lonely pangs of the original into an invigorating jazz-swing blast of horns and harmonies. Salisbury's own compositions are equally dazzling--"Cecily" is as adolescently bittersweet as anything on Pet Sounds, while the old-fashioned country-pop waltz/snowy picture-postcard imagery of "The Hills Of Vermont" has all the immediacy of a much loved standard. The nursery-rhyme calypso of "Once I Knew A Little Dog" is revealing, given that Salisbury later retired from the music industry to become a successful children's author. On the strength of this brilliant rediscovery, that was pop music's loss. --Kevin Maidment – AMAZON.COM