VA - Sitar Rock (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

SITAR ROCK

VA - Sitar Rock (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.

Before the sitar was first used on a Western pop recording, the instrument's drone had been imitated on electric guitar by the Kinks on their 1960s single "See My Friends". Another English band, the Yardbirds, hired a sitar player to play the main riff on their song "Heart Full of Soul", but the group subsequently re-recorded the track without a sitar part.The first pop release to feature sitar was instead "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", issued on the Beatles' Rubber Soul album in December 1965. With this sitar part, George Harrison became the first Western musician to play an Indian instrument on a commercial recording.  Harrison is recognised as having introduced the sitar to pop music due to the Beatles' popularity and cultural influence. He first picked up a sitar on the set of the Beatles' 1965 film Help!, and then purchased one of his own following a discussion about Indian classical music with David Crosby and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds in August 1965. Harrison went on to write and record "Love You To" for the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver as an Indian-style track featuring sitar, tambura and tabla. The following year, he wrote "Within You Without You" in the full Indian classical style and recorded it with musicians from the Asian Music Circle for inclusion on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Harrison Played Indian instrumentation on the Beatles' recordings over 1966–68, Harrison played sitar and tambura on "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Across the Universe".

In early 1966, Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones played sitar on "Paint It Black", having received tuition from another protégé of Shankar, Harihar Rao, and after consulting Harrison about the part. Jones also used sitar on some tracks on the Rolling Stones' 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request. He again played the instrument on "My Little One" in an October 1967 recording session with Jimi Hendrix, as well as tambura on the Stones' 1968 single "Street Fighting Man". Even Elvis Presley had songs with Sitat featuring. (Wikipedia)

From 1966 on-wards, hundreds of songs by rock artists featured sitar. So this compilation had a lot of tracks to choose from. However this compilation still had its fair share of challenges. There are many artists that included the Sitar in their tunes, but frankly, it is often difficult to hear the Sitar in the mix of some of the more famous tracks, so therefore these have been left from this list. Of course there are also artists that have tried to replicate the "Sitar Sound" using guitar and keyboards and whilst, at times sounding convincing have not been included in this list. Some artists went all out and played traditional style sitar and/or used the sitar to created sitar sound cover tunes. These are included here. I hope you like these choices. Enjoy.

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Track list 1

1    Beatles - Norwegian Wood    1:58    1965
2    Hollies - Maker    2:48    1967
3    Ricky Nelson - Marshmallow Skies    2:15    1967
4    Shocking Blue - Water Boy    2:30    1970
5    Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Air    3:09    1968
6    Foggy - She's Far Away    3:37    1972
7    Tomorrow - Real Life Permanent Dream    3:07    1968
8    Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul (Sitar Version)    1:52    1965
9    Richie Havens - Something Else Again    3:13    1968
10    Them - Black Widow Spider    4:34    1968
11    Meic Stevens - Yorric    8:48    2018
12    Blonde on Blonde - Spinning Wheel    2:44    1968
13    Ananda Shankar - Light My Fire    3:32    1970
14    Dave Mason - Utterly Simple    3:16    1967
15    Abacus - Song for Brunhilde    4:33    1971
16    Electric Prunes - Hideaway    2:35    1967
17    Elyse Weinberg - Oh Deed I Do    2:52    1968
18    Blossom Toes - Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head    2:52    1969
19    Brian Jonestown Massacre - In India You    3:40    1995
20    Humble Pie - The Light of Love    3:00    1969
21    Oriental Sunshine    Across Your Life    3:31    1970
22    Amboy Dukes - Psalms of Aftermath    3:24    1967
23    Donovan - The Fat Angel    4:15    1966
24    Galliard - Ask for Nothing    9:01    1970
25    Family - Face in the Clouds    2:54    1969
26    Beatles - Love You To    3:03    1967

Track list 2

27    Traffic - Paper Sun    3:21    1967
28    Incredible String Band - The Mad Hatter's Song    5:40    1967
29    Shocking Blue - Acka Raga    3:07    1969
30    Eric Burdon & the Animals - Winds of Change    3:59    1967
31    Chocolate Watchband - And Passes By    3:15    1967
32    Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power    3:26    1967
33    Poppy Family - Free From the City    2:19    1969
34    Grail - Grail    4:43    1970
35    Lewis & Clarke Expedition - House of My Sorrow    4:24    1967
36    Chris Thompson - Hugo Spellman    4:13    1973
38    Guess Who - Sitar Saga    4:44    1967
39    Orange Alabaster Mushroom - Aim the Vimana Toward the Dorian Sector 2:00    1999
40    Elephant Stone - The Sea of Your Mind    8:32    2013
41    Brian Bennett - Tricycle    2:47    2011
42    Lord Sitar - I Can See for Miles    3:44    1968
43    Free Spirits - I'm Gonna Be Free    3:25    1966
44    101 Strings - Karma Sitar (Excerpt)    1:48    1972
45    Broselmachine - La Rotta    4:04    1978
46    Chad & Jeremy - Sunstroke    4:25    1968
47    J.K. & Co. - Magical Fingers of Minerva    2:40    1968
48    Saddhu Brand - People Brittle    4:38    1970
49    Turtles - Grim Reaper of Love    2:25    1966
50    Beatles - Within You Without You    5:04    1967
51    Magic Carpet - The Magic Carpet    2:28    1972
52    Sagram - Morning Glory    10:59    1972
58    Bobby Callender - Rainbow Colors    2:44    1968

Track list 3

61    George Harrison - Ride Rajbun    5:01    1992
53    Dave Pike Set - Mathar    3:41    1969
54    July - The Way (Alt. Ver.)    4:06    1968
55    Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - The Party    3:09    1968
56    Oriental Sunshine - Oriental Sunshine    3:38    1969
57    Lazy Sundays - Raga    3:20    1997
58    Big Jim Sullivan - Sunshine Superman    3:26    1967
59    Morgans - Rasal    2:06    1966
60    Click Horning - Many Times Jimbo    3:36    1969
62    Shawn Philips - Stargazer    2:58    1967
63    Lord Sitar - Like Nobody Else    4:20    1968
64    Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Ixtapa (Feat. Anoushka Shankar on Sitar)    8:10    2006
65    Alex - Purple Sally    7:28    1968
66    Apocalypse - Let it Die    6:03    1970
67    Blue Cheer - Babaji (Twilight Raga)    3:42    1970
68    Raw - What to Do    3:28    1971
69    Brainticket - Watchin' You    4:35    1972
70    Cosmic Gardeners - Way of Going    3:27    1995
71    Dantalion's Chariot - This Island    3:53    1967
72    Magic Carpet - Father Time    4:15    1972
73    Love Sitars - Paint It Black.mp3    2:33    1967
74    Rolling Stones - Gomper    5:08    1967
75    Beck - Loser    3:57    1993
76    Superfine Dandylion     - Ferris Wheel    2:39    1967
77    Truth - Sonic Sitar    3:02    1969
78    Elvis Presley - You'll Think of Me    4:10    1969

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