Sons of Champlin
The Sons of Champlin are an American rock band that was founded in the mid 1960s and still exists today.
History
The Sons of Champlin emerged in 1967 from the band " The Opposite Six ," who had founded Bill Champlin at his high school in Mill Valley, California. In 1967, she recorded an album, and brought the single Sing Me a Rainbow on the market. It was not the album release; the material appeared in 1999 under the name Fat City.
As a live band, the Sons of Champlin were popular in the 1960s. They played regularly at the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore West in San Francisco. They performed, among others, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, and The Youngbloods, and they were the opening act for The Band, as they used the name for the first time.
1968 got the Sons of Champlin a recording contract with Capitol Records, where three albums released - the second under the shortened band name "The Sons " - before the group disbanded in 1970. Bill Champlin founded with Jerry Miller of Moby Grape only a short time existing band "The Rhythm Dukes ."
1971 saw the reunion of the Son of Champlin with a new cast, initially under the name "Yogi Phlegm "; However, in 1972 they went back to under the original name. 1972 saw the album Welcome to the Dance, which appeared on Columbia Records and one of their best.
In 1975, she recorded the album The Sons of Champlin in her own studio; this and the next two albums published by Ariola. With A Circle Filled with Love 1976 they had their greatest success with room 117 in the charts. As the follow-up album did not meet expectations, the group dissolved in 1977 again; Champlin made solo and eventually went to Chicago.
On November 25, 1985, ten years after the release, there was a surprise appearance of the Sons of Champlin at the Fillmore in San Francisco, along with Huey Lewis & the News, KBC and the band also reunited Country Joe and the Fish. This concert was a unique event, to the Champlin Sons in 1997 called together again. Since then, several new albums appeared.