ORPHEUS

"ORPHEUS"
The first of four albums released by premier 1967 Boston artist, Orpheus.
Ascending”.
Ascending”.

has had at least a dozen other covers. As live performers Orpheus toured
regularly with The Who, 10 Years After, Blood Sweat and Tears, Janis
Joplin, and Cream. Their vocal sound and unique harmonies ranked them
#10 in the 1969 regularly with The Who, 10 Years After, Blood Sweat and
Tears, Janis Joplin, and Playboy Best Vocal Album Poll for their second
album “Orpheus Ascending”.

ORPHEUS "ASCENDING"
The group's extraordinary harmony ranked them # 10 in the 1969 Playboy
Best Vocal Album Poll for this their second album Outstanding singles
include, "I'll Fly", the group's live show-stopper,"Borneo" and "Just got
back".

ORPHEUS "JOYFUL"
Well known songwriters contributed specially written material for the
Orpheus 3rd album, "Joyful" which contains the haunting album/chart
single "Brown Arms in Houston" written for them by lyricist Joe Henry, John
Denver's co-writer, and the cross-pop/gospel, "By The Size of My Shoes"
written for them by "Rhinestone Cowboy" composer, Larry Weiss. The song
"Joyful/Of Enlightenment" concludes an all too brief but lasting chronicle of
the beauty of the original Orpheus group.

ORPHEUS "IV"
After the third album was released, the original group broke up. Two years
later, Bruce Arnold and Orpheus writer Steve Martin formed the basis of
what became the 4th Orpheus album, an extraordinary mixture of old and
new.

Steve Martin (not heard until the 4th album) had written Door Knob Song,
Music Machine, and Congress Alley for the early group, and fit into the
group’s end period with the majority of the album’s songs and its musical
progression and ultimate end. Martin's poignant, Tomorrow Man, on the 4th
album signified a looking back then moving on