Greenbaum, Norman
Spirit In The Sky
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

1969 Two Color Steamboat Label Original.Norman Greenbaum Was Much Stranger Than His Big Hit "Spirit In The Sky" Would Suggest. Then Again, That Tune — A Confident, Fuzz-Toned Paean To God, That Sprit In The Sky — Is Hardly The Most Conventional Of '70s AM Anthems, So Perhaps It Isn't Surprising That The Album Bearing The Same Title Is All Over The Map, With Sub-War Low-Riding Anthems ("Junior Cadillac"), Singer/Songwriter Introspection, Eerie Post-Psychedelic Pop (The Genuinely Unsettling "Marcy"), And Utter Oddities ("Canned Ham"). That, Of Course, Means That It's Far More Fascinating Than Many Soft Rock Curiosities Of The Early '70s, And The Near-Schizophrenic Cavalcade Of Material Means That The Record Doesn't Hold Together, But That's Part Of What Makes It Worth Hearing.