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The Youngbloods: Elephant Mountain

by Doug Collette
January 31, 2009

The Youngbloods were more than one hit wonders from the '60s. In fact, the band experienced its commercial breakthrough when the flower power anthem “Get Together" became a hit some two years after originally released. Which was, ultimately, an unfortunate coincidence as the belated emergence of the former tune distracted focus from “Darkness, Darkness" the ever-so-haunting song that keynotes Elephant Mountain.

What might've been an ideal follow-up in mainstream terms (and possibly, in a different sequence of events, ...