Band: The Ballroom
Album: Preparing For The Millennium
Release: 1966-70 (1998)
Genre: Psych pop, folk rock
Country: US
Quality: FLAC | lossless

This a really great CD of Boettcher-style psych pop from the Ballroom's pre-Millennium days, mostly recorded in 1967. There is almost an album's worth of unreleased material stemming from the days before the great Millennium album, and it is really worth getting if you like that album. More great vocal melodies and typical Boettcher production values. Besides their released single (their famously unusual take of Baby Please Don't Go), there are also a bunch of demos of some Millennium songs, and those are pretty interesting too.

Tracklist:
1. Spinning, Spinning, Spinning (Curt Boettcher, Ruthann Friedman) - 2:42
2. You Turn Me Around (Tandyn Almer) - 2:45
3. Would You Like To Go (Curt Boettcher, Jules Alexander) - 2:41
4. Forever (Curt Boettcher, Lee Mallory) - 2:25
5. Loves Fatal Way (Curt Boettcher, Randy Naylor) - 2:57
6. It's A Sad World (Gene DiNovi, Mary Ann Maurer) - 3:53
7. Crazy Dreams (Michael P. Whalen) - 2:56
8. Magic Time (Sandy Salisbury) - 2:52
9. Musty Dusty (Curt Boettcher, Tandyn Almer) - 3:19
10.I'll Grow Stronger (Sandy Salisbury) - 3:05
11.Baby Please Don't Go (Traditional) - 3:12
12.Another Time (Curt Boettcher) - 3:37
13.If You Only Knew (Curt Boettcher) - 2:45
14.Keeper Of The Games (Curt Boettcher) - 1:53
15.The Island (Curt Boettcher) - 3:34
16.Believe You (Curt Boettcher) - 2:52
17.It's A Sad World (Gene DiNovi, Mary Ann Maurer) - 3:14
18.I'm Not Living Here (Curt Boettcher) - 3:19
19.Sunshine Today (Curt Boettcher) - 2:22
20.Milk And Honey (Curt Boettcher) - 2:28
21.All I Really Have Is A Memory (Sandy Salisbury) - 2:23
22.Best Friend (Harry Nilsson) - 2:23

Tracks 1-11 as The Ballroom
Tracks 12-19 as The Ballroom / The Millennium
Track 20 Summer's Children
Track 21 Sandy Salisbury
Track 22 Puppet