Abstract Sound – I’m Trying (1967)

Song “I’m Trying” on “Bad Vibrations, Vol. 1 (LP)” & “Prisoners Of The Beat (LP).

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Founded as Abstrack Sound.

Something of a mystery, my understanding is that although their second 45 has a Brooklyn, NY address on the label, the band was actually from Springfield, NJ.

On their second record, the stomping I’m Trying, they’re called the Abstract Sound. This one was released twice in 1967, on the Gray Sounds and Sound of Soul labels, and was produced by E. M. Gray.

Bill Monetti and C. Catena wrote their songs, along with Denis Dreher on the second 45. However, the Gray Sounds release lists Dreher as co-writing I’m Trying while the Sound of Soul release gives him co-credit on Blacked Out Mind. BMI lists him on both songs along with Monetti, and drops Catena altogether! Obviously someone screwed up the credits somewhere along the way. To make things still more confusing, the labels are reversed on my copy!

(“Submitted by Chas Kit”, TNX)