Re: titles to cathy demos correspondence

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In article <3c5gvf$36f@hbar.phys.psu.edu>, endwar@phys.psu.edu (Andrew
Russ) writes:

>"Organic Acid" -- this one was apparently not on the tape broadcast.  
> It is also not on most collections of demos, and maybe not actually 
> circulated the way the others were (which does leave us wondering
> what the history of this track was -- why it showed up one place and 
> nowhere else).

"Organic Acid" has, to IED's knowledge, appeared only as the final track
of the vinyl 7" EP series "The Cathy Demos" (record No. 5), the first
vinyl edition of the demos. The song's title is almost certainly
incorrect, stemming probably from the memorable phrase, which stuck out
when the bootleggers were listening to the song.  In fact, a likelier
title is "Before the Fall", or "Before the Flood", or something like that
-- this being the title of the poem which Kate's older brother John Carder
Bush wrote and recited on the record (to Kate's piano accompaniment). 
Kate's song, though a good counterpart of the "mature" subject matter,
harsh tone and bitter flavor  of the spoken narrative, is a kind of
lullabye interlude that has no clear narrative connection with the poem.  
     Two possible reasons suggest themselves for this track's omission
from other collections:  first, it is longer than any other track; second,
the prominence of John's spoken-word contribution may have detracted (in
the minds of bootleggers) from the purity of Kate's music.

-- Andrew Marvick (IED)