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Yesterday's Children
OriginCheshire-Prospect, Connecticut, United States
Genres
Years active1966 (1966)-1970 (1970)
Labels
Past members
  • Denis Croce
  • Richard Croce
  • Reggie Wright
  • Ralph Muscatelli
  • Chuck Maher

Yesterday's Children was an American

heavy metal
outfit and released one cult classic self-titled album before disbanding in 1970.

Trajectory

Formed in 1966, Yesterday's Children featured brothers Denis (lead vocals) and Richard Croce (rhythm guitar), along with Reggie Wright (lead guitar), Ralph Muscatelli (drums), and Chuck Maher (bass).

London Records subsidiary label, Parrot Records, and became a regional success. It is also one of the rarest and sought after releases by avid record collectors.[3][4]

Over the following three years, Yesterday's Children released two additional singles. In 1970, the band recorded their only

double guitar instrumentals played by both Wright and Muscatelli.[6] However, despite its innovative qualities, the album was perhaps released too early to be commercially accessible and failed to chart nationally. The group disbanded soon thereafter.[6]

Reinterest in Yesterday's Children resulted in some tracks appearing on the History of Garage Bands in Connecticut compilation album in 1995.[3] In 2004, Akarma Records released a remastered version of Yesterday's Children, which music critic Dean McFarlane described as a "stunning object to behold and an audiophile remaster of this underground classic".[7] As a result of its distribution, the album has received more recognition for the psychedelic hard rock music by Yesterday's Children. Another reflection of the album on the Sputnikmusic website boasts it is a "forgotten gem" and "Vanilla Fudge, Cream and the MC5 are often considered as three of the major influences on the future development of hard rock and metal. This obscure little band from Connecticut show, however, that these glory boys weren't the only ones trying to build upon their blues and psychedelic influences and attempt to deliver something distinctly harder edged".[8]

Band members

  • Denis Croce (lead vocals)
  • Richard Croce (rhythm guitar)
  • Reggie Wright (lead guitar)
  • Chuck Maher (bass guitar)
  • Ralph Muscatelli (drums)

Discography

  • "To Be or Not to Be" b/w "Baby I Want You" (Parrot 314, January 1967)
  • Yesterday's Children (Map City, August 1970)

References

  1. ^ "Yesterday's Children". spiritofmetal.com. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  2. ^ "Yesterday's Children: Croces in Connecticut". alternativemusictalk.com. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Yesterday's Children". rockdector.com. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  4. ISBN 978-0-9856482-5-1
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  5. ^ "Yesterday's Children (CD booklet)". Akarma Records. 2004. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. ^ a b "B". badcatrecords.com. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  7. ^ McFarlane, Dean. "Yesterday's Children - Biography". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  8. ^ "Yesterday's Children - Yesterday's Children". sputnickmusic.com. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
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