''Fugs 4, Rounders Score'' is a 1975

compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one Performing arts#Performers, performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from ...

of material by

The Fugs The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late 1964, by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver (musician), Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy ...

and

The Holy Modal Rounders The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who formed in 1963 on the Lower East Side of New York City. Although they achieved only limited commercial and critical success in ...

, including seven previously unreleased performances from the Fugs' first recording session (April 1965), when the Rounders (

Peter Stampfel Peter Stampfel (born October 29, 1938, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American Violin, fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter. History Stampfel is best known as a member of the The Holy Modal Rounders, Holy Modal Rounders, a ...

and

Steve Weber Steven P. Weber (June 22, 1943 – February 7, 2020) was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. Weber is best known as member of the The Holy Modal Rounders, Holy Modal Rounders, a psychedelic folk band that he founded with Pete ...

) were members of the Fugs' band. The title is both a reference to Abraham Lincoln's

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("Four score and seven years ago...), and the fact that this is the fourth album of Fugs material released on ESP, as well as a pun on "score" as drug slang. Although all recordings were made under the umbrella of the Fugs, the 6 lead vocals by Stampfel and Weber on Side A allow the album to function as a Rounders compilation as well. There is a notable and unusual lack of lead vocalizing by Ed Sanders, the most prominent vocalist on all other Fugs albums. The LP was released on ESP Disc (ESP 2018), probably without the foreknowledge or permission of the musicians. One of the previously unreleased tracks ("Defeated") was later re-released as a bonus track on the CD version of The Village Fugs.

Track listing

Side one #"Boobs a Lot" (

) – 2:13 #"Romping Through The Swamp" (

) – 2:32 #"Defeated" (Kupferberg) – 2:30 #"Crowley Waltz" (Traditional) – 1:42 #"Fiddler a Dram" (Traditional) – 2:32 #" Fishing Blues" (Traditional) – 1:56 #"New Amphetamine Shriek (Stampfel) – 2:24 #"Jackoff Blues" (Kupferberg) – 1:52 Side two #"I Couldn't Get High" ( Ken Weaver) – 2:01 #"Slum Goddess" (Weaver) – 1:55 #"Caca Rocka" (Kupferberg) – 1:30 #"CIA Man" (Kupferberg) – 2:48 #"Kill for Peace" (

Tuli Kupferberg Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg (September 28, 1923 – July 12, 2010) was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, editorial cartoonist, comic artist, columnist, publisher, and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs. Biography Naphtali Ku ...

) – 2:07 #"Morning, Morning" (Kupferberg) – 2:07 #"Virgin Forest Excerpt" (Alderson, Crabtree, Sanders) – 5:23 Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 on side A: recorded April 1965, and previously unreleased.
Tracks 1 on side A and track 1, 2 on side B from '' The Fugs First Album''.
Tracks 3 and 4 on side B from '' Virgin Fugs''. (Note: Cover notes notwithstanding, it is an alternate take of A7 that appears on ''Virgin Fugs.'')
Tracks 5, 6, 7, side B From ''

''. Tracks 2, 4, 5 and 6 on side A feature only Stampfel and Weber.
Track 1 and 7 on side A feature lead vocals by Weber and/or Stampfel, making them arguably Holy Modal Rounders recordings as well as Fugs recordings.

Personnel

Performance

* Ed Sanders – vocals *

–

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, vocals * Ken Weaver –

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, vocals *

– guitar, vocals *

–

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

, vocals *Vinny Leary – bass,

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, vocals *John Anderson –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Lee Crabtree –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, celeste,

bell A bell /ˈbɛl/ () is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be m ...

s *Pete Kearney –

*Betsy Klein (?) – vocals

Production

* Ed Sanders – producer, * Harry Smith – producer *Richard Alderson, Engineer

Additional sources

The Fugs Store: The Fugs First Album

References

{{Authority control The Fugs albums 1975 albums ESP-Disk albums Albums produced by Ed Sanders The Holy Modal Rounders albums Collaborative albums