Harper’s Bizarre — The Secret Life Of Harper’s Bizarre

Third studio album for the “sunshine pop” band from Santa Cruz, California. Songs on the album were written by Randy Newman, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Driftwood & the band themselves, as well as Broadway classic by the Gershwins & Frank Loesser. Not long after recording this album, a flight the group was on travelling from Pasadena to San Francisco was hijacked, all the passengers were released when the plane landed in Denver, Colorado, & the hijackers were apprehended when the plane eventually landed in Rome, Italy. Member Ted Templeman would go on to be a record producer after the group broke up in 1970, working with such acts as Van Morrison & Carly Simon, & helping in starting the careers of Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, & others.