Sopwith Camel
 Sopwith Camel formed in late 1965 and their line-up consisted
of vocalist and saxophone player Peter Kraemer, guitarists Terry
MacNeil and William Sievers, bassist Martin Beard and drummer
Norman Mayell.
The group were the second San Francisco band to get a
recording contract with a national record label and the first to
have a Top 40 hit.
Their eponymous debut album was released in 1967 on the Kama
Sutra label, and their only hit single, Hello, Hello,
became the first hit to emerge from the San Francisco rock scene
and reached #26 on the US pop music charts in January 1967.
The band was unable to follow up the success of their first
album and hit single and disbanded later in 1967.
Sopwith Camel's debut album has been re-released twice - as Frantic
Desolation in 1986 and as Hello Hello Again in 1990.
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