See See the Sun
album by Kayak
See See the Sun is the first album by the Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. It was originally released by Harvest Records in 1973 and reissued by Pseudonym with two bonus tracks (both of which were originally singles b-sides) in 1995, and again in 2012.
The song 'Mammoth' is one of the very few pop singles to feature a barrel organ (or street organ). The organ, The Flamingo, was too big to get through the studio entrance. Therefore, the melody was recorded outside. Being a manually operated organ, the pace varied all the time, making it very hard to fit the piece into the rest of the song.
“See See the Sun” enters the record as album by Kayak. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what album and Kayak can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q2489420. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1995 and 2012.
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