PART THREE (1991)
Title:
PART THREE
Artist:
SHEEP
Recorded:
1987-1991
Released:
1991
(cassette) (Little Susie Denton Records No. 118)
Reissued:
2001
(CD) (Little Susie Denton Records No. 183)
CAST OF CHARACTERS
(in order of appearance):
SEYMOUR BLISS, an oracle…..Ken
Garkow
ROJILLIO, an ex-trucker……….Mike
Edwards
CLEM, the old dried-up desert
rat……..John Wilson
CLYDE JARROW, first citizen…………Steve
Wirth
THE EVIL MAYOR……………….Robb Perrone
LOOIK, chief of police……………….Brian
James
MISS SCARLETT, the mayor’s
secretary…..Cheryl Vaughn
KARL HUMPHREY, guilt-ridden
executive.…Danny Hesse
BROCK BOULDER, construction
foreman.…Ben daniels
ELMO, disc jockey and scam
victim……Harold Harrison
THE COWPOKES, voice of the
radio…..Chris Matthews
JOE, the other desert rat……………Paul
Sidore
AGNES WOOLOMES, humphrey’s
secretary....Jeanne Whalen
HUMPHREY’S DEVIL……………Jeff Mitchell
HUMPHREY’S ANGEL…………….Erin Connelly
Also Appearing:
Jeremy Angier / Joe Velosa / Jim Mervine / Elan Vinus / Stephen
Burpo / Tina Rainwater
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ACT I
1) SPOKEN FOR THE REASON
BEING - Seymour Bliss (:53)
2) A DATE WITH DESTINY -
Rojillio, Clem & Clyde with Angels (2:31)
3) SIT UP AND LISTEN -
Clyde with Rojillio & Clem (2:16)
4) I AM THE LAW - The
Evil Mayor & Looik with Clem, Rojillio, Miss Scarlett & Humphrey
(5:52)
5) INDECISION BLUES -
Humphrey (3:38)
6) BROCK BOULDER IN JAIL
- Brock with Humphrey (3:23)
ACT II
1) CLEM & ROJILLIO STEAL A
TRUCK - Rojillo & Clem with Elmo & Baa-Baa Fleece (2:04)
2) SEEMS SO SAD - The
Cowpokes (3:10)
3) THE LAST CAMPFIRE -
Clem, Rojillio & Joe (5:21)
INTERMISSON
(1:27)
ACT III
1) CLYDE JARROW COMES HOME
- Clyde (2:26)
2) HIPPODROME - Joe
(4:28)
3) THE GOLDEN FLEECE -
Agnes, The Mayor, Looik & Elmo with Joe & Angels (6:14)
4) I’LL JUMP OFF A BRIDGE
- Humphrey with Devil & Angel (3:37)
5) RAIN KEEPS FALLING -
The Cowpokes (3:25)
6) CLYDE JARROW (REPRISE)
- Clyde (:35)
7) FINALE - Rojillio,
The Mayor, Looik, Joe & Clem with Angels (6:31)
8) HUMPHREY GOES TO HEAVEN
- Humphrey (:35)
INTRODUCTION TO THE EVIL MAYOR AND HIS HUNCHED-OVER CHIEF OF POLICE
LOOIK
[Bonus Track]
(3:54)
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Photos, Songwriting & Performance Credits follow each song in the
Fancy Libretto
ORIGINAL 2001 LIBRETTO NOTE:
"PART THREE" sessions began in 1987 as I trekked home to Covina for
the second time that year, just months after we’d finished the
"ROAST SHEEP" compilation.
I brought with me two recorded drum tracks - one for
"A Date with Destiny" -
which a bunch of us had written as the new album’s opener - and one
for my new homage to Dolly P.,
"Seems So Sad."
For years we’d been avoiding the task of revisiting the
trilogy begun with 1985’s "PART ONE" - - when suddenly someone had
the brilliant idea to simply skip "PART TWO" altogether and go
straight to the end!
This typically absurd approach did manage to inspire us, and we went
to work.
The laborious process of overdubbing each new song dragged on for
years and years - - longer than ever before - - owing not only to
our growing awareness of what did and didn’t make for a great Sheep
classic, but also to the fact that we had become quite spread out
geographically.
Sometimes a session got postponed, for years!
Then there was the need to tie everyone’s ideas into the
loose storyline, including the many new Sheep who acted out bit
parts for us. each character was further brought to life through
Jeanne and her new partner Lillian’s photography work - - planned as
illustration for the album’s full-length "libretto" that never
materialized, until now!
We finally packed up the last of the overdub sessions in 1991, and I
began mixdowns to reel-to-reel tape at my college radio station.
This resulting album certainly contains many of the finest
performances we’ve recorded, and it’s also funny, and has all kinds
of half-baked social commentary.
For the remastering of this CD, I added the instrumental
"Intermission" song
(which wouldn’t fit on the original album), plus the song which
premiered the Evil Mayor character on a Mad Morticians project in
1988. Many of the songs
are remixed, and all were clarified considerably with digital EQ.
I’m proud of this record, and I hope hearing it again makes
you smile and sigh.
Chris Matthews, March
2001