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• Although Brian Alexander Robertson was only 11 years old during the Summer Of Love, he has captured the essence of the hippy era magically with this tongue-in-cheek song. It opens to the strains of a sitar - shades of a transcendental George Harrison? - and then descends into satire. In its own way, "Kool In The Kaftan" - which was co-written with Terry Britten - is every bit as alluring as Al Stewart's "Gina In The Kings Road" and the John Lees composition "Psychedelic Child."
  
  Running 3:52, it appeared on his 1980 Initial Success album, the first he recorded as B.A. Robertson. It was also released as a single, on the Asylum label - regular and gatefold sleeve - backed by "Baby I'm A Bat." >>>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England