Elephant's Memory: Take It To The Streets (remastered, clear with black swirl vinyl) [REAL GONE MUSIC]

Why you'll love it

This is the first time Take It To The Streets has been reissued since 1970, remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision and pressed on clear vinyl with a black swirl. It's the New York band that went on to back John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and it opens with their minor hit "Mongoose".

This edition

• Clear with black swirl vinyl
• Remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision
• First reissue of the 1970 album

About the album

Elephant's Memory came together in New York in the late 1960s around saxophonist Stan Bronstein and drummer Rick Frank Jr., briefly with a young Carly Simon on vocals. They got a gold disc for two songs on the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, and in 1970 "Mongoose" crept to number 50 on the Hot 100 for Metromedia. Take It To The Streets was the album that came with it.

It's a scrappy, horn-driven street-rock record, part soul revue and part protest rally, with "Power" and "Piece Now" wearing their politics openly. That edge is what caught John Lennon's ear, and from late 1971 the band became his and Yoko's Plastic Ono Band on record and on stage. This is where they sound like themselves first. It took 56 years to get back in the shops, so we'd not wait for the next one.

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Out August 7, 2026 on Real Gone Music (cat# RGM-2153), a reissue of the 1970 album.