When I listened to this, I realized that I had heard it before many years ago. I also realized why I hadn't heard it in a long time: it hasn't aged well. It's so very late Sixties.
The Neon Philharmonic reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Morning Girl". This was the only song of theirs that charted. In 1969, they released an album titled The Moth Confesses because that's the sort of thing people did in the late Sixties. They disbanded in 1975.
The co-founder of the band, Tupper Saussy, went on to ghostwrite the biography of James Earl Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King. Saussy later became a tax protester; he was a fugitive from the law between 1987 and 1997, and he was jailed for 18 months in 1998.
Created December 11, 2025.