SILLY SALLY

The other information I could find in the web about it is that it was the last single that the band released before they split in 1971, and the "A" side was even recorded without Doug Ingle who left the band. But he appears in the "B" side, which is a song taken from their 1970 album titled "Metamorphosis (with Pinera and Rhino)".

So, the "A" side, "Silly Sally" (composed by Pinera and other songwriter who was not in the band), was recorded as a quartet by Ron Bushy, Lee Dorman. Mike Pinera and Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt and without keyboards. It also includes a horns section plus backing singers. It was sung by Pinera very well and it sounds like a Rhythm and Blues song influenced by James Brown and Wilson Pickett . The lead vocals by Pinera sound to me a bit similar to John Fogerty`s vocals too, from the band "Creedence Clearwater Revival". The song really does not sound as the typical song I could expect from Iron Butterfly. I don`t know why it was released, but it seems that it only was released in this single and was totally forgotten because as long as I know it was not a Hit anywhere. Maybe it was recorded as a "contract filler" with the record label or as a last attempt from the band to "re-start" as a band without Ingle. The song is not bad but it does not sound like a song from Iron Butterfly , and it really sounds very typical from the late sixties / early seventies, and a bit dated too.

The side "B" , "Stone Believer", has Doug Ingle very present on lead vocals (shared with Pinera) and keyboards, and while it also sounds like a not very typical song from this band, Ingle`s presence make it somewhat more recognizable as a song from Iron Butterlfy. Until now I still have not yet listened to the "Metamorphoisis" album as a whole, but it seems to me that Erik Brann`s departure and replacement by two guitarists (Pinera and Rhino) made the band change their sound a lot. But the change in sound was even more drastic when Ingle left the band.

Anyway, two good songs for my taste, and maybe this single is now very hard to find. For Iron Butterfly`s more dedicated fans and collectors.

The band was going to reform many times since 1974, and with a lot of different line-ups until 2102, when Lee Dorman died. He was one of the most present members of this band in their line-ups in all their more than 40 years of existence as a band, But they released their last album (without Dorman and Ingle but with Bushy and Brann) in 1975, becoming later more a touring band than anything else.