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4 unusual facts about King Harvest


King Harvest

King Harvest released their The Lost Tapes album in September 2007, and performed on TJ Lubinsky's My Music DVD entitled The 70s Experience Live produced for PBS.

With support from Beach Boys members Carl Wilson and Mike Love, they were signed to A&M Records and made another album, but, failing to achieve any hits, they subsequently broke up.

Formed by a group of four American expatriates in Paris in 1970, King Harvest was best known for its one US hit single, "Dancing in the Moonlight," which was released in 1972.

Australian drummer David Montgomery, formerly of the band Python Lee Jackson, joined after the band's debut album and toured with them during the spring of 1973.


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The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.


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