The Left Banke Too [SEP] record label
The Left Banke Too
The Left Banke Too is the second studio album by American baroque pop band The Left Banke, released on Smash Records in 1968. It would be the final album of the band's initial lifespan, with their next album not appearing until 1986.
Background.
In between the release of The Left Banke's debut album "Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina" and the making of this album, the original five-piece band had been whittled down to a trio after the departures of songwriter
Fox released them from their contract.
The band was able to secure arrangements with VMC Records (Vance Music Company) and became the first act to sign with the label. They went into the studio to record a full-length album, "Another Day, Another Lifetime," which included baroque orchestration arranged by Gene Page on some of its tracks and saw the band further explore eclectic and esoteric influences in a fashion not dissimilar to the Left Banke, but retaining the harder rocking garage-based edge of their previous