Debbie Harry in Hippier Times (1968)

In 1968 Blondie's Debbie Harry was plying her trade with Psych Folk Band Wind in the Willows; the UK Pressing of this LP is incredibly hard to find today. Some of the rare single releases associated with this LP have also been added.

Side 1
1. Moments Spent
2. Uptown Girl
3. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
4. My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died
5. There Is But One Truth, Daddy

Side 2
1. The Friendly Lion
2. Park Avenue Blues
3. Djini Judy
4. Little People
5. She's Fantastic And She's Yours
6. Wheel Of Changes

Wind in the Willows an American band which included Deborah Harry as a vocalist. The band took its name from British writer Kenneth Grahame's, The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature. The band's only album, the self-titled The Wind in the Willows barely entered the US charts #195 let alone the UK charts. The band broke up shortly after failing to achieve commercial success. The following year Artie Kornfeld, the producer of the album, went on to be the music producer of the Woodstock festival in 1969. Debbie Harry went on to join The Stilettos in 1974 and other bands until subsequently achieving success in 1976 with Blondie.

Wind in the Willows recorded a second album which was never released. The whereabouts of the tapes are unknown. According to Cathay Che's biography on Harry, it has never surfaced.

Turns out Wind in the Willows were not he only 60's Psych-folk-rock outfit to reference Kenneth Grahame's book. Pink Floyd used the title of Chapter 7 for their album Piper At The Gates of Dawn. 

"The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea."

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows