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1973 the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever closer to the mainstream. Against this backdrop, a talented New York band with the unlikely moniker of Pool-Pah teamed up with up-and-coming singer-songwriter, musician, and arranger Rupert Holmes to write and record an unforgettably far-out soundtrack blending rock, psychedelia, jazz, prog, pop, and electronica. It had to be heard to be believed... and far too few heard it. The soundtrack was to an X-rated film initially called Forbidden Under Censorship of the King (Get it? Think acronym) which was quickly retitled The Flasher. The movie even inspired a first-of-it's-kind theatrical concert at New York's Beacon Theatre, but when the brass at Paramount Pictures affiliate Greene Bottle Records got wind of the fact that Pool-Pah's debut album was, in fact, the soundtrack to a porno, promotion stopped and the album disappeared. Rupert Holmes, of course, went on to score the final No. 1 hit of the 1970s and one of the first of the 1980s with his timeless InchEscape (The Piña Colada Song)Inch and forge careers as a best-selling mystery novelist and Tony Award-winning playwright and songwriter. Over time, the cult reputation of Pool-Pah's The Flasher grew. Grammy winner Beck famously featured The Flasher in a 2001 Vanity Fair feature (InchA Superfly version of electronic music for plantsInch) while the Holmes-penned groove InchSour SoulInch became a favorite sample of hip-hop artists including Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, and Big Sean on InchO.T.T.R.Inch in 2011. Now, in time for it's 50th anniversary, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to expose The Flasher in it's first-ever reissue in any . This incredible soundtrack-recalling The Beatles and The Bee Gees one minute, and Shaft and Superfly the next-returns to black with white swirl In
