Mort Garson

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If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants.

Subtitled “warm earth music for plants…and the people that love them,” it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the Moog. Plants date back to the dawn of time, but apparently, they loved the Moog, never mind that the synthesizer had been on the market for just a few years. Most of all, the plants loved the ditties made by composer Mort Garson.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Plantasia
• A2. Symphony for a Spider Plant
• A3. Baby's Tears Blues
• A4. Ode to an African Violet
• A5. Concerto for Philodendron and Pothos

• SIDE B
• B1. Rhapsody in Green
• B2. Swingin' Spathiphyllums
• B3. You Don't Have to Walk a Begonia
• B4. A Mellow Mood for Maidenhair
• B5. Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant