Week of July 30, 2006
Album:
Best Of (Karusell 2415 078) 1973
CD: Repertoire, REP 4965, 2001
Personnel:
Achim Reichel - Guitar, Vocals
Helmut Franke - Guitar
Kalle Trapp - Guitar, Vocals
Les Humphries - Keyboards
Claus-Robert Kruse - Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Frank Dostal - Vocals, Bass
Dicky Tarrach - Drums
This was a beat band formed at the beginning of 1968. Reichel and Tarrach had
previously been members of the most famous German beat band The Rattles.
Wonderland recorded three singles before Humphries and Franke quit at the
end of 1969, to be replaced by Kalle Trapp and Claus-Robert Kruse. One year and
a single later the band ceased its activities, with Reichel and Dostal teaming
up for the Wonderland Band album, to which Franke, Tarrach, Trapp and
Kruse all contributed. All Wonderland singles and four tracks for a
projected album were collected in 1973 on a Karusell sampler.
Taken from Cosmic Dreams at Play - A guide to German Progressive and Electronic Rock by Dag Erik Asbjørnsen, Borderline Productions, ISBN 1-899855-01-7