Listen to an MP3 of Crazy One.

Crazy One: They managed to persuade CBS to let them make a single. It was to have been 'Quasar One'. In fact, someone at CBS got his wires crossed and misheard it as 'Crazy One', so they recorded it as 'Crazy One'.
-- Pete Erskine, NME, 15 March 1975, info supplied by Felix Reut, November 1999

Ramases and Selket: These are the same people who later conceived the album 'Space Hymns' on Vertigo, which was played by none other than well-known group 10cc. Here, however, the duo of Ramases and Selket are at their best, with their only single released in 1968 on CBS. The 'Space Hymns' album is not bad (3 stars), in fact it's fine progressive music without all that jazz stuff so evident on certain Vertigo LPs, and also without the hard rock sound found on almost all the others. Try it, but don't expect anything that comes near the two songs on this compilation.
-- Matthias Bock, 1996, The Rubble Collection reviews

Mind's Eye: An early Ramases and Sel track, 'Mind's Eye' [and 'Crazy One'], appears on volume 3 of the new Rubble series (which hasn't got much to do with the old, deleted Rubble collection series), that has been released by Voiceprint Records.
-- Matt Gee, July 1999

Record Collector: I would like to bring to your attention that another feature about Ramases and Sel has just been published in September issue of Record Collector magazine. The magazine has been running an A-Z guide for British psychedelia. This month, they reached the letter R, and concentrate on Ramases and Sel's'Mind's Eye' 45.
-- Matt Gee, September 1999

Acid Drops: 'Mind's Eye' was released in August 2001 on a Mojo magazine 4CD box set compilation 'Acid Drops, Spacedust and Flying Saucers'. Available from Amazon.co.uk
-- Brian Currin, October 2001

Borderline Books: An ultra-rare, reputedly psychededelic 45, which goes for well in excess of £50 in mint condition when one finds a copy. The couple dressed in old Egyptian clothes and later recorded as Ramases. Compilation appearances have included: 'Mind's Eye' and 'Crazy One' on 'Rubble, Vol. 11' (CD) and 'The Best Of Rubble Collection, Vol. 3' (CD).
-- Borderline Books

An earlier single by Ramases and his wife Sel. In Europe the 'A' side appeared as 'Screw You' which can be found on 'Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Vol. 2' (LP). It's a hypnotic piece with rather unnerving half-spoken lyrics and female climatic shrieks.
-- Borderline Books

'Screw You' is an alternate version of 'Love You' (see above).

'Love You' and 'Screw You' scans supplied by David Tibet.

In Holland, it seems that 'Gold Is The Ring' was the A-side. Catalogue number looks like MAM840. Cover scan from Manfret, March 2005

Scan supplied by David Tibet, December 2006

The single version of 'Balloon' is a little different to the 'Space Hymns' album version. Firstly it's taken at a faster pace and the spacey sound FX towards the end are much more pronounced.

And 'Muddy Water' is like one of those campfire Gospel sing-along songs.
-- Brian Currin, March 2004

On the back of the picture sleeve it has DISTRUBIZIONE PHONGRAM S.P.A. and Cat. No. 6113 001. The image on the back of the sleeve is identical to the front.

The record has 6113.001 also and MADE IN ITALY 1971, though all text is in English. Both sides are MONO.
-- David Tibet, December 2006

Compilations:

	Eiderdown Mindfog (Rubble 19) year: 1992 label: Bam Caruso (test pressing), Past & Present (re-issue) country: UK catalogue: PAPRL 019 tracks: Crazy One, Mind's EyeMore info: Marmalade Skies
	Exploding Plastic Inevitable Volume 2 - Globular Lightning year: 199? label: Yahoo country: UK catalogue: yahoo II track: Screw You More info: Borderline Books
	Rock Legends year: October 1990 label: Teal Trutone country: South Africa catalogue: DGC 979/80 track: Life Child
	Rubble Volume 11 year: 1992/3 label: Bam Caruso country: UK catalogue: CD RUB 11 tracks: Crazy One, Mind's Eye buy: Borderline Books
	Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vol. 1 year: 1998 label: Purple Lantern country: UK catalogue: PL001 track: Molecular Delusion buy: Borderline Books
	The Rubble Series Volume 3 year: 1999 label: Bam Caruso country: UK catalogue: BAMVP1009 tracks: Crazy One, Mind's Eye buy: Voiceprint
	Acid Drops, Spacedust and Flying Saucers 4CD box set year: August 2001 label: EMI country: UK catalogue: 07243 5 35078 2 4 track: Mind's Eye buy: Amazon.co.uk
MOJO PRESENTS: ACID DROPS, SPACEDUST & FLYING SAUCERS 4CD box set EMI 07243 5 35078 2 4 (UK 2001) 'Mind's Eye' is track 5 on Disc Two ('Gandalf's Garden') "According to the press releases of the era, Ramases And Selket were the re-incarnation of a 3000-year-old Egyptian pharaoh and one of his 1,200 wives/concubines. However, Ramases was better know in his hometown of Sheffield as central heating salesman and former Army PT instructor Michael Raphael. After a chance meeting with local pop star Dave Berry, he decided that the music industry was the most natural medium in which to gain publicity for his claims. With his wife re-christened Selket, he released Crazy One b/w Mind's Eye, shamelessly built round Ram's exotic, pseudo-Arabian image. A couple of further singles followed before Ramases signed to Vertigo in 1971 to make the Space Hymns album with the band that became 10cc. A second mystical album, Glass Top Coffin, emerged in 1975, but Ramases--or rap DJ Subrock, as he was by then known, sadly took his own life in the early 1990s." Info supplied by David Tibet, February 2003
	Life Child - The Best Of Ramases a fantasy collection from the mind of Brian Currin year: August 2001 label: None country: South Africa catalogue: None More info: see here...
	Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective 3CD box set year: April 2005 label: Vertigo country: UK catalogue: 9827982 track: Life Child More info: VertigoRecords.co.uk

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