The Great Society - Someone To Love
Before quitting to join Jefferson Airplane, model-turned-vocalist Grace Slick was a member of The Great Society, with her then-husband Jerry and his brother Darby. “Someone To Love”, penned by Darby Slick, was their only single, and while it didn’t make many waves outside of San Francisco, it did lead to an interesting encounter: their association with Autumn Records, who released the “Someone To Love”, led to recording with a young staff producer and musician named Sylvester Stewart. Rumor has it that Stewart walked out on the band, refusing to work with them after it had taken them over 50 takes to record just one song. He would later go on to change his name to Sly Stone and start his own band, The Family Stone.

As many can guess, The Great Society didn’t last too long. Jefferson Airplane was courting Grace to replace their departing lead singer, Signe Toly Anderson, and Jerry and Grace’s marriage was on the rocks. Grace took two songs with her when she jumped ship, Darby’s “Someone To Love” (retitled “Somebody To Love”) and one of her own compositions that they band hadn’t recorded yet, “White Rabbit.” Without a front woman, The Great Society broke up and faded away into obscurity, rarely recognized for penning one of the most influential songs of the 1960’s psychedelic movement.