Rosebud was the name of an American popular music group which released a single, eponymous album in 1971.

Its members were Judy Henske

Judy Henske

Judy Henske is an American singer and songwriter, once known as "the Queen of the Beatniks".-Life and recording career:...

, Jerry Yester

Jerry Yester

Jerry Yester is an American folk rock musician, record producer, and arranger.Growing up in Burbank, California, Yester formed a duo with brother Jim Yester, the Yester Brothers, and starting playing folk clubs in Los Angeles in 1960...

, Craig Doerge

Craig Doerge

Craig Doerge is an American keyboard player, songwriter and session musician.He began playing in a college band at Hartford, Connecticut, and then moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work as a studio player and songwriter with A&M Records, and with Jim Keltner and others playing on cartoon...

, John Seiter

John Seiter

John Seiter is an American musician. He is best known for his work as a drummer, but has also recorded as a keyboardist and vocalist....

, and David Vaught. The album was a follow-up to the Henske-Yester collaboration, Farewell Aldebaran

Farewell Aldebaran

Farewell Aldebaran by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester is an album issued in 1969 on Frank Zappa's innovative Straight record label. It contains a wild mixture of styles, as though recorded by ten different bands, all featuring Henske's almost gothic lyrics and remarkable vocal range, which might lead...

. Perhaps to its detriment, Rosebud was seen as a democratic enterprise, with all band members contributing songs and singing, broadly in a countryish soft rock style—rather than making the best use of Henske's remarkable voice and songwriting abilities. Following its release and a couple of live shows, the band split up, Henske and Yester divorced, and she and Doerge married.

Yester is credited as the producer of their lone album. The LP was released on the Straight

Straight Records

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/Reprise

Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...

label; the CD re-release in 2004 is on Collector's Choice.

Yester, Henske, and Doerge have continued to produce and record music, and Judy Henske has recently returned to the studio and has been touring as well.

Rosebud album track listing

1. "Panama"
2. "Le Soleil"
3. "Reno"
4. "Western Wisconsin"
5. "Lorelei"
6. "Salvation"
7. "Lullabye II"
8. "The Yum Yum Man"
9. "Roll Home Cheyenne"
10. "Flying To Morning"

External links

• LINER NOTES FOR ROSEBUD'S ROSEBUD, Article by Richie Unterberger
• [ Biography by Richie Unterberger], Allmusic entry