The first album on Kama Sutra Records in 1967, featured "Hello-Hello." The single reached number one in many markets and the Top 10 in Billboard. The Sopwith Camel had the first national hit out of San Francisco's pyschedelic band scene. The album cover was done by Victor Moscoso. This album was re-released by Edsel Records featuring "Frantic Desolation" in the late '80s.

	"Postcard From Jamaica" was the second single in 1967. Recorded in New York, as was most of the first album. The cover photo was taken in the dead of winter in Washington Square, NYC. While staying in "the Village," they played the Night Owl Cafe, stayed at the Albert Hotel and toured the East Coast with the Lovin' Spoonful.
The third single (1967) and final attempt for another hit before the band left Kama Sutra. "Saga of the Low Down Let Down" written by William Sievers. He left the band when they returned to California and started a solo career as William Truckaway.

The Camel goes to Hollywood and signs with Warner Bros. For their second album cover, the studio suggested the use of the Elvis Presley set from the movie "King Creole" and the costumes from the "Court Martial of Billy Mitchell" to create Armistice Day, 1918. All tracks were recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco.

The Hollywood cover was rejected but is now on the inside cover of the CD. Art work from the famous collage artist, Satty, was used instead.The album entitled "The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon"(1972) used horns, synthophones and exotic percussion. A road tour through Denver, Nashville, Atlanta, New York, Cleveland, and West Palm Beach, FL. ensued. More records sold in Denver for some reason! Released again in 2006 and now called Remastered 2006

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