Sopwith Camel was a rock music band associated with the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene of the late 1960s. The band's only hit single, "Hello, Hello", became the first hit title to emerge from the San Francisco rock scene and reached No. 26 on the U.S. pop music charts in January 1967 and No. 9 on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts in February. The band's first album, and the vaudevillian "Hello, Hello" in particular, had more in common soundwise with earlier songs by The Lovin' Spoonful than typical 1960s psychedelic rock; producer Erik Jacobsen produced for both Sopwith Camel and The Lovin' Spoonful. The band was unable to follow up the success of their first album and hit single and disbanded later in 1967.
Sopwith Camel reformed in 1971 and recorded their second album, 1973's The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon on the Reprise label. The band broke up again in 1974.
