Editing Rotary Connection (section)

===Further albums,  Texas International Pop Festival and disbandment ===
In 1968, Rotary Connection released their second and third albums, ''Aladdin'' and ''Peace''.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> ''Aladdin'' found Riperton assuming a more prominent vocal role than the "background instrument" status she had on the debut. The latter was a Christmas release, with strong messages of love and understanding for a nation in the grips of [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. The album's [[cover art]] featured a [[hippie]] [[Santa Claus]]. ''Peace'' was notable for being involved in controversy: an [[anti-war]] [[cartoon]], in a December 1968 edition of ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine, featured a graphic image of a bruised and bloodied Santa on a Vietnam battlefield. Mistaking this cartoon for the album's cover art, a drunken executive at [[Montgomery Ward]] cancelled all shipments of the album.

On August 30, 1969, the band played at the [[Texas International Pop Festival]] followed by the [[Rock festival|Palm Beach Pop Festival]] on November 29.  Rotary Connection released three more albums: ''[[Songs (Rotary Connection album)|Songs]]'', in 1969, a collection of drastic reworkings of other artists' songs, including [[Otis Redding]]'s "[[Respect (song)|Respect]]" and [[The Band]]'s "[[The Weight]]"; ''Dinner Music'' in 1970,<ref name="LarkinSM"/> in which they added elements of [[Folk music|folk]] and [[country music|country]] into the mix along with some electronic experimentation; and ''[[Hey, Love]]'' in 1971,<ref name="LarkinSM"/> a more jazz-oriented LP on which the band was billed as the New Rotary Connection. From this album came "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun".

The outfit disbanded in 1974.<ref name="LarkinSM"/>