Podcast appearances and mentions of Nino Tempo

La maravillosa cantante Roberta Flack ha fallecido a los 88 años de edad. En esta edición de nuestro podcast le rendimos nuestro pequeño homenaje repasando algunos pasajes de su discografía y recopilando sus colaboraciones junto a artistas como Donny Hathaway, Earl Klugh, Michael Henderson, George Benson, Nino Tempo, Sadao Watanabe, Peabo Bryson, Valerie Simpson y el proyecto Global Noize.

Javi Pedraces, investigador musical, autor del libro “Asturies ’60. Orígenes y desarrollo del rock’n’roll en Asturias (1956-1969)” y de la biografía “¡Mierda qué guay! La fabulosa historia de The Mocking Byrds”, en donde repasa la fugaz trayectoria de esta banda asturiana de los 90 que se fue a grabar su primer álbum a Londres en 1996 y el disco se quedó sin ver la luz… hasta ahora. Charlamos con Javi, con Marcos Montoto y Pedro Secades (guitarra y teclista de Mocking Byrds) y con Jorge Explosion (responsable de la parte técnica en la recuperación del disco) en un episodio con mucho corazón astur.Playlist;THE MOCKING BYRDS “Get ready” (The London sessions Toe Rag 1996)LOS JUNIORS “La casa del Sol naciente” (1965)LOS JUNIORS “Linda chica” (1965)NINO TEMPO and APRIL STEVENS “I love how you love me” (1965)LOS ARCHIDUQUES “Lamento de gaitas” (1967)LOS PASOS “Ayer tuve un sueño” (1967)THE MOCKING BYRDS “Fried chicken” (The London sessions Toe Rag 1996)THE MOCKING BIRDS “Yes I do” (The London sessions Toe Rag 1996)THE MOCKING BYRDS “Come see me” (The London sessions Toe Rag 1996)DOCTOR EXPLOSIÓN “Perdu les ma” (adelanto próximo single)THE MOCKING BIRDS “Illusions of my mind” (The London sessions Toe Rag 1996)Escuchar audio

Label: A&M 1461Year: 1973Condition: MPrice: $18.00From a warehouse find, this is a new, unplayed stock copy, in its original A&M Records factory sleeve. Here's a beautiful copy of one of Northern Soul fans' favorite dance numbers from the early 1970s. Have a listen to the mp3 "snippet," and you'll understand its appeal! Note: This copy has Mint labels and pristine audio. The vinyl (styrene) may exhibit faint storage wear, so we're grading that attribute Near Mint.

IAN GILLAN DEEP PURPLE LEGEND THE LOST INTERVIEWS EPISODE 3    Ian Gillan is the legendary charismatic frontman for one of the greatest bands in rock and roll history. Deep Purple is essentially known for its hard rock pulse. Its musical schemes have encompassed progressive rock, blues, R&B and even jazz. Keyboardist Jon Lord received a telegram from Tony Edwards stating that he'd back Lord in putting a band together; later Edwards called Ritchie Blackmore to meet with him. In December of 1967, the two musicians met up and collaborated for the first time. John Lord had already asked Nick Simper to play bass, a former bandmate with ‘The Flower Pot Men.' While living in Hamburg, Germany, Ritchie Blackmore saw drummer Ian Paice performing onstage with his band The Maze. The group was fronted by singer Rod Evans. Evans auditioned for the lead vocalist role for a scheming new (Deep Purple) band and won the spot. Blackmore remembered Paice from Hamburg and asked Evans to bring him along. Blackmore and Lord were a bit worried that Evans mannerism was much like Tom Jones or Engelbert Humperdinck. Jon Lord later stated, “We'd eventually beat him into shape.” In 1968, Deep Purple was officially formed. The band was named after a Nino Tempo and April Stevens song of 1963, believed to be Ritchie Blackmore's grandmother's favorite song. Deep Purple's musical styles intentionally mimicked the American rock group Vanilla Fudge (“You Keep Me Hangin' On”). The group quickly scored commercially with their Top 40 hit single “Hush” (#4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart) and became overnight sensations in the U.S. Ritchie Blackmore's vision for the band was to implement heavier rock techniques, and while Rod Evans and Nick Simper were in the group it may never have been accomplished. After Rod Evans was dismissed from Deep Purple, he went on to form Captain Beyond in 1971. Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover were performing at Woodford Green in London with their British pop rock band ‘Episode Six.' Their lead singer Ian Gillan was noticed by Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord. After watching Gillan's performance, they offered him the lead singer position for Deep Purple. Eventually Roger Glover would be asked to join the band, while securing one of the greatest music lineups in rock history. Also in 1972, under resistance by the band, they recorded a double live album in Japan entitled, Made In Japan. The album was essentially the Machine Head tour. The band recorded (3) concerts ... (2) in Osaka and (1) in Tokyo. Most of the material came from the second night in Osaka. Made In Japan also went platinum and the live version of “Smoke on the Water” became instrumental to the song's success. Smoke on the Water” (#4 Hit on Billboard's Hot 100) was officially released as a single in 1973 and became one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in rock and roll history. Deep Purple were now international superstars in the studio and on the road. At the peak of their success, Ian Gillan gave a six month notice and stated that he was leaving the band after fulfilling all of his commitments in 1973. The album Who Do We Think We Are was released in January of 1973. The release generated the hit single “Woman from Tokyo.” “Smoke on the Water” was also busy that year becoming Deep Purple's biggest hit of all-time.  Who Do We Think We Are was the last studio album to feature Ian Gillan as their lead singer until the 1984 reunion LP Perfect Strangers. Deep Purple did six American tours before Ian Gillan and Roger Glover left the band. The grueling touring schedule and fatigue became the reason for their early departure from the band. In 1973, the band had eleven different entries in Billboard and became the top-selling artists in the U.S. But without its lead singer and bass player the band felt like it was the end. Deep Purple brought in several lineups through the years. Lead singers that included David Coverdale and Joe Lynn Turner, guitarists Tommy Bolin and Joe Satriani and bassist Glenn Hughes. There have also been band reunions that have included the original Deep Purple core lineup. Sadly, founding member, keyboardist and songwriter Jon Lord died in 2012. Ritchie Blackmore and his wife Candice Night currently perform together with their medieval folk rock band Blackmore's Night. Ian Gillan is the son of a school teacher mother and a factory worker father. Gillan came from a musical family; his grandfather was a bass-baritone and sang opera, and his uncle was a jazz pianist. Ian was a boy soprano in the church choir when he was young. Besides being the legendary voice of Deep Purple, Gillan also sang the role of Jesus on the original recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. He also recorded with his solo bands the Ian Gillan Band (1975-1978) and Gillan (1978-1982). Gillan was also the lead singer of Black Sabbath (1982-1984). Ian Gillan performed in the charity group Rock Aid Armenia and later (2011) participated in the supergroup ‘WhoCares,' a continuing effort by Gillan to help the people of Armenia after a devastating earthquake. The group was comprised of Gillan, Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Jon Lord (Deep Purple), Jason Newsted (Metallica), Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) and Mikko “Linde” Lindstrӧm (HIM). They recorded the songs … “Out of My Mind” and “Holy Water” which is included in a 2-CD compilation of rarities from the music careers of Ian Gillan and Tony Iommi. Proceeds from the CD helped rebuild a music school in Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia. Gillan and Iommi received the Armenian Presidential Medal of Honor for their humanitarian efforts.     Support us on PayPal!

Nueva entrega del coleccionable dedicado a recordar las canciones que alcanzaron su máximo puesto en las listas del Billboard Hot 100 de este mes hace 60 años. En marzo de 1964 The Beatles se convierten ya en una fuerza arrolladora y sus numerosos singles copan toda la zona alta de las listas de ventas. Aquel mes el surf da sus últimos coletazos, los “veteranos” del rock’n’roll intentan aguantar el envite y el soul o el sonido Motown resisten fuertes al invasor.Playlist;(sintonía) THE PYRAMIDS “Penetration” (top 18)THE BEATLES “She loves you” (top 1)THE BEATLES “Please please me” (top 3)THE BEATLES “I saw her standing there” (top 14)THE BEATLES with TONY SHERIDAN “My Bonnie” (top 26)DUSTY SPRINGFIELD “I only want to be with you” (top 12)ELVIS PRESLEY and THE JORDANAIRES “Kissin’ cousins” (top 12)FREDDY CANNON “Abigail Beecher” (top 16)THE BEACH BOYS “Fun fun fun” (top 5)THE TRASHMEN “Bird dance beat” (top 30)JAMES BROWN and THE FAMOUS FLAMES “Oh baby don’t you weep” (top 23)SAM COOKE “Good news” (top 11)RAY CHARLES and HIS ORCHESTRA “Baby don’t you cry (The new swingova rhythm)” (top 39)TOMMY TUCKER “Hi heel sneakers” (top 11)RUFUS THOMAS “Can your monkey do the dog” (top 48)MARTHA and THE VANDELLAS “Live wire” (top 42)NINO TEMPO and APRIL STEVENS “Stardust” (top 32)THE SAPPHIRES “Who do you love” (top 25)DALE and GRACE “Stop and think it over” (top 8)Escuchar audio

Nuevo capítulo de esta colección en donde recordamos canciones que alcanzaron su máximo puesto en listas estadounidenses hace exactamente 60 años. Todo lo que escuches estaba entre lo más vendido de enero de 1964, lo que nos permite ver la variedad de estilos que compartían espacio en la música popular de aquellos días. Playlist;(sintonía) DUANE EDDY “The son of rebel rouser” (top 97)BOBBY VINTON “There! I've said it again” (top 1)THE MURMAIDS “Popsicles and icicles” (top 3)NINO TEMPO and APRIL STEVENS “Whispering” (top 1)BETTY EVERETT “You’re no good” (top 51)THE EXCITERS “Do-Wah-Diddy” (top 78)THE RAINDROPS “That boy John” (top 64)THE ORLONS “Bon doo wah” (top 55)MARTHA and THE VANDELLAS “Quicksand” (top 8)THE SUPREMES “When the lovelight starts shining through his eyes” (top 23)THE MIRACLES “I’ve gotta dance to keep from crying” (top 35)JAN AND DEAN “Drag City” (top 10)THE TRASHMEN “Surfin’ bird” (top 4)SHIRLEY ELLIS “The Nitty Gritty” (top 8)TRINI LOPEZ “Kansas City” (top 10)FATS DOMINO “Who cares” (top 63)BARBARA LEWIS “Snap your fingers” (top 71)BRENDA LEE “As usual” (top 12)RAY CHARLES “That lucky old Sun” (top 20)Escuchar audio

Retrocedemos 60 años en el tiempo para recordar algunas de las canciones que sonaban en las listas de éxitos del Billboard Hot 100 de EEUU en noviembre de 1963. (Fotos podcast; The Village Stompers, Nino Tempo y April Stevens)   Playlist; (sintonía) THE VILLAGE STOMPERS “Washington Square” NINO TEMPO and APRIL STEVENS “Deep purple” GARNET MIMMS and THE ENCHANTERS “Cry baby” SAM COOKE “Little red rooster” RUFUS THOMAS “Walkin’ the dog” MARVIN GAYE “Can I get a witness” ELVIS PRESLEY with THE JORDANAIRES “Bossanova baby” RICKY NELSON “Fools rush in” THE DIXIEBELLES “(Down at) Papa’s Joe” BEACH BOYS “Be true to your school” ROBIN WARD “Wonderful summer” JACK NITZSCHE “Rumble” CHUBBY CHECKER “Loddy Lo” DEE DEE SHARP “Wild” LESLEY GORE “She’s a fool” BOBBY BARE “500 miles away from home” PETER PAUL and MARY “Don’t think twice it’s alright” DALE and GRACE “I’m leaving it up to you” Escuchar audio

Episode one hundred and fifty-three of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Heroes and Villains” by the Beach Boys, and the collapse of the Smile album. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a sixteen-minute bonus episode available, on "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" by the Electric Prunes. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources There is no Mixcloud this week, because there were too many Beach Boys songs in the episode. I used many resources for this episode. As well as the books I referred to in all the Beach Boys episodes, listed below, I used Domenic Priore's book Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece and Richard Henderson's 33 1/3 book on Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle. Stephen McParland has published many, many books on the California surf and hot-rod music scenes, including several on both the Beach Boys and Gary Usher.  His books can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks Andrew Doe's Bellagio 10452 site is an invaluable resource. Jon Stebbins' The Beach Boys FAQ is a good balance between accuracy and readability. And Philip Lambert's Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is an excellent, though sadly out of print, musicological analysis of Wilson's music from 1962 through 67. Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson by Peter Ames Carlin is the best biography of Wilson. I have also referred to Brian Wilson's autobiography, I Am Brian Wilson, and to Mike Love's, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. As a good starting point for the Beach Boys' music in general, I would recommend this budget-priced three-CD set, which has a surprisingly good selection of their material on it, including the single version of “Heroes and Villains”. The box set The Smile Sessions  contains an attempt to create a finished album from the unfinished sessions, plus several CDs of outtakes and session material. Transcript [Opening -- "intro to the album" studio chatter into "Our Prayer"] Before I start, I'd just like to note that this episode contains some discussion of mental illness, including historical negative attitudes towards it, so you may want to check the transcript or skip this one if that might be upsetting. In November and December 1966, the filmmaker David Oppenheim and the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein collaborated on a TV film called "Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution".  The film was an early attempt at some of the kinds of things this podcast is doing, looking at how music and social events interact and evolve, though it was dealing with its present rather than the past. The film tried to cast as wide a net as possible in its fifty-one minutes. It looked at two bands from Manchester -- the Hollies and Herman's Hermits -- and how the people identified as their leaders, "Herman" (or Peter Noone) and Graham Nash, differed on the issue of preventing war: [Excerpt: Inside Pop, the Rock Revolution] And it made a star of East Coast teenage singer-songwriter Janis Ian with her song about interracial relationships, "Society's Child": [Excerpt: Janis Ian, "Society's Child"] And Bernstein spends a significant time, as one would expect, analysing the music of the Beatles and to a lesser extent the Stones, though they don't appear in the show. Bernstein does a lot to legitimise the music just by taking it seriously as a subject for analysis, at a time when most wouldn't: [Excerpt: Leonard Bernstein talking about "She Said She Said"] You can't see it, obviously, but in the clip that's from, as the Beatles recording is playing, Bernstein is conducting along with the music, as he would a symphony orchestra, showing where the beats are falling. But of course, given that this was filmed in the last two months of 1966, the vast majority of the episode is taken up with musicians from the centre of the music world at that time, LA. The film starts with Bernstein interviewing Tandyn Almer,  a jazz-influenced songwriter who had recently written the big hit "Along Comes Mary" for The Association: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] It featured interviews with Roger McGuinn, and with the protestors at the Sunset Strip riots which were happening contemporaneously with the filming: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] Along with Frank Zappa's rather acerbic assessment of the potential of the youth revolutionaries: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] And ended (other than a brief post-commercial performance over the credits by the Hollies) with a performance by Tim Buckley, whose debut album, as we heard in the last episode, had featured Van Dyke Parks and future members of the Mothers of Invention and Buffalo Springfield: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] But for many people the highlight of the film was the performance that came right before Buckley's, film of Brian Wilson playing a new song from the album he was working on. One thing I should note -- many sources say that the voiceover here is Bernstein. My understanding is that Bernstein wrote and narrated the parts of the film he was himself in, and Oppenheim did all the other voiceover writing and narration, but that Oppenheim's voice is similar enough to Bernstein's that people got confused about this: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] That particular piece of footage was filmed in December 1966, but it wasn't broadcast until April the twenty-fifth, 1967, an eternity in mid-sixties popular music. When it was broadcast, that album still hadn't come out. Precisely one week later, the Beach Boys' publicist Derek Taylor announced that it never would: [Excerpt: Brian Wilson, "Surf's Up"] One name who has showed up in a handful of episodes recently, but who we've not talked that much about, is Van Dyke Parks. And in a story with many, many, remarkable figures, Van Dyke Parks may be one of the most remarkable of all. Long before he did anything that impinges on the story of rock music, Parks had lived the kind of life that would be considered unbelievable were it to be told as fiction. Parks came from a family that mixed musical skill, political progressiveness, and achievement. His mother was a scholar of Hebrew, while his father was a neurologist, the first doctor to admit Black patients to a white Southern hospital, and had paid his way through college leading a dance band. Parks' father was also, according to the 33 1/3 book on Song Cycle, a member of "John Philip Sousa's Sixty Silver Trumpets", but literally every reference I can find to Sousa leading a band of that name goes back to that book, so I've no idea what he was actually a member of, but we can presume he was a reasonable musician. Young Van Dyke started playing the clarinet at four, and was also a singer from a very early age, as well as playing several other instruments. He went to the American Boychoir School in Princeton, to study singing, and while there he sang with Toscaninni, Thomas Beecham, and other immensely important conductors of the era. He also had a very special accompanist for one Christmas carolling session. The choir school was based in Princeton, and one of the doors he knocked on while carolling was that of Princeton's most famous resident, Albert Einstein, who heard the young boy singing "Silent Night", and came out with his violin and played along. Young Van Dyke was only interested in music, but he was also paying the bills for his music tuition himself -- he had a job. He was a TV star. From the age of ten, he started getting roles in TV shows -- he played the youngest son in the 1953 sitcom Bonino, about an opera singer, which flopped because it aired opposite the extremely popular Jackie Gleason Show. He would later also appear in that show, as one of several child actors who played the character of Little Tommy Manicotti, and he made a number of other TV appearances, as well as having a small role in Grace Kelly's last film, The Swan, with Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdain. But he never liked acting, and just did it to pay for his education. He gave it up when he moved on to the Carnegie Institute, where he majored in composition and performance. But then in his second year, his big brother Carson asked him to drop out and move to California. Carson Parks had been part of the folk scene in California for a few years at this point. He and a friend had formed a duo called the Steeltown Two, but then both of them had joined the folk group the Easy Riders, a group led by Terry Gilkyson. Before Carson Parks joined, the Easy Riders had had a big hit with their version of "Marianne", a calypso originally by the great calypsonian Roaring Lion: [Excerpt: The Easy Riders, "Marianne"] They hadn't had many other hits, but their songs became hits for other people -- Gilkyson wrote several big hits for Frankie Laine, and the Easy Riders were the backing vocalists on Dean Martin's recording of a song they wrote, "Memories are Made of This": [Excerpt: Dean Martin and the Easy Riders, "Memories are Made of This"] Carson Parks hadn't been in the group at that point -- he only joined after they'd stopped having success -- and eventually the group had split up. He wanted to revive his old duo, the Steeltown Two, and persuaded his family to let his little brother Van Dyke drop out of university and move to California to be the other half of the duo. He wanted Van Dyke to play guitar, while he played banjo. Van Dyke had never actually played guitar before, but as Carson Parks later said "in 90 days, he knew more than most folks know after many years!" Van Dyke moved into an apartment adjoining his brother's, owned by Norm Botnick, who had until recently been the principal viola player in a film studio orchestra, before the film studios all simultaneously dumped their in-house orchestras in the late fifties, so was a more understanding landlord than most when it came to the lifestyles of musicians. Botnick's sons, Doug and Bruce, later went into sound engineering -- we've already encountered Bruce Botnick in the episode on the Doors, and he will be coming up again in the future. The new Steeltown Two didn't make any records, but they developed a bit of a following in the coffeehouses, and they also got a fair bit of session work, mostly through Terry Gilkyson, who was by that point writing songs for Disney and would hire them to play on sessions for his songs. And it was Gilkyson who both brought Van Dyke Parks the worst news of his life to that point, and in doing so also had him make his first major mark on music. Gilkyson was the one who informed Van Dyke that another of his brothers, Benjamin Riley Parks, had died in what was apparently a car accident. I say it was apparently an accident because Benjamin Riley Parks was at the time working for the US State Department, and there is apparently also some evidence that he was assassinated in a Cold War plot. Gilkyson also knew that neither Van Dyke nor Carson Parks had much money, so in order to help them afford black suits and plane tickets to and from the funeral, Gilkyson hired Van Dyke to write the arrangement for a song he had written for an upcoming Disney film: [Excerpt: Jungle Book soundtrack, "The Bare Necessities"] The Steeltown Two continued performing, and soon became known as the Steeltown Three, with the addition of a singer named Pat Peyton. The Steeltown Three recorded two singles, "Rock Mountain", under that group name: [Excerpt: The Steeltown Three, "Rock Mountain"] And a version of "San Francisco Bay" under the name The South Coasters, which I've been unable to track down. Then the three of them, with the help of Terry Gilkyson, formed a larger group in the style of the New Christy Minstrels -- the Greenwood County Singers. Indeed, Carson Parks would later claim that  Gilkyson had had the idea first -- that he'd mentioned that he'd wanted to put together a group like that to Randy Sparks, and Sparks had taken the idea and done it first. The Greenwood County Singers had two minor hot one hundred hits, only one of them while Van Dyke was in the band -- "The New 'Frankie and Johnny' Song", a rewrite by Bob Gibson and Shel Silverstein of the old traditional song "Frankie and Johnny": [Excerpt: The Greenwood County Singers, "The New Frankie and Johnny Song"] They also recorded several albums together, which gave Van Dyke the opportunity to practice his arrangement skills, as on this version of  "Vera Cruz" which he arranged: [Excerpt: The Greenwood County Singers, "Vera Cruz"] Some time before their last album, in 1965, Van Dyke left the Greenwood County Singers, and was replaced by Rick Jarrard, who we'll also be hearing more about in future episodes. After that album, the group split up, but Carson Parks would go on to write two big hits in the next few years. The first and biggest was a song he originally wrote for a side project. His future wife Gaile Foote was also a Greenwood County Singer, and the two of them thought they might become folk's answer to Sonny and Cher or Nino Tempo and April Stevens: [Excerpt: Carson and Gaile, "Somethin' Stupid"] That obviously became a standard after it was covered by Frank and Nancy Sinatra. Carson Parks also wrote "Cab Driver", which in 1968 became the last top thirty hit for the Mills Brothers, the 1930s vocal group we talked about way way back in episode six: [Excerpt: The Mills Brothers, "Cab Driver"] Meanwhile Van Dyke Parks was becoming part of the Sunset Strip rock and roll world. Now, until we get to 1967, Parks has something of a tangled timeline. He worked with almost every band around LA in a short period, often working with multiple people simultaneously, and nobody was very interested in keeping detailed notes. So I'm going to tell this as a linear story, but be aware it's very much not -- things I say in five minutes might happen after, or in the same week as, things I say in half an hour. At some point in either 1965 or 1966 he joined the Mothers of Invention for a brief while. Nobody is entirely sure when this was, and whether it was before or after their first album. Some say it was in late 1965, others in August 1966, and even the kind of fans who put together detailed timelines are none the wiser, because no recordings have so far surfaced of Parks with the band. Either is plausible, and the Mothers went through a variety of keyboard players at this time -- Zappa had turned to his jazz friend Don Preston, but found Preston was too much of a jazzer and told him to come back when he could play "Louie Louie" convincingly, asked Mac Rebennack to be in the band but sacked him pretty much straight away for drug use, and eventually turned to Preston again once Preston had learned to rock and roll. Some time in that period, Van Dyke Parks was a Mother, playing electric harpsichord. He may even have had more than one stint in the group -- Zappa said "Van Dyke Parks played electric harpsichord in and out." It seems likely, though, that it was in summer of 1966, because in an interview published in Teen Beat Magazine in December 66, but presumably conducted a few months prior, Zappa was asked to describe the band members in one word each and replied: "Ray—Mahogany Roy—Asbestos Jim—Mucilage Del—Acetate Van Dyke—Pinocchio Billy—Boom I don't know about the rest of the group—I don't even know about these guys." Sources differ as to why Parks didn't remain in the band -- Parks has said that he quit after a short time because he didn't like being shouted at, while Zappa said "Van Dyke was not a reliable player. He didn't make it to rehearsal on time and things like that." Both may be true of course, though I've not heard anyone else ever criticise Parks for his reliability. But then also Zappa had much more disciplinarian standards than most rock band leaders. It's possibly either through Zappa that he met Tom Wilson, or through Tom Wilson that he met Frank Zappa, but either way Parks, like the Mothers of Invention, was signed to MGM records in 1966, where he released two solo singles co-produced by Wilson and an otherwise obscure figure named Tim Alvorado. The first was "Number Nine", which we heard last week, backed with "Do What You Wanta": [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "Do What You Wanta"] At least one source I've read says that the lyrics to "Do What You Wanta" were written not by Parks but by his friend Danny Hutton, but it's credited as a Parks solo composition on the label. It was after that that the Van Dyke Parks band -- or as they were sometimes billed, just The Van Dyke Parks formed, as we discussed last episode, based around Parks, Steve Stills, and Steve Young, and they performed a handful of shows with bass player Bobby Rae and drummer Walt Sparman, playing a mix of original material, primarily Parks' songs, and covers of things like "Dancing in the Street". The one contemporaneous review of a live show I've seen talks about  the girls in the audience screaming and how "When rhythm guitarist Steve Stillman imitated the Barry McGuire emotional scene, they almost went wiggy". But The Van Dyke Parks soon split up, and Parks the individual recorded his second single, "Come to the Sunshine": [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "Come to the Sunshine"] Around the time he left the Greenwood County Singers, Van Dyke Parks also met Brian Wilson for the first time, when David Crosby took him up to Wilson's house to hear an acetate of the as-yet-unreleased track "Sloop John B". Parks was impressed by Wilson's arrangement techniques, and in particular the way he was orchestrating instrumental combinations that you couldn't do with a standard live room setup, that required overdubbing and close-micing. He said later "The first stuff I heard indicated this kind of curiosity for the recording experience, and when I went up to see him in '65 I don't even think he had the voices on yet, but I heard that long rotational breathing, that long flute ostinato at the beginning... I knew this man was a great musician." [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B (instrumental)"] In most of 1966, though, Parks was making his living as a session keyboard player and arranger, and much of the work he was getting was through Lenny Waronker. Waronker was a second-generation music industry professional. His father, Si Waronker, had been a violinist in the Twentieth Century Fox studio orchestra before founding Liberty Records (the label which indirectly led to him becoming immortalised in children's entertainment, when Liberty Records star David Seville named his Chipmunk characters after three Liberty executives, with Simon being Si Waronker's full forename). The first release on Liberty Records had been a version of "The Girl Upstairs", an instrumental piece from the Fox film The Seven-Year Itch. The original recording of that track, for the film, had been done by the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra, written and conducted by Alfred Newman, the musical director for Fox: [Excerpt: Alfred Newman, "The Girl Upstairs"] Liberty's soundalike version was conducted by Newman's brother Lionel, a pianist at the studio who later became Fox's musical director for TV, just as his brother was for film, but who also wrote many film scores himself. Another Newman brother, Emil, was also a film composer, but the fourth brother, Irving, had gone into medicine instead. However, Irving's son Randy wanted to follow in the family business, and he and Lenny Waronker, who was similarly following his own father by working for Liberty Records' publishing subsidiary Metric Music, had been very close friends ever since High School. Waronker got Newman signed to Metric Music, where he wrote "They Tell Me It's Summer" for the Fleetwoods: [Excerpt: The Fleetwoods, "They Tell Me It's Summer"] Newman also wrote and recorded a single of his own in 1962, co-produced by Pat Boone: [Excerpt: Randy Newman, "Golden Gridiron Boy"] Before deciding he wasn't going to make it as a singer and had better just be a professional songwriter. But by 1966 Waronker had moved on from Metric to Warner Brothers, and become a junior A&R man. And he was put in charge of developing the artists that Warners had acquired when they had bought up a small label, Autumn Records. Autumn Records was a San Francisco-based label whose main producer, Sly Stone, had now moved on to other things after producing the hit record "Laugh Laugh" for the Beau Brummels: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Beau Brummels  had had another hit after that and were the main reason that Warners had bought the label, but their star was fading a little. Stone had also been mentoring several other groups, including the Tikis and the Mojo Men, who all had potential. Waronker gathered around himself a sort of brains trust of musicians who he trusted as songwriters, arrangers, and pianists -- Randy Newman, the session pianist Leon Russell, and Van Dyke Parks. Their job was to revitalise the career of the Beau Brummels, and to make both the Tikis and the Mojo Men into successes. The tactic they chose was, in Waronker's words, “Go in with a good song and weird it out.” The first good song they tried weirding out was in late 1966, when Leon Russell came up with a clarinet-led arrangement of Paul Simon's "59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)" for the Tikis, who performed it but who thought that their existing fanbase wouldn't accept something so different, so it was put out under another name, suggested by Parks, Harpers Bizarre: [Excerpt: Harpers Bizarre, "Feeling Groovy"] Waronker said of Parks and Newman “They weren't old school guys. They were modern characters but they had old school values regarding certain records that needed to be made, certain artists who needed to be heard regardless. So there was still that going on. The fact that ‘Feeling Groovy' was a number 10 hit nationwide and ‘Sit Down, I Think I Love You'  made the Top 30 on Western regional radio, that gave us credibility within the company. One hit will do wonders, two allows you to take chances.” We heard "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" last episode -- that's the song by Parks' old friend Stephen Stills that Parks arranged for the Mojo Men: [Excerpt: The Mojo Men, "Sit Down, I Think I Love You"] During 1966 Parks also played on Tim Buckley's first album, as we also heard last episode: [Excerpt: Tim Buckley, "Aren't You the Girl?"] And he also bumped into Brian Wilson on occasion, as they were working a lot in the same studios and had mutual friends like Loren Daro and Danny Hutton, and he suggested the cello part on "Good Vibrations". Parks also played keyboards on "5D" by the Byrds: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "5D (Fifth Dimension)"] And on the Spirit of '67 album for Paul Revere and the Raiders, produced by the Byrds' old producer Terry Melcher. Parks played keyboards on much of the album, including the top five hit "Good Thing": [Excerpt: Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Good Thing"] But while all this was going on, Parks was also working on what would become the work for which he was best known. As I've said, he'd met Brian Wilson on a few occasions, but it wasn't until summer 1966 that the two were formally introduced by Terry Melcher, who knew that Wilson needed a new songwriting collaborator, now Tony Asher's sabbatical from his advertising job was coming to an end, and that Wilson wanted someone who could do work that was a bit more abstract than the emotional material that he had been writing with Asher. Melcher invited both of them to a party at his house on Cielo Drive -- a house which would a few years later become notorious -- which was also attended by many of the young Hollywood set of the time. Nobody can remember exactly who was at the party, but Parks thinks it was people like Jack Nicholson and Peter and Jane Fonda. Parks and Wilson hit it off, with Wilson saying later "He seemed like a really articulate guy, like he could write some good lyrics". Parks on the other hand was delighted to find that Wilson "liked Les Paul, Spike Jones, all of these sounds that I liked, and he was doing it in a proactive way." Brian suggested Parks write the finished lyrics for "Good Vibrations", which was still being recorded at this time, and still only had Tony Asher's dummy lyrics,  but Parks was uninterested. He said that it would be best if he and Brian collaborate together on something new from scratch, and Brian agreed. The first time Parks came to visit Brian at Brian's home, other than the visit accompanying Crosby the year before, he was riding a motorbike -- he couldn't afford a car -- and forgot to bring his driver's license with him. He was stopped by a police officer who thought he looked too poor to be in the area, but Parks persuaded the police officer that if he came to the door, Brian Wilson would vouch for him. Brian got Van Dyke out of any trouble because the cop's sister was a Beach Boys fan, so he autographed an album for her. Brian and Van Dyke talked for a while. Brian asked if Van Dyke needed anything to help his work go smoothly, and Van Dyke said he needed a car. Brian asked what kind. Van Dyke said that Volvos were supposed to be pretty safe. Brian asked how much they cost. Van Dyke said he thought they were about five thousand dollars. Brian called up his office and told them to get a cheque delivered to Van Dyke for five thousand dollars the next day, instantly earning Van Dyke's loyalty. After that, they got on with work. To start with, Brian played Van Dyke a melody he'd been working on, a melody based on a descending scale starting on the fourth: [Plays "Heroes and Villains" melody] Parks told Wilson that the melody reminded him vaguely of Marty Robbins' country hit "El Paso" from 1959, a song about a gunfighter, a cantina, and a dancing woman: [Excerpt: Marty Robbins, "El Paso"] Wilson said that he had been thinking along the same lines, a sort of old west story, and thought maybe it should be called "Heroes and Villains". Parks started writing, matching syllables to Wilson's pre-conceived melody -- "I've been in this town so long that back in the city I've been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long, long time" [Excerpt: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, "Heroes and Villains demo"] As Parks put it "The engine had started. It was very much ad hoc. Seat of the pants. Extemporaneous values were enforced. Not too much precommitment to ideas. Or, if so, equally pursuing propinquity." Slowly, over the next several months, while the five other Beach Boys were touring, Brian and Van Dyke refined their ideas about what the album they were writing, initially called Dumb Angel but soon retitled Smile, should be. For Van Dyke Parks it was an attempt to make music about America and American mythology. He was disgusted, as a patriot, with the Anglophilia that had swept the music industry since the arrival of the Beatles in America two and a half years earlier, particularly since that had happened so soon after the deaths both of President Kennedy and of Parks' own brother who was working for the government at the time he died. So for him, the album was about America, about Plymouth Rock, the Old West, California, and Hawaii. It would be a generally positive version of the country's myth, though it would of course also acknowledge the bloodshed on which the country had been built: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Bicycle Rider" section] As he put it later "I was dead set on centering my life on the patriotic ideal. I was a son of the American revolution, and there was blood on the tracks. Recent blood, and it was still drying. The whole record seemed like a real effort toward figuring out what Manifest Destiny was all about. We'd come as far as we could, as far as Horace Greeley told us to go. And so we looked back and tried to make sense of that great odyssey." Brian had some other ideas -- he had been studying the I Ching, and Subud, and he wanted to do something about the four classical elements, and something religious -- his ideas were generally rather unfocused at the time, and he had far more ideas than he knew what to usefully do with. But he was also happy with the idea of a piece about America, which fit in with his own interest in "Rhapsody in Blue", a piece that was about America in much the same way. "Rhapsody in Blue" was an inspiration for Brian primarily in how it weaved together variations on themes. And there are two themes that between them Brian was finding endless variations on. The first theme was a shuffling between two chords a fourth away from each other. [demonstrates G to C on guitar] Where these chords are both major, that's the sequence for "Fire": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow/Fire"] For the "Who ran the Iron Horse?" section of "Cabin Essence": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Cabinessence"] For "Vegetables": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Vegetables"] And more. Sometimes this would be the minor supertonic and dominant seventh of the key, so in C that would be Dm to G7: [Plays Dm to G7 fingerpicked] That's the "bicycle rider" chorus we heard earlier, which was part of a song known as "Roll Plymouth Rock" or "Do You Like Worms": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Bicycle Rider"] But which later became a chorus for "Heroes and Villains": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"] But that same sequence is also the beginning of "Wind Chimes": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wind Chimes"] The "wahalla loo lay" section of "Roll Plymouth Rock": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Roll Plymouth Rock"] And others, but most interestingly, the minor-key rearrangement of "You Are My Sunshine" as "You Were My Sunshine": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Were My Sunshine"] I say that's most interesting, because that provides a link to another of the major themes which Brian was wringing every drop out of, a phrase known as "How Dry I Am", because of its use under those words in an Irving Berlin song, which was a popular barbershop quartet song but is now best known as a signifier of drunkenness in Looney Tunes cartoons: [Excerpt: Daffy Duck singing "How Dry I Am" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap4MMn7LpzA ] The phrase is a common one in early twentieth century music, especially folk and country, as it's made up of notes in the pentatonic scale -- it's the fifth, first, second, and third of the scale, in that order: [demonstrates "How Dry I Am"] And so it's in the melody to "This Land is Your Land", for example, a song which is very much in the same spirit of progressive Americana in which Van Dyke Parks was thinking: [Excerpt: Woody Guthrie, "This Land is Your Land"] It's also the start of the original melody of "You Are My Sunshine": [Excerpt: Jimmie Davis, "You Are My Sunshine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvgNEU4Am8] Brian rearranged that melody when he stuck it into a minor key, so it's no longer "How Dry I Am" in the Beach Boys version, but if you play the "How Dry I Am" notes in a different rhythm, you get this: [Plays "He Gives Speeches" melody] Which is the start of the melody to "He Gives Speeches": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "He Gives Speeches"] Play those notes backwards, you get: [Plays "He Gives Speeches" melody backwards] Do that and add onto the end a passing sixth and then the tonic, and then you get: [Plays that] Which is the vocal *countermelody* in "He Gives Speeches": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "He Gives Speeches"] And also turns up in some versions of "Heroes and Villains": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains (alternate version)"] And so on. Smile was an intricate web of themes and variations, and it incorporated motifs from many sources, both the great American songbook and the R&B of Brian's youth spent listening to Johnny Otis' radio show. There were bits of "Gee" by the Crows, of "Twelfth Street Rag", and of course, given that this was Brian Wilson, bits of Phil Spector. The backing track to the verse of "Heroes and Villains": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"] Owed more than a little to a version of "Save the Last Dance For Me" that Spector had produced for Ike and Tina Turner: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "Save the Last Dance For Me"] While one version of the song “Wonderful” contained a rather out-of-place homage to Etta James and “The Wallflower”: [Excerpt: “Wonderful (Rock With Me Henry)”] As the recording continued, it became more and more obvious that the combination of these themes and variations was becoming a little too much for Brian.  Many of the songs he was working on were made up of individual modules that he was planning to splice together the way he had with "Good Vibrations", and some modules were getting moved between tracks, as he tried to structure the songs in the edit. He'd managed it with "Good Vibrations", but this was an entire album, not just a single, and it was becoming more and more difficult. David Anderle, who was heading up the record label the group were looking at starting, would talk about Brian playing him acetates with sections edited together one way, and thinking it was perfect, and obviously the correct way to put them together, the only possible way, and then hearing the same sections edited together in a different way, and thinking *that* was perfect, and obviously the correct way to put them together. But while a lot of the album was modular, there were also several complete songs with beginnings, middles, ends, and structures, even if they were in several movements. And those songs showed that if Brian could just get the other stuff right, the album could be very, very, special. There was "Heroes and Villains" itself, of course, which kept changing its structure but was still based around the same basic melody and story that Brian and Van Dyke had come up with on their first day working together. There was also "Wonderful", a beautiful, allusive, song about innocence lost and regained: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wonderful"] And there was CabinEssence, a song which referenced yet another classic song, this time "Home on the Range", to tell a story of idyllic rural life and of the industrialisation which came with westward expansion: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "CabinEssence"] The arrangement for that song inspired Van Dyke Parks to make a very astute assessment of Brian Wilson. He said later "He knew that he had to adhere to the counter-culture, and I knew that I had to. I think that he was about as estranged from it as I was.... At the same time, he didn't want to lose that kind of gauche sensibility that he had. He was doing stuff that nobody would dream of doing. You would never, for example, use one string on a banjo when you had five; it just wasn't done. But when I asked him to bring a banjo in, that's what he did. This old-style plectrum thing. One string. That's gauche." Both Parks and Wilson were both drawn to and alienated from the counterculture, but in very different ways, and their different ways of relating to the counterculture created the creative tension that makes the Smile project so interesting. Parks is fundamentally a New Deal Liberal, and was excited by the progresssive nature of the counterculture, but also rather worried about its tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and to ignore the old in pursuit of the new. He was an erudite, cultured, sophisticated man who thought that there was value to be found in the works and attitudes of the past, even as one must look to the future. He was influenced by the beat poets and the avant garde art of the time, but also said of his folk music period "A harpist would bring his harp with him and he would play and recite a story which had been passed down the generations. This particular legacy continued through Arthurian legend, and then through the Middle Ages, and even into the nineteenth century. With all these songs, half of the story was the lyrics, and the folk songs were very interesting. They were tremendously thought-driven songs; there was nothing confusing about that. Even when the Kingston Trio came out -- and Brian has already admitted his debt to the Kingston Trio -- 'Tom Dooley', the story of a murder most foul 'MTA' an urban nightmare -- all of this thought-driven music was perfectly acceptable.  It was more than a teenage romantic crisis." Brian Wilson, on the other hand, was anything *but* sophisticated. He is a simple man in the best sense of the term -- he likes what he likes, doesn't like what he doesn't like, and has no pretensions whatsoever about it. He is, at heart, a middle-class middle-American brought up in suburbia, with a taste for steaks and hamburgers, broad physical comedy, baseball, and easy listening music. Where Van Dyke Parks was talking about "thought-driven music", Wilson's music, while thoughtful, has always been driven by feelings first and foremost. Where Parks is influenced by Romantic composers like Gottschalk but is fundamentally a craftsman, a traditionalist, a mason adding his work to a cathedral whose construction started before his birth and will continue after his death, Wilson's music has none of the stylistic hallmarks of Romantic music, but in its inspiration it is absolutely Romantic -- it is the immediate emotional expression of the individual, completely unfiltered. When writing his own lyrics in later years Wilson would come up with everything from almost haiku-like lyrics like "I'm a leaf on a windy day/pretty soon I'll be blown away/How long with the wind blow?/Until I die" to "He sits behind his microphone/Johnny Carson/He speaks in such a manly tone/Johnny Carson", depending on whether at the time his prime concern was existential meaninglessness or what was on the TV. Wilson found the new counterculture exciting, but was also very aware he didn't fit in. He was developing a new group of friends, the hippest of the hip in LA counterculture circles -- the singer Danny Hutton, Mark Volman of the Turtles, the writers Michael Vosse and Jules Siegel, scenester and record executive David Anderle -- but there was always the underlying implication that at least some of these people regarded him as, to use an ableist term but one which they would probably have used, an idiot savant. That they thought of him, as his former collaborator Tony Asher would later uncharitably put it, as "a genius musician but an amateur human being". So for example when Siegel brought the great postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon to visit Brian, both men largely sat in silence, unable to speak to each other; Pynchon because he tended to be a reactive person in conversation and would wait for the other person to initiate topics of discussion, Brian because he was so intimidated by Pynchon's reputation as a great East Coast intellectual that he was largely silent for fear of making a fool of himself. It was this gaucheness, as Parks eventually put it, and Parks' understanding that this was actually a quality to be cherished and the key to Wilson's art, that eventually gave the title to the most ambitious of the complete songs the duo were working on. They had most of the song -- a song about the power of music, the concept of enlightenment, and the rise and fall of civilisations: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up"] But Parks hadn't yet quite finished the lyric. The Beach Boys had been off on tour for much of Brian and Van Dyke's collaboration, and had just got back from their first real tour of the UK, where Pet Sounds had been a smash hit, rather than the middling success it had been in the US, and "Good Vibrations" had just become their first number one single. Brian and Van Dyke played the song for Brian's brother Dennis, the Beach Boys' drummer, and the band member most in tune with Brian's musical ambitions at this time. Dennis started crying, and started talking about how the British audiences had loved their music, but had laughed at their on-stage striped-shirt uniforms. Parks couldn't tell if he was crying because of the beauty of the unfinished song, the humiliation he had suffered in Britain, or both. Dennis then asked what the name of the song was, and as Parks later put it "Although it was the most gauche factor, and although maybe Brian thought it was the most dispensable thing, I thought it was very important to continue to use the name and keep the elephant in the room -- to keep the surfing image but to sensitise it to new opportunities. One of these would be an eco-consciousness; it would be speaking about the greening of the Earth, aboriginal people, how we had treated the Indians, taking on those things and putting them into the thoughts that come with the music. That was a solution to the relevance of the group, and I wanted the group to be relevant." Van Dyke had decided on a title: "Surf's Up": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up"] As the group were now back from their tour, the focus for recording shifted from the instrumental sessions to vocal ones. Parks had often attended the instrumental sessions, as he was an accomplished musician and arranger himself, and would play on the sessions, but also wanted to learn from what Brian was doing -- he's stated later that some of his use of tuned percussion in the decades since, for example, has come from watching Brian's work. But while he was also a good singer, he was not a singer in the same style as the Beach Boys, and they certainly didn't need his presence at those sessions, so he continued to work on his lyrics, and to do his arrangement and session work for other artists, while they worked in the studio. He was also, though, starting to distance himself from Brian for other reasons. At the start of the summer, Brian's eccentricity and whimsy had seemed harmless -- indeed, the kind of thing he was doing, such as putting his piano in a sandbox so he could feel the sand with his feet while he wrote, seems very much on a par with Maureen Cleave's descriptions of John Lennon in the same period. They were two newly-rich, easily bored, young men with low attention spans and high intelligence who could become deeply depressed when understimulated and so would get new ideas into their heads, spend money on their new fads, and then quickly discard them. But as the summer wore on into autumn and winter, Brian's behaviour became more bizarre, and to Parks' eyes more distasteful. We now know that Brian was suffering a period of increasing mental ill-health, something that was probably not helped by the copious intake of cannabis and amphetamines he was using to spur his creativity, but at the time most people around him didn't realise this, and general knowledge of mental illness was even less than it is today. Brian was starting to do things like insist on holding business meetings in his swimming pool, partly because people wouldn't be able to spy on him, and partly because he thought people would be more honest if they were in the water. There were also events like the recording session where Wilson paid for several session musicians, not to play their instruments, but to be recorded while they sat in a pitch-black room and played the party game Lifeboat with Jules Siegel and several of Wilson's friends, most of whom were stoned and not really understanding what they were doing, while they got angrier and more frustrated. Alan Jardine -- who unlike the Wilson brothers, and even Mike Love to an extent, never indulged in illegal drugs -- has talked about not understanding why, in some vocal sessions, Brian would make the group crawl on their hands and knees while making noises like animals: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains Part 3 (Animals)"] As Parks delicately put it "I sensed all that was destructive, so I withdrew from those related social encounters." What this meant though was that he was unaware that not all the Beach Boys took the same attitude of complete support for the work he and Brian had been doing that Dennis Wilson -- the only other group member he'd met at this point -- took. In particular, Mike Love was not a fan of Parks' lyrics. As he said later "I called it acid alliteration. The [lyrics are] far out. But do they relate like 'Surfin' USA,' like 'Fun Fun Fun,' like 'California Girls,' like 'I Get Around'? Perhaps not! So that's the distinction. See, I'm into success. These words equal successful hit records; those words don't" Now, Love has taken a lot of heat for this over the years, and on an artistic level that's completely understandable. Parks' lyrics were, to my mind at least, the best the Beach Boys ever had -- thoughtful, intelligent, moving, at times profound, often funny, often beautiful. But, while I profoundly disagree with Love, I have a certain amount of sympathy for his position. From Love's perspective, first and foremost, this is his source of income. He was the only one of the Beach Boys to ever have had a day job -- he'd worked at his father's sheet metal company -- and didn't particularly relish the idea of going back to manual labour if the rock star gig dried up. It wasn't that he was *opposed* to art, of course -- he'd written the lyrics to "Good Vibrations", possibly the most arty rock single released to that point, hadn't he? -- but that had been *commercial* art. It had sold. Was this stuff going to sell? Was he still going to be able to feed his wife and kids? Also, up until a few months earlier he had been Brian's principal songwriting collaborator. He was *still* the most commercially successful collaborator Brian had had. From his perspective, this was a partnership, and it was being turned into a dictatorship without him having been consulted. Before, it had been "Mike, can you write some lyrics for this song about cars?", now it was "Mike, you're going to sing these lyrics about a crow uncovering a cornfield". And not only that, but Mike had not met Brian's new collaborator, but knew he was hanging round with Brian's new druggie friends. And Brian was behaving increasingly weirdly, which Mike put down to the influence of the drugs and these new friends. It can't have helped that at the same time the group's publicist, Derek Taylor, was heavily pushing the line "Brian Wilson is a genius". This was causing Brian some distress -- he didn't think of himself as a genius, and he saw the label as a burden, something it was impossible to live up to -- but was also causing friction in the group, as it seemed that their contributions were being dismissed. Again, I don't agree with Mike's position on any of this, but it is understandable. It's also the case that Mike Love is, by nature, a very assertive and gregarious person, while Brian Wilson, for all that he took control in the studio, is incredibly conflict-avoidant and sensitive. From what I know of the two men's personalities, and from things they've said, and from the session recordings that have leaked over the years, it seems entirely likely that Love will have seen himself as having reasonable criticisms, and putting them to Brian clearly with a bit of teasing to take the sting out of them; while Brian will have seen Love as mercilessly attacking and ridiculing the work that meant so much to him in a cruel and hurtful manner, and that neither will have understood at the time that that was how the other was seeing things. Love's criticisms intensified. Not of everything -- he's several times expressed admiration for "Heroes and Villains" and "Wonderful" -- but in general he was not a fan of Parks' lyrics. And his criticisms seemed to start to affect Brian. It's difficult to say what Brian thinks about Parks' lyrics, because he has a habit in interviews of saying what he thinks the interviewer wants to hear, and the whole subject of Smile became a touchy one for him for a long time, so in some interviews he has talked about how dazzlingly brilliant they are, while at other times he's seemed to agree with Love, saying they were "Van Dyke Parks lyrics", not "Beach Boys lyrics". He may well sincerely think both at the same time, or have thought both at different times. This came to a head with a session for the tag of "Cabinessence": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Cabinessence"] Love insisted on having the line "over and over the crow flies uncover the cornfield" explained to him, and Brian eventually decided to call Van Dyke Parks and have him come to the studio. Up to this point, Parks had no idea that there was anything controversial, so when Brian phoned him up and very casually said that Mike had a few questions about the lyrics, could he come down to the studio? He went without a second thought. He later said "The only person I had had any interchange with before that was Dennis, who had responded very favorably to 'Heroes and Villains' and 'Surf's Up'. Based on that, I gathered that the work would be approved. But then, with no warning whatsoever, I got that phone call from Brian. And that's when the whole house of cards came tumbling down." Parks got to the studio, where he was confronted by an angry Mike Love, insisting he explain the lyrics. Now, as will be, I hope, clear from everything I've said, Parks and Love are very, very, *very* different people. Having met both men -- albeit only in formal fan-meeting situations where they're presenting their public face -- I actually find both men very likeable, but in very different ways. Love is gregarious, a charmer, the kind of man who would make a good salesman and who people use terms like "alpha male" about. He's tall, and has a casual confidence that can easily read as arrogance, and a straightforward sense of humour that can sometimes veer into the cruel. Parks, on the other hand, is small, meticulously well-mannered and well-spoken, has a high, precise, speaking voice which probably reads as effeminate to the kind of people who use terms like "alpha male", and the kind of devastating intelligence and Southern US attention to propriety which means that if he *wanted* to say something cruel about someone, the victim would believe themselves to have been complimented until a horrific realisation two days after the event. In every way, from their politics to their attitudes to art versus commerce to their mannerisms to their appearance, Mike Love and Van Dyke Parks are utterly different people, and were never going to mix well. And Brian Wilson, who was supposed to be the collaborator for both of them, was not mediating between them, not even expressing an opinion -- his own mental problems had reached the stage where he simply couldn't deal with the conflict. Parks felt ambushed and hurt, Love felt angry, especially when Parks could not explain the literal meaning of his lyrics. Eventually Parks just said "I have no excuse, sir", and left. Parks later said "That's when I lost interest. Because basically I was taught not to be where I wasn't wanted, and I could feel I wasn't wanted. It was like I had someone else's job, which was abhorrent to me, because I don't even want my own job. It was sad, so I decided to get away quick." Parks continued collaborating with Wilson, and continued attending instrumental sessions, but it was all wheelspinning -- no significant progress was made on any songs after that point, in early December. It was becoming clear that the album wasn't going to be ready for its planned Christmas release, and it was pushed back to January, but Brian's mental health was becoming worse and worse. One example that's often cited as giving an insight into Brian's mental state at the time is his reaction to going to the cinema to see John Frankenheimer's classic science fiction horror film Seconds. Brian came in late, and the way the story is always told, when he was sat down the screen was black and a voice said from the darkness, "Hello Mr. Wilson". That moment does not seem to correspond with anything in the actual film, but he probably came in around the twenty-four minute mark, where the main character walks down a corridor, filmed in a distorted, hallucinatory manner, to be greeted: [Excerpt: Seconds, 24:00] But as Brian watched the film, primed by this, he became distressed by a number of apparent similarities to his life. The main character was going through death and rebirth, just as he felt he was. Right after the moment I just excerpted, Mr. Wilson is shown a film, and of course Brian was himself watching a film. The character goes to the beach in California, just like Brian. The character has a breakdown on a plane, just like Brian, and has to take pills to cope, and the breakdown happens right after this: [Excerpt: Seconds, from about 44:22] A studio in California? Just like where Brian spent his working days? That kind of weird coincidence can be affecting enough in a work of art when one is relatively mentally stable, but Brian was not at all stable. By this point he was profoundly paranoid -- and he may have had good reason to be. Some of Brian's friends from this time period have insisted that Brian's semi-estranged abusive father and former manager, Murry, was having private detectives watch him and his brothers to find evidence that they were using drugs. If you're in the early stages of a severe mental illness *and* you're self-medicating with illegal drugs, *and* people are actually spying on you, then that kind of coincidence becomes a lot more distressing. Brian became convinced that the film was the work of mind gangsters, probably in the pay of Phil Spector, who were trying to drive him mad and were using telepathy to spy on him. He started to bar people who had until recently been his friends from coming to sessions -- he decided that Jules Siegel's girlfriend was a witch and so Siegel was no longer welcome -- and what had been a creative process in the studio degenerated into noodling and second-guessing himself. He also, with January having come and the album still not delivered, started doing side projects,  some of which, like his production of tracks for photographer Jasper Daily, seem evidence either of his bizarre sense of humour, or of his detachment from reality, or both: [Excerpt: Jasper Daily, "Teeter Totter Love"] As 1967 drew on, things got worse and worse. Brian was by this point concentrating on just one or two tracks, but endlessly reworking elements of them. He became convinced that the track "Fire" had caused some actual fires to break out in LA, and needed to be scrapped. The January deadline came and went with no sign of the album. To add to that, the group discovered that they were owed vast amounts of unpaid royalties by Capitol records, and legal action started which meant that even were the record to be finished it might become a pawn in the legal wrangling. Parks eventually became exasperated by Brian -- he said later "I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery" -- and he quit the project altogether in February after a row with Brian. He returned a couple of weeks later out of a sense of loyalty, but quit again in April. By April, he'd been working enough with Lenny Waronker that Waronker offered him a contract with Warner Brothers as a solo artist -- partly because Warners wanted some insight into Brian Wilson's techniques as a hit-making producer. To start with, Parks released a single, to dip a toe in the water, under the pseudonym "George Washington Brown". It was a largely-instrumental cover version of Donovan's song "Colours", which Parks chose because after seeing the film Don't Look Back, a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1965 British tour, he felt saddened at the way Dylan had treated Donovan: [Excerpt: George Washington Brown, "Donovan's Colours"] That was not a hit, but it got enough positive coverage, including an ecstatic review from Richard Goldstein in the Village Voice, that Parks was given carte blanche to create the album he wanted to create, with one of the largest budgets of any album released to that date. The result was a masterpiece, and very similar to the vision of Smile that Parks had had -- an album of clever, thoroughly American music which had more to do with Charles Ives than the British Invasion: [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "The All Golden"] But Parks realised the album, titled Song Cycle, was doomed to failure when at a playback session, the head of Warner Brothers records said "Song Cycle? So where are the songs?" According to Parks, the album was only released because Jac Holzman of Elektra Records was also there, and took out his chequebook and said he'd release the album if Warners wouldn't, but it had little push, apart from some rather experimental magazine adverts which were, if anything, counterproductive. But Waronker recognised Parks' talent, and had even written into Parks' contract that Parks would be employed as a session player at scale on every session Waronker produced -- something that didn't actually happen, because Parks didn't insist on it, but which did mean Parks had a certain amount of job security. Over the next couple of years Parks and Waronker co-produced the first albums by two of their colleagues from Waronker's brains trust, with Parks arranging -- Randy Newman: [Excerpt: Randy Newman, "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"] And Ry Cooder: [Excerpt: Ry Cooder, "One Meat Ball"] Waronker would refer to himself, Parks, Cooder, and Newman as "the arts and crafts division" of Warners, and while these initial records weren't very successful, all of them would go on to bigger things. Parks would be a pioneer of music video, heading up Warners' music video department in the early seventies, and would also have a staggeringly varied career over the years, doing everything from teaming up again with the Beach Boys to play accordion on "Kokomo" to doing the string arrangements on Joanna Newsom's album Ys, collaborating with everyone from U2 to Skrillex,  discovering Rufus Wainwright, and even acting again, appearing in Twin Peaks. He also continued to make massively inventive solo albums, releasing roughly one every decade, each unique and yet all bearing the hallmarks of his idiosyncratic style. As you can imagine, he is very likely to come up again in future episodes, though we're leaving him for now. Meanwhile, the Beach Boys were floundering, and still had no album -- and now Parks was no longer working with Brian, the whole idea of Smile was scrapped. The priority was now to get a single done, and so work started on a new, finished, version of "Heroes and Villains", structured in a fairly conventional manner using elements of the Smile recordings. The group were suffering from numerous interlocking problems at this point, and everyone was stressed -- they were suing their record label, Dennis' wife had filed for divorce, Brian was having mental health problems, and Carl had been arrested for draft dodging -- though he was later able to mount a successful defence that he was a conscientious objector. Also, at some point around this time, Bruce Johnston seems to have temporarily quit the group, though this was never announced -- he doesn't seem to have been at any sessions from late May or early June through mid-September, and didn't attend the two shows they performed in that time. They were meant to have performed three shows, but even though Brian was on the board of the Monterey Pop Festival, they pulled out at the last minute, saying that they needed to deal with getting the new single finished and with Carl's draft problems. Some or all of these other issues almost certainly fed into that, but the end result was that the Beach Boys were seen to have admitted defeat, to have handed the crown of relevance off to the San Francisco groups. And even if Smile had been released, there were other releases stealing its thunder. If it had come out in December it would have been massively ahead of its time, but after the Beatles released Sgt Pepper it would have seemed like it was a cheap copy -- though Parks has always said he believes the Beatles heard some of the Smile tapes and copied elements of the recordings, though I don't hear much similarity myself. But I do hear a strong similarity in "My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius, which came out in June, and which was largely made by erstwhile collaborators of Brian -- Gary Usher produced, Glen Campbell sang lead, and Bruce Johnston sang backing vocals: [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "My World Fell Down"] Brian was very concerned after hearing that that someone *had* heard the Smile tapes, and one can understand why. When "Heroes and Villains" finally came out, it was a great single, but only made number twelve in the charts. It was fantastic, but out of step with the times, and nothing could have lived up to the hype that had built up around it: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"] Instead of Smile, the group released an album called Smiley Smile, recorded in a couple of months in Brian's home studio, with no studio musicians and no involvement from Bruce, other than the previously released singles, and with the production credited to "the Beach Boys" rather than Brian. Smiley Smile has been unfairly dismissed over the years, but it's actually an album that was ahead of its time. It's a collection of stripped down versions of Smile songs and new fragments using some of the same motifs, recorded with minimal instrumentation. Some of it is on a par with the Smile material it's based on: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wonderful"] Some is, to my ears, far more beautiful than the Smile versions: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wind Chimes"] And some has a fun goofiness which relates back to one of Brian's discarded ideas for Smile, that it be a humour album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "She's Going Bald"] The album was a commercial flop, by far the least successful thing the group had released to that point in the US, not even making the top forty when it came out in September, though it made the top ten in the UK, but interestingly it *wasn't* a critical flop, at least at first. While the scrapping of Smile had been mentioned, it still wasn't widely known, and so for example Richard Goldstein, the journalist whose glowing review of "Donovan's Colours" in the Village Voice had secured Van Dyke Parks the opportunity to make Song Cycle, gave it a review in the New York Times which is written as if Goldstein at least believes it *is* the album that had been promised all along, and he speaks of it very perceptively -- and here I'm going to quote quite extensively, because the narrative about this album has always been that it was panned from the start and made the group a laughing stock: "Smiley Smile hardly reads like a rock cantata. But there are moments in songs such as 'With Me Tonight' and 'Wonderful' that soar like sacred music. Even the songs that seem irrelevant to a rock-hymn are infused with stained-glass melodies. Wilson is a sound sculptor and his songs are all harmonious litanies to the gentle holiness of love — post-Christian, perhaps but still believing. 'Wind Chimes', the most important piece on the album, is a fine example of Brian Wilson's organic pop structure. It contains three movements. First, Wilson sets a lyric and melodic mood ("In the late afternoon, you're hung up on wind chimes"). Then he introduces a totally different scene, utilizing passages of pure, wordless harmony. His two-and-a-half minute hymn ends with a third movement in which the voices join together in an exquisite round, singing the words, "Whisperin' winds set my wind chimes a-tinklin'." The voices fade out slowly, like the bittersweet afternoon in question. The technique of montage is an important aspect of Wilson's rock cantata, since the entire album tends to flow as a single composition. Songs like 'Heroes and Villains', are fragmented by speeding up or slowing down their verses and refrains. The effect is like viewing the song through a spinning prism. Sometimes, as in 'Fall Breaks and Back to Winter' (subtitled "W. Woodpecker Symphony"), the music is tiered into contrapuntal variations on a sliver of melody. The listener is thrown into a vast musical machine of countless working gears, each spinning in its own orbit." That's a discussion of the album that I hear when I listen to Smiley Smile, and the group seem to have been artistically happy with it, at least at first. They travelled to Hawaii to record a live album (with Brian, as Bruce was still out of the picture), taking the Baldwin organ that Brian used all over Smiley Smile with them, and performed rearranged versions of their old hits in the Smiley Smile style. When the recordings proved unusable, they recreated them in the studio, with Bruce returning to the group, where he would remain, with the intention of overdubbing audience noise and releasing a faked live album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls [Lei'd studio version]"] The idea of the live album, to be called Lei'd in Hawaii, was scrapped, but that's not the kind of radical reimagining of your sound that you do if you think you've made an artistic failure. Indeed, the group's next albu

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Anexos al abecé de la música popular de Brasil en forma de compilaciones. Intervienen: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eddie Cano & Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Airto Moreira, Banda Black Rio, Azymuth, Elis Regina, Eddie Cano, Herbie Mann, Mary Wells, Louie Ramírez & His Orchestra, Velada Project y Sandsun. Escuchar audio

Anexos al abecé de la música popular de Brasil en forma de compilaciones. Intervienen: Antonio Carlos Jobim & Joâo Gilberto & Stan Getz, Joâo Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina, Jon Hendricks, Eddie Cano & Nino Tempo & Aprin Stevens, Louie Ramírez & His Orchestra, A Cor Do Som, Pepeu Gomes, Tim Maia, Marcos Valle, Maurício Maestro & Naná Vasconcelos, Rubens Bassini, Banda Black Rio, Maurício Maestro, Eliana Pittman, Cláudio Zoli, Fernanda Abreu & Herbert Vianna, Funk’n’Lata, Cassiano & Ed Motta, Leo Maia, Wilson Simoninha, Bid & Carlos Dafé, Paula Lima & Ed Motta, Ritchie y Djavan. Escuchar audio

- Opening Salvo- Rocket Morgan - Tag along [Zynn 1959] 45 rpm* Bed: Stones 2120 S. Michigan AveSet 1       You say potato I say Potatoe- Black Keys - Howlin' [Nonesuch 2010] LP - Brothers- NRBQ - Kentucky slop song [Columbia 1969] LP - NRBQ- Gil Mell'e - The Gears [Blue Note 1953] 10" LP - New Faces-New Sounds- Hot Tuna - Serpent of dreams [Grunt 1975] America's Choice* Bed: Barney Kessell - Something for cat [RCA 1961] LP - Breakfast At Tiffany'sSet 2       It's a Crazy Time we live in- Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Follow me [White Whale 1967] LP - All Strung Out- The Motorcycle Abeline - You used to drive all night [Rhino 2009] Nuggets Vol 5* Onion Radio News - A lifestyle!- Yardbirds - Tinker Tailor, Soldier Sailor [Epic 1967] 45 rpm* Rob Barth Reporting : Garage Sale- Creation - Making Time [Planet 1966] 45 rpm* Bed: Timebox - Soul SauceSet 3       Tombstone Bullets and a Ball & Chain- Bo Diddley - Cops & Robbers [Checker 1956] 45 rpm- Rolling Stones - Not fade away [Decca 1964] 45 rpm- Milt Buckner & his Beale St. Gang - Wine wine wine [Savoy 1951] 78 rpm- Kenny Burrell - Everydays [Verve 1968] LP - Blues & the Common Ground* Bed - The StargazersOver & Out- Herbie Hancock - Chamelion [Columbia 1973] LP - Headhunters

Episode 170, “Duets,” features 15 pairs of performers including Nino Tempo and April Stevens, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, The Everly Brothers, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Tony Bennett and... Read More The post Episode 170, “Duets,” appeared first on Sam Waldron.

En el año 1963 Belter tenía la distribución del sello Atlantic en España, antes de que lo hiciera Hispavox. Publicaba epés con el nombre de "Ases del rock and roll" pero en realidad lo que contenian eran Rhythm & Blues. En 1963 editaron dos elepés de título espantoso: "MUSIC FOR TEENAGERS" (VARIOS INTERPRETES) BELTER 12042 y el que repasamos hoy. Son artistas de R&B no de R&R pero entonces no sabíamos muy bien lo que era cada cosa. Es cierto que ya se estaban celebrando las matinales del Price donde había rock and roll y que en 1958 Marietta dió a conocer el primer tema español del género. Los que pitaban entonces eran Los Teen Tops (ya sin Enrique Guzman) y Los Llopis. No busqueis los discos en Discogs porque no están, eran producción española de Belter. En la epoca se despreciaban (y luego también). Os pongo un vinilo español original, de la época, sin masterizar, en mono. Suena muy bien. Tiene fritaje en algunos momentos, pero así es como lo conocimos. El segundo elepé es el que repasamos hoy. Fue: 13 FAMOSOS PARA 16 EXITOS (VARIOS INTÉRPRETES) BELTER 12044 (1963) (Corte.- Titulo INTÉRPRETE) A1.- Irresistible You BOBBY DARIN A2.- Voodoo Voodoo LA VERN BAKER A3.- Mary Ann RAY CHARLES A4.- Besame Mucho KING CURTIS A5.- The Beginning Of The Time BEN E KING A6.- Lucky Lips RUTH BROWN A7.- Que Sera, Sera THE HIGH KEYES A8.- The Shake KING CURTIS B1.- Stand By Me BEN E KING B2.- Moanin' ADA LEE B3.- Beachcomber BOBBY DARIN B4.- For You CARLA THOMAS B5.- Hallelujah I Love Her So RAY CHARLES B6.- On Broadway THE DRIFTERS B7.- Baby Weemus APRIL STEVENS & NINO TEMPO B8.- Hello Stranger BARBARA LEWIS El resto de la semana tendremos cuatro dias de Soul con Atlantic-Stax-Hispavox. Escuchar audio

We are so excited about this nu Gruve Blue . . . we can't speak . . . so we'll let DJZZ do that for us . . . ENJOY ! !  --- WAGRadio Management 1.  (1:10)  Opening G.B. 21-02 2.  (4:55)  "The Night The Lights Went Out" vs. "What U Need" [DJZigZag MashEdiT] - SGT SLICK, JONK & SPOOK [Vicious Recordings] / [SJS Records] 3.  (  :44)  WAGRadio Ain't No GreatKooKaBooGa Id 4.  (2:54)  "I Had A Dream" - RAY CHARLES [Atlantic 45rpm No. 45-1180] 1958 5.  (4:31)  "I Feel Good" vs. "First Pay" [DJZigZag MashEdit] - James Brown, Sam Redmore, Alexny [soundcloud] / [Furious Mandrill Records] 6.  (  :08)  WAGRadio Short Music segue 7.  (3:05)  "Spiritual Vibes 2021" - ROYAL MUSIC PARIS [Royal Music Paris] 8.  (2:44)  "Early In The Morning" - RAY CHARLES And His Orchestra [Atlantic 45rpm No. 45-2094] 1961 9.  (5:13)  "Grey Area" - CINDY BRADLEY [Trippin' 'N' Rhythm Cd No. BO7PVV6ZCG "The Little Things"] 10.(2:49)  "Heaven" - PINK SWEATS [Atlantic] 11.(  :13)  DJZigZag Cold FX 12.(5:52)  "Sugar Jam" - C. Da AFRO [Hive] 13.(5:20)  "Flower Girl (DJZigZag MashEdiT)" - RUBEN YOUNG, RED AXES [Create Music Group] / [K7] 14.(4:04)  "Bitter Sweet" - SKINNY HIGHTOWER [Trippin' 'N' Rhythm Cd No. BO82VRL4T2 "Blue Moon"] 15.(4:27)  "My Heart Beat A Little Bit Faster" - DARLENE LOVE [Philles Records No. 111] Prod. Phil Spector Arr. Jack Nitzsche 16.(  :32)  WAGRadio Gentlemen Id 17.(3:37)  "Rainy Days" vs. "Treasure Mind" (DJZigZag ZAM! MashEdiT) - MARSHALL, YAZID LE VOYAGEUR, GROOVENERD [Black Riot] / [Zero Eleven] 18.(1:39)  "Nino And Sonny (Big Trouble)" - DARLENE LOVE [Philles Records No. 117] Prod./Arr. Phil Spector * This "B" side instrumental is performed by the L.A. Studio group The Wrecking Crew ft. Nino Tempo and Sonny Bono 19.(5:07)  "Back To You" vs. "Back To You" [DJZigZag Self Glidin' EdiT] - CHRIS BROWN, O.T. GENASIS, CHARLIE WILSON, LOUIS TOMLINSON ft. BEBE REXHA & DIGITAL FARM ANIMALS [Atlantic] / [Sony] 20.(2:43)  "Soul Grooving" - MERL SAUNDERS QUINTET [Galaxy 45rpm No. 755]  1969 Arr. Ray Shanklin 21.(4:38)  "Faux Francais" vs. "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" - CLASSMATIC, JAMIEXX, POPCAAN, YOUNG THUG [Solid Grooves Raw] / [Young Turks] 22.(  :08)  WAGRadio Smell 'Dat DJZZ! Id 23.(3:53)  "Got Ya Money (DJZigZag When It All Go Down EdiT)" - MARSHALL, KID SHIBUYA [Black Riot] 24.(2:54)  "Somebody Told You" - ANNA KING [Smash 45rpm No. 1858] 1964 Prod. James Brown 25.(5:56)  "No More Sorrow (DJZigZag James Brown Organ EdiT of the Sevader Remix)" - YOLANDA BE COOL [Sweat It Out] 26.(1:29)  "Weed Brain (Segment)" - SKILLIBENG [Renegade Wreck Chords] 79:33

Last G.B. of the year that we all wish should have been different but unfortunately wasn't. Let's all cross our well-washed fingers and hope that the worst is near over. Here's Groovin' Blue 12 - 20 which is a gem of a show.  Enjoy ! 1.  (  :51)  WAGRadio G.B. 20-12 Intro 2.  (3:31)  "Turn Me Up (DJZigZag East Van Cher EdiT Pt. One)" - DJ MARK BRICKMAN [Midnight Riot] 3.  (1:08)  WAGRadio G.B. 18-01 Intro Revisit 4.  (3:14)  "Shake A Hand" - RUTH BROWN [Phillips 45rpm No. 40028] 1962 5.  (6:49)  "The Chase" Vs "Hit Da Spot" - MOODENA, PER QX [Tropical Disco] / [Walk Of Shame] 6.  (  :47)  Stereo explained . . . 7.  (  :27)  "The Real Nitty Gritty (Short Segment)" - SHIRLEY ELLIS with The Hutch Davie Orch. & Chorus [Congress 45rpm No. CG-202] 1962 Prod. Hutch Davie 8.  (2:58)  "Baila Conmigo (DJZigZag Stanky Leg EdiT)" - HOTMOOD [Tropical Disco] 9.  (2:22)  "Windy Cream) - CHUBBY CHECKER [Buddah 45rpm No. BDA 100] 1969 Prod. John Madera Arr. Tom Sellers 10.(3:05)  "Dynamite" - 6IX [Stone Flower 45rpm No. 45-9002 Promo] 1970 Prod. Sly Stone 11.(3:52)  "Got Ya Money (DJZigZag When It All Go Down EdiT)" - MARSHALL, KID SHIBUYA [Midnight Riot] 12.(  :13)  DJZZ Id 13.(2:39)  "You Can Make It If You Try" - YVONNE FAIR & THE JAMES BROWN BAND [King 45rpm No. 5687] 1962 A James Brown Production 14.(  :33)  WAGRadio Sex Machine Id 15.(5:52)  "Black Scandal (DJZigZag What He Gon' Do? EdiT)" - MARKOSSA [Whore House] 16.(1:12)  WAGRadio 2020 Retro Id 17.(1:39)  "Nino And Sonny (Big Trouble)" - DARLENE LOVE [Philles Records No. PH117] 1963 * B-Side of "A Fine Fine Boy" (references Nino Tempo and Sonny Bono of the Wrecking Crew) 18.(  :15)  Keep Kool Vox 19.(5:30)  "Do My Thang (BoogieKnights Club Mix) Vs Cubafro (Peppe Citarella World Latin Mix) [DJZigZag MashEdiT Pt. One]" - KUHL KUHL, LOKKHI TERRA, DELE SOSIMI, KYRO, BOOGIEKNIGHTS [Circa Trax] / [Mo Black] 20.(  :05)  WAGRadio Rollin' Id 21.(4:12)  "Control (DJZigZag Self Glidin' EdiT)" - AUSTIN ATO, LAVILLE [Lumberjacks In Hell] 22.(  :11)  WAGRadio Id 23.(3:28)  "Are You Lonely" - SISTERS LOVE [A&M Records 45rpm No. 1259-S Promo] 1971 24.(  :21)  Needless Vox Segue 25.(4:57)  "Love Is Here" - THE FUTURES [Gamble 45rpm No. ZS7 2502] 1972 Prod. Gamble-Huff Arr. Vince Montana 26.(3:55)  "Do My Thang (BoogieKnights Club Mix)" Vs "Cubafro (Peppe Citarella World Latin Mix)" [DJZigZag MashEdit Pt. Two]" - KUHL KUHL, LOKKHI TERRA, DELE SOSIMI, KYRO, BOOGIEKNIGHTS [Circa Trax] / [Mo Black] 27.(  :13)  R U Mess'un Vox 28.(2:35)  "Welcome 2 LA Vs James Brown [DJZigZag Smokey Watts MashEdiT]" - SCIPIO & KARUPT, AD, ERIC BELLANGER, SNBRN, MALCOLM ANTHONY, ANTHONY ISAIAH 29.(3:38)  "It's Too Late" - WOODY HERMAN [Fantasy Ep No. WH-1 "Fat Man" Promo] 1973 30.(10:07)"Show You The Way To Go (1976 Disco Purrfection Version Soul Club Classic)" - THE JACKSONS [DJ Disco Cat] 79:36  

Episode 008: Eight Shattered Ornaments01 The Rolling Stones - Cosmic Christmas (UK 1967) This unlisted track ends the first side of The Stones' sole psychedelic effort.02 Claudine Longet - I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You (France 1967) Thanks to our friends at RPM International for contributing this fantastic Christmas love song by France's soft-voiced starlet.  This single only offering is a sparkly pop wonder with pristine production typical of the time.  03 The Rotary Connection - Christmas Child (US 1968) Minnie Riperton and company offer this groovy holiday original written by producer Charles Stepney, taken from their 1968 Christmas album Peace.  A combination of soulful takes on classics and originals make it a perfect soundtrack to the season.04 Twice As Much & Vashti Bunyan - Coldest Night of the Year (UK 1968) This British duo of Dave Skinner and Andrew Rose recorded two albums for Immediate records of which this classic wintry tune graces their second.  Originally by Nino Tempo and April Stevens, the duo teamed up with folk chanteuse Vashti Bunyan during per pop singer days to produce their version of this perfect pop nugget.  05 The Chamber Brothers - Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (US 1969) Along with Sly Stone, the Brothers Chamber were one of the first bands to send psychedelic soul to the pop charts.  This single only offering is indebted to the aforementioned legend, combining his trademark fuzz guitar groove with rotating lead vocals into a psych-funk holiday workout.06 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Rain, Sleet, Snow (US 1967 - Mono Mix) A fuzz-laden holiday banger from one of America's  greatest garage pop successes, this ode to the pangs of working for the US Postal Service  during the holiday season is taken from their 1967 Christmas LP.07 The Majority - All Our Christmases (UK 1968) Beginning life as Majority One, these British lads laid down many a fine single as well as a stellar LP during their brief two year career.  This waltzy number shows a strong Hollies harmony pop influence.08 Wild Silk - Toymaker (UK 1969) Mysteriously released as Basil in the US, this UK obscurity is a classic example of toytown psychedelia.  Thought not explicitly about Christmas, there is only one night of the year in which this toymaker must frantically work to meet his deadline.  The band released four singles of fine UK pop over their two year existence.09 Saturday's Children - Christmas Sounds (US 1966) A sweet holiday pop number by this Chicago area band who recorded three singles for the Dunwich label from 1966 to 1967 before calling it quits.10 Bee Gees - First of May (UK 1969) The Australian brothers' 1969 concept album Odessa shows a band in flux from their Beatle-esque pop-psych era into more orchestrated pop territory before finding their true calling with soul and funk-rock in the 70's.  This beautiful number tells the heartbreaking tale of lost love using Christmas trees as a metaphor.  11 Robin Gibb - Lord Bless All (UK 1970) During the brief time that this brother Gibb left The Bee Gees due to lead vocal disputes, he recorded a solo LP that proved years ahead of its time.  Though not the most consistent set, it showed some of the earliest drum machine experiments in rock.  This gorgeous track washed in reverb showcases what Robin would have continued to experiment with had he not returned back to his original band later in the year,12 Simon & Garfunkel - 7 ‘O Clock News/Silent Night (US 1966 - Mono Mix) We end things with this somber take on a holiday classic by the masters of folk-rock.  This striking rendition closes their classic Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme album.

Terry Knight - Saint Paul (Paul is Dead) (1969) The Fabulous Pack (Grand Funk) - Harlem Shuffle (1967)  Terry Knight & The Pack - This Precious Time (1966) Gilbert Neal - Eve of Destruction (2016) P F Sloan - This Precious Time (1965) Barry McGuire - Secret Saucer Man (1968) Barry McGuire and the Doctor - South of the Border (1970) Barry McGuire -  Too Much City (1970)  Barry McGuire - Cosmic Cowboy (1978) Barry McGuire - Love Is (1973) Cindy & Bert - Hund von Baskerville (Paranoid) (1971) Cindy & Bert - Im Fieber Der Nacht (You're The One That I Want) (1979) Vicky Leandro - L'amour Est Bleu (Love Is Blue) (1967) Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles (1979) Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run On Time (1981) The Human League - Being Boiled (1978) Hey, aren't they that fun band that did "Don't You Want Me" and "Fascination"? Cool! Another hit. Let's listen... Oh.... Orange Colored Sky - Mr. Peacock (1969) Adam West - Miranda (1966)  Albert Finney - Those Over Men (1977) Dennis Wilson - River Song (1977) Elephants Memory - Crossroads of the Stepping Stones (1969) Geronimo Black - Low Ridin' Man/Siesta (1972)  Leonard Nimoy - Highly Illogical (1966) Nino Tempo and April Stevens - Love Story (1972) Marsha Hunt - Not The Beast Day (1973)

In an episode first aired December 4, 2017: DJ Andrew Sandoval presents VOLUME 3 of Come To The Wintertime - 40 seasonal sounds from the sixties, including music by The Hep Stars; Zion DeGallier; Chris & Peter Allen; Ronny & The Daytonas; The Boys Next Door; The Beach Boys; The Happenings; Margo Guryan; The Royal Guardsman, The Brothers; Cream; Bobby Goldsboro; Brian Hyland; The Wailers; Saturday's Children; Bob Morrison; Sagittarius; The 4 Seasons; The Knickerbockers; The American Revolution; The Soul Survivors; Society's Children; The Household; The Chicago Loop; Nino Tempo & April Stevens; Fountain Of Youth; Harpers Bizarre; The Cryan' Shames; Simon & Garfunkel; Benjamin Carry Ltd.; Jan & Lorraine; Toast; The Eighth Day; The Tokens; Winston's Fumbs; The Blades Of Grass; The Roman Rebellion; The Barracuda; Attic Sounds; The Iveys; The Ronettes; Beverly & Cary Grant. A full playlist is available here: http://cometothesunshine.com/playlists-show124/

“Across State Lines” Across State Lines! What does it mean? I don't know, but what we do know is that tons of great music is rolling out this afternoon! New Black Keys and Beck,who originally recorded ‘It Ain't me Babe?” Adam Ant, Nino Tempo, and April Stevens doing a beauty – Deep Purple. Strumbellas doing Salvation, Tegan and Sarah and mucho mas! Do you know anyone in West Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming, or Rhode Island? These are the only states not listening. Bummer! Music starts early this afternoon, so join us early; or because we are always ready on-demand, listen when you want! Remember all shows are available at  RadioWilder.com (https://radiowilder.com/)  or on your Itunes Podcast player, or other favorite players like Spotify! Thanks for listening and your musical contributions! Have fun this weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all our moms!!! Harry and the Wilder Bunch!

Tras una interesante charla Larrea&Flores's style, Héctor le presentó a Bobby una versión de Milonga del trovador, del cantante Jairo junto a la Orquesta Juvenil de Costa Rica, país en donde el argentino es profundamente admirado. Asimismo, en Mirá lo que te traje, el tributo jazzero del vocalista norteamericano José James a su coterraneo, el gran cantautor Bill Whiters; la voz de Julio Cortázar y algunos de sus extraordinarios cuentos breves; el neoyorquino Nino Tempo y un material pionero en música disco; la italiana Mina y un clásico del cancionero de su país; y el jazz cubano de la mano de Ramón Mongo Santamaría!  

There are very few acts in pop music who have covered such a wide spectrum of styles as this duo. From April's early, highly influential hits with Henri René, and Nino's appearance with Benny Goodman onstage at 7 years old (!), to his recent appearance at Carnegie Hall--there have been masterful forays into rock and roll, jazz, latin sounds, rhythm and blues, sweet harmonies, lush, expansive ballads...

 There are very few acts in pop music who have covered such a wide spectrum of styles as this duo. From April's early, highly influential hits with Henri René, and Nino's appearance with Benny Goodman onstage at 7 years old (!), to his recent appearance at Carnegie Hall--there have been masterful forays into rock and roll, jazz, latin sounds, rhythm and blues, sweet harmonies, lush, expansive ballads...In fact, it seems they set out to leave no stone unturned as they explored different sonic solutions to the age old problem of 'putting their message across' in song. Carol and Anthony LoTempio were born in Niagara Falls, NY. They took the Grammy® for Best Rock & Roll Song in 1963.  And, on October 26, 1999, they were inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in Buffalo, NY:  a fitting tribute to two of pop music's most versatile and durable adventurers. They seem to have been born to create music. Explore, and discover some of the many roads their musical wanderlust has taken them. Today, Nino has a hit, a remastered CD album. Listen here to Amazon River his new release with April Stevens. 

In an episode first aired December 4, 2017: DJ Andrew Sandoval presents VOLUME 3 of Come To The Wintertime - 40 seasonal sounds from the sixties, including music by The Hep Stars; Zion DeGallier; Chris & Peter Allen; Ronny & The Daytonas; The Boys Next Door; The Beach Boys; The Happenings; Margo Guryan; The Royal Guardsman, The Brothers; Cream; Bobby Goldsboro; Brian Hyland; The Wailers; Saturday's Children; Bob Morrison; Sagittarius; The 4 Seasons; The Knickerbockers; The American Revolution; The Soul Survivors; Society's Children; The Household; The Chicago Loop; Nino Tempo & April Stevens; Fountain Of Youth; Harpers Bizarre; The Cryan' Shames; Simon & Garfunkel; Benjamin Carry Ltd.; Jan & Lorraine; Toast; The Eighth Day; The Tokens; Winston's Fumbs; The Blades Of Grass; The Roman Rebellion; The Barracuda; Attic Sounds; The Iveys; The Ronettes; Beverly & Cary Grant.

On Target is back! Still displaced due to rennovations but we WILL broadcast come Hell or high water. You cannot stop the signal. Enjoy this brand new show! Please like the Facebook page here: facebook.com/ontargetpodcast/ ------------------------------------------------- The Playlist Is: "Do It One More Time (The Twine)" Alvin Cash & The Crawlers - Mar-V-Lus "Monkey Talk" Little Stevie Wonder - Tamla "Go Go Shoes" Lonnie Youngblood - Fairmount "Something Right Here" The Paper Dolls - Pye "A Little Bit For Sandy" Paul Peterson - Tamla-Motown "Driving Wheel" Roy Head - Back Beat "Leavin' Here" Jimmy Hanna with The Dynamics - Seafare Bolo "Lover Lover" The Quid - Eagle "Understanding" The Small Faces - Decca "She Won't Come Back" The Hesitations - Kapp "Gone With The Wind Is My Love" Rita & The Tiaras - Kent Select "You Didn't Say A Word" Yvonne Baker - Parkway "Are You Sure" The Staple Singers - Epic "Don't Say Maybe Baby" The Capitols - Karen "Can You Jerk Like Me" The Contours - Gordy "Do You Love Me" Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - Decca "The Tracker" The Sir Douglas Quintet - Tribe "You Look Good Together" The Bats - Parrot "Why Worry" Aaron Neville - Par Lo "Ready, Steady Go" Prince & Princess - Bell "Sister James" Nino Tempo & The 5th Ave. Sax - A&M

Voici le cent-neuvième opus d'"En cadence", une émission mensuelle consacrée aux grands thèmes éternels de la musique populaire : l'amour, les voyages, les filles, le karaoké ou les brocolis.Sonnons aujourd'hui l'alerte pour les amateurs d'aérophones à anches car notre prochaine heure va vous bourdonner dans les oreilles comme des accrocheurs acouphènes : une petite session détente sous les résonances cosmiques des cornemuses.Liste des morceaux :01. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - East Hastings (intro)02. Cromagnon - Caledonia03. Pink Floyd - Chapter 2404. Neutral Milk Hotel - Untitled05. Laurie Anderson - Sweaters06. Rufus Harley - Gods and Goddesses07. Paul Dunmall - Shawbaccandsied08. Harry - Soldiers (Bagpipe mix)09. John Cale - (I Keep A) Close Watch10. The Church - Under the Milky Way11. Kate Bush - The Sensual World12. Parliament - The Silent Boatman13. The Pogues - The Old Main Drag14. The White Stripes - Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn15. Nino Tempo & April Stevens - I Love How You Love Me16. Belle & Sebastian - Sleep the Clock Around Écouter

La familia Tempo se traslada a California para promover los interéses musicales de sus hijos. April graba dos sencillos más para pequeñas casas discográficas pero no sucede nada. En 1950, April firma contrato con la RCA Victor Records y graba una canción de 1924, de la inspiración de Cole Porter “I'm in Love Again” que se convierte en un éxito en julio de 1951. Entre tanto, Nino inició una carrera como músico de sesión tocando el saxofón y, de manera eventual, componía y hacía arreglos musicales para otros artistas de la talla de Resemary Clooney, Steve Lawrence y Eydie Gormé. Alternaba esas actividades tocando en big bands. En 1954 participa en la película The Glenn Miller History, interpretando el papel de Benny Goodman. A finales de los años ciencuenta, estaba empezando a grabar discos con su propio nombre. El LP Rock & Roll Beach Party apareció bajo el sello Liberty Records en 1958, el mismo año en que apareció el sencillo “15 Girls Friends” para la marca RCA Victor.

In an episode first aired August 9, 2010: DJ Andrew Sandoval spins selections by Tages, Buffalo Springfield, The Buckinghams, Boyce & Hart, The Grass Roots, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, The Beach Boys, Alan Price, The Monkees, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, The Walker Brothers, The Searchers & The Mindbenders. He also profiles the '60s songwriting talents of Alex Spyropoulos & Patrick Campbell-Lyons, who wrote songs covered by Sue & Sunny, Hat & Tie, The Smoke, David Tennyson, The Alan Bown, Herman's Hermits & The Everly Brothers. They also fronted the orchestral pop band, Nirvana, who had a wonderful UK hit and made so many worthwhile records, all of which are explored in this episode.

In an episode first aired June 12, 2017: DJ Andrew Sandoval spotlights the songs of Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, with rare selections by Max Frost & The Troopers; The Stained Glass; Barry Mann; Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay; Del Shannon; Keith Allison; Chad & Jeremy; Dave Berry; The Paris Sisters; The Ronettes; Nino Tempo & April Stevens; The Executives; The Lovin’ Spoonful; The Crystals; Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders; The Beach Boys; The Everly Brothers; Twice As Much with Vashti; Harper's Bizarre; Bergen White; Barry Gordon; The Monkees; Dusty Springfield; Neil McArthur; The Animals; The Shadows; Bruce & Terry; The Dave Clark Five; The New Dawn; Mama Cass; Lulu; Herman's Hermits; The Fortunes; Nancy Priddy; The Will-o-bees

Yes, it’s the long awaited return of our cut-out-and-keep Rainbow Collection with the almost last show in the series. As we approach the end of the visible spectrum, we arrive at plumptious purple, with a show of fake 80s, very … Continue reading →

This Halloween beware as sinister Angel Baby and Igor-like Doctor Nod emerge from their mausoleum to conjure up hellbound trains, ghostly seances, devilish nightmares, obsessive British gentlemen, vampire women, morbid loves and tortured manimals. Theme from Jack The Ripper film – Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra – RCA / Hell Train – Stuart Hamblen – RCA / Inferno – Johnny C. & The Blaze’s – Chattahoochee / I'm A Devil – Satan & Satan's Roses – Sable / Ghost Of The Monks – Wm. Penn & The Quakers – Twilight / Spooks! – Louis Armstrong and Gordon Jenkins – Decca / Séance – The Ebb-Tides – Jar / Theme From Nightmare – Count Gregore & The Transylvanians – Nightmare / Nightmare – Johnny Worth – Oriole / Nightmare – Norma Dragoo – Custom Sound / Jack The Ripper – Nino Tempo with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra – RCA / Big Fat Spider – Heinz with The Wild Boys – Columbia Great Britain / Carry On Screaming – Boz – Capitol / Dracula’s Daughter – Screaming “Lord” Sutch – Oriole / The Vampire – Joe Tucker with Bill Fontaine Orchestra – RKO Unique / Satan’s Daughter – Gene Davis – King / Wearing Black (Part 1) – Mark Alamo – Bonded / The Vulture Song – Lincoln Chase – RCA / Count Macabre – Connoissurs, vocal: Frankie Rodosta – M-P / Wolfman – The Muleskinners – Soma / Boogie Man (I Ain’t Afraid Of You) – Dick St. John, Don Ralke Orchestra – Rona / Uncle Willy – The Dynamics – Saa-ce / Night Of The Werewolf – Lee Kristofferson – Thrust

This week we jammed to some Franco Altissimi, King Tubby, Sade, Lady Gaga, Julian Lennon, Mayer Hawthorne, Van Morrison, Gabor Szabo, The Pete Jolly Trio, Nino Tempo and Eddie Cano, and we finish it off with a beautiful song by Steven Gatto. We hope you dig it.  iTunes: http://bit.ly/Hg2RdKFacebook: http://on.fb.me/IzhiJVEmail us at MusicFirstPodcast@gmail.com

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we discuss actors turned singers. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Sebadoh, Mind Spiders and Diarrhea Planet. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - John Travolta's music career was dragged out over three albums - "All Strung Out on You" could've been a Velvet Underground outtake - Co-writer Nino Tempo had an illustrious acting career as an extra - Burt Reynolds made an album in '73 - Burt reads from his childhood diary - Ric serves up crap on my podcast, not his - Adam West's novelty record - Other actors who made albums: Telly Savalas, Ted Knight - Plenty of musicians who became actors: Kris Kristofferson, Jagger, Bowie - Mark Wahlberg and Justin Timberlake have done well as actors - Actors turned musicians: Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, Keanu Reeves, Russell Crowe, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson - Rick James produced Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" - Eddie had already moved from comedian to movie star - In "Boogie Nights," Dirk Diggler thinks he's got musical talent - Murphy and Michael Jackson teamed up in '93's "Whatzupwitu" - Corey Feldman's musical aspirations - Ric's list of actresses who shouldn't make records - Jodie Foster made an album when she was a kid - Bonehead of the Week Music: Sebadoh - State of Mine Mind Spiders - Make Make Make Make Diarrhea Planet - Separations Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Sebadoh song is on the forthcoming album Defend Yourself on Joyful Noise Recordings. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Mind Spiders song is on the forthcoming album Inhumanistic on Dirtnap Records. Download the song for free at LargeheartedBoy. The Diarrhea Planet song is on the album I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams on Infinity Cat Recordings. Download the song for free at Amazon MP3. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Your host for this edition is Richard RodgersIt is entitled Yes!The ContentFirst Sequence:Django Reinhardt - I'll See You in My DreamsPatrick et son Orchestre - Black Panther StompPhilippe Brun & His Swing Band - Bouncin' AroundRay Ventura et ses Collégiens - Un sourire en chantantStéphane Grappelli & His Hot Four - I've Found a New BabySecond Sequence:Ricky Nelson - Milk Cow BluesThe Green River Boys - Poor Boy Looking for a HomeBob Luman - Make Up Your Mind, BabyJames Burton - Rock and RaunchThe Shindogs - Someday, SomedayThird Sequence:Bessie Smith - I'm Wild About That ThingJoe Venuti's Blue Four - Runnin' RaggedEddie Lang - Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac TimePaul Whiteman & His Orchestra (Bing Crosby, voc.) - If I Had a Talking Picture of YouLonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn - Have to Change Keys to Play These BluesFourth Sequence:M.F.Q. - Night Time GirlTommy Tedesco - Our Day Will ComeNino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep PurpleThe Sandpipers - Things We Said TodayGary Lewis & The Playboys - Sure Gonna Miss HerSummation:Charlie Christian - Stompin' at the Savoy (live)

In an episode first aired January 28, 2013, host Andrew Sandoval presents the eighty-third edition of "Come To The Sunshine." This program features a wonderful selection of singles in part one by Declaration Of Independence, Bob Dileo, Jimmy Boyd, The Sky, Christopher Robin, The Playground, The Girls From Petticoat Junction, Del Shannon, Peggy Lee, The Vogues, Tommy Roe, Mojo, Brewer And Brewer, Sonny Curtis and The Exception. Part two features an album on the masterful 1968 debut album by Colours in MONO (a mix that is unavailable on CD) and the show further surveys the work of Colours songwriting duo: Jack Dalton & Gary Montgomery. Sandoval spins some of their rare covers (as well as original demos) as performed by The Dalton Boys, Young Canadians, James Fleming, Dalton & Montgomery, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, The Moon, The Committee, The Peppermint Trolley Company, Harper & Rowe and sort of The Outsiders. A fully playlist of this show is available at http://www.cometothesunshine.com/id120.html

In an episode first aired on September 10, 2012, host Andrew Sandoval celebrates the sixth anniversary of his sixties inspired radio program with a two-hour selection of favorite tracks and rarities by: Grapefruit; The Searchers; Harmony Grass; The Beach Boys; The Zombies; Chad & Jeremy; The Peppermint Trolley Co.; Dion & The Belmonts; The Canterbury Music Festival; Nino Tempo & April Stevens; The Byrds; Gary Lewis; Del Shannon; Sandy Salisbury; Harry Nilsson; George Harrison; Simon & Garfunkel; Sonny Bono; The Kinks; The Beatles; Twice As Much; Billy Nicholls; The Turtles; Pete Dello; The Bee Gees; The Millennium; West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band; Love; Buffalo Springfield; Sal Valentino; Peter & Gordon; Phil Ochs; The Bonzo Dog Band; Bill Fay; Tin Tin; Dino, Desi & Billy; Dusty Springfield; Denny Laine; The Hollies; The Everly Brothers.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of "Come To The Sunshine," a Special HOT 100 list was compiled from some of the 3,018 unique songs by 837 artists that the show has played since 2006. How many songs each artist accrued with multiple plays and how many total times they appeared on the program defined their final chart position. In the first hour of the broadcast, host Andrew Sandoval counts down artist and songs 100 through 80. These include Van Dyke Parks, the Zombies, Harmony Grass, the Ballroom, Linzer & Randell, Don Grady, Sasha caro, Traffic, Sandy Salisbury, Raintree Minority, Mark Eric, Sagittarius, the Action, Graham Gouldman, the Picadilly Line, Denny Laine, Twice As Much, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Les Irresistibles (Arch Of Triumph), the Montage and Fairchilds. The full show is available in five parts. This episode is part one of five.

In the final show of series 8, "Come To The Sunshine" #70, Andrew Sandoval spins a selection of rare vinyl singles by Tristen Schell, The Sundowners, Pasty Fuller, The Forum, Los Angeles, World Of Oz., Group Therapy, The Silver Eagle, Ray Chafin, Cyril Hargrove, The San Francisco Earthquakes, Warm Sounds, International Submarine Band, The Poor, Tim Andrews, Johnny Walsh, Sandy Salisbury, The Lollipop Fantasy, Fire And Brimstone and The Young Idea.  Hour two brings you an album spotlight on Nino Tempo & April Stevens 1967 "All Strung Out" LP in MONO (a mix unavailable on CD). If you've never heard this wonderful album, which mixes Spectorian Wall Of Sound production with great songs by David Gates, Dalton & Montgomery, Jerry Riopelle and the unmistakable voices of Nino & April, then you are in for a treat.  Much like the lyrically bizarre "All Strung Out" (which employs heroin references as analogy for falling love - quite intense for 1966 - if you don't believe me check out this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ogtsaXmxK0), Andrew spins Nino's classic "Pet Sounds" level masterpiece, "Boys Town (Where My Broken Hearted Buddies Go)" kind of a less oblique "See My Friends." Also, their 1972 MGM release, "Makin' Love To Rainbow Colors," is a poppy, LSD novelty born too late. Not forgetting their visionary bagpipe-folk-rock take on "I Love How You Love Me." Don't forget to join our facebook group or follow us on twitter@cometothesun. Thanks for listening,  Andrew Sandovalwww.cometothesunshine.com