Podcast appearances and mentions of sanford clark

Justin and Bec put on their sombreros, pour margaritas and head South of the border for an exploration of the January 1963 movie soundtrack sessions that gave us the "Fun in Acapulco" album. With its unusual genre stylings that evoked more Latin-flavored stylings, traditional Mexican songs and the whole Acapulco nightclub destination scene of the early 1960s, "Fun in Acapulco" offered Elvis Presley a chance to dabbled in the types of songs he might never have otherwise done but takes the challenge head on, such as "Guadalajara," "Marguerita" and "Vino, Dinero Y Amor." Of course, while they touch on the iconic "Bossa Nova Baby," a cover of a Leiber/Stoller-penned hit originally for The Clovers, and ponder what on earth happened to "Mexico" on the original album, the duo also briefly glimpse the extensive careers of some of the unique musicians who helped Elvis nail the tone (such as The Four Amigos), as well discuss a few ways Fun in Acapulco has popped up in pop culture.  For Song of the Week, Bec takes it light and breezy with the bluesy "Hard Luck" from "Frankie and Johnny" while Justin gives a little love to Lee Hazlewood's "The Fool," originally a hit for Sanford Clark but surfacing both as a home recording by Elvis and eventually on the "Elvis Country" album. Note: We recorded this episode just before the "Sunset Boulevard" box set news dropped, before seeing Riley Keough's "In Process" short film and a few other news tidbits that cropped up, which we'll tackle all on the next episode! If you enjoy TCBCast, please consider supporting us with a donation at Patreon.com/TCBCast. Your support allows us to continue to provide thoughtful, provocative, challenging and well-researched perspectives on Elvis's career, his peers and influences, and his cultural impact and legacy.

751. There's gonna be a rockin' party to-nite! Fun in the sun was never like this! Crank up your wireless and bask in the warm n' lively sounds of the Aztec Werewolf™, DJ Del Villarreal and his Tuesday nite record hop/platter party: "Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show!" LIVE from the Motorbilly Studios! Grab a plate and dig into the latest selections from Linda Gail Lewis (The "Sister Killer"!?!), Bloodshot Bill, Chris Casello, Mama's Hot Sauce, Dixie Fried, The Reverend Horton Heat, Sugar Mama's Revenge, The Low Life Drifters, The Boss Martians, Jittery Jack & Amy Griffin, JD McPherson, The Caesars and The Jerrells, too! You can always go back for seconds and sample some classic tracks from Charlie Feathers, Billy Jack Wills, Sid King, Dion DiMucci, Bob Luman, Eddie Quinteros, Lucky Wray, Benny Joy, Sanford Clark and Jimmy Cavallo & The House Rockers if you're feeling hungry for real rockin' billy sounds! Switch it ON and it's an instant summertime party! DJ Del's "Go Kat, GO!" good to the last bop!™Please follow on FaceBook, Instagram & Twitter!

For those who haven't heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode, on "With a Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker. 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 No Mixcloud at this time as there are too many Byrds songs in the first chunk, but I will try to put together a multi-part Mixcloud when all the episodes for this song are up. My main source for the Byrds is Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, I also used Chris Hillman's autobiography, the 331/3 books on The Notorious Byrd Brothers and The Gilded Palace of Sin, I used Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and John Einarson's Desperadoes as general background on Californian country-rock, Calling Me Hone, Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock by Bob Kealing for information on Parsons, and Requiem For The Timeless Vol 2 by Johnny Rogan for information about the post-Byrds careers of many members. Information on Gary Usher comes from The California Sound by Stephen McParland. And this three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds' important recordings. The International Submarine Band's only album can be bought from Bandcamp. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before we begin, a brief warning – this episode contains brief mentions of suicide, alcoholism, abortion, and heroin addiction, and a brief excerpt of chanting of a Nazi slogan. If you find those subjects upsetting, you may want to read the transcript rather than listen. As we heard in the last part, in October 1967 Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman fired David Crosby from the Byrds. It was only many years later, in a conversation with the group's ex-manager Jim Dickson, that Crosby realised that they didn't actually have a legal right to fire him -- the Byrds had no partnership agreement, and according to Dickson given that the original group had been Crosby, McGuinn, and Gene Clark, it would have been possible for Crosby and McGuinn to fire Hillman, but not for McGuinn and Hillman to fire Crosby. But Crosby was unaware of this at the time, and accepted a pay-off, with which he bought a boat and sailed to Florida, where saw a Canadian singer-songwriter performing live: [Excerpt: Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now (live Ann Arbor, MI, 27/10/67)"] We'll find out what happened when David Crosby brought Joni Mitchell back to California in a future story... With Crosby gone, the group had a major problem. They were known for two things -- their jangly twelve-string guitar and their soaring harmonies. They still had the twelve-string, even in their new slimmed-down trio format, but they only had two of their four vocalists -- and while McGuinn had sung lead on most of their hits, the sound of the Byrds' harmony had been defined by Crosby on the high harmonies and Gene Clark's baritone. There was an obvious solution available, of course, and they took it. Gene Clark had quit the Byrds in large part because of his conflicts with David Crosby, and had remained friendly with the others. Clark's solo album had featured Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke, and had been produced by Gary Usher who was now producing the Byrds' records, and it had been a flop and he was at a loose end. After recording the Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers album, Clark had started work with Curt Boettcher, a singer-songwriter-producer who had produced hits for Tommy Roe and the Association, and who was currently working with Gary Usher. Boettcher produced two tracks for Clark, but they went unreleased: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Only Colombe"] That had been intended as the start of sessions for an album, but Clark had been dropped by Columbia rather than getting to record a second album. He had put together a touring band with guitarist Clarence White, bass player John York, and session drummer "Fast" Eddie Hoh, but hadn't played many gigs, and while he'd been demoing songs for a possible second solo album he didn't have a record deal to use them on. Chisa Records, a label co-owned by Larry Spector, Peter Fonda, and Hugh Masekela, had put out some promo copies of one track, "Yesterday, Am I Right", but hadn't released it properly: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Yesterday, Am I Right"] Clark, like the Byrds, had left Dickson and Tickner's management organisation and signed with Larry Spector, and Spector was wanting to make the most of his artists -- and things were very different for the Byrds now. Clark had had three main problems with being in the Byrds -- ego clashes with David Crosby, the stresses of being a pop star with a screaming teenage fanbase, and his fear of flying. Clark had really wanted to have the same kind of role in the Byrds that Brian Wilson had with the Beach Boys -- appear on the records, write songs, do TV appearances, maybe play local club gigs, but not go on tour playing to screaming fans. But now David Crosby was out of the group and there were no screaming fans any more -- the Byrds weren't having the kind of pop hits they'd had a few years earlier and were now playing to the hippie audience. Clark promised that with everything else being different, he could cope with the idea of flying -- if necessary he'd just take tranquilisers or get so drunk he passed out. So Gene Clark rejoined the Byrds. According to some sources he sang on their next single, "Goin' Back," though I don't hear his voice in the mix: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Goin' Back"] According to McGuinn, Clark was also an uncredited co-writer on one song on the album they were recording, "Get to You". But before sessions had gone very far, the group went on tour. They appeared on the Smothers Brothers TV show, miming their new single and "Mr. Spaceman", and Clark seemed in good spirits, but on the tour of the Midwest that followed, according to their road manager of the time, Clark was terrified, singing flat and playing badly, and his guitar and vocal mic were left out of the mix. And then it came time to get on a plane, and Clark's old fears came back, and he refused to fly from Minneapolis to New York with the rest of the group, instead getting a train back to LA. And that was the end of Clark's second stint in the Byrds. For the moment, the Byrds decided they were going to continue as a trio on stage and a duo in the studio -- though Michael Clarke did make an occasional return to the sessions as they progressed. But of course, McGuinn and Hillman couldn't record an album entirely by themselves. They did have several tracks in a semi-completed state still featuring Crosby, but they needed people to fill his vocal and instrumental roles on the remaining tracks. For the vocals, Usher brought in his friend and collaborator Curt Boettcher, with whom he was also working at the time in a band called Sagittarius: [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "Another Time"] Boettcher was a skilled harmony vocalist -- according to Usher, he was one of the few vocal arrangers that Brian Wilson looked up to, and Jerry Yester had said of the Modern Folk Quartet that “the only vocals that competed with us back then was Curt Boettcher's group” -- and he was more than capable of filling Crosby's vocal gap, but there was never any real camaraderie between him and the Byrds. He particularly disliked McGuinn, who he said "was just such a poker face. He never let you know where you stood. There was never any lightness," and he said of the sessions as a whole "I was really thrilled to be working with The Byrds, and, at the same time, I was glad when it was all over. There was just no fun, and they were such weird guys to work with. They really freaked me out!" Someone else who Usher brought in, who seems to have made a better impression, was Red Rhodes: [Excerpt: Red Rhodes, "Red's Ride"] Rhodes was a pedal steel player, and one of the few people to make a career on the instrument outside pure country music, which is the genre with which the instrument is usually identified. Rhodes was a country player, but he was the country pedal steel player of choice for musicians from the pop and folk-rock worlds. He worked with Usher and Boettcher on albums by Sagittarius and the Millennium, and played on records by Cass Elliot, Carole King, the Beach Boys, and the Carpenters, among many others -- though he would be best known for his longstanding association with Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, playing on most of Nesmith's recordings from 1968 through 1992. Someone else who was associated with the Monkees was Moog player Paul Beaver, who we talked about in the episode on "Hey Jude", and who had recently played on the Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd album: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Star Collector"] And the fourth person brought in to help the group out was someone who was already familiar to them. Clarence White was, like Red Rhodes, from the country world -- he'd started out in a bluegrass group called the Kentucky Colonels: [Excerpt: The Kentucky Colonels, "Clinch Mountain Backstep"] But White had gone electric and formed one of the first country-rock bands, a group named Nashville West, as well as becoming a popular session player. He had already played on a couple of tracks on Younger Than Yesterday, as well as playing with Hillman and Michael Clarke on Gene Clark's album with the Gosdin Brothers and being part of Clark's touring band with John York and "Fast" Eddie Hoh. The album that the group put together with these session players was a triumph of sequencing and production. Usher had recently been keen on the idea of crossfading tracks into each other, as the Beatles had on Sgt Pepper, and had done the same on the two Chad and Jeremy albums he produced. By clever crossfading and mixing, Usher managed to create something that had the feel of being a continuous piece, despite being the product of several very different creative minds, with Usher's pop sensibility and arrangement ideas being the glue that held everything together. McGuinn was interested in sonic experimentation. He, more than any of the others, seems to have been the one who was most pushing for them to use the Moog, and he continued his interest in science fiction, with a song, "Space Odyssey", inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke short story "The Sentinel", which was also the inspiration for the then-forthcoming film 2001: A Space Odyssey: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Space Odyssey"] Then there was Chris Hillman, who was coming up with country material like "Old John Robertson": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Old John Robertson"] And finally there was David Crosby. Even though he'd been fired from the group, both McGuinn and Hillman didn't see any problem with using the songs he had already contributed. Three of the album's eleven songs are compositions that are primarily by Crosby, though they're all co-credited to either Hillman or both Hillman and McGuinn. Two of those songs are largely unchanged from Crosby's original vision, just finished off by the rest of the group after his departure, but one song is rather different: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] "Draft Morning" was a song that was important to Crosby, and was about his -- and the group's -- feelings about the draft and the ongoing Vietnam War. It was a song that had meant a lot to him, and he'd been part of the recording for the backing track. But when it came to doing the final vocals, McGuinn and Hillman had a problem -- they couldn't remember all the words to the song, and obviously there was no way they were going to get Crosby to give them the original lyrics. So they rewrote it, coming up with new lyrics where they couldn't remember the originals: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] But there was one other contribution to the track that was very distinctively the work of Usher. Gary Usher had a predilection at this point for putting musique concrete sections in otherwise straightforward pop songs. He'd done it with "Fakin' It" by Simon and Garfunkel, on which he did uncredited production work, and did it so often that it became something of a signature of records on Columbia in 1967 and 68, even being copied by his friend Jim Guercio on "Susan" by the Buckinghams. Usher had done this, in particular, on the first two singles by Sagittarius, his project with Curt Boettcher. In particular, the second Sagittarius single, "Hotel Indiscreet", had had a very jarring section (and a warning here, this contains some brief chanting of a Nazi slogan): [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "Hotel Indiscreet"] That was the work of a comedy group that Usher had discovered and signed to Columbia. The Firesign Theatre were so named because, like Usher, they were all interested in astrology, and they were all "fire signs".  Usher was working on their first album, Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him, at the same time as he was working on the Byrds album: [Excerpt: The Firesign Theatre, "W.C. Fields Forever"] And he decided to bring in the Firesigns to contribute to "Draft Morning": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] Crosby was, understandably, apoplectic when he heard the released version of "Draft Morning". As far as Hillman and McGuinn were concerned, it was always a Byrds song, and just because Crosby had left the band didn't mean they couldn't use material he'd written for the Byrds. Crosby took a different view, saying later "It was one of the sleaziest things they ever did. I had an entire song finished. They just casually rewrote it and decided to take half the credit. How's that? Without even asking me. I had a finished song, entirely mine. I left. They did the song anyway. They rewrote it and put it in their names. And mine was better. They just took it because they didn't have enough songs." What didn't help was that the publicity around the album, titled The Notorious Byrd Brothers minimised Crosby's contributions. Crosby is on five of the eleven tracks -- as he said later, "I'm all over that album, they just didn't give me credit. I played, I sang, I wrote, I even played bass on one track, and they tried to make out that I wasn't even on it, that they could be that good without me." But the album, like earlier Byrds albums, didn't have credits saying who played what, and the cover only featured McGuinn, Hillman, and Michael Clarke in the photo -- along with a horse, which Crosby took as another insult, as representing him. Though as McGuinn said, "If we had intended to do that, we would have turned the horse around". Even though Michael Clarke was featured on the cover, and even owned the horse that took Crosby's place, by the time the album came out he too had been fired. Unlike Crosby, he went quietly and didn't even ask for any money. According to McGuinn, he was increasingly uninterested in being in the band -- suffering from depression, and missing the teenage girls who had been the group's fans a year or two earlier. He gladly stopped being a Byrd, and went off to work in a hotel instead. In his place came Hillman's cousin, Kevin Kelley, fresh out of a band called the Rising Sons: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Take a Giant Step"] We've mentioned the Rising Sons briefly in some previous episodes, but they were one of the earliest LA folk-rock bands, and had been tipped to go on to greater things -- and indeed, many of them did, though not as part of the Rising Sons. Jesse Lee Kincaid, the least well-known of the band, only went on to release a couple of singles and never had much success, but his songs were picked up by other acts -- his "Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind" was a minor hit for the Peppermint Trolley Company: [Excerpt: The Peppermint Trolley Company, "Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind"] And Harry Nilsson recorded Kincaid's "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune": [Excerpt: Harry Nilsson, "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune"] But Kincaid was the least successful of the band members, and most of the other members are going to come up in future episodes of the podcast -- bass player Gary Marker played for a while with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, lead singer Taj Mahal is one of the most respected blues singers of the last sixty years, original drummer Ed Cassidy went on to form the progressive rock band Spirit, and lead guitarist Ry Cooder went on to become one of the most important guitarists in rock music. Kelley had been the last to join the Rising Sons, replacing Cassidy but he was in the band by the time they released their one single, a version of Rev. Gary Davis' "Candy Man" produced by Terry Melcher, with Kincaid on lead vocals: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Candy Man"] That hadn't been a success, and the group's attempt at a follow-up, the Goffin and King song "Take a Giant Step", which we heard earlier, was blocked from release by Columbia as being too druggy -- though there were no complaints when the Monkees released their version as the B-side to "Last Train to Clarksville". The Rising Sons, despite being hugely popular as a live act, fell apart without ever releasing a second single. According to Marker, Mahal realised that he would be better off as a solo artist, but also Columbia didn't know how to market a white group with a Black lead vocalist (leading to Kincaid singing lead on their one released single, and producer Terry Melcher trying to get Mahal to sing more like a white singer on "Take a Giant Step"), and some in the band thought that Terry Melcher was deliberately trying to sink their career because they refused to sign to his publishing company. After the band split up, Marker and Kelley had formed a band called Fusion, which Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan describes as being a jazz-fusion band, presumably because of their name. Listening to the one album the group recorded, it is in fact more blues-rock, very like the music Marker made with the Rising Sons and Captain Beefheart. But Kelley's not on that album, because before it was recorded he was approached by his cousin Chris Hillman and asked to join the Byrds. At the time, Fusion were doing so badly that Kelley had to work a day job in a clothes shop, so he was eager to join a band with a string of hits who were just about to conclude a lucrative renegotiation of their record contract -- a renegotiation which may have played a part in McGuinn and Hillman firing Crosby and Clarke, as they were now the only members on the new contracts. The choice of Kelley made a lot of sense. He was mostly just chosen because he was someone they knew and they needed a drummer in a hurry -- they needed someone new to promote The Notorious Byrd Brothers and didn't have time to go through a laborious process of audtioning, and so just choosing Hillman's cousin made sense, but Kelley also had a very strong, high voice, and so he could fill in the harmony parts that Crosby had sung, stopping the new power-trio version of the band from being *too* thin-sounding in comparison to the five-man band they'd been not that much earlier. The Notorious Byrd Brothers was not a commercial success -- it didn't even make the top forty in the US, though it did in the UK -- to the presumed chagrin of Columbia, who'd just paid a substantial amount of money for this band who were getting less successful by the day. But it was, though, a gigantic critical success, and is generally regarded as the group's creative pinnacle. Robert Christgau, for example, talked about how LA rather than San Francisco was where the truly interesting music was coming from, and gave guarded praise to Captain Beefheart, Van Dyke Parks, and the Fifth Dimension (the vocal group, not the Byrds album) but talked about three albums as being truly great -- the Beach Boys' Wild Honey, Love's Forever Changes, and The Notorious Byrd Brothers. (He also, incidentally, talked about how the two songs that Crosby's new discovery Joni Mitchell had contributed to a Judy Collins album were much better than most folk music, and how he could hardly wait for her first album to come out). And that, more or less, was the critical consensus about The Notorious Byrd Brothers -- that it was, in Christgau's words "simply the best album the Byrds have ever recorded" and that "Gone are the weak--usually folky--tracks that have always flawed their work." McGuinn, though, thought that the album wasn't yet what he wanted. He had become particularly excited by the potentials of the Moog synthesiser -- an instrument that Gary Usher also loved -- during the recording of the album, and had spent a lot of time experimenting with it, coming up with tracks like the then-unreleased "Moog Raga": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Moog Raga"] And McGuinn had a concept for the next Byrds album -- a concept he was very excited about. It was going to be nothing less than a grand sweeping history of American popular music. It was going to be a double album -- the new contract said that they should deliver two albums a year to Columbia, so a double album made sense -- and it would start with Appalachian folk music, go through country, jazz, and R&B, through the folk-rock music the Byrds had previously been known for, and into Moog experimentation. But to do this, the Byrds needed a keyboard player. Not only would a keyboard player help them fill out their thin onstage sound, if they got a jazz keyboardist, then they could cover the jazz material in McGuinn's concept album idea as well. So they went out and looked for a jazz piano player, and happily Larry Spector was managing one. Or at least, Larry Spector was managing someone who *said* he was a jazz pianist. But Gram Parsons said he was a lot of things... [Excerpt: Gram Parsons, "Brass Buttons (1965 version)"] Gram Parsons was someone who had come from a background of unimaginable privilege. His maternal grandfather was the owner of a Florida citrus fruit and real-estate empire so big that his mansion was right in the centre of what was then Florida's biggest theme park -- built on land he owned. As a teenager, Parsons had had a whole wing of his parents' house to himself, and had had servants to look after his every need, and as an adult he had a trust fund that paid him a hundred thousand dollars a year -- which in 1968 dollars would be equivalent to a little under nine hundred thousand in today's money. Two events in his childhood had profoundly shaped the life of young Gram. The first was in February 1956, when he went to see a new singer who he'd heard on the radio, and who according to the local newspaper had just recorded a new song called "Heartburn Motel".  Parsons had tried to persuade his friends that this new singer was about to become a big star -- one of his friends had said "I'll wait til he becomes famous!" As it turned out, the day Parsons and the couple of friends he did manage to persuade to go with him saw Elvis Presley was also the day that "Heartbreak Hotel" entered the Billboard charts at number sixty-eight. But even at this point, Elvis was an obvious star and the headliner of the show. Young Gram was enthralled -- but in retrospect he was more impressed by the other acts he saw on the bill. That was an all-star line-up of country musicians, including Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and especially the Louvin Brothers, arguably the greatest country music vocal duo of all time: [Excerpt: The Louvin Brothers, "The Christian Life"] Young Gram remained mostly a fan of rockabilly music rather than country, and would remain so for another decade or so, but a seed had been planted. The other event, much more tragic, was the death of his father. Both Parsons' parents were functioning alcoholics, and both by all accounts were unfaithful to each other, and their marriage was starting to break down. Gram's father was also, by many accounts, dealing with what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder from his time serving in the second world war. On December the twenty-third 1958, Gram's father died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Everyone involved seems sure it was suicide, but it was officially recorded as natural causes because of the family's wealth and prominence in the local community. Gram's Christmas present from his parents that year was a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and according to some stories I've read his father had left a last message on a tape in the recorder, but by the time the authorities got to hear it, it had been erased apart from the phrase "I love you, Gram." After that Gram's mother's drinking got even worse, but in most ways his life still seemed charmed, and the descriptions of him as a teenager are about what you'd expect from someone who was troubled, with a predisposition to addiction, but who was also unbelievably wealthy, good-looking, charming, and talented. And the talent was definitely there. One thing everyone is agreed on is that from a very young age Gram Parsons took his music seriously and was determined to make a career as a musician. Keith Richards later said of him "Of the musicians I know personally (although Otis Redding, who I didn't know, fits this too), the two who had an attitude towards music that was the same as mine were Gram Parsons and John Lennon. And that was: whatever bag the business wants to put you in is immaterial; that's just a selling point, a tool that makes it easier. You're going to get chowed into this pocket or that pocket because it makes it easier for them to make charts up and figure out who's selling. But Gram and John were really pure musicians. All they liked was music, and then they got thrown into the game." That's not the impression many other people have of Parsons, who is almost uniformly described as an incessant self-promoter, and who from his teens onwards would regularly plant fake stories about himself in the local press, usually some variant of him having been signed to RCA records. Most people seem to think that image was more important to him than anything. In his teens, he started playing in a series of garage bands around Florida and Georgia, the two states in which he was brought up. One of his early bands was largely created by poaching the rhythm section who were then playing with Kent Lavoie, who later became famous as Lobo and had hits like "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo". Lavoie apparently held a grudge -- decades later he would still say that Parsons couldn't sing or play or write. Another musician on the scene with whom Parsons associated was Bobby Braddock, who would later go on to co-write songs like "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" for Tammy Wynette, and the song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", often considered the greatest country song ever written, for George Jones: [Excerpt: George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today"] Jones would soon become one of Parsons' musical idols, but at this time he was still more interested in being Elvis or Little Richard. We're lucky enough to have a 1962 live recording of one of his garage bands, the Legends -- the band that featured the bass player and drummer he'd poached from Lobo. They made an appearance on a local TV show and a friend with a tape recorder recorded it off the TV and decades later posted it online. Of the four songs in that performance, two are R&B covers -- Little Richard's "Rip It Up" and Ray Charles' "What'd I Say?", and a third is the old Western Swing classic "Guitar Boogie Shuffle". But the interesting thing about the version of "Rip it Up" is that it's sung in an Everly Brothers style harmony, and the fourth song is a recording of the Everlys' "Let It Be Me". The Everlys were, of course, hugely influenced by the Louvin Brothers, who had so impressed young Gram six years earlier, and in this performance you can hear for the first time the hints of the style that Parsons would make his own a few years later: [Excerpt: Gram Parsons and the Legends, "Let it Be Me"] Incidentally, the other guitarist in the Legends, Jim Stafford, also went on to a successful musical career, having a top five hit in the seventies with "Spiders & Snakes": [Excerpt: Jim Stafford, "Spiders & Snakes"] Soon after that TV performance though, like many musicians of his generation, Parsons decided to give up on rock and roll, and instead to join a folk group. The group he joined, The Shilos, were a trio who were particularly influenced by the Journeymen, John Phillips' folk group before he formed the Mamas and the Papas, which we talked about in the episode on "San Francisco". At various times the group expanded with the addition of some female singers, trying to capture something of the sound of the New Chrisy Minstrels. In 1964, with the band members still in school, the Shilos decided to make a trip to Greenwich Village and see if they could make the big time as folk-music stars. They met up with John Phillips, and Parsons stayed with John and Michelle Phillips in their home in New York -- this was around the time the two of them were writing "California Dreamin'". Phillips got the Shilos an audition with Albert Grossman, who seemed eager to sign them until he realised they were still schoolchildren just on a break. The group were, though, impressive enough that he was interested, and we have some recordings of them from a year later which show that they were surprisingly good for a bunch of teenagers: [Excerpt: The Shilos, "The Bells of Rhymney"] Other than Phillips, the other major connection that Parsons made in New York was the folk singer Fred Neil, who we've talked about occasionally before. Neil was one of the great songwriters of the Greenwich Village scene, and many of his songs became successful for others -- his "Dolphins" was recorded by Tim Buckley, most famously his "Everybody's Talkin'" was a hit for Harry Nilsson, and he wrote "Another Side of This Life" which became something of a standard -- it was recorded by the Animals and the Lovin' Spoonful, and Jefferson Airplane, as well as recording the song, included it in their regular setlists, including at Monterey: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "The Other Side of This Life (live at Monterey)"] According to at least one biographer, though, Neil had another, more pernicious, influence on Parsons -- he may well have been the one who introduced Parsons to heroin, though several of Parsons' friends from the time said he wasn't yet using hard drugs. By spring 1965, Parsons was starting to rethink his commitment to folk music, particularly after "Mr. Tambourine Man" became a hit. He talked with the other members about their need to embrace the changes in music that Dylan and the Byrds were bringing about, but at the same time he was still interested enough in acoustic music that when he was given the job of arranging the music for his high school graduation, the group he booked were the Dillards. That graduation day was another day that would change Parsons' life -- as it was the day his mother died, of alcohol-induced liver failure. Parsons was meant to go on to Harvard, but first he went back to Greenwich Village for the summer, where he hung out with Fred Neil and Dave Van Ronk (and started using heroin regularly). He went to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium, and he was neighbours with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay -- the three of them talked about forming a band together before Stills moved West. And on a brief trip back home to Florida between Greenwich Village and Harvard, Parsons spoke with his old friend Jim Stafford, who made a suggestion to him -- instead of trying to do folk music, which was clearly falling out of fashion, why not try to do *country* music but with long hair like the Beatles? He could be a country Beatle. It would be an interesting gimmick. Parsons was only at Harvard for one semester before flunking out, but it was there that he was fully reintroduced to country music, and in particular to three artists who would influence him more than any others. He'd already been vaguely aware of Buck Owens, whose "Act Naturally" had recently been covered by the Beatles: [Excerpt: Buck Owens, "Act Naturally"] But it was at Harvard that he gained a deeper appreciation of Owens. Owens was the biggest star of what had become known as the Bakersfield Sound, a style of country music that emphasised a stripped-down electric band lineup with Telecaster guitars, a heavy drumbeat, and a clean sound. It came from the same honky-tonk and Western Swing roots as the rockabilly music that Parsons had grown up on, and it appealed to him instinctively.  In particular, Parsons was fascinated by the fact that Owens' latest album had a cover version of a Drifters song on it -- and then he got even more interested when Ray Charles put out his third album of country songs and included a version of Owens' "Together Again": [Excerpt: Ray Charles, "Together Again"] This suggested to Parsons that country music and the R&B he'd been playing previously might not quite be so far apart as he'd thought. At Harvard, Parsons was also introduced to the work of another Bakersfield musician, who like Owens was produced by Ken Nelson, who also produced the Louvin Brothers' records, and who we heard about in previous episodes as he produced Gene Vincent and Wanda Jackson. Merle Haggard had only had one big hit at the time, "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers": [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "(My Friends are Gonna Be) Strangers"] But he was about to start a huge run of country hits that would see every single he released for the next twelve years make the country top ten, most of them making number one. Haggard would be one of the biggest stars in country music, but he was also to be arguably the country musician with the biggest influence on rock music since Johnny Cash, and his songs would soon start to be covered by everyone from the Grateful Dead to the Everly Brothers to the Beach Boys. And the third artist that Parsons was introduced to was someone who, in most popular narratives of country music, is set up in opposition to Haggard and Owens, because they were representatives of the Bakersfield Sound while he was the epitome of the Nashville Sound to which the Bakersfield Sound is placed in opposition, George Jones. But of course anyone with ears will notice huge similarities in the vocal styles of Jones, Haggard, and Owens: [Excerpt: George Jones, "The Race is On"] Owens, Haggard, and Jones are all somewhat outside the scope of this series, but are seriously important musicians in country music. I would urge anyone who's interested in them to check out Tyler Mahan Coe's podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones, season one of which has episodes on Haggard and Owens, as well as on the Louvin Brothers who I also mentioned earlier, and season two of which is entirely devoted to Jones. When he dropped out of Harvard after one semester, Parsons was still mostly under the thrall of the Greenwich Village folkies -- there's a recording of him made over Christmas 1965 that includes his version of "Another Side of This Life": [Excerpt: Gram Parsons, "Another Side of This Life"] But he was encouraged to go further in the country direction by John Nuese (and I hope that's the correct pronunciation – I haven't been able to find any recordings mentioning his name), who had introduced him to this music and who also played guitar. Parsons, Neuse, bass player Ian Dunlop and drummer Mickey Gauvin formed a band that was originally called Gram Parsons and the Like. They soon changed their name though, inspired by an Our Gang short in which the gang became a band: [Excerpt: Our Gang, "Mike Fright"] Shortening the name slightly, they became the International Submarine Band. Parsons rented them a house in New York, and they got a contract with Goldstar Records, and released a couple of singles. The first of them, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" was a cover of the theme to a comedy film that came out around that time, and is not especially interesting: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming"] The second single is more interesting. "Sum Up Broke" is a song by Parsons and Neuse, and shows a lot of influence from the Byrds: [Excerpt: The international Submarine Band, "Sum Up Broke"] While in New York with the International Submarine Band, Parsons made another friend in the music business. Barry Tashian was the lead singer of a band called the Remains, who had put out a couple of singles: [Excerpt: The Remains, "Why Do I Cry?"] The Remains are now best known for having been on the bill on the Beatles' last ever tour, including playing as support on their last ever show at Candlestick Park, but they split up before their first album came out. After spending most of 1966 in New York, Parsons decided that he needed to move the International Submarine Band out to LA. There were two reasons for this. The first was his friend Brandon DeWilde, an actor who had been a child star in the fifties -- it's him at the end of Shane -- who was thinking of pursuing a musical career. DeWilde was still making TV appearances, but he was also a singer -- John Nuese said that DeWilde sang harmony with Parsons better than anyone except Emmylou Harris -- and he had recorded some demos with the International Submarine Band backing him, like this version of Buck Owens' "Together Again": [Excerpt: Brandon DeWilde, "Together Again"] DeWilde had told Parsons he could get the group some work in films. DeWilde made good on that promise to an extent -- he got the group a cameo in The Trip, a film we've talked about in several other episodes, which was being directed by Roger Corman, the director who worked a lot with David Crosby's father, and was coming out from American International Pictures, the company that put out the beach party films -- but while the group were filmed performing one of their own songs, in the final film their music was overdubbed by the Electric Flag. The Trip starred Peter Fonda, another member of the circle of people around David Crosby, and another son of privilege, who at this point was better known for being Henry Fonda's son than for his own film appearances. Like DeWilde, Fonda wanted to become a pop star, and he had been impressed by Parsons, and asked if he could record Parsons' song "November Nights". Parsons agreed, and the result was released on Chisa Records, the label we talked about earlier that had put out promos of Gene Clark, in a performance produced by Hugh Masekela: [Excerpt: Peter Fonda, "November Nights"] The other reason the group moved West though was that Parsons had fallen in love with David Crosby's girlfriend, Nancy Ross, who soon became pregnant with his daughter -- much to Parsons' disappointment, she refused to have an abortion. Parsons bought the International Submarine Band a house in LA to rehearse in, and moved in separately with Nancy. The group started playing all the hottest clubs around LA, supporting bands like Love and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, but they weren't sounding great, partly because Parsons was more interested in hanging round with celebrities than rehearsing -- the rest of the band had to work for a living, and so took their live performances more seriously than he did, while he was spending time catching up with his old folk friends like John Phillips and Fred Neil, as well as getting deeper into drugs and, like seemingly every musician in 1967, Scientology, though he only dabbled in the latter. The group were also, though, starting to split along musical lines. Dunlop and Gauvin wanted to play R&B and garage rock, while Parsons and Nuese wanted to play country music. And there was a third issue -- which record label should they go with? There were two labels interested in them, neither of them particularly appealing. The offer that Dunlop in particular wanted to go with was from, of all people, Jay Ward Records: [Excerpt: A Salute to Moosylvania] Jay Ward was the producer and writer of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Peabody & Sherman, Dudley Do-Right and other cartoons, and had set up a record company, which as far as I've been able to tell had only released one record, and that five years earlier (we just heard a snippet of it). But in the mid-sixties several cartoon companies were getting into the record business -- we'll hear more about that when we get to song 186 -- and Ward's company apparently wanted to sign the International Submarine Band, and were basically offering to throw money at them. Parsons, on the other hand, wanted to go with Lee Hazlewood International. This was a new label set up by someone we've only talked about in passing, but who was very influential on the LA music scene, Lee Hazlewood. Hazlewood had got his start producing country hits like Sanford Clark's "The Fool": [Excerpt: Sanford Clark, "The Fool"] He'd then moved on to collaborating with Lester Sill, producing a series of hits for Duane Eddy, whose unique guitar sound Hazlewood helped come up with: [Excerpt: Duane Eddy, "Rebel Rouser"] After splitting off from Sill, who had gone off to work with Phil Spector, who had been learning some production techniques from Hazlewood, Hazlewood had gone to work for Reprise records, where he had a career in a rather odd niche, producing hit records for the children of Rat Pack stars. He'd produced Dino, Desi, and Billy, who consisted of future Beach Boys sideman Billy Hinsche plus Desi Arnaz Jr and Dean Martin Jr: [Excerpt: Dino, Desi, and Billy, "I'm a Fool"] He'd also produced Dean Martin's daughter Deana: [Excerpt: Deana Martin, "Baby I See You"] and rather more successfully he'd written and produced a series of hits for Nancy Sinatra, starting with "These Boots are Made for Walkin'": [Excerpt: Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots are Made for Walkin'"] Hazlewood had also moved into singing himself. He'd released a few tracks on his own, but his career as a performer hadn't really kicked into gear until he'd started writing duets for Nancy Sinatra. She apparently fell in love with his demos and insisted on having him sing them with her in the studio, and so the two made a series of collaborations like the magnificently bizarre "Some Velvet Morning": [Excerpt: Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, "Some Velvet Morning"] Hazlewood is now considered something of a cult artist, thanks largely to a string of magnificent orchestral country-pop solo albums he recorded, but at this point he was one of the hottest people in the music industry. He wasn't offering to produce the International Submarine Band himself -- that was going to be his partner, Suzi Jane Hokom -- but Parsons thought it was better to sign for less money to a label that was run by someone with a decade-long string of massive hit records than for more money to a label that had put out one record about a cartoon moose. So the group split up. Dunlop and Gauvin went off to form another band, with Barry Tashian -- and legend has it that one of the first times Gram Parsons visited the Byrds in the studio, he mentioned the name of that band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and that was the inspiration for the Byrds titling their album The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Parsons and Nuese, on the other hand, formed a new lineup of The International Submarine Band, with bass player Chris Ethridge, drummer John Corneal, who Parsons had first played with in The Legends, and guitarist Bob Buchanan, a former member of the New Christy Minstrels who Parsons had been performing with as a duo after they'd met through Fred Neil. The International Submarine Band recorded an album, Safe At Home, which is now often called the first country-rock album -- though as we've said so often, there's no first anything. That album was a mixture of cover versions of songs by people like Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known"] And Parsons originals, like "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome?", which he cowrote with Barry Goldberg of the Electric Flag: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome?"] But the recording didn't go smoothly. In particular, Corneal realised he'd been hoodwinked. Parsons had told him, when persuading him to move West, that he'd be able to sing on the record and that some of his songs would be used. But while the record was credited to The International Submarine Band, everyone involved agrees that it was actually a Gram Parsons solo album by any other name -- he was in charge, he wouldn't let other members' songs on the record, and he didn't let Corneal sing as he'd promised. And then, before the album could be released, he was off. The Byrds wanted a jazz keyboard player, and Parsons could fake being one long enough to get the gig. The Byrds had got rid of one rich kid with a giant ego who wanted to take control of everything and thought his undeniable talent excused his attempts at dominating the group, and replaced him with another one -- who also happened to be signed to another record label. We'll see how well that worked out for them in two weeks' time.  

Delta Green: Case REDACTED is an original Delta Green scenario written as a direct sequel to "Call of Cthulhu: The Glass Chronicles." E04: Confessions With the Agents and the Friendlies separated, and a few of our Friendlies injured... will everyone make it out alive this time? This series is intended for mature audiences, and viewer discretion is advised. CW/TW for this series includes: strong violence, blood & gore, language, horror themes, monster violence. Our AGENTS: Vince Kaufman as PIKE: https://twitter.com/suddenlyvince Bob McDonald as WENDIGO: https://twitter.com/stageoutlaw Adam Sowards as CROSS: https://twitter.com/sowards_adam Our SURVIVORS: Katy Brennan as Peggy O'Neill: https://twitter.com/katyolady Krissy as Rose Claythorn: https://twitter.com/KrissyInColor Farrah Sarpkaya as Emily O'Hara: https://twitter.com/FarrahKaya Caleb Miller as Sanford Clark: https://twitter.com/Ginsbergsong Extra shoutouts: Black Project Gaming: https://twitter.com/BlkProjectGames Mayday Roleplay: https://twitter.com/MaydayRoleplay Kerri Smith as your Case Handler: https://twitter.com/KerriSmith2012 Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. Illustrations by Dennis Detwiller are reproduced by permission. The contents of this video are written by Kerri Smith as an original scenario with original characters. The elements of this video that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property belong to Delta Green and I am claiming no ownership of the system or setting.

Delta Green: Case REDACTED is an original Delta Green scenario written as a direct sequel to "Call of Cthulhu: The Glass Chronicles." E03: The Locked Door With the survivors [REDACTED], the agents will have to [REDACTED] in order to [REDACTED]. Will they succeed in time? This series is intended for mature audiences, and viewer discretion is advised. CW/TW for this series includes: strong violence, blood & gore, language, horror themes, monster violence, and horror-based suicide. Our AGENTS: Vince Kaufman as PIKE: https://twitter.com/suddenlyvince Bob McDonald as WENDIGO: https://twitter.com/stageoutlaw Adam Sowards as CROSS: https://twitter.com/sowards_adam Our SURVIVORS: Katy Brennan as Peggy O'Neill: https://twitter.com/katyolady Krissy as Rose Claythorn: https://twitter.com/KrissyInColor Farrah Sarpkaya as Emily O'Hara: https://twitter.com/FarrahKaya Caleb Miller as Sanford Clark: https://twitter.com/Ginsbergsong Extra shoutouts: Black Project Gaming: https://twitter.com/BlkProjectGames Mayday Roleplay: https://twitter.com/MaydayRoleplay Kerri Smith as your Case Handler: https://twitter.com/KerriSmith2012 Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. Illustrations by Dennis Detwiller are reproduced by permission. The contents of this video are written by Kerri Smith as an original scenario with original characters. The elements of this video that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property belong to Delta Green and I am claiming no ownership of the system or setting.

Delta Green: Case REDACTED is an original Delta Green scenario written as a direct sequel to "Call of Cthulhu: The Glass Chronicles." E02: Quarantine The survivors of The Glass Mansion are cleaned up and quarantined for 24 hours. What can the Agents find out in the meantime? This series is intended for mature audiences, and viewer discretion is advised. CW/TW for this series includes: strong violence, blood & gore, language, horror themes, monster violence, and horror-based suicide. Our AGENTS: Vince Kaufman as PIKE: https://twitter.com/suddenlyvince Bob McDonald as WENDIGO: https://twitter.com/stageoutlaw Adam Sowards as CROSS: https://twitter.com/sowards_adam Our SURVIVORS: Katy Brennan as Peggy O'Neill: https://twitter.com/katyolady Krissy as Rose Claythorn: https://twitter.com/KrissyInColor Farrah Sarpkaya as Emily O'Hara: https://twitter.com/FarrahKaya Caleb Miller as Sanford Clark: https://twitter.com/Ginsbergsong VO guest star: Patrick as Ezekiel Blaine: https://twitter.com/pathdragons Extra shoutouts: Black Project Gaming: https://twitter.com/BlkProjectGames Mayday Roleplay: https://twitter.com/MaydayRoleplay Kerri Smith as your Case Handler: https://twitter.com/KerriSmith2012 Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. Illustrations by Dennis Detwiller are reproduced by permission. The contents of this video are written by Kerri Smith as an original scenario with original characters. The elements of this video that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property belong to Delta Green and I am claiming no ownership of the system or setting.

This week's show, after a brief 1956 Chuck Berry refrain: brand new Soft Science, Rain Parade, Handsome Family, Silversun Pickups, Art Bergmann, John P. Strohm, and Cut Worms, plus Sanford Clark, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Nina Simone, Little Richard,...

Carreteres Secundaries 89 Positive Vibrations Nueva entrega radiofónica del programa Carreteres Secundaries, de nuevo con el ínclito Oscar Aramburu. En este capítulo introducimos dos nombres propios de la élite musical asturiana. Por un lado, el excelente nuevo disco de los explosivos Doctor Explosión, titulado “Superioridad Moral”, hemos elegido una versión llevada a su terreno del temazo de Sanford Clark de 1968 "They call me country", que nos tiene hechizados. Por el otro, un discazo hecho aquí del proyecto musical de Isaac Mangas, titulado “Arde”, un producto donde el folk rock y la psicodelia se dan la mano, bien ejecutado y con una portada hermosa. El resto del programa lo llenamos con algunos viejos conocidos como ZZ Top, Red Neck Surfers, The Dictators, Loquillo & Trogloditas, The Clash, Long Ryders, Stray Cats o Motorhead. Escúchanos en forma de podcast en Ivoox o en cualquier plataforma conocida o extrarrestre, siguiendo el enlace o buscándonos por “carreteres Secundaries Podcast”

No muchos artistas se librarán de que una canción suya o un detalle de alguna de sus canciones no se parezca a otra anterior. En ocasiones puede ser un guiño, tomar solo una parte del todo y considerarlo como un homenaje. En otras es una copia evidente tachable como plagio. ¿Pueden ser jugadas inconscientes?, ¿existen las coincidencias? Hoy nuestra intención no es tachar a nadie de nada, tan solo nos entretenemos escuchando unos cuantos parecidos razonables. Playlist; (sintonía) THE RUMBLERS “Boss” (1962) THE CRAMPS “Garbage man” (1980) GENERADOR “Voy cuesta abajo” (2023) FREDDY CANNON “Tallahassee Lassie” (1959) JOHN BARRY “Beat girl” (1960) WAU Y LOS ARRRGHS “Carrera especial” (2009) WILLIE COBBS “You don’t love me” (1960) BO DIDDLEY “She’s fine, she’s mine” (1955) LYRES “On fyre” (A promise is a promise) (1988) LOVE “My flash on you” (1966) RICHARD HELL “Blank generation” (1977) BOB McFADDEN “The Beat Generation” (1959) LOS SLEEPERS “Zombie” (1961) SANFORD CLARK “A cheat” (1957) PETER PERRETT “Troika” (2017) SONNY & CHER “It’s the little things” (1965) ALLAH-LAS “Long journey” (2012) THE ROOTS “It’s been a long journey” (1965) Escuchar audio

All the triggers warnings with this one, y'all! We're back from our much needed vacation and we have a California based survivor story for you. In 1926 in a town formally known as Wineville (now called Mira Loma), a horrible monster named Stewart had a chicken ranch built and forced his young nephew, Sanford, to help him in this endeavor. Sanford was forced to endure torture, physical and mental abuse, and rape from 1926 to 1928. Sanford thankfully is able to escape his nightmare in the end and Uncle Stewart also gets what is coming to him. In addition to the below sources, I referenced a book called ⁠The Road Out of Hell by Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark⁠ for use in this episode. I highly recommend check it out for more info about this case. Our mocktail creator highlight this week is Ripple Mocktails! Check them out over on there IG page ⁠@ripple_mocktails⁠. Sources ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/corona-courier-dec-07-1928-p-2/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/bakersfield-californian-nov-30-1928-p-2/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/corona-daily-independent-sep-19-1928-p-1/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/helena-independent-sep-21-1928-p-2/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/bakersfield-californian-dec-31-1928-p-1/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/corona-courier-sep-21-1928-p-3/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/butte-montana-standard-feb-05-1929-p-21/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/wichita-daily-times-nov-30-1928-p-1/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/butte-montana-standard-jan-15-1929-p-9/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/cumberland-sunday-times-sep-16-1928-p-1/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/corona-daily-independent-dec-04-1928-p-1/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/oakland-tribune-dec-04-1928-p-52/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/bakersfield-californian-dec-31-1928-p-1/⁠ ⁠https://newspaperarchive.com/cumberland-sunday-times-sep-16-1928-p-1/⁠

Clint Mephisto's Shit Kickin Road Show Episode 265, week of January 23rd. Your ol’ drankin’ buddy returnswith a Hellbilly Hootenanny, featuring vintage classics from George Jones, Joe Bennett, Roy Acuff, and Sanford Clark, alongside modern barn burners from The Koffin Kats, Dale Watson, The Bridge City Sinners, and more!

Episode 245: Between 1926 and 1928, a sinister darkness was afoot on a small chicken ranch in Wineville, California. When he was only 19, Gordon Stewart Northcott, a Canadian, had abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least three and as many as 20 others. His victims were predominantly prepubescent boys. He sexually assaulted and released numerous others. When a portion of the truth came out, much of it was told by Northcott's nephew, 13-year-old Sanford Clark. Northcott had brought Sanford with him from Canada two years before.  Northcott viciously raped and beat Clark numerous times before tiring of him as he aged. Afterward, through fear and intimidation, Northcott coerced his nephew into assisting him in committing and covering up the murders of his victims. Even Northcott's mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, helped in some of the crimes to keep her son out of jail.  Sources: The Road Out of Hell : Flacco, Anthony : Internet Archive Nothing is Strange with You : Paul, James Jeffrey Internet Archive Cold North Killers : Canadian Serial Murder : Mellor, Lee : Internet Archive Beyond Evil by Robert Keller - Ebook | Scribd Gordon Northcott | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers 10 Notorious Serial Killers Who All Suffered Childhood Head Injuries Healdsburg Tribune 20 September 1928 — California Digital Newspaper Collection Gordon Stewart Northcott's handwritten confession, Riverside, 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections People v. Northcott, 209 Cal. 639 | Casetext Search + Citator Gordon Stewart Northcott Archives - Deranged LA Crimes ®Deranged LA Crimes ® Gordon Stewart Northcott (1906-1930) - Find a Grave Memorial Clark, chief witness in `20s child murders led exemplary life – Whittier Daily News The Puzzling Disappearance Of Walter Collins | BuzzFeed Unsolved Wiki | Fandom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ch.03 E02 of Call of Cthulhu #TheGlassChronicles Welcome to The Glass Chronicles. A 3-chapter chronicle involving 15 characters total, and their descent into madness. Rock Bottom: What happens when you're miles beneath the surface of the earth, and the lights go out? Cast: VJ Stonecraft as Arabella Airheart: https://twitter.com/vj_stonecraft Bob McDonald as Nick McKay: https://twitter.com/stageoutlaw Tyler Cormier as Iris Belrose: https://twitter.com/FoolTheDM Caleb Miller as Dr. Sanford Clark: https://twitter.com/Ginsbergsong Adam Sowards as Lord R. M. Margrave: https://twitter.com/sowards_adam Kerri Smith as the Keeper: https://linktr.ee/KerriSmith2012 There are additional Content Warnings for this episode, and may contain spoilers. Horror, blood, gore, and language.

Ch.03 E01 of Call of Cthulhu #TheGlassChronicles Welcome to The Glass Chronicles. A 3-chapter chronicle involving 15 characters total, and their descent into madness. MARSCORP: When a large corporation pays you a large sum of cash for a job that you can only know details of upon arrival, you take it, right? Cast: VJ Stonecraft as Arabella Airheart: https://twitter.com/vj_stonecraft Bob McDonald as Nick McKay: https://twitter.com/stageoutlaw Tyler Cormier as Iris Belrose: https://twitter.com/FoolTheDM Caleb Miller as Dr. Sanford Clark: https://twitter.com/Ginsbergsong Adam Sowards as Lord R. M. Margrave: https://twitter.com/sowards_adam Kerri Smith as the Keeper: https://linktr.ee/KerriSmith2012 There are additional Content Warnings for this episode, and may contain spoilers. Horror, blood, gore, and language.

Ch.03 E03 of Call of Cthulhu #TheGlassChronicles Welcome to The Glass Chronicles. A 3-chapter chronicle involving 15 characters total, and their descent into madness. Whistleblower: DESCRIPTION REDACTED. Welcome to the finale. Cast: VJ Stonecraft as Arabella Airheart: https://twitter.com/vj_stonecraft Bob McDonald as Nick McKay: https://twitter.com/stageoutlaw Tyler Cormier as Iris Belrose: https://twitter.com/FoolTheDM Caleb Miller as Dr. Sanford Clark: https://twitter.com/Ginsbergsong Adam Sowards as Lord R. M. Margrave: https://twitter.com/sowards_adam Kerri Smith as the Keeper: https://linktr.ee/KerriSmith2012 There are additional Content Warnings for this episode, and may contain spoilers. Horror including body horror, blood, gore, and language.

Disco destacado para Brad Marino. Bajo el título de "Basement Beat" el estadounidense se ha marcado un fantástico disco de genuinos pildorazos ramonianos. Se reedita el "Good bad not evil" de Black Lips con surtido de bonus tracks. Y rendimos un pequeño homenaje al fallecido D.H. Peligro, batería de los Dead Kennedys. Playlist; Disco destacado; BRAD MARINO “Freak show” (Basement beat, 2022) BRAD MARINO “Rubber room” (Basement beat, 2022) BRAD MARINO “Sick sick sick sick” (Basement beat, 2022) SCREECHING WEASEL “She ain’t your baby” (Some freaks of atavism, 2020) SCREECHING WEASEL “My favorite nightmare” (The awful disclosures of Screeching Weasel, 2022) THE DICKIES “Blink 183” (7’’, 2022) FUNDACIÓN FRANCISCO FRANKENSTEIN “Atado y bien atado” (Vuelva usted mañana, 2022) DEAD KENNEDYS “Rawhide” (In God we trust Inc., 1981) DEAD KENNEDYS “Bleed for me” (Plastic surgery disasters, 1982) DEAD KENNEDYS “This could be anywhere” (Frankenchrist, 1985) THE BLACK LIPS “Rumbler” (Sing in a world that’s falling part, 2020) THE BLACK LIPS “Cold hands” (Good bad not evil, 2007) THE BLACK LIPS “Cruising” (Good bad not evil deluxe edition, 2022) DOCTOR EXPLOSION “Paleto” (Superioridad moral, 2022) Versión y original; SANFORD CLARK “(They call me) country” (1966) Escuchar audio

Today we're covering the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders which were committed by Gordon Stewart Norhtcott and the Nephew he made an unwilling accomplice, Sanford Clark.

51. Don't be a "fool" and miss a single second of the 'Aztec Werewolf's latest "Go Kat, GO!" radio program -enjoy a heartfelt tribute to the life & music of Sanford Clark who sadly passed away on the 4th at the age of 86,  hear the rockin' radio debut of Nina & The Hot Spots new CD "Monkey Business," rock out with young blues-man McKinley James (on tour NOW!) and dig the latest from Jimmy Dale Richardson, Darrel Higham and Jared Petteys. We'll catch up with Ryan Cain, bop in the country with The Smith's Ranch Boys and think about getting a new tattoo with The B*Stars! Thrill to favorites such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Poovey, Link Wray, The Kershaw Brothers, Carl Perkins & Buddy Holly in the latest episode of DJ Del Villarreal's "Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show!" -seriously rockin'!™

Payton's Week!This is a rough one guys. The Wineville Chicken Coup Murders were a series of abductions and murders in Los Angeles and Riverside County, CA between 1926 and 1928. Gordon Stewart Northcott was the main perpetrator, with help from his mother in certain cases. In part 1, we discuss early life for Stewart, his parents, and how he came to own land that he would turn into a small chicken ranch. He kidnapped his nephew, Sanford Clark, and took him back to his ranch in California where he physically and sexually abused Sanford for 2 years. Not only that but he had Sanford participate in the killings as well. This episode we discuss the known, and assumed victims of Stewart Northcott: the unidentified young man known as the "Headless Mexican", the assumed victims Walter Collins, and Lewis and Nelson Winslow. Stay tuned for part 2.

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If you've been listening to Random Old Records for awhile, you'll know that weather and the seasons are one of the primary inspirations behind the music on the show. Well it's hot and hazy here in Ohio, so naturally EPISODE #84 is laid back and easy going to help beat back the sweat and the steam of summer in the city.You will hear pub rock classics from Ducks Deluxe and Brinsley Schwarz, country-tinged obscurities by Twin Engine and Sanford Clark, new jams from Rose City Band, Primo, Lavender Flu, and Brigid Dawson, psychedelic pop hidden gems by Birmingham Sunday and Paul Parrish, plus so much more. Twang, loping rhythms, ghostly echo chambers, chill vibes that veer close to bad dreams, and cautious optimism is the order of the day. It's like ice for your brain, so hit that download button and give it a whirl.Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Come back next month (or so) for another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!Random Old Records Podcast #84Released 06/29/20DOWNLOAD HERE (Right-Click, "Save As")1. Alex Harvey - "Tulsa Turnaround"(Alex Harvey, Capitol 1971)2. Ducks Deluxe - "Fireball"(Ducks Deluxe, RCA 1974)3. Rose City Band - "Morning Light"(Summerlong, Thrill Jockey 2020)4. Stray - "Oil Fumes And Sea Air"(Mudanzas, Transatlantic 1973)--And now, a word from our sponsors!5. Brinsley Schwarz - "Trying To Live My Life Without You"(New Favourites, United Artists 1974)6. Michael Nesmith and the First National Band - "Mama Nantucket"(Magnetic South, RCA 1970)7. Sanford Clark - "Climbin' The Walls"(They Call Me Country, Numero 2019)8. Twin Engine - "My Life Gets Better Every Day"(Twin Engine, Rev-Ola 2004)9. Curly Putnam - "Talking To The Grass"(The Beginning Of The End, Iron Mountain 2018)--The passport to pleasure!10. Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network - "The Fool"(Ballet Of Apes, Castle Face 2020)11. Bobbie Gentry - "Courtyard (Demo)"(The Girl From Chickasaw County, UMC 2018)12. Paul Parrish - "Flowers In The Park"(The Forest Of My Mind, Music Factory 1968)13. Birmingham Sunday - "Medieval Journey"(A Message, All American 1969)14. The Great Scots - "Tell Her Please"(Arrive!, Beatrocket 2000)--Savage!15. Night Beats - "No Cops"(Who Sold My Generation, Heavenly 2016)16. Primo - "Machine"(Sogni, Upset The Rhythm 2020)17. Lavender Flu - "Mow The Glass"(Barbarian Dust, In The Red 2020)18. Jacuzzi Boys - "Guillotine"(Jacuzzi Boys, Hardly Art 2013)

Sparkie tells the tale of the serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott, his cousin/brother Sanford Clark, and the brutal murders of 4 young boys. There is also much discussion of the old days way back when (and wild speculation about such) and Ted Bundy, whose life has some surprising similarities to this killer's. Warning: contains talk of sexual abuse and child abuse. Don't say we didn't warn you. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wineville_Chicken_Coop_murders https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/wineville-chicken-coop-murders/ https://www.ranker.com/list/wineville-chicken-coop-murders/amandasedlakhevener https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/northcott-photos-4.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Stewart_Northcott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EiOrpgXZNE https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/the-wineville-chicken-murders/timeline Serial Killers podcast episodes on Gordon Northcott https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3416821/wineville-chicken-coop-murders-torture/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Collins --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creepylife/support

Vanavond ontdekken Frist & Vic een nieuwe genre: Popcorn Noir, oftewel de zwarte popcorn. Daarin muziek van Sanford Clark, Big Bertha, Joe Cuba, The Rascals en The Osmonds (neeeeh).

In an episode first aired on November 18, 2019: DJ Andrew Sandoval spins original 1960's 45's by The Deep Six, The Shanes, The Three Good Reasons, Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, Sanford Clark, The Hitmakers, The Plastic People, J.J. Cale, The Warmest Spring, The Sandals, John Bromley, Mortimer, The Quiet Five, The Happy Magazine, Everything Is Everything, Michael J. James, The Committee, Roberta Lee, The Split Level and Frugal Sound. In part two, he turns the Sunshine artist spotlight onto the Creation with a full hour of their blistering sounds produced by the legendary, Shel Talmy.

Muzikaal thema vandaag is Murder Ballads. Je hoort Sanford Clark, Dorus, The Leaves, John de Mol sr., P.J. Proby en Tommy Collins.

In a lurid, fascinating episode of After Hours AM/The Criminal Code Radio — with hosts Joel Sturgis, Eric Olsen, and secret weapon, forensic psychologist Dr. Clarissa Cole — we investigate the heinous early-20th century crimes of sexual predator and murderer Gordon Northcott with author and historian David Culczyk. We speak with David Top of Hour 2; at Hour 1 Clarissa leads us through the week’s most titillating True Crime news. Gordon Northcott was born in November of 1906 in Saskatchewan, Canada to parents Sarah Louise and Cyrus George, and raised in British Columbia. Not much is popularly known about the young Gordon Northcott, but it was said that he had “three-inch long hair all over his body” – thus earning him the nickname “The Ape Man/Boy” in the press years later. Regardless of this claim, it was clear that Northcott had a troubled youth. His nephew Sanford Clark later recalled that Gordon had been censured for a string of dubious behavior and unemployment in Canada, which eventually led to his parents purchasing a chicken ranch for him near Riverside, California – ostensibly to keep him out of trouble and give him something worthwhile to do. In 1926, the 19-year-old Gordon Northcott moved permanently to the ranch, and invited his 13-year-old nephew (who was small for his age), to come with him for a time. Sanford was excited to go at first, and Northcott’s sister and husband agreed to the arrangement. It was thought that Sanford would gain some valuable life experience working on the ranch, and that he would attend school in the US. This, however, was not to be. Almost immediately after arriving, Sanford was brutally raped and beaten by his uncle. And, this pattern continued every few nights for months. The only time it would let up was when Northcott had found himself another victim. Gordon Northcott murder farm At first Northcott merely coaxed bo

In the late 1920s, an estimated 20 boys or more are abducted, tortured and murdered at a chicken ranch in Wineville, California. My guest is Anthony Flacco, author of The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders. He tells the both tragic and inspiring story of Sanford Clark, the nephew of sadistic serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His thirteen- year-old nephew, Sanford Clark, was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Forced to take part in the murders, Sanford carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma, he helped gain some justice for the dead and their families by testify- ing at Northcott's trial-which led to his conviction and execution. It was a shocking story, but perhaps the most shocking part of all is the extraordinarily ordinary life Clark went on to live as a decorated WWII vet, a devoted husband of 55 years, a loving father, and a productive citizen.Using never-before-heard information from Sanford's son Jerry Clark-Flacco tells the real story behind the case that captivated the nation. In dramatizing one of the darkest cases in American crime, Flacco constructs a riveting psychological drama about how Sanford was able to detoxify himself from the evil he'd encountered, offering the ultimately redemptive story of one man's remarkable ability to survive a nightmare and emerge intact. ROAD OUT OF HELL-Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders-Anthony Flacco