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Gordon Jenkin’s paean to The Big Apple, Manhattan Tower — which combines narration, dialogue, sound effects and mood music, along with the songs themselves — was a bold step forward, artistically speaking, for the phonographic medium. Could this be one of vinyl’s first “concept albums”? [Woody Guthrie‘s Dust Bowl Ballads
For their one and only recording on Elektra Records, The Ship would seamlessly link their group’s name with the album’s title and concept: A Contemporary Folk Music Journey. The provocative quote on the album’s back cover — “I’m a sailor of the waters and the sun – I can fight
With the aid of producer, Bob Dorough (“Schoolhouse Rock”), Spanky & Our Gang put together an ambitious song cycle – 1969’s Without Rhyme or Reason – where all the songs are interlinked for continuous sound from start to finish. Album opener “Leopard Skin Phones” also ended up as the B-side
How nutty to release 12 albums of Moog synthesizer music simultaneously, one for each sign of the Zodiac. And yet Mort Garson somehow convinced A&M to do so in 1969 – “I Know You Aries,” the lead-off track on the Aries LP, could have been the A-side of a 45:
Zero to 180 has been working tirelessly to determine who recorded the final surf song of the original era and when. Two previous posts (A and B) featured a pair of surf tunes from 1967 that seemed to spell the end of surf’s first wave. But then I was recently
I picked up a double album anthology of Jan & Dean‘s best work and found myself rather bemused by one particular track — and outright befuddled by an entire album side. First, the song — 1964’s “The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review and Timing Association,” one of
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