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The Beach Boys: The Beach Boys Today!

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On March 8, 1965, “Capitol” label released “The Beach Boys Today!” the eighth Beach Boys (The) studio album. It was recorded in June 1964 – January 1965, at “RCA Victor” in Hollywood, and was produced by Brian Wilson.

Personnel:

  • Al Jardine – lead, harmony and backing vocals, electric rhythm guitar, bass guitar
  • Mike Love – lead, harmony and backing vocals, spoken word
  • Brian Wilson – lead, harmony and backing vocals, spoken word, four and six-string bass guitar, grand, upright and tack piano, Baldwin harpsichord, Farfisa and Hammond organ, conductor, mixing
  • Carl Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, spoken word, lead, rhythm and 12-string guitar, six-string bass guitar
  • Dennis Wilson – lead, harmony, backing, and double-tracked vocals (11), spoken word, drums, percussion, hi-hat, tambourine, tom-tom
  • Glen Campbell – 12-string acoustic guitar
  • Barney Kessel – classical guitar, 12-string guitar
  • Bill Pitman – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Ray Pohlman – baritone guitar, bass guitar
  • Billy Strange – acoustic and electric guitar, electric mandolin, ukulele
  • Ron Swallow – tambourine, woodblock
  • John Gray – grand piano
  • Don Randi – grand and tack upright piano, organ
  • Leon Russell – grand piano, organ, vibraphone 
  • Carl Fortina – accordion
  • Carrol Lewis – double-reed harmonica
  •  Billy Lee Riley – double-reed harmonica
  • Tommy Tedesco – autoharp, baritone and electric guitar, mandolin 
  • Carol Kaye – bass guitar
  • Larry Knechtel – bass guitar
  • Hal Blaine – drums, woodblocks, sleigh bells, triangle, tambourine, castanets, temple block, claves, timbales
  • Earl Palmer – drums, timbales
  • Russ Titelman – percussion
  • Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone 
  • Steve Douglas – tenor saxophone
  • Jack Nimitz – baritone saxophone
  • Jay Migliori – baritone saxophone
  • Earl Leaf – spoken word
  • “Louie” (last name unknown) – castanets
  • Marilyn Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, spoken word
  • Peter Christ – cor Anglais
  • David Duke – French horn
  • Julius Wechter – vibraphone, bell tree, timpani, tambourine, congas, claves
  • Jerry Williams – vibraphone, timpani
  • Craig Slowinski – vocal
  • Chuck Britz – engineer 
  • Larry Levine – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Do You Wanna Dance? – Bobby Freeman
  2. Good to My Baby – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  3. Don’t Hurt My Little Sister – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  4. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  5. Help Me, Ronda – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  6. Dance, Dance, Dance – Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love
  7. Please Let Me Wonder – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  8. I’m So Young – William H. “Prez” Tyus
  9. Kiss Me Baby – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  10. She Knows Me Too Well – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  11. In The Back of My Mind – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  12. Bull Session with the Big Daddy – Brian Wilson, Mike Love

Tin Huey: Contents Dislodged During Shipment

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On March 2, 1979, “Warner Bros” label released “Contents Dislodged During Shipment”, the third Tin Huey studio album. It was recorded in 1978, at “Warner Bros Recording Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Paul Wexler.

Personnel:

  • Chris Butler – vocals, guitar, percussion, birdcalls
  • Harvey Gold – vocals, piano, synthesizer, guitar
  • Michael Aylward – vocals, guitar, slide guitar
  • Mark Price – vocals, bass
  • Stuart Austin – vocals, drums, percussion, Synare drum synthesizer
  • Ralph Carney – vocals, bass, tenor, alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, organ, percussion, piano, harmonica

Track listing:

  1. I’m a Believer – Neil Diamond
  2. The Revelations of Dr. Modesto – Harvey Gold
  3. I Could Rule The World if I Could Only Get the Parts – Chris Butler
  4. Coronation – Chris Butler, Harvey Gold
  5. Slide – Chris Butler
  6. Hump Day – Chris Butler
  7. Pink Berets – Chris Butler, Harvey Gold
  8. Squirm You Worm – Mark Price, Harvey Gold
  9. Chinese Circus – Michael Aylward, Harvey Gold
  10. Puppet Wipes – Ralph Carney, Harvey Gold
  11. New York’s Finest Dining Experience – Michael Aylward, Harvey Gold

Bobbie Gentry: The Delta Sweete

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On February 5, 1968, “Capitol” label released “The Delta Sweete”, the second Bobbie Gentry studio album. It was recorded July – December 1967, at “Capitol” in Hollywood, and was produced by Kelly Gordon.

Personnel:

  • Bobby Gentry – vocals, acoustic guitar, vibes, keyboards, Ondes Martenot, rhythm arrangements
  • James Burton – guitar
  • Michael Casey – electric guitar
  • Del Kacher – guitar
  • George Fields – harmonica, cross harp
  • Cliff Hills – bass guitar
  • Ray Brown – Fender bass
  • Max Bennett – Fender bass, electric bass, string bass
  • Hal Blaine – drums, congas, chimes
  • Oliver E. Mitchell – drums, congas, mallets
  • Dale Anderson – mallets, timpani
  • Dennis Budimir – bells, percussion
  • Harry Middlebrooks – hambone percussion
  • Earl Palmer – Latin percussion
  • Chester Ricord – timpani
  • Ollie Mitchell – trumpet
  • Jack Sheldon – trumpet
  • Shorty Rogers – bass trumpery, horn arrangements, trumpet
  • Louis Blackburn – trombone
  • Harold Diner – trombone
  • Richard Leith – trombone
  • Gail Martin – trombone
  • Lew McCreary – trombone
  • Kenneth Shroyer – trombone
  • Tony Terran – trumpet
  • Benjamin Barrett – conductor
  • Harry Bluestone – violin
  • Henry Both – violin
  • William Kurasch – violin
  • Leonard Malarsky – violin
  • Harry L. Roth – violin
  • Paul Shure – violin
  • Marshall Sosson – violin
  • Tibor Zelig – violin
  • Sidney Sharp – violin, viola
  • James Getsoff – violin, viola
  • Jesse Ehrlich – cello
  • Armand Kaproff – cello
  • Raphael Kraemer – cello
  • Anne Leadman – cello
  • Joseph Saxon – cello
  • Jimmie Haskell – string arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Bobbie Gentry, except where noted.

  1. Okolona River Bottom Band
  2. Big Boss Man – Luther Dixon, Al Smith
  3. Reunion
  4. Parchman Farm – Mose Allison
  5. Mornin’ Glory
  6. Sermon
  7. Tobacco Road – John D. Loudermilk
  8. Penduluh Pendulum
  9. Jessye’ Lisabeth
  10. Louisiana Man – Doug Kershaw
  11. Courtyard
  12. Louisiana Man (Demo) – Doug Kershaw

The Rolling Stones: Between The Buttons

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On January 20, 1967,”Decca” label released “Between the Buttons”, the fifth Rolling Stones (The) album. It was recoded August – September 1966, at “RCA” in Hollywood, “IBC”, “Olympic”, “Pye” in London, and was produced by Andrew Loog Oldham.

Personnel:

  • Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, tambourine, bass drum, harmonica
  • Brian Jones – organ, piano, electric and slide guitar, banjo, recorder, vibraphone, tambourine, harmonica, dulcimer, kazoo, theremin, saxophone, handclaps
  • Keith Richards – co-lead and backing coals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, bass, double bass
  • Bill Wyman – bass guitar, double bass, handclaps, backing vocals
  • Charlie Watts – drums, maracas, handclaps
  • Jack Nitzsche – piano, harpsichord
  • Ian Stewart – piano, organ
  • Nicky Hopkins – keyboards
  • Nick De Caro – accordion 
  • Unidentified session musicians – brass (tuba, trumpet, saxophone)
  • Art Greenslade – conductor

Track listing:

All tracks by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

  1. Yesterday’s Papers
  2. My Obsession
  3. Back Street Girl
  4. Connection
  5. She Smiled Sweetly
  6. Cool, Calm & Collected
  7. All Sold Out
  8. Please Go Home
  9. Who’s Been Sleeping Here?
  10. Miss Amanda Jones
  11. Something Happened to Me Yesterday

Nat King Cole And His Trio: After Midnight

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In January 1957, “Capitol” label released “After Midnight”, album by Nat King Cole and His Trio (15th Nat King Cole album overall). It was recorded August – September 1956, at “Capitol” in Hollywood.

Personnel:

  • Nat King Cole – vocals, piano
  • John Collins – guitar
  • Charlie Harris – bass
  • Lee Young – drums
  • Willie Smith – alto saxophone
  • Harry Edison – trumpet
  • Juan Tizol – trombone
  • Stuff Smith – violin
  • Jack Costanzo – bongos

Track listing:

  1. Just You, Just Me – Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages
  2. Sweet Lorraine – Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish
  3. Sometimes I’m Happy – Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans
  4. Caravan – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Jian Tizol
  5. It’s Only a Paper Moon – Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg, Billy Rose
  6. You’re Looking at Me – Bobby Troup
  7. Lonely One – Lenny Hambro, Roberta Heller
  8. Don’t Let It Go to Your Head – Henry Hadamik, Frank LaVere, Bob Nast
  9. I Know That You Know – Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell
  10. Blame It on My Youth – Oscar Levant, Edward Heyman
  11. When I Grow Too Old to Dream – Oscar Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg
  12. (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 – Bobby Troup

The Monkees: More Of The Monkees

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On January 9, 1967, “Colgems” label released “More of the Monkees”, the second Monkees (The) studio album. It was recorded June – November 1966, at “RCA Victor A, B” in Hollywood, “RCA Victor A, B” in New York, “Western Recorders No. 2” in Hollywood, and was produced by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, Michael Nesmith, Jeff Barry, Jack Keller, Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The album was certified quintuple platinum in the US by the “RIAA”,

Personnel:

  • Micky Dolenz – lead vocals and backing vocals
  • Davy Jones – lead and backing vocals
  • Peter Tork – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Michael Nesmith – lead and backing vocals, steel guitar
  • Wayne Erwin – guitar, backing vocals
  • Gerry McGee – guitar
  • Louie Shelton – guitar
  • Al Gafa – guitar
  • Willard Suyker – guitar
  • Don Thomas – guitar
  • James Burton – guitar
  • Glen Campbell – guitar
  • Al Casey – guitar
  • Mike Deasy – guitar
  • Neil Diamond – guitar
  • Sal DiTroia – guitar
  • Al Gorgoni – guitar
  • Carol Kaye – guitar
  • Norm Jeffries – tambourine
  • Michael Cohen – keyboards
  • Larry Knechtel – keyboards
  • Neil Sedaka – keyboards
  • Michael Cohen – keyboards
  • Larry Knechtel – keyboards
  • Don Randi – keyboards
  • Michel Rubini – keyboards
  • George Butcher – keyboards
  • Stan Free – keyboards
  • Bobby Hart – organ, backing vocals
  • Larry Taylor – bass guitar
  • Russ Savakus – bass guitar
  • Bob West – bass guitar
  • Ray Pohlman – bass guitar
  • Billy Lewis – drums
  • Herbie Lovelle – drums
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Buddy Saltzman – drums
  • George Devens – percussion
  • Frank Capp – percussion
  • Julius Wechter – percussion
  • Gary Coleman – percussion
  • Jim Gordon – percussion
  • Louis Haber – violin
  • Irving Spice – violin
  • Louis Stone – violin
  • David Sackson – viola
  • Murray Sandry – viola
  • Seymour Barab – cello
  • Jeff Barry – backing vocals
  • Tommy Boyce – backing vocals
  • Ron Hicklin – backing vocals
  • Don Peake – conductor
  • Artie Butler – string arrangements
  • Don Kirshner – music supervisor
  • Lester Sill – music coordinator
  • Emil LaViola – music coordinator
  • Ernie Oelrich – engineer
  • Henry Lewy – engineer
  • Hank Cicalo – engineer
  • Richie Schmitt – engineer
  • Richard Podolor – engineer
  • Dave Hassinger – engineer
  • Ray Hall – engineer

Track listing:

  1. She – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
  2. When Love Comes Knockin’ (At Your Door) – Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka
  3. Mary, Mary – Michael Nesmith
  4. Hold on Girl – Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh
  5. Your Auntie Grizelda – Diane Hildebrand, Jack Keller
  6. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
  7. Look Out (here Comes Tomorrow) – Neil Diamond
  8. The Kind of Girl I Could Love – Michael Nesmith, Roger Atkins
  9. The Day We Fall in Love – Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell
  10. Sometime in the Morning –Gerry Goffin, Carole King
  11. Laugh – Phil Margo, Mitch Margo, Hank Medress, Jay Siegel
  12. I’m a Believer – Neil Diamond

Henry Mancini: The Music From Peter Gunn

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In January 1959, “RCA Victor” label released “The Music from Peter Gunn”, the fourth Henry Mancini album. It was recorded August – September 1958, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Simon Rady. In 1998, the album was inducted into the “Grammy Hall of Fame”.

Personnel:

  • Pete Candoli, Ray Linn, Frank Beach, Uan Rasey, Conrad Gozzo – trumpet
  • Dick Nash, Jimmy Priddy, Milt Bernhart, Karl DeKarske – trombone
  • John Graas, Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi, John Cave – French horn
  • Ted Nash, Plas Johnson, Ronny Lang, Paul Horn, Gene Cipriano – reeds
  • John Williams – piano
  • Bob Bain, Al Hendrickson – guitar
  • Victor Feldman, Larry Bunker – vibraphone
  • Rolly Bundock – bass
  • Shelly Manne, Alvin Stoller, Jack Sperling – drums

Track listing:

  1. Peter Gunn
  2. Sorta Blue
  3. The Brothers Go to Mother’s
  4. Dreamsville
  5. Session at Pete’s Pad
  6. Soft Sounds
  7. Fallout!
  8. The Floater
  9. Slow and Easy
  10. A Profound Gass
  11. Brief and Breezy
  12. Not from Dixie

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Lightly

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In December 1958, “Verve” label released “Ella Swings Lightly”, album by Ella Fitzgerald. It was recorded in November 1958, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Norman Granz. This album won Ella Fitzgerald the 1960 Grammy award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

Personnel:

  • Ella Fitzgerald – vocal
  • Marty Paich’s Dek-Tette: Bud Shank – alto saxophone 
  • Bill Holman – tenor saxophone
  • Med Flory – baritone saxophone 
  • Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino – trumpet
  • Bob Enevoldsen – valve trombone, tenor saxophone 
  • Vincent DeRosa – French horn
  • Lou Levy  – piano
  • Joe Mondragon – bass 
  • Mel Lewis – drums 

Track listing:

  1. Little White Lies – Walter Donaldson
  2. You Hit the Spot – Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
  3. What’s Your Story, Morning Glory? – Jack Lawrence, Paul Francis Webster, Mary Lou Williams
  4. Just You, Just Me – Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages
  5. As Long as I Live – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  6. Teardrops from My Eyes – Rudy Toombs
  7. Gotta Be This or That – Sunny Skylar
  8. Moonlight on the Ganges – Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace
  9. My Kinda Love – Louis Alter, Jo Trent
  10. Blues in the Night – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  11. If I Were a Bell – Frank Loesser
  12. You’re an Old Smoothie – Nacio Herb Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Richard A. Whiting
  13. Little Jazz – Roy Eldridge, Buster Harding
  14. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me – Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Peter Norman
  15. Knock Me a Kiss – Mike Jackson
  16. 720 in the Books – Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Leo Watson

The Jackson 5: Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5

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On December 12, 1969, “Motown” label released “Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5”, the debut Jackson 5 (The) studio album. It was recorded May – August 1969, at “The Sound Factory” in Hollywood, California, and was produced by Bobby Taylor and The Corporation (Berry Gordy, Alphonso Mizell, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards).

Personnel:

  • The Jackson 5 (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael) – vocals
  • David Blumberg, David Van DePitte, Paul Riser, The Corporation – arrangements
  • Curtis McNair – artwork direction
  • Ken Kim – artwork, design
  • Jim Hendin – cover photography

Track listing:

  1. Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah – Ray Gilbert, Allie Wrubel
  2. Nobody – The Corporation
  3. I Want You Back – The Corporation
  4. Can You Remember – Thom Bell, William Hart
  5. Standing in the Shadow of Love – Holland-Dozier-Holland
  6. You’ve Changed – Jesse Reese
  7. My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Hank Cosby
  8. Who’s Lovin’ You – Smokey Robinson
  9. Chained – Frank Wilson
  10. I Know I’m Losing You – Cornelius Grant, Norman Whitfield, Eddie Holland
  11. Stand – Sylvester Stewart
  12. Born to Love You – Ivy Jo Hunter, William “Mickey” Stevenson