On February 2, 1967, “Dunhill” label released “Deliver”, the third Mamas & the Papas (The) studio album. It was recorded in `1966, and was produced by Lou Adler.
Personnel:
Denny Doherty – vocals
Cass Elliot – vocals
John Phillips – vocals, guitar
Michelle Phillips – vocals
Jill Gibson – vocals
Scott McKenzie – 12-string acoustic, guitar
“Doctor” Eric Hord – guitar
P.F. Sloan – guitar
Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Larry Knechtel – keyboards
Joe Osborn – bass guitar
Hal Blaine – drums, percussion
Gary Coleman – percussion, bells, marimba
Jim Horn – flute, saxophone
Track listing:
All tracks by John Phillips, except where noted.
Dedicated to the One I Love – Ralph Bass, Lowman Pauling
My Girl – Smokey Robinson, Ronald White
Creeque Alley – John Phillips, Michelle Phillips
Sing for Your Supper – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
On August 12, 1963, “Columbia” label released “Laughing on the Outside”, the fourth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in April – June 1963, at “Columbia Recording Studios” in New York and Hollywood, and was produced by Robert Mersey.
Personnel:
Aretha Franklin – vocals
Robert Mersey – arrangements, conductor
Don Arnome, Tommy Tedesco, Billy Strange – guitar
Earl Van Dyke, Dave Grusin, Andrew Acker, Leon Russell – piano
C. Bosler, Ray Pohlman, Melvin Pollan – bass guitar
Hindel Butts, Hal Blaine – drums
Plas Johnson – saxophone
Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
Robert Ascher – trombone
Bernard Eichenbaum, Julius Schacter, Leo Kahn, Berl Senofsky, Felix Gigol, Max Pollikoff, George Ockner, John Rublowsky, Sid Sharp, Tibor Zelig, George Poole, Irving Lipschultz, Irving Weinper, Darrel Terwilliger – violin
R. Dickler, Theodore Israel, Jacob Glick – viola
Jesse Erlich, Anthony Twardowsky, Joseph Tekula – cello
Track listing:
Skylark – Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
For All We Know – Sam M. Lewis, J. Fred Coots
Make Someone Happy – Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne
I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight) – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
Solitude – Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills
Laughing on the Outside – Bernie Wayne, Ben Raleigh
Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
Until The Real Thing Comes Along – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
If Ever I Would Leave You – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Where Are You? – Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
Mr. Ugly – Norman Mapp
I Wanna Be Around – Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt
On March 2, 1964, “Capitol” label released “Shut Down Volume 2”, the fifth Beach Boys (The) studio album. It was recorded January – February 1964, at “Western” and “Gold Star” in Hollywood, and was produced by Brian Wilson.
Personnel:
Carl Wilson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar
Brian Wilson – lead and backing vocals, piano, Hammond B-3 organ
Mike Love – lead and backing vocals, tenor saxophone
Al Jardine – bass guitar, electric rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Dennis Wilson – lead and backing vocals, drums, floor tom
Bill Pitman – archtop acoustic guitar
Tommy Tedesco – electric guitar
Leon Russell – piano, tack piano
Al de Lory – piano
Ray Pohlman – 6-string bass guitar, bass guitar
Jimmy Bond – double bass
Hal Blaine – drums, tambourine, bell-tree, percussion, timpani
Frank Capp – glockenspiel, temple blocks, castanets
Steve Douglas – tenor saxophone
Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone
Jay Migliori – baritone saxophone
Track listing:
Fun, Fun, Fun – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
Don’t Worry Baby – Brian Wilson, Roger Christian
In the Parkin’ Lot – Brian Wilson, Roger Christian
‘Cassius’ Love vs Sonny Wilson – Mike Love, Brian Wilson
The Warmth of the Sun – Mike Love, Brian Wilson
This Car of Mine – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
Why Do Fools Fall in Love – Frankie Lymon, George Goldner
On August 30, 1966, “Dunhill” label released the self-titled, second Mamas & the Papas (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1966, and was produced by Lou Adler.
Personnel:
Denny Doherty – vocals
Cass Elliot – vocals
Michelle Phillips – vocals
Jill Gibson – vocals
John Phillips – vocals, guitar
“Doctor” Eric Hord – guitar
Tommy Tedesco – guitar
P. F. Sloan – guitar
Larry Knechtel – piano, organ
Ray Manzarek – piano, organ
Joe Osborn – bass guitar
Hal Blaine – drums, percussion
Peter Pilafian – electric violin
Jimmie Haskell – string arrangements
Gene Page – horn arrangements
Dayton “Bones” Howe – engineer
Henry Lewy – engineer
Bowen David – engineer assistant
George Whiteman – artwork
Guy Webster – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by John Phillips, except where noted.
No Salt on Her Tail
Trip, Stumble and Fall – John Phillips, Michelle Gilliam
Dancing Bear
Words of Love
My Heart Stood Still – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Dancing in the Street – Marvin Gaye, William “Mickey” Stevenson, Ivy Jo Hunter
On May 30, 1966, “Reprise” label released “Strangers in the Night”, the 43rd Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded April – May 1966, in Hollywood, and was produced by Jimmy Bowen. At the 1967 “Grammy Awards”, Frank Sinatra won “Record of the Year” and “Best Male Vocal Performance”. Ernie Freeman’s arrangement of the title track won him the “Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist”, and Eddie Brackett and Lee Herschberg’s engineering earned them the “Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical”. The album was certified Platinum in Us by the “RIIA”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Glen Campbell, Al Viola – guitar
Artie Kane – Hammond B3 organ
Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Cappy Lewis, Ray Triscari – trumpet
Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson, Tom Shepard – trombone
George Roberts – bass trombone
Chuck Gentry, Bill Green, Justin Gordon, Harry Klee, Ronny Lang – saxophone
Vincent DeRosa, Henry Sigismonti, Gale Robinson, Richard Perissi – French horn
Bill Green, Andreas Kostelas – flute
Sidney Sharp, Lennie Malarsky, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Robert Sushe, John De Voogdt, Bernard Kundell, Tibor Zelig, Victor Amo, Alex Beller, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci Gerald Vinci, William Weiss, Harry Bluestone – violin
Harry Hyams, Joseph Di Fiore, Darrel Terwilliger, Alex Neiman, Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, Armand Kaproff – viola
Justin DiTullio, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff – vielle
Bill Miller, Michel Rubini – piano
Alvin Casey, William Pitman, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Chuck Berghofer, Ralph Pefla – bass
Hal Blaine, Irving Cottler – drums
Eddie Brackett Jr., Emil Richards – percussion
Ernie Freeman – arrangements
Donnie Lanier, Nelson Riddle – conductor
Track listing:
Strangers in the Night (from the “Universal” picture “A Man Could Get Killed” – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
Summer Wind – Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer
All or Nothing at All – Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence
Call Me – Tony Hatch
You’re Driving Me Crazy – Walter Donaldson
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
My baby Just Cares for Me – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Downtown – Tony Hatch
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
On November 22, 1963, “Philles” label released “A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records”, an album of Christmas songs. It was recorded September – October 1963, at “Gold Star” in Hollywood, and was produced by Phil Spector. In 2003, the album was ranked at no. 142 on “Rolling Stone” magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, and in 2019, it was ranked the greatest “Christmas Album of All Time”.
Personnel:
Darlen Love – performer (White Christmas, Marshmallow World, Winter Wonderland, Christmas, Baby Please Come Home)
The Ronettes – performer (Frosty the Snowman, Sleigh Ride, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus)
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans – performer (The Bells of St. Mary’s, Here Comes Santa Claus)
The Crystals – performer (Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers)
Phil Spector – performer (Silent Night)
Barney Kessel – guitar
Bill Pitman – guitar
Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Nino Tempo – guitar
Irv Rubins – guitar
Leon Russell – piano
Al De Lory – piano
Don Randi – piano
Ray Pohlman – bass
Jimmy Bond – bass
Hal Blaine – drums
Sonny Bono – percussion
Frank Capp – percussion
Jack Nitzsche – percussion, arrangements
Jay Migliori – saxophone
Steve Douglas – baritone saxophone
Roy Caton – trumpet
Lou Blackburn – horns
Johnny Vidor – strings
Larry Levine – engineer
Track listing:
White Christmas – Irving Berlin
Frosty the Snowman – Steve Nelson, Walter Rollins
The bells of St. Mary’s – A. Emmet Adams, Douglas Furber
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish
Marshmallow World – Carl Sigman, Peter DeRose
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Tommie Connor
Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer – Johnny Marks
Winter Wonderland – Felix Bernard, Dick Smith
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers – Leon Jessel
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home – Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector
Here Comes Santa Claus – Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman
In February 1963, “RCA Victor” label released “Mr. Soul”, the eleventh Sam Cooke studio album. It was recorded in August; November and December, 1962, at “RCA’s Music Center of the World”, and was produced by Hugo & Luigi.
Personnel:
Sam Cooke – vocals
Clifton White, Bill Pitman,Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Edward Beal, Ernie Freeman, Al Pellegrini, Ernie Freeman – piano
Ray Johnson – piano
Nathan Griffin – organ
Ray Pohlman, Clifford Hils, Red Callender– bass guitar
Sharky Hall – drums
Earl Palmer– drums
Ron Rich – percussion
Bill Green, Plas Johnson– saxophone
John Ewing – trombone
William Hinshaw – French horn
Israel Baker, Robert Barene, Leonard Malarsky, Myron Sandler, Ralph Schaeffer, Sid Sharp, Arnold Belnick, Autrey McKissack, Ralph Schaeffer, Robert Barene, Jermoe Reisler – violin
Harry Hyams, Alexander Neiman – viola
Jesse Ehrlich, Irving Lipschultz, George Neikrug, Emmet Sergeant – cello
Horace Ott, René Hall– arrangements, conductor
Dave Hassinger– recording
Track listing:
I Wish You Love – Charles Trenet, Lee Wilson, Albert Beach
Willow Weep for Me – Ann Ronell
Chains of Love- Ahmet Ertegun, under the pseudonym Nugetre
Smoke Rings – Ned Washington, H. Eugene Gifford
All the Way – Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
Send Me Some Lovin’ – Leo Price, John Marascalco
Cry Me a River – Arthur Hamilton
Driftin’ Blues – Johnny Moore, Charles Brown, Eddie Williams
For Sentimental Reasons – Deek Watson, William Best
Nothing Can Change This Love – Sam Cooke
Little Girl – Madeline Hyde, Francis Henry
These Foolish Things – Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strachey, Harry Link
In September 1974, “Columbia” label released “Peace on You”, Roger McGuinn second album. It was recorded in 1974, at “The Record Plant” and “Wally Heider’s Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Bill Halverson.
Personnel:
Roger McGuinn – vocals, guitar, bass
Dan Fogelberg- vocals, guitar
Al Kooper- guitar, piano, clavinet, arrangements, conductor
Donnie Dacus – vocals, guitar
Al Perkins- steel guitar
Tommy Tedesco- flamenco guitar
Paul “Harry” Harris- keyboards
Leland Sklar- bass
Russ Kunkel- drums, percussion
Mark Volman, William McLeish Smith, Gwendolyn Edwards, Paul Stallworth, Howard Kaylan, Brooks Hunnicutt, Brenda Gordon, Tim Coulter, Brian Russell, Jorge Calderon – vocals
Lee Kiefer – arrangements, conductor
Tracks listing:
All tracks by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy except where noted.
In August 1970, “A&M” label released “Come Saturday Morning”, the eight Sandpipers (The) album. It was recorded in 1970, and was produced by Bob Alcivar and Allen Stanton.
Personnel:
Michael Piano, Jim Brady, Richard Shoff – vocals
Dennis Budimer – electric guitar
Mike Anthony, Tommy Tedesco – rhythm guitar
Larry Knechtel – piano, organ
Jimmy Rowles – piano
Joe Osborn – bass
Hal Blaine – drums
Larry Bunker: percussion
The Bill Holman Orchestra
Patrice Holloway, Carolyn Willis, Susan Tallman – vocals
Ray Gerhardt – engineer
Shelley Gordon, Jill Sheridan, Ruth – production assistant
Tom Wilkes – art direction
Jim McCrary – photography
Track listing:
Santo Domingo – Rudi Lindt, Peter Poll, Michael Piano
The Long and Winding Road – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Free to Carry On – Jim Brady, Dale Bobbitt
A Song of Joy – Miguel Ríos
Where There’s a Heartache – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
(He’s Got the) Whole World In His Hands – traditional, a by Bob Alcivar
The Drifter – Paul Williams, Roger Nichols
Sound of Love – Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb
Autumn Afternoon – Dick and Don Addrisi
Come Saturday Morning – Fred Karlin, Dory Previn
The Wonder of You – Baker Knight
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls – Stu Phillips, Bob Stone
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