VAN DYKE PARKS Song Cycle 1967 Gold Label WB 1st Press FOLK PSYCH Gem in SHRINK
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PHASE ONE of a large group of Vintage 60s & 70s PSYCH LPs in this Auction series.
from 50+ years collection of decades-long radio DJ, Record Store associate and dedicated Vinyl Collector. MORE (Phase 2 and Phase 3) to be listed in the coming weeks.
These AUCTIONS are Long Overdue! Medical issues got in the way over the last few months, but Back on track now with many Highly Sought obscure Rarities, Classic Cornerstone LPs and Faves finally here for you! My apologies to any and all loyal collectors and past buyers who have waited so long. .
All Auctions in this series start at 99¢ opening bid!
...everybody should have a good chance at taking a few of these treasures home.
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Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a number of PROMOs and UK Imports.
Many still in Shrink wrap, some Still Sealed. Most of these LPs are in strong VG+ to NM Condition.
Quite a few STERLING, MASTERDISK, ARTISAN and BELL SOUND Masters and MONARCH Pressings in the mix!
Hard Psych, Acid Psych, Garage Psych, Folk Psych, Fuzz Psych, Hippie Psych, Guitar God Psych, Mod Psych, Mad Psych, Experimental Psych, Popsike, San Francisco Flower Power Psych, Texas Psych, UK Psych, Blues Psych, Private Psych, Stoner Psych, Punk Psych, Proto-Punk-Folk Psych, Dark Psych, Baroque Psych, Underground Psych, Prog Psych, Unknown Psych, Regional Psych ... and solid batches of multiple Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Love and The Grateful Dead in this 1st Phase. HAVE FUN!
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VAN DYKE PARKS SONG CYCLE
WARNER BROS. Records WS 1727 Original 1967 issue Stereo LP
FIRST PRESSING • 1A / 1A Matrix Original First Issue GOLD Labels Mastered by CUSTOMATRIX Original First 1967 Cover
VINYL is VG+
Extremely Clean, High Gloss Vinyl shows some light scattered, non-feelable hairlines, viewed under hard bright light, that do not affect play. LP plays very clean throughout. Clean, bright labels with no spindle trails.
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COVER is NEAR MINT Snapping bright, unfaded and spanking clean cover still in the complete original Shrink Wrap, with no creases, wear, soil or marks. All edges straight, all corners sharp. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits. Spine titles are crisp, sharp and completely legible.
STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG
RARE 1967 • TRUE FIRST PRESSING • 1A/1A MATRIX w/Orig.Liner Notes, Personnel on BACK COVER
First Released in November 1967; with Back Cover featuring Paul Jay Robbins liner notes and full musician credits Next (1968) pressing cover had different back, removing the entire musician credits section and the Robbins liner notes - instead adding partial lyrics, song durations and other text, format, info changes.
…also on this 1st cover back: printed b&w WB logo box with Mono & Stereo catalog #s to its left. "Lyrics to the songs are available by writing Copyright Dept., Warner Bros. Records, Burbank, Calif." printed small below that.
'5' printed on back cover, in bottom-right corner.
RECORDED AND ENGINEERED BY LEE HERSCHBERG and BRUCE BOTNICK, THE ORIGINAL DOORS RECORDING ENGINEER (You can see BELOW an INTERVIEW with BOTNICK's recollections about recording sessions for this album! ) *NOT the one line BOTNICK Quote a little ways down ... There is an actual detailed interview AT THE VERY BOTTOM of this listing. FASCINATING and revealing info about this LP.
Musicians / Voices on the album include: Ron Elliott, Randy Newman, Red Rhodes, Jim Hendricks, Steve Young, (“WRECKING CREW” musicians): Hal Blaine, Jim Gordon, Tommy Tedesco, Dennis Budimer, Earl Palmer, Jay Migliori, Tom Scott and Jim Horn among others.
Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood and others,
Engineered by Lee Herschberg and Bruce Botnick
Produced by Lenny Waronker
Mastered by CUSTOMATRIX
MATRIX NUMBERS SIDE ONE: 393I9-1A WS-1727-A o A
SIDE TWO: 39320-1A WS-1727-B o A 2 "o" denotes Mastering at CUSTOMATRIX
Original WARNER BROS.Company Inner Sleeve included - with creases or splits.
*Disc inside separate anti-static lined inner sleeve,
to protect both the Vinyl and the original inner. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"Van Dyke Parks moved on from Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' abortive SMiLE sessions to record his own solo debut, Song Cycle, an audacious and frequently brilliant conception to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop."
Track Listing SIDE ONE
Vine Street
Palm Desert
Widow's Walk
Laurel Canyon Blvd.
The All Golden
Van Dyke Parks
SIDE TWO
Public Domain
Donovan's Colours
The Attic
Laurel Canyon Blvd.
By The People
Pot Pourri
As indicated by its title, Song Cycle is a thematically coherent work, one which attempts to embrace aspects of the breadth of American popular music; tin pan alley, jazz, bluegrass, ragtime, show tunes -- nothing escapes Parks' radar, and the sheer eclecticism and individualism of his work is remarkable.
Opening with "Vine Street", authored by Randy Newman, the album is both forward-thinking and back-looking minded, a collision of bygone musical styles with the progressive sensibilities of the late '60s; while occasionally overambitious and at times naively coy …just as SMiLE was, it's nevertheless a one-of-a-kind record, the product of true inspiration.
*a fascinating, in-depth article and overview of this LP can be found at WIKIPEDIA and is highly recommended to understand the significance and influence that SONG CYCLE had on the blossoming of 1960’s music scene.
Very Rare A1 / A1, TRUE FIRST PRESS of this MILESTONE 1960's LP especially to find so clean today after 58 Years!
…an inadvertent "psychedelic masterpiece"
~BRUCE BOTNICK _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeve
. Even though still in the original shrink wrap LP kept in an additional protective, poly outer-sleeve
Please see my other listings for more Rare Vintage Collectible Psych
and related Vintage 1960s and 70s Rock LPs. ___________________________________________________
From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s.
Sadly he has now finally left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
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Several thousand records (mostly LP's, but also hundreds of 45's), several hundred collectible and Rare, Out of Print CDs and Box Sets, plus posters and other memorabilia will all eventually be listed.
Truly a great (and enormous) collection! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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EXCERPT FROM MATTHEW GREENWALD'S INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE BOTNICK, LEGENDARY ENGINEER OF ALL SIX DOORS STUDIO ALBUMS (AND THE CO-PRODUCER OF L.A. WOMAN)
on VAN DYKE PARKS’ Song Cycle:
MG: Let's talk about Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle a little bit.
BB: One of my favorites.
MG: What do you recall about the evolution of recording that album?
BB: Van Dyke Parks recorded all around town; he did a lot of stuff that was on four-track that later got bounced to eight-track. On some of the cuts the strings were done at Western Recorders Studio 2. Van did a lot of it at United Western. I didn't do a lot of the recording; Lee Hershberg did the majority of it. The man should be canonized. Anyway, I did a couple of tracks at Sunset Sound, and some of the vocals, but I did all of the mixing, and this is where it all sort of came together. We did a lot of experimenting; I came up with something called a "Farkle" (laughter). In those days we didn't have a lot of tools to modify electronic sound. We didn't have phasers, we didn't have flangers, we didn't have anything like that. They didn't exist, so you kind of had to make things happen [by using your imagination.]
The "Farkle" was sort of like that. It was basically where I could take the return of the echo chamber and bring it back into a quarter-inch mono tape machine, and on the capstan I had hand-folded masking tape into eighth-inch pieces, so it was like a fan, and then taped it around the capstan. When the tape would go through, it would make this fluttering sound, and the tape would bounce over the heads. If you listen to that album, you'll hear a lot of that. So, that was one of the things that I came up with because we didn't have those kinds of tools. Basically it was a lot of experimentation, different reverb types, using the combination of the acoustical chamber and an EMT (plate reverb) simultaneously, playing stuff out into the studio and bringing it back on crystal microphones just to get weird pick-ups.
But also beyond the incredible creativity of Van Dyke and his mind, the one person who really understood how to pull it together was Lenny Waronker. I'll never forget when we were mixing it down at Sunset Sound. Joe Smith was there, Mo Ostin was there, Lenny was there, and Jac Holzman was hanging out. Jac started bidding for the album with Mo, "Let me put this album out on Elektra, I know just what to do with it; I must have this album...."
MG: To put it out on ELEKTRA?
BB: Yeah! (laughter) And they're bidding right in front of us, we're watching, heads going back and forth like a tennis match. Van Dyke's credibility shot up a lot because Jac Holzman realized what the album was. He probably knew that the album wasn't going to really sell, but he wanted it because he knew creatively it was going to enhance all the other acts. One of the things about Elektra, and it holds true about Columbia Records, Atlantic Records, in — I don't want to say “the old days" — but in days gone by, was that labels had a sound, they had an identity. And you signed with a label because of the artists who were on it. Everybody didn't do rap, everybody didn't to this or do that. Elektra didn't do jazz. They didn't do any soul music. They did folk, folk-rock, and rock ’n’ roll.
For The Doors to sign to Elektra, they did it for two reasons. Paul Butterfield, and of course Love. If you went to Columbia Records, you were on the label with Bob Dylan and The Byrds. There was a sound, even to the records. You could identify a Columbia record by the tape-delay reverb. You'd hear their pop stuff, like Robert Goulet, and hear (claps hands loudly) “Ba-bam!”...You knew what it was. It was a Columbia record, it had that sound. Elektra Records had a sound, too.
MG: That is so true...any other thoughts on Song Cycle?
BB: Well, still to this day it's one of the highlights of my life. I listen to it and I'm amazed. We did so much with so little in a studio's equipment to achieve it all.
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