Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On - LP Record

Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On

1968, Atlantic Records, USA

Vanilla Fudge was an American psychedelic band that recorded albums from 1967 to 1970. Members included organist Mark Stein, bassist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist Vince Martell, and drummer Carmine Appice.

They had a number of hit singles, their biggest hit being You Keep Me Hangin" On, a slowed-down, trippy, hard rock cover of a song originally recorded by The Supremes, which particularly featured Appice"s energetic drumming. One follow-up to this hit, Take Me For a Little While, had a quite different lyric message than the former.

The members of Vanilla Fudge were great admirers of The Beatles, and covered several of their songs including Ticket to Ride, as well as Eleanor Rigby, of which The Beatles were quite fond.

They were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (www.limusichalloffame.org)on Oct 15, 2006, along with Billy Joel and Joan Jett. Fellow Long Islander Felix Cavaliere inducted them into the hall.

Songs:

Side 1

Sketch
Intro: The Beat Goes On
Eighteenth Century
- Nineteenth Century
- Twentieth Century
- 12th Street Rag
- In The Mood
- Hound Dog
- The Beatles
- - - I want to Hold Your Hand
- I Feel Fine
- Day Tripper
- She Loves You
The Beat Goes On (Phase 2)
Beethoven
The Beat Goes On

Side 2

The Beat Goes On
Voices In Time (Phase 3)
- Neville Chanberlain
- Winston Churchill
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- John F. Kennedy
- And Other Voices
The Beat Goes On (Phase 4)
Merchant
- The Game is Over (Vinnie)
- Merchant
- The Game is Over (Tim)
- Merchant
- The Game is Over (Carmine)
- Merchant
- The Game is Over (Mark)
- Merchant
The Beat Goes On


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The Ventures - The Horse - LP Record

1968 Liberty Records Inc. USA

Initially calling themselves The Versatones, Bogle and Wilson played small clubs and beer bars in the Northwest. In 1959 they recorded and released two vocal tunes, The Real McCoy and Cookies and Coke, but neither record charted. They met and recruited Nokie Edwards as bass player, and recorded Walk Don"t Run with Bogle on lead, Wilson on rhythm, Edwards on bass, and Skip Moore on drums. They approached several record companies, none of whom showed any interest in signing them. With support from Don Wilson"s mother, Josie, they started their own record company, Blue Horizon Records. They self-produced the 45 RPM single of Walk Don"t Run and promoted it themselves.

They succeeded in getting a local Seattle DJ, Pat O"Day, to use the song as a news kicker (lead-in); Bob Reisdorf, owner of Dolton Records, heard it on the radio, contacted and signed The Ventures. Walk Don"t Run climbed to #2 for a week on the Billboard Top 100, in September 1960.

The story behind their selection of Walk Don"t Run provides some insight into the distinction between technical virtuosity and the essential elements of a wildly successful pop music hit. Bob Bogle, original lead guitarist, cites Chet Atkins as one of his early influences. Bogle bought the Chet Atkins LP Hi Fi In Focus, which featured Atkins" finger style rendition of a song originally written by the great jazz guitarist, Johnny Smith. Within Atkins" elaborate and laid-back delivery of Walk Don"t Run Bogle found inspiration. He stated years later that there was no way his pedestrian guitar skills would allow him to play it the same as Chet Atkins did, so he and Wilson worked out a highly energized, very much simplified arrangement, and a Rock & Roll Classic was born. Another Chet Atkins inspired guitarist, Steve Howe of Yes, covered Walk Don"t Run on his 1998 album Quantum Guitar.

Songs:

The Horse
Here Comes the Judge
Licking Stick - Licking Stick
Crazy Horse
The Gallop
Grazing In The Grass
Medley:
- Walk-Don"t Run
- Land of 1,000 Dances
Soul Breeze
Jumpin" Jack Flash
Choo Choo Train
Horse Power
Tip-Toe Thru" The Tulips With Me

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The Byrds Greatest Hits - LP Record

The Byrds Greatest Hits

1967 CBS Inc. Columbia Records

The Byrds Greatest Hits is the fifth album, and first compilation, by the American rock and roll band, The Byrds, released 1967 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2716 in mono, CS 9516 in stereo. It is the top-selling album in the Byrds catalogue, reaching #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in 1967, certified a platinum-seller by the Recording Industry Association of America on November 21, 1986. In 2003, the album was ranked number 178 on Rolling Stone magazine"s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

A summary of the Byrds history during the stays of Gene Clark and David Crosby in the band, this compilation also serves as the survey of the group"s hit singles from 1965 to 1967 inclusive, the time when they were a force on the singles chart. Every A-side from this time period appears, with the exceptions of Set You Free This Time, Have You Seen Her Face, and Lady Friend, none of which cracked the Top 40. The set includes three favored album tracks, with the remaining eight singles tracks peaking at the following positions on the Billboard Hot 100: 5D (Fifth Dimension) #44; All I Really Want to Do #40; Mr. Spaceman #36; My Back Pages #30; So You Want to Be A Rock and Roll Star #29; Eight Miles High #14; Turn! Turn! Turn! #1; and Mr. Tambourine Man also #1. The last three records were among the most innovative and influential of the entire decade, at a time when singles, at least in rock and roll, were as important entities in their own right as albums, and generally more so. Turn! Turn! Turn! summed up sixties counter cultural values as much as Blowin" in the Wind, (I Can"t Get No) Satisfaction, or All You Need Is Love, while Mr. Tambourine Man and Eight Miles High helped to introduce the sub-genres of folk-rock and psychedelia respectively into the popular music of the day.

Greatest Hits was remixed and remastered at 20-bit resolution as part of the Columbia/Legacy Byrds series, reissued in an expanded form on March 30, 1999. The three bonus tracks included two of the remaining singles from this period, plus It Won"t Be Wrong. It was reissued again in the SACD format, with the same expanded track listing as on the 20-bit remaster, on January 30, 2001. All of the songs on this set appeared as well on the band"s first four albums proper.

Songs:

Mr. Tambourine Man
I"ll Feel a Whole Lot Better
The Bells of Rhymney
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
All I Really Want To Do
Chimes of Freedom
Eight Miles High
Mr. Spaceman
5 D (Fifth Dimension)
So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
My Back Pages


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