{"product_id":"various-am-gold-1966-cd-comp-near-mint-nm-or-m","title":"Various - AM Gold 1966 (CD, Comp) (Near Mint (NM or M-))","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Condition: \u003c\/strong\u003e Near Mint (NM or M-)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eSleeve Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Near Mint (NM or M-)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCountry:    \u003c\/strong\u003eUS \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\nReleased:  \u003c\/strong\u003e1995\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:       \u003c\/strong\u003eRock, Funk \/ Soul\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:         \u003c\/strong\u003eSoft Rock, Pop Rock, Soul\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eLocation:\u003c\/strong\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComments:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cpre style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;font-family: unset;\"\u003eTime-Life released this disc as [r6149198 (SUD-01) in the [l774983 series in 1990, and as [r619383 (AM1-09) in the [l328190 series in 1995.\n\n℗ 1990 Warner Special Products \n© 1990, 1995 Time Life Inc.\n\nTrack durations obtained from software.\n\nPublishing:\nTrack 1- MCA Music Publ., a Division of MCA, Inc. ASCAP.\nTrack 2- Irving Music, Inc. BMI.\nTrack 3- Portable Music Co., Inc.\/Unichappell Music Inc. BMI.\nTrack 4- Alley Music Corp.\/Trio Music Co., Inc. BMI.\nTrack 5- EMI-Unart Catalog BMI.\nTrack 6- EMI Miller Catalog Inc. ASCAP.\nTrack 7, 13, 21- Screen Gems-EMI Music Co., Inc. BMI.\nTrack 8- Chris-Marc\/Cotillion Music, Inc. BMI.\nTrack 9- Laurie Productions, Inc. ASCAP.\nTrack 10- Blue Seas Musc, Inc.\/JAC Music Co., Inc.\/Nibbor Music Co.\/U.S. Songs Inc. ASCAP.\nTrack 11- Pronto Music Inc. \/Quinvy Music Publ. BMI.\nTrack 12- Stone Agate Music BMI.\nTrack 14- Screen Gems-EMI Music Co., Inc\/Northvale Music, BMI.\nTrack 15- Beechwood Music Corp. BMI.\nTrack 16- Warner-Tamerlane Publ. Corp. BMI.\nTrack 17-Alley Music Corp.\/Trio Music Co., Inc. BMI.\nTrack 18- Warner-Chappell \u0026amp; Co., Inc. ASCAP.\nTrack 19- Meteor Music Publ. Co., Ltd. PRS.\nTrack 20- Welbeck Music\/Duchess Music\/ATV Music. BMI.\nTrack 22- Acuff-Rose Music Co.\/Hiriam Music. BMI.\n\nComplete liner notes:\n\nSoft rock in the psychedelic era emanated primarily from two places: England, where the music hall tradition was stiil strong enough to temper rock's big beat, and Los Angeles, where the recording industry (which generally sought to soften everything if it would increase commercial appeal) was based. In Southern California, folk-rock and soft rock were often virtually indistinguishable. Los Angeles filled up with sentimental former folkies who had fled the harsh weather and hostile social environment of New York City; in the wake of Bob Dylan and the Beatles, many of them plugged in and went electric. The story of how the Mamas and the Papas came together is archetypal.\n\nJohn and Michelle Phillips had been members of the Journeymen in Greenwich Village. Denny Doherty was part of the Halifax Three, then the Big Three with Cass Elliot. Those two later formed the electrified-folkie Mugwumps. Denny joined John and Michelle in the New Journeymen, and the three of them went to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands to woodshed. They were soon joined by Cass, who took a job as a waitress. Cass then moved to California with her husband, and when the New Journeymen followed, she formally joined the group.\n\nThe four singers were cutting backup vocals for their friend Barry McGuire, a former New Christy Minstrel, when their smooth, soaring harmonies caught the ear of Lou Adler, McGuire's producer and record company president. Adler signed the quartet, which settled on the name the Mamas and the Papas (using biker slang) after briefly considering the Magic Circle. One of the songs McGuire cut was California Dreamln', which John had written after he and Michelle went for a restless walk in New York the winter before going to the Virgin Islands. Adler decided to erase McGuire's vocals and had the Mamas and the Papas sing over the old band track, and a hit was born.\n\nThere was staggering variety in Hollywood pop music in 1966. The Beach Boys had been around L.A. for most of the decade, and leader Brian Wilson had grown increasingly unstable as he struggled to match the Beatles and Phil Spector in broadening the production boundaries of his recordings. Good Vibrations, by far his biggest volley yet, was put together during 17 sessions in four studios over six months. The song wound up consuming some 90 hours of tape and costing a then­-unprecedented $16,000. Good Vibrations featured the theremin, an eerie-sounding instrument first heard in the 1945 movie Spellbound.\n\nBrian had remembered the hook phrase \"I'm pickin' up good vibrations\" from childhood conversations in which his mom told him of invisible vibrations, or feelings, between people, a concept that scared him considerably. Bandmate Mike Love took Brian's line and turned it into a set of lyrics that traded on what quickly became one of the hippest catchphrases of the day.\n\nMany of the top L.A. singles were marvels of production in which the artists seemed almost superfluous except as pretty voices. Curt Boettcher produced the Association, who scored with Along Comes Mary in 1966 and then settled into a series of ballads along the lines of Cherish. The group's Terry Kirkman had jotted the title word down on a piece of paper he carried around for three weeks before he finally wrote the song. The New Christy Minstrels per­formed Cherish live for months before the Association recorded it. Only two members of the Association even played on the session, suggesting again the dominance of the producer and his hired sidemen.\n\nGary Lewis, the son of comedian Jerry Lewis, headed up the Playboys, but She's Just My Style, like all their hits, was actually equal parts Lewis, producer Snuff Garrett and arranger Leon Russell. Cher's Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) was her first \"solo\" million seller, though the only thing that really distinguished it from the records she made with husband-­producer Sonny Bono was the absence of his voice.\n\nThe Monkees, of course, were the ultimate example of producer's clay. They were put together from auditions of about 500 hopefuls in the fall of 1965 for a television series designed to exploit the Beatles' flick A Hard Day's Night. The band was run by a coalition of TV and music-biz execs, most prominently Don Kirshner of Screen Gems. They launched the group's career in September 1966, when the first Monkees episode aired and Last Train to Clarksville turned into a No. 1 hit. When Kirshner wanted an even bigger follow-up, he went to his producer friend Jeff Barry, who got I'm a Believer from his friend Neil Diamond, at that time a Village coffeehouse singer with Tin Pan Alley leanings. As always, the Monkees merely sang, with session men playing the instruments; but advance orders on the single exceeded one million.\n\nProducer Phil Spector was the brains behind the Righteous Brothers; after their You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' was the sensation of 1964-1965, he commissioned the song's writers, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, to pen another hit. But they thought their (You're My) Soul and Inspiration was so derivative that they didn't even bother to finish It. By 1966, Spector had lost interest in Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield and sold the duo's contract to MGM for one million dollars so he could concentrate on Ike and Tina Turner. Medley himself then got Mann and Weil to polish off Soul and Inspiration. Ironically, having no real track record as a producer, Medley came closer than anyone ever had to duplicating the elusive Spector sound.\n\nPetula Clark had been a child movie star in England in the mid-'40s and a hit recording artist on the Continent from the '50s. But she didn't crack American charts until 1965. Her producer, Tony Hatch, wrote My Love for her as they flew across the Atlantic for her first-ever American sessions. She hated the song but recorded it anyhow, then tried to stop its release. Lucky for her, she failed. The Seekers were an Australian group who sang two different sets of lyrics over opening and closing credits to a black comedy set in swinging London called Georgy Girl. The two pieces of tape were later edited together to create a song that was nominated for an Oscar.\n\nThe Lovin' Spoonful was made up of New York folkies who declined to go west. Leaders John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky had even been in the Mugwumps with Cass and Denny before forming this rock band, named after a phrase in bluesman Mississippi John Hurt's Coffee Blues. Daydream offers a prime slice of their good-timey, electrified jug-band sound.\n\nDionne Warwick's Message to Michael, part of a long string of hits written and produced by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, was black pop at its finest. Both Lou Johnson and Adam Faith had previously recorded the song as Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird). The Supremes' You Can't Hurry Love was an attempt by the fabled Holland-Dozier-Holland team to clone the girl trio's 1964 Come See about Me.\n\nPercy Sledge and collaborators had worked and reworked When a Man Loves a Woman for months before cutting a final version that was leased by Jerry Wexler at Atlantic. Because the performance was out of tune, Wexler sent the artists back into the studio one more time-and then released the original version accidentally. When it quickly became the standard by which all deep soul ballads would be judged, the crew let him in on his \"mistake.\"\n\nBobby Hebb, a Nashville native with a country song-writing background, penned Sunny both in tribute to his brother Hal, who was killed by a mugger in 1963, and with the recent assassination of President Kennedy in mind. Unable to sell Sunny to another artist, he cut it as filler at the end of his own album session . When it shot to No. 2 on the charts, Sunny proved that black artists, contrary to popular image, knew their way around folk-rock as well as anyone else.\n\n-John Morthland\u003c\/pre\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e1.  The Mamas \u0026amp; The Papas - California Dreamin' 2:40\u003cbr\u003e2.  The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations 3:38\u003cbr\u003e3.  Bobby Hebb - Sunny 2:43\u003cbr\u003e4.  The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream 2:21\u003cbr\u003e5.  Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly 2:51\u003cbr\u003e6.  Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 2:50\u003cbr\u003e7.  The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind Of Love 2:00\u003cbr\u003e8.  Cher - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) 2:45\u003cbr\u003e9.  The Happenings - See You In September 2:35\u003cbr\u003e10.  Dionne Warwick - Message To Michael 3:08\u003cbr\u003e11.  Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman 2:53\u003cbr\u003e12.  The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love 2:47\u003cbr\u003e13.  The Monkees - I'm A Believer 2:47\u003cbr\u003e14.  The Chiffons - Sweet Talkin' Guy 2:28\u003cbr\u003e15.  The Association (2) - Cherish 3:27\u003cbr\u003e16.  Gary Lewis \u0026amp; The Playboys - She's Just My Style 3:03\u003cbr\u003e17.  The Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have To Be So Nice 2:28\u003cbr\u003e18.  The Seekers - Georgy Girl 2:18\u003cbr\u003e19.  The New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral 2:27\u003cbr\u003e20.  Petula Clark - My Love 2:46\u003cbr\u003e21.  The Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul And Inspiration 3:22\u003cbr\u003e22.  B.J. 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