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Tape from California. Tape from California is Phil Ochs ' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. It continues Ochs' musical shift away from straight-ahead protest songwriting toward more orchestral and baroque arrangements.
Released. 1975 — US. Vinyl —. LP, Album, Stereo. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Tape From California by Phil Ochs. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
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Feb 5, 2009 · Tape From California is Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. A step back from its predecessor Pleasures of the Harbor, a sort of cross between that album and 1966's Phil Ochs In Concert, it features folk with shades of rock, bluegrass and baroque music.
Comes in a front-laminated flipback cover. Van Dyke Parks - Courtesy of Warner Brothers - 7 Arts Records. Jack Elliott - Courtesy of Reprise Records. Ⓟ 1968. Publisher appears as 'Barricade Music, Inc. ASCAP' on back cover, just 'Barricade' on labels.
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- The Charlatans – “High Coin”
- Terry Gilkyson – “The Bare Necessities”
- Randy Newman – “I Think It’S Going to Rain Today”
- The Beach Boys – “Heroes and Villains”
- Van Dyke Parks – “The All Golden”
- Happy End – “Sayonara America, Sayonara Nippon
- Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks – “Orange Crate Art”
He signed an artist deal with MGM and began working consistently as a songwriter, producer, and arranger. It was during this time that Parks befriended longtime collaborators Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Brian Wilson. Parks was offered positions as a member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, both of which he declined. He was briefly a m...
And, in 1965, he was introduced to Brian Wilson. Van Dyke Parks would become Brian Wilson’s muse, although due to Wilson’s increasingly deteriorating mental state, the fruits of that labor wouldn’t reach audiences for decades. Parks was invited to Wilson’s home to hear a preview of the Beach Boys’ forthcoming single “Sloop John B.” He was fond of P...
After Pet Sounds was released, Parks was recruited to write lyrics and arrange music for Wilson’s next project, to be titled Smile. In 1967, however, Parks retreated from the project. In an interview with The Guardian, Parks said, “It just got too much for me. It was an expensive decision for me not to continue my association with the most powerful...
Listen for the dense orchestration, the classic American vibe, the classical elements, and the lack of backbeat. In the aftermath of the Smile period, Parks would go on to release his first solo album, Song Cycle. Song Cycle is a circus act of pop sensibility coated in nostalgia, a display of distinguished American modernism. In the age of freaks, ...
Listen to the experimental elements of the track, from the intro with serious tape warble to the intense trumpet mutes, stacked dense brass, strings, and pitched percussion. This was pre-Sgt. Peppers, a time when most studios were only equipped with four-track tape recorders and sounds like these could only be created by someone with a take-no-pris...
The band was discouraged by the “America” they found and had already said “sayonara” to Japan. Here they said “goodbye” to America as well. They broke up two months before the album was released. Not quite the happy end. Parks remained active despite a several-year period battling substance abuse. He collaborated with Brian Wilson again for Orange ...
In 1990, he reprised his acting career in David Lynch’s Twin Peaksas attorney Jack Racine. In an interview with the Twin Peaks Archive, he gave this quote, a fitting end for a profile of a man with such eccentric history: Twin Peaks Archive:Do you plan on writing an autobiography? Van Dyke Parks:I’ve thought about it. Still, there’s something highl...
Tape From California ( LP) A&M Records. SP 4148. Canada. 1968. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1990 CD release of "Tape From California" on Discogs.
Van Dyke Parks -- Courtesy of Warner Brothers -- 7 Arts Records Jack Elliott -- Courtesy of Reprise Records Lincoln Mayorga Liner Notes Hi, thought I'd drop you a line from the beautifulpeople Coast Where I'm filming the family slime (the most) stopping behind the Pendleton barracks to get high (tonight American pigs you die!)
