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• Smile and Van Dyke Parks - dave c 12:18:55 02/22/07 (4)
  In Reply to: I ahve three 1 hour volumes of Smile and it is equal to Sgt Pepper. nt posted by Duilawyer on February 22, 2007 at 11:50:35:

  Although amongst other things VDP had been working as a copy writer, he was seeped in music and I suspect his influence on Smile is more than the words to a few songs.
  If you remember, after Good Vibrations, Warners gave VDP a contract expecting hits and got Song Cycle one of the most convoluted and confusing psychedelic records, featuring not a guitar solo or wah wah (I think) but a kaleidoscope of orchestral visions of a country torn apart and in thrall to film and TV.
  I also remember it was Warners' lowest selling album of all time(?).
  Even today it seems to arrive from a parallel universe.
  I think that Pet Sounds and perhaps Smile are at least as fresh as Sgt. Pepper, an album shot through with too much cutesy pie novelty for many. Its relative low rating as 3rd or 4th favourite amongst many Beatles fans would seem to attest to that.
  Now if anyone has that legendary 17 minute version of Heroes And Villains...
  
  
  

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  • it outsold Biff Rose and Lothar and the handpeople, I am sure. nt - Duilawyer 19:37:29 02/22/07 (3)
    In Reply to: Smile and Van Dyke Parks posted by dave c on February 22, 2007 at 12:18:55:

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    • it became a free give away... - dave c 22:25:53 02/22/07 (2)
      In Reply to: it outsold Biff Rose and Lothar and the handpeople, I am sure. nt posted by Duilawyer on February 22, 2007 at 19:37:29:

      ... with his second album I remember...
      
      

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      • Re: - J 07:54:15 02/23/07 (1)
        In Reply to: it became a free give away... posted by dave c on February 22, 2007 at 22:25:53:

        Biff Rose had to sell a few records...between the Bowie & Paul Williams connections, and managing to get himself on the Tonight Show...

        He's not the run of the mill Alabama county fair, indeed...
        
        

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        • Widows' walk... - dave c 12:11:27 02/23/07 (0)
          In Reply to: Re: posted by J on February 23, 2007 at 07:54:15:

          ... the knowing talk!
          Great quote.
          I love VDP for his take(s) on Americana and America.
          I have all his records apart from JUMP! which I seem to have misplaced, including the Fisherman's Wife children's album with Jodie Foster.
          
          

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