I'm a fan of Zekley but he's nowhere near the talent of BW or even Jan Berry. He has more than a few awesome songs (fun we had, don't be gone long, other towns other girls) but he never seemed to be able to get past that silly sort of lyrical theme and move towards songs with emotion. I do love  (and own tons of) his stuff though!

True!
Here are my top five 45s (non-LP stuff only):
The Group - Baby Baby It's You WB 5840
The Visions - How Can I Be Down? UNI 55031
The Fun & Games - We UNI 55128
The Visions - Small Town Commotion UNI 55042
The Young Stuff - Poor Boy Canterbury 514

Their album are rather patchy, if any try "Here They Come", " Midnight Ride", " The Sprit of 67" and " Revolution" (all produced by Terry Melcher).

Try STAN CORNYN's book about the Warner Brothers Music Group

Tracking down Usher productions has become something of an obsession for me. He produced a group called The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, which though not incredible, is quite decent. He also worked with Chad & Jeremy on two albums, they seem to have been a real pet project of Usher's, but I really don't care for them. He also put together a really weird spoken word album, The Astrology Album, which tells all about the different signs.

If anybody knows any other good Usher related projects from the later half of the 60s, please share.
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The Wackers - Wackering Hights
The Wackers - Hot Wax
(both early seventies)
Danny Cox - Birth Announcement (Double Album)
Danny Cox - Live at the Family Dog

The Surfin' Lungs from Italy

There used to a UK band of the same name.

Hundreds of tracks as arranger, producer and player on other people's records. For details check my last update on www.vandykeparks.com/works

Amazing website, btw. I have frequented it quite a bit for lyrics/updates/etc.

True, but as I said, it has gone to sleep since early 2010, except for a couple of tour dates.

Hundreds of tracks as arranger, producer and player on other people's records. For details check my last update on www.vandykeparks.com/works which includes everything (I hope) up to the beginning of 2010, when Jan Jansen quit as webmaster of the VDP site. Since then nobody seems to take care of it.

I hope he get VDP in for some of the arrangements for the Disney album (assuming than Van Dyke would be interested, of course).

Didn't VDP do a lot of arrangements for Disney movies? If he was brought in, therefore, it might not be a "re-imagines" project.

At least he was involved in the Hal Willner project.

There are 2 singles VDP was involved in that are really great that are also in a caribbean flavor: Goldie Hawn-Pitta Patta  (he's credited as musical director) and Dino Martin-Sitting in Limbo (producer). Has anyone heard the single The Andrew De La Bastide Steelband-Proud Mary single he co-produced?

Shame, no - I've been looking for it for years

Esso....... non-album 45 prod by VDP: Superstar WB 7532

Has anybody heard The Trinidad Tripoli Steelband 45 Apeman (org. by the Kinks) WB 7476 (1971)? VDP produced that one too.

That's the same as on the album no?

I would give anything to get hold of Superstar.... shame it wasn't included on the reissue. Was it the Carpenters/Rita Coolidge song?

a. probably
b. No, it's Webber/Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar b/w Singer Man (from the album)

Esso....... non-album 45 prod by VDP: Superstar WB 7532

Has anybody heard The Trinidad Tripoli Steelband 45 Apeman (org. by the Kinks) WB 7476 (1971)? VDP produced that one too.

The article can also be found in "Record" - a collection of Siegel' s writings, which was published in 1972 (Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco). That's where I read it for the first time. By the way most of the other stuff in the book is quite good as well.

Is that a cover of the Ian Tyson song?

Yes, it is.

I think his vocal arrangements are his trademark.
If you listen to Gene Clark's The French Girl/Only Colombe bare bone versions as bonus tracks on the CD reissue of his first album and listen then to the Sundazed 45 with Curt's backing vocal arrangement (performed by his usual group of singers) you will see how much good this arrangement does to the songs. It's a shame that the 45 wasn't released at the time.
Most of his stuff as arranger/producer only came out on 45s - the best stuff is from 66/67 when he still was with OUR PPODUCTIONS (Jacobson & Tansley, The Plastic People, Something Young, Susan Carter, The Mother Love, The Oracle, Action Unlimited etc. etc.)
The Moses Lake 45 on Together is worth a mention as well, not to forget Eternity's Children.
After the demise of the Together project in 1970 Curt went into hiding. When he reappeared his music had changed radically - to the worse unfortunately. His solo for Elektra is a pleasant singer songwriter album, but nearly all C.B. ingredients are missing.

I've always liked the album, but it has been quite a whilw since I've listened to it.

a great album, but it's hard to explain why.

I only listened to the album twice; can't relate to it.

[Give Me A Break]

This is, to my best knowledge, the complete RCA-Equinox discography:

  9/74  NB  10120    California Music                            Don't Worry, Baby/Ten Years Harmony
11/74  BEL 1 0786  Bill House                                     Give Me A Break
  3/75  PB  10230    Barry Mann                                  Nothing Good Comes easy/Woman Woman Woman
  3/75  PB  10238    Terry Melcher & Bruce Johnston      Take It To Mexico/Rebecca
  8/75  NB  10363    California Music                            Why Do Fools Fall in Love/Don't Worry, Baby [A side produced by Brian Wilson]
10/75  NB  10404    Papa Doo Run Run                         Be True To Your School/Disney Girls [no Melcher involvement]
  3/76  NB  10572    California Music                            Jamaica Farewell/California Music
  4/76  NB  10587    Terry Melcher                               Fire in A Rainstorm/So Right Tonight
  4/76  BEL 1 0948  Terry Melcher                                Royal Flush

No idea where you got these -

Equinox 70002
Equinox 70003
Equinox 70007

- from.

add these, then it's complete:
- PB 10104 Barry Mann: Nobody But You/Woman Woman Woman
- NB 10106 Bill House: Common Thief/Atlanta
- PB 10319 Barry Mann: I'm a Survivor/It Don't Seem Right

The Equinox 45s I was refering to are from 1968 and were only released in the US by Equinox (a white label with a yellow sun on top, they even came with an Equinox factory sleeve and were distributedby ABC Records), there were at least 8 singles:
- 70000 Grapefruit: Dear Delilah/Dead Boot
- 70001 The Illford Subway: The 3rd Prophecy/New Song
- 70002 ??
- 70003 ??
- 70004 Glad: See What you mean/Bedtime Story (prod by Eirik Wangberg)
- 70005 Grapefruit: Elevator/Yes
- 70006 Glad: Picking Up the Pieces/A New Tomorrow (prod by E.W.)
- 70007 ??
- 70008 Grapefruit: C'mon Marianne/Ain't It Good

1969/1970 further Equinox product was released on Dunhill, RCA , A&M and ABC with the notation " An  Equinox Production":
- Dunhill 4174 Goldrush: Somebody's Turning On The People/Feelin' Glad
- Dunhill 4178 Grapefruit This Little Man/Round Going Round
- ABC 11163 Glad: Johnny's Silver Ride/Love Needs The World (prod by E.W.)
- ABC 11199 Glad: No Ma, It Can't Be/ Let's play make Believe (prod by E.W.)
- ABC 11202 Michele: Would You Like To Go/White Linen (Prod. By Mike Deasy)
- A&M 1154 Camp Hilltop: Sunday/Lost and Found
- RCA  74-0241 Grapefruit: Thunder and Lightning/Blues in my head

all produced by Melcher

Unfortunately there's no website dedicated to Terry's work as an artist and producer.

True, but there is... SpectroPop !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_3ZlgzFqz8&feature=related

OK, better than the Wikipedia entry, but unfortunately without a discography.
Anybody got these 45s for sale to complete my TM singles collection?
- Doris Day: Oo Wee Baby, Col. 43099
- The Rising Sons: Candy man, Col. 43534
- The Gentle Soul: 2:10 train, Epic 10448
- ??:??, Equinox 70002
- ??:??, Equinox 70003
- ??:??, Equinox 70007
- Michele: Would You Like to Go, ABC 11202

Unfortunately there's no website dedicated to Terry's work as an artist and producer. There are over 80 45s he produced as well as numerous albums - some obscure stuff among the singles e.g. Jimmy Boyd's cover of the Bee Gees' "That's What I'll Give To You" (VJ 686/Feb 1965,when hardly anyone knew Barry Gibb!)) or The Osmonds "Mr. Sandman", which sounds like "I Get Around" (MGM K 132817/ Summer 1964)

http://thebeachboys.ch/

DANKE!!

Anybody knows their new address?

It does, indeed

What 'Black Jack Davey' is doing there only VDP knows... It might be a comment on the dying of the folk craze, or a hundred other things, knowing him.

Steve Young is singing that bit, isn't he?

"Sheriff..." and "Kustom..." were released as a 7" on the Sundazed label (candy colored vinyl with PS) in 2003 (Sundazed S-158) - nice one!