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02-03-12 Footnotes
Show 323: 1967: The Album as Art
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1 Soul Train host and creator Don Cornelius died tragically this week at age 75. Greg remembers the baritone-voiced Chicago native as not just a music pioneer, but a civil rights one. He broadened what we think of as “soul” and brought acts like Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie and Aretha Franklin to audiences of all races and ages. What American Bandstand was to pop culture in the ‘60s, Soul Train and Cornelius were to the ‘70s, ‘80s, and beyond. So to remember Don Cornelius, we play Barry White’s 1975 orchestral performance of “You’re My First, the Last, My Everything.”
2 Not to make you feel old, but it’s been 45 years since the “Summer of Love,” the year of the hippie, and some of the most influential music in rock history. So Jim and Greg have decided to look back at the watershed year 1967. Television viewers were treated to memorable performances by The Who, The Doors and The Rolling Stones. Aretha Franklin recorded her famous Atlantic release “Respect.” Fans from around the country gathered in California for the Monterey International Pop Music Festival. But during this episode Jim and Greg focus on the single LP’s that changed the way people thought of the studio and a collection of songs. 1967 gave birth to the idea of album as art.
3 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band is, of course, the most prominent example of studio innovation on album in ’67. Recorded at Abbey Road by George Martin on mono, stereo and four-track recorders, Sgt. Pepper’s was a critical and commercial success. But, as they stated during our Revolver Classic Album Dissection, Jim and Greg don’t think it’s The Beatles’ best. Nor is it the best album of that year. They’d point people to the landmark recordings The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd, Forever Changes by Love and The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground. Jim and Greg talk about these albums’ innovations in terms of recording and artistic ambition. They also hear from Joe Boyd, who produced Pink Floyd’s first single in 1967 and Jac Holzman, who discovered Love and signed them to Elektra.
Songs Featured in Show #323
MFSB, “T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia),” Love is the Message, Philadelphia International, 1974
Barry White, “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything,” Soul Train 25th Anniversary, MCA, 1995
Buffalo Springfield, “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield, Atco, 1967
The Beatles, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
The Beatles, “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
The Beatles, “A Day in the Life,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
The Beatles, “Good Morning, Good Morning,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
Procol Harum, “A White Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum, Deram, 1967
The Beatles, “All You Need is Love,” All You Need is Love, Parlophone, 1967
Tomorrow, “My White Bicycle,” My White Bicycle, Parlophone, 1967
Pink Floyd, “Arnold Layne,” Arnold Layne, Columbia, 1967
Pink Floyd, “The Scarecrow,” The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Capitol, 1967
Pink Floyd, “Astronomy Domine,” The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Capitol, 1967
Pink Floyd, “The Gnome,” The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Capitol, 1967
Pink Floyd, “Interstellar Overdrive,” The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Capitol, 1967
Love, “Alone Again Or” Forever Changes, Elektra, 1967
Love, “The Red Telephone,” Forever Changes, Elektra, 1967
Love, “7 and 7 Is,” Da Capo, Elektra, 1967
Love, “My Little Red Book,” Forever Changes, Elektra, 1967
Love, “Live and Let Live,” Forever Changes, Elektra, 1967
The Doors, “Light My Fire,” The Doors, Elektra, 1967
Love, “A House is Not a Motel,” Forever Changes, Elektra, 1967
The Velvet Underground, “Sunday Morning,” The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
The Velvet Underground, “I’m Waiting For the Man,” The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
The Velvet Underground, “Heroin,” The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
The Velvet Underground, “Femme Fatale,” The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
The Velvet Underground, “European Son,” The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
Aretha Franklin, “Respect,” I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Atlantic, 1967
Violent Femmes, “Telephone Book,” 3, Slash, 1988
The King Blues, “The Future’s Not What it Used to Be,” Punk and Poetry, Transmission, 2011
Leonard Cohen, “Crazy to Love You,” Old Ideas, Sony, 2012
Blondie, “Heart of Glass,” Parallel Lines, Chrysalis, 1978
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