Various - Classic Rock 1966: The Beat Goes On (CD, Comp) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

Description: Media Condition : Very Good Plus (VG+) Sleeve Condition : Very Good Plus (VG+) Notes : Track durations obtained from software. Volume 7 of a 30 volume set. Issued with an 8 page booklet & no barcode No mastering code or Specialty Records Corporation logo Produced in cooperation with Warner Special Products Printed on back cover inlay: Manufactured for Time-Life Music by Warner Special Products, a Warner Communications Company ℗ 1988 Warner Special Products Booklet: Time Life Music: The Author: Joe Sasfy is a regular contributor to "The Washington Post", and his articles have also appeared in "Musician, Country Music and Creem". He is chief consultant for both the Classic Rock and the Rock 'n' Roll Era series. Time-Life Music wishes to thank William L. Schurk of the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, for providing valuable reference material. Time-Life Music is a division of Time-Life Books Inc. © 1988 Time-Life Books Inc. Printed in U.S.A. Time-Life is trademark of Time Incorporated U.S.A. Cover art by Ernie Norcia © 1988 Time-Life Books Inc. Manufactured for Time-Life Music by Warner Special Products, a Warner Communications Company ℗ 1988 Warner Special Products Printed on CD: Manufactured by Warner Special Products, a division of Warner Communications, Inc. ℗ 1988 Warner Special Products Made in U.S.A. Complete liner notes: From its inception, rock 'n' roll has endured a never-ending procession of self-appointed censors eager to clean up the music, especially the lyrics (or "leerics," as Variety tagged them in 1954). While sex was the bogeyman in early rock 'n' roll, the '60s brought a new concern: drugs. In 1966, Newsweek alerted the public to the thinly veiled drug references in rock songs and the Gavin Report, a key radio programing tip sheet, notified stations of the problematic words in the Byrds' Eight Miles High, the Association's Along Comes Mary and Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. Like so many rock songs of this era, the obtuse lyricism of Eight Miles High (e.g., "Plain gray town known for its sound, in places small faces unbound") invited various interpretations. The Byrds maintained that Eight Miles High described the somewhat foreboding England they encountered on a disastrous United Kingdom tour in late 1965. The song, featuring Roger McGuinn's incredible 12-string-guitar leads inspired by jazz innovator John Coltrane, was perhaps the group's finest moment and the year's most musically adventurous single. Thanks partly to the Gavin Report's stigmatization, the record stalled at No. 14 on the charts. Donovan's Mellow Yellow was also suspect, thanks to a few lines which seemed to attribute psychedelic properties to bananas (e.g., "Electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze"). Banana peels were dutifully dried and futilely smoked all across America before everyone realized that a more satisfying effect was achieved by discarding the peel and eating the fruit. One rumor about the song proved true - Paul McCartney sang backup vocals. The clean-cut Association also took some heat for their first hit, Along Comes Mary, widely viewed as an ode to marijuana. Group member Ted Bluechel later explained that the song "can be about anything you want it to be," noting that many parochial schools named St. Mary's used it at pep rallies. Given this atmosphere of freewheeling interpretations, it's a small wonder that no one branded the Lovin' Spoonful's Daydream or the Mamas and the Papas' California Dreamin' as products of drug-induced reveries. John Phillips wrote his West Coast fantasy on a dreary winter day while he and Michelle Phillips were living in Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, the couple hooked up with two folkies, Denny Doherty and Cass E

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