Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share; I can't think of more than two or three people in the whole scene who hadn't been screwed at least once by someone in a hurry to get ahead. Everyone wants to make it. Why shouldn't they? Everyone wants to cut an album, everyone wants to have a gig at the Fillmore and do huge concerts before rapt audiences. It is only the jokers who haven't been around for very long who don't recognize their own self-interestedness, who think that they're just doing their thing. Those who have made it are very...
...feet, flashing his hands around and laughing. I looked at Billy, our rhythm guitarist, who shrugged. It was obvious that this Douglas cat belonged in Bridgewater. I just said yeah, I guess we ought to, and Douglas disappeared from my life until the next fall when the Ultimate Spinach album came out. I was with the Bead Game by then, fighting hard to get ahead, playing exclusively our own music, and I read, as I stood there holding this green vegetable psychotic album in my hands, "Top-40 isn't where it's at, any more." The Ultimate Spinach...
...average, only one out of every eleven records hits the charts-meaning the trade magazines' top 100; Jimmy Bowen has a three-out-of-five hit rating. His specialty is lending up-to-the-minute commercial appeal to long-established "household names." In 1964, while producing an album by Dean Martin, he saw possibilities in a little song written 15 years earlier by Martin's pianist, Ken Lane. He released it as a single, and Everybody Loves Somebody carried Martin to the top of the bestseller charts for the first time in two years...
...first album on Bowen's Amos label, to be released this month, may be his greatest coup yet. After years of trying, he finally managed to team Bing Crosby with a group of lank-haired backup musicians in a collection of rock and folk hits-for examples, the Beatles' Hey Jude and Judy Collins' Both Sides Now. Meantime, Amos Productions continues to expand in other directions: independent producing, recording-studio engineering and shoe repair. Shoe repair? It seems that Bowen's father had a shop in Santa Barbara that was not doing well, so Bowen bought...
...album entitled "Boys Boys Boys...