Source Notes
1. California Dreamin’
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07; 2/21/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), and Carol Kaye (11/16/05).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; O’Nan, The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy.
ARTICLES: Chircop, “The Last Days of the Elks Lodge,” Everett Daily Herald, 2007. Duersten, “The Lady at the Bottom of the Groove,” LA Weekly, 2004. Head, “The Ol’ ‘Gee-tar’ Comes Back,” Press-Telegram, 1958. Hopper, “Ace of Bass: Carol Kaye,” LA Weekly, 2010. Moseley, “Carol Kaye: Think Extensive,” Vintage Guitar, 2001.
WEB SITES: www.thirteen.org/unsungheroines/2009/03/25/carol-kaye-youve-heard-her-bass-but-not-her-name/; www.carolkaye.com; www.glencampbellshow.com.
2. Limbo Rock
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Ray Anthony (9/16/91), Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Jerry Fuller (7/24/09), Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg (1/23/06), Mark Lindsay (11/20/04), Gary S. Paxton (8/11/09), and Billy Strange (11/21/05).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Brooks and Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present; Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Dannen, Hit Men; Fisher, Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation; Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio; Jackson, American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock ’n’ Roll Empire; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard Pop Charts 1955–1959.
ARTICLES: Perrone, “Obituary: Lou Chudd,” The Independent, 1998. Severo, “Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99,” New York Times, 2010. “Xavier Cugat, ‘Rumba King’ in 1930s, ’40s; Band Leader Also Was Violin Prodigy,” Washington Post, 1990.
WEB SITES: www.billystrangemusic.com; www.garyspaxton.org/Biography/index.htm; www.jerryfuller.com.
OTHER: “Limbo Rock” AFM session date contract (November 16, 1961).
3. He’s a Rebel
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07; 2/21/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Jerry Fuller (7/24/09), Snuff Garrett (8/3/09), Dave Gold (10/26/08), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Darlene Love (2/9/10), Joe Osborn (12/6/05), Bill Pitman (2/22/09), Guy Pohlman (1/8/11), Stan Ross (10/26/08), and Billy Strange (11/21/05).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Leiber and Stoller with Ritz, Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography; Love with Hoerburger, My Name Is Love: The Darlene Love Story; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties.
ARTICLES: “Henry Busse, Band Leader Dies; Wrote Song Hit, ‘Hot Lips,’” Chicago Daily Tribune, 1955. “Henry Busse Estate Left to Widow,” Los Angeles Times, 1955. “The Making of a Hit Record,” CNN.com, 2003. “Studio Savant,” Fretboard Journal, 2007.
WEB SITES: www.songsofsamcooke.com/sar_records.htm; www.jerryfuller.com; www.billystrangemusic.com; www.redhotjazz.com/henrybusse.html.
OTHER: Commentary by Larry Levine from DVD documentary Da Doo Ron Ron: The Story of Phil Spector.
4. The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Lou Adler (11/9/05), Don Altfeld (3/6/10), Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07; 2/21/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Artie Kornfeld (4/2/10), Bones Howe (7/28/10), Carmie Tedesco (6/27/09), Denny Tedesco (3/25/09), and Dean Torrence (2/18/10).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Feldman, The Billboard Book of No. 2 Singles; Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio; Love with Hoerburger, My Name Is Love: The Darlene Love Story; Passmore, Dead Man’s Curve and Back: The Jan & Dean Story; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Spector with Waldron, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette; Tedesco, Confessions of a Guitar Player; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Wilson with Gold, Wouldn’t It Be Nice: My Own Story.
ARTICLE: Purdy, “Remembering Tommy: Family and Friends Remember Niagara Falls’ Best ‘Known-but-Unknown’ Guitarist,” Niagara Gazette, 2007.
WEB SITES: www.promusic47.org; www.tournamentofroses.com/the-rose-parade; www.rockradioscrapbook.ca/radkfwb.html; www.niagarafallsinfo.com/history-item.php?entry_id=1411¤t_category_id=108; www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-shreddedwheat-history.html; www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Cereal.html; www.carborundumabrasives.com/aboutCarborundum.aspx; www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR8MgBulXD8.
OTHER: Commentary by Nino Tempo from DVD documentary Da Doo Ron Ron: The Story of Phil Spector; “Be My Baby” AFM session date contract (July 5, 1963); “Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)” AFM session date contract (March 21, 1964).
5. What’d I Say
AUTHOR INTERVIEW with Don Peake (11/21/09).
BOOKS: Charles with Ritz, Brother Ray: Ray Charles’ Own Story; Evans, Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul; Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis:The Rise of Elvis Presley; Lydon, Ray Charles: Man and Music; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard Pop Charts 1955–1959.
ARTICLE: “Music: Crow Jim,” Time, 1962.
WEB SITES: www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=godfreyarth; www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/inauguralspeech.html; www.nationalaviationmuseum.com/Martin-404-Museum.aspx.
6. I Got You, Babe
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg (1/23/06), Ron Jacobs (1/9/10), Don Peake (11/21/09), and Michel Rubini (3/4/10).
BOOKS: Bono, And the Beat Goes On; Dannen, Hit Men; Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Fisher, Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation; Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio; Jackson, American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock ’n’ Roll Empire; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties.
WEB SITE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR8MgBulXD8.
OTHER: Commentary by Sonny Bono from DVD documentary Da Doo Ron Ron: The Story of Phil Spector; “I Got You Babe” AFM session date contract (June 7, 1965); liner notes from CD A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector.
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (2/21/09), Mark Lindsay (11/20/04), Roger McGuinn (10/19/09), Larry Knechtel (7/13/97; 11/17/02), and Lonnie Knechtel (10/7/09).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Hjort, So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by-Day, 1965–1973; Miller, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Drums; Marmorstein, The Label: The Story of Columbia Records; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties.
ARTICLE: “Rock ’n’ Roll: Message Time,” Time, 1965.
WEB SITES: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/inauguration/index.shtm; www.youtube.com/watch?v=76QCvFhpUtM; www.spectropop.com/TerryMelcher/index.htm.
OTHER: Liner notes from CD Terry Melcher; “Hey, Little Cobra” AFM session date contract (October 16, 1963); “Mr. Tambourine Man” AFM session date contract (January 20, 1965).
8. River Deep, Mountain High
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Lonnie Knechtel (10/7/09), and Michel Rubini (3/4/10; 7/15/10).
BOOKS: Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Turner with Loder, I, Tina; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties.
ARTICLE: Francis and Rowesome, “Chrysler Lifts Hood on Most Powerful Car Engine,” Popular Science, 1951.
WEB SITES: www.beverlyhills.org/about/radio/default.asp; www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/PG190.htm.
OTHER: Chrysler print advertisement, 1956 (from unknown magazine); “Let’s Go” AFM session date contract (April 13, 1962); “Out of Limits” AFM session date contract (September 18, 1963); “River Deep, Mountain High” AFM session date contract (March 7, 1966).
9. Eve of Destruction
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Lou Adler (11/9/05), Steve Barri (11/13/09), Hal Blaine (9/28/07), Denny Doherty (11/7/05), Bones Howe (6/24/09), Ron Jacobs (1/9/10), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Michelle Phillips (11/20/09), Peter Pilafian (1/19/10), Don Randi (10/13/07), and P. F. Sloan (10/28/09).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Cogan and Clark, Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios; Jacobs, KHJ: Inside Boss Radio; Kubernik, Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon; Phillips with Jerome, Papa John: An Autobiography; Phillips, California Dreamin’: The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties.
ARTICLES: Cogan, “Bill Putnam,” Mix, 2003. Sutheim, “An Afternoon With: Bill Putnam,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 1989. Hevesi, “Gene Chenault, Who Changed Rock Radio, Dies at 90,” New York Times, 2010. “Programming: The Executioner,” Time, August 23, 1968. “What Goes On!: Smells like Teen Spirit,”Mojo, 2002.
WEB SITES: www.barrymcguire.com; www.uaudio.com/about/our-story; www.emmytvlegends.org/blog/?p=1273.
OTHER: “California Dreamin’” AFM session date contract (November 4, 1965). T.A.M.I Show DVD.
10. Strangers in the Night
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Herb Alpert (1/8/10), Hal Blaine (10/25/08), Chuck Berghofer (12/2/05), Jimmy Bowen (12/13/05), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), and Michel Rubini (3/4/10).
BOOKS: Bowen and Jerome, Rough Mix; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Granata, Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording; Kaplan, Frank: The Voice; Tosches, Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits.
ARTICLE: “Recordings: Hitting Big with Hummables,” Time, 1969.
WEB SITE: www.grammy.com.
OTHER: “A Taste of Honey” AFM session date contract (March 10, 1965). “Strangers in the Night” AFM session date contract (April 11, 1966).
11. Good Vibrations
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Frank Capp (12/7/09), Kane Cole (8/27/09), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Larry Knechtel (7/13/97; 11/17/02), David Leaf (10/26/09), Mike Melvoin (7/23/09), Bill Pitman (2/22/09), Guy Pohlman (1/18/11), Don Randi (10/13/07), Emil Richards (8/7/09), Lyle Ritz (11/23/05), Billy Strange (11/21/05), and Dean Torrence (2/18/10).
BOOKS: Benarde, Stars of David: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Jewish Stories; Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Brooks and Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present; Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone, the Autobiography of David Crosby; Emerick and Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles; Gaines, Heroes & Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys; Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes 1962–1970; Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now; Passmore, Dead Man’s Curve and Back: The Jan & Dean Story; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001; Wilson with Gold, Wouldn’t It Be Nice: My Own Story.
ARTICLES: Crisafulli, “Endless Strummers: The Studio Heavyweights Behind the Beach Boys Sound,” Guitar Player, 1993. Fricke, “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time Returns,” Rolling Stone, 2010. Rasmussen, “Closing of Club Ignited the ‘Sunset Strip Riots,’” Los Angeles Times, 2007. “Troubled Beach Boys Genius Finds Renewed Joy,” CNN.com, 2008.
WEB SITES: www.billystrangemusic.com; www.radiocityhollywood.com/?p=18; www.norimuster.com/history/capitoldaysintro.html; www.lib.umich.edu/node/11736.
OTHER: Audio outtakes (mp3), “Help Me, Rhonda” session, Western Recorders, January 8, 1965. “God Only Knows” AFM session date contract (March 10, 1966). “Good Vibrations” AFM session date contracts (1966: February 17, April 9, May 4, May 25, May 27, and June 16). Interviews from the CD box set The Pet Sounds Sessions, by the Beach Boys (Capitol Records, 1997). “Sloop John B” AFM session date contract (July 12, 1965). “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” AFM session date contract (November 19, 1965).
12. Let’s Live for Today
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Steve Barri (11/13/09), Creed Bratton (1/24/10), Micky Dolenz (6/30/09), Bones Howe (7/28/10), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Don Peake (11/21/09), Mike Post (1/7/10), Michel Rubini (3/4/10), and P. F. Sloan (10/28/09).
BOOKS: Bono, And the Beat Goes On; Bronson, Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkees; Dolenz and Bego, I’m a Believer: My Life of Monkees, Music, and Madness; Friedan, The Feminine Mystique; Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out; Massingill, Total Control: The Monkees Michael Nesmith Story; Sandoval, The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001.
ARTICLES: Fox, “Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in ‘Feminine Mystique,’ Dies at 85,” New York Times, 2006. Segal, “Return of the Hit Man,” Washington Post, 2004. Sisario, “Don Kirshner, Shaper of Hit Records, Dies at 76,” New York Times, 2011.
OTHER: “Midnight Confessions” AFM session date contract (May 14, 1968). “The Beat Goes On” AFM session date contract (December 13, 1966).
13. Up, Up and Away
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07; 10/25/08), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Bones Howe (11/2/05; 6/24/09; 1/26/10; 7/28/10), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Chuck Rainey (2/23/06), Johnny Rivers (12/13/05), Armin Steiner (7/7/09), and Jimmy Webb (7/27/09).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Bowman, Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records; Brokaw, Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ‘60s and Today; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Kranow, Vietnam: A History; McCoo with Davis and Yorkey, Up, Up and Away; Katz, The Film Encyclopedia; Posner, Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power; Webb, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955-2001; Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top Country Hits.
ARTICLES: Johnson, “Grammy Awards Bestowed,” Los Angeles Times, 1968. Reitman and Landsberg, “Watts Riots, 40 Years Later,” LATimes.com, 2005. Piorkowski, “Jimmy Webb Talks About His Acclaimed Songs and Troubled Life,” Euclid Sun Journal, 2009. Sisario, “Pierre Cossette, Who Brought Grammys to TV, Dies at 85,” Los Angeles Times, 2009. Weiner, “This Is Where I Came In: The Song Cycles of Jimmy Webb,” Stylus, 2005.
WEB SITES: www.grammy.com; www.laconservancy.org/centuryplaza/century_moments.php4; www.examiner.com/movie-in-baltimore/biggest-box-office-bombs-6-cleopatra-1963; www.nashvillesound.net/current/ateam.htm; www.wattstax.com/backstory/staxhistory.html; www.india-server.com/awards/features/grammy-awards-1968-218.html.
OTHER: “Up, Up and Away” AFM session date contract (February 22, 1967).
14. Classical Gas
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Gary Coleman (12/16/09; 1/17/10), Larry Knechtel (1/17/02), Mike Post (1/7/10; 1/26/10), Tommy Smothers (10/21/06), and Mason Williams (8/17/09).
BOOKS: Bianculli, Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; Brooks and Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present; Feldman, The Billboard Book of No. 2 Singles; Sandoval, The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties.
ARTICLE: Taubman, “Hair and the 20’s: Pert Musical on Lafayette Street Recalls Another Era’s Off-Broadway Revues,” New York Times, 1967.
WEB SITE: www.july4th.org; www.grammy.com.
OTHER: “Classical Gas” AFM session date contract (November 14, 1967).
15. Wichita Lineman
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Kerry Chater (12/31/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Jerry Fuller (7/24/09), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Gary Puckett (11/23/09), and Jimmy Webb (7/27/09).
BOOKS: Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Webb, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001; Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top Country Hits.
ARTICLES: Black, “The Greatest Songs Ever! Wichita Lineman,” Blender, 2001 (online edition). Hunter, “Arkansas to Hollywood to Phoenix,” The Beat, 2005.
OTHER: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” AFM session date contract (August 17, 1967). “Wichita Lineman” AFM session date contract (May 27, 1968). “Woman, Woman” AFM session date contract (August 16, 1967).
16. MacArthur Park
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (10/25/08; 2/21/09), Ted Bluechel, Jr. (12/30/09), Bones Howe (11/2/05; 6/24/09; 1/26/10; 7/28/10), Terry Kirkman (12/17/09), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Ron Jacobs (1/9/10), and Jimmy Webb (7/27/09).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Feldman, The Billboard Book of No. 2 Singles; Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio; Webb, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001.
ARTICLES: Amendola, “Hal Blaine,” Modern Drummer, 2006 (online edition). Boucher, “‘MacArthur Park’ Jimmy Webb,” Los Angeles Times, 2007. Piorkowski, “Jimmy Webb Talks About His Acclaimed Songs and Troubled Life,” Euclid Sun Journal, 2009. Wapshott, “That Soggy Cake and Other Stories: Jimmy Webb Looks Back on ‘MacArthur Park’, and the Songs He Wrote for Barbra Streisand and Himself,” The Independent, 1994. Weiner, “This Is Where I Came In: The Song Cycles of Jimmy Webb,” Stylus, 2005.
WEB SITE: www.grammy.com.
OTHER: “MacArthur Park” AFM session date contract (December 21, 1968).
17. Bridge Over Troubled Water
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 2/21/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/25/10), Fred Carter, Jr. (2/25/10), Gary Coleman (12/6/10; 1/17/10), Roy Halee (8/10/09), Bones Howe (1/26/10), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Joe Osborn (12/6/05), and Michelle Phillips (11/20/09).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Brooks and Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Humphries, Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years; Katz, The Film Encyclopedia; Luftig, The Paul Simon Companion: Four Decades of Commentary; Morella and Barey, Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001.
ARTICLES: Evans, “The Making of ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’” Goldmine, 2010. Hunter, “Arkansas to Hollywood to Phoenix,” The Beat, 2005. Kienzle, “Hired Gun,” Fretboard Journal, 2008. Manno, “Joe Osborn: A Few Hundred Hits,” Vintage Guitar, 2006. Schneider, “Nashville Guitar Legend Fred Carter Jr. Dies at 76,” Exclaim! 2010.
WEB SITE: www.grammy.com.
OTHER: “Bridge Over Troubled Water” AFM session date contracts (August 1, 1969, August 6, 1969, August 7, 1969, August 13, 1969, August 14, 1969, and August 21, 1969). “Mrs. Robinson” AFM session date contracts (February 1, 1968, and February 2, 1968).
18. (They Long to Be) Close to You
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Herb Alpert (1/8/10), Tom Bahler (10/02/09), Hal Blaine (10/25/08), Gary Coleman (12/6/10; 1/17/10), Snuff Garrett (8/3/09), Roy Halee (8/10/09), Joe Osborn (12/6/05), Michel Rubini (3/4/10), Louie Shelton (7/5/09), and Linda Wolf (12/17/09).
BOOKS: Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography; Coleman, The Carpenters: The Untold Story; Dumas, The Three Musketeers; Evslin, Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths; Schmidt, Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001.
ARTICLES: Booe, “Bang the Drum Slowly: The Tragedy of Jim Gordon, Percussionist, Songwriter, Paranoid Schizophrenic, Murderer,” Washington Post, 1994. Elder, “So, Let’s Get Started … Gonna Make You Feel Good,” Distinctly Oklahoma, 2009. Fricke, “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time Returns,” Rolling Stone, 2010. Manno, “Joe Osborn: A Few Hundred Hits,” Vintage Guitar, 2006. “100 Greatest Guitar Solos,” Guitar World, 2008. Rehfeld, “When the Voices Took Over,” Rolling Stone, 1985. Speed, “At One with Leon Russell,” souvenir program from the Bare Bones International Film Festival, 2006.
WEB SITES: www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/bobby_whitlock; www.richardandkarencarpenter.com; www.grammy.com; www.louieshelton.com.
OTHER: “(They Long to Be) Close to You” AFM session date contract (March 24, 1970).
19. Love Will Keep Us Together
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Richard Bennett (10/23/09), Hal Blaine (2/21/09), Mike Botts (11/17/02), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/25/10), Gary Coleman (12/6/10; 1/17/10), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Larry Knechtel (7/13/97; 11/17/02), Mike Melvoin (7/23/09), Michael Omartian (3/12/10), Don Peake (11/21/09), Bill Pitman (2/20/09), Johnny Rivers (12/13/05), Lyle Ritz (11/23/05), Michel Rubini (3/4/10), and Billy Strange (11/21/05).
BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World’s Most Recorded Musician; Brokaw, Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today; Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits; Brooks and Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present; Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector; Campbell with Carter, Rhinestone Cowboy; Eliot, To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles; Fleetwood with Davis, Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac; Kranow, Vietnam: A History; Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes 1962–1970; Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now; Negron, Three Dog Night: The Continuing Chuck Negron Story; Pang and Edwards, Loving John: The Untold Story; Ribowsky, He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock ’n’ Roll’s Legendary Producer; Scherman, Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story; Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies; Whitburn, Billboard’s Top Pop Albums 1955–2001; Wood, How Apollo Flew to the Moon.
ARTICLE: Eden, “The Mike Deasy Story,” Mojo, 2001 (unpublished).
WEB SITES: www.billystrangemusic.com; www.grammy.com; www.rockchurchse.com.
OTHER: “Love Will Keep Us Together” AFM session date contract (January 25, 1975). Phil Spector AFM session date contract (December 7, 1992).