Great Session Players – Hal Blaine 1968
Richard Harris – MacArthur Park (#5) According to Paul Zollo’s interview with Jimmy Webb (in the book “Songwriters on Songwritingâ€), MacArthur Park was invented “in Bones Howe’s headâ€. Howe asked Webb to write something “classical†for The Association. When they passed on Mac Park, it went “into the trunk,†Webb says, until Richard Harris invited [...]
Great Session Players – Hal Blaine 1967
In 1966, the world’s greatest pop band, The Beach Boys, forever changed rock and roll. Instead of giving the world another gilded album of musical chocolates, each song individually wrapped in ocean colored tin foil, they buried their music in a mix of motor oil and sand. They produced an album, a “concept” album called [...]