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Post by rick on Jul 26, 2012 13:12:20 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 27, 2012 0:36:57 GMT -5
Anyone remember the name of the Christmas song that Linda sang with The Turtles? If I remember correctly The Turtles were one of the groups that actually used "The Wrecking Crew" on all of their albums. And Chip Douglas of The Turtles also produced Linda Ronstadt's first solo album Hand Sown Home Grown. Chip also went on to work with The Monkees, one of which wrote The Stone Poneys first and only real hit Different Drum. Amazing how this all fits together. You know the 1960's would have been a wonderful time if not for the CIA-Republican assassinations and that damn Vietnam War that was actually started by Eisenhower. I sometimes wonder what the music would have been without all of that turmoil. I think your missing comment was probably correct Rick  |
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 27, 2012 0:48:49 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Jul 27, 2012 8:40:30 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
"Christmas Is My Time Of Year."
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Post by sliderocker on Jul 27, 2012 9:46:13 GMT -5
Anyone remember the name of the Christmas song that Linda sang with The Turtles? If I remember correctly The Turtles were one of the groups that actually used "The Wrecking Crew" on all of their albums. And Chip Douglas of The Turtles also produced Linda Ronstadt's first solo album Hand Sown Home Grown. Chip also went on to work with The Monkees, one of which wrote The Stone Poneys first and only real hit Different Drum. Amazing how this all fits together. You know the 1960's would have been a wonderful time if not for the CIA-Republican assassinations and that damn Vietnam War that was actually started by Eisenhower. I sometimes wonder what the music would have been without all of that turmoil. I think your missing comment was probably correct Rick The same Monkee who wrote "Different Drum" - Mike Nesmith - also taught Chip Douglas how to produce records, and launched him on on another career in music outside of his role in the Turtles. Nesmith had recruited Douglas to be the Monkees' music producer during the time they were having a difference of opinion with their musical supervisor over being allowed to play on their own recordings. Linda also knew Nesmith before the Monkees, so it seems like that musical puzzle just needed something to make it all fit together. Regarding your comment about the 1960s and the music and what the music would've been like without all that turmoil, I've sometimes wondered the same thing myself. I'm really of the opinion that without the turmoil, it wouldn't have happened in exactly the same way. The music might have been more blander, more in the line of the music of the early 1960s, the Bobby Rydells and the Bobby Vees and the Connie Francis type of singers. Nothing against any of them because the early 1960s was their time. But, without the turmoil of the 1960s, there might not have been a Linda Ronstadt, a Jefferson Airplane, Byrds, a Janis Joplin or any of the other acts that would be around for a long run or a short stay. Without that turmoil, there might not have been an Eagles or Jackson Brown or Fleetwood Mac in the 70s as even some of the 70s performers were around in the 60s, looking for their big break. The music might have been totally different with some of the performers we listened to having been an asterisk on history's pages. |
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 27, 2012 15:18:25 GMT -5
I think you are right. By the time the Vietnam War ended we needed more mellow rock to ground us. To me it was very healing music and a wonderful time to be alive even though at that very time the righties were planning their eventual overthrow of the government.
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Post by rick on Jul 27, 2012 15:45:42 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 28, 2012 1:46:54 GMT -5
When you bring up this old music it somehow opens up this door of memories and feelings I haven't experienced for years. Much of it was the excitement of life, of living and looking forward to the future and all its possibilities and then looking back it stirs up some of the regrets and bad choices but at least for me an over all sense of well being. and wondering what the next life may bring... the Association brings me back to High School. I was so glad to be outta there!
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