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AI and VDP
AI and VDP
It’s dispiriting to see so much AI-generated blather about stuff one loves. Example: an explanation of Van Dyke Parks song.
#music#technology#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
AI and VDP
The Histories in LA
The Histories in LA
The Histories (Old Black Joe), a collaboration between David Hartt and Van Dyke Parks.
#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The Histories in LA
Don Heffington (1950–2021)
Don Heffington (1950–2021)
I heard Don play with Van Dyke in Chicago and St. Louis. So I can agree with his Lone Justice bandmate Marvin Etzioni, quoted in Variety: “Like Ringo, he didn’t play drums, he played songs.”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Don Heffington (1950–2021)
The Histories (Old Black Joe)
The Histories (Old Black Joe)
The Histories (Old Black Joe) is a new 45 from Van Dyke Parks, released by the Chicago gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey.
#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The Histories (Old Black Joe)
Orange Crate Art redux
Orange Crate Art redux
I think the Omnivore description — “sounds like nothing before or since” — is objectively accurate. Orange Crate Art is music of no time and for all time.
#BrianWilson#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Orange Crate Art redux
Orange Crate Art returns
Orange Crate Art returns
Coming June 26, from Omnivore Recordings, a remastered reissue of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’s 1995 album Orange Crate Art, with instrumental tracks and three unreleased songs, including an affecting Wilson-Parks interpretation of “What a Wonderful World.”
#BrianWilson#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Orange Crate Art returns
VDP and “Southern Nights”
VDP and “Southern Nights”
Allen Touissant: “While I was finishing the album Van Dyke Parks visited me in the studio. He was a wonderful guy, a genius of a guy. He said, ‘Well, consider that you were going to die in two weeks. If you knew that, what would you think you would like to have done?’
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP and “Southern Nights”
Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019)
Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019)
Elaine knew him when she was a teenager, and heard him sing many times. The two of us heard him in a Boston Shakespeare Company production of Mother Courage, directed by Peter Sellars. It was our third date, January 24, 1984. Linda Hunt played Mother Courage. I’ll never forget it.
#Boston#life#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019)
“The Immigrants”
“The Immigrants”
Gaby Moreno and Van Dyke Parks’s recording of David Rudder’s “The Immigrants” has made Jon Pareles’s list of the best songs of 2018.
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“The Immigrants”
VDP on TCM
VDP on TCM
Fans of Van Dyke Parks should know that Turner Classic Movies is airing The Swan.
#film#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP on TCM
VDP and Harry Shearer
VDP and Harry Shearer
A smart and funny conversation, with a virtual cast of dozens that includes Ry Cooder, Astrud Gilberto, Eartha Kitt, Randy Newnan, Brian Wilson, Howlin’ Wolf, and Paul Revere and the Raiders.
#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP and Harry Shearer
VDP’s next-to-last
VDP’s next-to-last
“His friend Eric Idle, of Monty Python fame, introduced him to the packed house. ‘Van Dyke Parks,’ he said, ‘is not just a genius. He is a fucking genius.’”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP’s next-to-last