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Discover America (CD)

By: Van Dyke Parks (Artist)

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Van Dyke Parks Artist Snapshot:

One of pop music's more eccentric figures, songwriter, producer, and performer Van Dyke Parks is perhaps best known for his lyrical and conceptual contributions to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' legendary lost album, SMILE. Parks made a name for himself around Los Angeles in the '60s as a creative gun for hire, and in 1968 he released his debut album, SONG CYCLE, a challenging pastiche of popular musical forms from throughout American history. His equally challenging follow-up, 1969's DISCOVER AMERICA, looked more toward the sounds of the Caribbean than continental America. In 1995 he reteamed with Wilson for the album ORANGE CRATE ART.

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DISC 1 for Discover America (CD) Album By Van Dyke Parks (Artist)
1   Jack Palance
2   Introduction
3   Bing Crosby
4   Steelband Music
5   Four Mills Brothers, The
6   Be Careful
7   John Jones
8   FDR In Trinidad
9   Sweet Trinidad
10   Occapella
11   Sailin' Shoes
12   Riverboat
13   Ode To Tobago
14   Your Own Comes First
15   G-Man Hoover
16   Stars & Stripes Forever
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (8/3/72, pp.37-38) - "...a feat of sublime inspiration..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Van Dyke Parks, Murray Adler, John Audino, Israel Baker, Roger Bobo, Norm Botnick, Gary Coleman, Bonnie Douglas, Karen Ervin, Roy Estrada, George Fields, Anne Goodman, Jim Gordon, Richie Hayward, Milt Holland, Kirby Johnson, Myra Kestenbaum, Gayle Levant, Lew McCreary, Al McKibbon, Malcolm McNab, Gordon Marron, Jay Migliori, Dan Neufeld, Jeffrey Reynolds, Frederick Scykora, Paul Shure, Dennis Smith, Tony Terran, The Trinidad Steelband.

Engineers include: Robert Appere, Bruce Botnick, Doug Botnick.

Includes original liner notes by Van Dyke Parks.

Van Dyke Parks' DISCOVER AMERICA came four years after his audacious debut. Where SONG CYCLE created its own orchestral tapestry of poetic and hallucinogenic Americana, its successor adopted Caribbean styles. Far from leaving the USA behind, however, this record is a series of glimpses into the social, cultural and political headlines from the first half of the twentieth century in America. Herein are celebrations of the Mills Brother, Franklin Roosevelt, Jack Palance, and Bing Crosby.

Parks' interest in Trinidadian steel-drum bands was given full flower (he also produced an album by the Esso Trinidad Steel Band around this same time), and their color serves as a joyful counterpoint to string sections and small combos of guitars, bass, drums, piano and horns. It says a good deal about Parks' skills as an arranger, producer and singer that Lowell George's "Sailin' Shoes" sounds right at home on an album with Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."

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