Post by CountryCrock on Sept 5, 2023 22:12:47 GMT
144MB
MONO, THROUGH TWO CHANNELS
FROM THE 1998 KID RHINO CD
mega.nz/file/BEgRBRpL#G7bcTAey5m9MzAMqGVvy7UPuYhfNoV4KK1CsmvfZUGY
Fifty-three years'-ago this Saturday (originally: 9/12/70), on [whatever then-was] your local CBS station, at approximately around 12:18PM EDT: THIS would've suddenly popped-up playing during the last act of the S.D. franchise's second-season opener (the episode: "Nowhere to Hyde").
Unlike Paul Simon, though, I wasn't "born at the right time"(!) and...therefore, have always hated the fact I did not experience that entire '65-'74 era as it had unfolded into a cultural/free-thinking revolution (whereas: the mechanics of this country today, by sharp contrast, represent an absolutely fucking moronic bottomless pit --- biggest historic reason for such an abrupt shift toward backward nihilism: the cult of Reagan hadn't [yet] infected the national psyche pre-1980).
The Scooby-Doo "formula" was *never* any better than when the show was in its first incarnation and, focused-on combining these three elements of '60s television: the character dynamic of the former Beatnik sitcom "Dobie Gillis", the Bubblegum soundtrack element of the 1968 Filmation/Don Kirshner version of "The Archies", and the haunted villain ingredient from "Dark Shadows" (the most popular daytime tv series in the world in 1969). After 1972, "Scooby-Doo" became an over-exploited cottage industry mockery of itself.
Anyway....
I'd always been fascinated by wanting to know: who was the actual "band" performing this music heard (exclusively) during Scooby-Doo's 1970 season? My pet-project trying to research it goes all the way back to the days of waiting for S.A.S.E. replies to the Goldmine newspaper classifieds I'd posted. The only thing the closing credits for that season's episodes ever said, was: "MUSIC SUPERVISION: LA LA PRODUCTIONS". Pre-Internet times never yielded any leads about who?/what? was connected to that. I even used to believe (before I got all the answers, eventually, circa 2002) there was just the slight chance of the singer (possibly?) being Davy Jones doing an affected voice (knowing, already, that The Monkees sitcom had gone into rebroadcast on CBS' Saturday mornings then and; considering, maybe(?): it was some kind of cross-promotion to bolster Jones' profile now as a solo entertainer --- since he, obviously, would later appear himself as a "guest star" in a "New Scooby-Doo Movies" episode). However, no documented accounts were given anywhere to indicate he'd ever recorded the "S.D. Where Are You?" theme.
It wasn't until I'd remembered that S.D.'s "sister show" was JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS and, then discovered there was a commercially-released album (on Capitol, "ST-665"...featuring ANOTHER "trunk cover"-design no less, LOL!) of songs from their cartoon which came out in 1970 also. THAT was the missing piece to the puzzle I needed to know! Finally (at last) I had names to go on and, could begin to track down discographies about who did what.
The personnel hired for the "Josie" album would have been Wrecking Crew "A-list" (reputedly, from more than one source, involving the services of Hal Blaine; as well as, supposedly?, even an uncredited contribution by Billy Preston): as Hanna-Barbera had initially ambitious plans to make it a "female Monkees/Archies-type", "live" touring and record singles group. Scooby's "sessions", while giving the appearance of a one-off production afterthought (to create, I guess?, some sort-of musical continuity "vibe" in CBS' then-Sat. morning lineup: Monkees/Archies' reruns/Josie/etc.), contained a venerable "motley crew" of musical talent; both, at that stage, either just starting their careers or were (since) established (and: later legendary) session players.
A real MYSTERY solved.
THE PEOPLE YOU HEAR ON THIS TRACK YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD A THOUSAND TIMES (WITHOUT REALIZING) SINCE YOU WERE A KID!
LEAD VOCAL: GEORGE "AUSTIN ROBERTS" ROBERTSON, JR. (1945-; all the 1970 "chase songs" as well as the re-recorded theme; started with ABC Records in 1967 as a staff writer, then had two big hits and one medium-size hit in 1972/1973/1975: "Keep on Singing", "Something's Wrong With Me", "Rocky").
ibb.co/64GB4P0
PRODUCER/SONGWRITER/ACOUSTIC GUITAR: DANNY JANSSEN (1933-2020; went to California in 1965 to try to make it as a Folk singer/songwriter combo with his first wife, after having had a teaching career in his native Minnesota then Illinois; began selling songs to the vocal group "The Lettermen" in 1968 then hit big with Bobby Sherman in '69 with "Little Woman"; did the Bubblegum thing and hit even bigger from '71-'74 with the Wes Farrell Organization, providing the Partridge Family with their next biggest catalog of songs second-only to Tony Romeo).
ibb.co/9GZFLHq
LEAD ELECTRIC GUITAR (JACKED INTO A NOW "ANTIQUE" MINIMOOG!): DOUG RHONE (1945-; now legendary Texan guitarist began with a Garage band called "Positively 13 O'Clock", doing a released cover of the Count Five's 1966 nugget "Psychotic Reaction" for Hanna-Barbera's record label; after he spent '68-'75 doing session work and being in a short-lived outfit called "Gladstone", he's been a member of Neil Diamond's touring band since 1976).
ibb.co/mNrnbCp
ibb.co/x3wXxRn
ORGAN: BOBBY HART (1939-; after the Monkees' project ended, Tommy Boyce "retired" to Canada until '72 and Hart became Janssen's main songwriting partner as well as fellow associate in the Wes Farrell Organization).
ibb.co/JHjnGc8
BASS: JOE OSBORNE (1937-2018; absolute *legend*; became "go-to" guy for all the Farrell/Janssen/Hart Partridge Family stuff done at Western).
ibb.co/JtCZhhv
DRUMS: BOB CROWDER (1938?-?; started out as a Chicago-based Jazz drummer and later made television history as "Pete Jones" in, strangely!, the Scooby-Doo ripoff animated "Hardy Boys"!; Janssen had most likely remembered him from Janssen's days moonlighting in Chicago as a nightclub Folk performer trying to break-into Music).
ibb.co/XYZ8Swm
BACKING HARMONIES: TOM & JOHN BAHLER
(1944-/1947-; the "Bah-Bah-Bahlers" were *EVERYWHERE* on any classic session recording for 40 years!).
ibb.co/DkzRQgF
ibb.co/jMNvXXr
ibb.co/GVJm0L5
ibb.co/F0xTLG4
ibb.co/YWmHY9S
ibb.co/tz0VXP6
MONO, THROUGH TWO CHANNELS
FROM THE 1998 KID RHINO CD
mega.nz/file/BEgRBRpL#G7bcTAey5m9MzAMqGVvy7UPuYhfNoV4KK1CsmvfZUGY
Fifty-three years'-ago this Saturday (originally: 9/12/70), on [whatever then-was] your local CBS station, at approximately around 12:18PM EDT: THIS would've suddenly popped-up playing during the last act of the S.D. franchise's second-season opener (the episode: "Nowhere to Hyde").
Unlike Paul Simon, though, I wasn't "born at the right time"(!) and...therefore, have always hated the fact I did not experience that entire '65-'74 era as it had unfolded into a cultural/free-thinking revolution (whereas: the mechanics of this country today, by sharp contrast, represent an absolutely fucking moronic bottomless pit --- biggest historic reason for such an abrupt shift toward backward nihilism: the cult of Reagan hadn't [yet] infected the national psyche pre-1980).
The Scooby-Doo "formula" was *never* any better than when the show was in its first incarnation and, focused-on combining these three elements of '60s television: the character dynamic of the former Beatnik sitcom "Dobie Gillis", the Bubblegum soundtrack element of the 1968 Filmation/Don Kirshner version of "The Archies", and the haunted villain ingredient from "Dark Shadows" (the most popular daytime tv series in the world in 1969). After 1972, "Scooby-Doo" became an over-exploited cottage industry mockery of itself.
Anyway....
I'd always been fascinated by wanting to know: who was the actual "band" performing this music heard (exclusively) during Scooby-Doo's 1970 season? My pet-project trying to research it goes all the way back to the days of waiting for S.A.S.E. replies to the Goldmine newspaper classifieds I'd posted. The only thing the closing credits for that season's episodes ever said, was: "MUSIC SUPERVISION: LA LA PRODUCTIONS". Pre-Internet times never yielded any leads about who?/what? was connected to that. I even used to believe (before I got all the answers, eventually, circa 2002) there was just the slight chance of the singer (possibly?) being Davy Jones doing an affected voice (knowing, already, that The Monkees sitcom had gone into rebroadcast on CBS' Saturday mornings then and; considering, maybe(?): it was some kind of cross-promotion to bolster Jones' profile now as a solo entertainer --- since he, obviously, would later appear himself as a "guest star" in a "New Scooby-Doo Movies" episode). However, no documented accounts were given anywhere to indicate he'd ever recorded the "S.D. Where Are You?" theme.
It wasn't until I'd remembered that S.D.'s "sister show" was JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS and, then discovered there was a commercially-released album (on Capitol, "ST-665"...featuring ANOTHER "trunk cover"-design no less, LOL!) of songs from their cartoon which came out in 1970 also. THAT was the missing piece to the puzzle I needed to know! Finally (at last) I had names to go on and, could begin to track down discographies about who did what.
The personnel hired for the "Josie" album would have been Wrecking Crew "A-list" (reputedly, from more than one source, involving the services of Hal Blaine; as well as, supposedly?, even an uncredited contribution by Billy Preston): as Hanna-Barbera had initially ambitious plans to make it a "female Monkees/Archies-type", "live" touring and record singles group. Scooby's "sessions", while giving the appearance of a one-off production afterthought (to create, I guess?, some sort-of musical continuity "vibe" in CBS' then-Sat. morning lineup: Monkees/Archies' reruns/Josie/etc.), contained a venerable "motley crew" of musical talent; both, at that stage, either just starting their careers or were (since) established (and: later legendary) session players.
A real MYSTERY solved.
THE PEOPLE YOU HEAR ON THIS TRACK YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD A THOUSAND TIMES (WITHOUT REALIZING) SINCE YOU WERE A KID!
LEAD VOCAL: GEORGE "AUSTIN ROBERTS" ROBERTSON, JR. (1945-; all the 1970 "chase songs" as well as the re-recorded theme; started with ABC Records in 1967 as a staff writer, then had two big hits and one medium-size hit in 1972/1973/1975: "Keep on Singing", "Something's Wrong With Me", "Rocky").
ibb.co/64GB4P0
PRODUCER/SONGWRITER/ACOUSTIC GUITAR: DANNY JANSSEN (1933-2020; went to California in 1965 to try to make it as a Folk singer/songwriter combo with his first wife, after having had a teaching career in his native Minnesota then Illinois; began selling songs to the vocal group "The Lettermen" in 1968 then hit big with Bobby Sherman in '69 with "Little Woman"; did the Bubblegum thing and hit even bigger from '71-'74 with the Wes Farrell Organization, providing the Partridge Family with their next biggest catalog of songs second-only to Tony Romeo).
ibb.co/9GZFLHq
LEAD ELECTRIC GUITAR (JACKED INTO A NOW "ANTIQUE" MINIMOOG!): DOUG RHONE (1945-; now legendary Texan guitarist began with a Garage band called "Positively 13 O'Clock", doing a released cover of the Count Five's 1966 nugget "Psychotic Reaction" for Hanna-Barbera's record label; after he spent '68-'75 doing session work and being in a short-lived outfit called "Gladstone", he's been a member of Neil Diamond's touring band since 1976).
ibb.co/mNrnbCp
ibb.co/x3wXxRn
ORGAN: BOBBY HART (1939-; after the Monkees' project ended, Tommy Boyce "retired" to Canada until '72 and Hart became Janssen's main songwriting partner as well as fellow associate in the Wes Farrell Organization).
ibb.co/JHjnGc8
BASS: JOE OSBORNE (1937-2018; absolute *legend*; became "go-to" guy for all the Farrell/Janssen/Hart Partridge Family stuff done at Western).
ibb.co/JtCZhhv
DRUMS: BOB CROWDER (1938?-?; started out as a Chicago-based Jazz drummer and later made television history as "Pete Jones" in, strangely!, the Scooby-Doo ripoff animated "Hardy Boys"!; Janssen had most likely remembered him from Janssen's days moonlighting in Chicago as a nightclub Folk performer trying to break-into Music).
ibb.co/XYZ8Swm
BACKING HARMONIES: TOM & JOHN BAHLER
(1944-/1947-; the "Bah-Bah-Bahlers" were *EVERYWHERE* on any classic session recording for 40 years!).
ibb.co/DkzRQgF
ibb.co/jMNvXXr
ibb.co/GVJm0L5
ibb.co/F0xTLG4
ibb.co/YWmHY9S
ibb.co/tz0VXP6