Format: LP only (w/OBI strip)
Release date: January 2023
- Eighteen tracks, from harder-to-find titles to must-haves, some of them unavailable since their original release!
- Four-page color insert includes notes and track-by-track annotation by Ken Barnes, with rare photographs and ephemera.
By the late summer of 1963, Reprise Records — the independent record label founded by Frank Sinatra three years earlier — had run into a few financial difficulties, partly because the label hadn't produced any major chart hits, and was purchased by Warner Bros.
Morris "Mo" Ostin, Reprise's vice-president and general manager, had brought in "whiz kid" producer Jimmy Bowen in 1963. Bowen's main job, at least in the beginning, was to produce hits for some of the younger Reprise acts, including a brand-new recording artist, arranger/producer Jack Nitzsche. Those Bowen-produced Reprise singles, released under Jack Nitzsche's own name between July 1963 and October 1965, were compiled together for the first time and released by Hanky Panky Records on “The Reprise Singles 1963-1965.”
The focus of this new collection is the work of Jack Nitzsche as arranger and producer for those hopeful Reprise acts, from 1963 to 1969. The number of records supervised, one way or another, by Nitzsche in this time - not only for the Reprise and Warner Bros. labels, but for myriad others -- is simply amazing. Many of them were assembled for the first time by Ken Barnes for a legendary interview with Nitzsche in the Winter ‘76/77 issue of Who Put the Bomp! magazine, entitled “The Arranger As Superman.”
The aim of the compilers for this specific collection was to include some of the harder-to-find titles from Nitzsche's Warner/Reprise legacy, along with a few favorites and must-haves, with track-by-track annotation by Barnes himself. Most of the selections feature the talents of the Wrecking Crew regulars as backing musicians, as Nitzsche applies his magic to songs written by David Gates, Ellie Greenwich, Carole King & Gerry Goffin, P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, Sharon Sheeley and Jackie DeShannon, Sonny Bono, Hal David and Burt Bacharach, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson and the Everly Brothers themselves, among others! The amount of talent in the grooves is staggering, encompassing the decade’s forever-changing musical landscape.
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A finales del verano de 1963, Reprise Records, la discográfica fundada por Frank Sinatra tres años antes, tenía serias dificultades financieras, en parte porque el sello no había producido ningún éxito importante en las listas y fue comprado por Warner Bros. Morris "Mo" Ostin, vicepresidente y gerente general de Reprise, había contratado al productor “prodigio" Jimmy Bowen en 1963. El trabajo principal de Bowen, al menos al principio, era producir éxitos para algunos de los artistas más jóvenes de Reprise, incluido un nuevo nombre, el arreglista/productor Jack Nitzsche. Los singles producidos por Bowen y lanzados bajo nombre de Jack Nitzsche, fueron recopilados por primera vez y publicados por Hanky Panky Records en "The Reprise Singles 1963-1965".
El enfoque de esta nueva colección es el trabajo de Jack Nitzsche como arreglista y productor de esos esperanzados artistas de Reprise, y WB, de 1963 a 1969. El número de discos supervisados, de una forma u otra, por Nitzsche en este período - no solo para Reprise y Warner Bros., sino para toda una multitud de sellos-, es simplemente increíble. Muchos de ellos fueron reunidos por primera vez por Ken Barnes para una legendaria entrevista con Nitzsche en la edición de invierno de 1976/77 de la mítica revista “Who Put the Bomp!”, titulada “The Arranger As Superman”.
El objetivo de esta colección era incluir algunos de los títulos más difíciles de encontrar del legado de Warner/Reprise de Nitzsche, junto con algunos favoritos e imprescindibles, con anotaciones canción a canción del propio Barnes. La mayoría de las selecciones cuentan con el apoyo de los músicos de sesión conocidos como “The Wrecking Crew” mientras Nitzsche aplica su magia a las canciones escritas por David Gates, Ellie Greenwich, Carole King y Gerry Goffin, P.F. Sloan y Steve Barri, Sharon Sheeley y Jackie DeShannon, Sonny Bono, Hal David y Burt Bacharach, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson y los Everly Brothers, ¡entre otros! La cantidad de talento entre los surcos es asombrosa y abarca todo el cambiante panorama musical de los años 60.
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Tracklisting:
Side One
1.- Dorsey Burnette “Pebbles” 2.- Pat Powdrill “Happy Anniversary” 3.- Jimmy Griffin “Little Miss Cool” 4.- Hale & The Hushabyes “Yes Sir, That's My Baby” 5.- The Life Guards “Swimtime U.S.A” 6.- Billy Ford “This Is Worth Fighting For” 7.- Peter James “You Won’t Forget Me” 8.- Donnie Brooks “If I Never Get To Love You” 9.- Albert Stone “Someone’s Taken Maria Away”
Side Two
1.- Joni Lyman “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” 2.- Tammy Grimes “Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do” 3.- The Paris Sisters “My Good Friend” 4.- Gail Martin “Let’s Not Take The Lovin' Out Of Love” 5.- Judy Henske “Road To Nowhere” 6.- The Regents “When I Die, Don't You Cry “ 7.- The Gas Company “You’re All Alone” 8.- The Everly Brothers “Love With Your Heart” 9.- Tom Northcott “The Rainmaker”
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