WHAT HAPPENS TO A ONE-HIT WRITER?
Hi. I'm Treblephone, whom Billy has graciously invited to post on 'ILYCB'.
I happen to like a lot of odd things which cause people to wonder why they were ever committed to vinyl in the first place. Records whose very existence is a mystery.
Today: Tandyn Almer.
If the name sounds familiar, you must read songwriter credits on records. His biggest claim to fame is writing The Association's first huge hit, the song [a thinly-disguised ode to loco-weed?] we know as "Along Comes Mary"---which probably earned him a few clams. What did Tandyn do to follow up this success?
Well.....he did this 45 nearly three years later in 1969 [Warner Brothers #7446], which is his lone official recorded output under his own name, other than some songwriters demos which are floating around. A somewhat stilted commentary on society in general, coupled with an almost-spoken lyric and a rather non-commercial melody, ensured that this 45 was stillborn upon release.
[The promo 45 has both an 'edited-for-airplay'-----yeah!---2:25 mono version, and a 4:28 stereo version. This is the longer one----for maximum discomfort.]
What came next? Other than a noticeable 1/4th of a co-writer's credit on the Beach Boys' "Sail On Sailor" [along with Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and current Steve Earle compatriot Ray Kennedy]----which Van Dyke Parks recently vehemently disputed in a letter to Britain's MOJO magazine-----not much of anything.
So marvel at this example of one of Warner Brothers' tax writeoffs in the Year of Woodstock..... it's surely NOT the 'empty cup that's as sweet as the punch'!
---Treblephone
Tandyn Almer - Degeneration Gap
I happen to like a lot of odd things which cause people to wonder why they were ever committed to vinyl in the first place. Records whose very existence is a mystery.
Today: Tandyn Almer.
If the name sounds familiar, you must read songwriter credits on records. His biggest claim to fame is writing The Association's first huge hit, the song [a thinly-disguised ode to loco-weed?] we know as "Along Comes Mary"---which probably earned him a few clams. What did Tandyn do to follow up this success?
Well.....he did this 45 nearly three years later in 1969 [Warner Brothers #7446], which is his lone official recorded output under his own name, other than some songwriters demos which are floating around. A somewhat stilted commentary on society in general, coupled with an almost-spoken lyric and a rather non-commercial melody, ensured that this 45 was stillborn upon release.
[The promo 45 has both an 'edited-for-airplay'-----yeah!---2:25 mono version, and a 4:28 stereo version. This is the longer one----for maximum discomfort.]
What came next? Other than a noticeable 1/4th of a co-writer's credit on the Beach Boys' "Sail On Sailor" [along with Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and current Steve Earle compatriot Ray Kennedy]----which Van Dyke Parks recently vehemently disputed in a letter to Britain's MOJO magazine-----not much of anything.
So marvel at this example of one of Warner Brothers' tax writeoffs in the Year of Woodstock..... it's surely NOT the 'empty cup that's as sweet as the punch'!
---Treblephone
Tandyn Almer - Degeneration Gap
posted by Jimmy Holcomb (Treblephone) at 7:21 PM
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