Part One is the second album by the American psychedelic rock group The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and was released in February 1967 on Reprise Records. It features compositions by Bob Johnston, Frank Zappa, Baker Knight, P.F. Sloan and Van Dyke Parks with input from studio drummer Hal Blaine. It has a song most well known as "Morning Dew" composed by the Bonnie Dobson with arrangement by Danny Harris. This is the first album with input from guitarist Ron Morgan.

Bill Pearis of BrooklynVegan said that Part One is "the best example of [the band's] name incarnate, equal parts pop, art and experimentation". The album also contains elements of folk, garage rock and baroque pop... - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU9imhQl98Q&list=PL00B6C70CED690353&index=1

#WestCoastPopArtExperimentalBand #FrankZappa #Psychedelia #Music #VanDykeParks

Anything Goes is an album by Harpers Bizarre, released in 1967.

The title track was used in the opening montage of the 1970 film The Boys in the Band. - Wikipedia

My favourite track by far is the cover of Van Dyke Parks' High Coin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm7f5PkVHpw&list=RDDm7f5PkVHpw&start_radio=1

#HarpersBizarre #VanDykeParks #SunshinePop #60spop #ColePorter #Music

Feelin' Groovy is the debut album by the American sunshine pop band Harper's Bizarre, released in 1967.

Feelin' Groovy Review by Matthew Greenwald

...Enter producer Lenny Waronker and session musician/arranger/songwriter/general musical architect Van Dyke Parks. The two of them brought then-drummer Ted Templeman up to the front as co-lead vocalist, along with Dick Scoppettone, and created a soft rock identity for the group, renaming them Harpers Bizarre...songs by Van Dyke Parks ("Come to the Sunshine"), Randy Newman ("Debutante's Ball"), and others. An excellent and definitive slice of California soft pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPhxPvCVx8&list=OLAK5uy_mNIbemcxGpkoXEreKBtQXih6OHfpFQmhg

#HarpersBizarre #VanDykeParks #WreckingCrew #LeonRussell #Music #SunshinePop #60spop #RandyNewman

Brian Wilson Learns to Smile

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/brian-wilson-smile-interview-1235361936/

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Ry Cooder - 'Get Rhythm' (1987) (2013)

#RyCooder's excellent album, featuring #FlacoJiménez, #VanDykeParks & #HarryDeanStanton. Mostly covers (#JohnnyCash, #ChuckBerry, #ElvisPresley), as always getting the true #Cooder twist. Another gem.