The Notables with the Paul Smith combo, 1952
Bill Thompson
Sue Allen 
Bernie Parke
Alice Hafer
Bill Brown

Winter Wonderland

Legendary musical icon Herb Alpert was a guest on The Time Machine.  The Time Machine Crew were excited to have Herb come on the broadcast to discuss his latest album "In The Mood" and upcoming concert performances with Lani Hall on Maui at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center this Friday (December 5th) and Oahu's Neal S. Blaisdell Center this Saturday (December 6th).  Herb also shared with radio host Michael McCartney and the radio audience his many memories and inspirations behind his musical past.

Other artists heard on this Maui FM afternoon broadcast include Sergio Mendez & Brasil 66, Sam Cooke, Art Garfunkel with James Taylor & Paul Simon, Jan & Dean, Herman's Hermits and Dore Alpert.

Herb Alpert Interview On The Time Machine

From Tricia Countryman's 2016 album "Sometimes When I'm Dreaming"
On Sterling Swan Records & Tapes. 
Duet by Tricia Countryman and John Hunter Phillips
Saxophone by Mike Marinig
Background vocals and other instruments by Dana Countryman
Produced and arranged by Dana Countryman


"Goin' On" by Tricia Countryman and John Hunter Phillips

June 18, 1980 interview with Terry Draper of KLAATU discussing the band, and the new release Endangered Species.
This was a live phone in interview I conducted.
Transferred from a cassette tape to MP3 file.
{Note: It was only the first 45 minutes of the interview. This file has been edited as to not play the copyrighted material prior to the interview beginning}
Brad Fitzgerald

WVUM KlaatuInt BradFrehley{edit}

A FOGGY DAY

Cape May Moonrise

I WANNA BE AROUND TO PICK UP THE PIECES WHEN SOMEBODY BREAKS YOUR HEART

BETH SORRENTINO
Would You Like To Go: A Curt Boettcher Songbook
Basta 30-9318-2 (2013 release)

Singer Beth Sorrentino was born in 1968, the year a now-mostly forgotten musical wizard named Curt Boettcher reached his peak. On her new album, she pays tribute to a musician she never knew, whose work has been largely overlooked.

Boettcher (pronounced BET-cher) was a songwriter, singer, arranger, and recording studio wizard who specialized in multi-harmony soft rock. He produced the first album by The Association (1966), and arranged their major hit "Along Comes Mary." Curt then formed The Ballroom, whose studio sessions (unreleased for decades) achieved legendary stature among West Coast Sixties Pop cognoscenti. Many Ballroom songs and recordings were later remixed with additional instruments and vocals for Boettcher's two collaborative album masterpieces, The Millennium's Begin and Sagittarius's Present Tense (with Gary Usher), both issued in 1968 on Columbia. The albums sold poorly, but are durable, compelling psychedelic artifacts, as well as forerunners of "Sunshine Pop."

For a decade Curt was a hustling session contributor, often drifting in and out of the Beach Boys orbit. He appeared as backing singer, musician, producer, or mixer on albums by The Byrds, Chad & Jeremy, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Bruce Johnston, Dennis Wilson, and Emitt Rhodes. He produced several hits for Tommy Roe, including "Hooray for Hazel," as well as dozens of worthy singles by historical footnotes. He released one solo album, There's An Innocent Face (1972, Elektra), but a follow-up, Chicken Little Was Right, was never completed. In 1987 while living in Burbank, Boettcher fell ill, was hospitalized, developed pneumonia, and died at age 43. During his prime, Boettcher was a cult figure. At his death, he was a forgotten cult figure. But Curt created some unforgettable music.

Beth Sorrentino, who was born the year Begin and Present Tense were released, fell under the Boettcher spell in 2010 when she first heard the magical Millennium album. She proposed recording a collection of songs associated with Curt, with most written or co-written by him. She enlisted her old friend, producer Sean Slade, who had worked with Beth's first band, Suddenly, Tammy!, in the 1990s. (Slade's production credits include Radiohead, Pixies, Warren Zevon, Hole, Lou Reed, Weezer, and others). Sorrentino and Slade crafted an approach that does not attempt to replicate the Boettcher sound, but instead represents a brilliantly idiosyncratic take on the artist's legacy. The arrangements pay homage to Curt's genius for vocal harmony, with Sorrentino's sweet soprano providing all lead and backing voices. Tandyn Almer, who wrote "Along Comes Mary," called Beth's version "one of the best I've heard. Love her phrasing." The album uses very little guitar, and showcases Sorrentino's deft keyboard work on a Mason & Hamlin 1904 upright piano, Mellotron, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B3, Korg electric piano, and Fender Rhodes. Inspiration is best expressed not thru imitation, but thru reinterpretation. Sorrentino didn't copy the original; she built on it.

European release: April 22, 2013
Album Produced by Sean Slade
Solicitor and Overseer: Irwin Chusid
Engineered by Benny Grotto

Musicians: Beth Sorrentino, Jeremy Moses Curtis, Sean Slade, Irwin Chusid, Benny Grotto

Tracks:
01  Would You Like To Go (Boettcher/Alexander)
02  I Just Want To Be Your Friend (Boettcher)
03  The Island (Boettcher)
04  I'm Not Living Here (Boettcher)
05  You Know I've Found A Way (Boettcher/Mallory)
06  Baby, Please Don't Go (trad. arr. Boettcher)
07  Another Time (Boettcher)
08  Along Comes Mary (Almer; arr. Boettcher)
09  Prelude (Rhodes/Edgar)
10  The Know-It-All (Boettcher)
11  There Is Nothing More To Say (Boettcher/Fennelly/Mallory)
12  Wearing Levis (Boettcher)

www.BethSorrentino.com

BETH SORRENTINO - BIO

Beth Sorrentino sings, composes, plays keyboards, and teaches music to children. She hails from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and now lives in Manhattan.

In the early 1990s, Beth, brother Jay (drums), and friend Kenny (bass) formed the trio Suddenly, Tammy!, who released two EPs and a self-titled album on SpinART. A cover story in CMJ caught the attention of Warner Bros. Records exec Lenny Waronker, who signed the band. We Get There When We Do, their major label debut, was released in 1995. A follow-up was recorded, titled Comet, but the band was unsigned by WB in 1996, after which the trio disbanded. (Comet was self-released digitally in 2010.)

Beth moved to New York and became a music instructor. She has taught at Upper West Side schools, teaches piano and voice privately, and has composed music for children's theatrical productions at Manhattan's Kaufmann Center. In 2003, Beth recorded a series of solo works, released digitally in 2006 under the title Nine Songs, One Story. Two live solo sessions, Wave and Beautiful Day, performed and recorded in 2001 at WFMU radio, were released digitally in 2008. In 2011, she released a digital collection, Hiding Out, featuring original compositions and covers. Would You Like To Go is her first full-length album on Basta.

If you meet Beth, ask her about the time she was singled out of the audience at a Bobby McFerrin concert and invited onstage to duet on "Here Comes the Sun," during which an impressed McFerrin leaned over and whispered into her ear, "Who ARE you?"

info@BethSorrentino.com
www.BethSorrentino.com


I Just Want To Be Your Friend - Beth Sorrentino

When Love Has Gone (The Nothing Song) 
By Steve Rice - music (ASCAP) and 
Ken Morrison - lyrics (BMI)

Lyrics:
Feeling old, so what’s new? 
Every day brings a different shade of blue 
Nothing can change your point of view 
When love has gone 

Nothing more 
Nothing less 
There is nothing here except this emptiness 
Nothing’s right 
Nothing left to say 
When love has gone 

Once I believed that love could last forever 
But now that feelings not the same 
Now I believe in nothing what-so-ever 
Nothing matters 
Nothing ventured 
Nothing gained 
Such is life 
C’est La Vie 
Guess it simply wasn’t meant to be 
Here alone with these memories 
When love has gone.

credits:
released 15 October 2012 
Stephanie Porter - Vocals 
Steve Rice - Piano 
Chuck Kistler - Bass 
Brian Kirk - Drums

When Love Has Gone (The Nothing Song)

Another track from John Hunter Phillips' 1999 CD release, "Diamonds On the Beach ". written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. License legally secured

"Goin' On" by Tricia Countryman and John Hunter Phillips

Dana Countryman

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