Where the action is! [sound recording] : Los Angeles nuggets, 1965-1968.
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MusicPublisher number: R2 519759 | RhinoPublication details: Burbank, CA : Rhino, p2009.Description: 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Los Angeles nuggets, 1965-1968
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Main Library | CD | POP/ROCK Where the Action Is! | Available | 33111007405125 | |||||
Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 782.4216 W567 | Booklet | Available | 33111006702647 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968, Rhino's 2009 sequel to their 2007 Nuggets box Love Is the Song We Sing, shifts the spotlight down the Californian coast, moving from the epicenter of the hippie universe in San Francisco to hipsville central in Los Angeles, the land where fringe-wearing folk-rockers strolled down the Sunset Strip alongside studio cats on the make. Both groups of hipsters are equally well-represented on Where the Action Is!, along with the teens raising a ruckus out in the suburbs and the stars who stretched out, all based on the sounds they heard coming from the Strip, the section of Sunset that serves as the fulcrum for this entire set. The compilers focus on a brief time, the four-year stretch from 1965 to 1968, where Los Angeles was overrun with dance clubs and nightspots, all giving bands as wonderful and distinct as the Byrds, Love, the Doors, the Seeds, Buffalo Springfield, and the Leaves places to explore, opening up avenues that others followed, either in music or spirit. Some of this filtered through the prism of the studio, where there were plenty of musicians infatuated with the sounds of Brian Wilson, who pops up toward the end on an alternate take of "Heroes and Villains," but there's also no denying the impact of hustlers and hucksters like Kim Fowley, or how Hollywood could package and polish all of this up in the form of the Monkees. All of this is here in bright, flashing neon on Where the Action Is!, which helps make it one of the liveliest of the Nuggets boxes, but also the one that seems to stray furthest from the series' mission to excavate unheard garage rock and psychedelia; after all, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, and the Doors are hardly unknown quantities or one-hit wonders. Yet, in its own way, Where the Action Is! is as crucial as any of the boxes that followed the first Nuggets set, for it documents a brief, shining moment in time where everything and anything seemed possible. It's not archeology, it's pop culture anthropology that does an excellent job of charting the rise of the L.A. underground, illustrating its first surfacing in the mainstream, connecting the dots in a fashion that may surprise even some dedicated pop and rock fans, those that might not realize how the Turtles, Bobby Fuller Four, the Standells, the Association, the Electric Prunes, Nilsson, Captain Beefheart. and Iron Butterfly were all connected, however loosely, or how Rick Nelson and Del Shannon got weird as the decade started to draw to a close. These connections, along with discovering dozens of gems from lesser-known artists, are the reason why Where the Action Is! winds up being a blast, as well as a revelation just like any other Nuggets set. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Compact discs; in container (29 cm.).
Principally previously released material.
Program notes by Harvey Kubernik and others, including bibliography and videography (47 p. : ill.) bound in container.
Rock and popular music.
Disc 1, On the Strip. Riot on Sunset Strip (the Standells) -- You movin' (the Byrds) -- You I'll be following (Love) -- Dr. Stone (the Leaves) -- Go and say goodbye (Buffalo Springfield) -- Zig zag wanderer (Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band) -- Gentle as it may seem (Iron Butterfly) -- Candy cane madness (Lowell George & the Factory) -- If you want this love (the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band) -- Baby my heart (the Bobby Fuller Four) -- All night long (the Palace Guard) -- It's gonna rain (Sonny & Cher) -- For my own (the Guilloteens) -- Take a giant step (the Rising Sons) -- One too many mornings (the Association) -- Time waits for no one (the Knack) -- Take it as it comes (the Doors) -- Pulsating dream (Kaleidoscope) -- Tripmaker (the Seeds) -- The people in me (the Music Machine) -- Saturday's son (the Sons of Adam) -- Eventually (the Peanut Butter Conspiracy) -- Swim (Penny Arkade) -- The third eye (the Joint Effort) -- Girl in your eye (Spirit) --
Disc 2, Beyond the city. Jump, jive & harmonize (Thee Midniters) -- Back up (the Light) -- To die alone (the Bush) -- Get on this plane (the Premiers) -- Little girl, little boy (the Odyssey) -- Hideaway (the Electric Prunes) -- Listen, listen! (the Merry-Go-Round) -- She done moved (the Spats) -- Grim reaper of love (the Turtles) -- See if I care (Ken & the Fourth Dimension) -- He's not there anymore (the Chymes) -- Back seat '38 Dodge (Opus 1) -- Eternal prison (the Humane Society) -- Revenge (the Others) -- Come alive (Things to Come) -- Acid head (the Velvet Illusions) -- Guaranteed love (Limey & the Yanks) -- Love's the thing (the Romancers (aka the Smoke Rings)) -- Underground lady (Kim Fowley) -- Pretty little thing (the Deepest Blue) -- You're wishin' I was someone else (the Whatt Four) -- Hippy elevator operator (the W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band) -- That's for sure (the Mustangs) -- Tomorrow's girl (Fapardokly (Merrell & the Exiles)) -- Everything's there (the Hysterics) -- Our time is running out (the Yellow Payges) --
Disc 3, The studio scene. Action, action, action (Keith Allison) -- The rebel kind (Dino, Desi & Billy) -- High on love (the Knickerbockers) -- Fan tan (Jan & Dean) -- Halloween Mary (P.F. Sloan) -- Somebody groovy (the Mamas & the Papas) -- Daydreaming (Thorinshield) -- Just can't wait (the Full Treatment) -- Yellow Balloon (the Yellow Balloon) -- The times to come (London Phogg) -- No more running around (the Lamp of Childhood) -- Little girl lost-and-found (the Garden Club) -- Mothers and fathers (the Moon) -- My girlfriend is a witch (October Country) -- Montage mirror (Roger Nichols Trio) -- Flower eyes (Pasternak Progress) -- Come down (the Common Cold) -- Jill (Gary Lewis & the Playboys) -- Daily nightly (the Monkees) -- Night time girl (Modern Folk Quintet) -- Don't say no (the Oracle) -- Tin angel (will you ever come down) (Hearts and Flowers) -- Rainbow woman (Lee Hazlewood) -- Poor old organ grinder (Pleasure, featuring Billy Elder) -- Baby, please don't go (the Ballroom) --
Disc 4, New directions. Sit down, I think I love you (Stephen Stills & Richie Furay) -- Splendor in the grass (Jackie DeShannon with the Byrds) -- November night (Peter Fonda) -- Roses and rainbows (Danny Hutton) -- Lemon chimes (the Dillards) -- Here's today (the Rose Garden) -- I love how you love me (Nino Tempo & April Stevens) -- Words (demo) (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) -- (You used to) Ride so high (the Motorcycle Abeline (Warren Zevon & Bones Howe)) -- Los Angeles (Gene Clark) -- Once upon a time (Tim Buckley) -- Darlin' you can count on me (the Everpresent Fullness) -- I'll search the sky (the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Come to the sunshine (Van Dyke Parks) -- Heroes and villains (alternative take) (the Beach Boys) -- She sang hymns out of tune (Jesse Lee Kincaid) -- Sister Marie (Nilsson) -- Last night I had a dream (single version) (Randy Newman) -- Life is a dream (Noel Harrison) -- Marshmallow skies (Rick Nelson) -- I think I love you (Del Shannon) -- Change is now (the Byrds) -- The truth is not real (single version) (Sagittarius) -- You set the scene (Love) -- Inner-manipulations (Barry McGuire).
Various performers.