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The Great Songs: The Flying Burrito Brothers – Hot Burrito #1

by Eric Melin on June 1, 2010

in Columns,The Great Songs

After joining The Byrds for one legendary album in 1967 (“Sweetheart of the Rodeo”) and singlehandedly turning them into a country band (the first major rock act to do so), restless singer/songwriter Gram Parsons moved on. He quit The Byrds, took Byrds member Chris Hillman with him and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers. When I […]

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The Great Songs: The Zombies – Care of Cell 44

by Eric Melin on April 21, 2010

in Columns,The Great Songs

In June 1967, just after The Beatles recorded “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and Pink Floyd recorded “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” at the same studio, The Zombies entered Abbey Road to record nine songs that would appear on “Odessey and Oracle” (and no, that’s not my misspelling, but one by the album cover’s designer which The […]

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