Music That Matters: Classic Pop: Pop Gallery eBooks, #13
By Marc Platt
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“Music That Matters (Classic Pop)” (Includes 11 Video Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript)
What makes music have a lasting impact on your soul minutes, days, months, years and decades after you first experienced a particular group, song or album? Chances are you were experiencing something emotionally that connected you with a particular group, song or album and you still feel that connection. This could be music that never went beyond your radio in that moment, or has been collecting dust for many years on vinyl or CD, or even a cassette tape. It is possible you have that music, but no means to play it in the original form.
Most people have given their vinyl collections away or sold them as technology has changed. Cassette, 8-Track and even CDs have given way to newer forms of translating those recordings.
There are so many acts that are long gone, but have seen a resurgence of their material so many years later. These are what I call the “Underrated Pop” artists. Some of them are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, some of them are working in car dealerships, or teaching high school English in a small northeastern town.
These artists had their time and their place to shine as a relevant act. They continue to live on because that connection we all feel when we hear the song on an oldies station, or maybe on TV or a movie soundtrack. This eBook will focus on many artists who either had a few hits or had a lot of success at a certain point, but now remain underrated years later.
These are just two examples of bands who had short runs, but continue to impact other artists and fans nearly 50 years later.
I will discuss the impact of acts like The Left Banke, Merry-Go-Round, Byrds, Turtles, Standells, The Easybeats, The Equals, The Byrds, Mamas & Papas, Grateful Dead, Sly & The Family Stone and The Jefferson Airplane. Some of these were huge artists in their time and are still praised and followed. They deserve some space and they will get it here. I will also do several honorable mentions at the end in the Epilogue.
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Music That Matters - Marc Platt
Music That Matters (Classic Pop: Volume One)
Intro
Left Banke
Merry-Go-Round
The Byrds
The Turtles
The Standells
Mamas and Papas
The Easybeats
The Equals
Jefferson Airplane
Sly & The Family Stone
Grateful Dead
Epilogue
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Intro
What makes music have a lasting impact on your soul minutes, days, months, years and decades after you first experienced a particular group, song or album?
Chances are you were experiencing something emotionally that connected you with a particular group, song or album and you still feel that connection. This could be music that never went beyond your radio in that moment, or has been collecting dust for many years on vinyl or CD, or even a cassette tape. It is possible you have that music, but no means to play it in the original form.
Most people have given their vinyl collections away or sold them as technology has changed. Cassette, 8-Track and even CDs have given way to newer forms of translating those recordings.
There are so many acts that are long gone, but have seen a resurgence of their material so many years later. These are what I call the Underrated Pop
artists. Some of them are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, some of them are working in car dealerships, or teaching high school English in a small northeastern town.
These artists had their time and their place to shine as a relevant act. They continue to live on because that connection we all feel when we hear the song on an oldies station, or maybe on TV or a movie soundtrack. This eBook will focus on many artists who either had a few hits or had a lot of success at a certain point, but now remain underrated years later.
New York City’s The Left Banke is one such band that had three remarkable songs released all about the same muse, when the main writer (Michael Brown) was all of 15-16 years old. These three songs ("Walk Away Renee,
Pretty Ballerina and
She May Call You Up Tonight") were all written in the same time period, but managed to span decades in influence and inspiration for so many other artists to follow.
On the west coast, The Merry-Go-Round had their own prodigy in Emmitt Rhodes writing brilliant pop songs like "Live,
Time Will Show The Wiser and
You’re a Very Lovely Woman."
These are just two examples of bands who had short runs, but continue to impact other artists and fans nearly 50 years later.
I will discuss the impact of acts like The Left Banke, Merry-Go-Round, Byrds, Turtles, Standells, The Easybeats, The Equals, The Byrds, Mamas & Papas, Grateful Dead, Sly & The Family Stone