
Episode 153: “Heroes and Villains” by the Beach Boys
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Park's Song Cycle, So Where Are the Songs?
Parks was given cat blanche to create the album he wanted to create with one of the largest budgets of any album released to that date. He felt saddened at the way dullon had treated donovan. That was not a hit, but it got enough positive coverage, including an ecstatic review from richard goldstein in the village voice. But parks realized the album, titled song cycle, was doomed to failure when, at a playback session, the head of warner brothers records said, song cycle, so where are the songs? According to parks, the album was only released because jack holtzman of electra records, was also there and took out his cheque book and said
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