Gold Star sound engineer, Larry Levin, re-wound the massive tape reel, setting forth a cacophony of babble and music. The tape slowed and finally halted. Phil Spector, sitting in the control booth, leaned his head towards a microphone connecting the booth with Studio A.
“Sing it again,” he instructed.
Standing alone and wearing a […]
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This episode was eliminated from the text of Vinyl Highway, Chapter 7, Life in a Sedan. It shows how teenagers will resort to anything to add a little excitement to a long car tour. This incident took place in the Midwest during a tour in the early Sixties, while stopping for lunch in some roadside […]
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I just got a comment from someone who visited YouTube and watched the video we posted called Lightening Strikes. They requested that we give credit to the Blossoms, who are singing with Dick and me in the background. The video of Lightening Strikes ( Lou Christie had the original hit) happened to be the last Shindig TV show […]
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Excerpt from Vinyl Highway, by Dee Dee Phelps, Chapter Twenty-Three
The evening of the session, Dick and I arrived by cab at Decca Records. It rained that day and the city streets glistened. As we pulled up in front of the studio we noticed another cab unloading Andrew Oldham, Brian Jones and Keith Richards. Andrew introduced […]
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Our record company, Liberty Records, sent us out to perform on stage for a radio station promotion. We arrived in the Montgomery, Alabama airport on a sunny November morning in 1962. The general manager of the radio station met our plane. No matter how many times I told him my name was Dee Dee, he […]
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