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Eight Miles High - An Essay By Mark Teehan

 

Mark Teehan has comprehensively researched The Byrds' "Eight Miles High" single's performance on the local music surveys to determine the role that The Gavin Report might have played in its national charting.

Mark is a former accredited historian and is currently a research analyst. His exhaustive analysis of the spread in Top 40 radio airplay of Bob Dylan's transformative "Like A Rolling Stone" revealed how it became a Number One smash hit in the U.S., and was published in Isis (#216). In addition, his six Kinks charting essays were posted on kindakinks.net.

https://workupload.com/file/QZ2smADLaLD 

Addenda

In 'References,' p. 49, top: Siff, Stephen I. (2008). URL:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=23b7be14052e7de73d28a3c3225dfbc0cb29c9ee

In 'References,' p. 49: Simpson, Dave. 2014.  Correct URL:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/16/how-we-made-eight-miles-high-the-byrds

 

Emmylou Harris with Gram Parsons live 1973

Emmylou Harris’ 10" vinyl LP (6 tracks) (released in 2023 as part of an Amoeba Records/Polly Parsons Kickstarter campaign that raised funds to release rediscovered Gram Parsons material) has a live track sung with Gram Parsons, recorded at a concert with the Fallen Angels in Boston, 1973.

Details here:

https://www.discogs.com/release/28955695-Emmylou-Harris-First-Album-Demos

 

New Bob Dylan release (old tracks) with Roger McGuinn just released (December 14th)

New Bob Dylan release (old tracks) with Roger McGuinn just released (December 14th)

A CD titled “Bob Dylan – 50^th Anniversary Collection 1973” has just been released.

It seems to be out of stock already!

Roger McGuinn appears on many tracks from the “Pat Garrett And Billy the Kid” soundtrack.

Details here:

https://www.discogs.com/release/29203339-Bob-Dylan-50th-Anniversary-Collection-1973

 

New "Byrds" podcast by Sid Griffin

Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders / The Coal Porters) has made a new podcast available.

It’s a 90+ minutes “Byrds Special”.

From Sid Griffin’s website:

“The 37th Sid Griffin Podcast is ready to be heard and enjoyed. No holiday theme this year as Sid has done in past podcasts but…get ready for a surprise…he HAS done an entire show devoted to his fave act, The Byrds.

No hits, of course, but outtakes, demos, and rare tracks not even the most devoted Byrd fan has heard. We are talking tunes even the late great Johnny Rogan never heard.”

You can listen to the podcast on various platforms; details here:

https://www.sidgriffin.com/2023/12/06/call-all-coal-porters-show-37-the-byrds-special/

Thanks to our regular correspondent JPM for the info.

 

Gene Clark's LP re-released on blue vinyl with 7" single bonus with unreleased track

 

It went rather unnoticed but the latest vinyl re-release of Gene Clark and Carla Olson's LP « So Rebellious A Lover » on blue vinyl has a bonus 7’’ vinyl single with an unreleased Clark/Olson « home recorded » song.

Says Carla Olson:

« A blue vinyl version of my album with Gene, ‘So Rebellious A Lover’, has just been re-released in the summer and it includes a 7 inch single of Gene singing a song in his house, and me singing the song with him in the house, it was recorded in his lounge on a little cassette deck. It is really a wonderful addition to the many reissues of that album »

The LP was released on Sunset Blvd Records with reference LP-SBR-7021.

The single is as follows:

 

Side A

Gypsy Rider 

Recorded at Criterion Recording Studio, Hollywood, Ca. 1985

Bass – Joe Read

Drums – Phil Seymour

Guitar – George Callins

Pedal Steel Guitar – Ed Black

Recorded By, Mixed By – Guy Roche

Written-By, Producer, Guitar, Vocals – Gene Clark

 

Side B 

Recorded at Gene's House, Sherman Oaks, Ca. 1989 

Number One Is To Survive

Guitar, Vocals – Gene Clark

Written-By, Guitar, Vocals – Carla Olson

UPDATE

The mention that Gene And Carla’s "Number One Is To Survive" is an unreleased track was based on what Carla Olson said in a recent interview. Actually, our regular correspondent JPM just let us know that it’s not unreleased, as it appears on Gene and Carla’s double CD “Gene Clark With Carla Olson In Concert” released by Collector’s Choice Music as long ago as 2007, with the note “Gene & Clara In Gene’s Living Room, 1989”

 

Yet another Chris Hillman participation (2007)

 

It had escaped me until now but I just found out that Chris Hillman plays mandolin and sings harmony vocal on The Psychedelic Cowboys’ “Jangle Waltz” album from 2007.