Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Cover Similarities




Van Dyke Parks' debut album Song Cycle (1968) begins with a Randy Newman number.
Randy Newman's debut album Randy Newman (Creates Something New Under the Sun) (1968) was co-produced by Van Dyke Parks.

And look at the mugs on these guys!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have been enjoying both of these immensely. (I presume these are the ones I have?) Expected to enjoy RN, but VD is great stuff. I hear his influence in your recent oeuvre. Are you conscious of it?

Now you're gonna need to live up to the subtitle of your blog. You've given lots of thoughts about the music of others. Now talk about your own. If you can.

Anonymous said...

David Nichols was telling me about you. So technically, no, you don't know me. But I do go to school in your neck of the woods.