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theswinginsixties: Françoise Hardy during a promotional visit to Italy, 1963. View high resolution

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Françoise Hardy during a promotional visit to Italy, 1963.

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(Reblogged from theswinginsixties)

Abbey Road sessions: The Zombies

When British pop act the Zombies arrived at Abbey Road Studios in June of 1967, the Beatles had just finished wrapping up the sessions for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When those reportedly agonizing hours of tape splicing and manual scissor edits adjourned, the Beatles left a number of instruments behind. Among them was a Mellotron, an early 1960s era keyboard that offered sample playback via magnetic audio tape. Read my piece at PopMatters.

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Marking the 45th anniversary of the Stax Records release of Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay,” writer Marc Myers at The Wall Street Journal compiles interviews with Booker T. Jones and more in order to present a compelling visual of the recording sessions.

Marking the 45th anniversary of the Stax Records release of Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay,” writer Marc Myers at The Wall Street Journal compiles interviews with Booker T. Jones and more in order to present a compelling visual of the recording sessions.

It’s the London Social Degree

In the June 2012 issue of The Brooklyn Rail, writer David Shirley discusses Billy Nicholls’ late-1960s pop psyche debut Would You Believe? and runs down how it came to fruition.

Blurt’s Rick Allen has the skinny on the liner notes from the new collection of the Sinatra/Jobim recording sessions circa 1967 and 1969.