’66 Sunset Strip
12.25.23
Take a trip to ’66 Sunset Strip as dublab steps into the wayback machine and revisits 1960s Hollywood nightclubs like The Trip, Hullabaloo, Whisky a Go Go and Pandora’s Box.
This month’s episode is featuring The Mamas and The Papas interview, Cass Elliot and John Phillips.
Tracklist:
The Gene Norman Group – Blowin’ in the Wind
Billy Strange – It Ain’t Me Babe
The Delicate Balance – The Night is Almost Gone
The Journeymen – River Come Down
The Big Three – Young Girl’s Lament
The Mugwumps – Here It Is, Another Day
The Mugwumps – Do You Know What I Mean
Interview with Cass Elliot and John Phillips
The Mamas & the Papas:
Creque Alley
California Dreamin’
Monday, Monday
Got a Feelin’
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Twelve-Thirty
Dick Rabbit – Take Me To L.A.
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – Back in L.A.
The Enemys – Hey Joe
Jackie DeShannon – Don’t Turn Your Back on Me
The Robbs – Violets of Dawn
Paul Revere & the Raiders – Burn Like a Candle
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag (live at The Haunted House, near the corner of Hollywood & Vine… seen in the films “Girl in Gold Boots,” “It’s a Bikini World” and on Hollywood Backstage with Sonny & Cher).
Bobby Day – Rockin’ Robin (background vocals The Hollywood Flames)
The Hollywood Flames – One Night With a Fool
The King Cole Trio – Sweet Lorraine
Richard Berry & the Pharaohs – You Look So Good
Dorothy Berry – You’re So Fine
The Crossfires – Inferno (live at The Revelaire, Redondo Beach 1963/1964)
The New Dimensions – Avalanche (live at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Second Annual Surf Fair, 1963)
Dave Myers & the Surf-Tones – Pipeline (live at The Deauville Castle Club, Santa Monica, for the three-day “Surf Battle,” March 1963)
Johnny Barakat & the Vestells – The Wedge (live at The Hollywood Palladium, 1964 Teen-Age Fair)
Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Watusi Jo (live at Ciro’s LeDisc, Sunset Strip, 1965)
Jan & Dean – Surf City (live at Santa Monica Civic, 1964)
Bobby Day interview and “Rockin’ Robin” on The Art Laboe Show here in L.A., 1958
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, black ‘n’ white version of their “Record on Film” promotional film “Back in L.A.”
SHOW NOTES:
- The King Cole Trio is Nat Cole (piano, vocal), Oscar Moore (guitar), Johnny Hamilton (bass)
- The Gene Norman Group features Tommy Tedesco, Jerry Cole and Glen Campbell on guitars, Carole Kaye on bass, Julius Wechter (percussion), Ben Benay (harmonica), Al DeLory (piano, organ, harpsichord), Hal Blaine (drums)
- Billy Strange (guitar) is backed by Glen Campbell on guitar, Jim Horn on saxophone, Al DeLory on piano, Lyle Ritz on bass and Hal Blaine on drums. Record arranged by Leon Russell and Snuff Garrett.
- The Mamas & The Papas instrumental music heard in the background of this episode is by The Stapelton-Morley Expression, featuring Mike Deasy on guitar, Hal Blaine on drums and Larry Knechtel on keyboard instruments. The arrangements and conducting were by Sid Feller, and the record was produced by Steve Barri for Dunhill Records.
The Hollywood Flames, Bobby Byrd later known as Bobby Day
The Revelaire Club in Redondo Beach, 1963-1964
The Deauville Castle Club in Santa Monica, California. Home of the “Surf Battle” in March, 1963.
Interior of The Deauville Castle Club
The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, home of the Surf Fair in 1962/1963, The T.A.M.I. Show in 1964, lots of Bruce Brown, John Severson, Greg MacGillivray/Jim Freeman and other surf film-maker screenings during the late ’50s through to the early ’70s (including The Endless Summer in ’65 and Five Summer Stories in ’72) and of course… The Academy Awards back in those days too. David Bowie & the Spiders from Mars’ Ziggy Stardust tour through America came here in ’72 (live LP of that show exists), as did The Clash w/ Bo Diddley in ’79… lots between all that, of course. Great L.A. Modern design by Welton Becket.
