Song Cycle
by Van Dyke Parks
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1967
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United States
- Length: 32:53
- Community rating: 3.91/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Following his brilliant lyrical contributions to The Beach Boys' 'Smile', Van Dyke Parks delivered an astoundingly dense, completely visionary solo debut. 'Song Cycle' is an incredibly complex, wonderfully surreal kaleidoscope of American music history, weaving wildly eclectic, highly avant-garde orchestration through beautifully lush, playful baroque-pop.
Genres
Descriptors: complex, history, avant-garde, orchestral, storytelling
Tracklist
- Vine Street (3:39)
- Palm Desert (3:10)
- Widow's Walk (3:12)
- Up Laurel Canyon (0:30)
- The All Golden (3:46)
- Van Dyke Parks (0:58)
- Public Domain (2:33)
- Donovan's Colours (3:41)
- The Attic (2:59)
- Down Laurel Canyon (1:19)
- By the People (5:52)
- Pot Pourri (1:07)
Credits
- Van Dyke Parks - primary artist, written-by
- Carl Fortina - accordion
- Kirby Johnson - advisor [musical advisor], conductor
- Ed Thrasher - art direction
- Allan Reuss - balalaika
- Leon Stewart - balalaika
- Nicolai Bolin - balalaika
- Tommy Tedesco - balalaika, contractor
- Vasil Crlenica - balalaika
- William Nadel - balalaika
- Arthur Briegleb - brass
- Dick "Slyde" Hyde - brass
- Richard Perissi - brass
- Tommy Shepard - brass
- Vincent DeRosa - brass
- Billie Barnum - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Durrie Parks - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Gaile Parks - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Gerri Engeman - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Jim Hendricks - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Julia Rinker - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Karen Gunderson - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Nick Woods - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Paul Jay Robbins - choir [authentic folk choir], liner notes
- Vanessa Hendricks - choir [authentic folk choir]
- Don Lanier - contractor
- Michael Vosse - coordinator [co-ordination]
- Corporate Head - design [album design]
- El Supremo - effects [sound effects]
- Jack Glaser - effects [sound effects]
- Lee Herschberg - engineer [engineering supervised by]
- Bruce Botnick - engineer [stereo & monaural compositions by]
- Tom Wilkes - graphics
- Dick Rosmini - guitar
- Ron Elliott - guitar
- Gayle Levant - harp
- Earl Palmer - percussion
- Gary Coleman - percussion
- Hal Blaine - percussion
- Jim Gordon - percussion
- Steve Young - performer [folk]
- Guy Webster - photography by
- George Washington Brown - piano
- Randy Newman - piano, arranged by, written-by
- Lenny Waronker - producer
- Armand Kaproff - strings
- Chuck Berghofer - strings
- Darrel Terwilliger - strings
- Dennis Budimir - strings
- Don Bagley - strings
- Frederick Seykora - strings
- Gregory Bemko - strings
- Harry Bluestone - strings
- Jerome Reisler - strings
- Jesse Erlichman - strings
- Joseph Ditullio - strings
- Joseph Saxon - strings
- Leonard Malarsky - strings
- Leonard Selic - strings
- Lyle Ritz - strings