Track List and Artists

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'Donovan's Colours' (D. Leitch)
by George Washington Brown

'Come To The Sunshine' (Van Dyke Parks) by Van Dyke Parks

'The Eagle and Me' (Arlen-Harburg)
by Van Dyke Parks

'Friends and Lovers' (Murphy-Koerner) by Sal Valentino

'Alligator Man' (Floyd Chance)
by Sal Valentino

'Farther Along' (Van Dyke Parks)
by Van Dyke Parks

'Valley To Pray' (Coutson-Pilla-Guthrie) by Arlo Guthrie

'Out On The Rolling Sea Where Jesus Speaks To Me' (Joseph Spence)
by Van Dyke Parks

'Sitting Here In Limbo' (Bright-Cliff)
by Dino Martin

'Wha' She Go Do' (McCarth Lewis)
by Bonnie Raitt

'Sit Down I Think I Love You' (Stephen Stills) by The Mojo Men

'One Meatball' (Singer-Singer-Zaret) by Ry Cooder

'Cheek to Cheek' (Parks-Kibbee-George) by Lowell George

'Spanish Moon' (Lowell George)
by Little Feat

'Ice Capades (Moog music '67)'
(Van Dyke Parks) by Van Dyke Parks

Other Info

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Catalogue No: B3300

Van Dyke Parks Arrangements, Volume 1

 

Bananastan releases a new compilation album featuring 15 of Van Dyke Parks' greatest arrangements, available on both CD and 180gm Vinyl.

Arrangements, Volume 1 contains 15 songs featuring various artists including Ry Cooder, Arlo Guthrie, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, Sal Valentino, Mojo Men, Dino Martin and a few from Van Dyke himself.

4 Van Dyke Parks tracks — 'Come To The Sunshine', 'Do What You Wanta', 'Farther Along' and 'Ice Capades' — are available for download from iTunes......

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Featured artists, clockwise from top left: Ry Cooder with Van Dyke Parks, Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, Dino Martin, Arlo Guthrie, Sal Valentino, Little Feat.

 

"The compilation is curated by Parks himself, drawing on what he calls 'my earliest studio adventures in the '60s.' The roster of collaborators represented here is dizzying — Little Feat, Arlo Guthrie, Sal Valentino, Bonnie Raitt singing calypso — and hearing Parks' unifying hand presiding over this collision of styles makes for a wonderful way to experience the art of his arrangements; their lushness, their invention, how they provide the texture and teeth to a composition.

The songs selected on Arrangements are uniformly fantastic. Bonnie Raitt's cover of Calypso Rose's racy 'Wah She Go Do' is hilarious and startling, and Jimmy Cliff's 'Sitting in Limbo' gets an improbably gorgeous reading by Dean Martin's son Dino. But trying to imagine them without Parks' additions, as the compilation encourages you to, is illuminating.

Arrangements is a joy to spend time with, but it also amounts to a pretty forceful argument for the lost art of arrangement itself, and for Parks as one of its unrivaled masters.." — Pitchfork — Read the full review...

"Most of these tracks reflect the same grand, outsized personality that Parks brought to his solo work; Parks is a man in love with musical Americana, but he's even more fond of the way other cultures stretch and shape American ideas, and his dandified vision, full of snappy and textural percussion, playful keyboard fixtures, bold horns and woodwinds, and strings that dance and sway with the melodies, truly defines each of these selections, even more than the folks who sing them." — All Music Guide — Read the full review...

 

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