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california sun
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by Bruce Eder The Crickets' California Sun (also sometimes referred to as Collection: California Sun/She Loves You, or The Crickets) was their final LP as a contemporary group, released the year before they went on what became an extended hiatus, into the 1970s (at which time they re-emerged on the oldies circuit). It was also sort of payback -- of the most good-natured kind -- as Buddy Holly's various bandmates and surviving contemporaries -- Jerry Allison (drums, backing vocals), Sonny Curtis (lead guitar, vocals), Glen D. Hardin (keyboards, Fender Rhodes piano bass), and Jerry Naylor (vocals) -- did an album comprised, in large part, of covers of John Lennon/Paul McCartney songs. Considering how much the Beatles owed to the Crickets, it seems even more now than it did then, to be a logical move for the older Texas-spawned group, looking for a contemporary audience. They don't sound that different from the band as it existed in Holly's time, obviously missing Holly's unique voice, but otherwise mostly retaining the lean, clean guitar/bass/drums sound, with a texture only a half-generation removed from their rockabilly roots on songs like the rendition of &Slippin' and Slidin',& and their covers of Doc Pomus' &Lonely Avenue,& and the Motown standard &Money& could have been done by the classic (i.e. original) lineup. As for the Beatles covers, they're a mixed bag -- &I Want to Hold Your Hand& is done too much like the original, with Curtis emulating George Harrison's and John Lennon's guitar parts too closely to add much; &She Loves You& is better, Curtis' playing very exposed with all of its embellishments, and Allison's extraordinary drumming nicely delineated as well; &I Saw Her Standing There& isn't quite inventive enough to be more than a fairly routine cover, only the spirited vocals standing out along with elements of Curtis' playing; &Please Please Me& and &From Me to You,& by contrast, are made into de facto Crickets numbers, with the kind of timbre that recalls the original band, and singing that manages to invoke the memory of Buddy Holly -- had he lived, it would be easy to imagine him doing versions of either of these songs (perhaps in return for the Beatles' recording of &Words of Love&) that would be very much like what we hear on this album. Among the originals, the Jerry Allison co-authored &You Can't Be in Between& is a first-rate piece of British Invasion-style rock & roll, with strong playing and singing, a catchy melody and chorus, and a great beat, and the album closer, &Come On,& is a rousing and catchy rocker that shows this group to be as contemporary-sounding a band as there was in 1964.
| 状态 | 未发布 |
|---|---|
| Alias | california sun |
| Extra | california sun |
| Name | california sun |
| 原始名称 | California Sun |
| 发行时间 | 1964-02-14 |
| 名称 | california sun |
| 唱片公司 | liberty |
| 收藏数 | 5 |
| 歌手 | the crickets |
| 类别 | 录音室专辑 |
| 语言 | 英语 |