Open Channel D
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Performer: David MccallumEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Music Label: Rev-Ola
Soundtracks:
- House On Breckenbridge Lane
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place
- Shadow Of Your Smile (Love
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Free Music Review: Still great after all these (40) years!
Hit: 5 Stars
I fell in love with McCallum's records from the very start, at the age of 15. I had to search used record stores for the 3rd and 4th LPs in the 70s, and now have 3 worn copies of the first album...It pains me that I paid $40 plus shipping for Open Channel D when it was first issued, but it was worth every penny. I still prefer the albums for the engineering, for on a good stereo, the drums are fantastically recorded, as is the whole production. But the CD is so clean.
Some of the reviewers for both this CD and the other reissue that is minus the 4 vocals don't know David's musical background. True, Barnum and Axelrod did the arrangements, but David is a musician and conductor. He still at his age conducts orchestras. His father was concertmaster for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and played on the Sgt. Pepper sessions, and on David's album (I'm guessing on the fourth, McCallum, as it is the only one with a fuller orchestra). David plays oboe, and on the original liner notes of the LP, says he conducted as he would have liked to have played. My ears were caught immediately by the wild oboe and English horn solos! As a saxophonist and band member, I had (and still have never) heard anyone wail on those two instruments like in these recordings! It is also interesting that the brass section is made of trombones and French horns -- no trumpets! The use of baritone and bass saxes makes the sound quite different, too.
I would also like to suggest that the sessions were played largely by the Wrecking Crew. I have a strong feeling that the drummer is Hal Blaine.
The ensemble playing is sometimes a bit "sloppy," but then again, so is some of the work done for The Beach Boys (the Wrecking Crew), but the sound is so unique it's easy to overlook, and does not diminish the fact that this is lounge music at its best, and also a history of the popular music between '65 and '69.
(It's alsogreat to see David McCallum on NCIS and how good he looks at the age of 73!)
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