Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary …
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- File this under ‘right place, right time’. Harold Bronson was a teenager in mid-60’s Los Angeles and saw every act imaginable. Then wrote for the Daily Bruin and Rolling Stone and interviewed everyone that interested him. Then managed a music store and co-founded Rhino Records, pretty much inventing the idea of the top-end reissue - “Sooner or later everyone ends up in a box.” All of this is in his memoir, ‘Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967 - 2007’, and many of its cast of thousands appear in this podcast, among them Johnny Horton and ‘the Battle of New Orleans’, the Purple People Eaters, the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, the Doors at the Hollywood Bowl, the Stones supported by Ike & Tina (for $12), Ozzy Osbourne (“I’d never meet anybody with a tattoo before”), Hilton Valentine working at a Henry The Eighth-themed restaurant, Groucho Marx at a Led Zeppelin launch, a ‘Best of Louie Louie’ that sold 100,000 copies and a Ritchie Valens record made on a dictaphone.
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Flatts & Scruggs did the Beverly Hillbillies theme, and also appeared on the show with trophy wives.
Yeah, how did he get that wrong?
Tim Buckley - Spirit
And the Rhino Handmade label gave us the heavenly duet of Rosemary Clooney & Wild Man Fischer, "It's a Hard Business" on the Fischer Kind double cd. He brings out the comedy in her and she the singer in him!
Bill Mumy of Barnes and Barnes put them together.
it wasn't that long ago I could walk into a local record shop and buy all analog copies of Rhino's 'Forever Changes' and 'Marquee Moon' for around 20 Euro... the vinyl bizniz is now ludicrous... I never buy any new records... all digital crap pressed to vinyl and selling for 35 to 50 euro for a single album and doubles going from 50 to 100... I stick to vintage analog vinyl these daze...
Really interesting interview. I was just trying work out who each of the toys are behind Harold. I can see Batman, Superman and Beatles cartoon figures. Who is the figure with the hat between Batman and Superman?!
Ageless legend Harold Bronson is proof that Rock & Roll is a life preservative, unless of course he's been bathing in milk, or sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber lo these many decades. His attention to detail is incredible!
I have my dad's old record player, and it has the 16rpm setting. Never seen a record with that speed marked on it, I think it was for speech records?
I purchased a number of Rhino discs:
Weird Al's first single, My Bologna, probably recorded in a toilet, for the echo.
Fred Blassie's Pencil Neck Geek on [blood] red vinyl.
Barnes & Barnes' well-known, Fish Heads [a Fish-head-shaped 45].
A Rhino sampler, Rhino Royale
Dr. Demento's sampler, Dementia Royale
...all worth checking out on YT.
Not a particularly engaging storyteller but he has clearly lived a fascinating life.