Wild Things!

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Wild Things!
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Studio album by The Ventures
Released September 17, 1966
Recorded 1966
Genre Instrumental rock
Length25:35
Label Dolton
Producer Joe Saraceno
The Ventures chronology
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(1966)		Wild Things!
(1966)		Guitar Freakout
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Wild Things! is a 1966 studio album by the Ventures, released on Dolton Records BLP-2047 (mono) and BST-8047. [2] A 4-track reel-to-reel release was subsequently issued by Music Tapes, Inc. [3] The album is noted for its marked turn towards a heavier sound in comparison to earlier Ventures releases, and the standout track Wild Child which was prominently featured as a sample in Start the Commotion by The Wiseguys.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

The Ventures band

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band, formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle. The band, a quartet for most of its existence, helped to popularize the electric guitar in the United States and across the world during the 1960s. While their popularity in the United States waned in the 1970s, the group remains especially revered in Japan, where they tour regularly to this day. The classic lineup of the band consisted of Wilson, Bogle, Nokie Edwards, and Mel Taylor (drums).

Dolton Records was a record label based in Seattle that was originally known as Dolphin Records. It was owned by Bob Reisdorf and Bonnie Guitar. Success for the label came early with "Come Softly to Me" by the Fleetwoods, the first single to be released on that label. Reisdorf was soon informed that there was another Dolphin Records in circulation, so he changed the name to Dolton after the first release, the second release being an instrumental by the Frantics called "Straight Flush" b/w "Young Blues". The new label retained the fish symbols on the logo and the fonts associated with the Dolphin name. The first major hit on the newer Dolton label was the Fleetwood's "Mr. Blue", a number one hit, and the fifth single released by that company. Other major Dolton artists included the Ventures, Vic Dana, and the Frantics. It was acquired in 1963 by Avnet and merged with its Liberty Records parent label in 1966. Liberty had distributed Dolton releases when "Come Softly To Me" became a hit.

Contents

Background

Recorded directly after completing a tour of the central United States in the summer of 1966, [4] [ self-published source? ] the album presents The Ventures updating their sound to a "mod, go-go" style. Allmusic notes that the album is consistently "hard-edged" thanks to fuzztone Mosrites, and that the original instrumentals are better than throw-a ways. [1] Leading off the album is a cover of The Troggs' Wild Thing. The track features a "vocal" by Don Wilson, doing an impersonation of Peter Lorre reciting parts of the original lyrics, to humorous effect. [4] The next track, Fuzzy and Wild, is the first of the original instrumentals, each of which included the word "wild" in the title. [4] Wild and Wooly was not a Ventures original, but was originally called Murfreesboro by its composer, Danny Hamilton. [4] Perhaps the oddest title belongs to How Now Wild Cow, a play on the phrase of elocution suggested by one of Mel Taylor's sons. [4]

Mosrite American guitar brand

Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many rock and roll and country artists.

The Troggs band

The Troggs are an English garage rock band formed in Andover, Hampshire in May 1964. They had a number of hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Their most famous songs include the US chart-toppers "Wild Thing", "With a Girl Like You" and "Love Is All Around", all of which sold over 1 million copies and were awarded gold discs. "Wild Thing" is ranked #257 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was an influence on garage rock and punk rock.

Peter Lorre Austrian actor

Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-born American character actor of Jewish descent. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.

Wild Child

The track Wild Child, featuring a "catchy guitar loop", was prominently featured in The Wiseguy's 1999 song Start the Commotion. The Wiseguy's recording was subsequently used in a Mitsubishi television commercial, [5] and in a promo for the Ally McBeal show, and this exposure ushered in a new chapter into the Ventures career. Having been alerted to the use of their recording, The Ventures confirmed with EMI that they owned rights to their composition, and subsequently received two-thirds of the writing royalties for "Start the Commotion". Additional income for The Ventures came in the form of Synchronization rights from the song. The Ventures at this point realized that their back catalog, as well as performing new music specifically designed for use in multimedia productions, could produce a significant source of additional income. [6] [ self-published source? ]

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A music synchronization license, or "sync" for short, is a music license granted by the holder of the copyright of a particular composition, allowing the licensee to synchronize ("sync") music with some kind of visual media output.

Reception

Wild Things! first appeared on the Billboard Top Albums chart on September 17, 1966. It maintained a position on this chart for a sum of 26 weeks, achieving a top position of #33. [7] Allmusic gives a mildly favorable rating to the album, but compares it unfavorably to some earlier Ventures records. [1]

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–72), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wild Thing" Chip Taylor 2:13
2."Fuzzy and Wild"Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards, Mel Taylor, Don Wilson2:25
3."Sweet Pea" Tommy Roe 1:55
4."Wild and Wooly" Danny Hamilton 2:11
5."Wild Child"Bogle, Edwards, Taylor, Wilson2:09
6."Summer in the City" John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, Steve Boone 2:22
7."The Pied Piper" Artie Kornfeld, Steve Duboff1:55
8."Wild Trip"Bogle, Edwards, Taylor, Wilson2:05
9."Hanky Panky" Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich 2:00
10."Wildcat"Bogle, Edwards, Taylor, Wilson2:08
11."How Now Wild Cow"Bogle, Edwards, Taylor, Wilson2:06
12."The Work Song" Nat Adderley, Oscar Brown Jr.2:06
Total length:25:35

Personnel

Ventures

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure. The lead is the featured guitar, which usually plays single-note-based lines or double-stops. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz, punk, fusion, some pop, and other music styles, lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompaniment chords and riffs.

Nokie Edwards American musician

Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards was an American musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was primarily a guitarist, best known for his work with The Ventures, and was known in Japan as the 'King of Guitars'. Edwards was also an actor, who appeared briefly on Deadwood, an American Western drama television series.

Robert Lenard Bogle was a founding member of the instrumental combo The Ventures. He and Don Wilson founded the group in 1958. Bogle was the lead guitarist and later bassist of the group. In 2008, Bogle and other members of The Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Performer category.

Technical

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Stephen, Cook. Wild Things! at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Top LP's". Billboard. November 19, 1966. p. 50.
  3. ↑ "Releases by Music Tape". Billboard. December 24, 1966. p. 12.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Halterman, Del (2009). Walk-Don't Run – The Story of the Ventures. Lulu.com. p. 141. ISBN   9780557040513.
  5. ↑ Elliott, Stewart (July 23, 2001). "Stewart Elliott's In Advertising". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Halterman, Del (2009). Walk-Don't Run – The Story of the Ventures. Lulu.com. pp. 348–349. ISBN   9780557040513.
  7. ↑ The Billboard Albums, 6th edn. Joel Whitburn. 2006. Record Research Inc. p. 1101. ISBN   0-89820-166-7.
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