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Favoriting June 23, 2018: Guest: Steve Barri

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Grass Roots, The  I Get So Excited   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, 1969 
Sheridan Hollenbeck Orchestra And Chorus  Michelle's Melody   Favoriting Produced by Lou Adler, Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, 1964 
Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds  Don't Pull Your Love   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, 1971 - #1 on Cashbox, #4 on Billboard 
Mama Cass  It's Getting Better   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, 1969 -#13 Easy Listening Chart, #30 on the hot 100 Chart during what was then considered an unusually lengthy 19-week run 
Fantastic Baggys, The  Debbie Be True   Favoriting Written, Produced & Featuring Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, 1965 
Betty Everett  Someday Soon   Favoriting Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan 
Rincon Surfside Band  Hawaii   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, some copies credited to Willie And The Wheels, 1965 
Rhythm Heritage  Theme from S.W.A.T.   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri & Michael Omartian, 1975 - #1 on Billboard 
Alan O'Day  Undercover Angel   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri & Michael Omartian, 1977 - #1 on Billboard 
Bruce & Terry  Summer Means Fun   Favoriting Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, Produced & Bruce Johnston & Terry Melcher, 1964 - #72 on Billboard 
Herman’s Hermits  A Must To Avoid   Favoriting Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, Produced by Mickie Most, 1965 - reached #1 in New Zealand, #3 in Canada, #4 in Australia, #5 in Norway, #6 on the UK's Record Retailer chart, and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 
P.F. Sloan  Danger Man   Favoriting Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan - Johnny Rivers' version went to #3 
Ann Margret  You Sure Know How To Hurt Someone   Favoriting Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan 
Philip & Stephan  Meet Me Tonight Little Girl   Favoriting Written, Produced by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, 1964 
Steve Barri  Interview   Favoriting  
Imaginations, The  Summer In New York   Favoriting Written by Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, featuring Steve Barri, Produced by Bones Howe, 1967 
Grass Roots, The  Sooner Or Later   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, Written by Mitchell Bottler, Edward McNamara, Adeniya Paris, Ekundayo Paris, Gary Zekley, 1971 - #9 on Billboard 
Street Cleaners, The  That's Cool That's Trash   Favoriting Written, Produced & featuring Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan, 1964 
Four Tops, The  Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter, 1973 - #1 on Cashbox, #4 on Billboard 
Mama Cass  Make Your Own Kind of Music   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, 1969 - #36 Billboard Hot 100, #6 Billboard Adult Contemporary, #25 Cash Box Top 100 
Tommy Roe  Dizzy   Favoriting Produced by Steve Barri, 1968 - #1 on Billboard 

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CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

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CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

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CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel

CLICK HERE for a new song titled "People Are Disgusting" from Jonathan Richman

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CLICK HERE to listen to "Musicians fighting Spotify are ‘so f-cking dumb,’ music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz says"

CLICK HERE to read a Mike Love sympathetic piece titled "Beach Boys seek to overcome discord with new wave of Love"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new NPR interview with Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE to see the March 25th Hot 100 chart - when Happy Together was number one!!

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CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

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CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

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CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

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CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

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CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

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Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.


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Listener comments!

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Rob Kopp:

Hi Michael: pwedding.home.xs4all.nl...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Frank In Queens:

How's everyone's weekend been so far? Mine has been GREAT!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Listener Baby:

Baby! Good morning on Such A Summer Day.
  11:01am
Adam:

great Nick Lowe show
Avatar 11:03am
Michael Shelley:

Agree Adam - really great
  11:03am
Cal Zone!:

Yeah, this is going to be so great! Bring on the Barri!
Avatar 11:03am
SmokinJ:

Can't wait to hear Steve B.! So cool...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:04am
Frank In Queens:

I heard good things about last night's show. Couldn't make it due to a prior commitment.
Avatar 11:06am
Michael Shelley:

After cruel to be kind - the crowd went uncommonly NUTS
  11:07am
gene sculatti:

GENIUS McGuire cut! What a show-start!
  11:07am
clarke:

oh yeah!!!!!!
  11:08am
Cooh John:

Looking forward to Nick & the 'Jackets this week.
Avatar 11:08am
Michael Shelley:

Frank - they hockey draft... really?
  11:09am
Cal Zone!:

HJF&R! This may be my most fave AM GOLD ever! Perfect in every way!
  11:10am
Geoff in Ottawa:

I'm deep into Kaplan's "The Voice." Thanks for the recommendation. Amazing read.
  11:10am
clarke:

don't have a ton of time, here, today, but i did get a chance to archive most of the Posies show and interview - WOW great stuff!!
  11:11am
Geoff in Ottawa:

I'm seeing Nick Lowe with Los Straitjackets in Ottawa in two weeks! Looking forward to it, too.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:13am
Frank In Queens:

Oh Michael, you haven't lived until you've spent 2+ hours of a seemingly endless parade of suits walking on and off a stage in order to announce name after name of 18 year old players who won't see NHL action for at least 2 years. Riveting stuff.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:14am
Frank In Queens:

should say "spent 2+ hours watching a seemingly endless parade..."
  11:15am
Christina Low:

Michael, you and Greg are a dangerous duo. I was dying.
  11:15am
Baby:

A lot has been asked of Debbie over the years, no?
  11:16am
miles:

" little Debbie " !
  11:22am
Dale:

Hawaii - omg are my speakers broken
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:22am
Listener Baby:

Disco ambulance!!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:23am
Listener Baby:

Oh, it's SWAT> Disco Sniper
  11:25am
Cal Zone!:

We played the Theme from SWAT in my HS Marching Band!
  11:26am
Eddy in Australia:

Mexico: 1 South Korea: 0
  11:32am
miles:

"security's so tight tonight"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am
Dominick:

she's a muscular boy
Avatar 11:36am
Sonny Rickles:

I love this Sloan/Barry diddy!
  11:36am
miles:

haha
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:37am
Listener Baby:

Did this come before SAM?
  11:38am
Christina Low:

And here I am wondering the opposite, Baby.
Avatar 11:39am
SmokinJ:

This is so fantastic! 8-)
  11:41am
Agent 000:

Error - By Patrick McGoohan's edict, "Secret Agent"/"Danger Man" didn't kiss the girls ("persuasive lips")
  11:55am
BEAVO:

He wrote the theme to Baretta Keep your eye in the sparrow
  12:02pm
miles:

fascinating
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
myron feld:

Michael, about the T.A.M.I. theme song, "Here They Come (From All Over The World)," I wish you had asked Steve if they wrote "the Rolling Stones from Liverpool" because they thought that's where the Stones were from, or it because fit a lot better than "the Rolling Stones from London," which it does.
  12:25pm
Eddy in Australia:

Mexico: 2 South Korea: 0 (67')
  12:29pm
BEAVO:

Jam up and Jelly Tight
  Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
museguy:

Thank you Michael, an amazing interview with Steve Barri, what a history, I had no idea, thank you ! thank you !
  12:33pm
Cal Zone!:

Fascinating!
  Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
museguy:

I love the way Mr. Barri talks about the music industry, with love and humility, he "gets it" at such a deep level.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
Dominick:

Marvelous. Kudos to Mr. Barri
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
myron feld:

Really, really great interview.
  Swag For Life Member 12:45pm
museguy:

Thank you Michael, wonderful interview !
Avatar 12:45pm
SmokinJ:

Home run ms. God bless Steve B.!
  12:45pm
George in WO:

Great stuff, thanks Michael & Steve!
  12:45pm
Cal Zone!:

Great work Michael! This is definitely one of my favorite interviews on your show! A #1 hit!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
Richard:

Your interviews are really great conversations--so comfortable, while also being so informative.
  Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
museguy:

Bernstein at the Skirball
www.skirball.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Dominick:

proto-disco, amazing!
  12:51pm
Agent 000:

Steve Barri came ready to talk, setting the record straight with much that was new to me
  12:51pm
Eddy in Australia:

Mexico: 2 South Korea: 1 (93')
Great interview.
  12:52pm
BEAVO:

Great interview I hope you can have the other Steve, Steve Earle on to tell you the real story about what happened with Dell McCoury not that bullshit he told you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

LOVE THIS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
listener 126464:

Count Reeshard's theme song!
  12:55pm
Tim from LH:

Great show! Wonder how much that Street Cleaners record costs?
  12:57pm
paul:

Who were the Street Cleaners?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm
listener 126464:

Thanks for another great show Michael!
  1:00pm
Tom:

Brings me back to the Robert Putnam interview.
  1:00pm
Tom:

Norbert
  1:00pm
paul:

Street Cleaners might have been the first punk bank.
Avatar 1:00pm
acid casualty:

BEAVO, I'm with you.
  1:00pm
paul:

band
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Rob Kopp:

Just listened back to the interview. Great interview. Nice guy, just like Sloan.
  6:03pm
Mark in Toronto:

Michael, nice interview, learned a lot. Mr. Barri is very self-effacing. I'm glad you asked him and he didn't hesitate to talk about PF Sloans' ideas (or delusions), because from your earlier interview with him, I kind of got the feeling Sloan had bad or negative feelings about Mr. Barri.
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