| Howard Kaylan news [message #240253] |
Mi, 22 März 2006 06:14 |
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb357701.htm
Howard Kaylan -- Lead Singer of the Turtles, Mothers of Invention, Flo
and Eddie -- Releases First Solo Album
Recorded in Billy Bob Thornton's studio in Beverly Hills, and featuring
the Oscar winner on guest vocals, "Dust Bunnies" is an album of
little-known gems from the sixties and beyond sung by one of the
quintisential rock voices, Howard Kaylan.
Seattle,WA (PRWEB)March 21, 2006 -- Dust Bunnies is the first solo
album to come from Howard Kaylan, the lead singer of the Turtles, Flo
and Eddie and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. The songs were
hand-picked by Kaylan from years of seldom-heard B-sides and album cuts
recorded by many of his favorite artists and supplemented by new
arrangements of more familiar pieces and a rock original or two.
Recorded last year in Billy Bob Thornton's home studio in Beverly
Hills, Dust Bunnies features Mr. Thornton on its finale cut,
"Music." As the Turtles continue to tour America and the world,
Dust Bunnies is the only NEW project to be untaken by a member of that
now-legendary band. And Kaylan's vocals, famous for Happy Together as
well as projects with Bruce Springsteen, The Ramones, John Lennon and
many more can be heard, once again, singing pop-rock the way that it
was meant to be.
A Brief Biography
Howard Kaylan was born in New York City on June 22, 1947 and moved with
his parents to Los Angeles before his tenth birthday. It was at
Westchester High School where he met the members of the band soon to be
named The Turtles. Their first hit, Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me
Babe" climbed into the national top ten six months after Howard
graduated from Westchester High and the trip has never stopped. Many
more hits followed, "You Baby", "Happy Together", She'd
Rather Be With Me", "You Showed Me" and "Elenore," which
Howard wrote, were among the band's chart topping successes.
In 1970, the Turtles became the first rock band to ever do a command
performance at the White House.
Later that year, the Turtles broke up and Howard, along with partner
Mark Volman, joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention where he
starred in Zappa's film "200 Motels" and sang lead on "Live at
the Fillmore East", "Just Another Band From L.A." and others. In
1970, Kaylan and his partner began to assert themselves as background
singers on hit records and albums by T. Rex, John Lennon, Bruce
Springsteen, Duran Duran, Alice Cooper, Blondie and many more. Flo and
Eddie, Mark and Howard's alter egos released five albums before the
duo went into writing all the music for the animated series
"Strawberry Shortcake" and "The Care Bears."
Then the duo tackled radio appearing daily on NYC's K-Rock Radio
following Howard Stern's show. Kaylan has also acted in the films
"Get Crazy", "Stephen King's Riding The Bullet", and last
year, wrote the full-length motion picture "My Dinner With Jimi", a
huge festival favorite that will be released in theaters in 2006 from
Rhino Films.
Dust Bunnies is his first solo album.
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| Re: Howard Kaylan news [message #240254 ] |
Mi, 22 März 2006 06:57 |
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In article <1143004483.307415.214370 [at] t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"ZutboF" <zutbof [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb357701.htm
>
> Howard Kaylan -- Lead Singer of the Turtles, Mothers of Invention, Flo
> and Eddie -- Releases First Solo Album
>
> Recorded in Billy Bob Thornton's studio in Beverly Hills, and featuring
> the Oscar winner on guest vocals, "Dust Bunnies" is an album of
> little-known gems from the sixties and beyond sung by one of the
> quintisential rock voices, Howard Kaylan.
More info (but still no tracklist) at
<http://howardkaylan.com/bunnies.html>.
--Charles
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| Re: Howard Kaylan news [message #240258 ] |
Mi, 22 März 2006 19:48 |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:57:51 GMT, Charles Ulrich <ulrich [at] sfu.ca>
wrote:
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>More info (but still no tracklist) at
><http://howardkaylan.com/bunnies.html>.
>
>--Charles
CDUniverse sez (typos and all):
1. Snowblind
2. Easy Street
3. Eloise
4. Love Songhs In the night
5. What's That Got To Do With Me
6. A Young Girl
7. Have I The Right
8. Two By Two
9. Pleasant Street
10. Music - Featuring Billy Bob Thornton
Howard mentioned this to me in an email a while back, but it's still
delightful to see. BOTH tracks from the hard-to-find Steve
Martin/Michael Brown collabo from "Hot Parts?" Something from
"Farewall Alderbaran?" (on Straight records, I believe) Nifty-par.
I've ordered.
-D
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| Re: Howard Kaylan news [message #240261 ] |
Do, 23 März 2006 00:35 |
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You can hear samples of the whole album at itunes.
TT
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| Re: Howard Kaylan news [message #240262 ] |
Do, 23 März 2006 00:38 |
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Spindles in Beat Pops wrote:
> 4. Love Songhs In the night
Slated for release as a single in India.
>Something from "Farewall Alderbaran?" (on Straight records, I believe)
Neato! *And* I see a pre-Straight Tim Buckley title in there, too.
Your pal,
Biffy the Elephant Shrew
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