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The 1972 "Van Dyke Parks Album" Returns At Last

Milo Miles | Cambridge, MA USA | 10/16/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Although it's not evident, this is a straight reissue of the 1972 Warner Bros. album produced by Van Dyke Parks and reportedly recorded in a single overheated evening during a hurricane, with much later fiddling by Mr. Parks. These are remakes of established Sparrow classics, but it's one of the all-time sublime remake albums, with the dense arrangements, horn sections, chorus singers and the rest of Parks's Beach-Boyish studio fantasy swirling gracefully around Sparrow's bravura vocals. A calypso record unlike any other. (For some reason, the track list is a mess and does not reflect the song sequence on the disc. But all 10 tunes are there.)"

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Ruben J. King-Shaw, Sr. | Florida | 09/08/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had the original vinyl with this title. The songs on this version are from many vinyls and the titles listed are out of order and misnamed."