Saturday, November 17, 2007

From the DylanCover.com collection:
Discotheque

Mr. Tambourine Man (2:45)
Discotheque
The Discotheque Dance Album
LP: Command RS 892 SD; 1966 (US)

The LPs on Command are sought after by "lounge music" collectors. This 1966 Discotheque LP is sometimes confused with the earlier Discotheque LPs by Enoch Light, but this LP is from the period after he had left the label.
The LP features many of the other headliners of Command, including Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman, Doc Severinsen, Bob Haggart and an All-Star Orchestra directed by Bobby Byrne. Only Mottola, Hyman & Byrne are mentioned in the notes regarding Mr. Tambourine Man:
“One of Bob Dylan's first ventures into folk-rock, popularized by The Byrds, retains a lot of it's essentially folkish feeling even in Bobby Byrne's full-bodied arrangement. This feeling is quickly established by the subdued cathedral tones of Dick Hyman's organ with the brass building gradually behind him and it is carried on by Tony Mottola's guitar solo. The full power of the band is unleashed as the tune progresses, working up a tremendous head of steam out of which Hyman's organ moves, high and mournful with wriggling little tremolo figures.”
It's unclear if "Discotheque" is meant to be the band name, or just an umbrella name for the project, but I've used it here in lieu of a proper band name.
Tony Mottola and Dick Hyman have been featured on the Blog before, both for their own instrumental covers
of Lay Lady Lay
(click each name for archived Blog post)

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