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The original recording of "Midnight Confessions" was a demo by the Evergreen Blues Band, whose manager – Lou Josie – wrote the song. The demo contained a horn section and caught the attention of record producer / engineer Steve Barri , who was looking to produce a song for the Grass Roots that was a " West Coast " version of a Motown -style ...
The Grass Roots song "Midnight Confessions" was featured in the 1997 film Jackie Brown. In 2006 former manager Marty Angelo published a book entitled Once Life Matters: A New Beginning, which has numerous stories about his life on the road with Rob Grill and the Grass Roots in the early 1970s.
The one song not on either previous album was "Sooner or Later," which had become the band's first Billboard top 10 entry since "Midnight Confessions" in 1968 and would be their last. The songs on this release include three songs that reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 , eleven that reached the top 40, and a total of fifteen songs that ...
Dunhill Records executives became dismayed by the inability of the single releases to chart at their time of release. They decided that since "Midnight Confessions" performed so well in the charts, they would issue the first greatest hits album, Golden Grass, which included the high-charting song. They then decided to take the group output into ...
After departing from The Grass Roots in the mid 70s, Entner went behind the scenes of the music business and became a manager. Owning his own firm Warren Entner Management, Entner managed a number of hard rock artists including Angel, Quiet Riot, Faith No More, [4] Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, as well as other acts such as The Grays, Failure and Nada Surf.
Golden Grass is the first greatest hits album by the American rock band the Grass Roots, released in November 1968 by Dunhill Records.The LP's release in the fall of 1968 followed the success of the group's highest-charting single, "Midnight Confessions".
Midnight Confessions + Who Will You Be Tomorrow Dunhill 5 5 1969 Bella Linda Hot Bright Lights Dunhill 28 20 Melody For You All Good Things Come To An End Dunhill Lovin' Things You And Love Are The Same Dunhill 49 35 River Is Wide, The (You Gotta) Live For Love Dunhill 31 16 I'd Wait A Million Years Fly Me To Havana Dunhill 15 12 Heaven Knows
It spent 18 weeks on the charts, making it the band's single of greatest longevity, sustaining itself three weeks longer than their greatest hit, "Midnight Confessions". Two versions exist. The original mono mix had its vocal chorus section double-tracked, while the chorus in the stereo mix uses one voice (single-tracked).