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The Merry-Go-Round is the only album by 1960s pop group the Merry-Go-Round. It was released in the United States in November 1967 and reached No. 190 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. Soon afterward bass player Bill Rinehart departed, and was replaced by Rick Dey of the Vejtables .
The Merry-Go-Round performed at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival in 1967 on both days of the music festival. They closed the show on Saturday, June 10 and were the second to the show closer on Sunday, June 11. This music festival became a blueprint for future rock concerts of the same scale. [5]
Nuggets is a series of compilation albums, started by Elektra Records in 1972 [1] and continued by Rhino Records thereafter. [2] The series focuses primarily on relatively obscure garage and psychedelic rock songs from the 1960s, but with some hits and pop-oriented songs also included.
"Live" was the Merry-Go-Round's highest charting single, and peaked at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1967. [2] The song was recorded by The Bangles for their debut album All Over the Place in 1984. [3] [4] [5]
In Summer 1966 he created the band the Merry-Go-Round with three friends. He played guitar and wrote the lyrics. In 1967 their only album was released. Their first single "Live" reached number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100. [9] The Merry-Go-Round had a recording contract with A&M Records when the group disbanded in 1969. Rhodes recorded songs at ...
Dave Franklin (September 28, 1895 – February 2, 1970) [1] was an accomplished American songwriter and pianist.A member of Tin Pan Alley, Franklin co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", which was adopted as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.
Cliff Friend (October 1, 1893 – June 27, 1974) was an accomplished American songwriter and pianist.A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.
The first EMI single, released in March 1969 was "Linda Linda" / "Merry-Go-Round" and was the beginning of a short but successful collaboration with New Zealand-born producer Howard Gable. The second single, the rocky "5:10 Man", released in July, which peaked at No. 16 on the Go-Set Singles Chart [ 1 ] and initiated a string of Top 20 hits.