Gentle Soul Pamela Polland Ry Cooder Van Dyke Parks

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Gentle Soul - S/T
(US Epic BN-26374 Stereo)
Excellent Reissue. Original from 1968 Rare Album.
They lived in the apartment which Marty Melcher
(Group Manager and a father of Terry Melcher)
prepared then together with recording members.
Young Jackson Browne was also there.
When I interviewed Pamela Polland before,
Pamela said. "Jackson Browne has not participated
on this album recording. Rick Stanley disappeared during
album recording. Jackson Browne was living together
with other recording members in the meantime.
However, since Rick had returned, we completed recording."
I and Pamela arrived at the conclusion. They had an idea
which makes Jackson Browne the substitute of Rick Stanley.
Deadstock Copy from Local store stock.
(We don't have extra copy)

The Gentle Soul were the singing-songwriting duo of
Pamela Polland and Rick Stanley, and made one LP
for Epic in 1968 that bridged the folk-rock and
singer-songwriter/soft rock eras. The self-titled album, despite
coming out on a major label, is extremely rare.
Produced by Terry Melcher (Bruce $ Terry, the Byrds,
Paul Revere & the Raiders), it had quite a stellar supporting cast
of session musicians, including Ry Cooder on guitar,
Van Dyke Parks on harpsichord, Paul Horn on flute,
and Larry Knechtel (later a founding member of Bread) on organ,
plus noted arranger Jack Nitzsche. A nice, though not major, effort,
it was indeed a gentle record, usually paced by the close
male-female harmonies of Polland and Stanley;
they also wrote most of the songs, usually but not always as a team.
The folky and acoustic-flavored, but not totally acoustic,
ambience and harmonies recalled the Stone Poneys.
The balance between male and female vocals,
however, was naturally far more even than it was with
the Stone Poneys, who were dominated by Linda Ronstadt
even on the numbers with harmony lead vocals.
Another reference point, though far more obscure,
would be the Bay Area folk-rock duo Blackburn and Snow,
although the Gentle Soul were more subdued,
in fact foreshadowing the soft rock of the early 1970s.
Prior to the Gentle Soul, Pamela Polland had already begun to
establish herself as a folk-rock songwriter, placing her compositions
with the Rising Sons ("Tulsa County") and, as a matter of fact,
the Stone Poneys, who did her "I've Got to Know"
on their second album. ("Tulsa County" was later covered
by the Byrds and Jessie Ed Davis.) She and Stanley recorded
two singles for Columbia, "Tell Me Love" and "Our National Anthem,"
prior to the release of the Epic LP. The Gentle Soul were together
for about three years, during which they employed various musicians
as accompanists, including Jackson Browne (who actually replaced
Stanley for a brief period, though he never recorded with the group)
and drummer Sandy Konikoff (who had played briefly with Bob Dylan
in the mid-1960s). Epic couldn't have promoted them
very heavily, though. Not only is the album scarce,
but the label did not even list Polland and Stanley's names
on the sleeve, although at least there was a picture,
and the names "P. Polland" and "R. Stanley" dominated
the songwriting credits. Polland recorded solo material for
Columbia in the 1970s, and was still recording in the 1990s.

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M/M

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