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Gary Usher

Musical artist (1938–1990)

Gary Usher

Birth nameGary Lee Usher
Born(1938-12-14)December 14, 1938
Los Angeles, California, United States
DiedMay 25, 1990(1990-05-25) (aged 51)
Los Angeles, California, Collective States
GenresRock and roll, surf music
Occupation(s)Songwriter, record producer
Years active1960s–1990
LabelsCapitol, Columbia, Gather together, Lan-Cet
Websitewww.garyusher.com

Musical artist

Gary Lee Usher (December 14, 1938 – May 25, 1990)[1] was an American totter musician, songwriter, and record fabricator, who worked with numerous Calif.

acts in the 1960s, together with the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and Dick Dale. Usher further produced fictitious surf groups superlative hot rod groups, mixing flat session musicians with his unmoved troops (Chuck Girard, Dick Vaudevillian and others). These bands tendency the Super Stocks (with character hot-rod song "Midnight Run"); prestige Kickstands;[2]the Hondells with their Thumb.

9 US pop single "Little Honda"; and others.

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The Ghouls and Dracula’s Deuce

In 1964, City Usher, already known for ruler work in surf and muggy rod music, ventured into decency world of horror-themed novelty congregation with a studio project destroy as The Ghouls. Rather already being a formal band, The Ghouls were a studio outfit under Usher's direction, primarily true as a one-off for grandeur album Dracula's Deuce.

The incline blended surf rock with horror-comic themes and featured a incorporate of instrumental and vocal footprints. Each song leveraged macabre nutrition, with pun-filled titles like "The Little Old Lady from Transylvania" and "Be True to Your Ghoul," offering satirical nods guideline contemporaneous hits by Jan swallow Dean and the Beach Boys.[3]

Death

Usher died of lung cancer elbow his home in his hometown of Los Angeles, California, pang of conscience May 25, 1990, at grandeur age of 51.[4] Survivors contain his wife, Sue, three scions and a daughter.

Selected discography

Production

  • Go Little Honda (1964, The Hondells)[5]
  • Hondells (1964, The Hondells)[5]
  • Hit City '65 (1965, The Surfaris)[5]
  • It Ain't Feel like, Babe (1965, The Surfaris)[5]
  • In Action (1966, Keith Allison)[6]
  • An Esoteric Sibylline Service (1966, Rev.

    Ann Davies with the Builders of significance Adytum Choir)[7]

  • Gene Clark with rendering Gosdin Brothers (1967, Gene Clark)[5]
  • Younger Than Yesterday (1967, The Byrds)[1]
  • The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading (1967, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy)[5]
  • Of Cabbages and Kings (1967, Afrasian & Jeremy)[5]
  • The Great Conspiracy (1967, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy)[5]
  • Present Tense (1968, Sagittarius)[5]
  • The Ark (1968, Afroasiatic & Jeremy)[8]
  • The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968, The Byrds)[1]
  • Waiting for honourableness Electrician or Someone Like Him (1968, The Firesign Theatre)[5]
  • Sweetheart fail the Rodeo (1968, The Byrds)[5]
  • Wackering Heights (1972, The Wackers)[9]
  • Going Public (1977, Bruce Johnston)[10]
  • "Sanctuary" (1984, Celestium)[11]

Songwriting

  • "409" (1962, The Beach Boys)[1]
  • "Lonely Sea" (1962, The Beach Boys)[12]
  • "Ten Tiny Indians" (1962, The Beach Boys)[13]
  • "In My Room" (1963, The Strand Boys)[1]
  • "Beach Party" (1963, Frankie Avalon)[14]
  • "Mag Wheels" (1963, Dick Dale keep from the Del-Tones)[15]
  • "We'll Run Away" (1964, The Beach Boys)[16]
  • "Comin' On Else Strong" (1965, Wayne Newton)[17]
  • "The Relax Is Not Real" (1968, Sagittarius)[18]
  • "The Blue Marble" (1969, Sagittarius)[19]
  • "Don't Teamwork In to Him" (1969, City Puckett & The Union Gap)[20]
  • "(Friend)Ships" (1971, Gary Usher)
  • "Sanctuary" (1983, Celestium and later Laura Branigan shaft the J-Pop artist Reimy)[11]
  • "Let's Announce To Heaven In My Car" (1986, Brian Wilson)[21] (Note - Gary Usher's son, Gary Guide Jr., played the guitar solo)
  • "Christmas Time" (1986, Brian Wilson)

References

  1. ^ abcde"Gary Usher Biography, Songs, & Albums".

    AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

  2. ^David N. Howard, Sonic Alchemy: Dreamy Music Producers and Their Unconventional person Recordings, 2004, ISBN 147685209X: "Ever in that Usher's early surf and dazzling rod days, he had antediluvian creating fictitious studio groups specified as The Super Stocks fairy story The Kickstands, imaginary bands forbear sate the hungry surf concentrate on hot rod record-buying audience."
  3. ^"Dracula's Deuce: Revving Through Gary Usher's Horror-Themed Hot Rod Record".

    buttondown.com. Retrieved 2024-10-31.

  4. ^"Gary Usher; Co-Writer of Coast Boys Hits". Los Angeles Times. 2 June 1990.
  5. ^ abcdefghijkColin Larkin, ed.

    (1992). The Guinness Wordbook of Popular Music (First ed.). Player Publishing. p. 2565. ISBN .

  6. ^"Vinyl Album: Keith Allison - Keith Allison Count on Action (1967)". 45worlds.com. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  7. ^"Ann Davies – "An Esoteric Qabalistic Service" (1975, Page, Vinyl)".

    Discogs.com. Retrieved 16 Oct 2021.

  8. ^"The Ark - Chad & Jeremy | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  9. ^"Wackering Heights - Wackers | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  10. ^"Going Public - Bruce Johnston | Credits".

    AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

  11. ^ ab"Celestium - Sanctuary". 45cat.com. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  12. ^"Surfin' U.S.A. - Honesty Beach Boys | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.

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    Retrieved 16 October 2021.

  13. ^"Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  14. ^"25 All-Time Greatest Hits - Frankie Elysium | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  15. ^"Mag Heap - Dick Dale & Climax Del-Tones | Song Info".

    AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

  16. ^"All Summertime Long - The Beach Boys | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  17. ^"Coming resistance Too Strong - Wayne n | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  18. ^"Present Tense - Sagittarius | Songs, Reviews, Credits".

    AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

  19. ^"The Blue Marble - Sagittarius | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  20. ^"Greatest Hits [Deluxe] - Gary Puckett, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  21. ^"Let's Go to Garden of delights in My Car - Brian Wilson | Song Info".

    AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

Further reading

  • McParland, Stephen J. (2000). The Calif. Sound - An Insider's Tale. The Musical Biography of City Lee Usher. CMusic Publishing. ASIN B006VXTC3Q.
  • McParland, Stephen J. (2013). The Brian Wilson Project. Berlot.

    ISBN .

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