The ABC's of MOR

The Artists

Elliott, Dean If you asked me I'd tell you that the only album Dean Elliott recorded was a 1960-ish album called, "Zounds! What Sounds!" The story goes that Mr. Elliott was stopped at a traffic light one day and heard a cement mixer off in the distance. He wondered how that sound would fit into a song. After much pain staking work he came up with enough material to fill an album and the results can be heard on MOR Memories.

You'll have to remember that multi-track recording (more than two tracks) was largely unheard of in those days, even the early Beatles material was limited to one or two tracks, so combining the sound effects with the music required a lot of editing and good timing. The results are incredibly good! You'll also have to take into consideration that a lot of the sound effects used aren't used anymore so a lot of people won't recognize them. For example, a ringing telephone (an actual bell) and a long distance telephone signal.

By the way the song "Trees" that is based on the Joyce Kilmer poem is included on the album and MOR Memories.

Feliciano, Jose Back in May of 2006, Mr. Feliciano commented on the then controversy of singing "The National Anthem" in Spanish rather than English. He was not a fan of it and said that Mexico would be upset if people took its National Anthem and sang it in English.

What is ironic about this is that he himself was at the center of a controversy of the National Anthem back in 1968. He sang a soulful version of the Anthem before the start of one of the games of that year's World Series. A bunch of people were very upset about that, and his record company at that time (RCA, who also owned NBC who broadcast the World Series that year) sent out a copy of that version to all the radio stations in America. Here at MOR Memories I'm not playing his version of the Anthem but the flip side a nice instrumental version of Lennon-McCartney's "And I Love Her."

Garrett, Snuff His first name was actually Thomas, but Snuff came about as a takeoff on a brand of smokeless tobacco. He started out in radio and became a successful record producer. Usually, all of his produced records had a tinkling piano in the background, but it was used quite effectively.

Using his given name, Tommy Garrett, he produced a series of records called, "The Fifty Guitars of Tommy Garrett."