Van Dyke Parks "Heroes and Villains" on WNYC's Spinning On Air

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Van Dyke Parks performs "Heroes and Villains" with Clare and the Reasons in New York City on WNYC's Spinning On Air with David Garland, for an in-studio session broadcast Oct. 10, 2010. Check youtube.com/spinningonair for Van Dyke Parks performing "The All Golden." Song by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. Video by David Garland. More info at wnyc.org, spinningonair.org

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  • @PetSounds3608 what the heck.  I'm with you on them being together. But apart brian and van dyke are most definitely NOT "bland".

  • Brian Wilson should have left the Beach Boys in 1967 and struck up a long lasting partnership with Van Dyke. I swear they could have outdone John and Paul. Brian's musicality and Van Dyke's artistry. I think by themselves, they both tend to be bland.

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  • Simply AMAZING!!!

    I LOVE Van Dyke Parks...

    I can't believe I never heard anything of his before...this is one of the best String and Piano arrangements I have EVER HEARD>>>

    KUDOS VDP Anoter Great ARTIST with PITTSBURGH INFLUENCES..MARVELOUS!!!

  • just got an idea, when smile was not released, VDP should have done his own version in 1968-70 after completing his Song Cycle album. Imagine an entire Smile album recorded in the same vein as Song Cycle, that would be something.

  • Spectacular. Goes beyond the Beach Boys. Shows that not only a lyric writer, a true artist in every way and everyone in that room as well right in tune and time with one of the creators of this timeless classic. Bravo, Van Dyke Parks!

  • beautiful......

  • This is so cool!

  • Goosebomps! What a great string arranger he is.

  • wow! what a cool arrangement of this timeless classic! what daring! what panache!

    wordofgord

  • if you just listen to the music, Sufjan Stevens suddenly appears into the room...

    what a genious, still sounds so fresh and unique.

  • He grew his brand of antebellum post-pop in the wake of the dust bowl created by the drug revolution.  We let this sharecropper blow away in the wind.

  • For those out there that don't believe in God....hey..,,,

    , I think she was kind enough to give us VDP!!!

    What a wonderful man of Music and Lyric.

    Time to giddyup, dowahdiddyup!!

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