One Reporter's Opinion
06.18.24
All that glitters isn’t gold, there are no happy endings in real life, and the city of dreams is more like the city of nightmares: a lot of songwriters had those same lines in mind, but anyone who lives here knows that’s just Hollywood 101. There’s more to L.A. if you can find it. This is about two hours of 1970s-ish West Coast lite (and dark) California music about dreams and disillusionment or just day-to-day life where the sunset slides into the sea. Several hundred piano ballads were excluded from this mix for health reasons.
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The monthly dublab program One Reporter’s Opinion—named after Chris Ziegler’s L.A. RECORD review column—is one part lesson in lost history and one part celebration of the new and the now in the city of Los Angeles, California, where everything happened at least once, and anything could happen tomorrow. From demos to dead stock to new releases and the never-released—all genres and generations of musicians from the greater L.A. area are welcome.
Tracklist:
America – Hollywood (1974)
The Fifth Avenue Band – In Hollywood (1969)
Ned Doheny – Postcards From Hollywood (1973)
Yasuko Agawa – L.A. Night (1986)
Father’s Children – Hollywood Dreaming (1979)
Randy Crawford – Look Who’s Lonely Now (1982)
Rufus f. Chaka Khan – Hollywood (1977)
Jesse Barish – Grand Illusion (1976)
Orleans – Golden State (1976)
Neil Young – Out On The Weekend (1972)
Al Kooper – A Visit To The Rainbow Bar & Grill (1976)
Elliot Lurie – Rainbow Girl (1975)
Sir Robert Charles Griggs – In L.A. (1973)
The Miracles – Smog (1975)
Grateful Dead – West L.A. Fadeaway (1987)
Smokey – How Far Will You Go? (1977)
Kim Morrison – Hollywood And Vine (1978)
Robbin Thompson – Highway 101 (1976)
Con Funk Shun – California 1 (1981)
Richard Torrance – Canyon Side (1974)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Observatory Crest (1974)
Peter Sarstedt – Hollywood Sign (1979)
Loudon Wainwright III – Hollywood Hopeful (1976)
Jackie Deshannon – Holly Would (1968)
David Batteau – Happy In Hollywood (1976)
Jimmy Webb – Campo De Encino (1972)
Dennis Wilson – River Song (1977)
Luther Allison – Hollywood Be Thy Name (excerpt, 1976)
Bill Withers – City Of The Angels (1976)
