Bob Hippard

Bob Hippard was one of the non-Byrds that wrote tunes with Roger McGuinn which appeared on Byrds information. Hippard and McGuinn fulfilled in the first 1960s in the Troubadour in LA, where the music artists that would quickly type the Byrds would collect; Hippard at that time was street supervisor for Hoyt Axton as well as the folk duo Artwork & Paul. Hippard is definitely most mentioned for co-writing (with McGuinn) two from the stranger items to appear within the Byrds’ psychedelic-minded albums Younger Than Last night (1967) as well as the Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968). On Younger Than Last night, there is “C.T.A.-102,” its country-rock melody wedded to lyrics on the subject of communication with extraterrestrials, filled with passages of speeded up non-sense voices simulating creatures from additional planets hearing “C.T.A.-102” more than what appears like a transistor radio. In an identical sci-fi mindset was “Space Odyssey,” the nearer on Notorious Byrd Brothers, whose trad-sounding folk melody was just like a ocean shanty for space exploration, with inventive digital results. Among Hippard’s additional collaborations with McGuinn had been “Stanley’s Track,” ultimately released within the Byrds package set (so that as a bonus monitor in the extended model of Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde); “Period Cube,” that was on McGuinn’s first single record; and “NOT Write Her Away,” popular in 1979 with McGuinn, Clark & Hillman.