Pat Shannon

In working with Pat Shannon and his career, it is critical to remember that occasionally nepotism is not a matter of undue favoritism — Pat Shannon’s genuine name was Pat Glasser, and he was the brother of Warner Bros. personnel maker Dick Glasser. That certainly gave him an advantage in getting documented, but he do have the skill to justify your time and effort. His profession started in the past due ’50s using the one “Maybelle” b/w “Knock Knock (Who’s There)” at Decca, and he cut a complete of four singles for the label through the finish of 1959. These information were mostly within a country-pop vein, with many sides offering the Anita Kerr Performers and Owen Bradley making many of them. Shannon was a charismatic vocalist with a soft folk tenor that acquired an appealing dark advantage, and he could have found achievement within the early-’60s folk revival. Rather, he emerged once again — made by his sibling — on the other side of the psychedelic period with “Chocolate Apple, Cotton Chocolate,” released in the ultimate week of Might 1968. The one retained the soft trippiness suitable to 1966-1967, and acquired a great defeat plus some effective bass function amid the tasteful brass and carefully twanging sitar. It had been also compiled by Ruthann Friedman, who’d constructed “Windy.” Hearing the song’s reverb-laden tone of voice and flutes, and its own general sunlight pop style, one wonders if the people playing right here aren’t the same program musicians who taken care of a lot of the playing over the Association’s information, and whether Warner Bros. may have been aiming to bridegroom a potential sound-alike action. Alas, this record hardly ever became popular, and Shannon was release a only one even more one, on Uni in 1969, before quitting his profession as a documenting musician. “Candy Apple, Natural cotton Candy” was virtually ignored until Rhino Handmade resurrected it for 2004’s Arrive to sunlight: Gentle Pop Nuggets in the WEA Vaults. Finally survey, Shannon was surviving in pension in California, and acquired suffered a heart stroke.