The Parade
THE PARADE
A&M SP-4127
The first unreleased album in the A&M canon, THE PARADE was given catalog number SP-4127 but was never released as such. Not until the Japanese rescued the tracks and issued it as POCM-2104 on CD did we ever even glimpse the cover image, which we can only assume was the one originally intended. The Japanese also later re-issued the CD with another cover:
Tracks:
1. Sunshine Girl (Riopelle-Roberds-MacLeod) 2:46
2. She Sleeps Alone (MacLeod-Roberds-Capps) 2:08
3. The Radio Song (MacLeod-Margolin-Riopelle) 2:44
4. Lovers (MacLeod-Margolin) 2:32
5. Kinda Wasted Without You (Roberds-MacLeod-Riopelle) 2:10
6. Frog Prince (MacLeod-Margolin-Roberds) 2:28
7. Welcome, You're In Love (Margolin-MacLeod-Riopelle) 3:01
8. Hallelujah Rocket (MacLeod-Margolin-Roberds-Riopelle) 2:17
9. She's Got The Magic (Margolin-MacLeod-Riopelle) 2:32
10. A.C./D.C. (Margolin-Riopelle) 2:52
11. Lullaby (Roberds-Riopelle) 2:40
12. This Old Melody (Riopelle-Roberds-MacLeod-Margolin) 2:00
13. Laughin' Lady (Margolin-Riopelle) 2:29
14. I Can See Love (MacLeod-Roberds-Capps) 2:29
Credits:
THE PARADE:
JERRY RIOPELLE: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
MURRAY MacLEOD: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
SMOKEY ROBERDS: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
Producer: JERRY RIOPELLE
Arrangers: MURRAY MacLEOD/SMOKEY ROBERDS/JERRY RIOPELLE/LEON RUSSELL/JIM PRIGMORE/NICK DE CARO
Engineers: BRUCE BOTNICK/JIMMY MESSINA/HENRY LEWY
Drums: HAL BLAINE/EARL PALMER
Guitars: JIMMY MESSINA/RAY POHLMAN/MIKE DEASY/LARRY ZEMPEL
Bass: JIMMY BOND/RAY POHLMAN
Sax: JIM HORN/STEVE DOUGLAS
Trumpets: CHUCK FINDLEY/TONY TERRAN
Flutes: GENE CIPRIANO
Keyboards: LARRY KNECHTEL/LEON RUSSELL/VICTOR FELDMAN
Vibes: VICTOR FELDMAN
Bass Marimba: EMIL RICHARDS
Percussion: STUART MARGOLIN and THE PARADE
Reissue Producers: YOSHI NAGATO and SHUN OKANO
Album Design: HISASHI TENMYOYA
Art Direction: YOSHI for BELIEVE IN MAGIC INC.
Notes for PARADE reissue:
When I was asked to write liner notes for this reissue of THE PARADE album, I called Murray MacLeod and we relived some of the fine memories from those sessions.
Murray, Smokey Roberds, and I had written a song called Sunshine Girl. We thought it had something so we saved our money and cut a demo in a small studio. I played it for A&M and they thought it sounded like a hit and we were in business. (Life was simple in those days) We cut the single and it took off.....Now we had an album budget.....At the time (middle sixties) the pop album was beginning to be seen as an art form so we set out to make an album with a shape that was varied and well rounded.....having many colors if you will...Our first real "album" project. We used the best studio players in town. I was the producer...Murray and Smokey helped a lot on arrangements and we used all kinds of vocal combinations...often doing unison leads and or unison layered mackgrounds..We wrote the whole album with a lot of help from our cohort Stuart Margolin and we were happy with the result, It's rewarding that it can now be heard in it's [sic] entirety. Thanks for listening. - Jerry Riopelle
p.s. The album consisted of eleven cuts. The songs...LAUGHIN' LADY....I CAN SEE LOVE....and....THIS OLD MELODY....were attempts at other radio singles or B sides and should be seen here as bonus tracks.
THE PARADE
A&M SP-4127
The first unreleased album in the A&M canon, THE PARADE was given catalog number SP-4127 but was never released as such. Not until the Japanese rescued the tracks and issued it as POCM-2104 on CD did we ever even glimpse the cover image, which we can only assume was the one originally intended. The Japanese also later re-issued the CD with another cover:
Tracks:
1. Sunshine Girl (Riopelle-Roberds-MacLeod) 2:46
2. She Sleeps Alone (MacLeod-Roberds-Capps) 2:08
3. The Radio Song (MacLeod-Margolin-Riopelle) 2:44
4. Lovers (MacLeod-Margolin) 2:32
5. Kinda Wasted Without You (Roberds-MacLeod-Riopelle) 2:10
6. Frog Prince (MacLeod-Margolin-Roberds) 2:28
7. Welcome, You're In Love (Margolin-MacLeod-Riopelle) 3:01
8. Hallelujah Rocket (MacLeod-Margolin-Roberds-Riopelle) 2:17
9. She's Got The Magic (Margolin-MacLeod-Riopelle) 2:32
10. A.C./D.C. (Margolin-Riopelle) 2:52
11. Lullaby (Roberds-Riopelle) 2:40
12. This Old Melody (Riopelle-Roberds-MacLeod-Margolin) 2:00
13. Laughin' Lady (Margolin-Riopelle) 2:29
14. I Can See Love (MacLeod-Roberds-Capps) 2:29
Credits:
THE PARADE:
JERRY RIOPELLE: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
MURRAY MacLEOD: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
SMOKEY ROBERDS: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
Producer: JERRY RIOPELLE
Arrangers: MURRAY MacLEOD/SMOKEY ROBERDS/JERRY RIOPELLE/LEON RUSSELL/JIM PRIGMORE/NICK DE CARO
Engineers: BRUCE BOTNICK/JIMMY MESSINA/HENRY LEWY
Drums: HAL BLAINE/EARL PALMER
Guitars: JIMMY MESSINA/RAY POHLMAN/MIKE DEASY/LARRY ZEMPEL
Bass: JIMMY BOND/RAY POHLMAN
Sax: JIM HORN/STEVE DOUGLAS
Trumpets: CHUCK FINDLEY/TONY TERRAN
Flutes: GENE CIPRIANO
Keyboards: LARRY KNECHTEL/LEON RUSSELL/VICTOR FELDMAN
Vibes: VICTOR FELDMAN
Bass Marimba: EMIL RICHARDS
Percussion: STUART MARGOLIN and THE PARADE
Reissue Producers: YOSHI NAGATO and SHUN OKANO
Album Design: HISASHI TENMYOYA
Art Direction: YOSHI for BELIEVE IN MAGIC INC.
Notes for PARADE reissue:
When I was asked to write liner notes for this reissue of THE PARADE album, I called Murray MacLeod and we relived some of the fine memories from those sessions.
Murray, Smokey Roberds, and I had written a song called Sunshine Girl. We thought it had something so we saved our money and cut a demo in a small studio. I played it for A&M and they thought it sounded like a hit and we were in business. (Life was simple in those days) We cut the single and it took off.....Now we had an album budget.....At the time (middle sixties) the pop album was beginning to be seen as an art form so we set out to make an album with a shape that was varied and well rounded.....having many colors if you will...Our first real "album" project. We used the best studio players in town. I was the producer...Murray and Smokey helped a lot on arrangements and we used all kinds of vocal combinations...often doing unison leads and or unison layered mackgrounds..We wrote the whole album with a lot of help from our cohort Stuart Margolin and we were happy with the result, It's rewarding that it can now be heard in it's [sic] entirety. Thanks for listening. - Jerry Riopelle
p.s. The album consisted of eleven cuts. The songs...LAUGHIN' LADY....I CAN SEE LOVE....and....THIS OLD MELODY....were attempts at other radio singles or B sides and should be seen here as bonus tracks.