ARTIST: Les Fradkin
TITLE: Under The Covers
LABEL: RRO Entertainment
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 39:03 min
SIZE: 61,7 MB
RIP DATE: May-18-2007
RELEASE DATE: 000-00-2006
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Under The Covers 04:09
02. Through The Looking Glass 03:16
03. Take A Chance 02:46
04. Song Of A Thousand Voices 03:38
05. You Can Cry If You Want To 03:18
06. I Cry 04:08
07. Reflections Of My Life 05:16
08. Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again 03:04
09. Montego Bay 02:29
10. I'd Love You To Want Me 03:23
11. La Chanson Des Souvenirs 03:36
( Song Of A Thousand Voices )
Release Notes:
FEATURES THE iTUNES SMASH HITS:
"La Chansons des Souvenirs (Song Of A Thousand
Voices)"
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again"
"Through The Looking Glass"
"Montego Bay"
"You Can Cry If You Want To"
"Under The Covers" is now a best selling download
album at iTunes!
Les Fradkin's Jangle Rickenbacker 12-String and Phil
Spector styled Pop Production returns with a new
release!
This new CD gives everyone a look at some of his
newest music- drenched in hooks galore for fans of
Beatles Pop and 70's AM radio Pop.
You'll also get to hear brand new versions of his
origional MGM/Sunflower single "Song Of A Thousand
Voices" and "You Can Cry If You Want To" which has
been a must have for 45RPM collectors for years.
These songs have been unavailable for 35 years.
New songs this time out include "Under The Covers",
an autobiographical followup to "Jangleholic." Other
newies include "Through The Looking Glass" and "Take
A Chance" which are slices of 60's & 70's Pop ear
candy with hooks galore. His latest tune, "I Cry"
promises to be one of his most covered compositions.
Co-written with Amber Gomez of Venus In Bluejeans,
this tune will grab you every time you hear it. All
with Les' famous Rickenbacker 12-String guitar
stylings mixed with his "sonic signature" production
stamp.
Covers this time round include:
"Reflections Of My Life" (The Marmalade),
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" (The
Fortunes)
"Montego Bay" (Bobby Bloom),
and
"I'd Love You To Want Me" (Lobo).
And as a surprise bonus, Les sings his famous French
Mireille Mathieu hit.... in French! Arranged with a
nod to the original Paul Mauriat ("Love Is Blue")
arrangement in mind, Les brings his self-composed
Mathieu classic into modern sound.
This release is pressed on special edition BLACK
Colored CD's which reflect crimson burgundy in
bright light.
A BIT OF BIO:
Les Fradkin is one of the pop legends of the 1970's.
As well as being a veteran member of The Original
Cast of Beatlemania, he has found success as a
recording artist, composer and producer with MGM
Sunflower, ESP-Disk', Bell, Arista, RCA, and Laurie
Records. Les has written the well known French hit
"La Chansons Des Souvenirs" ("Song Of A Thousand
Voices") for the famous Mireille Mathieu. He has
played 12 and 6-string Guitar, Bass, Mellotron, and
Piano on dozens of Top 40 hit records throughout the
early 1970's , scoring many US and UK chart placings
throughout his career.
He has played and sung as a multi-instrumentalist on
many Top 40 hit records throughout the early 1970's.
A member of Edison Lighthouse, his new recording of
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" has sold tens
of thousands of copies on iTunes in the last two
years.
His Bass, 12-string guitar, vocals and production
with legendary underground psychedelic folk- rock
group,The Godz, resulted in several albums for ESP
Disk among which "Pass On This Side" (featuring Les'
song "God Bless California"), continues to influence
and mentor generations of new musicians to this day.
Also, in the early 70's, he produced an album by The
Left Banke and recorded and performed with them
frequently during 1972 and 1973 and recorded with
them for their reunion album in 1978. His song "I
Could Make It Last Forever" is in current release
and features the entire Left Banke on the recording.
In the early 80's, he played bass in a short lived
group which also featured Mick Ronson on lead guitar
and Hilly Michaels on drums.
In 1983, Les took up the Guitar Synthesizer and has
been a prime exponent of it ever since. Using
various Roland Guitar Synthesizers over the years
and the Roland VG-8 Guitar System since 1997, Les'
musical forays using this advanced guitar technology
has graced dozens of commercials, soap opera and
movie soundtracks and all of his solo CD's.
Influenced by such icons as The Byrds, Procol Harum,
The Yardbirds,The Kinks, Bob Dylan, The Ventures,
The Left Banke, The Moody Blues, Brian Wilson, The
Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Joe Meek and of course,
The Beatles, Les' CD's have racked up over 250,000
downloads on the internet since 1999! He has enjoyed
chart success on the net as well with his songs
reaching mp3.com's #1 position 16 times! New Gandy
Dancer Rock Magazine has just named "A Day At The
Beach" it's 2004 Album Of The Year. In addition, Les
has performed with The Ventures as 2nd Lead
Guitarist. Nokie Edwards of The Ventures has
performed with Les on several occasions and is a
featured guest on his "While My Guitar Only Plays"
CD. In fact, Les has been acknowledged as a guitar
virtuoso for over 30 years and he has been featured
in issues of 20th Century Guitar Magazine, Pipeline
and New Gandy Dancer Magazines.
His "Jangleholic", "Goin' Back", "While My Guitar
Only Plays", "Splash!", "A Day At The Beach",
"Something for George" and "Perfect World" CD's have
proven best seller download items at Apple iTunes
throughout 2005 and 2006.
Les now lives in Colorado where he produces records
in his own custom built recording studio as a
recording artist, composer and producer with his
indie label-RRO Entertainment.