Jangle Byrds and Beatles style Pop from the Original Cast "George Harrison" of Beatlemania. If you love Byrds Jangle Pop, you're gonna want this.

11 MP3 Songs
POP: Beatles-pop, POP: 60's Pop



Details:
Take a new trip with the Jangle Pop release you'll want as a must have for 2006. This all new CD features Les' renowned Rickenbacker 12-String Guitar stylings with some special surprises!

Endlessly catchy 12-String Jangle Pop with a distinctive "sonic signature." The influence of 60's and 70's Pop with big hooks, lush harmonies, commercial production and virtuoso Rickenbacker 12-String electric guitar.

On this CD, he offers a selection of great Jangle covers from songs that influenced him as a 12-string guitarist: "I Want You" ( Bob Dylan ), "You Were On My Mind" ( by The We Five ), "I'll Never Find Another You" ( by The Seekers ) and TWO Paul Simon songs from the Simon & Garfunkel Songbook- "A Hazy Shade Of Winter" and his electrfying cover of "The Dangling Conversation."
All of these are hit download singles at Apple iTunes.

Les' original compositions on this CD range from brand new tunes such as "Arrow Thru Your Heart" to gems from his past such as "Still On My Way" (co-written with Raven Kane of Neil Diamond touring fame) and "Sometimes A Girl Must Carry On" which dates back all the way to his 1971 unreleased MGM/Sunflower album. Of particular interest is "Why Is This Man Smiling?" which was originally written for The Left Banke. Les' tune "Everything Is Gonna Be Allright" is a very popular download at AOL Music Now.

Les' original composition title track, "Jangleholic" gives the listener a humorous account of Les' history with both the 12-string guitar and his days in Beatlemania.

This release is pressed on special edition GOLD Colored CD's which reflect lemon yellow in bright light.

A bit of BIO:

Les Fradkin is one of the pop legends of the 1970's. He's 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. He was discovered by John Hammond Sr. and originally signed to Columbia Records and April-Blackwood Music back in 1969. 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.

His 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.

In 1976, Les was selected over thousands of other auditioning guitarists to appear in the original cast of the smash hit Broadway musical "Beatlemania" playing lead guitar and the part of "George Harrison" in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Running for two and a half years from May 1977 thru October 1979, every show (including over 1200 in New York alone) was sold out and the musicians quickly became celebrities with magazine cover stories ("Newsweek","Time", "People", "Rolling Stone") and many major television show appearances. With his guitar-playing in the international spotlight from the show, Fradkin developed a cult following that has avidly followed his career and made him a celebrity among guitar fans.