xxx IAN WHITCOMB | In Hollywood!
12″ Vinyl LP (1981)

AFTER FORMING THE EARLY BRITISH R&B COMBO, BLUESVILLE, IAN  WHITCOMB SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS TOURING THE USA AND LANDED IN SEATTLE, WHERE HE WAS CONVINCED TO AUDITION FOR JERRY DENNON, WHO RELEASSED IAN’S FIRST SOLO SINGLE ON HIS SEATTLE LABEL, JERDEN RECORDS.  IN 1965, WHITCOMB RE-FORMED BLUESVILLE TO RECORD A SECOND JERDEN SINGLE (THIS SPORTING LIFE / FIZZ) THAT GOT CONSIDERABLE NOTICE.  THAT YEAR TOWER RECORDS, A SUBSIDIARY OF CAPITOL INDCLUDE  THIS SPORTING LIFE ON THE ALBUM “YOU TURN ME ON!” WHICH INCLUDES THE WORLDWIDE HIT “YOU TURN ME ON!” WHITCOMB SPENT MUCH OF THE 60s AND 70s BETWEEN LONDON, THE NORTHWEST, AND LOS ANGELES, WHERE IN THE LATE 1970s HE RELOCATED TO WORK AS A MUSICIAN, PRODUCER, AND WRITER, PULLING FROM HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE OF TRADITIONAL JAZZ, AND 1920s POPULAR MUSIC.  THE MUSIC ON “IAN WHITCOMB IN HOLLYWOOD!”  CULLS FROM THOSE GENRE’S AS WELL AS THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK.  IT’S NOTABLE THAT IAN MAINTAINED HIS CONNECTION TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING HIS 1976 ALBUM “CROONER TUNES” HAD OTHER MUSIC RELEASED ON THE GREAT NORTHWEST MUSIC COMPANY, AND THIS ALBUM ON DENNON’S LATER SEATTLE LABEL, FIRST AMERICAN.

SIDE ONE
In Hollywood! | Oh! What A Beauty (The Marrow Song) | Somethin’ Stupid | I’ll Stand Beneath Your Window Tonight (And Whistle) | And I Love Her/She Loves You (Beatles Medley) | Humphry Bobart | Do Something |  Then Came The Dawn
SIDE TWO
They’re Parking Camels Where The Taxis Used To Be | Muriel Oxenburg Murphy | And Then He Bit Me | This Ole House | Moby Dick | Til You Come Home | Charlie’s A Cripple (You Know) | The Daughter Of Rosey O’Grady | Goodnight Copyright © – First American Records, Inc.

Flute – Georgia Alwan | Cello – Jackie Lustgarten | Clarinet – Jim Kanter | Double Bass – Frederick Seykora | Drums – Ken Park | Piano – Mike Stoller, Varda Ullman | Trombone – Michael Vlatkovich | Trumpet – Malcolm McNab | Tuba – Willis Masonheimer | Viola – Barbara Thomason | Violin – Marcy Dicterow, Shari Zippert | Recorded at Western Recorders, Seattle WA | Paramount Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA |Music Grinder Studios, Hollywood, CA | Superior Olive | Produced by Ian Whitcomb, Mike Stoller |Engineers – Chuck Britz, Frank Nadsady, Jerry Robinson, John Kovarek, Peter Cole, Peter Haden, Rob Miller ” Roger Dollarhide Photography by David Arnoff | Album Design by Diane Zincavage | Copyright © First American Records, Inc.

CONDITION: VG+/VG+
First American | FA 7789 / First American  FA-7789 (1981)