NOTES
1. The recordings were made in Hollywood, California, unless mentioned otherwise.
2.(S) Single, (A) Album, (EP) Extended play, (Other): World-wide release unless mentioned otherwise.
3. Year signifies year of release.
4. Red stars: * Certified Gold (sales exceeding 500,000)
** Number One on the Billboard and/or Cashbox charts
*** Number One and Certified Gold
**** Number One and Certified Platinum (first introduced in 1976)(sales exceeding 1,000,000)
***** Number One and several times Certified Platinum (sales exceeding 2,000,000)
This list includes RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America) certifications of recorded sales in the U.S.
5. Disclaimer: The images used herein are owned by the individual copyright holders and are presented for review and promotional purposes only.
6. The music videos are mostly part uploaded to YouTube/others by the public and do therefore not contain professional sound and visual quality.
Paul & Eirik working on RAM
Photo: Linda McCartney
CO-PRODUCTION OF SOUND, MIX, SEQUENCING, ORIGINAL MASTERING
The album was also mixed in a mono version for non-stereo
AM radio stations.
In addition, a limited edition (400) radio spots promo album, "Brought To Ewe By...", was produced by PM & EW.
Sound Recorders Studio, Hollywood, California
Apple Records
A RAM Special Deluxe Edition is planned to be released in 2012
which includes an Eirik Wangberg interview.
Miscellanea
Play
"Song Similarities - Taurus - Stairway to Heaven - Mix Attempt mx31619":
Led Zeppelin opened up for Spirit in '68 when they went on to tour for this debut album. Led Zeppelin were strongly influenced by Spirit and it is well-known today that Jimmy Page lifted the instrumentation from parts of Taurus for "Stairway To Heaven".
Zeppelin also 'borrowed' the riff of "Fresh Garbage" during early live performances of the song "As Long as I Have You".
The song "Fresh-Garbage" has been sampled in the Pink song "Feel Good Time", found on the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
Fresh From the Time Coast The best of 1968-1977
SPIRIT (Randy California)
Record Production* and Co-Production Co-Production of Sound and Mix
Executive Producer: Lou Adler
Sound Recorders Studio Hollywood, California
Raven (Australia)
(CD x 2) 2010
***
* Besides recording other tracks by Spirit (and other artists) with the legend Lou Adler, Eirik produced I Got a Line On You and Dream Within a Dream for him.
It turns out that I Got a Line On You is Spirit's biggest hit, among other measured by MP3 downloads at Amazon.
Editor at Amazon says: "This glorious I Got a Line On You contains one of the most recognisable guitar riffs, and this CD release is a must for fans of classic rock."
Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 + ABC
Jackson 5 with MICHAEL JACKSON
Co-Production of Sound and Mix
Hollywood, California
Phantasm
(CD x 2) May 18th 2010 ****
The Artists The Standells, The Byrds, Love,
The Leaves, Buffalo Springfield,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Iron Butterfly, Lowell George & The Factory,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Bobby Fuller Four, The Palace Guard,
Sonny & Cher, The Guilloteens, The Rising Sons,
The Association, The Doors, Kaleidoscope,
The Seeds, The Music Machine,
The Sons Of Adam,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Penny Arkade,
The Joint Effort, Spirit, Thee Midniters,
The Light, The Bush, The Premiers,
The Odyssey, The Electric Prunes,
The Merry-Go-Round, The Spats, The Turtles, Ken & The Fourth Dimension, The Chymes,
Opus 1, The Humane Society, The Others,
Things To Come, The Velvet Illusions,
Limey & The Yanks,
The Romancers, aka The Smoke Rings,
Kim Fowley, The Deepest Blue, The Whatt Four,
The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band,
The Mustangs, Merrell & The Exiles,
The Hysterics, The Yellow Payges,
Keith Allison, Dino, Desi & Billy,
The Knickerbockers, Jan & Dean, P.F. Sloan,
The Mamas & The Papas, Thorinshield,
The Full Treatment, The Yellow Balloon,
London Phogg, The Lamp Of Childhood,
The Moon, The Garden Club,
Pleasure featuring Billy Elder, The Ballroom, Stephen Stills & Richie Furay,
Hearts And Flowers, Lee Hazlewood,
Jackie DeShannon with The Byrds, Peter Fonda,
GRAMMY NOMINATION 2011
Historical Category
Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
Eirik Wangberg Specific Credits
Production of Sound and Mix
April Stevens & Nino Tempo I Love How You Love Me The Knickerbockers High On Love The Yellow Payges Our Time Is Running Out The Yellow Balloon Yellow Balloon Co-Production of Sound
Barry McGuire Inner-Manipulations Rick Nelson Marshmallow Skies Noel Harrison Life Is A Dream Spirit Girl In Your Eye The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I'll Search the Sky Tim Buckley Once Upon A Time Record Co-Production, Production of Sound and Mix
Phoenix (incl. Laramy Smith and Gene Clark of The Byrds) Los Angeles
Recorded at Sound Recorders Studio, Hollywood, California
September 22, 2009
Compilation & Box Set Producer: Alec Palao
Rhino Records, 4 CD Box Set
Gary Lewis & The Playboys, The Monkees,
Modern Folk Quintet, The Oracle
Pasternak Progress, The Common Cold,
Danny Hutton, The Dillards, The Rose Garden,
Nino Tempo & April Stevens,
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart,
Warren Zevon & Bones Howe,
Noel Harrison, Gene Clark, Tim Buckley,
The Everpresent Fullness,
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Van Dyke Parks,
October Country, Roger Nichols Trio,
The Beach Boys, Jesse Lee Kincaid, Nilsson,
Randy Newman, Del Shannon, The Byrds,
Sagittarius, Rick Nelson, Love,
Barry McGuire
Co-Production of Sound and Mix Vega-Tables: Co-Production and Production of Sound and Mix
Sound Recorders Studio, Hollywood, California
Capitol / EMI Records
(LP/CD/Box Set) November 1, 2011
The world's most famous unreleased album The long awaited release of the Brian Wilson and Beach Boys masterpiece, Smile Sessions: With the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has, for the first time, collected and compiled the band's legendary 1966-'67 sessions for the never-completed SMiLE album. Rolling Stone magazine recently called SMiLE the most famous unfinished album in rock & roll history."
In several sessions between the summer of 1966 and early 1967, The Beach Boys recorded a bounty of songs and drafts for an album, SMiLE, that was intended to follow the band's 1966 album, Pet Sounds. The master tapes were ultimately shelved, and The Beach Boys' SMiLE has never been released (some tracks were released on earlier compilations). Drawn from the original masters, SMiLE Sessions presents an in-depth overview of The Beach Boys' recording sessions for the enigmatic album, which has achieved legendary, mythical status for music fans around the world.
The music is finally released in conjunction with The Beach Boys' 50th anniversary. Predictions are SMiLE will be one of the hottest selling this year.
Dear Brian, Mike, Alan and Bruce,
God Bless, Carl and Dennis,
Thank you for the good times when working together, the invitation to Hawaii to set up and run your studio, and for inspiring me
so much!
Your friend, Eirik
To come is The Eirik Wangberg Story - an album never before released containing Eirik's
compositions and instrumental/vocal performances (along
with members of Elvis Presley's band and the Eagles, others).
Of course, his record and sound production is here too.
Cover: Painting of Eirik by Dario Campanile, a student of Salvador Dahli
NOTES
Eirik Wangberg has also contributed to recordings made in collaboration with the following artists, but has been unable to identify the recordings in question:
Frankie Avalon, Kris Kristoffersen, Country Joe McDonald, The Byrds, Martha and the Vandellas, Bobby Goldsboro, Brenton Wood, Roger Miller, The Supremes, Paul Butterfield, Dave Mason, Frankie Valli, Rubettes, Four Tops, Chiffons, Sir Douglas Quintet, Linda Ronstadt and Dionne Warwick. More artists have been identified than their recordings, so many of the latter are missing here. Additional artists and recordings are known to not have been identified. If you have any more information about the Eirik Wangberg recording history, please send an email via the Contact page. Your assistance would be highly appreciated!
Information on the small golden disc used in these pages as "No Image Available":
NASA
placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form. The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greetings, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (in 1990 both were beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, “The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”
Upon request Eirik Wangberg supports the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
This 2750 year most ancient "Silk Road" location between the West and East is part of United Nations UNESCO World Heritage.
