The Trade Winds

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风格: #阳光流行
地区: 欧美

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by Steve LeggettIn 1965 a striking single called New Yorks a Lonely Town by a group called the Trade Winds flitted briefly across pop radio. Telling the story of a California surfer stuck in New York for the winter, the song was beautifully produced, echoing some of the studio techniques then favored by Brian Wilson, and although the songs premise seems even more ridiculous now than it did then, New Yorks a Lonely Town has such a memorable, lilting melody and projects such willful yearning and innocence that it is somewhat of a lost pop treasure. The Trade Winds were actually Peter Andreoli (he is also known professionally as Peter Anders) and Vincent Poncia Jr., a pair of Rhode Island songwriters who had a minor doo wop-inflected hit with Mr. Lonely in 1960 while calling themselves the Videls, and who had written (The Best Part Of) Breakin Up for producer Phil Spector and the Ronettes. The Trade Winds put out a few additional singles (including Mind Excursion and the pretty I Believe in Her) and an album before morphing into the Innocence and issuing a single under that name (Theres Got to Be a Word) late in 1966. An album credited to the Innocence followed, and then the duo began recording a project under their own names. Andreoli and Poncia parted ways shortly after The Anders & Poncia Album was issued by Warner Bros. as the 1960s drew to a close. Poncia resurfaced a few years later as a producer for Ringo Starr, Kiss, and other acts, while Andreoli kept a lower profile. New Yorks a Lonely Town remains their high watermark, one of the great lost singles of the surf era.