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Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, singer, and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Americana iconography, free-associative lyrics, and Caribbean sounds. He is best known for his 1967 album Song Cycle and his collaborative work with acts such as the Beach Boys, Lowell George, and Harry Nilsson, as well as various film and television scores. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Parks studied voice and piano at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey, touring nationally with the choir during his youth. He concurrently pursued child acting roles in television and theater productions. After relocating to California in 1963, he performed folk music with his brother Carson along the West Coast and contributed arrangements to Disney film soundtracks, including "The Bare Necessities" for The Jungle Book. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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He Needs Me (Olive Acknowledges Popeye)
Doug Dillard, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Ray Cooper, The Mysterious Karsten, and Van Dyke Parks
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I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (Boop! Boop!)
Doug Dillard, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Ray Cooper, The Mysterious Karsten, and Van Dyke Parks
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I Yam What I Yam (Popeye's Declaration of Self)
Doug Dillard, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Ray Cooper, The Mysterious Karsten, and Van Dyke Parks
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Big Rock Candy Mountain
Van Dyke Parks
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Orange Crate Art
Van Dyke Parks

Albums

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Broken Trail (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2020
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Orange Crate Art

1995
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Discover America

1972
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¡Spangled!

2019
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Tokyo Rose

1989
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Song Cycle

1968
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Songs Cycled

2013
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Jump!

1984
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Cool Man Cool

2009
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The Clang of the Yankee Reaper

1975

Singles & EPs

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Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America

EP • 2021
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I'm History / Charm School

Single • 2013
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Veracruz

Single • 2021
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Arrangements Volume I

EP • 2011
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Across the Borderline / The Immigrants (feat. Jackson Browne)

Single • 2019
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The Immigrants

Single • 2018

Videos

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Brave little toaster Worthless Long Edition.wmv

phoenixman8569 • 17K views
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Van Dyke Parks - Palm Desert (1967)

soroteca71 • 6.1K views
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Brave little toaster B-Movie show.wmv

phoenixman8569 • 9.6K views
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The brave little toaster - Worthless (instrumental)

TBLTinstrumental • 115K views
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Van Dyke Parks - Widow's walk (1967)

soroteca71 • 1.3K views
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Historia de un Amor | Gaby Moreno | Total Environment Music Foundation

Total Environment Music Foundation • 616K views
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Van Dyke Parks - Vine Street (1967)

soroteca71 • 5.8K views
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Van Dyke Parks - "The All Golden" from SONG CYCLE (1968)

Ian Zamboni • 61K views

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