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Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, 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 toured nationally with the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey and 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. By the mid-1960s, he was an active session musician in Laurel Canyon, working with artists such as Tim Buckley, Judy Collins, and the Byrds before collaborating with Brian Wilson on the Beach Boys' Smile, later completed in 2004 as Wilson's solo album. From Wikipedia (

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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I'm Mean (Bluto)
Doug Dillard, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Ray Cooper, The Mysterious Karsten, and Van Dyke Parks

Albums

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Broken Trail (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2020
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The Clang of the Yankee Reaper

1975
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¡Spangled!

2019
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Discover America

1972
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Cool Man Cool

2009
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Song Cycle

1968
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Orange Crate Art

1995
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Moonlighting-Live At The Ash Grove

1998

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 • 18K views
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Van Dyke Parks - Palm Desert (1967)

soroteca71 • 6.8K views
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Historia de un Amor | Gaby Moreno | Total Environment Music Foundation

Total Environment Music Foundation • 693K views
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Van Dyke Parks - Vine Street (1967)

soroteca71 • 6.2K views
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It's A B Movie Mashup (Original + The Cog is Dead)

MiketheNintendoNerd • 1.7K views
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Brave little toaster B-Movie show.wmv

phoenixman8569 • 9.6K views
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Van Dyke Parks - Come to the Sunshine

Marrock • 9.2K views
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Van Dyke Parks - "The All Golden" from SONG CYCLE (1968)

Ian Zamboni • 63K views

Live performances

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