THE VENTURES
KNOCK ME OUT!
Original 1965 album liner notes
SIDE ONE:
I FEEL FINE 2:08
(Lennon-McCartney)
Maclen Music, Inc. – BMI
LOVE POTION NUMBER NINE 2:03
(Leiber-Stoller)
Quintet – BMI
TOMORROW’S LOVE 2:14
(Wilson-Bogle-Edwards-Taylor)
Dobo Publishing – BMI
OH, PRETTY WOMAN 2:48
(Orbison-Dees)
Acuff-Rose Publishing Inc. – BMI
MARINER NO. 4 2:10
(Wilson-Bogle-Edwards-Taylor)
Dobo Publishing – BMI
WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM 2:20
(DeShannon)
Metric Music – BMI
SIDE TWO:
GONE, GONE, GONE 2:08
(D. Everly-P. Everly)
Acuff-Rose Publishing Inc. – BMI
SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE 2:17
(Rodgers)
Chappell & Co., Inc. – ASCAP
SHE’S NOT THERE 2:35
(Argent)
Al Gallico Music Corp. – BMI
LONELY GIRL 1:55
(Wilson-Bogle-Edwards-Taylor)
Dobo Publishing – BMI
BIRD ROCKERS 2:37
(Wilson-Bogle-Edwards-Taylor)
Dobo Publishing – BMI
SHA LA LA 2:25
(Taylor-Moseley)
Ludix Publishing Co. Inc./Flomarlu Music Inc. – BMI
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Producer: Dick Glasser
Engineer: Eddie Brackett
Cover Design and Photography: Studio Five
Consistency is a key word in the music business. In essence, it’s the ability to come up with fresh new sounds and approaches that will constantly appeal to many people, in the face of stiff competition that becomes keener with each passing day. In fact, as chart statistics point out, it’s even more difficult if the artist falls into the instrumental category.
By these standards alone, the Ventures have more than proven their “lasting power.” Not only have they had single hits over a five year period, but every one of their past fifteen albums has made a solid showing on the album best-seller charts. Furthermore, in recent years their popularity has spread with enviable speed to the farthest points on the globe.
Although luck has been a factor in almost every artist’s path to stardom, it has played almost no role in the Ventures’ career. Instead, the aforementioned ability to gear their arrangements to appeal to the widest possible audience, their choosing of the best material, and their individual talents as musicians are the big reasons for their uninterrupted chain of hit albums.
In this latest package the Ventures have chosen, in addition to their own hit single, “Slaughter On Tenth Avenue,” the “cream” of recent giant hits and have wrapped them in an inimitable instrumental style. ‘64 was, of course, the year of the English hit, and some of these are included. (Interestingly, “Sha La La,” “When You Walk In The Room” and “Love Potion No. 9” are tunes that first made the grade in the States and then found their way back here again by way of jolly old England.)
As with all previous Ventures albums, this one, too, was created for dancing. Anyone who loves to twist, frug, stomp, and jerk – to mention only a few – will have a ball with this instrumental “discotheque.” As I mentioned before, the Ventures have scored with every previous album. It’s a cinch they’ve scored another “bullseye” here.
Ira Howard
Editor, Cash Box
The Ventures play the Mosrite Guitar exclusively.
Mosrite Guitars
1213 N. Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, Calif. 90028
The Ventures International Fan Club
1215 N. Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90028
DOLTON RECORDS
A DIVISION OF LIBERTY RECORDS
BLP-2033
Also available in stereo BST-8033
Printed in U.S.A.
