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Dennis Olivieri - Come To The Party (us 1968 VMC Lp) (VMC 130)

About Dennis Olivieri:
Television actor Dennis Olivieri released his album with the help of Tandyn Almer, who wrote
(or co-wrote) the Association’s big hit “Along Comes Mary”, in addition to Almer who plays
keyboards, musicians also appearing here are saxophonist Tom Scott, drummer Eddie Greene,
guitarist Jack Elliott, and bassist Ronnie Brown. You’ve got to hand it to these ultra-tiny
record labels (in this case VMC), they seem to have a peculiar knack for finding people that
redefined the term “artist’. Dennis Olivieri was one such person. This disc is filled with
strange studio effects and even stranger thematic preoccupations.
~ by: www.myspace.com/dennisolivieriparty.

Credits of Come to the Party:
*Dennis Olivieri: Piano, Main Performer, Vocals
*Thomas Organ: Autoharp
*Tandyn Almer: Producer, Rocksichord
*Ronnie Brown: Bass
*Tommy Scott: Saxophone
*Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Guitar
*Eddie Greene: Percussion, Drums
*John Guess: Engineer
*Tom Perry: Engineer

Tracklist:
01. Opportunity
02. Sad Song #1
03. Mama's Funeral Song
04. Walk Rite Out
05. Fuzzy Soft Thing
06. I Cry In The Morning
07. Come To The Party
08. You Gotta
09. Lady Fair
10. More Friends
11. Yesterday Was Nuthin' Like Today

Dennis Olivieri: Credits:
Phantom Of The Paradise (Actor - Reporter) 1974 Movie
Breezy (Actor - Bruno) 1973 Movie
The Naked Ape (Actor - Arnie) 1973 Movie
Outside In (Actor - Bernard) 1972 Movie
New People (Actor - Stanley Gabriel) 1969 TV Show Series.

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Freeform folky psych rock with organ, rocksichord, sax, guitar, percussion. Weird, uncommercial
LP produced by songwriter Tandyn Almer, this has been used for samples. Olivieri was primarily
a TV actor, and this LP release parallels Rex Holman's in some ways.
~ www.lysergia.com.
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Television actor Dennis Olivieri released this weird “Freeform Folk Psych” album with the help
of Tandyn Almer, who wrote (or co-wrote) the Association’s big hit “Along Comes Mary”, in
addition to Almer who plays keyboards, musicians also appearing here are saxophonist Tom Scott,
drummer Eddie Greene, guitarist Jack Elliott, and bassist Ronnie Brown.
~ by Redtelephone66.
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You’ve got to hand it to these ultra-tiny record labels, they seem to have a peculiar knack for
finding people that redefined the term “artist’. Dennis Olivieri was one such person. This is
a self-conscious hippie vanity disc that’s filled with strange studio effects and even stranger
thematic preoccupations. Much of this is the story of a grown man railing against his
overbearing mother. Things come to a head on “Mama’s Funeral Song”, wherein our protagonist
rants “Oh mama, mama, sometimes I wish that you would die / BECAUSE YOU HANG ME UP, MAMA!”

Why would he say such a thing? As a sort of explanation, he informs us in Sinatraesque tones,
“I got this fuzzy soft thing in my head!” This album is a paradise of neuroses that would
bludgeon Freud if he weren’t already dead. I can’t tell if he’s serious, or if it’s all just
a campy put-on, but in the end I guess it doesn’t matter. Either way, Olivieri is on his own
wavelength. “I bought me a brand new toy the other day / It’s a two-way radio that only goes
one way”. That sums things up better than I ever could.
~ by Ochsfan (RYM).