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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OTD in 1968: Tom Wilson was profiled in The New York Times Magazine, depicted as the epitome of the successful, hip record producer. Near the end of the piece, we’re told how he confronted a racist cab driver on the street in New York. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About time somebody did a book about Tom Wilson! One of the most important and innovative record producers of the mid-60s. I used to have my class at Clive Davis learn about him but there was little in the way of text to give them. www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are crackling with excitement for next week's release of Everything is Everything: Tom Wilson and Pop Music in 1966 by Steven E. Jones! To celebrate, we are sharing advance praise with specially themed graphics. Keep your eyes peeled and see… #EverythingIsEverythingBook

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SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On this day in 1966, The Monkees premiered, a hit TV show about a rock band trying to make it (from the cast of which a "real" rock band would emerge). #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Released Sept. 1965: Producer Tom Wilson added jangly electric instruments to Simon & Garfunkel's folksong, "The Sound of Silence," turning it into a folk-rock record and a massive hit. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sept. 6, 1978: record producer Tom Wilson died at 47. One of the last albums he (co-)produced (with Larry Fallon) was Bridges by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson (1977). (He and Fallon had also been working on an R&B opera, Mind Flyers of Gondwana.) #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Frank Zappa and the Mothers' We're Only In It for The Money (1968) included cutouts, a visual satire on those in The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's. Instead of shoulder stripes, shoulder-length hair; not just a mustache but a soul patch like Zappa's. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A weird YA book, a collective autobiography by the members of the Blues Project, was published in 1968, just as the band was breaking up. I pored over it as a kid—and then again while writing about the Project and their producer, Tom Wilson. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer “You Don’t have to say you love me” from 1966

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

August 1966: The Butterfield Blues Band's East-West was released. Besides the 13-minute psychedelic, raga-influenced title track, it includes a cover of Muddy Waters' "Two Trains Running," which was also covered by the Blues Project that same year. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One step closer to publication (September 29)! www.sup.org/books/litera... #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

OTD in 1966, Batman the movie premiered. It was the summer of the Bat, with a concert at Shea Stadium and Andy Warhol and Nico in a cosplay photoshoot. Reportedly, producer Tom Wilson scheduled recording sessions so he could get home to watch. #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

July 1965, Dylan went electric at Newport, yes. But the background was Tom Wilson's producing Bringing It All Back Home, side 1 in January, which ends with a track introduced by Wilson's own giddy laughter ("Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Behind Tom Wilson's work with The Velvet Underground and Zappa in 1966-67 was a fascinating early stereo experiment he produced in 1962, Pop+Jazz=Swing. The genres were recorded on left and right channels so you could play either or both at once! #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

OTD in 1965, Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" was released, produced by Tom Wilson, with a signature organ part played by Al Kooper, who, as Wilson said, was not an organist. Dylan replied, "turn it up!" #EverythingIsEverythingBook #ProducerTomWilson youtu.be/IwOfCgkyEj0?...

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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (Official Audio)

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

OTD in 1966: Producer Tom Wilson delegated to Frank Zappa the recording of some tracks by the Animals. That night, Eric Burdon went to Zappa’s house, where he played R&B records and watched experimental films, an encounter that inspired the singer's shift toward psychedelia.

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just before BATMAN debuted on TV (Jan. 1966), a theatrical release of the 1940s serials that helped inspire it was billed as "the In-tertainment scoop of the year . . . Come to Jeer—Stay to Cheer . . . and Vice Versa!," one poster read, pre-defining the reception of the campy TV show to come.

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

OTD in 1966, a promotional Batman pop concert was held in Shea Stadium, featuring Adam West from the TV show (who sang) and 26 go-go dancers (“Batusi Girls”). Groups like the Young Rascals and the Temptations were billed, but many didn't show. An estimated 3,000 fans were there.

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

OTD in 1967, The Blues Project performed "Flute Thing" at the Monterey Pop Festival. The song was from the album Projections, produced by Tom Wilson. Andy Kulberg played his flute with a pickup through a Binson Echorec machine for a jazzy psychedelic effect. youtu.be/1oIE95Ro9Ms?...

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The Blues Project - A Flute Thing - 06-18-1967 - Monterey Pop Festival - Monterey, Ca

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When released (June 1966), Freak Out! by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention came with an address you could write to for paratext, a map of "FREAK OUT Hot Spots!" in LA. It depicted Hollywood as if it were the Hundred Acre Wood or Middle-earth, but for the Freak scene.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The SUP Fall / Winter 2026-2027 Catalog is out! Learn about our forthcoming titles, which include a rousing tour through Chekhov's stories & plays, a look at which ideas of politics & power characterize the tech industry, and the untold stories of American activists who fought for US ideals abroad

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Fall / Winter 2026-2027 Catalog | Stanford University Press

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This month in 1966, trumpeter Hugh Masekela's "The Americanization of Ooga Booga" was released, produced by Tom Wilson. Its title and cover art satirized stereotypes of African identity (Wilson called it "black humor," pun intended). Its sound mixed South African township music and American jazz.

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This month in 1966: “Animalisms" was released in the UK (May 13), produced by Tom Wilson, who would go on in 1966-1967 to produce multiple American albums by Eric Burdon and the variously-constituted Animals.

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This month, 1966: the Velvet Underground re-recorded 3 songs (including "Heroin") with producer Tom Wilson. With earlier tracks + "Sunday Morning" (also produced by Wilson) this became the influential "banana album" (1967). John Cale said the VU "never again had as good a producer as Tom Wilson."

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Steven E. Jones @stevenedwardjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The just-released album, Zappa '66 Vol. 1, made me think of the earlier Freak Out! sessions in March of the same year, 1966. In both cases Freaks off the streets of L.A. served as a kind of hairy dada choir (and dance troupe) for Frank Zappa to conduct. #everythingiseverything

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