Phil Bodner / The Brass Ring

Phil Bodner / The Brass Ring

BEST OF

DUNHILL US DS 50051

LP 1969 12 TRK Collection

BRASS RING feat. PHIL BODNER

PROJECT 3 US PR 5067 SD

LP 1972 12 TRKS stereo

DIS-ADVANTAGES OF YOU, THE

DUNHILL US DS 50017

LP 1967 11 TRKS stereo

GAZPACHO

DUNHILL US DS 50034

LP 1968 12 TRKS stereo

LARA'S THEME

DUNHILL US DS 50012

LP 1966 12 TRKS stereo

LOVE THEME FROM 'THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX'

DUNHILL US DS 50008

LP 1966 12 TRKS stereo; debut

NOW SOUND OF THE BRASS RING, THE

DUNHILL US DS 50023

LP 1967 12 TRKS stereo

ONLY LOVE DUNHILL US DS 50044

LP 1969 11 TRKS stereo

SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

DUNHILL US DS 50015

LP 1967 12 TRKS stereo

The main run of Phil Bodner’s “Brass Ring” on Dunhill Records was from ’66 to ’69 – to me, they are the epitome of the “Now Sound” – a group of production musicians playing hits of the day – that their label happened to own the publishing of – in some cases.

The discography becomes anomalous with an album 3 years after all the others for a new label, the venerable “Project 3”, one of the ‘Enoch Light’ labels. In fact, the 1967 release of their “Now Sound of…” LP may be among the first uses of that phrase to indicate “Easy listening music disguised as rock music” = “The Now Sound”.

So, what other things did Phil Bodner have a hand in? It’s been hot in Los Angeles, so I haven’t been looking too closely at much of anything lately!

I have my dad to thank for turning me on to The Brass Ring – he bought a copy of “Gazpacho” from a bargain bin, and it eventually made it’s way to my modern-day collection of easy listening LP’s.

- Ron