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My First 90 Years Plus 3 ReviewSome record producers are as much celebrities as the musicians they record. Not Ken Nelson. In his book, he refers to himself as a behind the scene person in the making of phonograph records. Thus my frustration. I probably first noticed Nelson's name in the late 1970s when I started buying reissued records of Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps. As my interest in rockabilly and country music increased I came to realize that Ken Nelson produced the majority of country records for the Capitol label during the 1950s and 1960s. Nelson's name was appearing on the back covers of a lot of records and CDs I would buy. Yet since then, I have read maybe two really short articles about him and that's it, very much unlike some producers who take the star route. I really wished I could find out more about Ken Nelson.Now that I have read his autobiography, I am amazed at how much about himself he was finally willing to reveal, even the unhappy things that happened at various stages of his life. Equally interesting are the shear volume of dates, places, and names he was able to associate with even the smaller things that he recalls.
Another interesting feature of Nelson's book are the texts of numerous speeches he gave during his life, especially those given at meetings of the Country Music Association, during which he announced results of surveys and plans completed and started to expand the market for country music.
The vast number of records Ken Nelson produced during this period may be unmatched by any other producer. How did he find time to do anything other than just turn the tape machine on and let it roll? I just recently read a quote by the late Buck Owens (one of Nelson's biggest hit makers) who said that Nelson made it a habit of signing contracts with musicians who had their own bands and wrote their own songs thus making it easier when it was time to go into the studio and record. More often than not, the songs, arrangements, and rehearsals were done and the artists were ready for recording. Thus there was less to do before the recording stage. That's how Nelson managed to record so many artists and songs.
Nelson details his professional and social relationships with dozens of musicians. So, if you are fan of just about any Capitol country or rock musician from this era, you will find much to read about them here, along with photos.
As with everything else in his life, Nelson offers great detail about the illnesses he suffered during the final decade of his life, which paralleled the deaths of dozens of his family members and music associates. This final part of the book is rather sad and greatly resembles what my own parents went through in recent years.
One person stands out in this book, that being his daughter Claudia, who is lovingly credited with taking care of Nelson's many needs, as he got older. Nelson's wife died about twenty years before he did and his daughter is depicted as being very helpful to her widower father.My First 90 Years Plus 3 Overview
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