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	Sunshine Pop - music to make you smile!
		A former member of the 1960s pop group Millennium, Lee released a solo album entitled "Many Are The Times"and an album recorded during a live performance in Japan with fellow Millennium artist, Joey Stec, called "Japan." His recent passing was a tragic loss for the SPM family and for the music world.
		This is the story of the 'West Coast Soft Pop' scene (or 'Sunshine Pop' as it is often referred) as told through the finest artists and records of the genre...
		Now 30 years later the sunshine pop/soft rock genre is fast becoming a collector's paradise as new generations fall in love with the sunniest sounds around.
	www.ready-steady-go.org.uk /sunshine_pop.html (2717 words)

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		Først og fremmest skal det måske præciseres at det der blandt musiknørder i dag omtales som Sunshine Pop, ikke havde denne betegnelse tilbage i 60´erne.
		Sunshine Pop skiller sig nemlig netop ud fra sådanne numre ved at være væsentligt mere sofistikeret - man kan simpelthen høre at der er blevet lagt et meget stort arbejde i indspilningen for at sikre en lækker lyd og at alle elementer, harmonier, hooks med mere giver optimale betingelser for nummerets tilsigtede 'feel-good' faktor.
		Hvis du kan nævne the Parade blandt Sunshine Pop nørder skal du nok høste masser af anerkendende nik, for denne gruppe hører vitterligt til blandt genrens mest glemte hemmeligheder.
	members.fortunecity.com /rovtown/sunshinepop.html (2547 words)

	Sunshines
		It all began twenty years ago when the industrious Sunshine began setting up a small BBQ grill on the beach to serve fresh seafood to hungry beachgoers.
		But Sunshine keeps his guest grooving to his eclectic CD collection that ranges from classical to pop.
		Sunshine's Beach Bar and Grill is located on Pinney's Beach next door to its ultra-swanky neighbor- The Four Seasons Resort Nevis.
	www.sunshinenevis.com /story.php (231 words)

	Sunshine Pop Downloads - Download Sunshine Pop Music - Download Sunshine Pop MP3s
		Sunshine pop often resembled the more elaborate and melancholy baroque pop style, though it could also cross into folk-pop or Brill Building pop.
		Formed primarily for the purpose of starring in a television series, the Monkees were on one hand a cynically manufactured group, devised to cash in on the early Beatles' success by applying the most superficial aspects of the British Invasion formula to capture a preteen audience.
		That album was one of the finest examples of what later became known as "sunshine pop," and it's still one of the best harmony vocal showcases in 1960s music.
	www.mp3.com /genre/404/subgenre.html (6182 words)

	Sunshine pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sunshine pop, also known as sunshine rock, is a musical movement that incorporated much of the lighter rock music from the United States Of America, and particularly California in the mid to late 60s and early into the 1970s.
		The mid 60s saw a number of big hits from bands that are normally associated with the genre such as Cherish by The Association, Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension and California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas.
		The Beach Boys (not generally known as a Sunshine Pop group but at least parts of their 1965-1971 work can be regarded as in the genre)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunshine_pop (413 words)

	Sunshine (1999): Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Jennifer Ehle, Rachel Weisz - PopMatters Film Review
		As expansive as it is personal, Sunshine is the product of Szabo's own familial history — learned by listening to his grandfather's stories for hours on hours — and the tumultuous political tide of Hungary during the 20th century.
		He originally wrote Sunshine in Hungarian and his early version was considerably longer, before a decision was made to translate the script to English and condense the script, for more "universal" appeal.
		Sunshine easily could have stretched (and possibly did in early drafts) into a six- or nine-hour mini-series.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/sunshine.shtml (1387 words)

	J.P. Sunshine - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In keeping with the spirit of the times, J.P. Sunshine was as much a scene as it was a band; its members congregated in Duffell and Morphin's apartment to listen to the latest American imports (Love, Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, among others) and to ingest chemicals.
		J.P. Sunshine's informal, proto-lo-fi identity especially suited Goodway and Rickell since it served as a recreational project away from their work as professional musicians.
		The demise of J.P. Sunshine was accelerated by the claustrophobic, chemically enhanced environment the band had created around itself in Duffell's apartment.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1710632,00.html (518 words)

	The Smile Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sunshine Pop isn't just happy music, any more than Soft Pop is just low-volume music.
		Some of the best practitioners of this style of music are rightfully canonized as the best the 60s and 70s had to offer, while others have alas been languishing in obscurity for many years.
		Sunshine Pop and Soft Pop are some of the most heartening, rewarding, delightful genres of music out there, and there's so much of it to explore, all of it capturing that special magic something-or-other that makes it legendary in Japan and France and other places where pop music actually matters.
	www.thesmileshop.net /sunshine.html (189 words)

	Musical Taste: Filter tracks
		Composed by pop genius Roger Nichols the timeless, idealistic lyrics were written by Tony Asher (who wrote most of the lyrics with Brian Wilson on Pet Sounds) not by his regular partner Paul Williams.
		Sunshine pop hardly gets any sunnier than on this track: great production, strings galore, Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies, great bassline & trumpet and catchy as hell with it's uplifting chord progressions throughout.
		Sunshine Pop Collection") is good already, the single version is just crisper, lusher, just perfect.
	www.musicaltaste.com /filter.php?label=Decca (560 words)

	Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets From the WEA Vaults: Fufkin.com: David Fufkin: February, 2004
		This is no joke mind you: soft pop of the '60s defined by such true greats as The Association, Harpers Bizarre and some of the lesser known bands of this genre is, to this writer, some of the most beautifully engaging moments of the '60s and early '70s.
		However, the band that defined the sunshine pop genre was and is The Association.
		The timbre and the combination of the voices have an affect similar to the best choir performances: the band is on and they are so good it didn't and doesn't matter that, in an era of guitar heroes, their front man wielded a mean flute and wore a snazzy argyle sweater.
	www.fufkin.com /columns/fufkin/fufkin_rev_03_04.htm (1070 words)

	[Exotica] re: sunshine pop
		While it certainly has a "pop" sense to it in some parts, I feel that it leans far into the mood music end of the spectrum.
		Finally, to me the term "pop" has always meant more of a bankable, "popular" song that was (is) targeted towards mass audiences.
		For what it's worth, while I love sunshine pop music and other pop genres as a whole, pop music can at times be somewhat brainless...meaning that it isn't very thought-provoking.
	mailman.xmission.com /pipermail/exotica/2002-August/005506.html (568 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sunshine: Music: S Club 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Also included are a wealth of great pop tunes, with a healthy mix of storming pop anthems and harmonious ballads, many of them potential chart-toppers themselves.
		On the whole, "Sunshine" is a good pop album, covering all easy-listening genres from ballads, dance, R 'n' B and plain old cheesy pop, so there's something for everyone.
		Never Had A Dream Come True is a nice pop ballad with strong vocals and the usual key change, which is great for adding to the emotions of the song.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sunshine-S-Club-7/dp/B00005T7VW (2060 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Harvard Walking on Pop Sunshine
		Pop plays a different role in the lives of all these performers.
		Pop isn’t always a gateway; it can also be an escape chute.
		Pop music is as valid or as useful as its listeners make it.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=511765 (886 words)

	CD Baby: DAVE DILL: See You in the Sunshine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		it was 1960s pop bands who got rid of their producers/cliches/leads singers etc and produced some great natural folk-pop-rock.....
		His sound is reminiscent of the pop masters of the 60s and 70s like the Beatles and Brian Wilson while still having a style that is very much today.
		His continued use of interesting sounds that tickle the standard singer/songwriter format is intriguing at the minimum and mind-blowing to the max.
	www.cdbaby.com /davedill2 (1762 words)

	The Smile Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They continued to prime the group to become sunshine pop stars, pushing covers on them of songs by Curt Boettcher ("I Just Want To Be Your Friend"), Roger Nichols and Tony Asher ("Just Beyond Your Smile," and a lovely version) and Nichols/Williams ("To Put Up With You").
		Its fun stuff, and definitely a welcome addition to the Sunshine Pop genre, but while innovators like Nichols and Boettcher were pioneering new sounds and forging new methods in the studio, the Sunshine Company are definitely trend-followers -- or were roped into being trend-followers.
		By the time of their third record ("Sunshine and Shadows") they're a much more interesting and original thing -- the folk-rock begins to take over but loses none of the sunshine, and the layer of trippiness remains as well even as they begin to tread into Stone Ponies territory.
	www.thesmileshop.net /sunshineco.html (648 words)

	This is Pop Culture: Best Sunshine Pop Sites on the Web
		Tracing the history of the happy, harmonic sounds of 1960s West Coast pop by the likes of the Association, Millenium, Sagittarius, Curt Boettcher and more.
		Pop fans, particularly those of "Pet Sounds" era Beach Boys will love the glorious melodies and harmonies.
		A great site dedicated to the glories of U.S. 60s pop, including all mentioned in the subtitle, plus Sunshine Pop, Garage, surf'n'drag and more.
	www.thisispopculture.com /2006/04/best-sunshine-pop-sites-on-web.html (346 words)

	The Love Generation - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Of the many sunshine pop groups that proliferated in Southern California in the late '60s, the Love Generation were one of the most wholesome and downright sunniest.
		"Sunniest" is not necessarily synonymous with "best," even for a genre called "sunshine pop." The Love Generation's records were about as over-the-top as their name in their smiley-face, see-no-evil, upbeat, even anodyne..
		"Sunniest" is not necessarily synonymous with "best," even for a genre called "sunshine pop." The Love Generation's records were about as over-the-top as their name in their smiley-face, see-no-evil, upbeat, even anodyne harmonized pop/rock, commercial enough to often be mistaken for commercial jingles.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,460445,00.html (311 words)

	Ray of Light \| Music \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		Silver Sunshine also use jeweled organ riffs and billowing vocal harmonies to bounce pop hooks to elevations near Elliott Smith heights.
		But instead of playing pop straight, they distort its texture with swirling vapor trails of effects and bright clusters of guitar fuzz.
		They hit an ebullient mix of funk and flower-power pop on "Hiroshima Never Again"; it's a successful merger that could compete with the finest moments of a Charlatans UK song.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=25673 (356 words)

	Pop Kulcher
		A spin-off from the Pop Kulcher website, dedicated to the 50 Greatest Rock & Roll Albums Of All Time (in my humble yet largely correct opinion), the Pop Kulcher Blog is my attempt to keep things relatively current, time permitting.
		The Millennium were the brainchild of Curt Boettcher, one of the key masterminds of sunshine pop -- the painfully cheesy yet intermittently endearing genre of music characterized by soaring harmonies, sappy strings, hummable memories, and cheery lyrics full of rainbows, love and, well, sunshine.
		There's still plenty of sunshine pop -- in all its cloying glory -- and some straightforward pop; but the real standouts are the more ornate, psychedelic tracks, where Boettcher really worked his way around the studio.
	popkulcher.blogspot.com (10577 words)

	"The Best of the Sunshine Company" Liner Notes
		The Sunshine Company's very name summons the spirit of the mini-genre of 1960s pop-rock that, long after its heyday, was named sunshine pop.
		Like many of the Southern Californian pop harmony groups of the second half of the 1960s -- the Mamas and the Papas being the most famous example -- the Sunshine Company's roots were not in pop, but in folk.
		The Sunshine Company's version came out on their first LP, but in the meantime McEuen brought them another song to record vocals onto, "Happy." "We didn't think anything about it, really," says Manseau.
	www.richieunterberger.com /sunshine.html (1730 words)

	V/A - A Whole Lot Of Rainbow (Soft Pop Nuggets) :: Not Lame Recordings - power pop and melodic rock record label, music ...
		Soft Pop gems, long lost,, keep finding a way to get themselves re-discovered and here`s the latest comp, one of the better ones, from the last few years.
		Implicit with many sub-genres from yesteryear, Sunshine Pop/Soft Pop included, there`s an old adage that during the `60s anything seemed possible.
		Nevertheless, a critical reappraisal of these sophisticated sounds has provided a beautiful afterlife for sunshine pop.
	www.notlame.com /CDAWHOLELOT1.html (337 words)

	Come To The Sunshine gullbuy review
		Come To The Sunshine spotlights the softer, poppier side of 60s music with some well known and documented groups along side lesser known obscure acts.
		A really exciting pop masterpiece is The Other Voices Hung Up On Love which has a 5th Dimension / Tokens sound to it, really upbeat and chipper in a harmony pop kind of way.
		Those of us that love harmony pop will love this tune (which was taken from their It's a Happening World lp from 1967).
	www.gullbuy.com /buy/2004/5_25/cometothesunshine.cfm (1370 words)

	[UZINE] 03.01 [the sixties sunshine pop posse's dusty dictaphone issue] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Just chunks of information (interviews, reviews, lists of cool links, news and other entertaining, perfectly niche-marketed stuff) in your mailbox when you least expect it: the uzine frequency will be as irregular as the frequencies in the music we all love.
		Admittedly, the harmony singing often isn't as immaculate as that of the Beach Boys, the Association or the Mamas of the Papas, and there's a couple of tracks here which are just as much 'positivo pop' as they are fully fledged sunshine pop, but even so, this is an utterly delightful compilation.
		Best volume yet in the "Ripples" series, which has already focused on British 'beach pop' as well, a genre which the British were less good at than the kids from California.
	www.dma.be /p/ultra/uzine/0301.htm (4858 words)

	Spectropop Group Discussion Archives: #0377 - 25 Jan 2000
		Hi all, Jamie wrote: "We seem to have reached a general conclusion that at least some of the 'sunshine pop' artists were really just very good vocal groups who were riding a wave.
		I contended that many simply had the fortune to land a record deal, get superb vocal arrangements, and record what was at the time contemporary vocal pop.
		And this is sort of why I don't include the Lettermen in "soft sunshine pop" though certainly they're related.
	www.spectropop.com /archive/digest/m418.html (1544 words)

	eBay - sunshine pop, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		UNCLE BEN AND THE WILD RICE 45 SUNSHINE POP
		Sunshine Days: Pop Classics Of The '60s, Vol.
		Sunshine Pop DJ 45 - Midas Touch - Common People!
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=sunshine+pop&newu=1&krd=1 (436 words)

	Sunshine pop, Spector's wall of sound and the folk/psych sounds of the 60's and 70's - Bowlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sunshine pop, Spector's wall of sound and the folk/psych sounds of the 60's and 70's - Bowlie
		Sunshine pop, Spector's wall of sound and the folk/psych sounds of the 60's and 70's
		Sunshine pop/fuzzed up jangle, a fair bit of experimentation and some oddness.
	www.bowlie.com /forum/music-room/7227-sunshine-pop-spectors-wall-sound-and-folk-psych-sounds-60s-and-70s.html (1829 words)

	Amazon.com: Sunshine Days, Vol. 3: 60's Pop Classics: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beyond the commonplace hits are such lesser-heard ditties such as the aforementioned "Don't Say You Don't Remember", Strawberry Alarm Clock's other hit "Tomorrow" and Gary Puckett's "Over You", the plaintive pop gem that is often overlooked in favor of his first three bigger hits.
		Rounding out the piece are the Hondells' "Kissin' My Life Away", a failed attempt to outlive their surf/hot rod stigma and "Always You" from the "Sundowners", a studio group that, despite having substantial backing power, never shared in the success of the other bubblegum groups of the era.
		While not generous in the number of tracks, this is an appealing collection of lighter pop tunes from the 60's with enough distinction to stand a bit above the plethora of other 60's compilation CD's.
	www.amazon.com /Sunshine-Days-Vol-60s-Classics/dp/B000001510 (1125 words)

	This is Pop Culture: 2006-03-26
		This is Pop's complete list of book collections of your favorite Marvel Comics stories.
		This is Pop's complete photo guide to every Marvel Legends action figure released to date.
		Visit This is Pop's section dedicated to images of 1960s and 70s Marvel Merchandising products, including posters, buttons, rings, toys and more.
	www.thisispopculture.com /2006_03_26_blogthisispop_archive.html (2048 words)

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