Jim Dickson

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Jim Dickson (born January 17, 1931 in Los Angeles , California , † April 19, 2011 in Costa Mesa , California) was an American music producer , publisher and manager who, through his collaboration with the folk rock band The Byrds and later the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Life

Dickson was the second child of James and Ruth Ferne Mullinix Dixon. His father worked as a car designer and developer of diesel engines for the US Navy and for private sailing ships. His mother had been an executive at the finance company Witter & Co. since 1935. Jim left school to join the US Army in 1946 with the consent of his parents. There he was employed as a military policeman in Japan. He then traveled several times through the United States until he met the comedian Lord Buckley , whose first albums he produced in the 1950s.

In the following years he worked as a sound technician and camera assistant in the film industry and planned a career as a photographer. At the same time his interest in music, especially jazz, grew and he took on numerous jazz musicians as well as artists such as The Dillards and Odetta at Club Renaissance in Los Angeles. Here Jac Holzman became aware of him, who got him a job at Elektra Records.

Dickson, however, envisioned an independent career in the music industry and in 1963 he founded the publishing company Tickson Music with Eddie Tickner , the managing director of Club Renaissance. The first song the publishers released was Get Together by Dino Valenti . Tickner and Dickson also frequented the Troubadour Folk Club in Los Angeles and had access to the World Pacific Music Studios, where they were allowed to record with the Troubadour folk artists during the night. Among them was the young singer and guitarist David Crosby . The demo recordings they made with him were mainly cover versions of singers like Ray Charles , Hoyt Axton and Valenti, but also the early original composition Everybody's Been Burned , in which Crosby expresses dissatisfaction with his life situation at the time and that of the Byrds Released in 1967 on the album Younger Than Yesterday .

In the Troubadour Club's bar called The Folk Den, Crosby met singers / guitarists Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn , and Dickson was so convinced of the trio's song material and harmony vocals that he gave them his house as accommodation and unlimited recording time in the music studio Provided. Together with Chris Hillman on bass guitar and Michael Clarke on drums, the folk rock band The Byrds emerged, which achieved world fame in 1965 with the single Mr. Tambourine Man and Jim Dickson as their manager. Dickson had suggested Bob Dylan's song to the group for inclusion.

The Byrds' collaboration with Dickson lasted until 1967, when the manager became increasingly politically active in the CAFF (Community Action For Facts And Freedom) committee, which mobilized against state reprisals against young protesters. The Byrds switched to Larry Spector , the manager of the US film actor Peter Fonda , but remained on friendly terms with Dickson.

From 1967 to 1973 he produced LPs for Gene Clark, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons . In 1970 he helped producer Terry Melcher with the live recordings of the Byrds' album Untitled . In 1982 he renewed his collaboration with Chris Hillman on his album Morning Sky .

Dickson died at the age of 80 on April 19, 2011 in Cosa Mesa, California, USA.

Productions

  • Hipsters, Flipsters & Finger Poppin 'Daddies (Lord Buckley, 1955)
  • Knock Me Your Lobes (Lord Buckley, 1955)
  • Euphoria, Vol.1 (Lord Buckley, 1955)
  • Euphoria, Vol.2 (Lord Buckley, 1956)
  • Way Out Humor Of Lord Buckley (1959)
  • Best Of Lord Buckley (1963)
  • The Hillmen (1963)
  • 12 String Guitar (The Folkswingers, 1963)
  • The Modern Folk Quartet (1963)
  • Pickin 'And Fiddlin' (The Dillards, 1963)
  • Backporch Bluegrass (The Dillards, 1963)
  • Paths Of Victory (Hamilton Camp, 1964)
  • Live!!! Almost !!! (The Dillards, 1964)
  • Preflyte (The Byrds, 1964)
  • Eight Miles High / Why (The Byrds, 1965)
  • Happens (David Hemmings, 1967)
  • Sounds Of Goodbye (The Gosdin Brothers, 1968)
  • Untitled (The Byrds, 1970)
  • Burrito Deluxe (The Flying Burrito Brothers, 1970)
  • Roadmaster (Gene Clark, 1970-1971)
  • The Flying Burrito Brothers (1971)
  • Last Of The Red Hot Burritos (The Flying Burrito Brothers, 1972)
  • A Traitor In Our Midst (Country Gazette, 1972)
  • Don't Give Up Your Day Job (Country Gazette, 1973)
  • Sleepless Nights (Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, 1974)
  • From The Beginning (Country Gazette, 1979)
  • Silver Meteor (with Clarence White, 1980)
  • Morning Sky (Chris Hillman, 1982)
  • In The Beginning (The Byrds, 1988)
  • Preflyte Sessions (The Byrds, 2002)
  • Poet With Jazz - 1958 (David Meltzer, 2005)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Los Angeles Times

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dickson, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dickson, James Thomas Buchanan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer, publisher, and manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2011
Place of death Costa Mesa , California