Soufflé Pop was coined during a radio interview on The Time Machine, a daily broadcast on the island of Maui, between host Michael McCartney and singer-songwriter Michael Oliver. In discussing the musical influences and songwriting craft behind the 2011 album "Yin & Yanxiety" by Michael Oliver & The Sacred Band, Oliver mentioned the word soufflé when describing putting a song together. This resulted in McCartney suggesting to create yet another musical niche genre called "Soufflé Pop".


Soufflé Pop would bring a number of influences to the musical table including; Baroque Pop (The Left Banke, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Sagittarius, The Bee Gees [late sixties/early seventies]), MOR Pop (Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Lee Hazelwood, Harry Nilsson, The Carpenters), Power Pop (Raspberries, Badfinger, The Knack, Mike Viola & Candy Butchers), Singer-Songwriter (Laura Nyro, Carole King, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Aimee Mann, Rachael Yamagata, Billy Joel, Rupert Holmes), Bubblegum (Archies, Josie & The Pussycats, Bay City Rollers, Tommy Roe, The Lemon Pipers), Rockabilly (Robert Gordon, Stray Cats, Marshall Crenshaw), Sunshine Pop (The Cowsills, The Association, Small Circle of Friends, Curt Boettcher, Millennium), Classic Sixties & Seventies Pop, "The Three B's" that Richard Carpenter cited as major influences (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach) and overall melodic rock and pop that can be a near whisper of raw emotion to a full blown orchestral arrangement or simply the loudest joyful jangle guitar and power chords that deliver the musical goods (The Who, The Kinks). Beatles inspired bands who continued the eclectic sounds of the Fab Four into their own stamp after the Beatles went their separate ways (Electric Light Orchestra, Klaatu, Cheap Trick, Pilot, Supertramp).




Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Graham Shaw and the Sincere Serenaders (1980)


Founding member of The Stone Poneys and Bryndle, guitarist Kenny Edwards produced this song in Los Angeles at Capitol Records inside Record One studios for Graham Shaw and the Sincere Serenaders. The lead guitarist from the Sincere Serenaders was Daniel Joseph Casavant. Both the album and this single were released in the spring of 1980 and produced several charted radio hit songs on Canadian radio with the biggest one being the 1980 summer classic "Can I Come Near" as well as the singles "Roll All Night", "French Lady", "Just to See You" and "Northern Boy". All these singles were Top 10 and Top 15 in Canada with some regional radio action in America including the AM/FM dial in Hawaii. Worth a listen as well are the band's songs "Jolene" and "I Can't Say No To You" from their second album "Good Manners In The 1980s" also produced by Kenny Edwards. Graham Shaw was awarded a Juno in 1980 as "Most Promising Male Vocalist". He composed this musical treasure. Press play and enjoy "Can I Come Near".






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