Sunset Strip

Well, you mentioned earlier about this manager helping you get on these TV shows.

And I just want to mention some of these because you guys, well, not only did you famously appear in and then yourself write the theme to a title song to write on Sunset Strip, but you also were in the 1964 movie Get Yourself a College Girl that starred Nancy Sinatra and Marianne Mobley.

You guys were actually on the Munsters and the Bing Crosby show.

Right, right.

Well,

hey, we're going to take a listen to another Stan Dell song in a moment.

It's the tune, Right on the Sunset Strip, served as a title song to the 1967 exploitation movie that was shot and in theaters within just a couple of months of the LA Sunset Strip curfew riots.

You are listed as a song right along with the then bass player, John Fleck.

I'll never forget it.

We were on Sunset Strip maybe in Hollywood.

Maybe he had done the Johnny Carson show.

I don't remember.

He decided to go out on a multi-day bender because he was so excited.

That bender led Healy to the Trocadero nightclub on Sunset Strip on the night of December 19th, 1937, where he was said to be heavily intoxicated by the end of the night.

Reports here get murky, but they more or less lead to the same place.

A few days later, on December 21st, 1937, Ted Healy was dead.

To live in Los Angeles is to accept, more than in most places, that no landscape lives forever.

But what about the landscape of rock and roll? Developed as a mountain retreat in the early 1900s, Laurel Canyon, which lies between the San Fernando Valley and the Sunset Strip, filled during the 1920s and 30s with entertainers as Hollywood studios took hold.

When Las Vegas siphoned upscale nightlife from Los Angeles in the 1950s and early 1960s, jazz performers and dance clubs filled Sunset, and beatniks moved in.

Folk singers and rock bands followed in the mid-1960s, drawn to the cheap housing.

In three or four minutes you could be on the Sunset Strip, but it was like living in the country, recalled Mr. Hillman of the Birds.

His apartment was barely one bedroom, he said, but at night you could see that whole city light up.

His bandmates, Roger McGuinn and Mr. Crosby, settled there, too.

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