Terry Melcher
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Sep 18, 2026
Phil WilliamsHOST
No, I don't keep her hostage.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Earlier I was talking about Terry Melcher.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Terry Melcher did a lot of production for the Birds.
Phil WilliamsHOST
He was Doris Day's son.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Beach boy Dennis Wilson introduced Charles Manson to Terry Melcher.
Phil WilliamsHOST
So, yeah, Manson was hoping to get a record deal.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Y'all knew that.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate rented the property.
Phil WilliamsHOST
They weren't really a band.
Phil WilliamsHOST
But one of the voices was their producer, Terry Melcher.
Phil WilliamsHOST
If you don't know who that is, that's Doris Day's son.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Hey, little cobra.
Phil WilliamsHOST
No, I don't keep her hostage.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Earlier I was talking about Terry Melcher.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Terry Melcher did a lot of production for the Birds.
Phil WilliamsHOST
He was Doris Day's son.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Beach boy Dennis Wilson introduced Charles Manson to Terry Melcher.
Phil WilliamsHOST
So, yeah, Manson was hoping to get a record deal.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Y'all knew that.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate rented the property.
Phil WilliamsHOST
They weren't really a band.
Phil WilliamsHOST
but one of the voices was their producer, Terry Melcher.
Phil WilliamsHOST
If you don't know who that is, that's Doris Day's son.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Hey, little cobra.
Phil GreenHOST
Months before Tate and Polanski moved to Cello Drive, which is where they lived in LA, the house had been occupied by record producer...
Phil GreenHOST
Terry Melcher.
Phil GreenHOST
Melcher had famously rejected Charles Manson's ambitions to become a rock musician.
Phil GreenHOST
Manson visited the property several times while Melcher lived there.
Jake BrennanHOST
All lovers and no fighters.
Jake BrennanHOST
Ever since crazy Charlie Manson made it witchy up on Cielo Drive, turned the place into a horror show stained with the blood of a pregnant Sharon Tate and her unborn baby, a place which was previously the home of one Terry Melcher, a man who had produced Crosby's first two albums with The Byrds.
Jake BrennanHOST
Well, guilt by association and all that.
Jake BrennanHOST
It was enough to make the coolest cat in the room a little paranoid.
EricHOST
Like, the fact that, like, Charles Manson could just walk up to, like, he had hung out at the Cielo mansion.
EricHOST
Like, he, he had been there, you know? Terry Melcher, they all knew each other.
EricHOST
Like, they, they got to, like, these, these, um, these parts of society had, had all merged together into this one, and it wa- it was really something special in a way that i- it seems anathema to our culture now.
EricHOST
[laughs]
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Josh LewisHOST
Yeah.
CarlHOST
Yeah.
EricHOST
Which is what the Manson Family did with The Beach Boys and Terry Melcher-
CarlHOST
Anyone that said they'd let him in
Zeth LundyHOST
Lots of people going through that house around that time.
Zeth LundyHOST
Lots of different people living there, including the music producer Terry Melcher.
Zeth LundyHOST
which leads into one of these theories about why Manson went to that house in the first place.
Zeth LundyHOST
It was because he thought Terry Melcher was there because Terry Melcher had ghosted him for his budding music career there.
Steve LevineHOST
or...
Steve LevineHOST
Well, that was actually Terry Melcher because Terry Melcher co-wrote that song.
Steve LevineHOST
So for me to be in the studio with Terry Melcher, another great legend, for those that don't know, Terry Melcher produced all the Byrds records and at that time was telling us all these great stories of how he learnt to become a lawyer so he could represent his mother, Doris Day, in suing the networks for residuals, which is just the most...
Steve LevineHOST
And then telling me incredible stories about...
Steve LevineHOST
The Manson Affair.
Steve LevineHOST
So you know the sound? Yeah, sure.
Steve LevineHOST
I know the sound.
Steve LevineHOST
Did Terry Melcher write it with Mike Love? Yes, together.
Jerii AquinoHOST
Yeah.
Ben KisselHOST
So then on August 9th, 1969, Manson's followers murdered five people at the Los Angeles home previously rented by Terry Melcher.
Ben KisselHOST
Actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, the Folger gal was killed.
Jerii AquinoHOST
No.
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