Terry Melcher
American record producer and singerWikipedia
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Nov 9, 2026
Sid GriffinGUEST
I had the privilege for the aforementioned Nick Stewart to go in the A&M vaults in, it was, I think, September 1995 and look for everything.
Sid GriffinGUEST
And the tapes that Graham made with Melcher in 71 were, were taken out of the vault.
Sid GriffinGUEST
There was like the old index card, Dewey Decimal System at libraries.
Sid GriffinGUEST
That's what A&M had back then.
Sid GriffinGUEST
It hadn't gone digital yet.
Sid GriffinGUEST
And I found where they should be, but someone had taken them home.
Sid GriffinGUEST
And apparently Melcher had taken them home.
Sid GriffinGUEST
I don't know.
ViliHOST
And so after associating with Manson and the family, Dennis Wilson allows Manson and roughly most of the women from the family to move into his mansion where they got up to all sorts of shenanigans, we could say.
ViliHOST
manson pretty much telling the woman to make themselves available to wilson and his friends now charles manson co-writes a song with the beach boys called never learn not to love which is released in 1968 however manson is not credited now through dennis wilson manson meets terry melcher a record producer and manson starts to lobby terry melcher for a record contract manson was a big He really saw himself as a musician.
ViliHOST
He wanted to make it in the music business, but Terry March had this record producer.
ViliHOST
Manson is trying to lobby this record producer, but he eventually becomes unsuccessful.
BradHOST
I thought there was a Beach Boys connection.
BradHOST
The other one is Terry Melcher.
BradHOST
Terry and Dennis Wilson.
BradHOST
Terry was a producer.
BradHOST
I thought there was a Beach Boys connection.
BradHOST
The other one is Terry Melcher.
BradHOST
Terry and Dennis Wilson.
BradHOST
Terry was a producer.
Jon NadeauHOST
Yeah, I can absolutely chime on this.
Jon NadeauHOST
Did they know that Terry Melcher lived at the house? Or did they know that Sharon Tate lived at the house? Had they been there? I mean, this has been investigated.
Jon NadeauHOST
I've investigated this.
Jon NadeauHOST
I feel like I've come to a pretty good answer.
Jon NadeauHOST
Manson knew Terry Melcher through Dennis Wilson.
Jon NadeauHOST
Right.
Jon NadeauHOST
There are a lot.
Jon NadeauHOST
They question Cappy.
J.J. VanceHOST
Right.
J.J. VanceHOST
Terry Melcher.
J.J. VanceHOST
Well, and Al Gore's
Todd the WizardGUEST
wife was given the money.
LorraineHOST
Not that anyone deserved to be murdered in such a brutal way, but it wasn't even them, like Sharon Tate and, you know, Abigail Fulcher and all those ones that he was going for.
LorraineHOST
It was because he thought that... was it Terry Melcher was in the place
AmelieHOST
wasn't it I don't even think he knew that Terry Melcher still lived there I think he just picked that house because he
LorraineHOST
used to live there so he didn't
AmelieHOST
care who the victims were he just because he had a you know he had a fucking issue with that Terry Melcher he decided that he wanted to kill whoever was now living in that house whether it was him or whoever moved in after And you're like, I just...
AmelieHOST
You know, I mean, I must...
AmelieHOST
You've got to wonder what Melcher thought after that, you know, to...
Jeff ColeHOST
If these guys just got record deals early on, none of this may have happened.
Jeff ColeHOST
You know, Charlie Manson was about to get a record deal via the Beach Boys and Terry Melcher.
Southside SteveHOST
Well, I knew he knew people.
Jeff ColeHOST
Yeah, he was hanging out with Dennis Wilson, but he freaked everyone out.
Jeff ColeHOST
But they were going to make a record together with Terry Melcher, their producer.
Jeff ColeHOST
So he was close.
Jeff ColeHOST
He was close.
Andras JonesGUEST
Speaking of which, there's another piece of historical context that informs the way I watch the film now a little bit, in that they went to start shooting in Oregon in July of 69, and while they were shooting, the Manson murders happened, and Candace Bergen was...
Andras JonesGUEST
Was girlfriend was Terry Melcher's girlfriend and she lived at that house.
Andras JonesGUEST
So there, the, the trauma of that event was very, it was a, it was a cultural trauma.
Andras JonesGUEST
It was a cultural shock, but.
Uncle CarnageHOST
He and some of the family moved into Wilson's house for a time.
Uncle CarnageHOST
Wilson introduced him to record producer Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day.
Uncle CarnageHOST
Manson auditioned for Melcher.
Uncle CarnageHOST
Melcher passed.
Uncle CarnageHOST
Heinemann's murder was a rehearsal, a real performance was yet to come.
Uncle CarnageHOST
On August 8th, 1969, Manson summoned four members of the family, Charles Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Kreningle, and Linda Kasabian.
Uncle CarnageHOST
He told them to go to 10050 Cee Lo Drive, the house that had been rented by Terry Melcher, the producer who had rejected Manson's music.
Uncle CarnageHOST
Melcher had moved out.
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