Under The Influences, Volumes 1 - 3

by Charles Rice Goff III

Most of the Charles Rice Goff III solo cassette releases from the 1980's and 1990's contain a cover song or two. In 1994, however, Goff released two 30-minute cassettes containing only cover songs: volumes one and two of "Under The Influences." Goff put together volume three of "Under The Influences" in 1998. All of the pieces created for these tapes were composed on a 4-track tape recorder. Goff played all the instruments, sang all the vocals, and did all the recording/mixing himself. Being an experimental sound artist, Goff employed some very unorthodox methods to produce his cover songs. As one might expect, some of his experiments were more successful than others.

This archive contains fourteen of the songs produced for these first three volumes of Under The Influences. All of the pieces presented here have been cleaned up a bit with digital computer processing. Some of the pieces were remastered from the original 4-track tapes as well.


1) "I Won't Last A Day Without You"
by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols
made popular by The Carpenters

2) "Porpoise Song"
by Gerry Goffin and Carole King
made popular by The Monkees (opening for the movie "Head")

3) "Delilah"
by Les Reed and Barry Mason
made popular by Tom Jones

4) "Doublemint"
by ?
made popular by Wrigley Gum advertisements in the 1960's

5) "The Crystal Ship"
by Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore
made popular by The Doors

6) "Glass Onion"
by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
made popular by The Beatles

7) "Sixteen Tons"
by Merle Travis, based on a song by George S. Davis
made popular by Tennessee Ernie Ford

8) "Fallen Angel"
by Robert Fripp, John Wetton, and Richard Palmer-James
made popular by King Crimson

9) "My Cherie Amour"
by Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, and Sylvia Moy
made popular by Stevie Wonder

10) "The Air"
by Frank Zappa
made popular by The Mothers Of Invention

11) "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
by Hal David and Burt Bacharach
made popular by BJ Thomas (theme for the movie "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid")

12) "Family Affair"
by Sylvester Stewart (otherwise known as Sly Stone)
made popular by Sly And The Family Stone

13) "Love Is The Answer"
by Todd Rundgren
made popular by England Dan & John Ford Coley
and by Utopia

14) "Glass Onion"
(4-track remix of above track #6)

Jpeg images of the three cassette covers are included in this archive. Some of the pieces presented here appeared on an "Under The Influences" CD retrospective compilation, released by Taped Rugs Productions in 2001. Goff's "Cocktails Will Be Served" was subtitled "Under The Influences, Volume Four," and is archived in its entirety at:

http://www.archive.org/details/CocktailsWillBeServed


No rights to the original songs are claimed here.

Copyright 2000

By Taped Rugs Productions



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