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Dyke Parks’ visionary 1968 debut, Song Cycle, rose
phoenix-like from the ashes of his fabled Smile collaboration
with Brian Wilson. Parks’ breathtaking high-wire act fused
the pop genius of Phil Spector, Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway
vertigo and the orchestral flare of American composer Charles
Ives and made it wholly his own. By 1972, Discover America
had turned its kaleidoscopic gaze to the 1940’s martini-and-rhumba
world of Hemingway’s Caribbean sojourn, further validating
Parks’ idiosyncratic genius
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