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    The California sound is a popular music aesthetic that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the early 1960s...
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  • It is recorded in the key of C-sharp minor. "California Dreamin'" became a signpost of the California sound, heralding the arrival of the nascent counterculture...
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    The Beach Boys (category California Sound)
    singles that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, dubbed the "California sound". They were one of the few American...
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  • Sound City Studios is a recording studio in Los Angeles, California, known as one of the most successful in popular music. The complex opened in 1969...
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  • "California Girls" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). Written by Brian Wilson...
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  • California Sounds is the second solo album by Israeli singer-songwriter Yotam Ben Horin, best known as frontman of Israeli punk rock band Useless ID....
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    Bakersfield Californian. March 30, 2016. Archived from the original on July 22, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018. Will, George F. (December 9, 2002). "The Sound of...
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  • Surf music (category Music of California)
    music trend. It is sometimes referred to interchangeably with the "California sound". During the later stages of the surf music craze, many of its groups...
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    designated symbols of the state of California are found in sections 420–429.8 of the California Codes. List of California-related topics Lists of United States...
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  • Terry Melcher (category California Sound)
    record producer who was instrumental in shaping the mid-to-late 1960s California Sound and folk rock movements. His best-known contributions were producing...
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  • in Lucas Valley, near Nicasio, California. Skywalker Sound was founded as Sprocket Systems in San Anselmo, California. While located in San Anselmo, Sprocket...
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    The San Francisco sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated...
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  • Alternative Songs chart. California received mixed reviews from music critics, with some praising the band's return to their classic sound and others criticizing...
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  • or traditional-sounding music and use of acoustic rather than electric guitars), including California-based The Limeliters. California venues like the...
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    The California Republic (Spanish: República de California), or Bear Flag Republic, was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in...
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    Jan and Dean (category California Sound)
    (born March 10, 1940). In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized by the Beach Boys. Among their...
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  • to California, and even today most California English still exhibits a General or Western American accent. A distinctive chain shift of vowel sounds, the...
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    headquartered in the state. California is also the birthplace of several international music genres, including the Bakersfield sound, Bay Area thrash metal...
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  • The Bakersfield sound is a sub-genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. Bakersfield is defined...
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  • Sunshine pop (category California Sound)
    help. Sunshine pop originated in California in the mid to late-1960s, beginning as an outgrowth of the California Sound and folk rock movements. Rooted...
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    1972) is an American sound editor and voice actor. He is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. He also provides the...
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  • and performed by Prince. Prince started recording in September 1977 at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he had previously made a demo. Friend...
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    Sunset Sound Recorders is a recording studio in Hollywood, California, United States, located at 6650 Sunset Boulevard. The Sunset Sound Recorders complex...
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    Brian Wilson (category Guitarists from California)
    important figure to many music genres and movements, including the California sound, art pop, psychedelia, chamber pop, progressive music, punk, outsider...
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  • Lead single, "Surfin'", was later credited with creating the genre of California Sound, a music aesthetic primarily revolving around surfing, hot rod culture...
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  • Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for...
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    OVO Sound (also known simply as OVO) is a Canadian independent record label, founded in 2012 by rapper Drake, producer 40, and manager Oliver El-Khatib...
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    Sound (AV-11/AVM-1) was originally built as a Currituck-class seaplane tender by Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California...
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  • The Rip Chords (category California Sound)
    the Melcher-Johnston sound predominated. Johnston and Melcher's experience and vocals were a major factor in the California Sound of the Rip Chords' music...
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    language understanding, sound recognition and search technologies. Its featured products include a voice AI developer platform, SoundHound Chat AI, a voice-enabled...
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