Evening Lee and all fellow Sklarites!

@m1nn1s

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Evening Jim 🖕🌟🙏🧙🏼‍♂️⚡✨💖🐾🐾🐾☮️😍🧙🏼‍♂️

@jstnxprsn

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Good evening, my friend.

@lelandsklar6363

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Hi Jim!

@SoundsFair--M-and-J

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👋👋

Amazing, gorgeous, funky arrangement of a true classic! This was a blast! Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍

@m1nn1s

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Hi Tom, ☮️ 💖 hope all is well with you and yours 💖 ☮️🧙🏼‍♂️

Its Sunday & I'm hoping the trip to Santa Ynez was great & the fundraiser a big success. ~My best to you, Maureen, & the doggies. Cheers from Vancouver (BC).

"Pretzel Logic" and "Katy Lied" ~ two of my favorite albums! ❤❤

@m1nn1s

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New generations are catching on to Becker & Fagan.. being supported ably by some of the world's best rock/jazz swing players on the planet 🌏... Carlton, Dias, Graydon, Becker.... Chuck Rainey, Jeff Porcaro...Steve Gadd.. Michael Mcdonald.. Jon Herington,.. Michael Leonhart, (Katherine Leonhart singers), Cornelius Bumphus 🎷..

Hello Lee and Maureen, and the pups ... Wow Scottie Haskell what a great talent ....

Thanks for the cool music. Enjoy your journey with Denny. Have fun! 🤚pick a finger

Wow!! Great history… 😊 and what a lovely surprise…Wishing everyone a lovely day!! 🌹🪷🌹🪷🥰❤️🖕🖕🖕🖕👍🌀🎶

I played “Ode to Billy Joe” a few times in 2012 with a couple of friends. I only wish it came out remotely this good.

I just got through with my much anticipated viewing of "The Immediate Family" on Hulu. Obviously, I knew a great deal of it from spending 5 or 10 minutes a day with Mr. Sklar, but I was again reminded as to just how large an influence these men had on my own musical development. The songs I grew up loving, the songs that taught me how to play, the tunes that taught me how to put a song together... it's amazing how many of them have these guys' DNA woven through. Thank you.

I heard today on the radio: If You Leave Me Now…and those violin swells that swirl up during the choruses are real heartstring tuggers. Isn’t it funny that all these years I (of course) had no idea who did the work on those string parts…and just by clicking on this tonight…I now know. It’s a pretty song and Pete sings it perfectly!

Great music history/biography lesson today - thank you

great version by the author -super nice Lee! Also great to hear Maureen is doing a bit better.

Wow. Thanks for all the info about the Haskells!

This arrangement has all the spookiness and the vocals are impeccable!!!Thank You As Always!

Good evening, Leland..boy is a much different spin on Ode to Billie Joe..! You are blessed , very fortunate to have worked with all these people.. incredible ! Her father was working into his 80's..my word what a wonderful career. Greatly appreciate this post.Stay safe be safe Leland 🙏 Sklar Peace 🙏 ✌️ ✌️ ☮️ ..God tidings to Maureen and the Backyard boys 👦 😎 !!!!!

Thanks for Scottie!!!!!

Cool Leland 😎 Love it! Thanks More 💐 for Maureen! 🐶 🐶 🐶 Happy Saturday!

Good early morning, Lee! 😜❤ I'm up early for a run this morning with my daughter. It's called, The Surf Drive Mile, because it overlooks Martha's Vineyard from my town of Falmouth on Surf Drive. 🏄‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 😃 Such a great tune here, thank you! 🎵 🎶 🥰 Have a safe trip with Denny up to Santa Ynez. I aways think of Croz when I hear Santa Ynez. ✌️ ☮️ 🎵 Sending my love to Maureen and the pups! ❤🤗🐶🐶🐶

@KittyCarlile-490

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Hi Sue I too think of Croz when I hear Santa Ynez. He is one person so close to death many times but always rebounded. I was actually surprised when he did die

@KittyCarlile-490

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Bark out to Domino

@suecorrigan

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@KittyCarlile-490 Hello, my friend! Ugh, I know such a loss that so many of us feel! Sending hugs your way! 🥰💕🤗🤗🤗

I often play the Bobbie Gentry version. A lot of tube reactors play it. I like this one too.👍

Good morning Lee and all. It is 05.27 in the UK.🖐️

@m1nn1s

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Hi, Ann ☮️🧙🏼‍♂️

Man oh man, Scottie’s spin on that tune laid some serious transient parenthesis on me. Musically induced piloerection ensued.

Love learning about both Haskells! Wow…they’re both some super talented, accomplished folks! I’m crazy about this performance! Leland, happy to hear that you’re doing another fundraiser…..another reason to admire the great Sklar.

Spectacular! Incredible arrangement. All the instrumental parts sound great and, Scottie’s vocal is so expressive. The sound and production is exquisite.

👍👍. Perfect complement to the WB video: more insight into how the business works/worked. There's a lot more info around now with the internet, but your stories are even more informative. As for family business, I can't say that I could do my father proud by fixing the transmission on a semi, but I believe that I still know how to make a dollar squeal (in pain from being squeezed so hard). Late into my adulthood it dawned on me that this song sounded a lot like it might be an infanticide song (it's rare that you find singular subgenres); was wondering if Mark Brooks or anybody had any 411 on statements that had been made about content.

Lee love it 🎸🎶🎙️👑👏👏

These bios you read are literally breathtaking. Some of the greatest music if all time. Wow!

Have a great gig!

I remember this on the AM radio when it came out.

Scottie Haskell at the movies (IMDB) Scottie Haskell is known for Watchmen (2009), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) and Ready Player One (2018). She has been married to Colin Michael Mitchell since 22 October 2016.

Hey there, Lee and all! Good to see you after so many days’ absence. ✌️

@KittyCarlile-490

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☮️ back at ya, Winston

@m1nn1s

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Hey, Winston 💖 🤗

@Winston01

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@@m1nn1sHey Andy!

Fantastic, thank you! 💕 ✨️

@m1nn1s

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Hey, Kate☮️🤗🧙🏼‍♂️

Cool song. Happy trails, happy sales.❤❤🙏

Hay Leland glad things are going well Great song mary lue S D good listin Haskell great person Scottie too ode to billy jo great song out as alwaye Cincy

As a lifelong east Los Angeles guitarist, I used to play with the late ever kindness Jamaican bassist Phil Chen in a fusion Caribbean band called Sapadilla at Wesley Snipes parties at his San Ynez ranch. He borrowed carnival rides from near by Michael Jackson.

@lelandsklar6363

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Miss Phil. Such a great guy and musician.

Nice article in Forbes

This is such a great track

thank you lee , have a great time !

Awesome Scottie! My dad, Don Palmer, worked with Jimmy Haskell, and Gene Page, amongst many other greats! A great era for studio musicians. Keep it comin'!

Happy Birthday to your late father! RIP

Wow! Great arrangement!

Scottie Haskell is certainly a great vocalist and her Father’s string arrangement exacerbates this sad yet quirky story.

Houston had some wicked weather. Four dead so far. Sad. May they rest in peace. I’ve been extremely lucky.

Good stuff......Great to see you.....................Ralph Onofrio

Thanks again for your informative and enjoyable history lesson. I note a tiny resemblance to Rickie Lee Jones in this version, which sounds as original as the original version in an original sort of way. P.S. my book and DVD have arrived, with many thanks, and you can stop stumping them now.

❤️ love you heaps

Wishing you a safe trip:-)😊

Hey Lee, caught you w Lyle on Austin City Limits tonight on PBS here in CA...WOW do you stand out w that beard...LOVE IT. Great snare drum tone on the Billy Joe tune

@sambharr

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Me too! (in Indiana)

Thank you

What Lee said: A well known and sought after veteran session singer in the L.A. area, Scottie has sung on countless film scores, television shows including the Oscars, the Grammys, commercials and records. Her eclectic career has had her singing with the likes of composers such as John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Alan Sylvestri and Danny Elfman. Artists she’s worked with either in the studio and/or on stage touring include Barbra Streisand, David Byrne, Michael Buble, Michael Jackson and Weird Al Yankovic just to name a few. While continuing her session career, she is now embarking on a whole new musical adventure with her just released debut solo album, “Stories To Tell”. The material she writes engages the listener to take a journey from start to finish. Written and produced exquisitely with catchy, memorable melodies and inviting rhythms that’ll make you dance, as well as some haunting and moody vibes you’ll just want to chill out to. There is nothing else out there on the airwaves that sounds like this record. Her first single release “Ode To Billie Joe” was originally written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry in 1968 and made famous by the iconic string arrangement of Scottie’s father Jimmie Haskell, who garnered a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement. Scottie does a completely different version of this award winning song and Jimmie added one of his very last string arrangements to this version never heard before now. In addition are two other never before heard string arrangements from the renowned music composer, arranger and conductor Jimmie Haskell. Those arrangements show up on two of her eight originals, “Kiss Me” and “Where Are My Angels”. With eleven tracks total “Stories To Tell” is quite the journey. So enjoy the ride. Come and join the party!

@KittyCarlile-490

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Hi Mark thanks for the info

@SoundsFair--M-and-J

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👍👍

@m1nn1s

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Thanks Mark, great tribute.. 💖☮️🧙🏼‍♂️

@kateconway-hickman5945

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Thank 😊 you, Mark!

@splashesin8

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❤

Nice to see you looking not so tired....these guys sound amazing.....have fun tomorrow and safe travel

Thanks Lee, good afternoon 🖐🏻

This was great. Glad Maureen is getting better. Cheers, Leland! 🙏✌️

@m1nn1s

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Hi Dwayne.. ☮️ Canada 🇨🇦

@dwaynewladyka577

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@@m1nn1s Hello! 👋✌️

My daddy met Jimmie Haskell at the Jose Feliciano concert back in 2004, he conducted the Knoxville Symphony and daddy squeezed in mentioning to Jimmie all the records he had played on like Autoamerican the Denny Doherty album (& daddy sat on the floor like Denny did) a Bobby Goldsboro album and told him the strings on one song were just like Ode To Billie Jo (daddy had on a Cecilo & Kapono shirt mimicking conducting a orchestra, maybe he was brining back a memory of the "two arranger songs" Jimmie did for Joe Porter for Bobby Darin, Thelma Houston and Diahanne Carroll) and mimicked the posing of Jim Hendricks and Ginger Greco LP and he had the Larry Weiss record you played on and it was even autographed to a Jim and Barbara by Larry maybe to Mr. & Mrs. Haskell ("& thank goodness some black and blue marks will never fade away") and my late aunt Marilyn worked in Hollywood for a commissary and met a whole lot of stars and hung out w/ Redd Foxx Oh, and Pearlman was the name of one of Daddy's relatives on his paternal grandparents' side... --

Good evening

Enjoy your trip to Santa Ynez, Leland

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

@m1nn1s

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Evening Alan.. 🥁 💖

Hello gtcu looking good Leeland 😮

Morning Leland👍👍👍

@m1nn1s

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Afternoon KJ-BB 🧙🏼‍♂️ ☮️ 💖

@lelandsklar6363

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Hey 👋🏻

Hi Leland, someday would you speak about bassist Max Bennett? He was from Oskaloosa, Iowa where I reside. We did a celebration of Max's life a few years before he passed and I was blessed to be able to play along side as he sat in with our House Jazz Combo. Of course we played, Fever! :) He used to call me and tell me stories about the business. He and Hal Blaine were good friends. I know he was part of the wrecking crew for a time. His discography is unbelievable. Thanks!

Jimmy was one of the guys my father Mort Lindsey respected.....even though Dad used to say "Elvis was the antichrist" LOL.

@lelandsklar6363

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Haha!

It has the a similar vibe to Sheryl Crow's Everyday is a winding road.

Hello leeland 😮

9 days to go to "double sevens"! An early happy birthday salute to you, Leland! 1:18 The great Jimmie Haskell! Jimmie was commisioned by Capitol records to add strings to Bobbie Gentry's Grammy Award-winning song, "Ode To Billy Joe". In 1977, I played drums for Bobbie in her production shows at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Bobbie sang "Ode To Billy Joe" in the show and the string secton of the orchestra played Jimmie's same arrangement that he wrote 10 years earlier for the original recording. Ya' know, Leland, Bobbie's song, "Ode To Billy Joe" always had a kind of surreal meaning for me...June 3rd was my Dad's birthday. "Ode To Billy Joe" was released on July 10, the date my Mom passed away. In 1967 as a graduating senior in high school, my classmates predicted that I'd be playing in Las Vegas in 10 yeers. In 1977 I was hired by Bobbie Gentry to play drums in her production shows in Vegas. Hey! Great version of "Ode" by Scottie! Thank you.

@randyschiffer3265

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What ever became of Bobbie Gentry?

Evening Leland 💖 🧙🏼‍♂️ 🖕 ✨ 🌟 💖 Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ,yourself ..✨ and the boys 💖 🐾 🐾🐾 💖 ☮️

@carolcorrigan3130

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Hi, Andy. How's things across the pond? Leland is like our daily vitamin. He is so humble about all he's done. Love mama, Carol.❤❤❤❤

@carolcorrigan3130

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I don't want you to be sad. Sue and I love you--big hugs for you.❤❤❤❤❤

@m1nn1s

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​​@@carolcorrigan3130Thanks mama Carol, ☮️ you all always cheer me up again! 💖🤗💖🧙🏼‍♂️☮️

Thanks Lee. Enjoy your time with Steve Postell, Denny and have a great show.

Ok Tiny Tim No 1

I did remember the session you also did with Eddie Haskell....but that was when TV had no color yet. jk ":^)

Sweeeeeeeeeet!!!!

Very Cheryl Crowish!!!!!!

She sounds like Sheryl Crow

Enjoy the day for charity. Travel safely, lots of nuts on the road.

@jesusislukeskywalker4294

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it’s the new normal 🙈

You are as cool in "real life" as you are on stage!

I got a Sheryl Crow vibe from Scottie’s version, there. Nice!

Love that song Nature Boy.

😎👍👍 😎✌👍❤🖖 Love Brother

Here in Houston TX just got my power back on 10 minutes ago. 100 mph winds caused some major damage. I've never seen anything like it.

@artemisXsidecross

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Blocked comments suck ⚠

@randyschiffer3265

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@@artemisXsidecross I got your email. Thanks for the article.

@SoundsFair--M-and-J

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That's 100 mph tornadic or straight? Sometimes they will give wind speeds that worry them on the east coast and I laugh because we see it out here all the time. That is not the case with what you are describing.

@artemisXsidecross

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@@SoundsFair--M-and-J “Houston, Texas, saw 100 mile per hour winds (161 km/h) from a straight-ahead wind storm known as a derecho on Thursday which left five dead and one million customers without power as of late that night, mostly in Harris County, where the city proper is located and is home to more than 4.7 million people.”

@SoundsFair--M-and-J

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@@artemisXsidecross Extremely frightening.

❤🎶🎶🎶🎶

Evening my you tube friend

nice

Hey Lee, how you doing? Glad Maureen is doing better and things are going well! Cheers!!

@user-mv5bu2kk8b

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Thanks for the healing power s

❤

Lee, are those old Otari recorders in United Western there for show or are they available to purchase?

❤😊

Lee, what is the address to get your book.. I wrote it down and lost it like most things I write down. Also , is it possible to get a sign a copy.

@lelandsklar6363

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Lelandsklarsbeard.com

Truck update, Leland? Frame issues?

EDDIES BROTHER ❓❓❓

@lelandsklar6363

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In a way!

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

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@@lelandsklar6363 L.O.L. 😂🤣😂

💜👩💜😊