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He was a good friend. It was great seeing your email. God bless. Chuck
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Yeah, I think that when a person samples your song, that says to me that that particular song had some sort of an
influence on them; whatever it was, and they admired your song enough.
See, most people who have sampled my songs or who have even re-recorded one of my songs are songwriters themselves. There are millions of songs, so for them to pick one of my songs to sing …. Hey, man, I love you!
P. F. Sloan's rock classics include "Eve of Destruction," the 1965 Billboard #1 hit for Barry McGuire; "Secret Agent Man" 1966, Johnny Rivers, and Peter Noone's Hermans Hermits' hit "She's A Must to Avoid, as well as memorable chart classics by the Turtles, Mamas & Papas, Jan & Dean and the Grass Roots. Sloane has been out of the mainstream for the past twenty years and the songwriter Jimmy Webb wrote and released a bittersweet composition "P. F. Sloan," which seems to be about the costs and disappointments of being a creative musician, recorded by The Association and Jennifer Warnes in the early 1970's.
P. F. Sloan (Philip Gary Schlein, September 18, 1945) was born in New York, and moved with his family to Los Angeles, and started in the music business early, landing a contract with Aladdin Records when he was 12 years old!
In 1963 he was teamed with Steve Lipkin (Steve Barri), and they became songwriting partners. Their first chart success came with Round Robin's single, "Kick That Little Foot, Sally Ann". The Imperial Label, which was run by its founder Lew Chudd, was sold to Al Bennett, and it was then run as an independent label. Then Al Bennett, Lou Adler, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts formed Dunhill Productions. (The name "Dunhill" came from Bobby Roberts, who had been a member of a tap-dancing group called The Dunhills, along with Vicki Specer's father Lou Spencer.)
Together and separately, Sloan & Barri wrote numerous songs, most notably "Eve Of Destruction", the 1965 Billboard #1 hit for Barry McGuire, and "Secret Agent Man", the song popularised by Johnny Rivers, whilst simultaneously being in-demand Los Angeles session musicians. Sloan created and played the guitar intro for the Mamas and Papa's recording of "California Dreamin'".
Known to friends as "Flip," Sloan was also a singer. He made an album in 1968, "Measure of Pleasure," recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by Tom Dowd; his most accomplished recording as a singer.
Beset by business and legal problems — Sloan essentially signed away the rights to his valuable compositions — he largely dropped out of sight in the late 1960s and did not record or perform again, until "Still on the Eve of Destruction." P.F. Sloan Official Website
