A Celebration of The Life & Music of Emitt Rhodes 

Good job “Down with my Face on the Floor” liked the counter melody 😊

Nice show.

Wonderful songwriter and talented musician. So underappreciated but produced some wonderful albums.

When the first ER album was released a radio spot aired along with it featuring “Fresh As A Daisy,” as well as ads for the album in Rolling Stone. Wish I could find them now. Until the album and artist were identified I presumed it was a new McCartney solo album-despite having been a huge Beatles fan since their first single entered the charts. That first album got airplay, making Emitt’s vanishing act puzzling. Still, his disappearance wasn’t all that noticeable in an age of one hit wonders. It was also a burgeoning time of fantastic music and musical change: solo Beatles, follow-ons to ’60s artists, arena rock, progressive rock, music video, punk, disco and more. There was plenty of other material to disappear beneath. It’s just unfortunate what the reason for ER’s disappearance was: greedy executives in the music industry taking advantage of a naive and generous young artist-people who didn’t realize or care that they were killing a goose that was laying golden eggs for them as well as himself. Clearly, the result was decades-long depression that Emitt would handle as only an optimist with the sunny disposition that Emitt had would. May he rest in peace.

Thank you so much. I am revisiting his music after such long time.

Hi Terry. I knew your brother, Ken, as well as Michael McCarty from The Toads of Sleepy Hollow. I was the drummer/vocalist in a Redondo Beach band called The Royal Teens (later we changed our name to The Paper Fortress. I played a handful of gigs with Ken, and he also recorded some of my early music compositions. I have some of Ken’s originals such as “Please Give Reply” and “Nobody Seems To Care.” Beside what is posted on Reverb Nation, are there any more of Ken’s originals? Evan

I've been a big fan of ER since the beginning. Thanks for posting.

The self titled Emitt Rhodes album was a virtual tribute to The Beatles. Emitt was capable of doing other style, too.

loved the song by cool house never heard that emitt song before there must be a host of new songs in the archives please give us access to them somebody PLEASE johnb

came across emitt on The Old Grey whistle Test in Scotland in 1970 had to rush in Glasgow the following day to by the 1st album has stayed with me eversince aqlso to my best friend Michael to whome i introdused emitt to wish i had met him johnb

Thank you.

This is damn creepy, the host looks like a ghost hovering in front of the stage, freaky!

i thought everyone decided on his page the last line was "hooray the Lord's been good to his children' or am i wrong? "helping children" actually fits what I hear now that I think about it . really great observation/comparison with John Hurt obviously COOLHOUSE was best

Country surf music?