Episode 17: Vicki Peterson
In our interview, Vicki shares how she and her Bangles band mates were hands-on, not only in recording, arranging, producing and performing, but also in plotting the band's course and crafting its image. We chat about her collaborations with Susan Cowsill, her Americana excursion with Continental Drifters, how The Norton Anthology provided inspiration for song, her trusty copy of a book by lyricist Sammy Cahn, her annual gig mentoring young songwriters at the California State Polytechnic University at Pamona, and much more. Photo by Rebecca Wilson Studios
Bonus Talk: A Hazy Shade of Winter (5 mins.) Bonus Talk: Emitt Rhodes (2 mins.) Bonus Talk: Jules Shear (1 min.) Bonus Talk: Amy Rigby (1 min.)
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Getting Out of Hand (Single) (1981) |
Bangles (Formerly The Bangs) |
Bangles | Getting Out of Hand (Vicki Peterson) | |
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Bangles EP (1982) |
Bangles |
Craig Leon |
Want
You (Vicki Peterson) Mary Street (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) |
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All Over the Place (1984) |
Bangles |
David Kahne |
Hero
Takes a Fall (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) James (Vicki Peterson) Dover Beach (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) All About You (Vicki Perterson) More Than Meets the Eye (Vicki Peterson) |
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Different (1986) |
Bangles |
David Kahne |
In a
Different Light (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) Return Post (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) Angels Don't Fall in Love (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) |
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Everything (1988) |
Bangles | Davitt Sigerson |
Make a Play for Her Now (Vicki Peterson, Vinnie Vincent) Watching the Sky (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) Crash and Burn (Vicki Peterson, Rachel Sweet) |
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Doll Revolution (2003) |
Bangles |
Bangles, with co-producer Brad Wood |
Tear
Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution (Elvis Costello)
Stealing Rosemary (Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson) The Rain Song (Susan Cowsill, Vicki Peterson) Single By Choice (Vicki Peterson) Mixed Messages (Vicki Peterson) |
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Sweetheart of the Sun (2011) |
Bangles |
Bangles,
Matthew Sweet, with addl. production by Evan Peters, Josh Binder |
Anna
Lee (Sweetheart of the Sun) (Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson) Lay Yourself Down (Vicki Peterson) |
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Ladies and Gentlemen... the Bangles! (2014) |
Bangles | Bangles |
The Real World (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson) Originally released on the first Bangles EP. The Real World (Demo) |
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The Goonies |
Various Artists |
David Kahne |
I Got Nothing (Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson, Jules Shear) | |
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A Hazy Shade of Winter (Single) (1987) |
Bangles |
Rick Rubin |
A Hazy
Shade of Winter (Paul Simon) The Bangles version, from the soundtrack for the movie, "Less Than Zero." |
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More Music From the Motion Picture Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) |
Various Artists |
The Bangles |
Get the Girl (Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson) (YouTube Video) | |
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Up On the Chair, Beatrice (2012) |
Vicki Peterson and Susan Cowsill |
Vicki Peterson, |
Never Never Boys (Bob Cowsill, Vicki Peterson) Gone Fishin' (Susan Cowsill, Vicki Peterson) Fun to Lie (Susan Cowsill, Vicki Peterson) Wish You (Vicki Peterson) |
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Vermillion (1999) |
Continental Drifters |
Continental Drifters, Mike Mayeux |
Way of the World (Susan Cowsill, Vicki Peterson) Anything (Peter Holsapple, Vicki Peterson) |
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Better Day (2001) |
Continental Drifters |
Continental Drifters |
Na Na (Vicki Peterson) That Much a Fool (Vicki Peterson) |
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Drifted: In the Beginning and Beyond (2015) |
Continental Drifters |
Continental Drifters |
Who We Are, Where We Live (Early Version) (Vicki Peterson) |
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Angels Hear (2017) |
Action Skulls |
Action Skulls |
Mainstream
(Billy Mumy, John Cowsill, Vicki Peterson) Map of the World (Vicki Peterson) |
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Meet John Doe |
John Doe |
Davitt
Sigerson. Exec Producer Gary Gersh |
With Someone Like You Backing vocal by Vicki Peterson |
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