The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time
Miss O’Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time is a rock and roll podcast presented by the historic The Church Studio in Tulsa.Hosted by Chris O'Dell, a respected music industry insider who worked with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, the podcast shares real stories from inside the music business during some of its most influential years.Each episode features conversations with artists, producers, and industry professionals, along with firsthand experiences from Chris O’Dell’s career. Topics include classic rock history, recording sessions, touring life, and the lasting influence of the Tulsa Sound.Recorded at The Church...
Gary Stromberg: PR Man to the Stones, the Arrests, and the Road to Recovery
Chris O'Dell reunites with her longtime friend Gary Stromberg, the co-founder of Gibson and Stromberg PR and the man behind some of the biggest names in music history, including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Ray Charles, Muhammad Ali, and Barbara Streisand. Gary shares the story of landing the Stones account after a surreal one-on-one with Mick Jagger at the Marion Davies estate, the night Keith Richards got arrested on tour (with Gary not far behind), and what it was really like inside the machine of 1970s rock and roll. The conversation takes a powerful turn as Gary...
Mal Evans: Let It Be, Lost Ashes, and the Beatles Story Nobody Knew with Guest and Beatles Historian Ken Womack
Beatles historian and author Ken Womack joins Chris O'Dell for a deep dive into the life of Mal Evans, the gentle giant who served as The Beatles' road manager, confidant, and unofficial archivist from 1963 until the band's final days.
Ken shares the full story behind his book Living the Beatles Legend, including how Mal's long-lost diaries were recovered from a New York basement 12 years after his death and why we have one woman and Yoko Ono to thank for it.
Chris and Ken cover Mal's contributions to Let It Be, his work producing Badfinger, his...
Tom Scott: Playing on Pink Floyd, George Harrison's Best Friend, and How John Williams Almost Quit Music
Tom Scott has played saxophone on records by George Harrison, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, and dozens more . 15 Grammy nominations and counting. But ask him how he ended up as one of George Harrison's closest friends, and the answer starts with a UCLA summer class on Indian music and a tabla teacher named Harihar Rao.
Chris O'Dell sits down with her old friend and fellow survivor of the legendary 1974 Dark Horse Tour for a wide-open conversation: the real reason that tour went sideways, what George Harrison told Bill Graham when...
Henry Diltz: The Accidental Archivist of Rock's Golden Era
Henry Diltz, famous rock photographer and archivist, bought a $20 secondhand camera on a whim in Michigan. What followed was a 60-year photographic career that captured Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Laurel Canyon, and nearly every defining album cover of rock's greatest era.
In this conversation with Chris O'Dell at The Church Studio in Tulsa, Henry tells the full story — from watching The Beatles on Ed Sullivan from a New England motel room as a folk singer, to living among Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young in Laurel Canyon, to getting a phone call from Michael Lang and a $500 ai...
The Beatles’ Hairdresser: Leslie Cavendish dishes out stories of his iconic hairstyles and looks of the 60s and 70s
Chris O’Dell welcomes her longtime friend Leslie Cavendish, the legendary hairdresser who worked closely with The Beatles during one of the most creative periods of their career.
Leslie shares unforgettable stories about cutting Paul McCartney’s hair at Cavendish Avenue, meeting John Lennon, working with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and experiencing Apple, Savile Row, and the Magical Mystery Tour era from the inside.
He also reflects on The Beatles’ personalities, John’s humor, Paul’s approachability, George’s quiet spirit, and the changing style of the band during the Sgt. Pepper and Let It Be years...
Leon Russell, Beatles Sessions & The Church Studio | Bill Janovitz on Abbey Road to Tulsa Time
Author and Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz joins Chris O'Dell to talk about his New York Times bestselling biography of Leon Russell: the master of space and time, and one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures in rock history.
Chris knew Leon in his early-'70s prime; Bill spent years researching the full story. Together they get into the rock star Leon willed himself to become, his obsession with technology decades ahead of his time, the records he secretly shaped, the goodbye he wrote in song, and the wild tale of three Beatles nearly playing on...
Chris O’Dell sits down with Pattie Boyd and discusses Friar Park, George Harrison, and more
Chris O'Dell's first guest is her longtime friend Pattie Boyd: muse, model, and one of the few people who was truly inside the world of The Beatles and beyond. Over the course of this conversation, the two friends move through decades of shared memory: meeting at an Apple boutique fashion show while Yoko sat in silence, discovering Friar Park and bringing it to life room by room, three Krishna families moving in and turning the dining room into a temple, and showing up at Madison Square Garden the night of the Concert for Bangladesh not quite sure if Bob...
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Listen as Miss Odell tells stories about events we've all heard about from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones.
