Mid-1970s Marc Cushman Music Bundle - Lost In The Crowd, On The Rocks and Living With Ghosts
Marc Cushman & WHATSTHEIRNAME – The First Three Albums Collection
More than 50 years in the making, three albums and 41 original songs from the long-hidden musical archive of award-winning author, screenwriter, director, and producer Marc Cushman.
Long before becoming known for his books and work in film and television, Marc Cushman was writing and recording original music. Beginning as a teenager in 1972, he created hundreds of songs, most of which remained unheard outside his circle of family, friends, and fellow musicians. Now, with the help of musical collaborators and state-of-the-art restoration, augmentation, and remastering technology, these recordings are finally being released to the public.
This collection brings together the first three albums from Marc Cushman and WHATS*THEIR*NAME, featuring 41 songs written between 1972 and 1974. Each album captures a different chapter in the life and musical development of a young songwriter finding his voice.
Lost in the Crowd – The debut album features 16 songs written when Cushman was just 16 and 17 years old. Inspired by the sounds of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the collection explores war, racial tension, inflation, social conflict, depression, and self-doubt through memorable pop melodies and thoughtful lyrics.
On The Rocks – Thirteen songs written across eight months in 1972–73, as Cushman finished high school on the Big Island of Hawaii and turned 18. Drawing on experiences ranging from island life and racial friction to youthful ambition, overpopulation, and first love, the album blends indie rock, rockabilly, folk, rhythm & blues, and lilting ballads.
Living With Ghosts – Twelve songs written between July 1973 and May 1974, when Cushman was 18 and 19. Inspired in part by a house he believed was haunted, the collection explores love, faith, loneliness, and the unsettling atmosphere of the era, with musical styles ranging from rockabilly and country-rock to indie folk, spirituals, rhythm & blues, and haunting ballads.
Together, these three albums offer a remarkable musical journey through the early songwriting years of Marc Cushman, preserving songs that have waited more than five decades to find their audience. This is the beginning of a much larger collection, drawn from nearly 400 songs written and recorded between 1972 and 2008.
Three albums. Forty-one songs. More than five decades of music, finally released.
