KICKIN CHILD: LOST COLUMBIA ALBUM 1965 7/2/2002 and the crew reaches for

and the crew reaches for the apex of lyrical misogyny on the now-legendary "Gangsta of Love"

Florentina Ramniceanu

sedate form of orchestrated pop balladry on this 1967 album

Janice Pendarvis

KICKIN CHILD: LOST COLUMBIA ALBUM 1965 7/2/2002 and the crew reaches forThe first thing most everybody who hears Dion's Kickin' Child is going to say, is that producer Tom Wilson made Dion sound like Bob Dylan. It's fair but inaccurate. If anything, Dion got Wilson in late 1964 to propose the electric sound to Dylan (who'd worshipped Dion from the '50s) in the first place. Dion convinced the producer to take some of the songwriter's session tapes and give them an electric treatment. He did so with live musicians, then