Editing Terry Melcher (section)

==Later years==
Melcher again acted as producer for [[the Byrds]] on ''[[Ballad of Easy Rider (album)|Ballad of Easy Rider]]'', their eighth album, released in November [[1969 in music|1969]].<ref name="timeless">{{cite book| author=Rogan, Johnny| pages=542–547| year=1998| title=The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited| edition=2nd| publisher=Rogan House| isbn=978-0-9529-5401-9}}</ref> The record peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard charts. At the time it was met with mixed reviews but is today regarded as one of the band's stronger efforts from the latter half of their career.<ref name="allmusic3">{{cite web| title=Ballad of Easy Rider review| website=[[Allmusic]]| url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r3068|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=February 6, 2010}}</ref>

In the early 1970s, Melcher produced the Byrds' 9th and 10th albums ''[[Untitled (Byrds album)|(Untitled)]]'' and ''[[Byrdmaniax]]''. However, ''[[Byrdmaniax]]'' was not well-received as band member [[Gene Parsons]] referred to the album as "Melcher's Folly" because of its prominent overdubs of horns and strings, which were done without the band's knowledge. During this time, Melcher dabbled in real estate and served as the executive producer of his mother's CBS series, ''[[The Doris Day Show]]''. He later recorded two solo albums, ''Terry Melcher'' and ''Royal Flush''.<ref name=melcher/> Writing of the former in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), [[Robert Christgau]] said:
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Most will find this producer's daydream sterile at best and noxious at worst but I like the song about his shrink and am fascinated by his compulsion to defend his Manson connections. With the requisite show of wealth and taste, he insists that he's only a spectator — why, he wouldn't even know about the [[hand jive]] if it weren't for ''[[Soul Train]]''. Alternate title: ''[[It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)|It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Watching]]''.<ref name="CG">{{cite book| last=Christgau| first=Robert| author-link=Robert Christgau| year=1981| title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]| publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]| isbn=978-0-8991-9026-6| chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M| chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70| access-date=March 7, 2019| via=robertchristgau.com| archive-date=June 29, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629053222/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|url-status=live}}</ref>
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In 1985, Melcher co-produced the cable show ''Doris Day's Best Friends'' and worked as the director and vice president of the Doris Day Animal Foundation. He and his mother, to whom he remained close throughout his life, also co-owned the Cypress Inn, a small hotel in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]].<ref name=melcher>[http://www.blogofdeath.com/archives/001235.html Blog of Death: Terry Melcher] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821235258/http://www.blogofdeath.com/archives/001235.html |date=August 21, 2007 }}, blogofdeath.com; accessed March 17, 2017.</ref>

In 1988, Melcher earned a [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] nomination for co-writing the song "[[Kokomo (song)|Kokomo]]" with [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]], [[Scott McKenzie]] and [[Mike Love]]. Recorded by the Beach Boys, the song was featured in the 1988 [[Tom Cruise]] film ''[[Cocktail (1988 film)|''Cocktail'']]'' and hit No. 1 (the band's career fourth overall) on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. The single was certified gold with U.S. sales of more than one million copies.<ref name=melcher/> Melcher later co-wrote and produced the band's 1992 studio album ''[[Summer in Paradise]]'', which was the first record produced digitally on [[Pro Tools]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Summer In Paradise| url=http://albumlinernotes.com/Summer_In_Paradise.html| access-date=January 14, 2022| website=albumlinernotes}}</ref>