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There are 21 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Top Movie Soundtracks make hit records
From: Paul Urbahns
2. Re: "Hurting Each Other" / "Here I Am"
From: Simon White
3. City Zu "Give A Little Bit"
From: Mike Bennidict
4. Bikinis, Black Denim & Bitchen Sounds
From: S'pop Projects
5. Rhino Girl Group Box
From: Jim Allio
6. Jean Thomas & the Beach Girls
From: Kingsley Abbott
7. Re: Brian Wilson Christmas Album preview
From: Robert Pingel
8. Re: Rhino Girl Group Box
From: Mick Patrick
9. Willie Hutch, R.I.P.
From: S'pop Projects
10. Re: NYC Recording Studios
From: Mick Patrick
11. Re: Rhino Girl Group Box
From: Michael Robson
12. Re: NYC Recording Studios
From: Alan V Karr
13. Re: the Great Nathaniel, and the Magnificent Montague
From: Phil X Milstein
14. Reparata & The Delrons´ CD Review and Rocio Durcal.
From: Julio Niño
15. Re: discography websites
From: Lyn Nuttall
16. Re: NYC Recording Studios
From: Phil Hall
17. Re: Vic Milrose & The Changing Scene
From: Jeff Lemlich
18. Re: "Sold more records..."
From: ACJ
19. Re: The Changing Scene
From: David Gordon
20. Re: the Great Nathaniel, and the Magnificent Montague
From: Hans Huss
21. Re: discography websites
From: David Gordon
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:41:29 -0400
From: Paul Urbahns
Subject: Top Movie Soundtracks make hit records
Here is some information that Spectropoppers may find of interest.
We don't normally discuss soundtrack music here, but the theme
from the Star Wars album did chart when it was originally issued
back in the 70s. Most were best selling albums but I remember hit
singles were issued on four of them, five if you count Star Wars
as two:
Star Wars - John Williams and Meco (1977)
Magnificant Seven - Al Caiola - (1961)
High Noon - Tex Ritter
Love Theme From the Godfather - Andy Williams (1972)
I am surprise Dr Zhivago did not make it, but Maurice Jarre is
already in the top ten because of Lawrence of Arabia. I would
have thought "Lara's Theme" would have given Zhivago an edge
in the voting. But this is soundtracks not pop tunes.
Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY
British composer John Williams has been honored for his Star Wars
soundtrack, which has topped a survey of the greatest movie music
of all time.
The sci-fi saga beat out competition from classic movie Gone with
the Wind and epic adventure Lawrence of Arabia in the poll,
conducted by the American Film Institute.
Williams was the only artist to triumph in the poll with a hat-
trick of movie music favorites--with Jaws and E.T. also featured
in the top 15.
*The top 10 soundtracks are:*
1. Star Wars--John Williams
2. Gone with the Wind--Max Steiner
3. Lawrence of Arabia--Maurice Jarre
4. Psycho--Bernard Herrmann
5. The Godfather--Nino Rota
6. Jaws--John Williams
7. Laura--David Raksin
8. The Magnificent Seven--Elmer Bernstein
9. Chinatown--Jerry Goldsmith
10. High Noon--Dimitri Tonkin
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:44:57 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Re: "Hurting Each Other" / "Here I Am"
Flip Ruth Lewis' version of "Hurting Each Other" and you'll find
"That Special Way", a song which has Northern Soul overtones.
Although it's probably far too pop for most hardened Soul-heads,
it appeals to those of us who like a wobbly female vocal over a
'60s dance track. Ruth's voice takes an interesting leap of faith
up into the unknown at one point during the chorus in the second
part of the song. I have here a 'promotion' copy with the date
'6-4-66' in pen on the label. But, as any Northern Soul aficionado
knows, RCA 'stock' copies are generally more difficult to come by
- well in the Northern Soul world they are, so stock RCA 45s are
more desirable - a reversal of the general Northern Soul trend.
Mickey Stevenson's version of "Here I Am", by sheer coincidence,
is set to appear in my "Metropolitan Soul" column of November's
'Manifesto' magazine (subscriptions on 020 8543 4252). The column
features UK-only Soul releases, i.e. tracks that have appeared on
single in the UK (or occasionally in Europe) and not in the US, or
were released on a 45 in the UK before being released in the US.
The Northern Soul scene has been the keeper of the flame for Motown
for many years (although the non-Northern Soul Motown aficionados
are often reluctant to acknowledge that as being true). The huge
amount of previously unreleased stuff appearing in the UK has been
pretty impressive. Add to that the rescue from obscurity of many
many other Soul sides that the US neglected, lost or ignored, and
you have a legacy unrivalled in any other musical genre.
Mickey Stevenson's 45, while not a dance record as such, does fall
into the 'Beat ballad' category and, by virtue of Mickey's pedigree,
can be considered a 'Soul' record, although a poppy one. As such,
it is sometimes seen listed at 50uk pounds.
Toodle Pip !
Simon White
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:39:26 -0000
From: Mike Bennidict
Subject: City Zu "Give A Little Bit"
Anyone know this group? Heard it for the first time last night.
The song was released in 1967 according to the playlist. I assume
it wasn't a hit but it was a pretty good.
Mike
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:21:20 +0100
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: Bikinis, Black Denim & Bitchen Sounds
Anyone out there interested in Annette Funicello, Carol Connors
and Shelley Fabares?
How about Jill Gibson, Susan Hart, the Honeys, Candy Johnson,
Little Pattie, Donna Loren, the Murmaids, Rachel & the Revolvers,
Judy Russell or the Surf Bunnies?
Maybe girl singers aren't your bag, but guys like Brian Wilson,
Gary Usher, Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher, Joe Saraceno, Phil
Sloan & Steve Barri and Gary Zekley are?
You need Stephen J. McParland's new book Bikinis, Black Denim
And Bitchen Sounds: A Musical Appreciation Of Female Surf,
Hot-Rod And Related Recordings 1961-1967.
A review has just been added to the S'pop Recommends section.
Check it out:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index2005.htm#Bikinis
Enjoy,
The S'pop Team
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:12:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Allio
Subject: Rhino Girl Group Box
Has anyone seen the Rhino Girl Group Box for a decent discount
(i.e., deep)?
Jim Allio
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:21:39 +0100
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: Jean Thomas & the Beach Girls
Ken Charmer:
> The Beach Girls track may have recorded another single apart
> from "Ski-ing In The Snow". "He's My Surfin' Guy" appears on
> a Surf compilation CD but did it ever get a vinyl release, was
> there a 'B' side, is it the same group and who were the writers/
> producer?
They were two different groups - one West Coast, one East Coast.
Jean Thomas was of course involved with the 'Ski-ing' Dynavoice.
The other lot were unknown session singers produced by Richard
Delvy, probably backed up by members of The Challengers. The B
side of He's My surfin' Guy was Bobby's The Boy.
Info from Stephen' McParland's wonderful new book Bikinis, Black
Denim, & Bitchin Sounds. Proof if proof were needed that it is a
pretty essential purchase for many members of this group! Check
out: http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index2005.htm#Bikinis
Kingsley
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:26:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Pingel
Subject: Re: Brian Wilson Christmas Album preview
Susan wrote:
> ... there are five tracks that may be heard in their entirety
> when linked from http://www.brianwilson.com - including the new
> song "Chrismasey". Brian's band is very present instrumentally
> and vocally - this is NOT a BW-only vocal exercise! The BW fan
> community seems to be all over the place in their assessment of
> these tracks...
What I really don't want for Christmas is Brian Wilson singing "Deck
the Halls" and all the other standard holiday fare. The 5 featured
tracks seem listlessly arranged, and Mr. Wilson's vocals are
completely without nuance. 15 seconds into each song I had the
uncontrollable urge to....go to the next cut. Truly dreadful stuff
from a great pop icon.
Robert Pingel
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:09:55 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Rhino Girl Group Box
Jim Allio
> Has anyone seen the Rhino Girl Group Box for a decent discount?
Amazon are knocking it out for $56. That's 20% off.
I wonder how much of that is for the hat box?
Take a look: http://tinyurl.com/ch5yb
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:20:21 +0100
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: Willie Hutch, R.I.P.
Willie Hutch, who co-wrote the Jackson 5's 1970 chart-topper
"I'll Be There", died on September 19th, aged 60. An obituary
is available at the S'pop Remembers section:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/WHobit.htm
R.I.P.
The S'pop Team
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:49:46 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: NYC Recording Studios
Greg asked:
> In a few weeks I'll be visiting the States for the first time. Apart
> from seeing the usual things, the *main* thing I'm excited about
> seeing, or finding, are the recording studios in New York where
> so much music that I adore has been recorded. I realise a lot of
> these studios no longer exist, but I hope to at least try and find
> the locations.
Phil M:
> One of the great studios in Manhattan was the Pythian Temple
> Studios ... I've seen Pythian alternately addressed at either West
> 18th or West 80th Streets -- big difference ...
The address I have is 135 West 70th Street. Pythian Temple was
home to Decca Records. The building was designed in the 1920s
by architect Thomas Lamb for the Knights of Pythias. The third
floor auditorium was transformed into a recording studio early 1940s.
I believe it is now an apartment building. Billie Holiday recorded
“Strange Fruit” there in 1939, and “Rock Around The Clock” Bill
Haley & His Comets was taped there in 1954.
Another worth seeking out might be Allegro Sound, located in the
basement of 1650 Broadway, almost opposite the Brill Building. It
was owned by Charles Brave, and later by Laurie Records. Some
of the great records recorded there include "Rag Doll” by the 4
Seasons, “Younger Girl” by the Critters, “Sock It To Me Baby” by
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and Tommy James & the
Shondells' “Mony, Mony”.
Greg, I really do recommend that you read David Simon's excellent
book Studio Stories: How The Great New York Records Were Made. It
includes a Manhattan street map with many famous studios indicated.
Take a look here: http://tinyurl.com/dvmft
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:58:08 -0000
From: Michael Robson
Subject: Re: Rhino Girl Group Box
Jim Allio
> Has anyone seen the Rhino Girl Group Box for a decent discount?
Mick Patrick:
> Amazon are knocking it out for $56. That's 20% off. I wonder
> how much of that is for the hat box? Take a look:
> http://tinyurl.com/ch5yb
I thought you might like to see the mess that Amazon (UK) have
made of the tracklisting for this epic of a forthcoming release.
In a warped kind of way, I think I'd prefer this clunkie version
to the original; "Terry" by Cilla Black, anyone?
Girl Group Sounds: One... [Import] [Box set]
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Needle in a Haystack - The Velvelettes
2. He's Got the Power - The Toys
3. Nobody Know What's Goin' On (In My Head But Me)
4. I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls
5. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
6. Nothing But a Heartache
7. You Don't Know Me - Little Eva
8. Boys - Four J's
9. Big Bad World
10. Out in the Streets - The Shangri-Las
11. Is It True - Madeline Bell
12. Please Don't Wake Me
13. I'll Keep Holding On
14. Oh No Not My Baby - The Cinderellas
15. May My Heart Be Cast into Stone - The Butterflys
16. Magic Garden - The Marvelettes
17. I Never Dreamed
18. He's a Bad Boy - Maxine Brown
19. Happy, That's Me
20. Dream Boy - Dusty Springfield
21. Try the Worryin' Way - The Cookies
22. I Can't Let Go - Carole King
23. Go Now - Little Frankie
24. You're No Good - The Exciters
25. Opportunity - Jackie DeShannon
26. Life and Soul of the Party - The Fabulettes
27. Break-A-Way - Evie Sands
28. What Am I Gonna Do with You - Bessie Banks
29. He Did It - Dee Dee Warwick
30. Baby That's Me
Disc: 2
1. I Adore Him - Irma Thomas
2. Train from Kansas City - Lesley Gore
3. Please Go Away - The Ronettes
4. Let Me Get Close to You - The Chiffons
5. I Have a Boyfriend
6. I'm into Somethin' Good
7. I'll Come Running - The Shangri-Las
8. If There's Anything Else You Want (Let Me Know)
9. When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes - The Shirelles
10. It Comes and Goes - The Chiffons
11. Baby, Baby (I Still Love You) - Earl-Jean
12. Girl Don't Come - Lulu
13. That's When the Tears Start
14. What a Lonely Way to Start the Summertime - The Supremes
15. Don't Drop Out - Donna Lynn
16. One You Can't Have - Sadina
17. I'm Nobody's Baby Now - The Cinderellas
18. You're So Fine - Sandie Shaw
19. When You're Young and in Love - The Blossoms
20. My One and Only, Jimmy Boy - Dolly Parton
21. Friend of Mine - The Honeys
22. Chico's Girl - Reparata & the Delrons
23. Cause I Love Him - Dorothy Berry
24. Bye Bye Baby
25. First Cut Is the Deepest
26. I Won't Tell - Little Eva
27. Egyptian Shumba - The Girlfriends
28. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman - The Geminis
29. Walking in Different Circles - Girls
30. Hideaway - Mary Wells
Disc: 3
1. Trouble with Boys
2. Lookin' for Boys - Tracey Dey
3. Dream Baby - The Tammys
4. Condition Red - Starlets
5. Should I Cry [Alternate Take]
6. I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)
7. I've Been Wrong Before
8. Love's Gone Bad - The Flirtations
9. Nightmare
10. She Don't Deserve You
11. Will You Be My Love - Cher
12. Take Me for a Little While - The Goodees
13. Funnel of Love - Jackie DeShannon
14. I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy - The Ikettes
15. Terry - Cilla Black
16. Untrue Unfaithful (That Was You)
17. Sophisticated Boom Boom - Whyte Boots
18. Saturday Night Didn't Happen - Ellie Greenwich
19. Don't Ever Leave Me
20. Don't Forget About Me - Evie Sands
21. Wanna Make Him Mine - Wanda Jackson
22. Only to Other People - What Four
23. Big-Town Boy - Twinkle
24. Daddy You Gotta Let Him In
25. After Last Night - Goodies
26. How Can I Tell My Mom & Dad
27. Too Hurt to Cry, Too Much in Love to Say Goodbye - Reparata
28. Up Down Sue - Connie Francis
29. When I Think of You - The Shirelles
30. Good, Good Lovin'
Disc: 4
1. When the Boy's Happy (The Girl's Happy Too) - The Cookies
2. Don't Drag No More
3. I'm Afraid They're All Talking About Me - Shirley Matthews
4. That's How It Goes - The Satisfactions
5. Some of Your Lovin'
6. Peanut Duck [#] - The Lovelites
7. Thank Goodness for the Rain - Darnells
8. Steady Boyfriend - Luv'd Ones
9. He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
10. I Know You Love Me Not
11. Whatever Happened to Our Love - Julie Driscoll
12. Heart
13. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You - Maxine Brown
14. He Makes Me So Mad
15. I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face - Syreeta Wright
16. Crying in the Rain
17. We Don't Belong - Dusty Springfield
18. You Don't Love Me No More - Carole King
19. Hey, Tell Me Boy
20. Brink of Disaster - Marie Knight
21. Who Do You Love - Brenda Lee
22. I'm 28 - Lesley Gore
23. They Never Taught That in School - The Sapphires
24. Dressed in Black - Toni Basil
25. Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya
26. Every Little Bit Hurts [Del-Fi Version][Version] - The Pussycats
27. Mister Loveman - The Ribbons
28. Make the Night a Little Longer - Brenda Holloway
29. Mixed Up, Shook Up, Girl [Live][Live]
30. Good Night Baby
clunk click every flip,
Michael Clunkie
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:05:52 -0000
From: Alan V Karr
Subject: Re: NYC Recording Studios
The Pythian Temple was located at 135 West 70th Street.
American Decca used the ballroom as a recording studio.
Now it's condos. Looky here for some kool snaps:
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/UWS/UWS009.htm
regards,
Alan V. Karr
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:41:11 -0400
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: the Great Nathaniel, and the Magnificent Montague
Hasse Huss asked:
> Now all I'd like to know is, who was the Great Nathaniel?
I am willing to bet $20 that the Great Nathaniel was one of the
many pseudonyms of the journeyman R&B DJ Magnificent Montague.
As writer, producer, label "executive" and/or performer M.M.
many, many records during his career, but, as virtually all of
them were done pseudonymously, he has never (to my knowledge, at
least) properly discographied.
The best clue to Montague's involvement with a particular record,
however, is that he liked to mix-n-match variations of his, his
wife's and occasionally their son's names in two or more places
within the label information. Montague's birth name was Nathaniel
Montague; his wife's name was Rose Catalon; and their son was
Martin Montague. (For the record in question, the presumption is
that he used "Great" as a synonym for "Magnificent.")
Thus, for example, "Nathan Catalon," under which the 1959
recitation "Lost Teen-Ager" on Mercury (71397) was credited, was
actually M.M. Furthermore, the backing vocalists on that session,
billed there as "The Keys," were actually the Chicago (where M.M.
was based at the time) group The Magnificents. Led by Johnny
Keyes (the record's flip, "Tucumscari," is credited to "John Key
& His Keys"), The Magnificents were created and named by
Montague, who located and trained the other singers to support
Keyes and, together, to work on some sessions for Montague. Keyes
and the group later went off on their own, still using the
Magnificents name with M.M.'s blessing. (Find both sides at my
Probe site: http://www.philxmilstein.com/probe ; and see if you
can spot the fun "typo" in Montague's recitation.)
Records he cut under the name "Magnificent Montague" include:
Dore 511: Lou May / The Beard (1958)
Era 1069: The Breather / Ta Ta Do Way (1958)
Minit 32035: This Is Soul / I Too Am An American (1968)
As simply "Montague:
Vee Jay 167: Yours And Mine / Where Is My Mother (1956)
Were "The Montagues" another of his groups? If so, add:
Early Bird 1002: School Rock / Teenagers Are Really Hep* (19??)
Keen 4025: Chinese Rock** / I'm Happy (1958)
*anyone have this one?!
**presumably not the Heartbreakers/Ramones song
As "Great Nathaniel":
Van 101: Lost / Soul (1961)
As ³Nathaniel² (although poss. a diff. artist by that name):
Morning Star 509: Summertime / When Will I (19??)
There are doubtless many more; for instance, he produced and
released (on the essentially one-shot Pure Soul label) The
Packers' classic "Hole In The Wall," an L.A. session despite the
group (essentially Booker T. & The MGs) being all Memphis-based
players.
Just yesterday I finished reading M.M.'s memoir, "Burn, Baby!
Burn!" (w/ Bob Baker, 2003, Univ. of Ill. Press), and am now
prepared to give it my highest recommendation. Montague is (he
was alive as of the book's publication, but I'm not sure that he
still is) a complex and fascinating cat, and his book seems to
capture him in a most candid frame of mind. He doesn't come off
as an especially ingratiating guy, but his love for the music he
played is genuine, and in fact he was close friends with Sam
Cooke, who comes off in the book as someone who could all but
walk on water (a depiction I've never seen seriously disputed,
despite being at odds with the known facts of his fatal night).
Although there is plenty of good records-and-radio talk
throughout the book, and it adds a valuable set of first-hand
accounts to the historical record of prime-era soul and R&B,
"B.B.B." is equally the story of M.M.'s other abiding passion,
which is collecting books and other artifacts of black American
history. Over three-plus decades of serious fieldwork, Montague
amassed what may have been the world's predominant personal
collection of such materials, and it is a blast for the record
collector to recognize his own kind, of a sort, as Montague
describes, for instance, locating a copy of Booker T.
Washington's 1906 biography of Frederick Douglass amid a pile
of mildewed magazines in a secondhand shop in Long Beach. "Mint
condition. Mine. I still get goose bumps remembering that find,"
he notes.
A surprising aspect of "B.B.B." is that not only Montague
acknowledge having accepted payola throughout his radio career,
he does so without shame, and goes so far as to explain the
process he developed for doing so, which essentially laundered
the cash through a complex scheme of barter and sale deals. At
one point he explains that his radio jobs (many of which were
lease deals, where he'd lease the station's time, and go out
and sell his own ads) were, financially at least, not the end
but the means to the end, in other words that the REAL cash was
in the payola. Tsk over that all you want, but at very least
his stories of how he swung his various deals involve such
major players as Vivian Bracken (principal of Vee Jay), Berry
Gordy, Ahmet Ertegun, and even Augie Busch, the principal of
Budweiser swillery.
The book's title comes from the rallying cry made famous during
the summer 1965 Watts riots. "Burn, baby! Burn!" was a phrase
Montague had invented several years before, and brought with
him when he started on L.A. radio in February of '65. Long since
associated with incendiary street violence and/or guerrilla
revolution, its original meaning referred only to the
peaceable "burn" of great soul grooves. M.M. even introduced a
"burn line" to his program, a sort of predecessor of today's
"shout-outs" in which listeners would phone in a brief greeting,
with the word "burn" somewhere included. Montague's fans
understood what was meant by it, but after the phrase was
abruptly co-opted during the riots its dissemination to the
mainstream its true nature was inevitably lost. This fact left
Montague more disappointed than anything, yet he eventually
sought to place great distance between him and it, and only in
recent years accepted it enough to revisit the story for his
book.
Almost unique to the autobiography genre, "Burn, Baby! Burn!"
is virtually cliche-free. It is the self-portrait of an original
and iconoclastic thinker, who was much more fundamental to the
development of soul and R&B music than most people -- well, me
at least -- ever realized. Also unique to the genre is the fact
that, as an historian himself, Montague's book includes a
comprehensive index! Your local library may very well have a
copy, or there are a number available, some of them priced in
he $10 region, through http://www.abebooks.com
Dig, baby! Dig,
--Phil M.
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:51:15 -0000
From: Julio Niño
Subject: Reparata & The Delrons´ CD Review and Rocio Durcal.
Hola everybody.
First of all I would like to thank Ray Otto for the extraordinary
review about Reparata & The Delrons´ brand new compilation
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index2005.htm#Reparata . I
enjoyed it a lot. The compilation is fantastic. I love the
pictures included in the luxury booklet.
And talking about pictures, I would also like to thank Hasse Huss
for posting the photo of Teddy Vann.
Continuing with vintage portraits. A couple of days ago I spent
some time looking at pictures of teen idols of the late fifties
and early sixties. I realize that they attract me so powerfully
because time impregnated them with a varnish of unreality. I´m
rather inclined to daydreaming ,and it´s easier for me to use
them for my tortuous fantasies without the interferences derived
from perceiving them as real persons.
This morbid feeling is the subject of a Spanish ye-ye song I like
very much, "Cartel de Publicidad" (advertising poster) a rather
obscure song by Rocio Dúrcal, Phillips 1967. It was composed by
the Spanish beat group Los Brincos, which also accompanied Rocio
in the track. It was one of the songs included in her movie
"Buenos días Condesita" (good morning little countess). In the
song Rocio obsesses and falls in love with a face she sees in a
advertising poster. I going to try to post "Cartel de publicidad"
in musica as a homage to the parallel world that those images
create in my imagination.
Have a nice weekend.
Chao.
Julio Niño.
PS: Al Quaglieri mentions the CBS Building in Manhattan. Some
friends of mine that are architects, refers to it as "The Darth
Vader Building". I love that building.
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:40:51 -0000
From: Lyn Nuttall
Subject: Re: discography websites
Al Quaglieri replied to Country Paul who had asked:
> Anyone else know of amazing labor-of-love reference sites like
> the discography sites I mentioned?
I have a list of such sites in this section of my Links page:
http://www.poparchives.com.au/links.php#27
Lyn
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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:10:07 -0000
From: Phil Hall
Subject: Re: NYC Recording Studios
Al Quaglieri wrote:
> The first Hit Factory was somewhere on W. 48th Street. Then it
> moved to 237 W. 54th Street, into the former Bell Sound Studios.
> Don't know what's left there to see, structurally.
Not much. It's right near Broadway and 54th, and it's just down the
block from the dance studio and Studio 54, and sort of across from
Gold's Gym, where I worked out when I was in town 5 weeks ago. None
of the buildings in the block look all that intersting from the
outside, but you can't tell what's inside the Brill Building or 1650
Broadway by looking at the outside, either.
Phil H.
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Message: 17
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:32:55 -0400
From: Jeff Lemlich
Subject: Re: Vic Milrose & The Changing Scene
Davie:
> The Changing Scene single's from roughly 6/70 presumably issued
> at the same time as their album.
There's a Fontana single from '69 by a group called The Changing
Scene but I don't know if it's the same group as on Avco. The
Fontana single was produced by Dan Oriolo, co-written by Oriolo
and Bobby Flax. If either of those names crops up on the Avco
album (which I've never seen) I think we can safely take it
they're the same group.
As Lyn pointed out, there is a Don Oriolo song on the Changing
Scene Avco album. He is also listed as the arranger and conductor
for this album, which was recorded at Regent Sound Studio in New
York. In all, there are three Vic Milrose songs on the Changing
Scene album. There are some other Spectropop figures among the
songwriting credits on this LP (English-Weiss, Tony Romeo, Mark
Barkan).
The album is pretty tame until the final cut on side two (the
Oriolo track). Things get rather psychedelic, psychotic, and...
umm... interesting then.
Jeff Lemlich
http://www.limestonerecords.com
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Message: 18
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:01:11 -0400
From: ACJ
Subject: Re: "Sold more records..."
Ray: Actually, if I remember the ad right, it said that one of Slim
Whitman's singles - "Rose Marie," I think - was at the top of the
British charts for longer than any single by Elvis and the Beatles.
ACJ
"Optimism works. It is more useful than pessimism." - E.Y. Harburg
U.P. GROOVES!:
http://community.webtv.net/andrucharlz/UPGROOVESTheUpper
OR http://makeashorterlink.com/?P3D352CBB
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Message: 19
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:55:02 -0000
From: David Gordon
Subject: Re: The Changing Scene
I wrote:
> There's a Fontana single from '69 by a group called The Changing
> Scene but I don't know if it's the same group as on Avco. The
> Fontana single was produced by Dan Oriolo, co-written by Oriolo
> and Bobby Flax.
Lyn Nuttall:
> Could that be Don Oriolo?
Don it is - can't read my own handwriting :)
Thanks to Jeff and your goodself for the additional info. on the
Changing Scene - another minor mystery partly solved.
Davie
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Message: 20
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hans Huss
Subject: Re: the Great Nathaniel, and the Magnificent Montague
Phil X Milstein wrote:
> I am willing to bet $20 that the Great Nathaniel was one of the
> many pseudonyms of the journeyman R&B DJ Magnificent Montague.
Phil, I thank you for your wonderful and exhaustive reply. I'm
heading out into cyber space to find a copy of "Burn, Baby! Burn!"
right away...
Hasse Huss
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Message: 21
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:06:29 -0000
From: David Gordon
Subject: Re: discography websites
Not a website as such but there are extensive discographies for
the Amy-Mala-Bell group and all their distributed labels in the
files secton of the Yahoogroup I set up:
Subscribe: amymalabell-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
There's also a second group which covers related labels such as
Madison, Mr. Peacock and Private Stock:
Subscribe: amymalabell2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Davie
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