Spectropop - Digest Number 1051

• From: Spectropop Group
• Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003

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There are 11 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Re: Instrumental hits
           From: Mac Joseph 
      2. Re: Jim Fairs from the Cryan' Shames
           From: Martin Jensen 
      3. Re: Richard Perry / Tiny Tim
           From: Simon White 
      4. Earl-Jean/Darlene/Ethel/Margie/Pat/Dorothy/Margaret
           From: John Clemente 
      5. More on the Cryan' Shames
           From: Art Longmire 
      6. Re: Playboy Records
           From: Marty Childress 
      7. Misty Lane LPs - Flowers to US/World
           From: Markt 
      8. Katch-22
           From: Markt 
      9. Re: The Settlers
           From: Markt 
     10. Pop-Psych
           From: Markt 
     11. Re: Playboy Records
           From: Markt 


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Message: 1
      Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:36:11 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Mac Joseph 
Subject: Re: Instrumental hits

Hey, Phil;
No instrumental collection would be complete without Duane Eddy's 
"Because They're Young" or "Rebel Rouser" with "Teenage" Steve 
Douglas on sax. Then there were the Marketts with "Out of Limits" 
and "Batman", both of whom featured Carol Kaye on bass. And, as an 
oddball, in 1965  Buck Owens released "Buckaroo" which actually 
peaked at #1, an amazingly rare feat, considering instrumentals 
weren't part of the country scene back in 1965, but Don Richs' 
guitar in that song is just that,... Rich!
Hope this helps a little bit.
Mac Joseph



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Message: 2
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:15:05 -0000
   From: Martin Jensen 
Subject: Re: Jim Fairs from the Cryan' Shames

Karl wrote:
> In 1969 Jim Fairs recorded with Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine on 
> their album These Things Too.

Thanks for the info, Karl & Scott. He should have recorded a solo 
album - he definately had the ideas and the voice for pulling it off. 
But who knows, perhaps a great long lost treasure is lying around, 
just waiting to be unearthed? :-)

With regards
Martin, Denmark



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Message: 3
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:00:43 +0100
   From: Simon White 
Subject: Re: Richard Perry / Tiny Tim

Phil Milstein:
> I've just learned that regular Rhino will soon be reissuing Rhino
> Handmade's fantastic Tiny Tim's live at Royal Albert Hall CD...

Is this the "Concert In Fairyland" L.P.?



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Message: 4
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:29:38 -0400
   From: John Clemente 
Subject: Earl-Jean/Darlene/Ethel/Margie/Pat/Dorothy/Margaret

Hello All,

At the risk of sounding like a girl-group snob, I must ask, 
"was my writing totally in vain?"  Girl Groups has been out 
for three years; Margaret Ross has been making her rounds with 
some public appearances, answering innumerable questions 
concerning the history of the Cookies, yet I still see references 
to these totally outdated biographies.  It is very exciting to 
find out about our favorite artists and we are all the self-
proclaimed heralds of history through the sharing of mutual 
experiences, so, let's UPDATE!!!!!!  I know not everyone was 
thrilled with my writing, but geez!!  Give credit where credit 
is due.  I sat in the same room with Darlene, Earl-Jean, Margaret 
and Dorothy.  Trust me...Dorothy started the Cookies with Darlene.  
Darlene's real name is Ethel.  She hated it; that's why she uses 
Darlene.  Earl-Jean is five years younger.  They are NOT the same 
person.  Margie Hendrix was put in the group by Jesse Stone after 
he fired original member Beulah Robertson.  Margie and Darlene 
joined the Raeletts.  The Raeletts were never the Cookies.  
Ray Charles formed the group by asking two girls who happened to 
be in the Cookies to be in his backing group, which HE named. 
They accepted.  Dorothy was never a Raelett.  Pat Lyles was 
never a Cookie.  Later there will be a quiz.  I expect this all 
to be committed to memory.

Regards,

John Clemente





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Message: 5
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:40:39 -0000
   From: Art Longmire 
Subject: More on the Cryan' Shames

Thanks, Clark, for your very detailed story on Jim Fairs and 
the Cryan' Shames - the Shames have been favorites since I 
picked up on "The Warm" in 1984. Also have their second and 
third albums on record and CD - they were an amazingly eclectic 
group even for the late 60s.  It must have been something to 
hear them perform "The Warm" live with all the harmonies, then 
go into a crushing number like "Greenburg, Glickstein, etc." 
I've also got to mention my other favorite song of theirs - 
"The Sailing Ship" - really a psychedelic classic.

Strangely enough, for many years I've had the title track to 
"These Things Too" by Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine on a 
Warners compilation album - I never knew until today that Jim 
Fairs was involved in it.

Art Longmire




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Message: 6
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:44:54 -0000
   From: Marty Childress 
Subject: Re: Playboy Records

While on the subject, a Playboy Records release of possible 
interest to Northern Soul/Funk fans:
  
7" 45rpm on the AL KING label.

LARRY ELLIS & THE BLACK HAMMER 

FUNKY THING PART 1/FUNKY THING PART 2

MANUFACTURED BY PLAYBOY RECORDS, INC 
555 PLAYBOY - 666 PLAYBOY MUSIC BMI
PRODUCED BY AL KING
PLAYBOY DIST.
N.Y.C.
(212) 243-3678"

I can personally attest to the fact that a copy in only vg+ went 
for $632.50 this past May...

Marty Childress in Louisville




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Message: 7
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:20:59 -0000
   From: Markt 
Subject: Misty Lane LPs - Flowers to US/World

Any reviews on these 2 LPs put out in Italy?  Musically and 
soundwise.  I have a lot of the tracks already on the US one.




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Message: 8
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:29:38 -0000
   From: Markt 
Subject: Katch-22

Have any of the reissue people,legit or otherwise, thought of 
putting together a compilation of this excellent British pop 
group?  I have their LP and 3 of their 6 singles.  There is 
certainly enough material and all of it is excellent. It seems 
that Castle does an outstanding job of reissuing the Pye catalogue 
but that other Brit labels bury their stuff, especially CBS UK.  
RCA UK is no better. 




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Message: 9
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:37:31 -0000
   From: Markt 
Subject: Re: The Settlers

Lindsay Martin wrote:

> I think the Settlers were a British folkie group.
> They had a tiny hit in the UK in 1971 with "The Lightning Tree", 
> theme to a TV series called Follyfoot Farm.  In about '67 their 
> "Till Winter Follows Spring" got a bit of airplay here in 
> Australia, but disappeared without trace, although it is on 
> one of the Ripples CDs.  I believe they recorded it again with 
> Cliff Richard, along with some gospel tracks.  

I collect The Settlers but only their stuff from when they went to 
the Pye label and after.  Very Seekers sounding from that point on. 
Prior to that they had more of a traditional folkie sound but they 
then changed to folk-pop.  I believe they had 6 Pye singles, 03 on 
Columbia and then a couple of albums on York.




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Message: 10
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:53:55 -0000
   From: Markt 
Subject: Pop-Psych

I think this term has gotten out of hand and is now used for any 
and all mid to late 60s pop-rock. I have seen this used on things 
like The Love Generation.  Now I love this group and their sound. 
I wish they never found out that David Cassidy could sing and that 
they used the Bahler brothers to do all of the show's songs as they 
originally intended.  But calling them pop-psych?  Come on!  When I 
describe the group I tell people it's like Partridge Family but 
without the edge.  Is the Partridge Family pop-psych?  What about 
The Cowsills?  To me, pop-psych is Strawberry Alarm Clock, early 
Status Quo and things of that ilk.




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Message: 11
   Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:56:06 -0000
   From: Markt 
Subject: Re: Playboy Records

Good info from Austin Powell.  I wondered what happened to 
the label's tapes.  Not much has ever come out on CD from 
Playboy except for "Falling in Love Again" by Hamilton, Joe 
Frank & Reynolds.




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