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SPECTROPOP - Spectacular! Retro! Pop!
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There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Not So Young
From: Steve Harvey
2. Re: Dora Hall
From: Peter Lerner
3. Re: "You're No Good"
From: Peter Lerner
4. Re: Vline Buggy
From: Michel Gignac
5. Re: Mercy Mercy Mercy
From: Paul Urbahns
6. Luis Bravo single
From: Andrew Jones
7. Re: Mercy Mercy Mercy
From: Mikey
8. Re: The Ronstadt law
From: Bill George
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:13:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Not So Young
Rashkovsky wrote:
> And Andre Previn/David Rose's "Like Young" ...
> Wasn't that used as the original theme song for the
> first Playboy's Penthouse TV Show. Or am I the only
> one old enough to remember that show?
What's a "Playboy's Penthouse," Uncle Mike?
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:52:06 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: Dora Hall
Art Longmire:
> Glad to hear someone else is into Dora Hall...she did record
> some interesting covers. I have her version of Randy Newman's
> "Did He Call Today, Mama" and it's not at all bad!
Yes, and she also recorded the only known cover of Jackie
DeShannon's excellent "Franklin Street". Who selected her
material? They had class.
Peter
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:54:50 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: "You're No Good"
Bill George wrote:
> At least one exception: (Linda Ronstadt's version of) "You're No
> Good" is better than the original to my ears.
James Botticelli added:
> Once you hear Dee Dee Warwick do it you'll swear off Linda.
But I say Barbara West's version (Ronn Records) is the very best.
Peter
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:03:47 -0000
From: Michel Gignac
Subject: Re: Vline Buggy
Patrick Rands wrote:
> On a related note, anyone know anything about V(l)ine Buggy?
> I think (s)he may have re-written a bunch of songs for the
> French market, I see h(er) name all over a Claude Francois
> album I have, but I don't know who (s)he is. Always loved
> h(er) name!
Patrick,
One fact which may be interesting about Vline Buggy is that,
originally, this name was for a duo! Vline's name is Liliane
Vuillieme. She composed her first songs with her sister Buggy
- they were called Vline/Buggy. In early sixties, Buggy died.
Vline went on writing songs, but kept the pseudonym of the duo.
So Buggy became like a surname for Vline !
Michel Gignac.
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:55:55 EDT
From: Paul Urbahns
Subject: Re: Mercy Mercy Mercy
Mikey said:
> I remember Buddy Rich and his band on the Playboy Show, playing
> a groovy version of "Mercy Mercy Mercy".
I either had or still have that record. I think it was issued on a
Liberty type label. Liberty was very much into jazz.
Paul Urbahns
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Jones
Subject: Luis Bravo single
Here's an oddity in my collection. It's a Philips single,
from (I'd say) 1965-66. The A-side is a Tony Romeo tune,
"Adios Senorita." (It's in English.) The B-side does to
"Guantanamera" what Ritchie Valens did to "La Bamba" (with
brass added yet!). The credited singer is one Luis Bravo;
but the only Luis Bravo I can find info about is a Latino
trumpeter who only got active in the 1990s. (The single is
arranged and conducted by Dick Wolfe, if that helps.)
Anybody have info about it?
Thanx.
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:07:15 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Mercy Mercy Mercy
Mikey:
> I remember Buddy Rich and his band on the Playboy Show, playing
> a groovy version of "Mercy Mercy Mercy".
Paul:
> I either had or still have that record. I think it was issued on a
> Liberty type label. Liberty was very much into jazz.
You're probably right Paul, because Buddy WAS on Liberty in
the late 60s.
Mikey
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:41:11 EDT
From: Bill George
Subject: Re: The Ronstadt law
Bill:
> At least one exception: (Linda Ronstadt's version of) "You're No
> Good" is better than the original to my ears.
James Botticelli:
> Once you hear Dee Dee Warwick do it you'll swear off Linda.
I was refering to Betty Everett's version. I'd love to hear Dee Dee's.
Is it possible to play it to musica?
-Bill
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