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There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. You Guys
From: Mike Hinstridge
2. Re: Let's Call It A Day Girl
From: Max Weiner
3. Re: Gary Bonner
From: John Berg
4. Williams & Van Outen
From: Stuart Miller
5. You're No Good
From: Ian Chapman
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Message: 1
Date: Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:52pm
From: Mike Hinstridge
Subject: You Guys
You Guys,
I have only been a member for a few days, but you guys really
get some chases going. Let me explain, I was looking for info
on Flamma Sherman, 'coz I'm old enough to remember them first
time round (57), when I saw on Google mention of you. I also
saw mention of The Turtles. I have about 10 of their singles,
so I had to play them again - after I found them (I have moved
four times in the last 10 years various parts of Liverpool).
I agree with you all, they are great songs and they still work
for me.
Various artists get mentioned, some of whom I have records of.
I was really pleased to see Maxine Brown and Dee Dee Warwick
come up, especially HQ's notice about Maxine's site (thanks).
Barbara Acklin is a singer I know of but no records, alas.
So I have spent all afternoon reorganising my singles and being
reminded of records I had long since forgotten about. I knew I
had LPs by Baby Washington, but not several singles. Also more
singles by Dee Dee Warwick than I knew as well as numerous singles
by other singers of that style and era. My favourites are Irma
Thomas, Margie Joseph, Ann Peebles, Carla Thomas and so many
others. I've spent all afternoon sorting the records and it's
all your faults, but it was worth it. THANKS.
Does anybody know anything of The Association now?
I even got emails from Flo and Eddie. Wow! Likewise Bonner and
Gordon - great songs and they still stand up.
Mike
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Message: 2
Date: Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:11pm
From: Max Weiner
Subject: Re: Let's Call It A Day Girl
Ken Bell wrote:
> .....I knew that I remembered "Let's Call It A Girl Day",
> but I don't think I would have remembered who sang it.
Hi Ken;
The Razor's Edge from Palm Beach Florida did "Let's Call It
A Day Girl". It was issued on POW records, of which I happen
to have a mint copy. I believe at one point, the 4 Preps did
it also in the early sixties (I think it was the 4 Preps,
at least)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:10pm
From: John Berg
Subject: Re: Gary Bonner
I had heard of the Magicians, but until the Sundazed CD
compilation had never heard their music. What a voice Gary
Bonner has! A friend here in the Seattle area had contact a
few years back with a collector in the Chicago area who claimed
to have tapes of lots of Bonner demos, including songs like "Happy
Together". Alas, my friend did not have the right bait to strike
a tape trade deal with the windy city fellow. But this tells me
that tapes exist and the right label should be able to pry loose
this treasure for all of us to hear (assuming Gary Bonner himself
would consent, maybe even assist.) I would love to see a complete
Gary Bonner CD released by Sundazed or Rev-Ola or some label of
that ilk. If anybody else on the S-pop list can tell us more about
these demos, "we are all ears".
John Berg
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Message: 4
Date: Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:02pm
From: Stuart Miller
Subject: Williams & Van Outen
D. Bassett wrote:
> Came across a version of 'Can't take my eyes off of you'
> by Andy Williams and Denise Van Outen....... Can someone
> offer an opinion as to how/why this record was made? It was
> a Frank Valli hit (in the pop era) not one of Andy Williams
> charttoppers!. Is there a connection between the performers?
> Was it from a film? Always curious
Although this song is known as a Frankie Valli song, regretfully
in the UK it is known as an Andy Williams hit, as Andy did a
cover a short time after and it was that version which charted
over here.
I can't remember if the two of them did it for a particular reason
or not. Andy might have been touring here at the time and Denise
would not have said "no" to a possible chart hit. I think it
"tickled" the lower regions.
Stuart
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Message: 5
Date: Mon Oct 20, 2003 0:37am
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: You're No Good
The version I want to hear is the hitherto unissued one by
Alma Cogan, supposedly still languishing in the EMI vaults.
Ian
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