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There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: To know him is to love him.......in court
From: Andrew Jones
2. Re: Rose Garden CD
From: Clark Besch
3. Barbie
From: Eddy
4. Re: James Brown on PBS American Masters
From: Art Longmire
5. Re: Rose Garden CD
From: Mikey
6. Soul, Funk and the Metropolitan Soul Show on Soul 24-7.com
From: Simon White
7. Re: Italian language versions
From: Don
8. Re: Rose Garden CD
From: Mark
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:41:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Jones
Subject: Re: To know him is to love him.......in court
Paul Urbahns, and anyone else interested:
GOLDMINE, April 25 1997, page 10, column 1:
"Phil Spector has won back the rights to his first hit. In late March
['97] the legendary producer won a fight in British courts over the
rights in Britain to the music and lyrics of 'To Know Him Is To Love
Him' ...
"Spector successfully argued that the 28-year copyright assignment
to Warman Music in 1958 (which then licnsed the song to British-based
Bourne Music) expired in 1986. The victory could mean thousands of
dollars in back royalties for Spector. ..."
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:00:53 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: Rose Garden CD
> If I had a penny for every time a company has left off key tracks
> of an artist's output, I would be a rich man...they lose a lot of
> sales that way. For instance, Rhino put out an Association
> compilation a while back and didn't include "Rose Petals, Incense
> and a Kitten", one of my FAVORITE tracks by them...without that
> track I couldn't spring for the CD.
Art and Mark, I agree with the frustration of leaving singles off
Cds. Altho I cannot fault Rhino too much for leaving off a non-45
song (I haven't even heard it, so I guess I'd better find the Lp &
listen!), I COMPLETELY agree with a group with such little recorded
output as Rose Garden. Not putting on all of their 45 sides when
they only had 2 (3?) to begin with is ridiculous!! My biggest peave
of this type is Rhino leaving off Johnny Rivers' #60 45 "Right
Relations" which I love! How can you put his crappy "Whiter Shade of
Pale" Lp track and leave off a hit??!! Unforgiveable!!
Thanks, Clark
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:22:47 -0000
From: Eddy
Subject: Barbie
I posted a picture in the photo section of an item I came across on
the Net, describing it as a Barbie Set. Anybody have any information
on this ? Are these actually playable records ? What size is this ?
Any information at all appreciated ! Thanks.
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/
Eddy
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:33:49 -0000
From: Art Longmire
Subject: Re: James Brown on PBS American Masters
Neb Rodgers wrote:
> James Brown, American Master.... yeooowwww! This episode comes on
> Wed night 10/29/03 at 9:30pm, on most PBS stations.
Thanks for the tip, I definitely will try to catch J. B. if my local
PBS station runs it.
I have more records by James than by any other artist...although he
is one of my musical gods I must say I've viewed him in a bit of a
different light since reading Fred Wesley's biography "Hit Me Fred!"
recently.
Art
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:35:58 -0500
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Rose Garden CD
Nothing irks me more than when some A&R guy decides to leave
CHART records off a comp in favor of Lp tracks!!
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:24:36 +0000
From: Simon White
Subject: Soul, Funk and the Metropolitan Soul Show on Soul 24-7.com
This Sunday, 2nd November 2003 on Soul 24-7.com
12pm-2pm GMT http://www.soul24-7.com/index.htm
2 hours of SOUL and FUNK followed by
The METROPOLITAN SOUL SHOW.
2 solid hours of 60s, 70s but mainly Northern Soul
This week, for the full four hours ---
The Utterly Marvellous Simon White
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:43:59 -0000
From: Don
Subject: Re: Italian language versions
Paul Urbahns wrote:
> there is a good European Cd out called, "Really!! They Sing
> In Italian!!, (I have Volume 1)
Paul, could you list the tracks for the CD you have? I haven't been
able to find a track listing. There is also a German CD by the same
publishers.
Don
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:45:50 -0000
From: Mark
Subject: Re: Rose Garden CD
> Art and Mark, I agree with the frustration of leaving singles off
> Cds. Altho I cannot fault Rhino too much for leaving off a non-45
> song (I haven't even heard it, so I guess I'd better find the Lp &
> listen!), I COMPLETELY agree with a group with such little recorded
> output as Rose Garden. Not putting on all of their 45 sides when
> they only had 2 (3?) to begin with is ridiculous!! My biggest peave
> of this type is Rhino leaving off Johnny Rivers' #60 45 "Right
> Relations" which I love! How can you put his crappy "Whiter Shade of
> Pale" Lp track and leave off a hit??!! Unforgiveable!!
If I had to guess, then that's simply because the label made the
mistake of getting the artist involved. That is one gigantic mistake.
Never, ever get them involved. They will always have some song that
was a hit or that people liked that they hated and that they don't
want on the package. That's why you get Dion collections that never
include Be Careful of Stones That you throw, the supposed complete
Melissa Manchester missing several charted hits for no good reason,
The Shades of Blue on Collectibles missing one A-side (How Do You
Save A Dying Love) which they asked to be left off. I could go on but
when you get these collections put together its next to impossible to
get them done right when you have to deal with 1) Labels like CCM
which are too cheap or lazy to include non-LP tracks even when there
is room, such as the Rose Garden and the We Five comp. (also missing
1 a-side) or Collectibles doing Beverly Bremers but leaving off
another 8-10 tracks all recorded on the same label (Scepter). 2)
People putting the collections together who have no concept of the
artist they are compiling and are not bright enough to pick up the
Whitburn books to check chart records. 3) Artist involvement, the one
sure thing that guarantees that there will be songs missing.
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