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There are 4 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Buddy & Dusty
From: James Botticelli
2. Van McCoy, Ad Libs
From: Art Longmire
3. Re: popping the classics
From: Art Longmire
4. Buddy & Dusty
From: Steve Harvey
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:11:02 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Buddy & Dusty
Add to the Buddy Rich stories, now circulating, Paul Anka Moment(s)
wherein he berates his band saying HE is the show, HE is the center
of attention and they are only there because HE is gaddam IT you bunch
of wimpy f____rs! On it goes.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:45:54 -0000
From: Art Longmire
Subject: Van McCoy, Ad Libs
Astro4004 mentioned being interested in the songwriter
Van McCoy - I second that and have been raving about him
for years. I'm constantly amazed at the variety of artists
that have recorded his work (I haven't heard the Joanie Sommers
song under discussion here).
Possibly my favorite song of his (so far) is the Ad Lib's
version of "Giving Up" on Share Records from 1969. I've heard
the earlier version by Gladys Knight and the Pips but don't have
their record...although I do remember it as being just as good.
Art
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:42:14 -0000
From: Art Longmire
Subject: Re: popping the classics
Phil Chapman:
> Can any of you compilation buffs tell me if there's one
> comprising pop hits lifted from classical themes?
Phil M:
> I've never heard of one, but it sounds like a great idea.
> Whoever intends to take on such a project would do well to
> consider Van Dyke Parks's "Number 9," his delightful
> interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Another one I can think of is "Night of Fear" by the Move -
based on Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
Art
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:09:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Buddy & Dusty
There's a story about Buddy's widow receiving a
call after his death asking for him. She informed the
caller that her husband had passed on. The next day,
the same guy calls asking the same question. She, once
again, relayed Buddy's passing. The day after that she
gets a call from this same guy and is in no mood for
his nonsense.
"I told you yesterday that Buddy has died. What's
wrong with you?"
A pause, then the caller responded, "I know you did. I
just love hearing it."
Buddy was a great talent, but brutal on many of
those around him. I remember him talking, on the
Tonight Show, about Dusty Springfield being a hooker,
swinging her purse around. I can see why she punched
him out. She probably became a hero to a lot of people
just for that fact alone.
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