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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Seasons concept album
From: Dave Heasman
2. Re: Beatles
From: Paul Bryant
3. Metropolitan Soul Northern Playlist - 23rd November
From: Simon White
4. Re: The First Disco Rekkid
From: James Botticelli
5. Re: Beverley Sisters - there were never such devoted....
From: Ian Chapman
6. Re: Disco Rocks (on Ace Records)
From: Art Longmire
7. Re: The Guilloteens
From: Billy G. Spradlin
8. Re: Bob Seger
From: Billy G. Spradlin
9. Re: Hollies
From: Billy G. Spradlin
10. Re: The Seagulls
From: The Faux J.C.
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:43:28 -0000
From: Dave Heasman
Subject: Re: Seasons concept album
Stuart tells us :-
> "Genuine Imitation" is not dark or gloomy. Radical departure it may
> have been but it is filled with truly excellent songs that more than
> stand the test of time. By this stage in their careers, the Seasons
> were pack chasers and were no longer setting the trends. Their
> problem was though that when they fixed on a genre to copy, they did
> it rather well. "Watch the Flowers Grow" (San Francisco '67), "Electric
> Stories" (rock), "Who Loves You" (disco and darn, that one slipped
> through and was a hit).
I bought "Genuine Imitation" in about 1970, as a cut-out. I could never
get into it.
The Seasons did lead a trend again in '72, with their Mowest album
"Chameleon". Richard Williams hipped us to it in the Melody Maker, and
he was as right as ever, it's a marvellous powerful 70s record.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:50:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Bryant
Subject: Re: Beatles
Clark Besch wrote:
> I love talking about those first times I heard Beatles songs.
> My brothers and I lived for being the first to tape new
> Beatles recordings! Anyway, it was a lot of fun spinning
> the dial in the 60s awaiting the new Beatles tracks!
I recall the extraordinary jolt I got when I first heard
"Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Eleanor Rigby". I was a major pop
fan by 1966 but this just wasn't pop music. It was....something
...else...
pb
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:02:49 +0000
From: Simon White
Subject: Metropolitan Soul Northern Playlist - 23rd November
JAMES CARR - FREEDOM TRAIN - GOLDWAX
GEORGE FREEMAN - WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS - SHOUT
OTIS REDDING - SOMETHING IS WORRYING ME - VOLT
BOSS FOUR - WALKING BY - RIM
GARNETT MIMMS - A LITTLE BIT OF SOAP - U.A.
POOKIE HUDSON - JEALOUS HEART - DOUBLE L
FREDDIE SCOTT - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE - COLPIX
FREDDIE SCOTT - SPANISH HARLEM - COLPIX
FREDDIE SCOTT - WHERE DOES LOVE GO - COLPIX
GEORGE JACKSON - THAT LONELY NIGHT - CAMEO
TYRONE DAVIS - LET ME BACK IN - DAKAR
PRETTY PURDIE - MODERN JIVE - DATE
DORI GRAYSON - NEVER LET GO - MURCO
ERNESTINE ANDERSON - YOU CANT BUY LOVE - MERCURY
BABY WASHINGTON - YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE - SUE
BABY DOLLS - I WILL DO IT - BOOM
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - GO HEAD ON - PHILIPS
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - BRING HIM BACK - PHILIPS
SISSIE HOUSTON - DON'T COME RUNNING TO ME - KAPP
BARBARA COOPER - WHAT'S ONE MORE TEAR - RCA
MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS - TALKIN' 'BOUT LOVE -
CHUBBY CHECKER - YOU JUST DON'T KNOW - LONDON
CHUBBY CHECKER - YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT BABY - PARKWAY
CHUBBY CHECKER - EVERYTHING'S WRONG - CAMEO PARKWAY
LINK EDDY COMBO - MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM - REPRISE
WOODEN TRUMPET - THEME FROM NYPD - AMY
DREAMS BAND - CHARGE - DC SOUND
FANTASTIC FOUR - CAN'T STOP LOOKING FOR MY BABY - RIC TIC
FANTASTIC FOUR - GOT TO HAVE YOU LOVE - WESTBOUND
FANTASTIC FOUR - THE NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME - MOTORCITY
ASHFORD AND SIMPSON - HIGHRISE - CAPITOL
WILLIAM BELL - PASSION - TOUT ENSEMBLE
DEE DEE WARWICK - HOUSE OF GOLD - MERCURY
FABULETTES - SCREAMIN' AND SHOUTIN' - SOUNDSTAGE 7
CHERYL WILLIAMS - EVERYBODYS HAPPY BUT ME - BENGEE
DIXIE CUPS - WHAT KIND OF FOOL - HMV
FRANKIE VALLI - YOU'RE GONNA HURT YOURSELF - SMASH
LITTLE JOE ROMAN - WHEN YOU'RE LONESOME - TUFF
LEE ANDREWS - CAN'T GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU - LOST NITE
VITO AND THE SALUTATIONS - I'D BEST BE GOING - SANDBAG
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:04:12 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: The First Disco Rekkid
Fred wrote:
> Another contender, though later (from 1969), is one by the
> Intrigues called "In A Moment" on Yew Records.
No bout a dout it, but remember! Yew was Philly. Philly begat
disco. Thank you.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:30:32 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Re: Beverley Sisters - there were never such devoted....
Dave Heasman wrote:
> HMV has nothing but: BEVERLEY SISTERS The Very Best Of £5.99
> As you can see, they're largely covers of early 50s just-
> pre-rock n roll songs.
Yes, except for "Long Black Nylons", which is an out-and-out
rock 'n' roll raver, sung to the tune of "Clementine". Has
one of wildest 50s manic sax breaks y'ever heard.
BTW, Country Paul - remember the pic that featured on the
S'pop home page a few weeks ago with the Walker Brothers
high-kicking with a trio of blonde girls in identical outfits?
They were the Beverley Sisters. The "why-the-hell-are-we-
doing-this?" expression on Scott Walker's face was priceless.
Ian
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:31:44 -0000
From: Art Longmire
Subject: Re: Disco Rocks (on Ace Records)
Stuffed Animal wrote:
> Speaking of prototype disco records, if you want to hear
> sixty (count 'em!) 60 of 'em, look no further than Rob
> Finnis's superb LAND OF 1,000 DANCES compilation, two volumes
> of which have been released on Ace Records and can be found at
> http://www.cduniverse.com and other online music outlets.
> These two CDs are spilling over with great rock 'n' roll
> dance music that was undoubtedly played in US discotheques in
> the '60s.
Hello Don,
Thanks for giving these two great compilations their props! Actually
I just have volume two - I purchased it primarily for "Madison Time"
by the Ray Bryant Combo, but it is loaded with great tracks - another
track I had been looking for was "The 81" by Candy and the Kisses -
I had been aware of it for years but never got a chance to hear it
until I got this CD. What a classic of uptempo girl group pop! Also
I just love "Bacon Fat" by Andre Williams and "Cool Shake" by the Del-
Vikings.
I have two questions regarding the other version of "Madison Time" by
Al Brown's Tunetoppers (which I have never heard) - is it as good as
Ray Bryant's version? And which version came first?
As a record collector, I've long been interested in dance records,
especially from the 50s and 60s...hopefully we'll see more
collections like these in the future!
Art
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:39:25 -0000
From: Billy G. Spradlin
Subject: Re: The Guilloteens
>From Amber:
> The Guilloteens "I Don't Believe" (HBR 446, 1965)
> The Righteous Brothers meet the MFQ. One listen and it becomes
> easier to envisage the unissued Phil Spector-produced version.
Thanks for playing it! I have a Guilloteens 45, "I Dont Believe"
(HBR 486) and it's a great garage rocker, but it's not as sublime
as that first 45.
The Searchers recorded a great cover of "I Don't Believe" on a BBC
session back in 1965-6; it's a shame they never cut a studio version.
It's on thier 30th Anniversary collection from Sequel and I think
Collectables also re-released it in the USA.
Billy
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:16:31 -0000
From: Billy G. Spradlin
Subject: Re: Bob Seger
For years Seger has mentioned in interviews that he and (I think his
now former) manager Punch Andrews were going to release a compilation
of his early singles. After 20 years and 2 Greatest Hits CDs of his
post-"Night Moves" work, there's no word if those early singles will
ever be reissued.
I dont know who owns his early singles, but many of them were released
by Cameo. I guess those records are in the same legal limbo that
other Cameo/Parkway artists are. Allan Klein owns them, but will never
release them on CD because he doesn't want to pay royalties to the
people involved in making them.
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:26:08 -0000
From: Billy G. Spradlin
Subject: Re: Hollies
Clark wrote:
> Billy, "Look Thru Any Window" became my fave song of the 60s
> when it was released in '65. Today, I would have to count it
> as in my top 5 fer sure. Don't ask me why, but everytime I
> hear those opening notes, I think of my tape of it off WLS'
> Dex Card show (where it reached #3)with Dex belting out "Here
> are the Hollies on 8-9-0 a go go!". A great great song! WLS
> even played "If I Needed Someone"!
Whenever I listen to mid 60s recordings of the Cryan Shames,
Ides Of March, The New Colony Six (after Ronnie Rice joined)
and the Buckinghams (who recorded a great revved-up cover of
"I've Been Wrong Before"), it sounds to me like the Hollies
were a huge influence on Chicagoland garage bands in 1965-66.
Billy
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:21:08 -0000
From: The Faux J.C.
Subject: Re: The Seagulls
Art Longmire wrote:
> I have two 45s by the Seagulls, both on Date, and both are great
> favorites. "Anabel" is a beautiful, dreamy and melancholy pop
> number and is the b-side of the Seagulls' great version of Dave
> Davies' "Death of a Clown". The other 45 is a song called "Shooting
> At the Moon With a Slingshot", another excellent and more upbeat
> song. No question, I'd love to see any of these on a compilation
> someday.
Art,
The Seagulls' 45s
"Charlie No One", "Death Of A Clown", "Don't Go Out Into The Rain
(You're Gonna Melt)", "Hitting The Moon With A Sling Shot",
and "Twiggs" are all on different CDs in the Bubblegum Motherf***er
CD bootleg series. They generally sound pretty good, fidelity-wise,
although I believe in many cases, the songs have been digitally
cleaned up and mastered from 45s. Still, nice to have on CD.
Also, along the same lines, (along pretty much the exact same line
really, soundwise), the San Francisco Earthquake 45s are included in
that series as well. The singles "Bring Me Back A Little Water",
"Everybody Laughed", "Fairy Tales Can Come True (Have You Heard About
Lucy?)", "Hold The Night", "Sophia", "Su Su", "The Day Lorraine Came
Down" and "That Same Old Fat Man" are all included in varying sound
qualities, mostly pretty good to excellent. I know the "Anabel"
single as well. It's a keeper.
Cheers!
The Faux J.C.
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