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There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. White Light/Black Heat
From: Steve Harvey
2. Re: Run For Your Life
From: Rob Stride
3. The Great White Blunder
From: Steve Harvey
4. Re: Viva
From: Mikey
5. Hanukkah
From: Lapka Larry
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:30:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: White Light/Black Heat
Scott Charbonneau wrote:
> Besides, did not John Cale, when recalling the White Light/White
> Heat sessions, observe that Wilson was more concerned with which
> blonde he was going to screw next?
No wonder Andy didn't have time to produce that album!
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:33:16 -0000
From: Rob Stride
Subject: Re: Run For Your Life
Q:
> How come nobody sued them over using that line, but got Lennon
> for the "here comes old flattop"?
Steve Bonilla:
> The verse melody of "Come Together" is basically "You Can't
> Catch Me" slowed down. It wasn't just the line. It was the line
> used with the melody that got John popped.
Chuck Berry was going to sue but Lennon agreed to do a couple of
Berry tracks on his Rock N Roll album, or so the story goes.
Rob
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:34:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: The Great White Blunder
Dan Hughes wrote:
> Seems to me there must be cases (help me folks) where bootleg
> releases brought forgotten artists back into the limelight and
> gave them a second career?
Probably helped Mr. Zimmerman after he fell offa his motasickle.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:12:52 -0500
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Viva
The VIVA label....."Questions and Answers"!! By The In Crowd, who
were The Eliglbles in disguise.
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:44:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Lapka Larry
Subject: Hanukkah
To All Who Answered My Hanukkah Query:
Thanks for the answers. You all bring interesting
perspectives to the question. Funny, but my mother may
have given me the best answer of all.
My son had a project to do in his third grade class
where he was to ask his parent or grandparent about
the holidays. He spoke to my mother about Hanukkah,
and she told him that it wasn't really celebrated in a
big way until she had children; that as a child, it
wasn't looked upon as it is today. So, since I was
born in 1957 and my sister in 1959, my parents'
generation, those born in the 1930s, did not celebrate
the holiday the "modern" way until the 1950s or 1960s,
so, in essence, the way we celebrate Hanukkah today
has only been around about 40 years.
Of course, this is why such writers as Irving Berlin
and Mel Torme only had the perspective of the outsider
looking in, and perhaps why the Streisands and
Diamonds may have never celebrated the modern Hanukkah
until they had their own kids in the 1960s and 1970s.
However, in my mind that does not let them, or more
contemporary and younger artists, from completely
forgetting about their holiday. When I hear Barry
Manilow say that the Christmas songs he sings are
simply "holiday" songs, my question to him would be,
"And what holiday are you talking about?" These have
nothing to do with his faith and certainly nothing to
do with Hanukkah.
Why more modern and younger Jewish performers have not
embraced the "modern" Hanukkah that they grew up with
is a mystery that only they know the answer to. The
same talent that has supplied us with such wonderful
modern Christmas music could do the same with Hanukkah
music, if they really wanted to. And again, Streisand
could make a gold record out of a piece of wood if she
really wanted to.
Are there Hanukkah songs out there, or songs that lend
themselves to the holiday? You bet there are. I hate
to make a commercial out of this, but I run some other
groups that some of you belong to, and before long, I
will upload some songs that I've found to those sites.
I think you'll see that the modern Hanukkah can be
celebrated, and enjoyed in popular music as much as
any other holiday.
I probably am a bit bitter about the entertainment
industry's treatment of this holiday, but I mean no
harm toward my Christian brothers and sisters. It's
just that my family and I respect Christmas, but it is
not our holiday; we happen to celebrate Hanukkah. When
I get Christmas cards from Jewish relatives, I know
that something is amiss.
Larry Lapka
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