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There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Gay Songs
From: Austin Roberts
2. Re: Put The Clock Back On The Wall
From: Jeff Lemlich
3. Re: Casey Kasem
From: Mark Wirtz
4. Re: Telstar
From: Richard Hattersley
5. Simon & Garfunkel
From: James Botticelli
6. Re: Casey Kasem
From: Kevin
7. Re: A Christmas Gift to You: A Tribute to Phil Spector
From: Rat Pfink
8. Re: Worst Rhyme In A Song?
From: Austin Roberts
9. Re: Snuff Garrett
From: James Botticelli
10. Is that THE Austin Roberts?
From: Mark
11. Re: Best line in a song
From: Jerry Lintelf
12. Re: Best Line In A Song / Lennon & Levy
From: Albabe Gordon
13. Re: The End Of Albums
From: Bob Hanes
14. Re: Coke ads @ Musica
From: Mike Nathan
15. It all began when Ronnie sang Be My Baby
From: A. Zweig
16. Re: Snuff Garrett
From: Bob
17. Welcome Austin Roberts
From: Mike Rashkow
18. Around The Corner
From: Philip Hall
19. Sonny & Cher / Foreign Language
From: rickinsydney
20. Re: Beatles chronology
From: Clark Besch
21. Albums; one hit wonders
From: Country Paul
22. Re: Around The Corner / Musica
From: S'pop Team
23. Re: Worst Rhyme In A Song?
From: Watson Macblue
24. Irwin's "Gender Bias" music; early synths; Rainy Day discog additions; more
From: Country Paul
25. Re: He Hit Me / new 45s / Connie & Tom?
From: Phil Milstein
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:15:24 EST
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: Gay Songs
OK. I missed the question on the Gay Songs thread, but I was part
of the answer. So fill me in on the original question.
Thanx, Austin Roberts
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:46:59 -0000
From: Jeff Lemlich
Subject: Re: Put The Clock Back On The Wall
That Alan Gordon wrote:
> Jeff Lemlich, regarding CC and the Chasers' version of "Hey Put
> The Clock Back On The Wall", no Jeff, I'm not familiar with that
> version. However it gave me an idea for a follow up: "Hey, Put
> My Name Back On Those Songs"!!! I did of course write both sides
> with Garry Bonner. Is their version any good?
It's good, but not as good as The E-Types or your own version with
The Parrots. I'll make mp3's of both sides and post them to musica
next week.
Jeff Lemlich
http://www.limestonerecords.com
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:59:06 -0500
From: Mark Wirtz
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem
Dan Hughes:
> Casey Kasem is about to be dethroned as radio's countdown king.
Maybe, sorta kinda... YET - in my arrogantly humble opinion - he's
pop music radio/tv's un-throne-able "King"!!! He is to the airwaves
(visible or not) what Sean Connery is to movies, George Carlin and
John Cleese are to comedy, and Tony Bennett is to pop. So, screw the
demographics, and the screw the punters - CASEY IS THE MAN!! HE IS
A STATUE!!!
Severely pissed off,
Mark Wirtz
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:31:28 +0000
From: Richard Hattersley
Subject: Re: Telstar
Albabe Gordon wrote:
> Actually I think the sound in "Telstar" is just a funky organ
> that's been filtered or compressed. And this and none of the
> above qualify as a synth.
The guy who played the lead line on Telstar was Geoff Goddard
(writer of Johnny Remember Me) and he played it on a Clavioline.
Also used on Baby You're A Rich Man by The Beatles.
Richard
http://www.wiz.to/richardsnow
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:07:42 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Simon & Garfunkel
Bob Rashkow com wrote:
> Also: Simon & Garfunkel's "Poem on the Underground Wall" which
> freaked me out a lot more than "Silent Night/7:00 News" did.
What freaked me out even more was seeing them billed at Foxwoods last
weekend to the tune of $250/pop.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:50:02 -0000
From: Kevin
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem
Dan Hughes wrote:
> From the New York Post:
> Casey Kasem is about to be dethroned as radio's countdown king.
> Kasem, 71, whose name has been synonymous with the weekly "American
> Top 40" radio show since he launched it on July 4, 1970, will be
> replaced next month by red-hot DJ Ryan Seacrest, 29, host of Fox's
> "American Idol," according to radio industry sources.
>
> The story spread like wildfire yesterday throughout the radio
> industry, although the syndicator of "American Top 40," Premiere
> Radio Networks, would not confirm or deny that a bombshell
> announcement was imminent.
What a coincidence. I was just listening this morning to "The Letter U
and the Numeral 2" by Negativland, which hilariously documents Casey
Kasem's ignorance, ill temper and condescension to his audience.
Karma, baby.
kjm in la
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:12:08 -0500
From: Rat Pfink
Subject: Re: A Christmas Gift to You: A Tribute to Phil Spector
David A. Young:
> Hi, gang, require the catalogue number, please, and if anyone
> can provide me with a label scan and/or a lead about where I
> can find a copy for myself, I'd greatly appreciate it. Please
> contact me privately if you can help.
Bill Reed:
> There are suds of copies for sale on E-Bay. There are at least
> three different verisons. Curious.
Hmmm, the only thing I see on eBay is Spector's original "A
Christmas Gift For You". I think the original poster was looking
for a Spector Christmas tribute by The Delta Wall of Sound on the
Hallmark label. Actually, I believe that tribute CD is available
with several different titles.
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:49:15 EST
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: Worst Rhyme In A Song?
Superoldies:
> Bobby Fuller ran out of ideas in "Guess We'll Fall In Love":
> "Kiss a-me baby - I'll take your heart
> squeeze a-me baby - I like your SART" (mumbled)
> At least that's an interview story I read, he was very insistant
> on rhyming things no matter what he had to make up...
Sonny Curtis wrote I Fought The Law, which is a great song, but I
doubt that he wrote the one you're talking about.
Austin Roberts
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:14:18 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Snuff Garrett
Artie Wayne wrote:
> James.......How ya' doin'? Have you been able to get Snuff's
> address or phone# for me? My friend Ed Silvers, former president
> of Warner Bros. music, would like to reconnect with him.
Hey Artie...I'm awight thanx. E-Mail my pal David Ponak who works
for Warner's. Tell him you're from Spectropop and I suggested you
contact him. david.ponak@wmg.com
Let me know if it works out. Its the best bet I know of....
JB
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:57:28 -0000
From: Mark
Subject: Is that THE Austin Roberts?
Wow, if that is really the great Austin Roberts, it's good to have
you on board. IMO you rank right up there with Ron Dante and Tony
Burrows as the greatest bubblegum artists of all-time.
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:44:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerry Lintelf
Subject: Re: Best line in a song
> "Catch me if you can, Im goin' back".
Nah! Surely the best-ever song line was from Lennon & McCartney's
"World Without Love":
Please lock me away...
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:50:18 -0800
From: Albabe Gordon
Subject: Re: Best Line In A Song / Lennon & Levy
Best line in a song... More Shangri-Las:
"mm, he's good, bad, but he's not evil."
...and Credence:
"Barefoot girl, dancin' in the moonlight."
Phil said of Lennon & Levy:
> How do others feel about that album?
I really like the remixed cuts on the blue Lennon box set. Less
compressed, louder, more raw, and just a bit more Rock and Roll
than the originals... to me.
peace,
~albabe
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:30:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Hanes
Subject: Re: The End Of Albums
....isn't that where the groove (that's right, there is only one groove
on a record, it runs from the beginning to the end) gets real far apart
and the needle moves quickly toward the label, and then the tone arm
picks up (on automatic turntables) or makes that nasty "skreetch" sound
(on manual ones) against the label, over and over and over ?
Sorry! every time I saw the subject title on this thread, that's all my
twisted brain would think of. Now back to the regular serious cerebral
patter of the list.
The Right Reverend Bob, dumb angel chapel,
Church of the Harmonic Overdub
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:51:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Nathan
Subject: Re: Coke ads @ Musica
Mike, I, too, was amazed at the quality of the compositions performed
in these Coke commercials. If you would, could you forward some to me?
Thanks, Mike Nathan
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:44:11 -0500
From: A. Zweig
Subject: It all began when Ronnie sang Be My Baby
Great Ronettes story here:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031211/SCENE11/TPColumnists/
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:46 -0000
From: Bob
Subject: Re: Snuff Garrett
Artie Wayne wrote:
> James.......How ya' doin'? Have you been able to get Snuff's
> address or phone# for me? My friend Ed Silvers, former president
> of Warner Bros. music, would like to reconnect with him.
Artie, I have Snuff's current phone and address. Get in touch with
me by e-mail at Veefriends@Yahoo.com
Bob
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Message: 17
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:26:05 EST
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Welcome Austin Roberts
Austin Roberts:
> Though I no longer have a copy of Around The Corner, I was fortunate
> enough to be the guitar player in a group in Newport News, Va. when
> I was 19 and backed the Duprees in a concert there when the record
> was first released, so we learned it and their hits as well. It was
> a fun concert.
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome my friend Austin Roberts
as a new member of the Music Mafia. I know him to be talented, funny
and a kind sensitive human being. He has been a force in the biz from
NY to Nashville for 30 years; hits, and awards and an Oscar nominee.
He won't brag, you'll have to drag it out of him, but I'm sure that he
will be nice addition and a valuable contributor to the "A" team on
S'Pop.
If he ever stops "Drinking Canada Dry".
Di la,
Rashkovsky
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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:32:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Philip Hall
Subject: Around The Corner
I tried to load "Around The Corner" by The Duprees up to Musica
last night, but I got a message saying there was not enough space.
What's the trick for loading files?
Phil Hall
Clay, NY
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Message: 19
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:39:56 -0000
From: rickinsydney
Subject: Sonny & Cher / Foreign Language
"Je Me'en Balance" Sonny & Cher 1965 (French/English version of "But
You're Mine")
"Petit Homme" 1966 Sonny & Cher (French version of "Little Man")
"Piccolo Ragazzo" 1966 Sonny & Cher (Italian " " )
"Nel Mio Cielo Ci Sei Tu" Cher 1967 (Italian version of "I Feel
Something In The Air aka "Magic In The Air")
"Ma Piano" 1967 Cher (Italian Original - not recorded in English)
"Mama" 1967 Cher (Italian version of "Mama(When My Dollies Have
Babies")
"Caro, Cara" 1967 Sonny & Cher (Italian version of "It's The Little
Things" from movie "Good Times")
"Fantasie"+ 1967 Cher (Italian version of "Don't Talk To Strangers"
from movie "Good Times")
"Bambini Miei Cari" 1968 Cher (Italian Version of "You Better Sit
Down Kids")
"Il Cammino Di Ogni Speranza" 1968 Sonny & Cher (Italian Original -
Sonny & Cher's entry in 1968 San Remo Song Festival)
"L'umanita" 1968 Sonny (Italian Original - Cher joins Sonny in fade-
out)
All Sonny & Cher duets released in Europe on Atco/Atlantic
All Cher solos released in Europe on Liberty, except+
All tracks produced by Sonny Bono & recorded at Gold Star
except "Little Man" (New York/London)and "Il Cammino..."
& "L'umanita" (Milan).
It's really great that the artistry of Sonny Bono is (somewhat...)
accepted here. Sonny Bono always acknowledged that his apprenticeship
with Phil Spector taught him everything he knew about making records,
and he made some masterpieces. The first 4 Sonny & Cher albums, and
the first 4 Cher solo albums are packed with sonic Spectorian
treasures. The very fact that Sonny stuck with his own version of the
Wall of Sound long after it was commercially viable (in rock'n'roll)
is as much his inspired tribute to learned brilliance as it was to
anything else. When the music world had thoroughly dismissed Sonny by
the early '80s, he was humbled and deeply thankful that he was
acknowledged as a maker of some very fine music.
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:48:26 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: Beatles chronology
I wrote:
> Also, that is where we first heard and recorded the Beatles "Get
> Back" LP played in its entirety with an occasional "KEYN exclusive"
> spoken over the top of songs. The DJ said it would be released in
> Jan '69.
Mike McKay:
> Something's wrong with this chronology. The Beatles had just begun
> recording the tracks that were to appear on "Get Back" (and
> ultimately did appear on "Let It Be") in January of 1969. So there's
> no way anyone could have even played them prior to that, and certainly
> no way a January 1969 release could be promised.
Mike, You are SO CORRECT! The Dj actually said "to be released around,
oh, the first of January...." That was my mistake on the 1969 comment.
I just have a hard time putting 1970 in the Beatles years, I guess.
Anyway, my sincere apologies!
Clark
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Message: 21
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:27:48 -0500
From: Country Paul
Subject: Albums; one hit wonders
Phil M:
> I think of Zager & Evans as the poor man's Simon & Garfunkel.
I must agree with Phil. The rest of you - please don't hate me.
Don Charles wrote:
> USA Today (December 5 - 07 edition) has two lengthy articles
> predicting the imminent death of the album format.
Phil M:
> ...[I]n my cynicism I can't help but wonder if, given the
> article's tone of nostalgia for the dying album, it wasn't
> planted by the RIAA's P.R. department....My own belief is that
> unless the record industry can find some way to truly prevent
> its product from being copied and recopied, then what is doomed
> isn't so much the album as the large-scale record company.
The latest Alvin Toffler book, "The Third Wave" (I think that's the
title), posits that we're on the cusp of just that. The first wave
was agriculture; the second, indusry; and the thirs, information. In
each case, the giants of each wave, as the wave subsided, tried
desperately to hold on to what they had, often so desperately that
it drove away the customers and caused them to set up alternate
sources. Perhaps the coming demise - or at least transformation - of
Big Music fulfills Toffler's theory.
Phil again:
> I think there may be a basic human need for long-form music, for
> coherent collections of songs that only something like an album can
> fulfill....[W]hat may occur...is the retention of the CD, or
> something like it, with albums taking on a more grassroots role,
> made and distributed by the artists themselves.
Some artists have said they'd make more selling self-produced and
-pressed CDs off the bandstand than signing with a major label and
suffering all the creative accounting and hijinks that go along with
it. I think this grassroots role is already happening - a few of my
favorite releases of the past few years have been just this type of
product/project.
> But the music has always risen to the occasion....
Exactly - as long as there's a need to create and to listen to
creations, the medium will ultimately be secondary, in service to the
content.
Friscopedro:
> I honestly feel that listening to a vinyl album, pulled out of that
> big cardboard sleeve with the square foot of artwork on it, and
> flipped over manually at the end of side one, just has a completely
> different vibe to it than listening to a CD, and I'm not talking
> about an aural experience.
Here's a way to stop mass bootlegging: back to vinyl. Digital copies
don't degrade - copies from vinyl do. (Only half joking.)
Orion:
> Billboard would with their book "One Hit Wonders" state that any
> artist/group that never had a song hit the top 40 again, was a one
> hit wonder... Just a thought.
An arbitrary and capricious designation, in my opinion, the kind that
leads to Clear Channelization of the brain. I don't have charts and
examples in front of me, or the time to research them, but many
records that were "lower charters" have had a longer life spans as
oldies than some of their larger brethren.
OK for now - andmoreagain later....
Country Paul
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Message: 22
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:48:49 -0000
From: S'pop Team
Subject: Re: Around The Corner / Musica
Phil Hall:
> I tried to load "Around The Corner" by The Duprees up to Musica
> last night, but I got a message saying there was not enough
> space. What's the trick for loading files?
Dear Phil,
Musica was full. Some space has now been created. So please do try
again.
Please note, if "Around The Corner" by the Duprees is available, or
has ever been available, on a legal CD, kindly do not upload the
track to musica. That would be against our rules.
Thanks,
The S'pop Team
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Message: 23
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:18:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Watson Macblue
Subject: Re: Worst Rhyme In A Song?
Laying aside for the moment that maybe two-thirds of the "rhymes" in
modern rock are actually assonances (and the weird belief that the
"s" at the end of a plural isn't really there when it comes to
rhyming it), my personal bugbear has to be a rhyme in Joni Mitchell's
For Free, which is made all the worse by the fact that it's a perfectly
good rhyme to start with:
I went shopping today for *jewels*
(rhyme) And the children let out from the *schools*
Nothing wrong with that. BUT Our Joni has to get some "style" involved,
so she actually sings "... shopping today for jew - woo - woo - woo -
WELLS". The way she sings it, the last syllable, misplaced stress and
all, rhymes with "bells," so she is left with the bizarre need to
*force* a good rhyme. She sings "...children let out from the schoo -
woo - WELLS". God, that hurts.
I haven't played Ladies Of The Canyon for years, and that's one of the
reasons. Well, that and the sophomoric yodelling vocals, the whining
God-it's-tough-being-rich lyrics, the clunky that-chord's-around-here-
someplace piano-playing etc etc et-goddam-cetera. Add to that the
worst grasp of meter since William McGonagall, and you have a true
Modern Classic. Not.
Now, just let me loose on that host of song-writing clowns who can't get
the case difference between "you and me" and "you and I" ...
Watson
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Message: 24
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:55:04 -0500
From: Country Paul
Subject: Irwin's "Gender Bias" music; early synths; Rainy Day discog additions; more
Same-sex adaptations: Heard today - a synth version (but still
rockin') of Z. Z. Top's "Legs" by a group called Like A Tim (I
don't name 'em, just report 'em) with lead vocal by Gina D'Orio.
No gender switching - "I want her, oh how I need her" was intact.
Also heard another female-led group, Like A Team (same comment as
above), doing a pretty nice versionm of the Beach Boys' "The Lonely
Sea."
Anyone have any leads on a female group called the Jarmelettes?
"The Baby Money Song" is acapella with just percussion in somewhat
of a girl-group style.
All the above courtesy of Irwin Chusid on WFMU; Wednesday afternoons
from 2-3pm (Eastern Time, US) he has a segment called "Gender Bias,"
one hour of female artists. (He even played Sue Thompson's "Norman"
today!) It's archived at http://www.wfmu.org
On to catching up again...
Peter McDonnell wrote:
> I think I heard that the first single to be number one in both
> countries simultaneously was "Get Off Of My Cloud". I have no way
> of knowing if that's erroneous. Anybody?
One of the first UK hits I remember on US charts was Laurie London's
"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands." Was this a simultaneous US/
UK hit? How high did it go in the UK?
Re: The first song to use a synthesizer - would Max Crook's Musitrono
in Del Shannon's "Runaway" count? Or would that be some form of organ?
Incidentally, Irwin (again WFMU) played three Dutch synth artists
from the mid-to-late-50's today, all of who were attempting to make
pop music (instrumentals) and not just bleeps and bloops. These
predate all we've been discussing. Wish I could remember their names;
check the WFMU archives. Creds where due.
Related note from Art Longmire;
> One group that was mentioned in an earlier post was The United
> States of America-I've never heard their album but have always
> heard that it is great.
Overall, yes. Much still holds up. "The American Metaphysical Circus"
and "Love Song To The Dead Che" are outstanding, and the synth work is
smoothly integrated into the whole track. USA is profiled in Irwin
Chusid's book "Songs In The Key of Z" (www.keyofz.com). (There's that
name again - and no, I'm not on Irwin's payroll.)
First, Davie Gordon amazes everyone with the Gazette label discography,
then he compiles a discography of Rainy Day Thank you!!! I'm
completely blown away - and actually, I can even add a little to it:
I think 45-8001 was The Flying Machine, James Taylor's pre-Apple group,
and I believe the A-side was "Rainy Day Man." As I remember it was a
bit more uptempo and a bit poppier arrangement than the Apple version.
(We used to play it on WBRU occasionally as an alternate version.)
There was also an album on the label by the same group, white cover
with a sketch or illustration of some sort.
Re: 45-8002, Chip Taylor's "You Should Be From Monterrey" is an
exceptional quasi-Beach Boys song and arrangement drenched in
Spectorian echo. The flip is "I'll Never Be Alone Again," a very
pretty song which feels like a crossways rewrite of "Whiter Shade of
Pale" (by Procol Harum, one of my - and Bob Rashkow's - favorite
progressive groups). It's the same song as the Kathy McCord version,
with the same instrumental track slightly remixed: the guitars are
more prominent in the Taylor mix, and thus even more predictive of
Daniel Lanois' production techniques than the McCord track.
I also have a copy of the Jeanne Fox record, a self-duetted midtempo
side, very nice arrangement by Chip Taylor on a less-than-memorable
song. This DJ pressing is a double A side, so I can't help on the flip.
I've taken the liberty of re-attaching your discography with the above
additions, Davie, and thank you again.
RAINY DAY distributed by Jubilee
45-8001 - possibly The Flying Machine
[date?]
possibly Rainy Day Man
?
45-8002
CHIP TAYLOR
08/67
You Should Be From Monterey
I'll Never Be Alone Again
Prod : Taylor-Gorgoni Production; Arr : Al; Gorgoni
[this actually charted on KEXO,Colorado according a
survey I found some time ago at the BroadcastAirchecks
Yahoo group - maybe the only station to chart a Rainy
Day release ]
45-8003
HARRY'S GROUP
Under My Umbrella (Chip Taylor,Billy Vera)
Old Man Trouble (Chip Taylor,Billy Vera)
Prod : Chip Taylor,Billy Vera,Al Gorgoni
45-8004
ALICE CLARK
1968
You Got A Deal (Billy Vera)
Say You'll Never (Never Leave Me) (Billy Vera)
Prod : Billy Vera
(UK issue = Action ACT4520, 03 /69)
cd : both on "Got A Good Thing Going" (Sequel NEMCD785)
45-8005
THE M.S.Q.
06/68
Save A Place For Me (Billy Vera ..)
Gee Baby (Billy Vera ..)
Prod : Billy Vera
45-8006
KATHY McCORD
1968
I'll Give My Heart To You (Chip Taylor)
I'll Never Be Alone Again (Chip Taylor,Al Gorgoni)
Prod / Arr : Chip Taylor
45-8007
JEANNE FOX
Working Girl (Chip Taylor)
?
Prod / Arr : Chip Taylor,Al Gorgoni
Ruby:
> The history of House of the Rising Sun is interesting....
> http://customwire.ap.org/specials/interactives/rising_sun/american_tune.html
> Hopefully the link works.
It works indeed. Recommended reading and listening.
Jimmy Botticelli:
> Is that the same rekkid done by the Wildweeds and then Jimmy James
> & The Vagabonds? Great rekkid.
Mike Rashkow:
> Don't know. It was written by Al Anderson who I think was at one
> time NRBQ maybe and has become a major Nashville writer.
FYI, Al was with "the Q" for 23 years.
Harry Jay:
> This one is for Country Paul: Have you heard of a 1946 cover of
> "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" by a girls group, they sounded like the
> Andrews , but I don't think it was them. I've been looking for
> years, I had it on 78, maybe you know someone that may have it.
> Thanks.
Harry, just saw your post. I may be old, but not THAT old! Age aside,
I'm afraid I'm of no help here. Sorry.
Don Charles:
> What do y'all think about this? How will the death of albums impact
> those of us who collect vintage pop and rock?
My two cents;
Personally, I miss singles, although I love albums too. Certain kinds
of music seem to ask for certain formats. I think the record industry
misses some form of singles, too; would their dollar volume be so low
if there was a viable singles format?
Oo-ee bop-a-cow,
Country Paul
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Message: 25
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:52:05 -0500
From: Phil Milstein
Subject: Re: He Hit Me / new 45s / Connie & Tom?
Art Longmire wrote:
> Speaking of masochism, I was doing some research on singer Clydie
> King and came across this label scan:
> http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_wtnb/2801a.jpg
On UK Records. Wasn't that the label owned by Jonathan King?
Bill Brown wrote:
> There are still retail stores that carry new 45's. Circle CD's
> in Cincinnati and it's second shop in Newport, KY are some of them.
I'm curious what kind of new 45s they carry. Mostly indies, I would
imagine. Are any labels still doing "oldies reissue" 45s anymore?
Stuffed Animal wrote:
> But was this Tom Wilson the same one who worked with Connie Francis
> in 1967, producing her LIVE AT THE SAHARA IN LAS VEGAS and single
> sides like "A Letter From A Soldier?"
Could be -- wasn't she on MGM at that point? I doubt they'd have had two
producers with the same name at the same time. Then again, if the Sahara
album was genuinely live, I can't really imagine him going off to Vegas
to supervise it.
--Phil M.
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