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SPECTROPOP - Spectacular! Retro! Pop!
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There are 7 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Jamie/Guyden archive cleanout
From: Frank Lipsius
2. Re: Casey Kasem
From: Dan Hughes
3. Re. It all began when Ronnie sang Be My Baby
From: Paul Bryant
4. Pop Fans In The New York Area...
From: Michael
5. Best lines From Songs
From: Rob Stride
6. Re: Laurie London
From: Paul Bryant
7. Re: David Hemmings
From: Bill George
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:48:44 -0500
From: Frank Lipsius
Subject: Jamie/Guyden archive cleanout
Cleaning out the cobwebs in the archive, Jamie/Guyden put 20 vinyl
records up on ebay, including Phil Spector's Back to Mono on 5 LPs
(including his Christmas album), a number of 60s and 70s singles on
Jamie, Silver Dollar, Arctic and Vent. Most of the singles expire
tomorrow while LPs by the Righteous Brothers, Kit Kats and others
were just put up. Seller is Fanattics.
Frank Lipsius
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:51:01 -0600
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem
Mark Wirtz wrote:
> 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!!!
Mark, have you heard Casey's infamous Dead Dog Dedication?
Check it out: http://radio.about.com/library/virtual/blvirtualdj8.htm
(this is a bleeped version; unbleeped versions abound on the
internet--just do a Google search).
---Dan
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:10:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Bryant
Subject: Re. It all began when Ronnie sang Be My Baby
A. Zweig wrote:
> Great Ronettes story here:
>http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031211/SCENE11/TPColumnists/
Ronnie as the first female rock star? Gimme a break!
What about Brenda Lee?
Oh those sleazeball journos always trying to hype
everything up.
pb
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:12:39 -0000
From: Michael
Subject: Pop Fans In The New York Area...
Hi everyone.
This Saturday night, those of you in the New York area are
invited to stop by Rififi/Cinema Classics (332 East 11th
Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenue) between 10:30 PM and 4:00
for my monthly undertaking, POP GEAR!
Myself and Kittybeat and Dawn Eden (a name many of you know
from almost 100 CDs that feature her liner notes, such as 'The
Association, Just The Right Sound' or The Collector's Choice
Peter And Gordon compilation), will spin a fab mix of the finest
1960s garage, psych, beat, Mod, surf and everything 'n between.
And on this particular night, we're turning POP GEAR! into a MOD
CHRISTMAS BALL by sprinkling in some psychedelic seasonal sounds
and rare 1960s holiday recordings into the night's usual
soundtrack.
We deck the walls (not the halls) with vintage 1960s magazine
articles, and we play rare 1960s video clips on the large
videoscreen all night.
Now that I've been posting in here and conversing pop music with
many of you (both on and off list), it would be great to meet some
of you in person.
Come celebrate the holidays in 1960s style at the...
POP GEAR!/MOD CHRISTMAS BALL!
Saturday December 13th
RIFIFI/CINEMA CLASSICS
332 East 11th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenue)
New York City
Thanks!
-Michael
(PS: If you can't make it this Saturday, remember that POP GEAR!
is always the second Saturday of the month.)
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:17:03 -0000
From: Rob Stride
Subject: Best lines From Songs
A couple of my favourites:
Eric Carmen - Nowhere To Hide
"Sippin' on a scotch and soda, a shadow in the corner booth,
so philosophic and drunk on grown-up truth"
And Bowie - Life On Mars
"Now the workers have struck for fame, `cause Lennon's on sale
again"
I wonder if this was the starting point for the song "Fame"
written and recorded by Lennon & Bowie some 4 years later for
"Young Americans" Album?
Rob Stride
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Bryant
Subject: Re: Laurie London
Country Paul wrote:
> 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?
No 12, November 1957 - later taken up as a football chant (= soccer).
pb
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:43:47 EST
From: Bill George
Subject: Re: David Hemmings
Kim Cooper wrote:
> "David Hemmings Happens." Strange, in light of his off-key
> vocals on that disc, to read in his obit that he was a child
> vocal prodigy.
If I'm not mistaken, he was the boy soprano in the original
recording of Benjamin Britten's opera "The Turn of the Screw."
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