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There are 7 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Baby Jean On Stacy
From: Simon White
2. Tinkle tinkle tink Or Boinnnk. . . .
From: Mike C.
3. Re: Gilbert O' Sullivan
From: Bill George
4. Re: Dusty movie?
From: Ken Mortimer
5. Re: Bad Lines
From: Mike C.
6. Re: Bewitched
From: Ken Mortimer
7. Violins courtesy of Snuff.
From: Doc
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:48:31 +0000
From: Simon White
Subject: Baby Jean On Stacy
Lee Miller wrote:
> The artist was 'Baby Jean' the tracks were "If You Wanna" &
> "Oh Johnny". As far as I can work out it was released on
> "STACY"
Lee, you're after one of my top ten favourites from this year!
I heard the track at a club in 2002 and made a point of finding
a copy - which I did rather easily by typing it into Google.
It cost me the grand total of $6.00
I've been trying to find out who she was/is but have got nowhere
so far.
Good luck in getting one. Which Comp was it on?
Simon
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 01:24:08 -0000
From: Mike C.
Subject: Tinkle tinkle tink Or Boinnnk. . . .
Steveo writes:
> The composer Jack Keller sang it {Bewitched} on a 1965
> release on a Colpix 45.
Jack Keller? Wow! Would love to hear this. Did we know that
stablemates Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote the theme song
for another Screen Gems production "I Dream Of Jeannie". Their
clever little waltz graced the shows first season. I've often
wondered if there was a vocal version of "Jeannie".
Does anyone know?
Mike C.
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:16:39 EST
From: Bill George
Subject: Re: Gilbert O' Sullivan
"Alone Again Naturally" is one of the first songs I remember
hearing on the radio (on a very long car vacation), and one
of the first singles I bought.
Does anyone know what he is doing these days?
Sha la la la
Bill
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:05:32 -0000
From: Ken Mortimer
Subject: Re: Dusty movie?
Simon Bell:
> There are in fact two projects to make movies about Dusty.
> One in the UK with Michelle Collins, and the one you referred
> to, in the States with Joely Fisher. Both projects appear to
> be still happening. I keep my DUSTYNEWS page updated regularly
> at: http://www.simonbell.com/Dustydevotedly.html
Wow - I had absolutely no idea that the tremendously talented
Simon Bell was a Spectropopper too! Fantastic. Not that anyone
should need to be reminded but Simon is one of our top session
singers! 'Givin' it Plenty' is still one of my fave tracks Simon!!!!
Has there been any developments on the project mentioned a
little while ago to release a CD/DVD of Dusty's late 70's
concert given in London. You were one of the backing singers
along with the late (and much missed) Vicki Brown and I think,
Lavinia Rodgers?
You might also be interested to know that I've just picked up
a copy of the CD 'Elkie - Live at the Palladium. 1978'. A great
show with some tremendous vocals from yourself, the wonderful
Barry St.John, Larry Steele and Robert Lindop. We need to get
people like Barry, Sue & Sunny, Clare Torrey, Madeline Bell etc.
contributing to these pages.
Oh, and while I'm about it, is there any possibility of any of
those old 'Dusty' B&W TV shows from the 60's making an appearance
on video or DVD? A couple of years ago, we had a whole evening
devoted to Dusty at a local cinema in Newcastle and about 6 of
the shows were screened back to back. I seem to remember on one
show, that Dusty's singers were Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and
Maggie Stredder and what a fantastic sound they made together.
Wow!!!!!
Hope you're well.
Best Wishes
Ken
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 01:47:29 -0000
From: Mike C.
Subject: Re: Bad Lines
One of my favorite "bad" ones is "Sunny Boy" written by Smokey
Robinson and is sung by Diana Ross & The Supremes on their "Love
Child" album.
It goes:
---Sunny Boy
I love you so much 'till it ain't funny boy
My cloudy days have been declouded.---
Of course!! It's a verb. To decloud.
Mike C.
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:21:21 -0000
From: Ken Mortimer
Subject: Re: Bewitched
Steveo:
> Peggy Lee did a good rendition of the Bewitched theme song
> years ago. I have it, and it is worth looking for.
Yes, I've heard Peggy's version of Bewitched and it's
tremendous. It's available on a CD in the EMI '2 on 1'
series - 'Pass Me By'/'Big Spender'.
Ken
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:11:41 -0500
From: Doc
Subject: Violins courtesy of Snuff.
I specifically asked the late Biuddy Knox how he felt about
having violins on his rockabilly records for my book,
Liberty Records:
Although he was coming in from New York, Buddy Knox was born
in Happy, Texas, and was doubtless seen by Al Bennett as yet
another Texan that Snuff was bringing up to work for Liberty,
like Johnny Burnette and Ernie Freeman before him. And like
the other Liberty artists, Buddy Knox became the beneficiary
of producer Snuff Garrett's "Liberty Sound", a mix of country
and western, rhythm and blues, and pop that had become the
new rock and roll. How did Buddy like having violins put on
his rock 'n' roll records? "I liked it fine! It got me hits!
I had nothing but admiration and respect for Snuff's studio
prowess. Heck, he revived Johnny Burnette's career, then mine,
and I appreciated the guidance." Snuff even put the Johnny Mann
singers on Buddy Knox's rockabilly records, as well as Darlene
Love and the Blossoms plus drummer Hal Blaine on various of the
two-dozen sides Buddy cut at Liberty.
Doc
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