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There are 18 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Sammy Davis Jr / tuned bongos
From: Al Kooper
2. Re: Change in direction / Colours
From: Scott
3. Emitt Rhodes
From: Al Kooper
4. Speaking of Brian Wilson
From: Deena J Canale
5. Beatles Bands
From: Al Kooper
6. Colours CD
From: Al Kooper
7. Question for Ron Dante
From: Mick Patrick
8. Re: Kusick-Anton
From: James Botticelli
9. Re: Songs that "quote" others
From: Eddy
10. Re: 1963 from far away...
From: James Botticelli
11. Re: Chuck berry quote
From: Al Kooper
12. Re: Unchained Melody
From: James Botticelli
13. Songs that "quote" others
From: Steve Grant
14. Re: Introducing a new member -- Paul Evans!
From: James Botticelli
15. Van Heusen's Influence?/ Songs That "Quote"
From: Chris
16. Re: Summertime Guy
From: James Botticelli
17. Los Bravos and The portrait of Ed Rambeau.
From: Julio Niño
18. Re: Spine Shiverers / Big Finishes
From: John Sellards
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:33:42 EST
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Re: Sammy Davis Jr / tuned bongos
Simon White:
> Sammy has two later (minor) Northern plays with "The Shelter Of Your
> Arms", also done magnificently by the great Bobby Sheen.
I'm a big fan of TSOYA, A great production & arrangement featuring one
of my favorite instrunments: the tuned bongos. They are set up like a
piano keyboard and played with mallets. Other great tuned bongo records
are I Wake Up Crying by Chuck Jackson, Rain From The Skies by Adam Wade
and one of the greatest tracks of all time I Keep Forgettin; by Chuck
Jackson, a Leiber-Stoller composition/production, arranged by Burt
Bacharach! Never heard the above mentioned Bobby Sheen version, Where
is that available?
Al Kooper
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:53:49 EST
From: Scott
Subject: Re: Change in direction / Colours
> Colours.... The first LP is great Beatles-styled psych-pop.
> The 2nd LP is nothing like the debut and is simply dull.
> I got to hear a CD-R dub of "Atmospheres" after several years of
> loving their first album and was greatly disapointed. After the
> first cut "Angie" and it quickly goes downhill. Colours first
> album is in serious need of a CD reissue!
You're 100% correct and the 1st LP is one of those psych classics
that's still not widely recognized so you can still pick it up cheaply.
Scott
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:21:39 EST
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Emitt Rhodes
> Thought you folks might be interested in the cover story on
> Emitt Rhodes that ran in yesterday's CityBeat out here in LA.
> http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=583&IssueNum=33
Man, this article almost made me cry.
I faced similar obstacles to ER. I was cheated throughout my entire
career because I loved music & not money particularly. The sharks
can smell that on ya and they circle ya and take all your money.
Never got a dime from Super Session or BS & T. Manager stole all
the Lynyrd Skynyrd money. If my publishing contract wasn't solid, I
might be in the same flophouse as ER. My publisher once told me as
a young man: "Your songs are your children...they come to take care
of you when you're old." I laughed at him then but now my songs
support me like dutiful sons. Without them I shudder to think what
life would be like. The saddest thing to me is that I didnt burn out.
I quit booze & drugs comparatively early, so I could get my work done
more clearly. At 60, ALL my skills are sharper than they've ever
been: writing, producing, engineering and singing. But my window is
closed in the music biz. I'm doing the best work I've ever done and
it all stays cluttered in my basement studio. My new songs hate me
cause they know they are doomed to the basement. I quit the biz per
se in 1990. It made my general life much much happier to not have to
deal wuth the sharks anymore. My only regret was I couldn't make that
last solo album with all those cool songs on it. The last true solo
album I made was in 1975. Since then, I continued to write & record
internally and I have 140 tracks in the can. Finally, last year when
I toured Japan, they offered me an album deal. The paperwork has
gotten jammed up in the lawyers offices (mine & theirs) but I
patiently hope that the 16 tracks I picked from the 140 will see the
light of day, and people might enjoy whats become of me musically.
Meanwhile my heart goes out to ER and the hundreds of others in his
position. The mantra that got me through my career mentally was:
"If ya dont expect anything, you're never disappointed.." Without
adhering to that, I'd surely be dead by now. Keep on rockin', 'poppers!
Al Kooper
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:23:40 -0500
From: Deena J Canale
Subject: Speaking of Brian Wilson
I'm sure most Spectropoppers are aware of the "bootleg" or "mash-up"
phenomenon that has arisen in recent years, wherein zany djs/
producers combine elements of different tracks by different bands,
creating musical Frankensteins that reveal the underlying
similarities between seemingly disparate tracks. The hybrid results
are sometimes goofy, often brilliant, and nearly always hilarious.
Here's a link to one site that includes a marriage of "I Just Wasn't
Made for These Times" with Wings' "Backseat of My Car":
http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/allendean.html
Also, check out "Paperback Believer" here:
http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/tracks.html
Signed D.C.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:35:55 EST
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Beatles Bands
In case any of you missed it, theres an album called Faith Hope &
Love by Kings X on Atlantic, About 9 years old I think. This is the
best pseudo Beatle album I ever heard because it supposes what The
Beatles might've sounded like in the 90's. I'll send ya your money
back if ya dont like it!
Al Kooper
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:32:54 EST
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Colours CD
> Colours first album is in serious need of a CD reissue!
See Collectors Choice monthly catalogue. I'm pretty sure it was in
there at one time recently and may still be. Cant look it up cause
I gave my catalogue to a pal this month. Love that album myself.
Al Kooper
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:22:28 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Question for Ron Dante
Hi Ron,
S'pop's Sheila B's webmag Cha-Cha-Charming contains an article
about Reparata & the Delrons. Here's a sample paragraph:
> Dick Clark immediately offered the group a spot on his next tour,
> a 43-date marathon featuring Billy Stewart, the Ikettes, Herman's
> Hermits, Bobby Vee, Little Anthony & the Imperials, the Detergents
> and Brenda Holloway. But disaster struck when two members of the
> group failed to show up for the tour bus. Mary, "We were supposed
> to all meet at the Sheraton Park Hotel but Sheila and Carol just
> didn't turn up. Well, as you can imagine, our managers were furious.
> Sheila and Carol were dismissed from the group and I was forced to
> go on the tour on my own. By this time our latest record was 'Tommy',
> which is impossible to sing solo. So the other girls' parts were
> sung from the wings by . . . no, not Brenda Holloway or the Ikettes
> but the Detergents."
Do you remember this tour, Ron? I guess it was your first.
Full article here: http://www.chachacharming.com/article.php?id=9&pg=1
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:47:37 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Kusick-Anton
Al Kooper wrote:
> Kusick was probably Larry Kusick, a NYC songwriter I wrote
> some songs with in my youth..
so how did Day #1 go in that field??
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:10:43 +0100
From: Eddy
Subject: Re: Songs that "quote" others
Steve Harvey
> I always liked tunes that hint at another song with a
> bit of a riff or lyrics.
> Your turn.
Captain Beefheart - Call on me (from Safe as Milk) quotes
the Then (s)he kissed me riff in the outro.
Eddy
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:38:39 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: 1963 from far away...
Mike Stachurski wrote:
> 1963 is also notable in that two foreign records
> went to #1 in the USA
The Beginning Of The End...As later titled by Funky Nassau.
Let's hear it for '63
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:35:30 EST
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Re: Chuck berry quote
> For example: Bang A Gong ends with "meanwhile I'm still
> waiting" which is a swipe off of Chuck Berry's "Carol";
The Chuck Berry quote is "meanwhile I'm still thinkin':
and it's from "Little Queenie"
Al Kooper
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:47:05 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Unchained Melody
Al Kooper wrote:
> My favorite thing about Al Hibbler, a blind, black man, was
> he would randomly break into a British accent in the middle
> of a song for one line; for no apparent reason. He's my fave
> 50s singer for that reason alone !!
A great reason! It's wonderful for legendary characters to reveal
themselves for the true wack jobs they are.....as we ALL are. !!!
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:39:38 -0500
From: Steve Grant
Subject: Songs that "quote" others
Steve Harvey:
> I always liked tunes that hint at another song with a
> bit of a riff or lyrics.
The break in the Troggs' "With a Girl Like You":
All night long yeah I've been waitin'
Now there'll be no hesitatin'
... is a swipe from Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy".
"Come Together"'s, er, homage to "You Can't Catch Me"
is well-known.
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:40:42 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Introducing a new member -- Paul Evans!
Dan Hughes wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that Paul Evans has informed me that
> he has joined our group and should be making an introductory
> post soon. I promised him some really obscure questions from
> everyone, so don't disappoint him....
Is that the fella known for "Seven Little Girls Sittin' In The Back Seat"?
JB
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 04:08:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris
Subject: Van Heusen's Influence?/ Songs That "Quote"
C. Ponti:
> ... you can hear [Van Heusen's] influence in works from
> Lennon & McCartney"
I love both The Beatles and James Van Heusen, but ... I would
never have thought to connect 'em. Where would you locate
that influence? Do you hear traces of Van Heusen's chromatic
bass-lines in those of McCartney? Please explain.
At most, I can find traces of Van Heusen's "Swinging On A Star"
style in Elvis Costelllo's "Put Your Toe In The Milk Of Human
Kindness". Then, again, I wasn't really looking ...
> "take it away!"
As long as we're talking about Elvis Costello, we might as well
mention the sour allusion to "Dancing Queen" in Costello's
"When I Was Cruel No. 2."
Chris
(who revels the sliding harmonies of the release of
Burke & Van Heusen's "Suddenly It's Spring")
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:45:32 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Summertime Guy
James Botticelli
> Piping in for that Swan Baby, "Summetime Guy". It was a
> HUGE hit in Lexington Massachusetts on WCOP-AM (now defunk)
> in 1962. Me and my home boys did pre-karaoke to it the entire
> summer. so Eddie, as you were known then, you got the job done.
Ed Rambeau:
> See that....and I never even knew till now. 1962 to 2004 are
> a lot of years to have not known something. But better late
> than never. Thanks, JB, for clueing me in.
Eddie...the 7" sits proudly in my collection. A great rekkid.
May you die as happily as I!
JB/Still Sizzles In The Month Of July
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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:27:32 -0000
From: Julio Niño
Subject: Los Bravos and The portrait of Ed Rambeau.
Hi Everyone,
Ed Rambeau wrote:
> I was both a lyrics and melody man. Often times I even wrote
> both. There is a Los Bravos song I wrote complete lyrics to
> while in Cannes at the music festival in 19 blah, blah, blah.
> I can't even remember the name of it.
and Eddy:
> Ed, Would that be Make it Last on the Bring a Little Lovin'
> album?.
Yes it must be that song, in my copy of The Bravos' LP "Dame
un Poco de Amor" (Bring a little Loving) the song "Make it Last"
is credited to E. Rambeau, P. Vangel and Ph. Monet.
Ed, I've been looking at the photos of your web page, and you
look amazingly great, younger than me (and you are the same
age than my father). You must have a magic portrait in your attic.
Chao.
Julio Niño.
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Message: 18
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:48:52 -0000
From: John Sellards
Subject: Re: Spine Shiverers / Big Finishes
Austin Roberts:
> How about Billy Stewart's vocal ending on Summertime
> (for that matter his whole vocal)?
Gosh, give me "I Do Love You" any day over "Summertime",
which is a little overblown to me. That's one of the great
things about this group, we've all got slightly different
versions of pretty much the same taste in music!
John Sellards
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