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There are 2 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Questions arising from new Spector biography
From: Martin Jensen
2. Re: Priscilla Paris - R.I.P.
From: Phil X. Milstein
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:19:08 -0000
From: Martin Jensen
Subject: Re: Questions arising from new Spector biography
I wrote:
> Dave Thompson, the author of the book 'Wall of Pain - The Phil
> Spector Biography, also mentions a fabulous Spector-produced version
> of Dion's "Baby, Let's Stick Together" that has been locked up in
> the vaults since the late 70s. Has this record ever circulated among
> collectors & has anyone heard it?
Whoops, I guess I was a bit too fast there and consequently forgot to
type the specific info. To be more precise, the book mentions a
Spector-produced version of 'Baby, Let's Stick Together' by the Paley
Brothers, recorded after Spector did the song with Dion - but that
was not specified in the above. The question remains the same,
though. Has anyone heard the Paley version? One of the Paley brothers
is quoted as saying that their version was some of the best work
Spector had done since the 60s.
With regards
Martin, Denmark
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:47:42 -0500
From: Phil X. Milstein
Subject: Re: Priscilla Paris - R.I.P.
Bill Reed wrote:
> ... Alas, he informed me, both will
> have to be delayed for a while because Priscilla died in Paris,
> France last Friday. The cause of death is not yet known, but both
> surviving sisters are now in France to oversee the funeral, etc.
I don't have much more to say about this news except to express how sad
it leaves me. Priscilla's singing has given me so much pleasure over the
years, and her entire persona -- at once vulnerable and aloof, naive and
worldly -- utterly fascinates me. The best I can offer in tribute is to
play to musica a 1967 recording by The Rainy Day Friends on World
Pacific, entitled Away To Some Other World, written by Priscilla Paris.
While I was at it I also played the flipside, Don't You Feel Rained On?,
written by Steven Stills.
--Phil M.
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