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There are 16 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: The Portraits
From: Martin Roberts
2. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Phil X. Milstein
3. Re: Larry Knechtel
From: Al Kooper
4. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Natasha McNamee
5. Re: UK Oriole
From: Al Quaglieri
6. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Paul Urbahns
7. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Paul Balser
8. Unreleased Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans songs found!
From: Charles Sheen
9. Musica selections; Aretha on Columbia; R&RHOF
From: Country Paul
10. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Ed B
11. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Robert Beason
12. Re: The Ronettes & Chubby Checker @ Cameo-Parkway
From: Phil X. Milstein
13. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: Dave O'Gara
14. Re: Unreleased Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans songs found!
From: Tony Leong
15. Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
From: thirteen_eagle
16. Re: Flip Cartridge etc
From: Austin Roberts
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:41:56 +0100
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Re: The Portraits
Gary Myers added to his and the Portraits musical legacy with this
item:
> We have a filler song (not used in the movie) on "Dr. Goldfoot &
> the Girl Bombs", under the name Paul & The Pack...
At the risk of sounding boring...I've got this LP and "Hidin' From
Myself" is a good piece of harmony pop written Hemric & Styner. Not
credited with arr or prod, this is given to Mike Curb, Bob Summers
and Al Simms but I wonder if H & S were on the session? Good to hear
harmonica and I particularly like the echo on the hand claps.
Small photo on the rear of the sleeve, the group or just four guys
and a giant who happened to be handy for a group photo? If this is
the Portraits, which one is you?
Thanks,
Martin
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:03:47 -0500
From: Phil X. Milstein
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Louis wrote:
> Do you know of any girl group songs about the Beatles?
Along similar lines, but even more specifically, I'm looking for
songs about Ringo. Not Lorne Greene's Ringo, mind you, but John
Paul & George's. Were there enough of 'em to comprise even a mid-
length compilation?
--Phil M.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:50:12 EDT
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Re: Larry Knechtel
Doug:
> I'll let Larry know what you said about taping for posterity. By
> the way, if I can bribe you with a microbrew, I'd like to sit down
> with you as well if you ever make it to the "cultural epicenter"
> that is Yakima, WA : )
Doug,
I don't drink BUT if I was in Yakima WA I might have to. Seriously,
you're on and stranger things have happened.
Travellin' Al Kooper
Playing London, Windsor & Toronto, ONT in mid-July.
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 19:26:00 +0100 (BST)
From: Natasha McNamee
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Louis wrote:
> Do you know of any girl group songs about the Beatles?
The Angels - Little Beatle Boy
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:16:39 -0400
From: Al Quaglieri
Subject: Re: UK Oriole
> For whatever reason, almost no Beat-era UK Oriole/CBS product
> has been reissued by Sony. Some collectors have speculated that
> Oriole wiped their pre-CBS master tapes. Also Oriole & UK
> CBS made a lot of lease deals that might be hard to untangle
> but a few items have come to light occasionally. Youd figure
> since Sundazed has an "in" with Sony Legacy something might
> turn up but nothing. Any thoughts?
I've been in the Sony UK vaults. Not only do they have all the
Oriole/Embassy master tapes and associated documentation, but also
a fantastic collection of every LP, every 45, and many 78s on
those labels. Most all of that material is too obscure to show up
on Legacy's radar, although I have piqued Bob's interest in getting
some of it together for Sundazed.
Al Q.
NY
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 12:44:19 EDT
From: Paul Urbahns
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
I know we are posting girl group Beatles songs but one of the more
unusual Beatles songs I own is a country ditty titled, "I Ain't No
Beatle (But I Want To Hold Your Hand)". It was done in Nashville by
Jerry Foster and issued on Spar. Country piano legend Moon Mullican
also cut it on an album for Spar. And I have a third version from
the same company that is uncredited.
Paul Urbahns
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 12:37:02 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Paul Balser
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Austin:
> There was British actress Dora Bryan's "All I Want For Christmas
> Is A Beatle" (It made #20 in 1963 on UK Fontana) and there's Cindy
> Rella's "Bring Me A Beatle For Christmas" on U.S. Drum Boy.
Do you have either one of these songs?
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:54:54 -0000
From: Charles Sheen
Subject: Unreleased Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans songs found!
Hi everyone,
For the past few years I have been posting want ads for Bob B Soxx and
the Blue Jeans (my father's group) and low and behold I have found two
unreleased songs right under my nose, "But You Don't Love Me" and "The
Walk". They were found in a neighbor's old reel to reel collection.
She pulled the collection from our trash. I have put them to cassette
tape. Me and my mother think "But You Don't Love Me" should be kept
unreleased, but "The Walk" sounds pretty ok. Thanks for your help. Now
has anyone ever heard of these songs?
Charles Sheen
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 19:58:16 -0400
From: Country Paul
Subject: Musica selections; Aretha on Columbia; R&RHOF
Been away from the list for a while - real life intervened. But, thanks to a
good friend, I've got Bernie Schwartz's recently-discussed "Follow Me" ready
to play to musica when there's an opening, so keep and eye and ear open.
Mike McKay:
> "Baby I Can't Stop Myself" was recorded as a B-side by Johnny Parris
> & Co. -- in reality John Gummoe of The Cascades, mentioned in the last
> digest. This is my absolute favorite out of all of Sloan's pop-era
> songs, and I love a LOT of them!
Really a fine song, Mike; thanks for playing it! I must admit to not being
as warm about the Johnny Tillotson track, although it is certainly worth the
listen; I tend to be more of a fan of his Cadence era. "Why Do I Love You
So," "Without You" and "True, True Happiness" would most likely be the
pillars of my Tillotson temple.
Simon White:
> It's interesting that Columbia didn't put the future Queen Of Soul on
> "Okeh" which was their R&B label. I suppose they saw her as a pop act?
As I remember, she was marketed primarily to the middle-road audience with a
nod to the jazz group. Not the wisest business plan!
Simon again:
> I give don't two hoots who gets into the "Hall Of Fame" partly
> because most of the inductees mean jack all to me. Simply not
> interested.
I second that - vigorously. There's no way one institution could be
inclusive of the many musical streams and tributaries - never mind the
artists who navigated them - that comprise(d) rock and roll and all its
offshoots and related forms. Rock is still a living entity; why flash-free
it and choke off its evolution?
Philosophically yours,
Country Paul
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:51:52 -0000
From: Ed B
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Louis wrote:
> Do you know of any girl group songs about the Beatles?
Phil M:
> Along similar lines, but even more specifically, I'm looking for
> songs about Ringo.
How about RINGO RINGO by Darlene Terri - Columbia 43042 (written
by Pam Sawyer).
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 01:43:56 +0000
From: Robert Beason
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Louis wrote:
> Do you know of any girl group songs about the Beatles?
Let's not forget The Vernons Girls' "We Love The Beatles." IIRC,
someone even posted that song's lyrics here during a previous
discussion of Beatlemania exploitation records a year or two ago.
A real classic of the genre.
Bob Beason
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:45:56 -0500
From: Phil X. Milstein
Subject: Re: The Ronettes & Chubby Checker @ Cameo-Parkway
Mick Patrick:
> I forgot to add APRIL FOOL! I received no such CD. Sorry. HA!
You had me going -- I watched some ChubCheck vidclips last night, with
new respect despite not having actually heard his "great" auteurpieces.
And now I'd like to!
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:59:13 -0000
From: Dave O'Gara
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Louis wrote:
> Do you know of any girl group songs about the Beatles?
Phil M:
> Along similar lines, but even more specifically, I'm looking for
> songs about Ringo. Not Lorne Greene's Ringo, mind you, but John
> Paul & George's. Were there enough of 'em to comprise even a mid-
> length compilation?
In addition to all the previously mentioned Beatles related 45's,
there's Ringo, I Love You by Bonnie Jo Mason, b/w, Beatle Blues.
Bonnie Jo Mason, of course, is Cher stepping out from her background
vocal work for Phil Spector. Pictures of the 45's are in the photo
section. Writer's credit on Beatle Blues goes to Annette Lee Spector
and as Al Kooper informed us recently, that's Phil's ex-wife.
If you look at the photos, you'll see notations from the record
library of WORC-AM, in Worcester, MA. I was able to save a few
records before much of their fabulous collection was sent to a
dumpster!!
Dave 0'
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:27:53 -0000
From: Tony Leong
Subject: Re: Unreleased Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans songs found!
Charles Sheen wrote:
> Hi everyone, For the past few years I have been posting want ads
> for Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans (my father's group) and low and
> behold I have found two unreleased songs right under my nose, "But
> You Don't Love Me" and "The Walk"...
Charles: Both of those songs were released years ago on "Rare Masters
2", a compilation on the Phil Spector International label. I remember
the songs well, and "The Walk" was a decent song--kind of an imptomptu
thing with a great piano solo in two places. "But You Dont Love Me"
is kind of blusey. And, isn't that your Dad's voice prominent in the
backgrounds of Darlene's "Long Way To Be Happy" and the end of the
Ronettes "Chapel Of Love"???
Tony Leong
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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 05:08:38 -0000
From: thirteen_eagle
Subject: Re: Girl Group songs about the Beatles
Louis wrote:
> Do you know of any girl group songs about the Beatles?
The Whippets, "Go Go Go with Ringo"/"I Want to Talk with You", Josie
921. "Go Go Go...": midtempo with banjo(!) and whistling (!!). "I
Want...": again midtempo, this time with Beatlesque guitars (and
Spectoresque maracas). Girls have very fake British accents - "Let's
geau, geau, geau, with Ringeau/Geowge, Pol and Johnny tew...". "Go..."
written by Jean Murray and Neil Levinson, "I Want..." by Neil Levinson.
Both sides "A Dulev Production".
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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:31:03 EDT
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: Flip Cartridge etc
Dear friends,
It is with great embarassment (or at least some) that I have found
that Gary Paxton, who really was Flip of Skip and Flip, as well as
the lead singer of the Hollywood Argyles was not Flip Cartridge.
That was Billy Meshel! I worked with Billy for 5 or 6 years and he
never once said that, but the brain do play tricks on us older folks.
Please forgive the confusion.
A penitent Austin Roberts
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