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There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Chartbusters' "She's The One"
From: Chris Holtane
2. Thelma Camacho
From: Kanguru
3. Re: Chartbusters' "She's The One"
From: Chris Holtane
4. Shangri-Las help!
From: Lex
5. Re: Breathless commercial to musica
From: Frank Jastfelder
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:36:33 -0500
From: Chris Holtane
Subject: Re: Chartbusters' "She's The One"
Hey all,
I know this is kind of weird answering my own question, but I stumbled
across this while looking up Chartbusters info, so I thought I would share.
It's from the FAB Fuzz Acid & Flowers website at
http://www.borderlinebooks.com/us6070s/fuzz.html
The Chartbusters
Personnel incl: Mitch Corday, drms; John Dubas, bs; Vince Gideon, gtr;
Vernon Sandusky, gtr, vcls
45s:
She's The One/Slippin' Thru Your Fingers
Mutual 502, 1964
Why (Doncha Be My Girl)/Stop The Music
Mutual 508, 1964
You're Breakin' My Heart/Can't You Hear Me Calling
Mutual 511, 1965
New Orleans/Lonely Surfer Boy
Crusader 118, 1965
Kick Wheeler/Selfish Girl
Crusader 124, 1965
One Bird In The Hand/Maybe
Crusader 129, 1966
Leavin' You/One Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush
Bell 652, 1966
Grass Houses/Dance Dance
Bell 683, 1967
Originally known as Bobby Poe & The Poe Kats, from Kansas, they moved
to Washington DC at the start of the sixties. Bobby Poe dropped out of
performing to handle the management side, but the remaining members carried
on under the same name, backing Big Al Downing. In 1964, as a side project,
and in response to the wave of Invasion sounds, they cut She's The One with
the above line-up as The Chartbusters, and bust 'em they did! This meant
leaving the comfort of Big Al and going for it as a bona-fide sixties band.
They took their chance and, having invaded the sixties invasion, stayed with
it through to the end of the decade. Few genuine rock'n'roll groups from the
fifties can have made the transition more successfully or lastingly.
Vernon Sandusky later became lead guitarist for Roy Clark, a guitarist, banjo
and fiddle player from Virginia.
--Max Waller
I would still like to know if there is a collection of their tracks out
there.
Thanks!
Chris
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:41:16 -0000
From: Kanguru
Subject: Thelma Camacho
One of my favourite singers from the '60s was Thelma Camacho. I love
the way she sings and her voice too. She wrote very good songs in her
First Edition days, songs like "I Passed You By" and "All That I Am".
Unfortunately she did a very awful LP in the '80s. It's a disco LP, and it's
not so good like the First Edition days. I know that she released some
singles, and if I'm not wrong she was part of New Christy Minstrels.
Does anybody know if she released another album after leaving the First
Edition ?
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:22:35 -0500
From: Chris Holtane
Subject: Re: Chartbusters' "She's The One"
Wow! What a killer beat track. It gets me dancing every time! Anyone else
know more about this band? Did they put out any records or were they
just a singles band?
Chris
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:01:09 -0000
From: Lex
Subject: Shangri-Las help!
Help!!!
I'm in the process of building a website dedicated solely to the
Shangs, and need help from people. I'm trying to get any info,
images, interviews any memorabilia, anything, to provide for
reference material and info that other fans may wanna read. It's
strictly Shangri Las, SOOooooo, if anyone reading this has
anything they can contribute to the site please e-mail me,
lex@mrfrumpy.com. I expect the site to be up in the next month
or two. I have a lot of work to do trying to stylize the site so it looks
all teen angst, and funky.
What prompted me to do this was the fact that I found pages on
various sites, and bits here n there, but not one concise all-Shangri-
Las fan site. Spectrepop and Redbird are a joy to read, and have thus
far provided immense inspiration and information!
Many thanks for any help I can get.
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:57:10 +0200
From: Frank Jastfelder
Subject: Re: Breathless commercial to musica
Clark Besch wrote:
> Posted to musica for a short time, a 1967 "Breathless" commercial
> done to, of all things, Victor Lundberg's mega-spoken word-hit.
Hi-la-ri-ous! Thanks for this outstanding example of zeitgeist advertising.
Frank
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