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There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Three in the Attic / Cellar
From: Mike McKay
2. Re: Girls With Guitars
From: Phil X. Milstein
3. Re: Hank's stamp
From: Mike Stachurski
4. Re: Lorber & Spector
From: monophonius
5. Re: Grass Roots
From: Fred Clemens
6. Re: revitalized Remains
From: Dan Hughes
7. Re: Ronnie's interview
From: Clark Besch
8. Re: Miss Toni Fisher
From: Gary Myers
9. Everpresent Fullness CD on Rev-Ola
From: Steve Stanley
10. Re: Murray The K Brings You The "Hits"
From: Peter Grad
11. The Globetrotters (Ron Dante & Jeff Barry)
From: Patrick Rands
12. Agnetha Faltskog
From: Peter Lerner
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:04:56 EDT
From: Mike McKay
Subject: Re: Three in the Attic / Cellar
Frank Jastfelder wrote:
> The cover of the soundtrack is a definitive watcher! It shows the
> three girls in very seductive poses. Music is composed by Chad Stuart
> and performed by Chad & Jeremy.
Yes to the album cover, and yes to the fine soundtrack. The main title
song is quite good despite its unwieldy title ("Paxton Quigley's Had
the Course").
> Info for trainspotters: There was also a Three In The Cellar. Can't
> remember which one was first. The latter has a nice title song sung
> by Hamilton Camp.
"Three in the Cellar" came second. This was actually a cash-in
retitling of a film originally entitled "Up in the Cellar." Its only
connection to "Three in the Attic" is Judy Pace, a black actress who
appeared in both.
Despite its decidedly low-budget origins, it has some very funny
moments. It features Larry Hagman (in between his "I Dream of Jeannie"
and "Dallas" gigs) as a college president and Joan Collins as his wife.
The main character is a student at the university who gets screwed by
a bureaucratic snafu that Hagman's character refuses to rectify. To get
revenge, the student seduces both his wife and his daughter.
Mike
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:54:28 +0000
From: Phil X. Milstein
Subject: Re: Girls With Guitars
Gary Myers wrote, re: Lonnie Mack w/ The Charmaines:
> Ah. I wondered why he would be on "Girls With Guitars".
Note also there's an Al Casey track on the list Mick provided.
--Phil M.
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:05:07 +1200
From: Mike Stachurski
Subject: Re: Hank's stamp
Phil M:
> I'll leave you with the text from the back of the stamp. Frankly I
> hadn't even known that Mancini had died, let alone so long ago.
>
> "Henry Mancini (1924-2004) was one of the most successful composers
> in the history of television and film..."
Hank died in 1994...
Mike Stachurski,
Librarian
DUNEDIN, NZ
"Learn everything, a narrow education displeases." Hugh of St. Victor
(c.1090-1141)
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:04:58 -0000
From: monophonius
Subject: Re: Lorber & Spector
Bonnie B. wrote:
> "Son of Wall of Sound"...I once read in Goldmine that it was Alan
> Lorber's arrangement for Gene Pitney's Every Breath I Take which
> was its producer Phil Spector's first experience with a Wall Of
> Sound. Is this true? If you listen to the record and date it, sure
> makes sense.
Bonnie,
I hear more Wall of Sound in "World Of Tears" that Spector did with
Johnny Nash, pre-dating Pitney's EBIT by a good six months. Robert
Mersey was the arranger on the Nash date. "Every Breath I Take" was
a decent Drifters-style pastiche, but Spector's real first
atmospheric Wall of Sound production was the Paris Sisters' "I Love
How You Love Me," arranged by Hank Levine, IMHO.
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:03:06 -0000
From: Fred Clemens
Subject: Re: Grass Roots
Austin Roberts:
> Price and Walsh (in Arkade) wrote several of the Roots hits
> (Temptation Eyes, Heaven Knows etc.) as did several American
> (mostly LA) writing teams. I don't know of any foreign songs
> that they cut...
The Grass Roots did at least one song that was a cover from overseas.
That was "Let's Live For Today".
Originally released by that title in the UK by the Living Daylights,
it was originally recorded by a UK-turned-Italian group, the Rokes.
Prior to that, it had been issued in Italy as "Piangi Con Me".
Contrary to what has previously been reported, they originally wrote
and recorded the song in English as "Passing Through Grey". Mike
Shepstone, of the Rokes, contacted me recently to set the story
straight once and for all. He co-wrote the original song in English
with fellow Roke, Dave "Shel" Shapiro. The Italian version was based
on THAT. When it came time to issue the English version, their
publisher (Dick James) called for a re-write of the lyric. With a
publisher's writer, "Julien", the song became "Let's Live For Today".
The Rokes issue was finally released, but only after the Grass Roots
started to take off.
I've yet to update my story on the song on Bob Shannon's site, so you
read it here first. For more, click on "Let's Live For Today" at the
below link:
http://www.bobshannon.com/fred/frednewindex.html
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:40:24 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Re: revitalized Remains
Dave sez:
> Last I heard, Barry Tashian had moved into the country music field
> singing with his wife......
And another sixties Boston group, Earth Opera, was led by Peter Rowan
and David Grisman, now two of the true giants in the bluegrass field.
Who'da thunk Boston of all places would produce country and bluegrass
stars??
---Dan
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:18:25 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: Ronnie's interview
Paul Evans:
> Hey Ronnie, Thanks for your posting. If, as you say, I really do
> make an interesting guest, it's because I LOVE radio and miss the
> Hell out of it. I always appreciated a chance to speak to "live"
> audiences, and certainly still do...
Paul, I can vouch for you on radio. I first heard you on the Bill
Miller Show a year or so ago on KMA in Iowa while driving home to
Nebraska. It was great hearing all your recollections. I got home
and checked out your website and emailed you and you emailed back!
Cool! Maybe you should be doing a doo wop show on WCBS in NYC, sine
they dropped doo wop in the town most known to embrace the music.
Clark
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:57:04 -0700
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Miss Toni Fisher
Michael Stroggoff:
> British label Harkit Records are shortly to officially release
> an album of all Toni's recordings ... www.harkitrecords.com
I didn't find anything about Toni Fisher or Wayne Shanklin on that
site.
gem
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:06:52 -0700
From: Steve Stanley
Subject: Everpresent Fullness CD on Rev-Ola
Patrick Rands wrote:
> I've posted my review for the Everpresent Fullness "Fine and Dandy"
> disc released on Rev-ola - take a look at it here:
>
> http://www.gullbuy.com/buy/2004/4_27/everpresentfullness.cfm
Thanks Patrick for the great review (as always)! I was amazed to discover
that EPF producer Bones Howe had kept the multi-tracks all of these years.
To witness EPF band members Paul Johnson and Steve Pugh listen to those
perfectly preserved tapes after 36 years was truly inspiring...
I've forwarded your review to some of the band members.
If anyone else wants to learn more about The Everpresent Fullness, go here:
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/revola/artists/everpresentfullnesscrrev39.htm
Steve Stanley
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:57:45 -0000
From: Peter Grad
Subject: Re: Murray The K Brings You The "Hits"
C. Ponti's note about finding "Murray the K Brings You the Hits"
prompted me to search through an old stack of records ... Sure enough,
I came across an album I received as a member of Murray the K's fan
club, back in 64 or 65 I would guess. It was called "Murray the K's
1962 Boss Golden Gassers for Submarine Race Watchers" on Scepter
Records.
Here's the lineup:
Solider Boy - The Shirelles
Don't Play That Song - Ben E. King
It Keeps Right On Hurtin - Johnny Tillotson
Any Day Now - Chuck Jackson
Rama Lama Ding Dong - Edsels
What's Your Name - Don and Juan
Twist and Shout - Isley Brothers
Baby It's You - Shirelles
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
Something's Got a Hold on Me - Etta James
You Belong to Me - Duprees
Let Me in - Sensations
Somewhere, I have his membership card with the picture of a submarine
on it...
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:10:59 -0000
From: Patrick Rands
Subject: The Globetrotters (Ron Dante & Jeff Barry)
Does anyone have any records by The Globetrotters?
Is it true Ron Dante & Jeff Barry worked on this, I guess it was a
late 60s tv show? Any one have any idea how much came out under this
name and if it'll ever get reissued on cd?
If anyone has a track by The Globetrotters handy, is it possible to
post a track in musica?
>From this website: http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/harlemglobetrotters.htm
"In 1970, DON KIRSHNER, the man behind THE ARCHIES and THE MONKEES,
supervised (with Jeff Barry) a record album called "THE
GLOBETROTTERS", showing the HG's cartoon likenesses on the cover. The
only Globbie who sang on the album was MEADOWLARK LEMON, but the other
singers included former members of THE COASTERS ("Charlie Brown",
"Yakety Yak"), THE PLATTERS ("Only You", "The Great Pretender") THE
DRIFTERS ("Under the Boardwalk", "Save The Last Dance For Me") and THE
CADILLACS ("Speedo"), all classic Doo-Wop groups of the 1950s!
Commercially, the album didn't do well, but it has since become a
pretty big collector's item. I don't have my own copy (yet), but have
heard several songs: "ESP", "Gravy", "Cheer Me Up", "Everybody's Got
Hot Pants", etc. It's kind of like a cross between THE COASTERS, '40s'
jive king Louis Jordan ("Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens",
"Caledonia," Choo Choo Ch'Boogie") and early '70's Funk. One song,
"Rainy Day Bells", actually has a cult following among East Coast
Doo-Wop freaks."
Sounds pretty damn fine. Didn't the Coasters record their own record
around this time too? which is somewhat collectible, or am I mixing
that up with another doo-wop act?
Also - FYI - I found the Zigzag review!
:Patrick
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:36:10 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Agnetha Faltskog
Here's one Spectropopper who is happy to give a five star (that's
*****) review to Agnetha's brand new CD, "My colouring book". A
portfolio of sixties revivals given a full orchestra treatment and
beautifully sung in Agnetha's clear Swedish tones. Jackie DeShannon
collectors will want it for "When you walk in the room" alone, a
rare example of this much-covered classic being sung intelligently,
by someone who understands the words. The title track is best known
to me from a cover on a Brenda Lee album, and I can't just now
remember who performed the original (Nana Mouskouri?), but this
poignant re-working stands comparison with both. There are two of
my very favourite 60s teen ballads spendidly sung and arranged -
Brian Hyland's "Sealed with a kiss" and Skeeter Davis's "The end of
the world". Then there's a slightly obscure Cilla Black song, "If I
thought you'd ever change your mind", which is very 1969 and very
wonderful. Add to that a first-ever version of "What now my love"
(originally done by Ben E.King?) without those annoying bom-bom-bom
BOMs and, for Spectropoppers everywhere, an amazing version of "Past
present and future" which is entirely different to, but does
(believe me) stand comparison with, the Shangri-Las original. And
that will never happen again........
Peter
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