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There are 14 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Multiple versions
From: Dan Hughes
2. Nancy & Lee
From: Dave O'Gara
3. Re: Shangri-las footage...
From: Woppo88
4. Gene Pitney - There's No Livin' Without Your Lovin'
From: Alan Warner
5. more Bobby & I
From: Phil X Milstein
6. Re: O'Kaysions watcher
From: Steve Jarrell
7. Re: Strandeds In The Jungle
From: Eric Charge
8. David Gates & the Lively Set
From: Mikey
9. Re: Barry Mandilow & telerevisionism
From: Gary Myers
10. Re: California Nights
From: Artie Wayne
11. Re: California Nights / A Brand New Me / Oh Me, Oh My
From: Jim Allio
12. Re: Nancy & Lee 3
From: Dan Nowicki
13. Bob Brass
From: Al Kooper
14. Re: The girls on Gene Piyney's Hawaii
From: Al Kooper
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:49:23 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Multiple versions
Previously:
> Can someone explain the reasoning behind a double release of the same
> song at almost the same time?
In the fifties, it happened with just about every hit. Every big label
had a stable of singers, and whenever a new blockbuster-to-be song was
written, every label put out a version by one of their artists.
For example, The Ballad of Davy Crockett hit the top 40 for Bill Hayes,
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Fess Parker, and the Voices of Walter Schumann.
And The Banana Boat charted by the Tarriers, Harry Belefonte, the Fontane
Sisters, Steve Lawrence, Sarah Vaughn, and (well, okay, a slightly
different version by) Stan Freberg. All but the Freberg version were in
the top 20 at the same time!
There were three top 10 versions of Let Me Go, Lover in 1955.
Simultaneously. Happened a lot back then....
---Dan
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:36:56 -0000
From: Dave O'Gara
Subject: Nancy & Lee
Maybe it was just the fact that I was a teenager in the 60's, but
back then I thought Summer Wine by Lee and Nancy was just the
"coolest" song. I didn't have a clue what it was about back then,
but whenever I heard it on the radio, I cranked up the volume.
Dave 0'
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:13:19 EDT
From: Woppo88
Subject: Re: Shangri-las footage...
I have seen a little bit of when the Shangs were on "Upbeat" in 1967
and there is also a Ganser twin missing. I'd guess it's Margie, but
I know Maryann was gone for a while too.
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:26:51 -0700
From: Alan Warner
Subject: Gene Pitney - There's No Livin' Without Your Lovin'
Ken Silverwood's memories about THERE'S NO LIVIN' WITHOUT YOUR
LOVIN' being recorded by Manfred Mann reminds me that Peter &
Gordon also cut it, I think after Manfred. And didn't Mink DeVille
revive it in the 80's? FYI, one of its writers was Paul Kaufman
who had earlier co-authored Johnny Tillotson's million-seller,
POETRY IN MOTION.
Rock on!
Alan Warner
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:29:21 -0400
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: more Bobby & I
Now playing at musica, pt. 2 of the Bobby & I trilogy. The song is
titled "5:09," a train time (although the Yahoo server doesn't seem to
like colons in its file names, so it appears there as "509"). It's the
one song on the album co-written by Bobby & I, aka Ken Fischler and
Bobby Burch.
The third installment will be their take -- a compiex and lovely
arrangement -- on "Best Of Both Worlds."
Dig,
--Phil M.
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:16:56 -0500
From: Steve Jarrell
Subject: Re: O'Kaysions watcher
markt439:
> The O'Kaysions, the group that did the soul pop classic "I'm A Girl
> Watcher," recorded an LP for Cotillion (the Atlantic subsidiary).
> Does anyone know if it was ever released? It was given a label number,
> but I've never seen it or heard of anyone having it.
You might find the answer to the O'Kaysions album by reaching Donnie
Weaver. He was the original lead singer of the N.C. group. He has just
joined the Embers band from Raleigh, N.C. They should have a web page.
Good luck, Steve Jarrell
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 05:59:53 +0100
From: Eric Charge
Subject: Re: Strandeds In The Jungle
Guy Lawrence wrote:
> I now own five versions of "Stranded In The Jungle" ... Has anybody
> got any more to add?
Has nobody mentioned Shorty Long's fab Motown version of the song
(credited to Johnson - Smith - Curry)? It's from his "Here Comes The
Judge" album dated 1968 and was released as a single on the Soul label
in May of that year.
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:04:41 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: David Gates & the Lively Set
Picked up an interesting 45 today on my way home from work. The 1960s
Capitol "Swirl" label always catches my eye. It's called "Let The
Trumpets Sound" by a group called The Lively Set (NOT the Lively Ones
of "Surf Rider" fame). It's on Capitol 5723, orange/yellow swirl, and
the cool thing is that the song was written by David Gates!!!! The
flip is "The Green Years", the theme to the alfred Hitchcock movie
"The Torn Curtain". Both sides produced by David Axlerod. From the
matrix numbers in the deadwax, it appears "Let" is the A side. It's a
groovy record, to be sure. Condition of my copy is almost new. So,
anyone know anything about this 45?
Mikey
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:08:18 -0700
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Barry Mandilow & telerevisionism
Phil Milstein:
> He also played "Brandy," ... I would like to give him the benefit
> of the doubt by supposing that he revised his recall of the song's
> original title for the sake of simplicity ...
I'm not sure what we are doubting, but in case this helps any: The
original "Mandy" was "Brandy", charted by Scott English in 1972. It's
my understanding that Clive Davis changed it to "Mandy" because of the
other "Brandy" by Looking Glass, just a few years before Manilow did
the song in question.
I somehow think this may be common knowledge in here, but maybe not.
gem
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: California Nights
How Ya'll Doin'? In the 60's my partner Kelli Ross and I ran Leslie
Gore's publishing companies out of 1650 B'way and "California Nights"
was the last in a long string of her hits. I liked the song personally
and everytime I heard it, I was drawn more and more to the West Coast.
When it snowed on Easter, and cancelled out a "Love-In" in Central Park
I was looking forward to, I sold my interest in Allouette prods. and a
week later I moved to Hollywood.
regards, Artie Wayne
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 03:13:18 EDT
From: Jim Allio
Subject: Re: California Nights / A Brand New Me / Oh Me, Oh My
Previously:
> A Brand New Me by Dusty Springfield
> Oh Me, Oh My by Lulu
> California Nights by Lesley Gore
Three of my all time favorite late-1960s singles with three of the best
vocalists of the day stretching a bit within their genres, Dusty with
the Philly Sound, Lulu with Muscle Shoals, and Lesley with Bob Crewe's
particular wall of sound. Also three of the most wistful, dreamy,
soulful and evocative tracks of the day...and all three have stood the
test of time and retained their immediacy.
Jim Allio
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:30:14 EDT
From: Dan Nowicki
Subject: Re: Nancy & Lee 3
Amazon.com has "Nancy & Lee 3" for the unneighborly price of $35.99.
(Actually, it looks like some of Amazon's "new and used" dealers are
offering it cheaper . . . )
Dan N.
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 03:22:37 EDT
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Bob Brass
Previously:
> That Alan Gordon, you are the MAN! ! ! I had to check my DJ copy of
> "Coney Island Sally" by The (one and only) Fifth Estate to make sure
> after I read Mike Edwards' post citing it and other terrific songs
> penned by S'pop members. Sure enough, you and Bob Brass co-wrote this
> amazing sunshine-pop for Wayne Wadhams and friends!
Alan, you co-wrote a song with BOB BRASS????? I have to read the story of
that !!!
Al Kooper
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 03:45:49 EDT
From: Al Kooper
Subject: Re: The girls on Gene Piyney's Hawaii
Tom:
> To me, when I hear those girls start singing on Hawaii, I find it
> as refreshing as a Hawaiian breeze. Although I think Pitney is
> incredible, I fell in love with that track just because of that
> sound. Just my cup of tea.
There's just two kinds of people in the world, Tom. Why cant we fall
in love? Hey, I love the Shangri-las, The Angels, etc. The girls on
Hawaiii drive me up a tree. I really like that song and was excited
when we wrote it. They ruined Gene's record for me. I'm glad that you
got something else out of it. I just cant imagine how......
Al "Brooklyn" Kooper
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