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There are 25 messages in this issue.


Topics in this digest:

      1. Jack Nitzsche at Spectropop update
           From: Martin Roberts 
      2. Re: Found - my cache of acetates ! !
           From: JJ 
      3. Re: "Witchy Tai To"
           From: Steve Harvey 
      4. Re: Carole King's "I Can't Make It Alone"
           From: Roy Clough 
      5. Re: Carole King's "I Can't Make It Alone"
           From: Don 
      6. Re: "Witchy Tai To"
           From: Gary Myers 
      7. Help With Song / Band ID
           From: Mike Dugo 
      8. Re: Marlon Brando and his influence on pop music
           From: ACJ 
      9. This Diamond Demo
           From: Al Kooper 
     10. RIP - Jimmie Arnold
           From: Gary Myers 
     11. Re: "Witchy Tai To"
           From: Frank Jastfelder 
     12. Re: This Diamond Demo / Hansel in Sīpop
           From: Julio Niņo 
     13. Eddie Hodges / Jerry Cole
           From: Gary Myers 
     14. Re: "Witchy Tai To" / For the love of Mike (& Buzz) Clifford
           From: Bob Rashkow 
     15. Jack Nitzsche and Sylvie Simmons, help wanted
           From: Martin Roberts 
     16. Re: Marlon Brando and his influence on pop music
           From: Andrew Hickey 
     17. Re: New Lime
           From: Ron 
     18. Re: Carole King's "I Can't Make It Alone"
           From: Andy 
     19. Re: Found - my cache of acetates ! !
           From: Artie Wayne 
     20. Marlon Brando and his influence on pop music
           From: Artie Wayne 
     21. Re: "Witchy Tai To" / Wisconsin
           From: Gary Myers 
     22. Re: For the love of Mike Clifford
           From: Alan Warner 
     23. Re: Carole King demos
           From: Rodney Rawlings 
     24. Re: Carole King demos
           From: Bill George 
     25. Re: This Diamond Demo, etc, etc
           From: Phil X Milstein 


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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:40:22 +0100 From: Martin Roberts Subject: Jack Nitzsche at Spectropop update The first part of 'The Eddie Hodges Story' (he writes, pompously) is on the home page. The track playing to accompany the Record of the Week featurette is "Too Soon To Know", produced by Terry Melcher and arranged by Jack Nitzsche. Give it a listen: http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/index.htm The ROTW archive has now been given its own pages on the site. Accessed from the main menu and with label scans it's now far more colourful. Apologies to those still viewing in black and white: http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/pastrotw.htm Martin -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:34:17 -0000 From: JJ Subject: Re: Found - my cache of acetates ! ! (That) Alan Gordon wrote: > Al the "K" , funny you should mention old acetates. I've got about > 40 myself. My son bought me a cd to cd sony deck for my birthday. > So I'm gonna TRY to transfer the demos onto cds. Al, you're not > planning a trip to Arizona this summer are you??? I'd love some of > those old demos, even the bad ones. What dreams went into each > session, and some even came true. + they smell so gooood! lol! JJ/Sweden ps SERIOUSLY, I love the scent coming fr these old acetates......... anyone else sharing this opinion? -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 3 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:25:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Harvey Subject: Re: "Witchy Tai To" (That) Alan Gordon wrote: > ...let the "Witchy Tai To " threads begin!!! Which "Witchy Tai To" are we talking about? There is Jim Pepper's first effort with Everything Is Everything on Vanguard. Probably the most popular version. Then there is the 70s jazz lp that Pepper did called Pepper's Pow Wow (I'll be putting mine on Ebay soon). Then Ryko put out another Pepper solo Cd with the tune again. Not to mention the covers by Harper's Bizarre and Brewer and Shipley. Great tune and very pioneering. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 4 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:26:21 -0000 From: Roy Clough Subject: Re: Carole King's "I Can't Make It Alone" Mick Patrick: > ...there's a lot of things I want and something in my soul that > always leads me back to Carole King's demo of "I Can't Make It > Alone". It's currently playing @ musica: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/ all 4 > minutes and 24 seconds of it. Hi, Fairly new to this group, some fascinating stuff, some great music tracks. Any Searchers fans there plug for my little bit. Comments good or bad welcome: http://www.brunnet.net/RICKRESOURCE/SEARCHERS/CLOUGHLINKS.HTML -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 5 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:27:15 -0000 From: Don Subject: Re: Carole King's "I Can't Make It Alone" Mick Patrick wrote: > Will do, 'cos there's a lot of things I want and something > in my soul that always leads me back to Carole King's demo > of "I Can't Make It Alone". It's currently playing @ musica > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/ all 4 > minutes and 24 seconds of it. > > Who knows, maybe someone will respond with a complete list > of every known recorded version. Yes please! Thank you to Mike Carter and Mick Patrick for this wonderful demo. Besides the demo, the song has been done several times, including: Continental Drifters Jayhawks Linda Jones Rita Martinson Maria McKee Bill Medley Mychael LaMorte The Myddle Class Pig Iron Poor Heart feat. Lou Grammatico P.J. Proby Lou Rawls Righteous Brothers Rocky Roberts & The Airedales Dusty Springfield Vanilla Fudge Weeping Willows There are also a few with that title, that I can't confirm as being the Goffin/King tune. Otis Clay Paul Delicato Shirley & Johnny Vince Hill I think there was a Spanish cover called "No Puedo Hacerlo Solo" but I don't know who recorded it. It may just be an English version on a Spanish Righteous Brothers album. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 6 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:50:32 -0700 From: Gary Myers Subject: Re: "Witchy Tai To" (That) Alan Gordon: > ...let the "Witchy Tai To " threads begin! OK, here's a bit of a self-serving one. The song was also cut on Bang by Today's Tomorrow of La Crosse. That band is covered in my book, "Do You Hear That Beat - Wisconsin Pop/Rock in the 50's & 60's". :-) gem -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 7 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:17:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Dugo Subject: Help With Song / Band ID Hopefully one of the experts on the list can help. I'm trying to identify a band that appeared on a forgotten 1960's TV show titled THE NAME OF THE GAME. The band looks to be four members, with a female guitarist/lead singer. The show dates to '69, and some of the lyrics include: Shine down Lauderdale morning Shine down California morning The names Pegasus, Melinda, and Peter (several times) are also mentioned in the lyrics. Does anybody know the name of the song, or who the band might be? I tend to believe it's a real band, since The Yellow Payges also appear in the same episode doing their great "Follow The Bouncing Ball". Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Mike Dugo 60sgaragebands.com -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 8 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 14:24:25 -0400 From: ACJ Subject: Re: Marlon Brando and his influence on pop music For Artie Wayne, and all others interested: That's not all. I have a 1970's interview with George Harrison in which he says that - contrary to the Crickets and flaming-pie stories - the Beatles named themselves after a motorcycle gang in Brando's "The Wild One." Apparently, there was a scene in the film where Lee Marvin talked to Brando about the gangs they'd been in before, and one was called the Beetles. (I've never seen the film, so I woudn't know for sure.) ACJ -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 9 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 13:54:39 EDT From: Al Kooper Subject: This Diamond Demo Now on musica is the original demo of "This Diamond Ring". The original concept was an attempt to get The Drifters to record the song. All our r&b or soul demos were sung by Jimmy Radcliffe, another writer signed to A. Schroeder Music, where we all wrote daily in cubicles. At the time, I was part of a trio: Bob Brass & Irwin Levine wrote the lyrics and I wrote the melodies. Jimmy Radcliffe mostly wrote with Joey Brooks (later "You Light Up My Life"). We all had little tiny rooms with pianos in them and Jimmy was literally next door to us. We all helped each other out on demos. The receptionist at A Schroeder sang all our female demos. She later became Barbara Jean English and had a few soul hits. Radcliffe became a Northern Soul hero in the UK. But in 1963, when this demo was cut at Regent Sound in NYC, it was a buncha writers singing and Buddy Salzman on drums, yours truly on bass, guitar & piano and Mel Shayne and Bernie Glow on trumpets. Brass, Kooper & Levine sang the backup vocals and I did the arrangements. We were quite happy with the demo and surprised that The Drifters turned it down. But not as surprised as when we heard the Gary Lewis version..... but that's a whole other story !!! Hope you all enjoy it. It's its first time in public !! Find it here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/ (This) Al Kooper -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 10 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:04:55 -0700 From: Gary Myers Subject: RIP - Jimmie Arnold More sad news just in: Jimmie Arnold (1931 - 2004) "Second tenor with the 1950's vocal group The Four Lads, who had a string of top 10 hits including "Moments to Remember" (#2, 1955), "No Not Much" (#2, 1956) and "Standing On The Corner" (#3, 1956), whose group also backed Johnny Ray on the 1951 smash "Cry" (one of the biggest hits of the 50's), died of lung cancer on June 15 in Sacramento, California at the age of 72." http://www.the4lads.com/ gem -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:01:44 +0200 From: Frank Jastfelder Subject: Re: "Witchy Tai To" As for me, nothing can top the Harpers Bizarre version. It's as sweet as it gets. Pure heaven. Arranged by band members Ted Templeman and Dick Scoppettone (wasn't there a thread at Spectropop dealing with most unusal names? Well, here you have definitley two contenders) and produced by Lenny Waronker. And as I read on the back of the LP the horn and string arrangements were done by Perry Botkin Jr. Frank J -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 12 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:23:38 -0000 From: Julio Niņo Subject: Re: This Diamond Demo / Hansel in Sīpop Hola Everybody, These last weeks Spectromusica has been such an exciting place that it's beginning to produce a sensation of unreality for me. The Carole King demos have been like a visit to wonderland, and now we have to add the gorgeous demo of "This Diamond Ring" sung by Jimmy Radcliffe. I feel like Hansel in the Gingerbread house, with all those candies and sweets to eat. Will there be a wicked witch waiting to eat me?. I don't want to create false expectations for myself. Al, any chance to listen to some of the white demos sung by you, with that youthful, uninhibited, and embarrassing voice (that description sounds very suggestive to me). Chao. Julio Niņo. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 13 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 14:01:53 -0700 From: Gary Myers Subject: Eddie Hodges / Jerry Cole Martin Roberts: > ... Record of the Week featurette is "Too Soon To Know" ... I especially like Hodges "Halfway", which bubbled under in '63. While at the site to hear the Hodges song, I also noticed the Jerry Cole item saying he had no more vocal 45's released. In the 70's Jerry had releases on Happy Tiger, Midget and Warner Bro. I haven't heard any of them, but I'm pretty sure some, if not all, were vocals. I've worked with Jerry a few times - nice guy and very good guitar player, but also a BS'er (I've heard him announce that he wrote "Splish Splash" and I think I mentioned in here before that he claims he had the hit version of "Midnight Mary". He has also often claimed to be on "Tequila", but he joined the Champs about 1-1/2 yrs after that record. And, speaking of that band, I'll be gigging tommorow with original Champs guitarist, and long time friend, Dale Norris). gem -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 14 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:17:38 EDT From: Bob Rashkow Subject: Re: "Witchy Tai To" / For the love of Mike (& Buzz) Clifford Took a peek at Whitburn today, assume Buzz Clifford and Mike Clifford aren't related. Interesting coinky-dinky on their birthdates, though --Buzz 10/8/42, Berwyn, Illinois; Mike 11/6/43, L.A. Buzz, of course, went from "Baby Sittin' Boogie" to The Full Treatment, quite a leap, and Mike also experimented with the mod sound in the late 6Ts and (I'd QUITE FORGOTTEN! ! !) played Teen Angel in the Broadway production of GREASE. Here is my little "Witchi Tai To" story: when it first came out on the charts in I believe January '69, I thought the title was "Everything Is Everything" and that it was by The Wichita Tattoo. Whoops! Was I confusing it with Wichita Fall or The Wichita Train Whistle? (Which Wichita was which--I wish?!) :--( Gary Myers or anyone, a question: Gary mentioned a Wisconsin group that demoed on BANG with their version of the above--did other Wisc. groups also sign with the Bang label. Where was The Silver Byke ("I've Got Time"/"Who Needs Tomorrow") from, anyone know??? Bobster -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 15 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 08:37:43 +0100 From: Martin Roberts Subject: Jack Nitzsche and Sylvie Simmons, help wanted MOJO's Contributing Editor, author and famed Stetson wearing journalist Sylvie Simmons was, in the late 70s to the early 80s, working for UK rock weekly "Sounds". She was the paper's LA correspondent and as well as the 'usual' reviews and interviews had a regular column, "Hollywood Highs". Anyway, in June '81 she interviewed Jack Nitzsche, apparently this was published. It is possible that the piece was in Sounds but more likely that the German magazine "Musik Express/Sounds" or the Japanese "Music Life" ran it. Has anyone got a copy or can recall the interview and which publication printed it? Martin -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 16 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:21:15 +0100 From: Andrew Hickey Subject: Re: Marlon Brando and his influence on pop music Previously: > For Artie Wayne, and all others interested: That's not all. I have > a 1970's interview with George Harrison in which he says that - > contrary to the Crickets and flaming-pie stories - the Beatles > named themselves after a motorcycle gang in Brando's "The Wild One." > Apparently, there was a scene in the film where Lee Marvin talked to > Brando about the gangs they'd been in before, and one was called the > Beetles. (I've never seen the film, so I woudn't know for sure.) That story is also repeated by McCartney in the Anthology TV series, but that seems to be a bit of retroactive alteration - The Wild One was banned in the UK until 1968. The Beatles have a habit of changing the facts to make a better legend, and the closer the interview date to the date at which something happened, the more likely to be true. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 17 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:25:10 -0000 From: Ron Subject: Re: New Lime I hope I'm not too late with this post. I've taken a lesson from Country Paul and fallen 3 weeks behind on my reading. Here is what I could find on the New Lime: Whenever I Look In Her Eyes/And She Cried --------------- Fraternity F947, 1965 It's Your Turn to Cry/Only You -------------------------- Boss 9915, 1966 Meant to Be/Walkin the Dog ------------------------------ Counterpart 2495 That Girl/She Kissed Me (With Her Eyes) ----------------- Counterpart 2577, 1967 That Girl/She Kissed Me (With Her Eyes) ----------------- Columbia 4-44017, 1967 There Goes My Girlfriend/The Girl With Long Blonde Hair - Counterpart 2593, 1967 Meant to Be/Perfect Girl -------------------------------- Counterpart 2599 Ain't Got No Soul/I Still Remember ---------------------- Counterpart 2609, 1967 Donna/The Gumdrop Trilogy ------------------------------- Counterpart 2626 Donna/The Gumdrop Trilogy ------------------------------- Columbia 4-44597, 1968 Sunny/I Still Remember ---------------------------------- Minart 150 Ron -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 18 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:56:36 -0000 From: Andy Subject: Re: Carole King's "I Can't Make It Alone" Add to the list of those who have recorded "I Can't Make It Alone" Diana Ross & the Supremes (on the "Reflections" LP Motown MS-665, 1968]. An additional note: the lead singer in the version by the Continental Drifters was a 34 year old Susan Cowsill. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 19 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 16:38:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Artie Wayne Subject: Re: Found - my cache of acetates ! ! JJ/Sweden: > SERIOUSLY, I love the scent coming fr these old acetates........ > anyone else sharing this opinion? Only my friends in rehab! Now breathe out. Regards, Artie Wayne -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 20 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:44:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Artie Wayne Subject: Marlon Brando and his influence on pop music I've just been informed by a Ms. P.D. from Houston that James Brown was called "The Godfather of Soul" long before Marlons' movie came out. Actually, I meant to say that Mario Puzo, who was writing a yet to be titled book about the Mafia, was given a copy of "James Brown ....Live at the Apollo".....and the rest is history!! regards, Artie Wayne http://artiewayne.com/ -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 21 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 18:36:40 -0700 From: Gary Myers Subject: Re: "Witchy Tai To" / Wisconsin Bob Rashkow: > Gary mentioned a Wisconsin group that demoed on BANG with their > version of ("Witchy Tai To") -- did other Wisc. groups also sign > with the Bang label. Bare Fat of Waupun had Bang 573 (You Can All Join In (Traffic cover) /Soft) in late '69. > Where was The Silver Byke ("I've Got Time"/"Who Needs Tomorrow") > from, anyone know? Not Wisconsin (as far as I know - which is pretty far on that subject ), so I can't help there. gem -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 22 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:41:27 -0700 From: Alan Warner Subject: Re: For the love of Mike Clifford Mick Patrick: > All-but-forgotten, except here at S'pop, eh? To the best of my > knowledge, Mike Clifford is poorly represented on CD. Shame, as he > made some top-of-the-range Brill Building teen idol-style records. > I guess having Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller as his producers helped. > I've posted one of my favourites to musica, a rather rare early > co-composition by (move over for a moment please, Carole King) Ellie > Greenwich: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/ > > Details are: Mike Clifford "That's What They Said" (United Artists > 557, 1962). Written by Ben Raleigh and Ellie Greenwich. Arranged and > conducted by Alan Lorber. Produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Mick is right on the ball when he says that Mike Clifford has been poorly served by the re-issue market. Between '62 and '64, he cut 22 sides for United Artists, produced not only by Leiber & Stoller but also by the late Jack Gold and, as far as I know, three tracks remain unreleased. His biggest seller was the Bob Goodman/Earl Shuman song CLOSE TO CATHY, released originally in July 1962. He had earlier recorded for Liberty who issued a single in 1959 of him duetting with Patience And Prudence. Rock on! Alan Warner -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 23 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 01:58:22 -0000 From: Rodney Rawlings Subject: Re: Carole King demos One slightly unfortunate result of Bob Celli's making the demo of "Go Away Little Girl" available--I will no longer listen to Steve Lawrence's version so much. Carole's is my now favorite by far! The fact that she is female singing a male song does not bother me at all. And clearly it did not bother Carole--she of all people, being the great artist that she is, would know, as undoubtedly did Bobby Vee, that what counts is the song itself. Any singer who could not hear the timelessness of the work represented would be unworthy of singing it, in my view. It may be that Carole King has no inkling of any possible interest in these early demos. To such a genius, it would seem that she was merely doing a job, filling a market need for her employer, and although the melodies may not have come easily there was nothing magical about them and perhaps everything prosaic. Demos? Just a marketing tool, the quicker discarded the better. Artistic history? Don't make me laugh. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 24 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 22:54:00 EDT From: Bill George Subject: Re: Carole King demos Mike Carter on Carole King demos: > and the best of 'em: "I Can't Make It Alone". My favorite version of this is by Maria McKee in 1993. Faster than Dusty's version which really brings out the hook in the song. Bill -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
Message: 25 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:20:16 -0400 From: Phil X Milstein Subject: Re: This Diamond Demo, etc, etc Herb wrote: > Then, I began spotting some I thought or knew did not belong, such > as a Liberty "reissue" lable and Blue Sky. There could been others > but my focus went back to the production. The lables not present > were Cameo, Parkway, Tamla and Quality (The Crystals, Del Shannon). I hear ya, Herb, but knowing how few people in their audience were likely to notice this, let alone care, I can't see where the director and set designer would've bothered themselves over it. (That) Alan Gordon wrote: > ... and now let the "Witchy Tai To " threads begin!!! What is the genesis of the song? Has it anything to do with aboriginal American culture? Don wrote: > Thank you to Mike Carter and Mick Patrick for this wonderful demo. > Besides the demo, the song has been done several times, including: > Continental Drifters My first exposure to I Can't Make It Alone song came just a few years ago, seeing Continental Drifters, with the great Suzy Cowsill at the mic, at a small club, and picking up their CD which contained it on my way out. Shortly thereafter I found Dusty's, and then Proby's, and it's by now one of my favorite songs ever. But even though the latter two versions are objectively better than Suzy's, I will always retain a soft spot for her's. The Continental Drifters, though, seemed to break up concomitant with the break-up of Suzy's marriage to fellow band member Peter Holsapple. Thanks for Carole King's demo version, Mick -- I can hardly wait to listen to it. both the words and music seem the epitome of the Goffin-King style, so I expect this version to be a real show-stopper. Mick Patrick wrote: > By the way, folks, you all have Mike C (not I) to thank for > the Carole King demos I have posted to musica recently. All > being well, more will follow. Does anyone have any special > requests? Carole's own master version of "Bad Boy" sounds sort of demo-ish to me. Not that I'm expecting an earlier version to appear, but does anyone know if the release version was in fact (or at least developed from) the demo? Al Kooper wrote: > Radcliffe became a Northern Soul hero in the UK. But in 1963, when > this demo was cut at Regent Sound in NYC, it was a buncha writers > singing and Buddy Salzman on drums, yours truly on bass, guitar & > piano and Mel Shayne and Bernie Glow on trumpets. Brass, Kooper & > Levine sang the backup vocals and I did the arrangements. You got six arms or somethin'? More seriously, I assume you played three different instruments via the miracle of overdubbing, yet it surprises me to learn of much in the way of multi-track decks being used at demo studios as early as 1963. Did they use sound-on-sound ("ping-pong")? Another aspect of early multitracking that I'm curious about are tales of the early three-track units, a brief-lived graduation from two-tracks. All subsequent evolutions in the field were by factors of two, so the idea of a three-track deck stands out like a ... three-dolar bill? May the 4th be with y'all, --Phil M. -------------------[ archived by Spectropop ]-------------------
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