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There are 6 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Andy Kim Returns!
From: Bette
2. Masters and distribution (was re: Diamond Records masters)
From: David Coyle
3. Another rare Diamond label track in Musica now
From: Tom D
4. Al Kooper's Landlord
From: Patrick
5. Re: Cowsills' We Can Fly
From: Ed Salamon
6. Re: All Night Workers, "Honey & Wine"
From: S.J. Dibai
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:37:43 -0000
From: Bette
Subject: Andy Kim Returns!
Hi Everyone!!
How exciting it is when one of our favs from the Brill Building days
makes a HUGE return! Andy Kim (Rock Me Gently, How'd We Ever Get
This Way and more) got together with Ed Robertson of the Barenaked
Ladies and recorded a new song!
Andy Kim's new single 'I Forgot to Mention' was played this morning
by Scott Shannon on WPLJ - The Scott and Todd Show!!! Andy has hit
the big time! Any one in the NY area who would like to hear the song
played again, please call the WPLJ request line at 1-800-321-WPLJ or
email Scott Shannon: bigshow@plj.com
Thanks bunches!
Bette
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:31:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Coyle
Subject: Masters and distribution (was re: Diamond Records masters)
When a small regional label gets picked up for distribution for
a national label, are the masters sold to the new label, thus
being licensed to that label in the case of reissuing a number
of years down the road?
I ask this because I have two records by the Columbus, Ohio group
the Fifth Order (recently the subject of a full-length CD reissue),
both of which came out originally on a Cincinnati label called
Counterpart. The first single "Goin' Too Far/Walking Away" was
picked up by Diamond, while "Today I Got A Letter/A Thousand Devils"
was then distributed by Laurie.
Does that mean that licensing for such records belongs to the parent
company of the redistributing labels, and do the current executors
(for want of a better term) own the original masters?
David
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:28:26 -0000
From: Tom D
Subject: Another rare Diamond label track in Musica now
In 1966, Ronnie Dove and Johnny Thunder wrote a song together called
Everbody's Got A Little Something, and Diamond had a fellow named
Bob Allen cut the track. The track was produced by Bob Tubert (I'm
sorry if I got that name wrong, I dont have the single in front of
me) who also wrote and produced the B side. It's a great little
number that just doesn't sound too hot coming from my promo 45. I
wish there were people out there who could actually talk to me about
Diamond records, but not even the artists themselves are talking.
Anyhow, enjoy the track......later on I'll post another rare Diamond
cut, as I have been doing every now and then.
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:52:15 -0000
From: Patrick
Subject: Al Kooper's Landlord
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on why the wonderful
soundtrack for the 1970 movie The Landlord by Al Kooper has not been
issued on CD? I really loved the film and Al and The Staple Singers
really do up the soundtrack perfectly.
A couple of the tracks it looks like were released on the Easy Does
It album (quote from AMG: "The set kicks off with the youthfully
optimistic rocker "Brand New Day." This is the first of two tracks
Kooper used in his score for Hal Ashby's directorial cinematic debut,
The Landlord, a highly affable counterculture classic starring Beau
Bridges. The haunting "The Landlord Love Theme" is also included"
...the Love Theme also appears on Rare & Well Done: The Greatest and
Rarest...) but even that album apparently is only available on CD in
Japan (is that true?).
some web linkage with info:
http://www.blaxploitation.com/s_193.html
:Patrick
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:22:47 -0000
From: Ed Salamon
Subject: Re: Cowsills' We Can Fly
I have a copy of the Cowsills "We Can Fly" in Italian. The
harmonies in THAT language are fantastic.
Ed Salamon
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:44:24 -0000
From: S.J. Dibai
Subject: Re: All Night Workers, "Honey & Wine"
Don H:
> I have posted "Honey And Wine" by the All Night Workers to
> musica.
Thank you! It's always a pleasure to hear more rarities from the
Cameo-Parkway catalogue. And this was not at all what I expected,
but very good.
A few things: First of all, Don, you list the date of this single
as 1963. That's dubious to me. With a catalogue number of 420, it
would seem to come from 1966. The label may very well say "(C) 1963
Cameo-Parkway Records, Inc.," but that copyright refers to the label
design, not the recording itself. This really gets people mixed up.
I've seen ridiculous rumors -- like Bob Seger's "Persecution Smith"
was originally released in 1963!!!--because of that. Parkway records
from that era say, "(C) 1962 Cameo-Parkway Records, Inc.," causing
a similar confusion. The next Cameo-Parkway label design, with the
capital "C" and the capital "P" for records on both labels, doesn't
feature a copyright date. And it's a really cool design to boot.
Secondly, I'm assuming this is the same "Honey And Wine" that The
Hollies recorded for a rare EP track. If so, I haven't heard their
version--anyone know it?
Finally, are these All Night Workers the same group that did the
early John Cale-Lou Reed (and Terry Phillips!) song "Why Don't You
Smile Now," covered in the UK by The Downliner's Sect? I know it by
The Sect, who did it as a rather ugly punker, but always wondered
what the original sounded like.
S.J. Dibai
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