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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Dean & all the Reeds
From: Phil X Milstein
2. Re: Glad All Over
From: Various
3. Re: Sandy = Sandie?
From: Phil X Milstein
4. There were tears in my eyes.....
From: Claire Francis
5. Re: 4 Tops background vocals
From: Tony Leong
6. Re: Supremes' back-ups
From: Charle A Sheen
7. more Skeeter at musica
From: Phil X Milstein
8. Re: They All Wanna Sound Like Dion
From: Austin Roberts
9. Re: Crimea River
From: Gary Myers
10. Re: The Outsiders
From: Margaret G Still
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:26:58 +0000
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: Dean & all the Reeds
Eddy Smit wrote:
> Apparently Reed had more than strong sympathies for Communism. After
> all, there was a reason why he lived in the GDR and was so popular in
> the USSR.
Was he related to John Reed, of Warren Beatty's "Reds" fame?
--Phil M.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:59:43 -0600
From: Various
Subject: Re: Glad All Over
Several similar responses to the same question ...
Phil Milstein asked:
> Which artist debuted "Glad All Over"? If it's any help, my Dave Clark 5
> hits album credits the song to a writing team of Campbell-Connelly.
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Les Fradkin:
Dave Clark and Mike Smith wrote "Glad All Over." The Dave Clark 5 had
the original hit single on Epic. Campbell-Connelly had the American
publishing on it.
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Joe Foster:
Surely C&C are the old-school pubishers for whom I worked as a boy –
"Teddy Bears Picnic", "South Of The Border" and all that.
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Frank Murphy:
I think Campbell-Connelly was the publishing company. The writers were
Dave Clark (the drummer) and Mike Smith (the vocalist.
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:12:54 +0000
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: Sandy = Sandie?
Eddy Smit wrote:
> In view of the conversation on German Vogue, I was wondering if anybody
> had any information on Sandy-with-a-Y Shaw. I have a 45 of her on Vogue
> DV 14283 called Einmal glucklich sein wie die andern c/w Ohne dich. The
> a-side is a German-sung version of Bacharach-David's Always something
> there to remind me. The label claims it's licensed from Pye and a bit of
> an accent also suggest Sandy is not German...
Perhaps you've already dismissed this answer as being too obvious, Eddy,
but without hearing the record my inclination would be to assume it's
Sandie (with an i-e) Shaw, recutting one of her own hits in a foreign
language, and with her name misspelled, both of which were common
occurrences in that era.
Another way to find out would be to look at her footwear.
--Phil M.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:52:15 -0000
From: Claire Francis
Subject: There were tears in my eyes.....
Dear Mick Patrick and Spectropop members,
Thank you for playing my song in your music room. My whole family sat
there with tears in their eyes as we listened. "But I Don't Care" was so
much of a thrill to produce, write, arrange and record. I forgot for a moment
in time just how great the thrill was. Thanks for bringing in on home to me.
I hope those of you out there that have any more of my work will play it in
the music room again so that I can put it on my computer. I have none of
my work, so anything you have will be a real blessing.
I will answer all yoiur questions over a period of a few days. You have
made me so very happy.
With much love and light,
Claire Francis
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:04:58 -0000
From: Tony Leong
Subject: Re: 4 Tops background vocals
David Feldman wrote:
> My ears tell me there are female background vocals on "Bernadette"
> and "Ask the Lonely," but can anyone confirm this?
> I certainly can't trust my ears. I was lucky enough to see all of the
> major Motown vocal groups from the 60s and 70s live. But IMO, none
> of them could match the Tops vocally -- not even close. I was shocked
> out of what little mind I had left to see the "3 Tops" duplicate the
> background vocals on "Bernadette." It's one thing to create a wall of
> sound in the studio, quite another to produce one in a small theater
> in London with a pickup orchestra and four guys with microphones.
You are certainly right! The in-house Motown background group, The
Andantes (Louvain Demps, Marlene Barrow, Jackie Hicks), were the female
back-up vocalists that figured into many of those great mid-'60s Four Tops
singles and LP cuts. As for "Bernadette", I read somewhere that The Andantes
AND The Originals did that background, which sounds about right because
one of The Originals had a cutting deep baritone (Obie of the Tops was a
baritone, but not THAT deep!).
Tony Leong
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:07:24 -0000
From: Charle A Sheen
Subject: Re: Supremes' back-ups
Tony Leong wrote:
> Right! And I believe a combo of HDH and some Tops also figured in
> on "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" and "Run Run Run"! I know
> there are males singing with Mary and Flo during the chorus of "Run!
> Run! Run!" but I never knew about "Standing At the Crossroads". I can
> hear Flo real good on that song.
Wow, you learn something every day. I always thought it was Clarence Paul
doing the "yeahs" on SWBT. I know for sure it's him on the background of
Stevie Wonder's version of "Blowin' In The Wind."
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:48:18 -0400
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: more Skeeter at musica
My own contribution to the Skeetermania now running at musica is "I
Didn't Cry Today," an odd but tuneful track from her 1969 LP "maryfrances."
Featuring strong versions of such period staples as "Someday Soon,"
"Only The Strong Survive," "Windmills Of Your Mind," "Singing My Song,"
"Son Of A Preacher Man," and "The Chokin' Kind" (along with a rather
gratuitous remake of "End Of The World"), this is my very favorite Skeeter
Davis album. The look and feel of the record seem like it may've been
geared toward the "sensitive coed" market, the very audience that Carole
King would soon dominate with the release of "Tapestry."
"I Didn't Cry Today" is the only song on "maryfrances" written by Skeeter
herself. Heightening the sense of recent loss is the fact that the drums
are played by Kenny Buttrey.
A great website for all things Skeeter can be found at
http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/skeeterdavis/ .
--Phil M.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:04:55 EDT
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: They All Wanna Sound Like Dion
Mikey wrote:
> Just since we're on the topic, I have a whole bootleg CD of Dion sound-
> alikes called "So Why Did You Sing Like Me, Dion?"
Greatest Dion sound-alike, in my opinion, was the one-hit wonder, number
one record Little Star by The Elegants, circa 1958. What a great record!
Austin Roberts
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:54:26 -0700
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Crimea River
Joe Nelson wrote:
> ... at musica another track with another approach, Skeeter's take on the
> Arthur Hamilton classic "Cry Me A River".
In 1979 I took an ASCAP songwriting workshop from Annette Tucker ("I
Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"), which also had the involvement of
her boyfriend, Arthur Hamilton. He was a very cool guy. I asked him one
night how many cuts there had been of CMAR and he said about 400.
gem
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:57:18 -0000
From: Margaret G Still
Subject: Re: The Outsiders
"Chase Away The Tears" was a really great song The Outsiders did,
probably their best.
Their worst would have to be the whole "Happening 'Live!'" LP, with the
swingin' "live" go-go club sounds added.
M. G. Still
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