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There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Tina on Vogue Belgium
From: Davie Gordon
2. Re: Arkade: "Where You Lead" and other leads
From: Austin Roberts
3. Jack Nitzsche at Spectropop update
From: Martin Roberts
4. Toni Wine Update
From: Allan Rinde
5. The Chiffons
From: Phil Hall
6. Not so Good Vibrations
From: Sandy Revers
7. Re: product placement
From: Phil X Milstein
8. The Beagles
From: Dave Monroe
9. Re: cannibal pop
From: Steve Harvey
10. Asia Fund Raiser
From: Richard Havers
11. Re: The dawn of Dawn
From: Austin Roberts
12. Re: French-Canadian artists; Nanette Workman
From: Denis Gagnon
13. Re: Royal Guardsmen
From: Joe Nelson
14. Lodi
From: Phil X Milstein
15. Name That Doris Day Tune
From: Mick Patrick
16. Re: Rockin' Rebels
From: Max Weiner
17. Steff Sulke: "Oh What A Lovely Day"
From: Mike Bennidict
18. Musitron and other thoughts
From: Clark Besch
19. Clyde McPhatter: "Let's Forget About The Past"
From: Lex Cody
20. Rockin' Rebels; Bud Shank?
From: Country Paul
21. Re: Royal Guardsmen: "Squeaky Vs. The Black Knight"
From: Tom Diehl
22. Re: The Spector Sessions: "Chico's Girl"
From: Martin Jensen
23. Re: "A Love Like Yours"
From: Dave Monroe
24. Re: "Je T´Aime ... Moi Non Plus"
From: "kikeypaca"
25. Re: Bob Kuban S/M
From: Tom Diehl
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:20:29 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Re: Tina on Vogue Belgium
Dave Monroe:
> I just scored this myself recently! It's great! But who did,
> er, "Toc Toc Toc" originally? I'm always working my way
> backwards from French covers ...
"A Love Like Yours" was originally by Martha and The Vandellas.
the B-side Of "Heatwave" (Gordy 7022, 07/63)
Davie
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:25:07 -0500
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: Arkade: "Where You Lead" and other leads
Joe,
Woman In My Life may well have been Arkade's first single.
Steve Barri and Price and Walsh asked me to sing leads with
them, and I immediately said yes because of the way P and W
and I sounded together. They were terrific writers and singers.
Also, Steve B.was my hero as a producer and mentor. As far as
"Fool's Way Of Lovin'" goes, I'm pretty sure Dunhill put it out
after I had left (after "Where You Lead"). Dan sang lead and I
might have sung bgds. with Michael.
Take care,
Austin
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:01:49 -0000
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Jack Nitzsche at Spectropop update
If you're not keen on obscure rock'n'roll records with
honkin' sax, rockin' piano triplets, girly backing vocals
and gravely lead vocal then I suggest you don't checkout
The Fabulous Little Joe "(In The) Good Old Summertime",
Eden 2, the current play @ Jack Nitzsche's Record of the Week;
http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/index.htm
By popular demand (and threatening letters) Jack's KHJ radio
jingles, supplied by Ken Levine are once more being played
On the Radio - http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/radio.htm
I'm trying out a different streaming format, so please report
any problems, thanks.
Martin
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:25:53 -0000
From: Allan Rinde
Subject: Toni Wine Update
Jeff Lemlich wrote:
> I have an original publisher's demo of "Now That You're My
> Baby", one of the Dusty B-sides mentioned in a recent post.
> Since Toni Wine was a co-writer, I have to suspect she's one
> of the singers on the demo. Expect this to turn up on musica
> in the near future.
Sorry I've taken so long to chime in on the "Now That You're My
Baby" thread. That is indeed Toni's demo, and one of her favorite
performances. She's also doing some backup on the Chiffons record
(although she doesn't particularly remember the session so it's
possible those vocals were from the demo as well.) She does have
vague memories of cutting this with the Cookies, although it's not
on The Complete Cookies CD. Anyone have info on this?
As for Toni and Ron Dante on stage, they, along with Andy Kim,
will be doing a Carribean Cruise in March (details on her website),
and I would imagine that they'd all wind up on stage together.
Last year's cruise found Toni, Jack Keller and Tony Orlando
onstage, acoustically, doing an unrehearsed set of their favorite
Aldon Music songs (by other writers). Toni is still on tour with
Tony O., doing mostly casinos all around the country.
(Admin Note: Toni's original demo of "Now That You're My Baby",
plus the Chiffons' version are still playing @ musica. Don't miss
them: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/ )
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:27:00 -0000
From: Phil Hall
Subject: The Chiffons
Mick Patrick wrote:
> Hey, and that wasn't the only time the Chiffons recorded a Screen
> Gems-published song and used the backing track from another version.
> I'm thinking of their version of "One Fine Day" (same backing track
> as Little Eva's demo) and "It Hurts To Be Sixteen" (same backing
> track as the version by Andrea Carroll).
According to
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Frontrow/2301/chiffons.html, it
was the Chiffons, along with Ellie Greenwich, who sang background for
Andrea Carroll's version of the song. For their own release, they
just replaced Andrea's lead vocals with Judy Craig's.
Phil H.
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:12:08 -0000
From: Sandy Revers
Subject: Not so Good Vibrations
I saw the Good Vibrations play on Broadway on Thursday night- very
disappointing with acting and singing that is better suited for a
high school play instead of a Broadway production. Sad just how bad
it actually was- save your money and buy an extra copy of Pet Sounds
instead.
I have seen dozens of plays and have never heard such poor singing
from lead actors and actresses as this production had. Sadly, the
Beach Boys music is not treated anywhere near as well as the Abba
Hits in Mamma Mia or the 4 Seasons in the upcoming production of
Jersey Boys (I saw that in La Jolla- it is fantastic!)
Sandy Revers
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:55:58 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: product placement
Frank Murphy wrote:
> I note David Letterman has a laugh with this occasionally on The Late
> Show, I think Schlitz Quatro was the last personal recommendation.
I imagine you mean Schick Quattro, a razor. Schlitz is a skid row brand
of beer!
In the U.S., starlets and other screen-hogs are paid by corporations to
casually drop the names of their brands into talk show appearances. For
instance, Jodi Cuteyoungthing will be on, say, the Letterman show to
plug her latest flick, but, during the brainless banter before they get
to the obligatory movie plug she will happen to mention that she was
just chomping on some Del Monte raisins the other day when her pomerantz
Fluffy jumped up and stole one right out of her mouth. This secondary
plug will seem completely innocuous, and will more than likely have the
studio audience (who are prompted when to laugh, applaud, etc. by
off-camera signage) in stitches, but in reality this mention was bought
and paid for the advertiser; in fact, for all we know Jodi might even be
deathly allergic to raisins!
> In other BBC TV shows such as soap operas dummy company names
> had to be thought up and boxes and tins labeled with non-existent
> labels. So no Kellogs Corn Flakes on the breakfast table, Twenty
> Snout cigarettes.
This is so completely alien to the American mentality of "everything is
for sale" that I can scarcely even comprehend it. "Product placement" is
so rampant here that it's become rarer for a TV show or movie to NOT
include at least one surreptitious ad than it is vice versa. When a
British TV station runs an American show, do they bleep out these
mentions? How 'bout in movies?
I didn't mean to get quite so off-topic, but this does relate to our
discussion of product names in song lyrics.
--Phil M.
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 00:02:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Monroe
Subject: The Beagles
Well, apparently Les Irresistables either didn't ring any bells for
anyone here, or, at any rate, they didn't ring them strongly enough,
but here's another one for y'all. My favorite cartoon band ever,
The Beagles. Ostensibly two cartoon dogs named Stringer and Tubby:
http://www.toontracker.com/beagles/beagles.htm
Their LP has been making the rounds as "bonus" tracks on a not-
exactly-authorized Banana Splits CD comp, but I've been lucky enough
to score copies of both their theme song 45 and the LP, which I
consider not only the best Saturday morning cartoon show band record
ever, The Banana Splits or no (Josie and The Pussycats are hit and
miss past the theme song, though The Globetrotters have been creeping
up on me of late), but one of the all-time great pop albums, period.
Anyway, I'm interested in any info anyone here might give me about
the men [sic] behind the music ...
Here Come the Beagles
Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc., 51 W. 52 Street,
New York, NY
Harmony Records-A Product of Columbia Records
Stereo HS 14561 / Mono HL 9561
Music and Lyrics by W. Biggers, T. Covington, J. Harris, C. Stover
Published by Vincent Youmans Co., Inc
Arranged an Conducted by Charles Fox
I'm also convinced it's even been sampled elsewhere, by the very
wonderful Adventures in Stereo (ex-Primal Scream, ex-Spirea X, q.v.).
Which reminds me ...
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:10:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: cannibal pop
I believe K-tel compiled all these songs on an album titled, "What's
Eating You?", which was quickly withdrawn . . . right after lunch.
"'The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell,' Mountain - "Nantucket sleighride",
Paul Kantner & Grace Slick - "Silver Spoon".
Is it soup yet?
Timothy (I'm not half the man I use to be!)
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:35:32 +0000
From: Richard Havers
Subject: Asia Fund Raiser
Mike Read, British DJ and song-writer, has just had a song of
his recorded to raise funds for the Tsunami appeal. The track
is called "Grief Never Grows Old" by One World.
This is the line-up:
Singers are Cliff Richard, Brian Wilson, Robin and Barry Gibb,
Russell Watson, Steve Winwood, Jon Anderson and Boy George.
The musicians are Bill Wyman, Rick Wakeman, Kenney Jones and
Gary Moore. Backing vocals by some of The Beach Boys band along
with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell from America. The whole
thing is produced by Steve Levine has produced.
It will be released by Universal in the UK (not sure which label
yet), probably within the next ten days. It was recorded in New
York, Las Vegas, London, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and other
parts of California....pretty unusual.
Mike tells me that Brian's vocal is stunning.
Richard
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:38:36 -0500
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: The dawn of Dawn
Keith Moore wrote:
> ... according to the bubblegum bible "Bubblegum is the Naked Truth"
> the female vocalists on the first Dawn single "Candida" were Toni
> Wine and Ellie Greenwich. Is this true? I can't quite tell. And if
> it is true, do they feature on any of the other tracks?
Toni Wine was definitely on the first Dawn singles (not sure about
Ellie). Toni is traveling with Tony Orlando on shows these days.
Tony (not Toni) also had a top 20 bubbegum hit as Wind, called Only
Make Believe (or Make Believe).
Austin Roberts
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:20:24 -0500
From: Denis Gagnon
Subject: Re: French-Canadian artists; Nanette Workman
Country Paul:
> Re: French artists, we're overlooking French Canada here. In 1969-70,
> there was a fine single on Gamma by Le Coeur d'une Generation [The
> Heart of a Generation] called "A Toi (Ton Nom)" [For You (Your Name)],
> a very pretty slow 6/8 ballad. At the same time I discovered that one,
> I also found L'Ostiddcho [The Ostrich]'s "Le Fin du Monde" [The End of
> The World], not the Skeeter Davis track but a very serious and
> adventurous progressive item with a big psychedelic freakout at the
> end. I think the group was part of the Robert Charlebois circle of
> influence. Unfortunately, its seriousness was undermined by have been
> recorded very cheaply (Farfisa instead of Hammond organ), but the song
> itself is very classically beautiful.
Le Coeur d'une Génération had a big hit around 1970 with "Pierrot les
cheveux" (Hairy Peter?). Unfortunately, their career was rather short.
As for L'Osstidcho, I believe many would say that it was the start of
French rock n' roll, by French Québec born artists. Before that, all we
had were French acts (Johnny Hallyday and a few others from France),
covers of English hits and our own "Chansonniers" (Singers-songwriters)
who were composing and singing some sort of more or less folksy ballads.
(Félix Leclerc, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Claude Léveillé and many others).
Robert Charlebois also started out as a "Chansonnier" but really came
out of his shell with L'Ossticho which was had a tremendous impact, in
Québec.
As for Nanette Workman, she was one of the first female rocker to sing
in French in this Province and she's still going strong, almost 40 years
later.
Denis
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:58:25 -0500
From: Joe Nelson
Subject: Re: Royal Guardsmen
Lyn Nuttall:
> For Australian radio "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron" had the word "bloody"
> beeped out. If you sang along with it as it was played, you sang
> something like "The 'BOOP' Red Baron of Ger-man-y" (or loudly put in
> the offending word anyway, as a pointless act of teenage defiance).
Oh, gawd! You do NOT want to know what repressed memory this just
jogged.
Toward the end of 1972 my brother and I were given portable cassette
recorders for Christmas. We were playing with them one day when a
couple of cousins were visiting, and at one point the four of us were
gathered around a microphone singing a popular SvsRB parody lyric
begining "Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more / Ron blew a fart
in the grocery store..." Mom was not amused and let us know in no
uncertain terms not to play the tape around her. I got an idea. Johnny
Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" had a vulgar word bleeped out, so maybe we
should do that here. The center of the tape had a soft center, so I
rigged up a system where I put a blunt object on the feed reel,
keeping it from turning, held it down while I hit record and "punched
in" the BOOPs. I was nine years old.
Joe Nelson
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:03:45 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Lodi
Can anyone recommend a version -- good, bad, mediocre; C&W, R&B, soul;
etc., etc., etc. -- of Creedence/John Fogerty's "Lodi"?
Thanks,
--Phil M.
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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:27:56 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Name That Doris Day Tune
I can't move for CDs. Some have got to go. Want some? Free?
Read on . . .
Cast opposite Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok and clad head to
toe in cowhide, bullwhip-cracking Doris Day stomped, shot, spat
and cussed her way through Calamity Jane, 1953's Hollywood
musical based on the real life exploits of legendary Wild West
cross-dresser Martha Jane Cannary Burke. Set during the Gold
Rush, the movie, her fifteenth – which was rare, in that it was
written not for the stage but specifically for the silver screen
– provided Doris with some of her most unforgettable musical
numbers in 'The Deadwood Stage (Whip-crack – Away!)', 'The Black
Hills Of Dakota', 'A Woman's Touch' and 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX', all
created by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. The latter
topped the pop charts for a month in 1954, sold a million and
won that year's Academy Award for best song. Over 50 years later
it remains the song for which this genuine American icon is best
remembered.
Name that Doris Day song. Most entertaining correct reply wins
five free compact discs.
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:21:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Max Weiner
Subject: Re: Rockin' Rebels
Here is some more on the Rockin' Rebels:
Surf rock band best known for the killer instrumental "Wild Weekend" (1963).
"Wild Weekend" was originally the theme song for the Tom Shannon radio
show, based in Buffalo, NY. It was reworked as an instrumental by a local
band known as The Rebels (later renamed The Buffalo Rebels) and first
released on Mar-Lee in 1960. "Wild Weekend" was a local hit and was
featured on American Bandstand. Eventually, it got the attention of Swan
Records, who tracked down Shannon and struck a deal for the master. In
early 1963, "Wild Weekend" finally made it to the national charts. Since
the original (Buffalo) Rebels had broken up, the various follow-up singles,
B-sides, and "Wild Weekend" re-releases (all listed as by The (Rockin')
Rebels) were actually recorded by many different sound-alike bands.
Max
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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:24:46 -0000
From: Mike Bennidict
Subject: Steff Sulke: "Oh What A Lovely Day"
Does anyone know about this person?
Mike
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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:52:53 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Musitron and other thoughts
Austin Roberts wrote:
> I may be way off base, but if this was the same Ramrods that was
> playing in a club called the Cavern (I think) in New York around
> 1961 or 1962, then on a dare I went up and sang Runaway with them.
> I was a kid so I don't remember much about it.
Speaking of "Runaway", I was just informed that the inventor of the Musitron,
Max Crook, was from my hometown of Lincoln, NE. I was wondering if Austin
or any of the other "ringers" on our board might have met him, or have any
stories about Max and that amazing sound he invented. I never knew what
it was, but I knew it was unique. A buddy calls it the first "electronic music"!
That would be amazing to have that full circle effect of Max playing with Chip
Davis of Mannheim Steamroller. How far "electronic music" has come! With
Chip being from Omaha, it would be a cool idea I think.
Does anyone know if Max plays the Musitron on "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'N
The Tears? Any other non-Shannon songs it is used on? He also wrote "Bumble
Boogie" and is listed as a co-writer on "Runaway". Anyway, I'd love any and
all info on him, especially any personal stories. He still performs in New
Mexico, and makes an annual trip to the yearly Del Shannon fests in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. He does have a website at http://www.maxcrook.com ,
but I would love any personal info or disc info.
In a related (kinda) way, "Runaway" as well as "Happy Together" and James
Holvay's "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)" show up on a really neat
new CD in Chicago. Although WLS and WCFL in Chicago are my fave
memories of '60s radio, and I talk to many people about those stations'
past constantly, no one seemed to know of a CD I got recently. It seems
a charity CD for a service in Chicago helping people with developmental
disabilities has been released featuring 11 basic '60s hits with WLS DJ
patter from the decade intermixed into the songs and a host of WLS jingles
at the end! Pretty cool! It can be found at Walgreens stores around the
Chicago area. For a site near you Chicago residents, check out
http://www.orchardvillage.org/cdwalgreen.html
Wonder if That Alan or James Holvay know they are donating to such a
worthy cause? The CD is apparently issued through Dominion music out
of Atlanta. Great CD and thanks to Alan and James for their donations of the
music that gives beyond their knowledge! I'd go out and buy another one
if I lived there!
Clark
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Message: 19
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:43:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Lex Cody
Subject: Clyde McPhatter: "Let's Forget About The Past"
A friend has given me a vinyl transfer of Clyde McPhatter's "Let's Forget
About The Past" for me to clean up, but, well, it's in atrocious condition.
Does anyone know where I can buy an MP3 of this song online, or buy
it on a comp? I need it pretty fast, it's a gift.
Thanks.
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Message: 20
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:42:21 -0500
From: Country Paul
Subject: Rockin' Rebels; Bud Shank?
Davie Gordon wrote:
> It was the Rockin' Rebels who did "Wild Weekend" not the
> Rockin' Ramrods.
Right you are. The mind is failing! The mind is failing! Mea culpa....
(Or as my parents used to say, "All that rock and roll stuff sounds the
same!" Guess the group names do, too, once you hit a certain age.)
Richard Havers, responding to my query:
> Around the time of recording 'The Misfits', [Don] Costa was
> working in the studio with Frank Sinatra. Amongst the
> saxophonists that were on the tracks that appeared on Frank's
> album 'Strings and Things' was Bud Shank. A possibility?
Could be, especially if the sessions were in California.
Country Paul
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Message: 21
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:49:06 -0000
From: Tom Diehl
Subject: Re: Royal Guardsmen: "Squeaky Vs. The Black Knight"
Amazing! I never thought something like that Royal Guardsmen tune could
exist. Is there a stereo mix of it available anywhere? Also, I have heard a
version of "Snoopy For President" where an announcer lists the 1968
presidential candidates, Snoopy among them, and then says "Ach du
Lieber!", and then the song starts off like it normally does. Is that a
Canada-only release, too? No one I've talked to knows anything about
that version of the song, it's not on any LP and apparently not on the
Right Stuff CD that had a lot of stuff remixed or alternate takes of their
songs.
Tom "Ronnie Dove for President" Diehl
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Message: 22
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:49:27 -0000
From: Martin Jensen
Subject: Re: The Spector Sessions: "Chico's Girl"
Tony Leong wrote:
> I was listening to the Spector Sessions and for once, I am STUMPED
> with a couple of things! Usually, I am good at picking out voices (i.e.,
> Cher, Edna, Darlene), but I have a couple of Crystals questions now.
> There's a song "Chico's Girl" credited to nobody. That voice sounds
> like Barbara Alston actually SINGING, not whispering. Is that an
> unreleased Crystals cut--and is that Barbara leading???
Hi Tony, I can't help you with your question concerning the lead on "Chico's
Girl," but I wanted to follow up on this Spector production, which blew my
mind when I heard it for the first time. I find Spector's take on it -- even in
its unfinished, sketchy form -- soooo much better than the one by The Girls
on Capitol. Can anyone here shed light on why Spector didn't put his own
version out? Did he just tire of it, was it a question of not having a writer's
credit, or something else? Anyone in the know?
Martin, Denmark
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Message: 23
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:01:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Monroe
Subject: Re: "A Love Like Yours"
Davie Gordon wrote:
> "A Love Like Yours" was originally by Martha and The
> Vandellas. the B-side Of "Heatwave" (Gordy 7022,
> 07/63)
Pardon me while I slap my forehead. You know, I generally have a bad habit
of not having the obvious records by anyone, so, while I only at long last
just picked up a "Heat Wave" 45 late last weekend (and STILL haven't
flipped it over), I've been spinning "Honey Love" and "Motoring" and "Wild
One" and "In My Lonely Room" and ... to death for years. And thanks as
well for info on (so far, have dozens of messages yet to go) L'Olympia (was
thinking more the showbizzy aspect of it), that 7-CD Dutronc box set (I've
been remiss when it comes to CDs of late, so ...), et al. Always something
new to be learned at the Spectropop list.
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Message: 24
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:03:51 -0000
From: "kikeypaca"
Subject: Re: "Je T´Aime ... Moi Non Plus"
Hola Everybody.
Artie Wayne wrote:
> To my knowledge, it was one ( "Je T´Aime ... Moi Non Plus") of the
> first French language records to become a hit it the United States.
> I hear that a lot of radio stations stopped playing it after the "racey"
> translation was revealed.
One surprising story about that marvelous song is that it was released in
1969 in the Spain under dictator General Franco. According to the legend,
the censors didn´t use to listen to the records, limiting themselves to reading
the lyrics. Probably they didn´t pay much attention to them, considering
that they were in French, and they should suppose that the ahhhh and
ohhhhh in the song should be some kind of pop chorus, so they gave the
authorization and the record was released. Of course it generated an
enormous scandal in the prudish and ultracatholic Spain of the sixties,
and the single was quickly forbidden, but a lot of copies had already been
sold, and the song became rather popular.
I suppose everybody knows that the song was previously recorded by Serge
with Brigitte Bardot (with an arrangement by Michel Colombier, I think), but
it wasn´t released until many years after. I believe that the first time the
hypnotic riff of the track was recorded was for the soundtrack of the film "The
Coeurs Verts", in 1967.
In the mid seventies Serge directed a film titled also "Je T´Aime ... Moi Non
Plus", starring Jane Birkin, Joe D´Allessandro and, in a brief role as a horse
lover (I mean lover of a particular horse, not generically), a very young Gerard
Depardieu. The film is a kind of strange gay Western. The sountrack of the
movie included various intrumental pieces with the music of the song.
Chao,
Julio NIño.
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Message: 25
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:36:27 -0000
From: Tom Diehl
Subject: Re: Bob Kuban S/M
Shawn Nagy wrote:
> I recall the Bob Kuban CD on Collectables being restored off of
> vinyl. Since that release, has "The Cheater" appeared on any
> releases off master tapes, or particularily have Musicland USA
> label masters appeared anywhere?
Collectables issues a lot of things off of vinyl when master tapes could be
found if they searched hard enough, but I suppose it's just easier for them
to dub off a mint vinyl copy if most people won't tell the difference.
I don't know if the original stereo LP was true stereo or just rechanneled,
but the master was found and mixed for CD release years ago, and more
recently it was remixed into a better stereo mix sounding closer to the
original 45 mix by Dave Lentz (I believe is his name). It's on some Varese
CD, released in 2003 or '04. I can't remember the title offhand, but I don't
own the CD unfortunately.
Tom (Stereoldies) Diehl
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