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There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: phantom song challenge
From: Various
2. "Last Night In My Daddy's Arms"
From: Julio Niño
3. The (West Coast) Chiffons
From: Donny H.
4. Re: Besame Mucho
From: Gary Myers
5. Ray Peterson, R.I.P.
From: Larry Bromley
6. Re: France Gall
From: Phil X Milstein
7. At The club of Vegas
From: Frank Murphy
8. "Dick Fox's Golden Boys"
From: Country Paul
9. Hawaiian "Talking" Guitars
From: Jim
10. Barbara George
From: Gary Myers
11. Re: Antoinette
From: Joe Nelson
12. A Vogues Question
From: Max Weiner
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:20:01 -0000
From: Various
Subject: Re: phantom song challenge
A couple of responses to Rob Pingel's request for a song ID:
> Surely some S'popper who knows every song every recorded
> can help. My phantom record was released sometime between
> 1963-66. It starts off with a very stark sounding verse. ...
Not a hard one for Chicagoans. From spring 1966, it's "Don't You
Know" by Keith Everett on Temp-Ting label. The song made WLS' Top
10 -- pretty good for a local which didn't hit nationally.
Clark
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Someone must've gotten this already; if not: 1966, Keith Everett,
"Don't You Know" -- big WCFL spin.
MopTopMike
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:25:17 -0000
From: Julio Niño
Subject: "Last Night In My Daddy's Arms"
Hola Everybody.
I want to thank David A. Young for playing in musica the wonderful ode
to incest "Last Night In My Daddy´s Arms" by Kerri Downs. I love it.
This afternoon I was listening to it with headphones and ( even though
I tried to hold it in) I couldn't help laughing loudly several times.
The people around looked disapprovingly at me. I'm going to think of
pop songs about incest, like Serge Gainsbourg's " Lemon Incest" or
the calypso "Shame and Scandal in the Family" (I like very much the
French version by Les Surfs). Another song in which I've always
perceived an incestuous perfume (I know that many people would urge
me to visit a psychiatrist or even an exorcist when I say that) is "Di
Papa", (say, daddy) by Spanish crooner José Guardiola with his little
sister (around four or five then) Rosa Maria. It's a version of the
French song "Dis, Papa" that sounds to me madly camp and tortuous. I
don't know if there are any versions of the song in English.
I´m going to take a siesta.
Chao.
Julio Niño.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:31:48 -0000
From: Donny H.
Subject: The (West Coast) Chiffons
The Reprise Chiffons also sound like a different group from the Big
Deal Chiffons, which would mean three different groups. Anyone know
for sure?
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:53:41 -0800
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Besame Mucho
Richard Williams:
> There was a year in the mid-'90s when I couldn't go anywhere
> without hearing Besame Mucho ...
I recall an instrumental version, in 5/4, being played on LGFJ (L.A.)
in '63. Does anyone know anything about this?
gem
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:55:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Larry Bromley
Subject: Ray Peterson, R.I.P.
Last night I, like another group member, could not find news about Ray
Peterson. Just now, I searched on YAHOO! and found a number of news
articles, so I guess that it waasn't deemed important enough by any
on-line servies, since the articles I found were from newspapers. So
now we have the info we want.
=====
Age is a number that tells
how long you have lived in this world,
not how to live in it.
Larry Bromley
good day!
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:39:38 -0800
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: France Gall
Frank wrote:
> I saw France yesterday and conveyed your words. She was sincerely
> pleased and asked me to thank you very kindly. By the way she gave
> me a copy of the elusive "Zozoi," which I'll try to play at musica.
By the way, Frank, how did you come to know her?
--Phil M.
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:19:29 +0000
From: Frank Murphy
Subject: At The club of Vegas
Previously:
> What he REALLY needed was The High Keys' "Que Sera Sera," KILLER
> party soul with Latin trappings -- think maybe The Coasters' "Down
> At The Club" on a tequila bender -- and Enoch Light & The Command
> All-Stars' "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" (first wedding I ever DJed, I
> was told to play whatever I wanted, and this of all things was what
> finally got everyone on the floor). Okay, now I'll be digging for
> killer Doris Day covers.
I play the mono version of At The Club by The Drifters because the
block of wood they hit is prominent in the mix as compared to the
album. I must print a list of other covers played at Vegas. Thanks to
Mark Lamarr (www.bbc.co.uk/radio2) I looked out Major Harris doing
like a rolling Stone in a very Tom Jones Stylee. My DJ colleague Dino
Martini plays Salena Jones' version of Right Now which he says is rare.
And Frankie Sumatra has a rarish mix of Venus by Tom Jones (not the one
from the Tom album).
I'm doing the Vegas radio show agiain this Saturday at noon on
www.subcity.org once I've recovered from the tsunami fund raiser I did
last night. It over ran of course after featuring Middle of The Road,
Chris Andrews, The Blue Nile, Nazareth, Marmalade and a number of local
acts.
More detail later.
FrankM
reflections on northern soul Saturday's two thirty pm
http://www.radiomagnetic.com or listen to an archive show
http://www.radiomagnetic.com/archive/index.php?genre=&show=65
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:54:05 -0500
From: Country Paul
Subject: "Dick Fox's Golden Boys"
FYI, "Dick Fox's Golden Boys" - Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Bobby Rydell
- are playing at the Trump 29 Casino in San Diego, CA, March 3rd. This
means they're probably on tour at various other venues as well.
(I know this because I do the voice-overs for Trump 29, and this is
today's copy!)
Country Paul
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:26:43 -0000
From: Jim
Subject: Hawaiian "Talking" Guitars
Hope someone can point me to a US song which was a hit in Australia
(and probably elsewhere) around 1963..its catchy gimmick was
"talking" guitars, where the "vocals" were played on the strings.
Haven't heard it since then and since I can't remember the artist
or the song's title I'm unable to locate it. It was a Hawaiian-
flavored love song..any ideas? (I'm pretty sure neither McGarrett
or Don Ho were involved in this one.)
Jim
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:52:20 -0800
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Barbara George
Country Paul:
> ... the amazing one-shot "I Know" by Barbara George ...
I also like the follow-up, "You Talk About Love", with the instrumental
break done on drums.
gem
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:08:44 -0500
From: Joe Nelson
Subject: Re: Antoinette
Scott Swanson:
> She recorded some more singles for Piccadilly but I only know of
> sporadic song titles: "Why Don't I Run Away From You," "Lullaby Of
> Love" and "I'm For You".
"Lullaby of Love"? As in the old Poppies hit (an obvious ripoff of "A
Lover's Concerto")?
Joe Nelson
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:45:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Max Weiner
Subject: A Vogues Question
Got a question about the Vogues' "Five O'Clock World". I have two
versions of this song, one with a string section in the back and
one without. Personally, I think the strings add something to this
song, but my question is which version actually was released first?
Were the strings added later, or were they on first, then
subsequently deleted. And, this may sound like an odd question,
but can anyone out there tell me how they came up with, or who came
up with that very unusual vocal treatment that Bill Burkette gives
at the end of each chorus? I never heard it before or since on any
recording?
Thanks much in advance, folks
max
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