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There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Adam's Apples
From: Davie Gordon
2. Re: Nashville Cats
From: Bob Witkin
3. Artie's Art
From: Steve Harvey
4. Re: Nashville Cats
From: Skip Woolwine
5. Nella Dodds
From: Will Stos
6. Re: Brenda & Patsy
From: John Fox
7. Re: Jim Webb and "All I Know"
From: Phil X Milstein
8. Re: Nashville Cats
From: Bobster
9. Re: "I Shall Sing"
From: Bobster
10. Re: Sylvie Vartan, Eddy Mitchell, Nashville
From: Frank
11. Re: Art Garfunkel; Osmosis; Sir Paul at halftime
From: Clark Besch
12. Re: Osmosis
From: Artie Wayne
13. Re: neutral single sleeves
From: Bill Mulvy
14. Re: Jim Webb; Nashville delis
From: Kingsley Abbott
15. Re: popstars in Dallas in Nov. '63
From: Ed Salamon
16. Re: "I Shall Sing"
From: Eddy Smit
17. Re: Dick Clark
From: Phil X Milstein
18. Re: Nashville Katz
From: Davie Gordon
19. Re: Osmosis
From: Steve Harvey
20. Linda Scott
From: Country Paul
21. Jim Capaldi, R.I.P.
From: Hans Huss
22. Re: "I Shall Sing"
From: Eddy
23. Re: Jim Webb - a statement
From: Barry Margolis
24. Re: the case of 'He Is The Boy'
From: Hans Huss
25. Re: Nella Dodds
From: Dave Monroe
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:50:15 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Re: Adam's Apples
Lyn Nuttall wrote:
> Does anyone here know anything about this soul group? They recorded
> for Brunswick '67-'68, presumably part of that soul output under Carl
> Davis that included Jackie Wilson's career revival. 'Don't Take It Out
> On The World' and 'You Are The One I Love' were two of their singles.
Hi Lyn, Adams's Apples have always been a bit of a mystery - in
thirty odd years I've yet to find any biographical info. on them
so we'll have to do some guesswork from their known credits.
As far as I can determine there were only the two Brunswick singles.
Brunswick 55330 (06/67)
Don't Take It Out On This World (Ray Allen, Wandra Merrill)
Don't You Want Me Home (Ray Allen, Wandra Merrill)
Prod : Allen and Brown
Brunswick 55367 (03/68)
A Stop Along The Way (Fred Anisfield, Victor Milrose)
You Are The One I Love (Paul Leka , Shelley Pinz)
Prod : ?
I've seen it said that they were a New York studio group produced
by Paul Leka - but I'm not sure if that's true or just an
extrapolation from the writer credits of one song.
The first single looks to me as if the main man behind the group
was Ray Allen who worked out of Cincinatti - he was involved with
the Counterpart label which issued a lot of records by local bands
some of which were picked up by national labels like Philips and
Diamond. Allen and Wandra Merrill were also responsible for a lot
of those Lou Monte "Pepino, The Italian Mouse" records in the
early sixties.
"A Stop Along The Way" was recorded by a few people - the most
successful version is probably the one by Timothy Carr on Hot
Biscuit issued at the same time. I don't know of any other US
versions of "You Are ..".
If somebody could tell us who produced the second single that
might help.
Davie Gordon
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:00:19 EST
From: Bob Witkin
Subject: Re: Nashville Cats
Rashkovsky:
> I think there should be a deli in Nashville named Nashville Katz.
There was a parody of "Nashville Cats' called "Noshville Katz" by
the Lovin' Cohens - with the line "Noshville Katz he runs a kosher
deli'.
Bob Witkin
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:11:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Artie's Art
Hey Artie,
Do you remember a group on WB called Osmosis. Did
a great single, "She Didn't Remember My Name"? Sounded
like a foreign release that WB picked up the option on.
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:20:04 -0600
From: Skip Woolwine
Subject: Re: Nashville Cats
Rashkovsky:
> I think there should be a deli in Nashville named Nashville Katz.
While there is no deli in Music City called "Nashville Katz"... There
IS a NY-style deli in the heart of Music Row called "Noshville" which
is frequented by many music folks. They just opened a 2nd location
in Green Hills... in the location where Tony Moon's former "Jack
Russell's" was located.... small world!
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:28:59 -0000
From: Will Stos
Subject: Nella Dodds
I just heard Nella Dodds' version of "Honey Boy" and was blown away.
I prefer it to both the other versions I've heard (Mary Wells and The
Supremes). I looked on the 'Net and found it was released in 1966. It
seems Nella released five or six singles for Wand. Does anyone know
if there are any plans to issue these on a comp? I know she has a song
on one of the Where The Girls Are CDs, and other tracks are scattered
on Northern Soul reissues, but it would be great if her Wand releases
would form the basis of a CD, especially if there are any tracks still in
the vault.
Will : )
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:19:59 EST
From: John Fox
Subject: Re: Brenda & Patsy
previously:
> Who were some of the name Rock bands and singers that
> recorded in Nashville?
Phil M. responded:
> The name of "Brenda Lee" pops into my mind pretty quickly.
One of the more interesting things is to play the CDs of Brenda Lee's
greatest hits and Patsy Cline's greatest hits back to back. The
arrangements and production (presumably involving Owen Bradley, The
Anita Kerr Singers, etc.) are virtually identical in sound, except for one
intangible, there being more of a country feel to Patsy's and more of a
rock and roll feel to Brenda's.
John Fox
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:33:14 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: Jim Webb and "All I Know"
Artie Wayne wrote:
> I called up Artie and threatened to immediately get covers on the
> five songs he recorded, unless they released "All I Know". ...
Great story, Artie -- as always. This is the first I've heard that covers could
be used as competitive weapons! Was that a standard operating
procedure within the industry, or did you think it up yourself?
--Phil M.
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:19:18 EST
From: Bobster
Subject: Re: Nashville Cats
Rashkovsky wrote:
> I think there should be a deli in Nashville called Nashville Katz.
Apparently there WAS a novelty record (have no idea who the artist was)
that came out around '67 called "Nashville Katz," parodying the Spoonful's
tune. It was aired a couple of times on Dr. Demento, but failed to make the
sacred Dementia's Top Ten so he probably didn't play it again for a long
time. The guy sings it with kind of a Russian-Yiddish accent: "Nashville
Katz / He runs the kosher deli ..." (That's all I remember.) The singer
sounds a little like Boris Badonov, from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.
Bobster
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:21:18 EST
From: Bobster
Subject: Re: "I Shall Sing"
Did Van Morrison ever actually record "I Shall Sing"? What year did he
write it?
Bobster
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:01:28 +0100
From: Frank
Subject: Re: Sylvie Vartan, Eddy Mitchell, Nashville
Nick Archer wrote:
> It's been my dream to research the definitive Nashville pop and
> rock scene of the '60s. ... Everyone has recorded here, from Bob
> Dylan to Barry Manilow. That brings up a question. Is the album
> that Sylvie Vartan recorded in Nashville in the '60s in print
> anywhere?
If you really feel like listening to a Nashville-recorded French singer album
(nobody's perfect), the best one may be "Eddy Mitchell in Nashville". More
Rock n' Roll than Gas but nevertheless ...
Frank
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:18:40 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: Art Garfunkel; Osmosis; Sir Paul at halftime
Artie Wayne wrote:
> The first "assault" was to help my friend Artie Garfunkle find
> songs for his first album. When we heard "All I Know" we all
> knew it could be a smash.
Love the story, Artie. Funny that I thought "All I Know" was great and
"I Shall Sing" was SO unique, with those horn sounds I'd not heard before
(somewhat along the sounds on "Obladi Oblada"). Yet I have to admit that
although I have many fave Art G. songs, the topper is the LP version of
"Travelin' Boy". I was very disappointed at its failure to chart, but it still
spins from my quad LP, and sounds as great as it did originally. Quite
interesting how you changed the single's outcome. This is a case I would
have rather had you lose, just to have my fave become a hit for Art.
Steve Harvey wrote:
> Artie, do you remember a group on WB called Osmosis? Did
> a great single, "She Didn't Remember My Name"?
I first heard the Osmosis record when doing a class at the local Lincoln
MOR station KFOR. I really liked it. I eventually tracked a copy down after
the song failed to chart. By the time I got the 45, it wasn't as good as I had
built it in my mind to be. Still, it's pretty good. I was disappointed the WB
DJ 45 was mono only, as I'd hoped to hear it in stereo. I think it was
indeed a UK hit, no?
Lastly, how 'bout Sir Paul's Super Bowl performance? I was expecting the
usual drivel of a halftime show, even knowing McCartney would be in it.
Instead, I was treated to the best post-Beatle performance by Paul that
I've ever witnessed! He was surprisingly perfect in almost every way in his
renditions of three Beatles and one Wings song! Paul, ya still got it!
Clark
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 06:08:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: Osmosis
Steve, how ya' doin'? Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the group Osmosis
on WB Records. At the time, Warner Brothers Music was trying to distance
itself from the record company -- unless, of course, we had a publishing
deal with the act.
Regards,
Artie Wayne
http://artiewayne.com/
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:31:46 -0600
From: Bill Mulvy
Subject: Re: neutral single sleeves
Krischan Steiner asked:
> Does anybody know, where I can get neutral carboard sleeves
> with centre-holes for 7" singles, preferrably in black (but definitely
> not in white)?
Try Goldmine Magazine for advertisers that provide that.
Bill Mulvy
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:42:02 -0000
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: Re: Jim Webb; Nashville delis
re Richard Havers' Jim Webb list:
I'd add the 1967 record he cut as The Strawberry Children called 'Love
Years Coming' -- lovely Pet Sounds-influenced counter harmonies at the
end of a lovely song -- an early one-off.
Mike Punster wrote:
> I think there should be a deli in Nashville named Nashville Katz.
That should be Noshville Katz -- lovin' soured cream by the spoonful ...
Kingsley
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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:52:32 -0000
From: Ed Salamon
Subject: Re: popstars in Dallas in Nov. '63
Phil M. quoted:
> Dale & Grace stood along the motorcade route with Bobby Vee,
> Brian Hyland, Jimmy Clanton and others from [Dick Clark's]
> Caravan Of Stars and waved as Kennedy's motorcade passed by.
Bobby Vee's response:
I still have my Dallas Sheraton Hotel receipt (now the Adams Mark Hotel).
After a long and rainy night of travel we arrived at the hotel around 9:00 am.
I went straight to bed. Brian Hyland called me about an hour later to see if
I wanted to join him and the band leader, Myron Lee, on the Kennedy parade
route. I passed but gave him my camera to take some photos. They saw
Kennedy pass by, and minutes later the shooting took place.
The show was, of course, canceled and as the day progressed I remember
watching the television reports with many of the tour cast in the hotel lobby.
The downtown area was closed off to incoming and outgoing traffic. We
found out many months later that Jack Ruby had been in the lobby with us
watching the same reports.
Two days later, and still in shock, we dragged ourselves back onto the bus
for the next gig in Oklahoma City. It was all quite a surreal experience.
Odd but I don't remember Clanton being on the tour, although he may have
been. I'll have to check my book.
Good to hear from you.
Best,
Bobby
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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:27:25 +0100
From: Eddy Smit
Subject: Re: "I Shall Sing"
Bobster asked:
> Did Van Morrison ever actually record "I Shall Sing"? What year did he
> write it?
The Van Morrison version was recorded in 1971, and can be found on the
"I Shall Sing" 2-LP bootleg and on the "Eggs And Poetry" bootleg CD. If
there's an interest (and space) I can upload it.
Eddy
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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:36:55 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: Dick Clark
Clark Besch wrote:
> On a side note, anyone know if Dick Clark is better?
He was released from the hospital about a week and a half ago. However,
after having been in there nearly a month, I have to wonder if the
description of his stroke as a mild one wasn't a bit of an understatement.
--Phil M.
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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:55:27 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Re: Nashville Katz
Mike Rashkow:
> I think there should be a deli in Nashville called Nashville Katz.
Bob Rashkow:
> Apparently there WAS a novelty record (have no idea who the artist
> was) that came out around '67 called "Nashville Katz," parodying
> the Spoonful's tune.
MGM 13700 THE LOVIN' COHENS (Feb 67)
Nashville Katz (John Sebastian)
Shoily Klein (Wm. Barberis, Bobby Weinstein, Roger Joyce)
Prod : Bobby Weinstein
Looks like an NY studio project to me - vocals could be either Bobby
Weinstein or Roger Joyce.
Davie Gordon
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Message: 19
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:30:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: Osmosis
Thanks Artie, it was a great tune with a female chorus the male lead
singing his heart out. Somewhat akin to "What Becomes of the Broken-
hearted?". Found one mention on the web of the tune. I only know it
because I got a freebie promo from the local station that wasn't
playing it at the time.
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Message: 20
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:39:05 -0500
From: Country Paul
Subject: Linda Scott
A correspondent in another group I'm on reports that according to the
son of Linda Scott, she is teaching at a Christian college.
(Institution and subject unreported.)
I'm days behind, and will be moreso, but will catch up soon. Hope all's
well, and thanks to the folks who have kept me up with urgent issues
off-list.
Country Paul
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Message: 21
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:20:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Hans Huss
Subject: Jim Capaldi, R.I.P.
So sad to learn about Jim Capaldi’s passing. Although we never met,
our paths crossed a couple of times, in ways that might strike a
chord with members of the list; fans, collectors and songwriters.
Reading Richard Williams’s obituary in the Guardian, I, too, recall
the summer of 1967, a wondrous time for British music: ‘Pictures of
Lily’, ‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘Itchycoo Park’, and Jeff Beck’s
‘Tallyman’ – as well as those that inexplicably fell by the wayside,
like Denny Laine’s ‘Say You Don’t Mind’ and Marmalade’s ‘I See The
Rain’ (the latter supposedly Jimi Hendrix’s favourite of the year).
Yet, ‘Paper Sun’ captured the mood perhaps better than any of them.
Psychedelia with a pop sensibility, it went straight to this boy’s
heart! It had the beat, it had the sitar; it had those wonderfully
soulful vocals and Jim’s enigmatic lyrics, down-to-earth and elusive
at the same time.
Next summer, as June turned to July, I caught Traffic at a Bluesville
’68 gig at Manor House (in the Seven Sisters Road, if I remember
correctly). With Jim as the gravitational centre behind the drum kit
(while Steve Winwood alternated between the Hammond and his green
Gibson Firebird), it was a stunning performance; tense and relaxed,
bitter and sweet at the same time – as might be expected from a group
that had been briefly reconciled after breaking up – and I will never
forget it.
And Jim wrote the words to Zap Pow’s ‘This Is Reggae Music’. No big
thing, you might say, but when Chris Blackwell chose that track to
kick off Island’s compilation of the same name in 1974, it helped
open the doors to the world of Jamaican popular music for many, a
road some of us have been walking down ever since. (Not a bad way to
go for one raised on girl groups, Motown, British Pop and Bob Dylan
in roughly equal measures). The connection was there; with the
Spencer Davis Group, Stevie Winwood had taken the songs of Jamaican
singer Jackie Edwards to the top of the charts already in 1965 and
1966; Traffic recorded Shoot Out at The Fantasy Factory in Jamaica
in 1972 – after Paul Simon, but before the Stones, Clapton, Joe
Cocker and Cat Stevens arrived in “the loudest island in the world”
– and Capaldi’s concise couplets matched Dave Madden’s and Mike
Williams’s haunting bass and horns lines beautifully.
In 1978, Jim recorded ‘Daughter of the Night’, a song I’d written a
few years earlier with my friend Mikael Rickfors (who was briefly a
member of the Hollies). It was one of the first covers we got, a
great boost and encouragement. To think that the man who wrote ‘Dear
Mr. Fantasy’ and ‘No Face, No Name And No Number’ was singing our
song!
As if his contribution to Traffic was not enough, Jim cut a baker’s
dozen of solo albums also. Richard Williams is right; he was a singer
of ‘bruised soulfulness’. Particularly wonderful is Oh How We Danced
(1972). Recorded at Muscle Shoals with the Fame Gang in exceptional
fettle, it sports tracks like ‘Eve’ and ‘Last Day of Dawn’, the
latter featuring Jim’s acoustic guitar and Harry Robinson’s strings.
“On the last day of dawn, when the world is no more / and the last
tiny pigeon’s been swept off the floor…” In a world of so many self-
ordained eagles, Jim’s image of the pigeon is strangely comforting.
And now there’s one less pigeon over Marlowe and Ipanema. Descanse
em paz, Senhor Capaldi. The tune that was yours to play, you played
it beautifully.
Hasse Huss
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Message: 22
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:47:17 +0100
From: Eddy
Subject: Re: "I Shall Sing"
I wrote:
> The Van Morrison version was recorded in 1971, and can be found on
> the "I Shall Sing" 2-LP bootleg and on the "Eggs And Poetry" bootleg
> CD. If there's an interest (and space) I can upload it.
Apparently there was some space in Musica, so striking the iron while
it's hot... Van Morrison awaits your approval! Sorry for the low
bitrate, but otherwise I have Yahoo problems...
Eddy
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Message: 23
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:17:26 -0600
From: Barry Margolis
Subject: Re: Jim Webb - a statement
Attention; all Jimmy Webb fans:
Do you guys know that there's a special limited edition CD box of all
of his Reprise and Asylum albums, plus some unreleased tracks available
on Rhino Handmade? Check it out....only 2500 copies were produced.
Barry in Minneapolis
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Message: 24
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:30:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Hans Huss
Subject: Re: the case of 'He Is The Boy'
Re the lyrics to Little Eva's "He Is The Boy", Mick Patrick wrote:
> Got it!
> "When they gave out brains they got his mislaid.
> He'll never set eyes on a passing grade."
> I had to get out my stereo copy of the "Llll-Locomotion" LP and
> listen ten times to fathom it out. Hey la.
Mick Patrick, you are rrrrrrrr-right! To think that you solved the
riddle after listening to the stereo copy of "Llll-Locomotion" ten
times, when I couldn't get it in forty-plus years of listening to
the mono version. Glad it was you! Thanks.
HH
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Message: 25
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:46:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Monroe
Subject: Re: Nella Dodds
Will Stos wrote:
> I just heard Nella Dodds' version of "Honey Boy" and was blown away.
> I prefer it to both the other versions I've heard (Mary Wells and
> The Supremes). I looked on the 'Net and found it was released in
> 1966. It seems Nella released five or six singles for Wand. Does
> anyone know if there are any plans to issue these on a comp? I know
> she has a song on one of the Where The Girls Are CDs, and other
> tracks are scattered on Northern Soul reissues, but it would be
> great if her Wand releases would form the basis of a CD, especially
> if there are any tracks still in the vault.
I wasn't familiar with "Honey Boy" (vs., say, 'Sunny Boy," or "Honey
Love," or "Honey Lou," or ...) by anybody offhand, so thanks, will
start hunting. Seems to be on the Kent Club Soul comp, as well as
among a few tracks on Big City Soul Vol. 4 (Goldmine). I know of, at
best, another scattered track or so on CD compiltions, and of nothing
featuring only her recordings, but one think that I've always found
interesting is that her "Ps and Qs" (as pictured on the back of Comet
Gain's "Strength" 45 sleeve, by the way) is so similar to The Supremes'
"Come See About Me" that I can almost seamlessly mix the two, yet she
also recorded her own version of "CSAM" as well. Strange.
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