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There are 4 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: "Sugar & Spice" rememberances
From: Bill Mulvy
2. Who is Joy Byers?
From: Artie Wayne
3. "I Wonīt Tell"; "The Twelfth OF Never"; "My Love Grows Deeper" in Musica.
From: "kikeypaca"
4. Tracey Dey
From: Anthony Arena
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:52:01 -0600
From: Bill Mulvy
Subject: Re: "Sugar & Spice" rememberances
Previously:
> "Sugar and Spice" will always be a Drifters song.
Roy Clough:
> Strange, it was written by Tony Hatch, the Searchers' producer -
> just a historical note. I think you actually mean "Sweets For My
> Sweet".
I'm from Chicago and around here "Sugar And Spice" will always be
remembered as a Cryan' Shames song. The others are in the rear view
mirror, if at all.
Bill Mulvy
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:11:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Who is Joy Byers?
Although the question about who is Joy Byers was asked last week
...the answer came to me as I woke up this morning.
Joy Byers, who wrote several Elvis songs including, "It Hurts Me",
was a pseudonym that Columbia producer Bob Johnson used since he
was also a staff writer for Hill and Range music.
He produced some of the best Bob Dylan albums.
regards, Artie Wayne http://artie.com/
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:09:28 -0000
From: "kikeypaca"
Subject: "I Wonīt Tell"; "The Twelfth OF Never"; "My Love Grows Deeper" in Musica.
Hola Everybody:
Today has been for me a wonderful day full of discoveries in
Spectromusica.
Matt Spero:
> Hi There all . . . I just posted a great song by Tracy Dey on
> Musica."I Won't Tell was at least a regional hit in my home town
> of Santa Rosa...
Thanks Matt, I have never heard this Tracy Dey song, but when I
first listened to it this morning I began singing in Italian with
the music. No it wasnīt a symptom of diabolic possession. It was
just because listening to it immediately brought to my mind the
version by Italian singer Mina, titled "Pių Di Te", (Rifi 1965,
B-side of the wonderful "Se Piangi, Se Ridi"). Itīs difficult for
me to choose between Tracyīs original and Minaīs version, I like
both very much.
Country Paul.
> I just played "The Twelfth of Never" by Mark Dinning to musica.
> Yep - the "Teen Angel" guy doing the Johnny Mathis trademark
> song...
Thank you Paul, itīs a very beautiful and relaxing version of that
romantic song. I love Johnny Mathisī version, but maybe my
favorite is the suffocating and soulful version by Jamaican singer
"Pat Kelly" recorded in the late sixties.
Mick Patrick :
> Sherlie Matthews was one busy lady and wrote many of the tracks
> on the Mirwood, plus stacks of others, one of the best of which
> is now playing at musica...Clydie King "My Love Grows Deeper"
> (Imperial 66139, 1965).
Thanks for playing it, Mick. Precisely, one of my favorite songs
these last days is the melancholic "Something To Remember You By"
by Clydie King. I canīt get enough of that type of songs, with
that almost cruel beauty.
Chao.
Julio Niņo.
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:43:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Anthony Arena
Subject: Tracey Dey
Matt Spero wrote:
> Hi There all . . . I just posted a great song by Tracy Dey on
> Musica. I Won't Tell was at least a regional hit in my home town
> of Santa Rosa so here it is for those who missed this cut that
> out Spectors Phil himself. . . a WALL OF SOUND for certain.
I Won't Tell by Tracey Dey is my favorite song by her. The song has
deep-toned chunky beats, and it's punctuated with piano notes that
sort of jump out at you like a bee's sting. Drumrolls seem to flip
and skip their way across the song in unexpected places, and on the
chorus all the music abruptly cuts out for her to sing "I Won't
TEHH-ELL" followed by one single "SNAP" on the snare drum. This
record is a work of pure inventive genius. I believe it was produced
by Crewe, being influenced by Spector, but trying to go one better.
The background vocalists chant "Ooh Mow Mow Mow, I won't tell. Ooh
Mow Mow Mow, don't tell her about me." How can you not love it?
And THAT'S another compelling thing about this amazing record. It's
all about cheating boyfriends and girlfriends trying to get away
with it! Most "cheater" records do not glorify the idea. The
records about cheating teens were almost always about how much pain,
anger, and misery the cheating has caused. And there are COUNTLESS
records that express it, like It's My Party - He's A Quiet Guy - The
Cheater - Baby, It's You, the list goes on and on. But as far as I
know, it's only this record, and one other called "Softly In The
Night" that actually seem to promote 'cheating' as a cool, exciting,
thing to try and get away with. But while softly on the night,
makes cheating seem like nothing but utterly romantic, with gorgeous
harps, a sultry sax solo, and delicate, tender lyrics,....the best
thing about I WON'T TELL is it still keeps the EDGE on. Tracey is
WARNING her secret lover, "Don't you dare give me the eye!" "What
would we do with my little sister Sue, If she ever knew, secretly,
I'm seeing you? I'm supposed to be dating with your brother Jim."
This complicated quadrangle of tangled lust is yet another aspect
of the record, along with the fascinating music, that grabs our
attention, and makes us play the song over and over. In fact it is
SUCH an ear-grabber, I remain astounded as to why such a perfect
record was not a monster hit. I can only guess that the risque'
nature of the song scared some deejays away.
But it remains a PERFECT record. I wouldn't change a single note of
it. I'm not kidding.
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