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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Shangri-las "Out in the streets" video clip
From: Lex
2. Ann D'Andrea
From: Peter Lerner
3. Re: Gary Walker
From: Roy Clough
4. Re: how's Smile?
From: Phil X Milstein
5. Re: Marmalade
From: Frank Murphy
6. Re: event records
From: Phil X Milstein
7. 60sgaragebands.com July Updates
From: Mike Dugo
8. The Limelighters
From: Matt Spero
9. Artists on tour
From: Country Paul
10. "I'm Gonna Find Me An Ugly Man To Love...."
From: Norm D Plume
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:25:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lex
Subject: Shangri-las "Out in the streets" video clip
Hey all... I recently purchased a dvd of 6 Shangri-las clips from
various TV shows. I'm absolutely floored by the style of there
performance of Out in the streets (from an episode of Shindig) with
Mary, Maryanne and Margie all on podiums lit from either above or
silhouetted... was this common for Shindig shows? It far surpasses
the stand there and dance kinda thing that is usual to what Ive seen
of 60's Tv shows. The girls are choreographed, and the lights change
along with there poses while singing.
See: http://www.theshangri-las.com/SHANG-.gif
This is a still from the clip.
Fantastic!!!
Lex
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:21:14 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Ann D'Andrea
Kingsley asked:
> If you're looking at Madara/White (Len Barry and Spokesman, there
> would be some more girl group records wouldn't there? - Ann D'Andrea
> for example - Mick please confirm! ;-) Or am I recalling wrongly.
Well Kingsley, I'm not Mick, and never could be, but my one Ann
D'Andrea 45 (Jamie 1325) has the much-recorded "Take me for a little
while" on the A side, coupled with a Bob Finiz song "Don't send him
away" on the flip. Both are arr. and cond. Charles Calello but no
obvious M/W involvement.
Peter
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:35:31 -0000
From: Roy Clough
Subject: Re: Gary Walker
Phil M:
> Did all three Walker Brothers sing, or just Scott and John?
Frank Murphy:
> I have a Gary Walker single You Don't love Me (CBS UK/ Date US)
> which I always presumed he sang on. He formed a band whilst with
> the Walkers called Gary Walker and The Rain but they employed a
> lead vocalist whilst Gary played drums. Which he did not do on The
> Walker Brothers' records.
I believe there was some contractural reason why Gary Leeds (Walker)
could not perform on the records in the sixties, though on the three
comeback albums in the seventies he was only credited with percussion
on the first two albums. On the third he did do some vocals.
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:21:18 -0800
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: how's Smile?
Florence Gray wrote:
> Thanks for the heads-up. I'm new here, so please forgive me if this
> is an old question BUT...has anyone attended any of Brian's SMILE
> performances? I have tickets to see him in August and am counting
> the days. Saw the PET SOUNDS symphonic tour a few years back and,
> although he seemed to be phoning in the performance, it was amazing
> just to be breathing his air. Any reviews on the SMILE performance?
I think you are in for one the great musical events of your life!
Dig,
--Phil M.
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new at Probe:
* That's How I Got To Memphis (in triplicate)
* Early April (Stevens)
* new “post-Sadler” and Napoleon XIV graphics
http://www.philxmilstein.com/probe
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:51:43 +0100
From: Frank Murphy
Subject: Re: Marmalade
Michael Gessner wrote:
> From last week, I was glad to read about the pre-70's Marmalade. Is
> their "Can't Stop Now" available on CD? ... I remember it in 67 and
> it was incredible!!!
There are at least three Marmalade comps with and "Can't Stop Now",
incuding "I see the rain: The CBS Years" and this one, "The Ultimate
Collection":
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3217472,00.html
FrankM
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:41:23 -0800
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: event records
Larry Bromley wrote:
> About Big Bad Bruce, it might not have made Billboard, but it did
> hit Dr. Demento's Funny Five from time to time. I also had the
> pleasure of hearing it in a lounge in the 70s. If I recall
> correctly, Jody Miller made a living in the 60s and 70s on "Answer"
> songs. I recently picked up an old CD collection that was released
> in Canada through Marlboro Cigarettes. (This was a flea market
> purchase. I don't smoke.) Jody's "Queen of the House", a parody of
> "King of the Road", was included. I also remember answers to two
> Kenny Rogers songs: "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)" and "(You
> Picked A Fine time To Leave Me)".
Having immersed myself a bit more than most people in those records
which seem to inspire a barrage of response songs, I've come to wonder
why certain hits are able to generate that kind of interest, while so
many others are content to simply rise up the charts, put in their
time, and quietly slink back on out again. I've finally come up with
a theory that I think explains the distinction.
Without implying any value judgments one way or the other, those songs
we might call (for this purpose, at least) "simple hits" tend to be
more or less conventionally written. Those, on the other hand, which
inspire answer records, parodies and the like, which we might call
"event records," tend to be written in a novel style, although some
of them, such as "Achy Breaky Heart" or "The Girls Just Wanna Have
Fun," are structurally novel without being "novelty records" per se.
I call records of the latter type "event records" because their novel
styles tend to catch the public's attention in a particular way,
pricking up ears and getting people talking. However the intensity of
interest that greets their arrival (in fact, event records tend to be
very rapid chart-climbers) also often leads to ridicule in the long
run, with many event records finding themselves trampled upon in
later years by the same masses who'd once embraced them.
(Consequently used copies tend to be plentiful and cheap, although,
of course, often trampled upon.)
Not to toot my own horn unduly, but those for whom the above isn't
already TMI might enjoy my Probe site, where recent additions include
batches of responses (including graphics) to "They're Coming To Take
Me Away, Ha-Haa!" and "Ballad Of The Greet Berets," two of the biggest
event records of the mid-1960s. I've also just added Steve Greenberg's
"Big Bruce" to Probe, although (former?) Spectropopper J.D. Doyle has
cornered the market on "Big Bad John" responses, at
http://www.queermusicheritage.com/jun2004bj.html .
Then there is the CD I compiled for Norton Records last year which
documents the career of Nervous Norvus, the force behind that great
event record of the mid-1950s, "Transfusion." "Stone Age Woo" can be
found at http://www.nortonrecords.com, or at any of the usual
ordering sites.
10-4 good buddies,
--Phil M.
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Dugo
Subject: 60sgaragebands.com July Updates
The July updates for 60sgaragebands.com are now online. Featured
this month are interviews with Ken Evans of The Fifth Estate, a band
that has been forever linked to their 1967 novelty hit "Ding Dong!
The Witch Is Dead" but whose recorded output goes much deeper; Rod
Shepard of The JuJus, one of Michigan's all-time great garage combos;
Jory Perello of The GTOs, houseband for the UPBEAT TV show; and Bob
Cinaci and Alan Parrillo of Saturday's Garbage (photos coming) - New
Jersey's wildest '60's group!
We've also recently added a new "Essays" section with stories on The
Yellow Payges, Trolls, Teddy & The Pandas, and Peck's Bad Boys. Check
all this and more out at http://www.60sgaragebands.com
Mike Dugo
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:57:15 EDT
From: Matt Spero
Subject: The Limelighters
I found a cute song by the Limelighters called FUNK. It is a single
but not in good shape. I understand its also on an album. Does anyone
know if the track is available in stereo anywhere? Thanks.
Matt Spero
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:40:10 -0400
From: Country Paul
Subject: Artists on tour
The latest news, even though I'm still weeks behind on correspondence:
Bobby Vee, Johnny Tillotson, Fabian, Brian Hyland and The Chiffons are
scheduled to appear Saturday, September 3rd, [2005,] at the
Spotlight 29 Casino in Palm Springs, CA. Apparently the package is
called "True Legends of Pop." I don't know any other dates; I know
about this gig because I recorded the radio and TV spots for it today.
Also from the same source, Isaac Hayes will be at the same venue on
Saturday, November 5th.
Plan ahead.
Country Paul
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:41:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Norm D Plume
Subject: "I'm Gonna Find Me An Ugly Man To Love...."
Can anyone please help with details of a song that's lately been
bugging me to the point of a minor neurosis?
It came out around 1969, and is by a woman singer, probably
American. It features the memorable line, "Ain't gonna drink no more
marijuana, smoke no more red (white?) wine...", with the refrain,
"Gonna put on my walking shoes, walk down the avenues....I'm gonna
find an ugly man to love". [Details very approximate]. I heard it a
few times (surprisingly, in view of its lyrics) on daytime BBC radio
back then.
It's a fairly upbeat R&B tune, and the singer has a bit of a cod-
Caribbean accent (in the same way The Marvelettes sing "Deliver de
letter, the sooner the better" at the end of "Please Mr. Postman").
She may in fact be Caribbean, if so, my apologies in advance.
And that's as much as my memory can dredge up after 35+ years.
I know there are greater world issues, such as global inequality,
Iraqi insurgency, etc. I should be concerned with....but some days
you wake up with a song in your head, an itch you can't scratch.
Regards
Norm D.
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