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There are 3 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: "Bono Means Good"
From: Rick Hough
2. Re: the Crests
From: Artie Wayne
3. Re: "Bono Means Good" - Do U Know These Songs?
From: Mick Patrick
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:47:57 -0000
From: Rick Hough
Subject: Re: "Bono Means Good"
Phil X writes:
> In other words, it is high time someone set about building as
> comprehensive a collection as possible of Sonny Bono's non-Sonny
> &/or Cher recordings.
Yipppeeee!
A somewhat long-term Sonny & Cher archivist, I've been building a
Sonny & Cher website for months and my major stumbling block has
been researching and double-checking Sonny's work pre-1963. I've
spent countless hours just on the timeline, but I think I've hit the
wall and so I deeply appreciate Phil Xs efforts on the subject.
I truly hope many Spectropoppers will contribute what they can; so
many of the principals like Sonny & Jack N are gone, and second-hand
memories seem to be fading monthly. Important music historians like
Greg Shaw & Alan Betrock who helped me decades ago are also gone.
Early Sonny & Cher bios are crap designed to throw enquiring minds
off the scent of non-marriages, non-divorces and age-of-consent
questions.Plus nobody wants to fess up to knowing too much of the
Song Poems racket.(There are at least THREE doubly-confirmed but
different dates when Sonny & Cher actually met! The most UNreliable
documentation of this matter and others is Sonny's autobiography...)
I'm forwarding to Phil X what I'm satisfied is accurate, but it
would be great if (once and for all) Sonny's work could at least be
reliably documented. Please help with anything you can offer:
something as simple as a date scrawled on a promo could help fill
important gaps.
I guess the importance of this project is relative and/or
subjective, but Spectropoppers need to know that this site really is
the universal nerve-center of this musical genre. Your detailed
knowledge (and passion) just isn't to be found elsewhere and is
probably more important than you realize.
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 05:52:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: the Crests
Douglas Friedman wrote:
> Sorry if this has been posted earlier, but (Luther Vandross')
> sister, Patricia, was a member of the Crests. Were they the first
> mixed-race, mixed-gender group?
Douglas...Luther Vandross' sister might have been a member of a group
called the Crests, but it wasn't the same group who had a series of
hits starting with "16 Candles".
I was friendly with Johnny, Chico, Harold and Jay and they never had
a girl in the group. From time to time they would use my friend,
Chuck Foote, who was in "The Wild Ones", as an alternate.
regards, Artie Wayne http://artiewayne.com
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:33:36 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: "Bono Means Good" - Do U Know These Songs?
Rick Hough:
> Can anybody attach an artist/record to any of these Sonny Bono
> songs?
Mug that I am, I'll accept that challenge.
> Can It Be
The Titans on Specialty 625, 1958. It's readily available on the CD
"Fabulous Flips". Find more info here:
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=502
> Hey Now - w/ Larry Williams (rel Specialty 1985)
Larry Williams. It's on the double CD "Larry Williams At His Finest:
The Specialty Rock'n'Roll Years". More info here:
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=407
> How Bout That - Christy w/ HB Barnum
Probably Romeo Jones on Little Star 119, 1962. Little Star was H. B.
Barnum's label.
> I Lost All Faith - w/ Greene & Stone
Probably B.J. & the Profits on Uptown 705, 1965.
> I'm Gonna Shout It On The Mountain - w/ G & S
Cookie Jackson on Uptown 700, 1965.
> I'm Mad At You - Christy
Wynona Carr on Specialty 650, 1958. It's on her CD "Jump, Jack,
Jump". More info:
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=541
> Teenage Lovers
Possibly Johnny Stark on Crystalette 712, 1957.
> Thunderbird - w/ R Hall
Rene Hall on Specialty 629, 1958. Find it on the various artists CD
"Rock'n'Roll Fever! The Wildest From Specialty". More info:
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=573
> Uptown Jerk - w G & S
Cookie Jackson on Uptown 700, 1965.
You and Phil M owe me a pint, I think. :-)
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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