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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Pat Lewis
From: Paul @ RSG!
2. Madara & White
From: Robert Indart
3. Anita Harris > Burt Bacharach > Cissy Houston > The Olympics - no, not the group
From: Mick Patrick
4. Tawny Reed
From: Keith Beach
5. Jimmie Haskell
From: Mike Edwards
6. New Timi CD, Goodbye My Love,
From: Ken Silverwood
7. Thanks for Chuck Foote info; C-P Box; Wall III ideas; Dante update
From: Country Paul
8. Re: Anita Harris
From: James Botticelli
9. Re: Anita Harris
From: Reuben Kay
10. Re: Anita Harris
From: Frank
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:17:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul @ RSG!
Subject: Re: Pat Lewis
Julio Niño wrote:
> And talking about sexy voices, these days I´m in love with "Warning"
> by Pat Lewis, a song I found in a Detroit Soul compilation.
Is this the same Pat Lewis who sang 'No one to love' - what a tune,
One of my current faves. You can find it on a Keb Darge comp.
Paul @ RSG!
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:40:35 -0000
From: Robert Indart
Subject: Madara & White
Kingsley Abbott wrote:
> 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. Madara and White were very prolific I think (and
> incidently, whichever one of the pair was the short blond guy came
> with Len Barry on his UK trip after 123 hit here - maybe they both
> did...)
The short blond guy is David White who also sang with Danny and the
Juniors (At The Hop) and the tall guy is John Madara who has his own
website http://www.thatphillysound.com with information on alot of
the Philly acts from the 60's with alot of pictures too.
Robert
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:59:38 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Anita Harris > Burt Bacharach > Cissy Houston > The Olympics - no, not the group
Anyway, before we so rudely interrupted, London won the battle to
stage the 2012 Olympics. What has that to do with S’pop? Well, I just
spotted the following in Tuesday’s paper:
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I know just the anthem for the Olympics . . .
I’m delighted we won the Olympics, but can see controversial choices
ahead on the transport, the security and, most of all, the anthem for
the games.
On the last, I can help. People say that, unlike New York, London
hasn’t had many great songs written in her honour. They must have
missed Anita Harris’s neglected 1965 classic, "London Life". Although
she’s remembered for the Carry On films, Anita began her career in
pop and persuaded Burt Bacharach to come to Swinging London and write
her a hit.
And very good it is too, as well as being spookily prescient. After he
lost, Bertrand Delano, the mayor of Paris, implied that the PM had
cheated by lobbying through the night. He moaned that "... as I was
going back to my hotel room to go to bed, I saw people coming out from
successive meetings with Tony Blair and Sebastian Coe".
As luck would have it, in "London Life", Anita sings: "While Paris
sleeps, London keeps right on a-swinging".
(Nick Cohen, the Evening Standard)
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Good record, "London Life". Should they so wish, those who haven’t
heard it can find it on the new "It’s So Fine: Pye Girls Are Go"
comp. More info, plus audio samples here:
http://www.sanctuaryrecords.co.uk/itssofine/
Please God I never have to hear "Gold" by Spandau Ballet ever again.
Right, back to my newly discovered treasure: Cissy Houston’s version
of Bacharach and Hilliard’s "Mexican Divorce". Anyone hip to that?
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Keith Beach
Subject: Tawny Reed
John Black:
> At least, Tawny Reed's cover of "I Got a Feeling" appears on the
> "Girls Don't Come: Here Come The Girls, Vol. 10" double-disc
> compilation. I don't know where you'd find an original 45, however.
Is this the same singer and song who appeared on one of the 'Ready
Steady Go' videos way back? Wonderful in its tackiness.
Keith Beach
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:18:45 -0000
From: Mike Edwards
Subject: Jimmie Haskell
Mick was looking for some recordings arranged by Jimmie Haskell. I
imagine Mr. Haskell's name must appear on a lot of records but I've
got a gem here. It's "Adonis" by Clairette Clementino (Capitol 5081,
1963). I believe the original version was by Terri Dean on Laurie
from 1959. But having said this, the big book shows other versions by
Gale Gibson on RCA, Terri Stevens on Felsted. and Jacky Noguez on
Jamie – all from 1959. There was a great cover version that year by
Petula Clark on UK Pye also.
No doubt benefiting from 1963 production techniques, the Clairette
Clementino/Jimmie Haskell is the definitive version. When they change
chords after the instrumental break and bring on the back-up singers,
it's like heaven.
Ms. Clementino went on to work with our own Stu Phillips, who made
the equally great "It's Happening To Me" (Capitol 5177, 1964) with
her. By 1966, she had dropped the Clementino part of her name, picked
up a spiffy French accent and put out an awesome revival of Jodie
Sands' "With All My Heart" (b/w "Lollipops And Roses") on Colpix with
Gene Page as the arranger. Closing out the thread, this song was also
covered by Petula Clark on UK Pye in 1957.
"Adonis" by Clairette Clementino could make it to musica if space
becomes available. No rush, though, because there are some great
rarities in there right now. Go get 'em!
Mike Edwards
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:34:20 +0100
From: Ken Silverwood
Subject: New Timi CD, Goodbye My Love,
>From Julio on the new Timi Yuro CD:
> My favorites are "Teardrops Till Dawn" arranged by J. Nitzsche, and
> the two sides of a single with songs composed and arranged by Teddy
> Randazzo, concretely "Get Out Of My Life" and "Can´t Stop Running
> Away".,"
I love the CD but get the waterworks every time I listen to "Johnny",
I first heard it last year from one of Mr Patrick's posts to musica.
It sounds like a film theme. Is one of the composers, Bobby Scott,
the chap who wrote "Honey"?
Roy Clough:
> I'm trying to find the original version of "Goodbye my love", a
> big hit for The Searchers in the UK, it was called "Goodbye my
> lover goodbye" and was by Robert Mosely I think. Anyone have it?
I was always under the impression that Jimmy Hughes did it first,
probably the year after this.
Ken On The West Coast
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:06:24 -0400
From: Country Paul
Subject: Thanks for Chuck Foote info; C-P Box; Wall III ideas; Dante update
Still catching up, so I didn't see the posts re: Chuck Foote in the
next digest after I'd previously stopped. Thanks to everyone for
their wisdom and knowledge; where else would half a dozen posts come
up about someone this obscure?!
I've done some serious listening to the Cameo-Parkway box set. It's
amazing how much sharper and clearer the tracks are on CD; must be
those sandpaper C-P pressings which obscured that fact. Among those
on the plus side: the two Evie Sands tracks are total revelations -
crystal clear, brilliant highs, and superb singing; "Angel Of The
Morning" sounds brand new. The clarity of Eddie Holman's voice
on "This Can't Be True Girl" was lost on my scratchy 45; it's
brilliant here. The Kinks' "Long Tall Sally" has a great Mersey sound
that never opened itself up on my 45. And repeating myself from
Volume 1, I'm really digging Chubby's "Pony Time" and "Birds & Bees"
by The Temptations, a new discovery for me. On the minus side: you
can hear how thin some of the C-P arrangements were; for example, I
really notice that there's no bass on "Bristol Stomp," although the
kick-drum is working overtime. But for all the hits that I burned out
on when new, listening to the clarity of these transfers is like
hearing them anew, and some of the unfamiliar material has been a
revelation as well. Thank you to my anonymous benefactor!
Peter Andreasen re: Another wall of soundalikes - a wish for vol.3
> Any other surgestions?
"I Still Love Him" by The Joys, and some of the Teddy Bears and Paris
Sisters imitators, when the "wall" was covered in satin and velvet.
One of the latter: "That's The Way With Love" by The Cheer Leaders on
Encore (1961); there's Gary Paxton involvement on it. I also second
Phil M's suggestion for Bonnie's "Close Your Eyes."
Last weekend I had a phone call from Don Drowty, "Dante" of Dante &
The Evergreens. He has checked out Spectropop, liked it, but
mentioned there were some errors regarding his remembrances of the
group's history. i suggested that he join us; I hope he does. He's
heavily involved with a variety of "good works" projects, including
entertaining the US troops; he also reports he's been doing a bunch
of shows with Dean Torrance.
More soon,
Country Paul
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:15:08 -0400
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Anita Harris
Mick Patrick wrote:
> Good record, "London Life". Should they so wish, those who haven’t
> heard it can find it on the new "It’s So Fine: Pye Girls Are Go"
> comp.
Seconding that. As a diehard Bacharach fan, it came as a surprise to
me when I grabbed that comp. Doesn't that comp also have that
terrific version of "Blue Star"?
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Reuben Kay
Subject: Re: Anita Harris
Mick Patrick on "London Life" by Anita Harris:
> Good record, "London Life". Should they so wish, those who haven’t
> heard it can find it on the new "It’s So Fine: Pye Girls Are Go"
> comp. More info, plus audio samples here:
> http://www.sanctuaryrecords.co.uk/itssofine/
This is indeed a great track... and I rather foolishly passed up a EX
copy of the 45 recently for a mere £5!
Reuben
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:08:25 +0200
From: Frank
Subject: Re: Anita Harris
Previously:
> ... in "London Life", Anita (Harris) sings: "While Paris sleeps,
> London keeps right on a-swinging".
> (Nick Cohen, the Evening Standard)
How true it is !!!! Nothing beat London ! And, Mick, this is from a
French guy...
Frank (sleeping in Paris)
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