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There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Larry Weiss's "Darling Take Me Back I'm Sorry"
From: Justin Mcdevitt
2. Re: shake your thèque
From: Jack Russell
3. Re: shake your thèque
From: Lyn Nuttall
4. Beatles Cover LPs
From: Unsteady Freddie
5. S'pop Remembers
From: S'pop Projects
6. Telstar - Joe Meek play
From: Robert Beason
7. Tony Burrows
From: Frank M
8. Photos of the Archies
From: EP
9. Re: Telstar - Joe Meek play
From: Norm D Plume
10. Re: shake your thèque
From: Norm D Plume
11. Re: G-L-O-R-I-A
From: Bill Mulvy
12. The Playboy Bunnies SING !!
From: Mick Patrick
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:18:39 -0500
From: Justin Mcdevitt
Subject: Larry Weiss's "Darling Take Me Back I'm Sorry"
Hello Spectropoppers,
Robert Indart wrote:
> Was it Lenny Welch or Ray Pollard who cut "Darling Take Me Back I'm
> Sorry" first? Also, does anybody know if Pollard's version is on CD?
My memory is fuzzy on this. Initially I recall hearing Lenny Welch's
version in the summer of 1964. However, as this question encouraged
me to clear away the cobwebs, I now recall with some certainty that
in fact, it was Ray Pollard's that I first heard on Wibj Philadelphia
in early August of the aforementioned year.
Like Mr Indart and others on this list, I too would like to find out
if Mr Pollard's version is included on a Cd of his music, or a
various artists R&B comp.
Justin Mcdevitt
(Now working, as well as residing in Saint Paul Minnesota)
P.S. Great postings about Carter and Lewis. I didn't know that they
were two of the three members of the Ivy League. Nor did I realize
the extent of their creative songwriting output.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:46:59 +0100
From: Jack Russell
Subject: Re: shake your thèque
Phil M:
> An S'pop thread on the pronunciation of "discothèque," as screwed
> up by Chubby Checker, begins at:
> http://spectropop.com/archive/digest/d1873.htm
Mmmm! There is a tradition in Wales that claims baseball was invented
there. I believe there are still leagues that play to an older set of
rules than you do in the USA but I am not an authority. It may be
that like soccer, various forms were played but that at a defining
moment someone codified the game. That, I suspect is the origin of
the Welsh claim. They seem to have developed a game very similar to
US baseball and before the US version of course, but which has been
left behind.
Cheers,
JR
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:06:59 -0000
From: Lyn Nuttall
Subject: Re: shake your thèque
Phil X Milstein mentioned "thèque". Phil, this is a whimsical
connection that you're making, via the word "booty" as in "shake
your...", right? Nah, I bet I've missed your point entirely.
Regardless, I went off to Le Trêsor de la Langue Française*, where I
rapidly got out of my depth hunting the suffix -thèque, as in
bibliothèque (library), a word I assumed would be a close relation of
discothèque. Amazingly, they cite an example of "discothèque" from
1928 in the newspaper Le Figaro. What's more, if you click on
"prononcer" a French robot voice will demonstrate how to say the
word. Of course, Chubby Checker didn't have access to such marvels
back then.
Lyn
*Hours of fun guaranteed:
http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:30:05 -0000
From: Unsteady Freddie
Subject: Beatles Cover LPs
Think people will get a kick out of this. Here are artists that
'covered' (i.e., traded off! on the success of) the Beatles in the
1960's. Great stuff here:
http://www.friktech.com/btls/coverlps/coverlp.htm
Unsteady Freddie
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:06:13 +0100
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: S'pop Remembers
Dear Readers,
Several obituaries have been added to the S'pop Remembers section.
Please take the time to read them:
Johnnie Johnson - long-serving piano-playing cohort of Chuck Berry,
and one of the architects of rock'n'roll:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/JJobit.htm
John Fred - leader of the Playboys of "Judy In Disguise" fame turned
broadcaster and sports coach:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/JFobit.htm
Jack Keller - one of "Kirshner's Kids", the writer of hits for Connie
Francis, Little Eva, Bobby Vee, Jimmy Clanton and many others:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/JKobit.htm
Simon Waronker - the founder of Liberty, recording home of Eddie
Cochran, Jan & Dean, Bobby Vee, Jackie DeShannon, Gene McDaniels,
Timi Yuro . . . and the Chipmunks:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/SWobit.htm
Renaldo "Obie" Benson - bass voice of the Four Tops and composer of
Marvin Gaye's soul/protest anthem "What's Goin' On":
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/ROBobit.htm
Long John Baldry - key figure in the careers of Elton John, Rod
Stewart and Eric Clapton:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/LJBobit.htm
Eugene Record - the creative force of the Chi-Lites, one of the
greatest soul ensembles ever to come out of Chicago:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/ERobit.htm
Or access the entire Remembers section here:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/index.htm
R.I.P.
The S'pop Team
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:19:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Beason
Subject: Telstar - Joe Meek play
On the London radio station I listen to online I've been hearing ads
for a new West End show about Joe Meek called "Telstar." Have any
Spectroppers seen it? Is it any good?
Bob Beason
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:23:43 +0100
From: Frank M
Subject: Tony Burrows
According to
http://www.loadofold.com/boots/burrows.html
"He's the only man to appear on a single episode of Top of the Pops
three times with three separate bands. That was in early 1970 when his
session-career was at its peak and records by The Brotherhood of Man
('United We Stand'), White Plains ('My Baby Loves Loving'), Edison
Lighthouse ('Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes') and The Pipkins
('Gimme Dat Ding') were all in the charts together. All of them
featured him on vocals (alongside Sue and Sunny in the case of the
original Brotherhood of Man)."
FrankM
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:05:46 -0700
From: EP
Subject: Photos of the Archies
Greetings Spectropoppers!
For those of you that would enjoy seeing photos of the REAL Archies
(Ron Dante, Toni Wine), I've posted some photos online as part of a
little eBay auction I'm doing. Go to the listing, and you'll be able
to download these photos. Or, if you wanted to buy the magazine, you
can do that too..... it needs a good home....
Hit Parader (1970) Breakup of Beatles + Archies
Item number: 6970690314
EP
of LouieLouie.net
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Norm D Plume
Subject: Re: Telstar - Joe Meek play
Robert Beason wrote:
> ... a new West End show about Joe Meek called "Telstar." Have any
> Spectropoppers seen it? Is it any good?
I've not seen it Bob, nor am I enough of a Joe Meek fan to evaluate
it if I had. I've attached a few reviews which give a decent summary.
It certainly isn't a feel-good sing-along musical, like "Buddy", for
example, was.
http://tinyurl.com/9fdgd
http://tinyurl.com/8lvt9
http://tinyurl.com/bjke2
Norm D.
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:58:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Norm D Plume
Subject: Re: shake your thèque
Lyn Nuttall wrote:
> What's more, if you click on "prononcer" a French robot voice will
> demonstrate how to say the word. Of course, Chubby Checker didn't
> have access to such marvels back then.
Yes, this is a good site, although the "prononcer" function était
foutou, and all the robotic voice says is "Disk....". I'm still no
wiser as to how "thèque" became "tay". Maybe the prononcer function
était foutou when Chubby tried to listen to it.....
Norm D.
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:32:34 -0500
From: Bill Mulvy
Subject: Re: G-L-O-R-I-A
Scott, I beg to differ with your "Gloria" assessment.
1.) Them's version wasn't even on the radar screen in Chicago.
2.) Them's version was inferior to the SOH version. The garage rock
sound is what made the song and Them guys didn't have it.
3.) If Van Morrison hadn't been a successful solo artist, Them's
version of "Gloria" would not get much airplay now.
4.) The fact that Van Morrison wrote the song and Them recorded it
first, doesn't make it the better song or the more popular song.
Seems like the left coasters who have commented don't appreciate one
of the all time garage rock songs. Them, you gotta be kidding me!
Bill Mulvy
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:27:56 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: The Playboy Bunnies SING !!
I wrote:
> Also on Clunkie's CDR: half a dozen tracks by the Playboy Club
> Bunnies. Sheesh, y'ain't lived until you've heard 'em do "Call Me"!
Mike Edwards:
> The guy just goes on, doesn't he? Hopefully one of these is "Keep
> The Ball Rollin'" (UK Decca, from about 1968). I remember seeing
> the Playboy Club Bunnies on the BBC TV show, "Dee Time" in the late
> 60s and was very impressed with their singing. I wasn't aware that
> they put out anything other than the "KTBR" 45, though.
Thanks to Clunkie, I now know that the Bunnies released two albums.
Better yet, he sent me digital transfers of them both. I find the LPs
simultaneously gloriously kitsch and musically very valid - a really
joyful listening experience. Although recorded "live", the singing
and playing is excellent, and the production slick. Well, with Ivor
Raymonde in charge, it would be, wouldn't it? I don't remember the
Bunnies on Dee Time - I must have been up a chimney at the time. Find
the track you remember now playing at musica:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/
Details are: The Playboy Club Bunnies "Keep The Ball Rollin'" (UK
Decca F 12832, 1968); written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell;
produced and directed by Ivor Raymonde. Also contained on the LP
"Caught Live At The Playboy Club" (Decca LK 4951, 1969). More tracks
to follow, no doubt.
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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