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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. S'pop Message Format
From: S'pop Projects
2. Eclipse Twist; Peter Udell & Gary Geld.
From: Julio Niņo
3. Re: Cruisin' series
From: Irving Snodgrass
4. The Dixie Cups stranded in Tampa after Katrina
From: Laura Pinto
5. Re: DC5 HOF?
From: Regina Litman
6. Need help ID.ing songs / band / record
From: Hugo M
7. Miller & Porter
From: ACJ
8. Re: Brooks Arthur
From: Artie Wayne
9. Helen Miller - chronology / Teddy Vann
From: Davie Gordon
10. Pookie Snackenberg
From: FrankM
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 11:34:16 +0100
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: S'pop Message Format
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For better or worse, Spectropop is a moderated group.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:18:39 -0000
From: Julio Niņo
Subject: Eclipse Twist; Peter Udell & Gary Geld.
Hola Everybody.
I should be working ,but instead Iīm listening to Mina sing
"Eclisse Twist" (Eclipse Twist) while I watch the golden light
of this sunny morning in Madrid slowly turning gray and solving
into darkness. Itīs so beautiful that it hurts.
And talking about beauty. Yesterday I listened to a song by Gene
Pitney that caught my attention, always avid of teen drama. Itīs
titled "I Canīt Run Away". It was included in his LP "Blue Gene"
and it was composed by Gary Geld and Peter Udell. I like very
much the sixties compositions of this duo for Brian Hyland or
Ruby and the Romantics' "Hurting Each Other".
Maybe someone could tell us something about Gary and Peter, a
picture of them will also be great. Thanks.
Now Iīm going to dance The Eclipse Twist with kike (my cat).
Chao.
Julio Niņo.
Note: this morning we had a very spectacular solar eclipse here
in Madrid.
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Irving Snodgrass
Subject: Re: Cruisin' series
I have the entitre Cruisin series of recreated old radio. It
was given to mre by legendary Detroit DJ Robin DSeymour
(WKMH/WKNR).
I was a PR man for the Elmwood Casino nightclub in Windsor,
Ont in 1969-70 and placed many visiting artists on Robin's
Sat morn tv show on CKLW channel 9. I handled press relations
and set up promotional appearances of the visiting artists at
Detroit tv and radio stations. A highlight was the time I
picked up Duane Eddy one Sat morning. and had breakfast with
him, Al Martino and Mrs. Siegel the wife of Elmwood owner Al
Siegel. Duane was Martino's guitarist during that gig. I then
drove Duane to CKLW TV's riverfront studio. I told Duane I
wanted to csarry his guitar in for him as I'd remember it for
my entire life. He smiled and said, "Sure. In fact this guitar
is the one I used when making most of my hits. I had been
using another one, but recently went back to the original."
Ken Haller
Walled Lake, MI 48390
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:14:57 -0000
From: Laura Pinto
Subject: The Dixie Cups stranded in Tampa after Katrina
Hi all,
Here's a writeup from Tampa Bay Online about the original Dixie
chicks, who are currently residing in a Tampa hotel:
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB5RU37CEE.html
I'm hopeful that my local radio station will organize an event
to help these gals out.
Laura
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:33:38 -0000
From: Regina Litman
Subject: Re: DC5 HOF?
Shawn Nagy wrote:
> My intial thought of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Shame was to honor
> those who made a major CONTRIBUTION to R&R. Since there obviously
> already inductees who haven't done that, and are non-rockers, I
> guess anything goes. Sure DC5 had hits, but how did they influence
> other musicians? Fashion, hairstyles, sound? Remember, The Ventures
> are not in the Hall yet, and I think every musician that visits
> this board has learned their chops playing a Ventures song at one
> time or another. There are a few that NEED to be inducted & have
> been gravely overlooked.
While there are certainly a few acts who still need to be inducted,
I hadn't thought to put the Dave Clark Five on my personal list until
now. While the Ventures and a certain person who was the DC5's
opening act in at least two concerts in the summer of 1967 are the
top two on my list, I think the Dave Clark Five are a worthy act to
consider for induction for the following reason - They were the
SECOND British Invasion group to come over, and I feel that their
impact showed that the Beatles were not an isolated phenomenon. The
Dave Clark Five proved that other British acts could make it in
America and the rest of the world.
No, the Rolling Stones were not the second British Invasion group to
cross the Atlantic. It only seems that way.
July 8, 1967, Constitution Hall, Washington, DC - 2 shows, afternoon
and evening. Headliners - the Dave Clark Five. Opening acts - the
Blades of Grass (who had a song out called "Happy" that was also done
by the Sunshine Company) and Neil Diamond. (No, it's not the Blades
of Grass that I'm advocating for the Hall of Fame. I much prefer the
Sunshine Company's version of "Happy".)
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:46:50 -0000
From: Hugo M
Subject: Need help ID.ing songs / band / record
Howdy, all --
I'm still puzzling over tht pair of tunes I asked about earlier;
in fact, the mystery has deepened. Now I'm not even sure that I
can identify the band, it turns out that I don't have any reason
to think it's the Harbingers at all.
I am hoping and hoping that someone here can plug into their
memory banks and dredge up a band name & song titles for me. What
we've got here is a letter-perfect Byrds imitation. Wonderful,
jangling folk-rock, SoCal-style down to the Columbia label house
sound. Easy to imagine it could be a Terry Melcher production, or
one of his buddies. B-side is heavily easterned-up, drone-y folk-
rock/raga sound. Matrix numbers are DD-HA-1/DD-TB-1.
Here are the lyrics, first verse of each side:
"All you pacifistic, anarchistic harbingers of fear
Please tell me just what kind of world you save.
I hate war the same as you, but we differ, then, we two;
I can't sit and preach and watch the world enslaved."
b/w
"Don't give your heart to Susan,
Don't let her know you care.
Cuz if you give your heart to her,
Susan's heart won't be there."
Does anybody recognize this? Oh please, oh please oh please, oh
please...
Cheers --
Hugo M.
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:03:04 -0400
From: ACJ
Subject: Miller & Porter
For Brent: The Miller/Porter team was Ron Miller (not Helen) and
Lee Porter. They wrote the Shirelles B-side "Not For All the
Money In the World" and the Nat King Cole B-side "The Good Times";
Ron Miller later co-wrote many of Motown's '70s hits.
ACJ
"Optimism works. It is more useful than pessimism." - E.Y. Harburg
U.P. GROOVES!:
http://community.webtv.net/andrucharlz/UPGROOVESTheUpper
OR http://makeashorterlink.com/?P3D352CBB
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 07:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: Brooks Arthur
Mick...How ya'doin'? I'm glad Spectropop is taking a look at
Brooks Arthur's career. I've been friendly with him since 1961,
when we both were signed as writers to to Aldon music. He was
always a positive influence around the office, lending an ear
or a line whenever it was needed.
The first time we worked together, however, was when he was the
"hot" engineer at Associated Recording Studios, where Ben
Raleigh and I would do most of our demos. Since Brooks was a
songwriter and aspiring producer, he had a lot to contribute to
the recording process. There were times when I was at a loss to
make a demo come together and he always would come up with a
solution.
I was always impressed with the ease he was able to work with
difficult artists and musicians, who usually wound up being
inspired by him. When Ron Haffkine and I did my first album
"Shadow Mann" for Morris Levy, I couldn't think of working with
anyone else.
As he moved up in the buisness, from songwriter ["Cloudy with
Occasional Tears" [King/Arthur] and engineer [Phil Spector, Jeff
Barry,] he finally was able to use all of his talents, as a
producer.
One of the happiest moments, in my career, was when, as the vice-
president of NARAS, I presented Brooks and Janis Ian, each a
Grammy at a pre-award ceremony, for the brilliant album, "At
Seventeen".
He later was the musical consultant for the 3 "Karate Kid"
movies, "Stand and Deliver" [which yeielded several number one
records], and most of the Adam Sandler movies. In 2004 he was
nominated for a Grammy for one of my favorite CDs "I Keed, I
Keed!" by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
The last time I saw him was at a Tony Orlando show [featuring
Toni Wine] last year. That reminds me I've gotta' invite Brooks
to drop by my website and sign the new guestbook.
regards, Artie Wayne http://artiewayne.com
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:04:04 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Helen Miller - chronology / Teddy Vann
Here's a chronological sketch of artists for whom Helen Miller
wrote - I've hit a dead end after the mid seventies but that's
probably because my files tend to concentrate on the sixties.
I'll do a bit more work on Helen's listing and hopefully can
post a checklist of her work in a week or so.
Thanks to everybody, Hans in particular, for the feedback on
Teddy Vann. I've uncovered some more records he worked on and,
again, will post details shortly. I'd agree with Hans that the
Zizz label seems to have been a one-shot as I've yet to come
across anything else on the label. Incidentally does the
Freddie Willaims single have a number?
Any chance of posting the Teddy Vann pic to the photo section
- I'd love to see it. I came across an interview with Johnny
Thunder in which he described Teddy as "a Marlon Brando type
character" - I've no idea what exactly he meant but I'm
intrigued.
My apologies for taking so long to respond - my main computer's
hard drive on which I stored all my discographical info. died a
couple of weeks ago. Fortunately I managed to copy the files to
CD before it gave up the ghost but it's taking a lot longer to
locate info. - with a bit of luck I'll be able transfer all the
data to my standby computer and be back to nearly normal.
I see the team of Gary Geld and Peter Udell have been getting
mentions - I've an almost complete checklist of their work which
I can post if anyone's interested.
Davie Gordon
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HELEN MILLER chronology
1960
LITTLE ANTHONY and THE IMPERIALS (End)
1961
TOMMY HUNT (Scepter)
THE QUOTATIONS (Verve)
1962
THE QUOTATIONS (Verve)
TONY ORLANDO (Epic)
TIMI YURO (Liberty)
THE SEQUINS (UA)
JOHNNY CRAWFORD (DelFi)
1963
THE PUSSYCATS (Keyman)
GENE CHANDLER (Constellation)
DODIE STEVENS (Dolton)
ROBERTA LEAN (20th Fox)
THE SHIRELLES (Scepter)
1964
ANDREA CARROLL (Big Top)
FRANKIE AVALON (UA)
THE ROCKY FELLERS (WB)
TONI WINE (Colpix)
THE LETTERMEN (Capitol)
STEVE LAWRENCE (Columbia)
BERNADETTE CASTRO (Colpix)
THE QUOTATIONS (Admiral)
NEIL SEDAKA (RCA)
THE FENWAYS (Imperial)
GENE PITNEY (Musicor)
1965
FRANKIE AVALON (UA)
BARBARA LEWIS (Atlantic)
PATTY MICHAELS (Columbia)
THE VACELS (Kama Sutra)
THE REFLECTIONS (Golden World)
MARGARET MANDOLPH (Planetary)
GEORGE McCANNON (Phi-Dan)
VERN McENTIRE (Liberty)
NEIL SEDAKA (RCA)
DANNY WILLIAMS (UA)
THE RONETTES (Dimension)
PICCOLA PUPA (WB)
GENE PITNEY (Musicor)
CHUCK JACKSON and MAXINE BROWN (Wand)
1966
VICTOR KNIGHT (Ron Cris)
THE MARVELOWS (ABC)
DEON JACKSON (Carla)
JERRI MICHAELS (Cameo)
1968
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (Colgems)
PAULA WAYNE (Colgems)
THE TOYS (Musicor)
1969
MAXINE BROWN (Commonwealth United)
V.V. and THE SUPERBS (Blue Rock)
1970
THE NEW DIRECTION (Neptune)
BOBBY SHERMAN (Metromedia)
JERRY BUTLER (Mercury)
1971
BOBBY SHERMAN (Metromedia)
BEVERLY BREMERS (Scepter)
1972
FREDDIE SCOTT (PIP)
1973
SARAH VAUGHAN (Mainstream)
ELLERINE HARDING (Mainstream)
DORIS DUKE (Mainstream)
SARIANNA FEATHERSTONE (Mainstream)
LENNY WELCH (Mainstream)
LARRY RICE (IX Chains)
SPRING (IX Chains)
PRIDE, PASSION and PAIN (IX Chains)
1974
SPRING (IX Chains)
LINDA PERRY (Mainstream)
FRANKIE FLOYD (IX Chains)
FREDDIE SCOTT (Mainstream)
THE ELECTRIC LADIES (Mainstream)
There are a few possibles that need to be verified including
the Orchids on Roulette and JaNeen Henry on Blue Rock - anybody
got those?
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:02:16 +0100
From: FrankM
Subject: Pookie Snackenberg
Someone asked about Pookie Snackenberg.
There's not much of an explanation here:
http://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/cruisin58.htm
FrankM
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