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There are 4 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. The Jaynetts / The Satisfactions
From: Mick Patrick
2. Songwriter Baker Knight Dies at 72
From: Phil X Milstein
3. Righteous Brothers/Phil Spector "Retospective 1963-1974"
From: Peter Richmond
4. Fats Domino returns home to New Orleans
From: Bill Swanke
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:01:09 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: The Jaynetts / The Satisfactions
I said:
> ... the Satisfactions ... 'Bring It All Down' (was available on)
> ... the CD "Hearing Is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story":
> http://tinyurl.com/c6kae
But I was wrong. It's actually on "Phil's Spectre II: Another Wall
Of Soundalikes": http://tinyurl.com/a3mye But you knew that.
Meanwhile, I'm still desperately trying to track down a copy of
"Tonight You Belong To Me" by the Jaynetts (Tuff 377, 4/1964). I'd
love to hear this track. Can anyone help please?
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:01:58 -0400
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Songwriter Baker Knight Dies at 72
This just in on the AP wire.
--Phil M.
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Songwriter Baker Knight Dies at 72
by the Associated Press
Oct. 15, 2005
Birmingham, Ala. -- Prolific songwriter Baker Knight, whose hits
were recorded by stars ranging from Elvis Presley to Ricky Nelson,
Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, has died at age 72.
>From the 1950s to the 1970s, Knight wrote almost 1,000 songs. More
than 40 singers recorded his tunes, which include the 1970 Presley
hit "The Wonder of You" and Martin's "Somewhere There's a Someone"
and "That Old Time Feelin'." Nelson and McCartney sang the same
Knight hit, "Lonesome Town," decades apart. Perry Como, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr. and Mickey Gilley also recorded some of
Knight's songs. Born Thomas Baker Knight Jr., he died Wednesday of
natural causes at his home in Birmingham, according to his daughter,
Tuesday Knight. Knight went to Los Angeles in 1958 and met Nelson
through a mutual friend. Within six months, Nelson's version of
"Lonesome Town," a ballad about being lonely in Hollywood, was on
Billboard's Top 10, as was its flip side, "I Got a Feeling," another
Knight tune. In all, Nelson recorded 21 Knight originals. Knight
learned to play guitar while in the Air Force. He formed a rock band,
Baker Knight and the Knightmares, whose height of fame was opening
for country stars Carl Perkins and Conway Twitty in 1956. After the
band split up, Knight moved to Los Angeles for a movie role that
never materialized. He returned to Birmingham in 1985 and began to
suffer from agoraphobia and a condition similar to chronic fatigue
syndrome, which put his songwriting career on hold. Knight is
survived by his daughter and a son, Thomas Baker Knight.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:10:57 +0100
From: Peter Richmond
Subject: Righteous Brothers/Phil Spector "Retospective 1963-1974"
Over the years, all re-issues of the Phil Spector produced
Righteous Brothers tracks, have been in stereo but on the new
ABKCO "Retrospective 1963-1974" compilation, the tracks included
from their Philles Records period, have been remixed from the
original mono masters and sound precisely the way the great
producer envisaged.
To hear these marvellous tracks in the way that they were
originally intended to be heard and with such clarity, is without
doubt, a revelation.
There must be several generations of record collectors, who have
only heard these Righteous Brothers tracks in stereo and not had
the opportunity to experience the true magic of hearing the Phil
Spector wall of sound on the mono versions.
Probably the most interesting feature of the whole album is in
the mix of "Hung On You", where there is a major difference to
any other issue of the track.
At the 2:59 mark where the Righteous Brothers lead into their
frantic call and response section of repeated "Why" - this
particular mix goes into the chorus at this point before then
going into the call and response section.
The sleeve notes are very informative, again adding more
controversy, with Phil Spector again credited as the producer of
"Unchained Melody" but for the first ever, as far as I am aware
- an arranger is also credited, Jack Nitzsche.
Peter.
www.righteousbrothersdiscography.com
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 07:10:16 -0500 (Central Standard Time)
From: Bill Swanke
Subject: Fats Domino returns home to New Orleans
This just in from Steve Pope / EPA via Sipa Press:
NEW ORLEANS - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino, who was missing
for days after Hurricane Katrina, returned home Saturday to load
some of his muddied gold records into the trunk of a car. Sporting
a white captain's hat, gold chain and black galoshes, Domino had a
laugh at tributes worried fans had spray-painted on his house
after assuming he had died in the storm. "There was a big 'Rest in
Peace' on my balcony on the other house," the 77-year-old musician
said with a laugh. "I'm still here, thank God. I'm alive and
kicking." Outside the bright yellow headquarters of Fats Domino
Publishing, Domino's son-in-law, Charles Brimmer, helped the
musician load mementos from his legendary career into the car.
Told only three of his 21 gold records -- "Rose Mary," "I'm
Walkin'," and Blue Monday" -- had been found, Domino said, "Well,
somebody got the rest of them." "Or they may be floating around
here somewhere," Brimmer suggested. Brimmer and Domino found some
of his jewelry, including a gold ring, in one of his houses. A
picture of Domino with Elvis Presley was inside, "but too messed
up, we couldn't salvage it," Brimmer said. Making time for fans
Domino was one of a handful of residents sifting through their
devastated homes and destroyed belongings in New Orleans' lower
Ninth Ward Saturday afternoon. Domino took a break from the sad
task to talk to well-wishers and pose for pictures. The poor,
mostly black Ninth Ward was hit by a tidal surge that brought 12-
foot floodwaters into many of the homes. The musician, known for
his boogie-woogie piano style, became the hurricane's most famous
evacuee after he rebuffed pleas to flee as the Aug. 29 storm bore
down on the city. "I sure do appreciate that people think so much
about me," Domino told Reuters when asked about the concern over
his whereabouts immediately following the storm. 'Alive and
kicking' He added it might be a good time to put out a record he
recorded about two years ago called "Alive and Kicking." "I'm
alive and kicking, thank God," he said. He was not certain who
would release the new music, but said he was scheduled to play in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Nov. 5 "if I'm feeling better."
Domino's house "did pretty good," considering the devastation of
the surrounding Ninth Ward, he said. Two of his pianos in a bigger,
adjoining house were ruined, he said. Domino and his family had
been in Texas but are now staying at a hotel in New Orleans. He
said he wanted to be close to the neighborhood he was born in
while it rebuilds. "I don't know what to do, move somewhere else
or something," Domino said. But I like it down here."
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