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There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. "One Kiss" review at slate.com
From: James Cassidy
2. Re: more Beagles
From: Ayrton Mugnaini
3. Marci & The Mates
From: Steve
4. Re: Sahm and Sham's Pharoahs?
From: Max Weiner
5. Re: Ronny & Daytonas' later songs
From: Martin Jensen
6. Re: The July 4
From: Bill Tobelman
7. new Vashti album
From: Phil X Milstein
8. Re: Pearly Gates
From: Paul Rusling
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:09:50 -0500
From: James Cassidy
Subject: "One Kiss" review at slate.com
There's a short but well-written review of Rhino's "One Kiss Can Lead
to Another" collection at:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129722/
Seems everybody is treating "Peanut Duck" like the girl-group Rosetta
Stone.
Jim Cassidy
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:24:26 -0300 (ART)
From: Ayrton Mugnaini
Subject: Re: more Beagles
Hello everybody!
Andres asked:
> Oh, it's a common mistake, this group, which released "Let's All
> Sing Like The Birdies Sing" is NOT the same group, which Laura
> was interested in. Just two different groups with the same name.
> There was The Beagle No: 3 though - The Beagle and the Four
> Liverpool Whigs with I Want to Hold Your Hand LP, released on
> Sutton Records presumably in 1964. Any more Beagles?
Jeff responded:
> Let's not forget the Hit label BEAGLES, which was yet another
> Bobby Russell nom de guerre. There was even an attempt at
> a "legit" release on Spar by Bobby Russell & The Beagles, a
> good, rockin' version of "Roll Over Beethoven" that is fairly
> easy to find.
I know about at least one more Beagles: a ghost group which used this
name for a Beatles cover album, whose cover art was that one from a
legit Tony Sheridan/Beatles issue, with the "Beatles Top Poll!" headline
on a batch of copies of the Mersey Beat newspaper (or so it seemed)
on the street!
Cheerio,
Ayrton
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:20:10 -0000
From: Steve
Subject: Marci & The Mates
In 1962 or '63 there was a record "Shall I Tell Him You're Not Here,"
a Pomus-Shuman tune recorded by Marci & The Mates on Big Top. Does
anybody know if Marci & The Mates ever did any other records?
Steve
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:02:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Max Weiner
Subject: Re: Sahm and Sham's Pharoahs?
Andres wrote:
> Cool label scans:
> http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d21/21790.htm
Great scans! There are quite a few there by Doug Sahm. I noticed that
his record on Warrior, "Crazy Days" and " If I Ever Need You," is credited
to Doug Sahm & The Pharoahs. Are those the same Pharoahs that would
later back Sam the Sham, another great Texas rocker?
Max
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:10:56 -0000
From: Martin Jensen
Subject: Re: Ronny & Daytonas' later songs
Martin asked:
> My question is whether or not anyone here has ever heard "Delta
> Day No Time to Cry" or perhaps even those unreleased RCA songs
> mentioned?
Jeff Lemlich responded:
> It is everything Bucky mentioned, and more. Look for it in musica
> in the coming day or two.
Thanks. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking forward to hearing
that one.
Speaking of Ronny & The Daytonas, I've just purchased a German
compilation off eBay. It's called 'Beach Land' and contains 32 songs,
including some of those later RCA cuts I was wondering about. I'm
really impressed by many of them -- 'Winter Weather', 'Dianne,
Dianne', 'The Last Letter'.
As I suspected some songs from the Sandy album did not make it on
to the Sundazed Mala-era compilation. I was therefore glad to find
three 'new' songs from the Sandy album on 'Beach Land' -- 'Hold Me My
Baby', 'Be Good to Your Baby' and 'Baby Say No'. All are great and the
former two have a somewhat of a Spectorian approach. I've heard 'Be
Good To Your Baby' before by another artist, but can't recall which
at the moment.
So that leaves 'Come Into My Heart' and 'So In Love' from the Sandy
album, that I've yet to hear. To the best of my knowledge, none of the
two has ever made it to CD. Does anyone here have the album and if so,
are these two songs on par with the rest? Any chance of playing them
to musica?
With kind regards,
Martin, Denmark
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:31:41 -0500
From: Bill Tobelman
Subject: Re: The July 4
Mike Bennidict asked:
> Anyone know about this group? Right now I'm hearing a song
> by them called "A Frightened Little Girl". What's so interesting
> about this song is the part of the song sounds like a Neil
> Young song he recorded in 1977 called "You Are Like a Hurricane".
> Wonder if he heard this "Frighted Little Girl" song and was
> inspired by it?
The flip side of "Frightened Little Girl," "Mr. Miff," is one of the greatest
moody instrumentals ever. It is apparently the A-side but without vocals.
No Neil Young song has ever flipped me out like "Mr. Miff." Genius!
-Bill
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:40:57 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: new Vashti album
Slate recently ran a really good article about Vashti, to coincide with
the release of her new album, "Lookaftering":
http://www.slate.com/id/2128686/?nav=navoa
Has anyone heard the album?
--Phil M.
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:38:11 +0000
From: Paul Rusling
Subject: Re: Pearly Gates
Just a line to say thanks to Mick Patrick for the Pearly Gates track at
musica. I knew Pearly back in the '70s, when she hosted some shows at
Radio Luxembourg. I had previously played her Flirtations stuff on Deram
to death in my previous persona as a nightclub / ballroom DJ. She had
a great radio voice, as well as a lovely warm personality. She had a
few tracks published by Luxembourg's own publishing company (Louvigny
Music), and Alan Keen signed her for a year to host programmes. She
was second-most listened to DJ in the Gallup Poll surveys 208 did,
after Johnnie Walker.
Anywone know where she is these days?
Paul Rusling
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