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Spectropop - Digest Number 2143
- From: Spectropop Group
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005
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SPECTROPOP - Spectacular! Retro! Pop!
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There are 23 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Dee Dee Sharp
From: Mick Patrick
2. Some intereting 78s
From: Marc Miller
3. Re: LPs, CDs, MP3s ...
From: Clark Besch
4. Re: "Little Christmas Tree"
From: Ayrton Mugnaini
5. Re: workin' it with the Fourmost Authority
From: Clark Besch
6. Re: "A Christmas Gift" versions
From: Steve D
7. Link Wray
From: S'pop Projects
8. Re: "Little Christmas Tree"
From: Frank Jastfelder
9. Re: "Little Christmas Tree"
From: Ayrton Mugnaini
10. Re: early April
From: Phil X Milstein
11. Re: workin' it with the Fourmost Authority
From: Mike
12. Re: Christmas Darlene Love Please Come Home
From: Felonious
13. Re: "The 81"
From: Hasse Huss
14. Terry Reid does 'Baby It's You'
From: Hasse Huss
15. Re: "Baby I Love You" alternates
From: Regina Litman
16. Re: Link Wray
From: Strandwolf
17. Re: steppin' out strategy
From: Regina Litman
18. Re: Ron Marshall
From: Mark Marshall
19. Re: workin' it with the Fourmost Authority
From: James Botticelli
20. Mod versus Motown
From: Hasse Huss
21. Nashville Radio
From: Nick Archer
22. Interview with a former Hardy Boy (the band, not the books)
From: Sam
23. Mousie & the Traps
From: Mick Patrick
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:10:42 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Dee Dee Sharp
Frank Young wrote:
> ... Cameo-Parkway ... had some first-rate songwriters. Take
> the team of Jackson and Wisner, who contributed some melodic
> and inventive material. Two prime examples are "Don't Throw
> Your Love Away" by the Orlons and "Willyam, Willyam" by Dee
> Dee Sharp. I love the use of the seldom-heard word "tarry"
> in the latter.
Yeah, there are some great couplets in "Willyam, Willyam":
"Are you just a turkey in the straw, boy?
Don't you want to have a mother-in-law?"
I'm just getting stuck into ABKCO's new Cameo-Parkway CDs. So
far the Dee Dee Sharp set is my favourite. Dee Dee had one of
the strongest voices of the girl group era - right up there
with Darlene Love, Margaret Ross, La La Brooks and Brenda Reid
in my eyes.
Considering the friendly price of these discs, I find the
whole series hard to fault. More pictures in the booklets
would have been nice, but what is included is good. Each CD
contains a 12 page booklet featuring a decent biographical
essay by Jeff Tamarkin plus quite detailed track annotation.
All songwriters, arrangers and producers are properly credited.
Recording dates and locations for each track are also listed,
which is valuable information. For example, previously, I'd
assumed that Dee Dee's Cameo tracks were all cut in Philly. I
know now that that was not the case. Three of the best tracks
on the CD were recorded in Chicago, while the Bob Crewe-
produced "Deep Dark Secret" was cut at Olmstead Sound Studios
in NYC. (In recent times this track has "gone northern". What
was once an easy to find 45 is now changing hands for three
figures, I understand. I'm sitting on my copies - hah!)
Of course, all of Dee Dee's big hits are included (you all
know what they are) but it's good to get a selection of LP
tracks too. "You Ain't Nothin' But A Nothin'" and "Just To
Hold My Hand" - both from her "Do The Bird" album - are great,
as is "You Are My Sunshine" from the "All The Hits, Vol 2" LP.
Dee Dee's version is patterned after that of Ray Charles, with
strong back-ups by that excellent group, the Dreamlovers, who
support her on other tracks too.
Dee Dee Sharp's other backing vocalists at Cameo included the
Artistics, the Orlons, Persianettes and the Sherrys, not
forgetting Willa Ward and several other moonlighting ladies
from Philadelphia's gospel fraternity. How do I know all this?
I read it in the booklet.
The sound quality is great . . . and all mono, thank goodness.
There, I said something nice about ABKCO.
"You'd better run, boy, you'd better run,
Because her pa, boy, has got a gun!"
So, she was knocked-up, then?!
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:06:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Marc Miller
Subject: Some intereting 78s
Got my 78s outta storage after a few years and came across some
things that might be of interest:
April Stevens - Don't Do It (Stevens, Tempo, Pianodosi /The
Sweetest Day (Wolfe, Gilbert, Geoge). The label is Society
Recordings out of Encino. Both are pretty standard ballad fare,
but April is in fine voice! I can't date this one. And who the
hell is Pianodosi?
Little Esther - Saturday Night Daddy (w/ Bobby Nunn of The Robins)/
Mainliner - both are credited to "Stroller (sic) - Leiber" - were
they ever credited like this again?
Also, I found Gee Records #1 (Lorraine Ellis - Perfidia/Piano-
Player-Play-a-Tune (Ross-Dixon-Goldner)) and Move Over/2:20 AM by
the GREAT Jimmy Wright.
Anyone know any of this stuff??
Marc
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:09:01 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: LPs, CDs, MP3s ...
Kurt Benbenek wrote:
> I just got the new Sundazed music catalogue in the mail and it
> contains page after page of tempting vinyl reissues. Vinyl
> seems very far from being dead. Audio quality has never been a
> huge issue with me. Again, every format has it's own advantages.
> The important thing is the quality of the songwriting,
> production values and overall emotion of a song or album. A
> good song is still a good song, whether on cassette, CD or mp3
> ...or on an Edison cylinder.
Kurt, isn't that new Sundazed catalog something to behold? It's
amazing they have put out so much stuff, and much previously
unreleased. I wish they'd publish a discography showing when
these Cds, 45s and Lps came into our hands. I wish they'd do
more never before in stereo tracks, but they seem to be leaning
towards original mono mixes for Lps lately, which in many cases
do sound different from the normally aired stereo versions which
were often not the hit mixes.
Not only that, but their vinyl is SO good that clips and pops
are usually only heard if you left the Lp on the turntable for a
week. (Hey, I think I've done that!). They have a new Byrds 45s
set I gotta get. I love 45s. AND one of their new releases has
a Spectropop vet on it! Our own James Holvay appears on the new
various hits comp, "Dancehall Stringbusters 2"! Before he was a
"Mob-ster", he was lead guitarist for the Maybees. There are 2
tracks on the Cd featuring James' lead guitar work on Maybees
instrumentals. Find it here:
http://www.sundazed.com/store/index.html
That said, I also feel audio quality is not always an issue with
me. Memories are! I listen to old AM radio tapes in my car
constantly from the 60's. I love it!
Clark
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:41:35 -0300 (ART)
From: Ayrton Mugnaini
Subject: Re: "Little Christmas Tree"
Artie Wayne wrote:
> I'm proud to announce that "Little Christmas Tree" by Michael
> Jackson, which I co-wrote 30 years ago with George Clinton
> on the legendary "Motown Christmas album, is now available
> in several different compilations.
Great! And I don't remember offhand, but is it the same "Our
Little Christmas Tree" recorded by Stevie Wonder?
Cheerio,
Ayrton
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:31:35 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: workin' it with the Fourmost Authority
Phil X Milstein wrote:
> I think anyone would be hard-pressed to nominate a cooler record
> than "Dance, Dance," by the Fourmost Authority. Where I could
> once simply accept this record on face value, however, more and
> more I find myself needing to know something about it, and about
> the cats behind it. Does anyone know anything about the Fourmost
> Authority?
Phil, I am guessing only that they were California band. I have
chart action on them of:
"Childhood friends" KACY (Port Hueneme, Ca.) 3/22/68 extra
"Dance Dance" KBLI (Blackfoot, Id.) 7/2/67 #39, 7/24/67 #37
Clark
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:29:08 -0000
From: Steve D
Subject: Re: "A Christmas Gift" versions
JJ wrote:
> I have a US Philles (PHLP 4005), mono, yellow/red label copy
> of the "A Christmas Gift" LP. I've never seen a copy of the
> original, light blue label w/black printing, and I wonder how
> many copies were pressed of that version? Are the blue/black
> pressings very rare? The yellow/red label LP is listed as a
> "reissue" on the 'net, though I assume these were early
> pressings. Does anyone know what year the earliest yellow/red
> copies came out? '63? '64? My copy is pressed on thick vinyl
> + ditto cover. Looking forward to have the ? stretched out to !
I bought the original album when it was first released in 1963 &
it came with the yellow & red label. I don't know if it was ever
released with the blue & black label. I remember "Be My Baby" by
The Ronettes as being the first time I saw the yellow & red label,
and that was late summer '63, a few months before the Christmas
album was released.
-Steve D
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:04:40 -0000
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: Link Wray
As reported previously, legendary guitarist Frederick Lincoln
(Link) Wray passed away on November 5th. He was 76.
A rather fine obituary by Spencer Leigh is available at the
S'pop Remembers section:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/LWobit.htm
R.I.P.
The S'pop Team
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:01:31 +0100
From: Frank Jastfelder
Subject: Re: "Little Christmas Tree"
Artie Wayne wrote:
> I'm proud to announce that "Little Christmas Tree" by Michael
> Jackson, which I co-wrote 30 years ago with George Clinton
> on the legendary "Motown Christmas album, is now available
> in several different compilations.
Ayrton Mugnaini:
> Great! And I don't remember offhand, but is it the same "Our
> Little Christmas Tree" recorded by Stevie Wonder?
Wasn't that "One Little Christmas Tree"?
Frank Jastfelder
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:12:46 -0300 (ART)
From: Ayrton Mugnaini
Subject: Re: "Little Christmas Tree"
Artie Wayne wrote:
> I'm proud to announce that "Little Christmas Tree" by Michael
> Jackson, which I co-wrote 30 years ago with George Clinton
> on the legendary "Motown Christmas album, is now available
> in several different compilations.
I wrote:
> Great! And I don't remember offhand, but is it the same "Our
> Little Christmas Tree" recorded by Stevie Wonder?
Frank Jastfelder wrote:
> Wasn't that "One Little Christmas Tree"?
You're right, Frank. I have the single (a 1980s Yuletide
reissue, b/w Ave Maria) by Stevie, but not at hand right now.
Cheerio,
Ayrton
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:11:04 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Re: early April
Marc Miller wrote:
> April Stevens - Don't Do It (Stevens, Tempo, Pianodosi /The
> Sweetest Day (Wolfe, Gilbert, Geoge). The label is Society
> Recordings out of Encino. Both are pretty standard ballad fare,
> but April is in fine voice! I can't date this one. And who the
> hell is Pianodosi?
Dubs of both sides of this disc (along with a label pic) can be found at
my Probe site, at session 22. Intro'd with a stalling-auto sound effect,
the A-side can be seen as a sort-of precursor to "Teach Me Tiger," and
the co-writing credit to Brother Nino indicates that is not a coincidence.
The song's THEME, however, is virtually the opposite of "Tiger"'s, although
both are about equally racy in their own way.
My info dates that record to 1950, although don't hold me to that. I doubt
April would.
Dig,
--Phil M.
http://www.philxmilstein.com/probe
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:56:22 -0000
From: Mike
Subject: Re: workin' it with the Fourmost Authority
Phil X Milstein wrote:
> ... Does anyone know anything about the Fourmost
> Authority?
I'm pretty sure they were a UK or European combo. "Dance, Dance"
was also recorded by The Chartbusters, on the Bell label, released
prior to the F.A's version.
MopTopMike
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:12:45 -0800
From: Felonious
Subject: Re: Christmas Darlene Love Please Come Home
Darlene will be filming her annual Letterman show appearance
on December 19, for broadcast on Thursday, December 22.
In the UK the Letterman show is on ITV 4 at 11:50 weekday nights,
with the shows brodcast one day later than in the US.
FrankM
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:27:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Hasse Huss
Subject: Re: "The 81"
I've scanned the sheet music to 'The Eighty-One' and posted
it to the Photos section. It was a bit large, so it's in two
parts. Hopefully there's a graphologist in our midst who can
ascertain whether it's in Kenny Gamble’s own handwriting
or not.
Enjoy!
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:41:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Hasse Huss
Subject: Terry Reid does 'Baby It's You'
Speaking of soulful British vocalists ... A few days ago, the online
edition of the Independent published a review of Terry Reid's recent
shows in the UK. On the fringes of Spectropop territory perhaps; then
again, I would have loved to hear his version of 'Baby It's You' ...
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article329913.ece
Hasse Huss
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:13:45 -0000
From: Regina Litman
Subject: Re: "Baby I Love You" alternates
Pres wrote:
> "Don't Worry Baby" is second only to "Baby I Love You" as my
> favorite records of the sixties. As far as Beach Boys ballads,
> I can't think of any better, in my opinion. But here are the
> runner ups:
One of my favorite pop music trivia categories is totally different
songs with the same title. Forgetting for a moment the topic of this
group, my first thought at seeing the title "Baby I Love You" was, "Is
this the Aretha Franklin song or the Andy Kim song?" I realize now that
if we're talking about RECORDS rather than SONGS, it's neither. Well,
after remembering the topic of this group, I realize that it is the
Andy Kim song, but shame on me for not thinking Ronettes right
away.
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Message: 16
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:15:11 -0800
From: Strandwolf
Subject: Re: Link Wray
previously:
> As reported previously, legendary guitarist Frederick Lincoln
> (Link) Wray passed away on November 5th. He was 76.
> A rather fine obituary by Spencer Leigh is available
> at the S'pop Remembers section:
> http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/LWobit.htm
Also, check out http://www.dekedickerson.com for a poignant but
lighthearted tribute by a torch bearer. Check out Deke's press
section for some good articles, including a very informative
rundown on Gene Vincent in the studio. Also on the site is a
colorful memoir by Billy Miller. Good pics of Link, etc.
Jim, aka Strandwolf
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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:07:07 -0000
From: Regina Litman
Subject: Re: steppin' out strategy
Steve D wrote:
> I bought the original album when it was first released in 1963 &
> it came with the yellow & red label. I don't know if it was ever
> released with the blue & black label. I remember "Be My Baby" by
> The Ronettes as being the first time I saw the yellow & red label,
> and that was late summer '63, a few months before the Christmas
> album was released.
I bought it on vinyl around 1977-1978. The one I got was on the Apple
label -- yes the Beatle's label. I think there was a release on Warner/
Reprise floating around back then, too.
My CD version came as part of the "Back to Mono" box set. Normally,
I never leave the house with just one CD of a multi-CD set -- I have a
fear of losing one and then having an incomplete set. Better to lose
the whole thing than just a piece of it. I also have not yet done what
so many folks do -- copy their CDs and just take the copies out of their
homes -- despite having so many out-of-print ones in my collection.
Anyway, the only exception I make to the above is that I take "A
Christmas Gift To You" with me whenever I want to hear it, without
bothering to take the other three CDs from "Back to Mono". Maybe it's
because this may have been considered to be a bonus, rather than part
of the whole set. I certainly don't take with me disc 5 of Neil Diamond's
"Stages" box set to get a holiday dose (but neither do I leave it behind
when I take the whole set with me, fully intending to play only the
four non-holiday CDs).
When I have all of the CDs in a series that were sold separately, my
policy wavers. Sometimes, particularly when there are five or fewer
CDs in the series, I'll take them all because I find that I regret
not having with me a song that I like that I know is part of the
series. Other times, especially when there are a lot of CDs in the
series, such as the 25 volumes in Rhino's 1970s "Have A Nice Day"
series (the ones that came out very early in the 1990s, not the
box set that came out later), I have to leave some behind out of
necessity -- just too many to carry.
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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:06:47 -0000
From: Mark Marshall
Subject: Re: Ron Marshall
Clark Besch wrote:
> Then, I spotted "What Can I Wish For You My Son"
> by Ron Marshall on Intrepid (probably 1970). It was
> produced by Art Wayne and arranged by Dean Christopher
> and Art Wayne. Any comments on these, guys?
I know this is an old thread, but I had to respond. Ron Marshall was
my Dad. I'm the kid on the single!
Dad had a long career as a VO guy, character voice actor, singer and
whistler. Unfortunately, he got into a very personally destructive
relationship, and took his own life five years ago.
The record in question, if I'm not mistaken, was recorded at ODO,
a studio on West 54th Street that Dad used to take me to when I was
very young. Its highlights included a whole boatload of singles and
commercial work, A Grand Funk Railroad album, the Kiss solo projects
and "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen were all cut there.
It's nice that someone found the record, and even nicer that someone
remembered him. Thanks much!
Mark
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Message: 19
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:22:54 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: workin' it with the Fourmost Authority
Phil X Milstein wrote:
> ... Does anyone know anything about the Fourmost Authority?
Mike:
> I'm pretty sure they were a UK or European combo. "Dance, Dance"
> was also recorded by The Chartbusters, on the Bell label,
> released prior to the F.A's version.
Something tells me that Mike is right. Weren't Ola and the
Janglers also on GNP Crecendo and weren't they from Sweden?
JB
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:53:26 -0500
From: Hasse Huss
Subject: Mod versus Motown
Dave Monroe wrote:
> But hope you're familiar with The Action's cover of "In My
> Lonely Room". They also recorded excellent covers of "I'll
> Keep On Holding On" (The Marvelettes), "Since I Lost My Baby"
> (The Temptations), "I Love You (Yeah!)" (The Impressions),
> "Baby You've Got It" (Maurice and The Radiants), "Hey Sah-Lo-
> Ney" (Mickey Lee Lane), "Land of 100 Dances" (Cannibal and
> The Headhunters), "The Cissy" and "Harlem Shuffle" (Bob and
> Earl), and that's just what was either officially released or
> what comes to mind.
MopTopMike wrote:
> Gotta strongly disagree here, I think the Action are WAAAYYY
> over-rated. They do limp covers of great soul songs [...] the
> remake of "I'll Keep Holding On" is like fingernails scraping
> a chalk blackboard! But there is an Action tune I really dig,
> by far and above the best song they recorded: "Wasn't It You"
> ...now that's soulful!
I don't know about "waaayyy over-rated" 'Baby You've Got It'
sounds fine, for instance but their version of 'In My Lonely
Room' isn't entirely convincing. They sure had good taste
though! Still, to these ears at least, The Action seem to lack
the magic of, say, The Small Faces or The Who (or even the best
tracks by The Creation or The Birds). But perhaps you had to
have been there. I never heard The Action in their day, but was
fortunate to see The Who live in Stockholm in October, 1966, a
little over a month before the UK release of "A Quick One".
They kicked off a very powerful set with back-to-back versions
of '(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave' and 'Dancing In The Street'.
Amazingly, that concert can be found on a bootleg, "Who Are The
High Numbers?" Readily available, and with plenty of tracks of
roughly the same vintage, is The Who's "The BBC Sessions", which
includes their takes on 'Dancing In The Street' (from March,
1966), and Eddie Holland's 'Leaving Here' (May, 1965). I very
briefly met Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey before a show in
Stockholm in May, 1967; all I could think to ask them I still
have the tape somewhere was: "Do you like the Hep Stars?" Oh
well, with Benny Andersson's haunting keyboard figure from
Abba's 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)' all over
the charts these days as sampled on Madonna's 'Hung Up'
perhaps that wasn't such a stupid question after all.
Covering Motown is not easy, and few have succeeded. In the mod
years, arguably one of the most original (and successful,
though not in commercial terms) attempts was by The Birds, who
cut 'No Good Without You Baby' the Mickey Stevenson song that
opens the second side of Marvin Gaye's 1965 album, "How Sweet
It Is To Be Loved By You" for their third Decca single. Mixing
mod guitars with a touch of British R&B, it's a forgotten 60's
classic and well worth seeking out. (I've always rated Bryan
Ferry's version of 'Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever', but we're
in a different era then, I suppose...) Most people who've tried
to cover Martha & the Vandellas have made utter fools of
themselves. The Who, to their credit, certainly kept at it. And
they dug deep into the catalogue; the reissue of "My Generation"
includes 'Motoring' - also by Mickey Stevenson, incidentally -
the flip to 'Nowhere To Run' (and on Martha & The Vandellas'
1965 "Dance Party" album). Makes you wonder what they might have
done with 'Quicksand'...
Hasse Huss
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Message: 21
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:51:14 -0000
From: Nick Archer
Subject: Nashville Radio
We've just started a group for everyone who was involved in or
a fan of Nashville radio, from WSM to the Top 40 WLAC-AM, KDA-AM,
and WMAK. So far we've have a lot of members posting surveys,
stickers, jingles, and photos from their collections.
Check it out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nash_radio/
Nick Archer
Franklin, TN
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Message: 22
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:16:27 -0000
From: Sam
Subject: Interview with a former Hardy Boy (the band, not the books)
I am a struggling writer who runs a blog called "Confessions of
a Pop Culture Addict" and two weeks ago had the pleasure to
interview a man named Norbert Soltysiak who was a member of the
Hardy Boy's bubblegum pop band in the late 1960's/early 1970's
for my site. It was an absolutely fascinating visit that not only
gave more information on the band then has ever been relevealed
anywhere before, but also the Chicago music scene in the 1960's
as well as stories of touring in the US State Fair circuit.
Performers he talked about in the interview included Sam the Sham
and the Pharohs, Johnny Cash, The Buckinghams, the Daughters of
Eve, the Delights, the Guess Who as well as non musicains as
Richard Pryor, Ron Howard and Jonathin Frid. It's fascinating
reading and I'd like to share it will all of you. The link to
the interview is:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/zatara2000/121947.html?mode==reply
I have some other articles that may be of interest as well.
Thanks...
Sam
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Message: 23
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:59:25 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Mousie & the Traps
Here's a question - several, actually - for girl group experts,
especially those with a special interest in all things Chicago-
related.
I've had a record on the brain all day - "It's All In The Way"
by Mousie & the Traps. My copy is a recent(ish) UK reissue on
the Joeboy label (with an unrelated b-side by Joseph Moore),
but it was released originally on Toddlin' Town 8204.
The song is credited to Holvay. Would that be S'popper James
Holvay?
Who produced the record?
How's the original b-side, "How About You"?
What year was the record released?
Does anyone know anything about this group?
I can't tell if they're black or white, not that that makes a
difference. In fact, that pop/soul crossover sound appeals to
me no end.
Do photos of the group exist?
Would I be right in assuming that they were a sister group of
the all-male Mouse & the Traps?
Thanks in advance for any info at all.
Hey la,
Mick
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