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There are 15 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Orphelia McFall / Ophelia McCall
From: Hans Huss
2. Author Ken Emerson talks Brill Bldg. era on WFMU-FM
From: Bill Smith
3. Re: Re: "A Christmas Gift" versions
From: Frank
4. "Childhood Friends"
From: Mike Dugo
5. Stax / WABC / Great Xmas LPs
From: Marc Miller
6. Re: Christmas Darlene Love Please Come Home
From: Steve D
7. Re: "Baby I Love You" alternates
From: Frank
8. Re: Mod versus Motown
From: Howard Earnshaw
9. Re: "Baby I Love You" alternates
From: Laura Pinto
10. Mousie & the Traps
From: Rich
11. Re: Interview with a former Hardy Boy (the band, not the books)
From: Anthony Parsons
12. Re: Mod versus Motown
From: Chris
13. Re: "Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era,"
From: Sandi
14. Re: Florence Henderson
From: Brent Cash
15. Motown 'n' Mojo
From: Mick Patrick
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 07:26:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Hans Huss
Subject: Re: Orphelia McFall / Ophelia McCall
I wrote:
> In 1962, as Ophelia McCall, she had one release on Little Star,
> 'One Heart, One Love' / 'Every Every Night' (Little Star 110)
The hot-off-the-presses second edition of Bob McGrath's
indispensable "R&B Indies" lists 'Every Every Night' as the A-
side. "Soul Harmony Singles" has the title as 'Every Night Every
Night' and the artist as Ophelia McFall. Very confusing. Typos
tend to stay on in discographies of rare records and "C" and "F"
are dangerously close on the keyboard... Still, I would love to
hear those sides if anyone has the record.
In addition to being released on Concert Room and Saturn, Orphelia
McFall's 'He's Never There' / 'Did You Know' came out on Dick
Hugg's Essar label (Essar 1008), also in 1962.
Hasse Huss
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 13:28:27 -0500
From: Bill Smith
Subject: Author Ken Emerson talks Brill Bldg. era on WFMU-FM
Just a reminder.....
Author Ken Emerson
Sunday, December 4th, 7pm - 9pm
on Bob Brainen's show http://www.wfmu.org/schedule#BB
Bob Brainen welcomes Ken Emerson, author of the brand-new book,
"Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill
Building Era," and previously of "Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and
the Rise of American Popular Culture." We'll be discussing the
seven songwriting teams Emerson chronicles: Lieber and Stoller,
Pomus and Shuman, Bacharach and David, Sedaka and Greenfield,
Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, and Barry and Greenwich. We'll
also cover an assortment of other characters and publishing and
record companies that helped the music from 1619 and 1650
Broadway flourish in the late 1950s and early 1960s. We'll be
playing lots of music by these writers whose collective efforts
helped create a soundtrack for several generations.
Listen on the net here: http://www.wfmu.org/
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:46:17 +0100
From: Frank
Subject: Re: Re: "A Christmas Gift" versions
I have both vinyl versions Stereo and Mono as well as both CDs
versions. Though I'm a big fan of Stereo versions I found that
in the case of most of the early Spector productions the Mono
versions were definitely better. A few exceptions though: the
Ike and tina Turner LP, the Righteous Bros. tracks and
definitely the Xmas album.
Frank
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 15:10:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Dugo
Subject: "Childhood Friends"
Previously:
> The Fourmost Authority had another single on GNP 403 issued
> around 12/68 but credited to The Foremost Authority. The A-
> side was a Dick Torst song "Childhood Friends" which had been
> recorded earlier by both The Yellow Payges (on UNI, 6/68) and
> Teddy and The Patches (on Tower, 7/68).
"Childood Friends" was actually recorded by Teddy & the Pandas,
not Teddy & the Patches.
Mike
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:02:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Marc Miller
Subject: Stax / WABC / Great Xmas LPs
Artie:
> Before I had to leave for my next stop, Muscle Shoals,
> Alabama, Steve invited me into the control room to hear some
> remixes he was doing on the late Otis Redding. It was a
> spectacular ending to a day I'll never forget.
While in Muscle Shoals, did you go to the Fame studios? I'd be
interested to hear what that was like.
Paul:
> WMCA, at 570 on the AM dial, was the home of the "Good Guys,"
> such as Dandy Dan Daniels ("...especially you size 9" was his
> outro) and resident hipster B. Mitchell Reid. I was a proud
> owner of a Good Guys sweatshirt. Besides Bruce Morrow -- still
> cousining on satellite radio -- WABC had Dan Ingram, the master
> of the seven-second wit, and Scott Muni, who hightailed it for
> WNEW-FM where he was no longer subject to WABC's extremely
> limited playlist.
I had a Good Guys sweatshirt too! BMR is IMO the greatest top-40
DJ of all time. For those of you who never heard him (or only
heard him on FM), check this and see if you can understand what
he's saying (the best example is the 9th one down):
http://musicradio.computer.net/wmca/wmcaairchecs.html
Also, betw ABC and NEW, Scott worked at WOR-FM when it was
"progressive" ca. 66-67. An aircheck can be heard here:
http://www.reelradio.com/aa/index.html#smwor040867
Mark my words, within 6 months WABC will be playing alot more
music!
Bill:
> It can be safely said, the only thing rock critics agree on is
> Spector's "A Christmas > Gift To You" is the best Christmas
> album. Not to this guy:
Looks like stuff that Wal-Mart has overstock of. Either that or
this guy is off his meds!
Marc
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:00:55 EST
From: Steve D
Subject: Re: Christmas Darlene Love Please Come Home
Letterman tapes his Friday night shows on Mondays, after his
regular Monday night show, so the Darlene Love show will be
aired on Friday, Dec. 23. Here's a quote from my email from
my friend who works on the show: "The Christmas Show is Friday,
Dec 23, taping Monday, Dec 19, at 7 and also starring Rosie
Perez, with Jay Thomas tossing footballs."
Happy Holidays, Steve D
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:41:47 +0100
From: Frank
Subject: Re: "Baby I Love You" alternates
Pres a écrit:
> On vinyl alone I have about 15 copies of the Ronettes 45, 6
> copies of the Cher 45, 2 Andy Kim 45s, and 4 copies of the
> Ramones. Whenever I see a copy of this record (by anyone, it
> appears), I can not leave it. The only other record/song that
> I've noticed also causes this... er, affliction, is the 12" of
> Burning Up by Madonna (around 20 copies and counting. I don't
> know what to call this problem but I wonder if any of you out
> there share it? I think Dave Monroe might...
At last I can come out of my closet knowing I'm not the only one.
Welcome to the madhouse! There are quite a few artists who cause
this problem with me. Anything by Phil Spector I have to get. And
I mean anything which might even be very loosely connected:
sounds alike, poor covers as well as good ones, pictures, films,
anything… And since I'm into a sort of confession trend I have to
admit that one of the other artists inducing this strange behavior
is Buddy Greco (not very Spectropop I admit, but still…)
Frank
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:09:22 EST
From: Howard Earnshaw
Subject: Re: Mod versus Motown
Continuing the posts on whether there are decent cover versions
of Motown songs (on not) I thought it might be interesting to
view Spectropop members ideas of their best & worst (or good &
bad) covers? I'll start the ball rolling with :-
1. Good .. Let's Go Somewhere - Beryl Mardsen
2. Bad .. Where Did Our Love Go - Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers
Howard
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:30:09 -0000
From: Laura Pinto
Subject: Re: "Baby I Love You" alternates
Hi Pres,
Have you ever heard Andy Kim's live version of "Baby I Love You"
on the 'Chapel of Love: Jeff Barry and Friends' audio CD and/or
video? He sings it slow, sultry and sexy ... it's hot! (And he
LOOKS good while singing it, too, which doesn't hurt!)
Laura
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:45:16 -0000
From: Rich
Subject: Mousie & the Traps
I have posted "It's All In The Way" at Tweedlee Dum's Drive-In.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/TweedleeDumsDrive-In/
sixtiesoldiesguy
Rich
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:44:54 -0600
From: Anthony Parsons
Subject: Re: Interview with a former Hardy Boy (the band, not the books)
Sam:
> I (snip) 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. (snip)
> Performers he talked about in the interview included (snip)
> non musicians as (snip) Jonathan Frid.
I've been way too behind on reading messages to comment lately,
although there have been some very tempting posts I've wanted to
respond to. However, I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to
say how amazing it is that almost 40 years after its debut, Dark
Shadows just refuses to die and keeps popping up in the oddest
places. For those who don't know (may you be few), Jonathan Frid
was the actor who infused life into Barnabas Collins, a 175 year
old vampire on the classic 60s gothic soap. Here's a very neat
piece of trivia that most of you will appreciate - there exists a
classic and rare photo of Alexandra Moltke ,who played Victoria
Winters, and Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Maggie Evans,
backstage at a Doors concert hanging out with Jim Morrison and
clad in their VERY short mini-skirts. I wish I had a copy to
share! Also, for those fans of Dark Shadows who haven't yet
checked it out, the 30th Anniversary CD on Varese Sarabande
contains some very rare Dark Shadows related 45s which were
actually not from the soundtrack music, but inspired by the soap
itself. Highly Recommended! Now I'm off to read Sam's
interview!!!
Sincerely,
Antone
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:13:30 -0000
From: Chris
Subject: Re: Mod versus Motown
Howard Earnshaw wrote:
> Continuing the posts on whether there are decent cover versions
> of Motown songs (on not) I thought it might be interesting to
> view Spectropop members ideas of their best & worst (or good &
> bad) covers?
Well, on the "Good" side (although I suspect it's more of a guilty
pleasure): "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Every Day)" by
Florence Henderson. At least it's a lot better than most of the
Brady Bunch tracks...
Chris
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:04:46 +1300
From: Sandi
Subject: Re: "Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era,"
Just a reminder that today WFMU deejay Bob Brainen interviews Ken
Emerson, author of "Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance
of the Brill Building Era". The blurb at the website says discussion
will center around "Leiber and Stoller, Pomus and Shuman, Bacharach
and David, Sedaka and Greenfield, Goffin and King, Mann and Weill,
and Barry and Greenwich" and promises lots of music.
Bob's show airs Sunday between 7PM-9PM EST.
listen live online at the wfmu site:
http://www.wfmu.org
the show should also be archived:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BB
Sandi
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:36:18 -0000
From: Brent Cash
Subject: Re: Florence Henderson
Chris wrote:
> Well, on the "Good" side (although I suspect it's more of a
> guilty pleasure): "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin'
> Every Day)" by Florence Henderson. At least it's a lot better
> than most of the Brady Bunch tracks...
Chris, The b-side,"What Do You Do When Love Dies" is one of my
favorites. A b-side like that one don't come knockin' every day.
A really great single!
Brent Cash
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:11:25 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Motown 'n' Mojo
Previously:
> I'd like to finish by recommending two British Motown cds to
> all of you, which contain the best of Kim (Weston) and Brenda
> (Holloway)'s work. Brenda's was released a few months ago,
> whilst Kim's was released only last week. Both contain a
> smattering of their well known songs but, more importantly,
> there is a wealth of previously unreleased material too. They
> are: Kim Weston "The Motown Anthology" and Brenda Holloway
> "The Motown Anthology" (both on Universal/Motown)
There's a rather splendid full-page review of the Kim Weston
release - complete with a gorgeous half-page photo and interview
- in the latest edition of Mojo magazine. Flick over a few
leaves and Motown's blue-eyed soul amazon Chris Clark gets a
page to herself too. Lois Wilson wrote both.
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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