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There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Orphelia McFall / Ophelia McCall
From: Hans Huss
2. Re: Diane Ray
From: Lyn Nuttall
3. The Everly Brothers
From: S'pop Projects
4. Re: Shy Guys
From: Margaret G. Still
5. Happy Holidays
From: Larry Lapka
6. Re: Diane Ray / Betty McQuade
From: Mark Maldwyn
7. Re: Shy Guys
From: Roberto Lanterna
8. Re: The Everly Brothers
From: Peter Lerner
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:09:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Hans Huss
Subject: Re: Orphelia McFall / Ophelia McCall
For those with an interest in these things, I've posted
a scan of Orphelia McFall's 'He's Never There' on Concert
Room to the Photos Section. If nothing else, it will
illustrate the problems of spelling Jack Nitzsche's name
correctly. Enjoy!
Hasse Huss
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:00:26 -0000
From: Lyn Nuttall
Subject: Re: Diane Ray
Ronnie Allen wrote:
> I've been able to find very little information about Diane
> Ray, however, other than the fact that she was born in
> Gastonia, North Carolina in 1942.
It might surprise you all to learn that some Australians have
long believed Diane Ray to be an Aussie.
Brent James, in his liner notes to the Australian surf
collection "Surf's Up" (Columbia/Sony Australia, 1993),
characterises her this way:
"Diane Ray, who went overseas to record for Mercury Records,
ended up becoming another one hit wonder with the bright and
cheery bubblegummish 'Please Don't Talk To The Lifegauard'."
(To go "overseas" means to leave Australia, our country being
surrounded by water. Or "girt by sea", as our national anthem
puts it.)
Brent's concluding sentence is of interest to me, because it
places her almost in my neighbourhood (well, within 100km or
so): "By the way, Diane Ray was last heard of living near
Ipswich in Queensland."
Perhaps if that is correct, and Diane did emigrate to Oz, this
gave rise to the belief that she started out here? Or was the
biographical detail about North Carolina a red herring?
Lyn
in Queensland (a state of) Australia
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:53:23 -0000
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers' decade with Warner Brothers Records
(1960 to '70) was once the most neglected back catalog of
the Spectropop era. Suddenly, we are overwhelmed with
thoughtful, draconian accounts of this fertile Everly
period. Aside from Euro-Warners' ongoing series of twofer
reissues of the Bros' original WB LPs, each loaded with
rare bonus tracks, and Collector's Choice's unimaginative
single-disc sets, Bear Family in Germany has just birthed
a seven-disc boxed set, "The Price Of Fame". In addition,
Varese Vintage has swiftly coughed up "Too Good To Be True"
and "Give Me A Future", two amazing discs of Everlys
songwriting demos from the '50s to the '70s. From famine
to feast, so suddenly: it's almost too much to take in!
Let's concentrate on "From Nashville To Hollywood", the
first in a series that will gather non-LP tracks,
alternate versions, and outright-unissued material from
the WB period.
Frank Young's review of "From Nashville To Hollywood" (a
CD literally loaded with rare tracks, many of them from
the pens of such Spectropop exemplars as Carole King, Jack
Keller and Gerry Goffin) is the latest addition to the
S'pop section. Check it out here:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index2005.htm#EverlyBrothers
Enjoy,
The S'pop Team
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:37:52 -0000
From: Margaret G. Still
Subject: Re: Shy Guys
Julio Niño wrote:
> ... but I could cite a bunch of real similar situations in
> which the shy guys resulted not to be so shy in other
> circunstances. And talking about "shy guys", precisely these
> last days I´ve been trying to collect songs about girls
> complaining about their too shy and not enough affective
> beloved ones. I would love to make an special chapter about
> the subject in my i-pod.
Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes' "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb"
Shelley Fabares "Johnny Angel".
And not a girl, but how about:
Lou Christie - Roulette 4527 "Shy Boy"?
Best,
Margaret G. Still
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:44:52 -0000
From: Larry Lapka
Subject: Happy Holidays
Happy holidays to all.
Spectropop is one of my favorite sites to visit, because
it's almost as if each day is a holiday. I get gifts of
information and music that I wouldn't know a thing about
if I wasn't a member.
I thank everybody here for that. It's great fun 365 days
a year.
In my neck of the woods, I have done something a little
different with my previously inactive Theme With No Name
and Music Rewind Yahoo Groups. I have gone against the
grain with some other groups, and have posted a bushel of
Hanukkah (and related) songs by a number of artists,
including Frank Zappa, Chubby Checker, Tom Lehrer and
Kinky Friedman.
If you are a member of these groups, you have been
notified about their availability. If not, please visit
these sites.
Also, please give me some comments (both positive and
negative are welcome) about these tunes. I think we get
so caught up in the season that we forget that it's not
just the Christmas season--especially this year when the
first night of Hanukkah is actually on the evening of
December 25.
The addresses are:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/themewithnoname/
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/musicrewind/
Thanks.
Larry Lapka
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:31:55 -0000
From: Mark Maldwyn
Subject: Re: Diane Ray / Betty McQuade
Lyn Nuttall wrote:
> It might surprise you all to learn that some Australians have
> long believed Diane Ray to be an Aussie.
Maybe this could explain Diane's emphemeral USA recording career
in spite of an album release-she wanted to go home...?
Do you know what happened to the great Betty McQuade?
Mark M
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:20:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Roberto Lanterna
Subject: Re: Shy Guys
Julio Niño wrote:
> And talking about "shy guys", precisely these last days I´ve
> been trying to collect songs about girls complaining about
> their too shy and not enough affective beloved ones. I would
> love to make an special chapter about the subject in my i-pod.
> Apart from some tracks mentioned before, I thought of "Shy
> Guy" by the Charmers, "Can´t He Take A Hint?" by Kenni Woods,
> Joanie Sommers´ "Johnny Get Angry", "Why Don´t You Love Me"
> by Teri Thorton or "He Don´t Love Me" by Shelly Fabares,
> (apart from a couple of great Spanish yeyé girls tracks). I
> would love if someone could take the time of adding some more
> songs to this little list.
Hi Julio, "Renato" by Mina (1962) has exactly that kind of
lyrics. You sure know Mina, but if you don't have this song (a
nice fast number, you could call it yeyè), write me back and
I'll send you an mp3.
Ciao,
Roberto
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:05:09 -0000
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: The Everly Brothers
I enjoyed Frank Young's review of the Everlys:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index2005.htm#EverlyBrothers
and their harmonies never fail to impress me!
Don and Phil only ever, to my knowledge, attempted one Jackie
DeShannon composition although their families hail from nearby
locations in Kentucky, and both the Everlys and Jackie did
supreme covers of John Prine's "Paradise", all about that State,
in the 1970s.
The DeShannon song which the Everlys recorded was "Baby bye - oh",
and on a bootlegged LP which came out sometime in the 80s, I have
their attempt at the song, which broke up in fits of laughter.
Does anyone know if the brothers recorded a "proper" version of
the song, and is it available on any legitimate release?
Thanks
Peter
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