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There are 20 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Steve Tudanger, R.I.P. > The Candy Girls
From: Mick Patrick
2. Re: Edith Piaf sings Leiber & Stoller
From: Randy Poe
3. Re: Richard Kimball update
From: Gary Myers
4. Soul Smurfing
From: Phil X Milstein
5. Re: The Ventures - Christmas Albums/Bread
From: Regina Litman
6. Ventures' Christmas Album
From: Brian
7. Johnny Tillotson
From: Gary Myers
8. Speaking of "Reach Out, I'll Be There"
From: Bob Rashkow
9. Re: Viva label
From: Bobster
10. Re: The Ventures "I Feel Fine"
From: Billy G Spradlin
11. Sad news about Barry Cowsill
From: Laura Pinto
12. Re: knighthoods
From: Felonious
13. Re: late Bread
From: Roy Clough
14. Re: Soul Smurfing
From: Dave Monroe
15. The end of the record
From: Paul Urbahns
16. Re: Viva label
From: James Botticelli
17. The Flock
From: Max Weiner
18. The Return of The Geator With The Heator
From: Country Paul
19. Darlene Love on Letterman
From: David A. Young
20. mystery disc in musica
From: David A. Young
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:44:27 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Steve Tudanger, R.I.P. > The Candy Girls
Steve Dworkin:
> Sadly, Steve Tudanger passed away this morning. Steve was a
> member of The Four Evers, in the sixties who had a hit with
> "Be My Girl" on Smash Records. He later was in the group
> Playhouse, and sang backup on records for artists like Lobo,
> Robin McNamarra, Andy Kim & The Archies. He had two singles
> as a solo artist, one on Mercury & one on Big Tree.
Steve was also a fine songwriter and producer. As a tribute,
I've posted one of my favourites of his compositions to
musica. Details are: The Candy Girls "Run" (Rotate 5001,
1963); written by Steve Tudanger, Andy Ventura and Salvatore
Bonagura; arranged and conducted by Charles Fox; an Eddie
Newmark-Bill Hicks Production. Click here to listen to it:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica
R.I.P.
Mick Patrick
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:23:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Poe
Subject: Re: Edith Piaf sings Leiber & Stoller
Bill Smith wrote:
> I'd love to hear her version of "Charly Brown" ........
> *FiFi FyeFye*
Ah yes, "Charles DeBrun."
My favorite non-English versions of an L&S song are the
various translations of "Is That All There Is?" If you
think it's depressing in English, you oughta hear it in
German.
- Randy Poe
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:34:31 -0800
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Richard Kimball update
Artie Wayne:
> I'm happy to say that I spoke to my longtime friend Richard
> Kimball ...
I guess he's been doing OK ever since they found the one-armed
man. (Sorry, couldn't resist - my apologies to those too young
to know what the heck I'm talking about).
gem
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:22:15 -0500
From: Phil X Milstein
Subject: Soul Smurfing
Although the recent holidaze were largely spent in working
mode, I did manage to get in a LITTLE relaxation time, most
of which was spent in the form of Web smurfing. In the
course of my travels there I came across a few sites that I
thought y'all might also enjoy:
* http://www.soulgeneration.co.uk/home.htm
Atractively designed site covering R&B, hard soul, jazz-funk,
garage, psychobilly and the like, with features, interviews,
DJ reports, and reviews of excavated vinyl. Tons of label and
LP cover scans, and do not miss their candid interview with
Jean DuShon, in which she tells of having once fallen asleep
onstage in the middle of a performance!
* http://www.daremusic.com
This enigmatic site appears to be a promo for a self-released
Baton label compilation, which looks good enough to order
(and so I have). Included are Baton founder Sol Rabinowitz's
memoir of the label's brief history, a story on Ann Cole, and
a sidebar on the battles with Muddy Waters over ownership of
"Got My Mojo Workin'."
* http://johnnyspencer.info/
I've been staring at this site for days on end, and still
can't figure out quite what to make of it. It features a
great many 45 scans, all of which include hand-drawn picture
sleeves. The drawings appear to be highly skilled doodles
rather than representations of anything to do with the
respective record, but the records -- about equally divided
between big- and small-holed 45s, and covering primarily R&B,
soul, jazz-funk and various '50s and '60s Jamaican stylings
-- look terrific too, and many are quite rare. But if the
site includes an explanation of whether the sleeves were
drawn by the site's proprietor (Mr. Spencer, I presume) or
were found as-is in a flea market motherlode, I've been
unable to find it. It does, though, include some good
features.
* http://tinyurl.com/b4983
* http://tinyurl.com/c3q4m
Two Spectrocentric pieces from the New York Times Sunday
Magazine's annual appreciation essays (as opposed to obits
per se) of select figures who died during the past year.
Toppermost is of Eugene Record and Luther Vandross; t'uther
of Thurl Ravenscroft.
Happy smurfing!
--Phil M.
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:56:36 -0000
From: Regina Litman
Subject: Re: The Ventures - Christmas Albums/Bread
Roy Clough wrote:
> Regina, they revisted the theme in 2003 with a album Guitar
> Christmas - basically rerecordings of the songs you mention
> but with some new tracks. It can be bought relatively cheaply
> - I picked it up for £3.99 (about $7) brand new.
Thanks for pointing this out. I have this CD, too, which is
why I referred to the earlier one as their "first Christmas
album". It gives me a backing track that allows me to do a
rocking version of the Maryland state song, "Maryland, My
Maryland", if I can remember the words I learned back in the
4th grade. (The tune is the same as that of "O Tannenbaum"/"O
Christmas Tree", which appears on this album in the
aforementioned rocking version. I understand that some other
states use this tune for their songs, too.) The album title
is "Christmas Joy", which is also the title of an original
song on the album that includes vocals.
"Christmas Joy" came out in time for the 2002 holiday season.
I never saw it in a store - I sure got tired of looking at
Luther Vandross's Christmas output in the V section of all
the bins - and since my next CD order from an online store
will be my first, I finally got a Barnes and Noble store to
special order it for me after the holiday was over. I picked
it up there in early January. In fact, I got both Ventures'
Christmas albums in early January. I went into a small store
near my home that specializes in oldies reissues (one reason
why I don't have to order online) in early January 1996. The
owner, who knows my tastes, was holding a clearance on holiday
recordings and recommended it to me. I'll have it ten years
this coming Friday, and I play both it and "Christmas Joy"
year round, as well as "A Christmas Gift to You".
> PS: More sad news - Mike Botts of Bread also passed away
> on 12/9.
Didn't we also lose another member from this group last year?
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:16:43 -0500
From: Brian
Subject: Ventures' Christmas Album
Previously:
> I just love this album - it's my favorite instrumental
> Christmas album,
I'd like to hear which ones come in a close second or third
place. Were there THAT many instrumental Christmas albums
in the '60s? I only know of some singles, and that one
Ventures LP. Give us the scoop...
Brian
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:47:57 -0800
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Johnny Tillotson
About a month ago, someone posted an e-mail address here for
Johnny Tillotson. If anyone has that, would you please send
it to me offlist?
gem
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:44:58 EST
From: Bob Rashkow
Subject: Speaking of "Reach Out, I'll Be There"
Speaking of "Reach Out, I'll Be There"--I was never any too
crazy about Motown diva Diana Ross' own 1971 cover of the 4
Tops' hit. She fared considerably better IMO on "Ain't No
Mountain......" which of course was more successful, but
Marvin and Tammi's arrangement--not to mention their vocals
--well, no comparison! Spine-chiller for this listener.
Bobster
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:26:23 EST
From: Bobster
Subject: Re: Viva label
Two more Viva releases that come to mind (the former of which I own) are
the magnificent psychedelic excursion LP by The Travel Agency, and The In
Crowd's "?s and Answers," which just made Billboard late in '66, and was
previously discussed here.
Bobster
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:37:52 -0000
From: Billy G Spradlin
Subject: Re: The Ventures "I Feel Fine"
Richard Snow wrote:
> "I Feel Fine" is on a CD called "Walk Don't Run, the Best
> of The Ventures".
My copy of "I Feel Fine" is on a two-fer from One Way Records combining
1965's "Where The Action Is" with "The Ventures Knock Me Out" from 1964.
Both are great instrumental albums.
One Way went out of business about a year ago, but you may be able to
pick one up from Amazon.
Billy G.
60's Jangle Radio on Live365
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:51:50 -0000
From: Laura Pinto
Subject: Sad news about Barry Cowsill
>From the official Cowsill mailing list:
> It is with a very heavy heart that I have to inform everyone that we
> have learned that a DNA match has been found for Barry in Baton Rouge,
> LA. Unfortunately, this means with a 99% certainty that Barry has
> passed away. The Cowsill family was just informed of the match and
> more information will be posted on the site as it becomes available.
> We invite you to express your thoughts and post your memories of Barry
> on our Memorial Book located at
> http://cowsill.com/cowsills/Guestbook/barrymemorial.html
> Our deepest gratitude goes to everyone who has helped with the search
> for Barry in any way.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheCowsills
I also found this on the web:
http://et.tv.yahoo.com/newslink/13545/
My deepest condolences to the Cowsill family.
Laura
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:09:06 -0800
From: Felonious
Subject: Re: knighthoods
Artie Wayne asked:
> I am curious how the recipients are chosen, and why did
> Andrew Lloyd Webber becme a Knight and Tim Rice didn't?
> Why did Mick Jagger, and not Keith Richards?
The would-be recipients of an Honour are supposed to be nominated for
their good work in, say, charity and perhaps promoting British interests
abroad. There is usually some political influence, as well. Lloyd Webber
supports the Conservative Party, and that helped. (Rice may not use his
title much, but he is Sir Tim Rice.) Mick Jagger, whilst every bit as much
of a capitalist as ALW, is admired by rock fan Tony Blair. The recipients
are sounded out as to their attitude towards accepting an honour, and
given Keith's views may have influenced to awards panel I don't think
he'll be receiving any in the near future. Unless Jack Daniels act as
sponsor.
"I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and
sporting the old ermine," Richards told British music magazine "Uncut."
"I told Mick it's a paltry honor ... It's not what the Stones is about,
is it?"
Several Americans have been awarded honorary knighthoods, although
as yet no women have been similarily enobled. Given her residency here
and her children's stories, however, some of us are looking forward to
Guy Ritchie's wife becoming Lady Madonna.
Jamie Lee Curtis became a Lady when her husband, Christopher Guest,
inherited the title of Lord Haden-Guest after his father's death.
Yours,
FrankM
Court Correspondent Spectropop (Pop Music's Debrett)
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:29:03 -0000
From: Roy Clough
Subject: Re: late Bread
Regina Litman asked:
> Didn't we also lose another member from Bread last year?
Yes, James Griffin died January 11.
http://spectropop.com/remembers/JGobit.htm
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:15:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Monroe
Subject: Re: Soul Smurfing
Phil X Milstein wrote:
> * http://www.soulgeneration.co.uk/home.htm
See as well ...
http://funk45.com/
http://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/
http://funky16corners.tripod.com/cover.htm
Don't let "funk" and/or "funky" scare you off ...
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:10:44 -0500
From: Paul Urbahns
Subject: The end of the record
Larry Bromley wrote:
> Sad to know that his family had no interest in keeping alive
> Artie's love for stacks of wax.
Obviously it was a labor of love for him and not necessarily a
profitable venture. Maybe on the Spectropop website they can
consider starting a list of recommended record stores. I
frequently look for record stores when traveling but many of
the established places are closing. I was in C's Records on
Dixie Highway in Louisville a few weeks ago and he is trying to
sell off his stock at Flea markets, because he gets more trade
walking by at flea markets than in his shop. The shop operators
blame on line selling for the killing of local oldies shops. I
have noticed many Goodwill and Salvation Army stores (some of
the places I find more of what I am looking for) have stopped
stocking records all together. The thirft shops just send them
to the dumpster without putting themout. Few people have
working record players anymore.
Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:56:40 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Viva label
Bobster wrote:
> Two more Viva releases that come to mind (the former of
> which I own) are the magnificent psychedelic excursion LP
> by The Travel Agency, and The In Crowd's "?s and Answers,"
> which just made Billboard late in '66, and was previously
> discussed here.
I think Kenny Loggins' 60's Garage Psyche band was on Viva as
well. One side called "Its Friday" as I recall, and the other
was something like "Floating Downstream in an Incredible
Inflatable Raft". But I can't find the 45 at the moment.
JB
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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:12:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Max Weiner
Subject: The Flock
Hey there,
There are several people here who are very knowledgeable
about the Chicago Sound in the 60's. Can anyone tell me
anything about a mid-sixties Chigao garage band known as
the FLOCK? The lead guitarist was a guy by the name of
Rick Kanoff, they were from West Rogers Park. Did they
have a label, did they go anywhere, you know, the usual.
Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.
Thanks much in advance!
Max
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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:50:19 -0500
From: Country Paul
Subject: The Return of The Geator With The Heator
The Philly Sound is back on the radio, at least in Philadelphia.
>From a radio discussion group I'm on:
"....[After the demise of Philly 50s-60s oldies station WPEN]
Jerry [Blavat] has been taken in by - of all stations - WXPN,
the University of Pennsylvania radio station. 'XPN streams, I
think. Listen to the Geator's first show this Saturday night:
http://xpn.org/geator.php "
They're at 88.5 in Philadephia and at a couple of other
frequencies in Maryland and elsewhere. I didn't find the listen
button for anything streaming on this particular page, but it's
probably somewhere on the website.
Just thought folks would want to know.
Country Paul
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Message: 19
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:22:44 -0000
From: David A. Young
Subject: Darlene Love on Letterman
Greetings,
Anyone who missed Darlene's performance of "Christmas (Baby
Please Come Home)" on The Late Show December 23 (or who saw
it but wants to again) can find it streaming right now at
the show's site: http://tinyurl.com/erra
Act now; it probably won't be there for long.
David A. Young
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:43:10 -0000
From: David A. Young
Subject: mystery disc in musica
Hi, everybody,
I missed out on an acetate sold a few days ago on eBay, but
not before downloading the song, "Where Angels Live," which
the seller thoughtfully provided in its entirety. I'm quite
sure many members will enjoy this anonymous girl-group record,
and maybe someone can even make some educated guesses about
it. A scan of the label is in the Photos section; as you'll
see, it's from A & T Productions in Toledo, Ohio. The flip
side of the acetate is "Let Them Talk," credited to one Jimmy
Peterson.
Feast your ears on this rarity, now playing in musica, and
please come forward if you have any theories about who might
have been involved.
David A. Young
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