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There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. The Candy Girls > Steve Tudanger > Jean Thomas
From: Mick Patrick
2. Re: I Love How You Love Me w/ bagpipes
From: Einar Einarsson Kvaran
3. The Choir Sings While Alarm Clocks Ring!!!
From: MopTopMike
4. Re: Iz [Israel] Kamakawio'ole / Don Ho
From: Brian Chidester
5. Re: Leiber & Stoller
From: Bob Rashkow
6. Sīpop new features and a little serendipity.
From: Julio Niņo
7. Les Fradkin
From: Eddy
8. Re: "Where Angels Live" mystery disc in musica
From: James Holvay
9. Re: The Choir Sings While Alarm Clocks Ring!!!
From: Ken Haller
10. Re: The Choir Sings While Alarm Clocks Ring!!!
From: James Botticelli
11. "Ciao Baby", the final word
From: Randy
12. Re: Jean Thomas > The Candy Girls
From: Martin Roberts
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:33:20 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: The Candy Girls > Steve Tudanger > Jean Thomas
Ken Charmer:
> Also we are aware that Bob Crewe produced "Runaround"
> by the Candy Girls.
Actually, Crewe's name is not on the label at all.
> Could Jean (Thomas) have been involved?
I don't see why not - her husband, Charles Fox, arranged
and conducted their records.
> Does anyone know the group line-up?
Not really, but two of the girls, Judy and Fran, later
teamed up with Steve Tudanger and Joe DiBenedetto of the
Four-Evers to form the group Playhouse.
You'll find more info in S'pop's Steve Tudanger obituary:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/SteveTudanger.htm
As the Candy Girls, they released three songs:
The Candy Girls
Rotate 5001, 1963
"Tomorrow My Love" (Andy Ventura/Steve Tudanger)/
"Run" (Andy Ventura/Steve Tudanger/Sal Bonagura)
Arranged and conducted by Charles Fox
An Eddie Newmark-Bill Ficks Production
Tempi Lorrin & the Candy Girls
Rotate 5005, 1964
"Runaround (Baby-Baby)" (Andy Ventura/Steve Tudanger)/
"Run" (Andy Ventura/Steve Tudanger/Sal Bonagura)
Arranged and conducted by Charles Fox
An Eddie Newmark-Bill Ficks Production
In the cause of education and research, "Runaround
(Baby-Baby)" and "Run" are now playing at musica:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica
Maybe you could ask Jean to take a listen and tell us
if she can hear herself on back-ups?
Hey la,
Mick Patrick
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:01:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Einar Einarsson Kvaran
Subject: Re: I Love How You Love Me w/ bagpipes
Nino Tempo on "I Love How You Love Me" w/ bagpipes:
> "I got the idea of it when I heard a song by the Byrds on
> the radio and it sounded like bagpipes. It could have been
> almost any track on the album 'Younger Than Yesterday', on
> which producer Gary Usher utilized electronic drone sounds,
> possibly by running sitar tapes backwards, to achieve a sound
> similar to that of bagpipes.
I sure don't know how it is done, but the song likely is
"CTA-102" - a "life in other planets might exist," sort of a
song.
Einar
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:01:38 -0000
From: MopTopMike
Subject: The Choir Sings While Alarm Clocks Ring!!!
I just bought my ticket for this amazing show...counting the
days!!! The original 1966 lineup of Cleveland, Ohio legends,
the Choir, are performing a one-off show, with Parma, Ohio's
now legendary garage combo kings, the Alarm Clocks, who
haven't played a gig since their high-school days in 1966!
Read about it here:
http://www.beachlandballroom.com/
Maybe I'll see some spectropop members in the audience?
MopTopMike
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:40:18 -0500
From: Brian Chidester
Subject: Re: Iz [Israel] Kamakawio'ole / Don Ho
Previously:
> ...if you are not familiar with Iz [Israel] Kamakawio'ole
> [who is not still alive] version of "Over the Rainbow" -
> you might want to check it out somehow. It's a medley with
> Wonderful World.
> It was certainly an interesting style for the songs - too
> bad he didn't know the words, chords or melodies.
And too bad the music sounded so slick (like most Hawaiian
music these days). Israel has a great voice, but most of the
music and productions were sub-par compared with the golden
age of Hawaiian music, let alone the renaissance in the '70s.
I love IZ for his voice and pro-Hawaiian sovereignty lyrics.
But overall, the whole package isn't that strong.
> I always loved the Reprise LP sleeves, which promo'd their
> wildly ranging roster which ran the gamut from Hendrix to Ho.
And tons of Ed Thrasher photos... a genius... he's holding a
stash that has to be seen to be believed. Took the best photos
of P.J.'s ever. Go-go dancing blurred out, 1965 style.
Brian
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:50:23 EST
From: Bob Rashkow
Subject: Re: Leiber & Stoller
Paul Oliverio:
> That is the school with various Lieber & Stoller connections:
> Richard Berry, Obie "Young" Jessie, the Coasters...
So would Jefferson H.S. be the prototype for the school in
which "Charlie Brown" "walks in the classroom cool & slow"
and "calls the English teacher Daddy-O"?
Bobster
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:44:25 -0000
From: Julio Niņo
Subject: Sīpop new features and a little serendipity.
Hola everybody.
At last Iīve managed to crawl out of bed (Iīve been sleeping
for twenty hours. I think I had too many stimulations in my
last travel to the States and needed to disconnect).
While I was having my endless Saturday breakfast Iīve been
reading and enjoying the last Spectropop features. Thanks to
Phil M. for the very interesting chronicle about Marva Holiday
(I loved her picture) and also to the Sīpop team and Steve
Dworkin for the remembrance of Steve Tudanger. I didnīt know
much about his career but Mike Rashkowīs frequent comments
about him in Sīpop made me consider him with affection and
care.
Last week in NYC I bought mistakenly The Everly Brothers'
"The New Album" (I though it was the record with outtakes
recommended by Frank M. Young). But as sometimes happens,
although I first felt disappointed and stupid for the error,
now Iīm happy for the confusion, because it allowed me to
discover a song that has had me fascinated these last days:
"Nothing Matters But You", a very touching and beautiful
ballad, composed by Geld and Udell and recorded in 1965. I
would love if someone (maybe Frank) could tell me something
about this recording and if there are any other versions of
it.
Marva Holiday:
http://www.spectropop.com/HOTB/HOTBpart6.htm
Steve Tudanger:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/SteveTudanger.htm
Everly Brothers:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index2005.htm#EverlyBrothers
Chao.
Julio Niņo.
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:24:08 +0100
From: Eddy
Subject: Les Fradkin
Les Fradkin has a new cd out. It's called "Goin' back" and
I figured many of you might be interested in this one !
Besides the fact that it includes excellent versions of six
60's classics (Byrds, Hollies, Searchers, Left Banke,
Honeycombs) and guest appearances by Mick Ronson and Richie
Furay, the piece-de-resistance may very well be "I could
Make it Last Forever". This recording dates back to 1972/73,
to a failed Left Banke reunion and does indeed feature the
complete line-up of Michael Brown, Tom Finn, Steve Martin,
George Cameron and even Harry Lookofsky on violins and
string arrangement.. Needless to say this is a historic
recording that will no doubt please the crowd in here !
Check it out at CDbaby at http://www.cdbaby.com/lesfradkin6
Furthermore producer Les Fradkin has re-issued (and expanded)
a 2000 six-track EP by girl trio Venus in Bluejeans. Although
the instrumentation is very much 90's, the girls themselves
are very much 60's and every once in a while come soooo darn
close to the Shangri-la's... "The minute you walked into my
life, I KNEW I'd be in trouble..."
Me like, and not just for the cover !! Also at CDbaby at
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/venusinbluejeans
Eddy
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:48:34 -0800
From: James Holvay
Subject: Re: "Where Angels Live" mystery disc in musica
David A. Young wrote:
> 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.
Mystery solved on "Where Angels Live" ... It was written by
Jimmy Peterson, who was the leader and frontman/singer for a
group called The Chicagoans. I was the guitar player in the
group. We were living in New York in '63 and performing at
various clubs in the city (i.e. Peppermint Lounge, Metropole,
etc.). We met a music publisher Mort Brown, who was also
managing a struggling actor/singer by the name of Didi
Lombardo. Jimmy wrote the song for her and we recorded it at
Mirasound Studios with Brooks Arthur on the board. While in
New York, we also recorded an instrumental called "Beatletime"
(Constellation Records), which became a local hit in the Windy
City.
James Holvay
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:29:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Ken Haller
Subject: Re: The Choir Sings While Alarm Clocks Ring!!!
MopTopMike wrote:
> I just bought my ticket for this amazing show...counting the
> days!!! The original 1966 lineup of Cleveland, Ohio legends,
> the Choir, are performing a one-off show, with Parma, Ohio's
> now legendary garage combo kings, the Alarm Clocks, who
> haven't played a gig since their high-school days in 1966!
> Read about it here: http://www.beachlandballroom.com/ Maybe
> I'll see some spectropop members in the audience?
I played The Choir's "It's Cold Outside" a lot at in 1967
during my Monday-Friday 7-12 p.m.shift as a dj at Durham, North
Carolina's WSSB Radio (1490). Listeners would call in saying
they liked tune & wanted to buy, but it was not available at
local record stores. Poor distribution on the part of the
record company. If anyone gets the chance to talk to the band
at this show, please tell them at least one guy (me) believed
in their record and tried to help it in the South.
Ken Haller
Walled Lake, Michigan
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:58:26 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: The Choir Sings While Alarm Clocks Ring!!!
Ken Haller wrote:
> I played The Choir's "It's Cold Outside" a lot at in 1967
> during my Monday-Friday 7-12 p.m.shift as a dj at Durham, North
> Carolina's WSSB Radio (1490). Listeners would call in saying
> they liked tune & wanted to buy, but it was not available at
> local record stores. Poor distribution on the part of the
> record company...
Stiv Bators did a great version for Bomp Rekkids in 1979 of
"It's Cold Outside". The flip was a Beatlesque "This Is The
Last Year Of My Life."
Cheers,
JB
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:55:50 EST
From: Randy
Subject: "Ciao Baby", the final word
Just wanted to thank Lyn Nutall for jumping in when I was
looking for this...how I thought this was a solo male act
doing this song I don't know now-on the other hand, I was
about 9 when I had this record..My musical memories are
usually pretty sharp. However, I decided to pick up the
Montanas version as a single, and lo and behold-that was it!
What made it was the b-side ("Anyone There") was even better,
which I also remember playing a lot. So, then found out there
was a cd comp of these guys, just got that, and there's a
number of really good tracks on that. Soft pop with some
pysch-lite edges, produced mainly by Tony Hatch. Great stuff.
Lou Rawls recent passing also reminded me that during the
same time period my first record I ever had by him was the
song "The Split" from the same movie. Kind of a different
first Rawls to pick up, but again, all these single I had
back then were donated from a local radio station, so it was
a very mixed lot.
Thanks again for your help!
Randy
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:54:23 -0000
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Re: Jean Thomas > The Candy Girls
Ken Charmer on the Candy Girls:
> Could Jean (Thomas) have been involved?
Mick Patrick:
> I don't see why not - her husband, Charles Fox, arranged
> and conducted their records.
Big faves those Candy Girls tracks.
I have a cool 45, Maddy Hill "I'm Going Steady With A Memory"
(Columbia 43088), with similar credits. No Steve Tudanger,
this was written by H. Ruby but it's arranged & conducted by
Charles Fox, is a Newmark - Lieberman Production and features
a 'Crewish' production and groovy girly backing vocals.
I let Ken Charmer know of the track, partly due to the Candy
Girls tie-in, but mainly because I'd read in John Clemente's
"Girl Groups" book that Jean was married to a 'Fox'. However,
it isn't Charles but Ray that Jean has apparently been
blissfully married to for coming up to 40 years!
Congratulations!! Surely that's some kinda record :-)
Martin
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