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There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. re: Brian Wilson's song selections
From: Charles G. Hill
2. re: Mari/Meri, one more time
From: Stewart Mason
3. cataloging record collections
From: Will George
4. 3 quick comments
From: Paul Payton
5. Re: cataloging record collections
From: Dan Hughes
6. re: Clinger Sisters
From: Patrick Rands
7. re: Soul Sisters
From: Kingsley Abbott
8. Re: Clinger Sisters
From: Billy Spradlin
9. The Pirouettes - The Wrangler Stretch???
From: Billy Spradlin
10. Re: Clinger Sisters
From: Mick Patrick
11. re: THE PIROUETTES
From: "Mick Patrick"
12. RE: The Pirouettes - The Wrangler Stretch
From: Tony Waitekus
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:02:37 -0500
From: Charles G. Hill
Subject: re: Brian Wilson's song selections
Ken Levine pointed out:
> Even though he didn't sing Wendy (wait a minute -- he never
> sings Wendy) the show was near perfection.
Never? At all?....cgh
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Charles G. Hill -
Onion rings to bring them all, and in the oil fry them.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 21:36:23 -0400
From: Stewart Mason
Subject: re: Mari/Meri, one more time
From Will George:
> Was she the one that did that song about putting a telephone
> in her bathroom (or loo for all you brits)?
From Slaughter Joe:
> I'll have to dig the records up, but it seems likely.....I do
> recall that 'Neasden's Queen Of Soul' (members outside the UK
> may not quite get that one) was very keen on hoovering.....she
> even did it in promo photos.....
Ah, yes, one of those is on the 7" sleeve of her single "Just
What I Always Wanted," my personal fave of all her singles and
probably the one that betrays the biggest Spectropop influence
-- I always thought that if Shelley Fabares were making singles
in the early '80s, they'd sound just like that, right down to
the weedy synth break and the fake horns. Mari's other big
single, "Beat the Beat," is gimmicky and wonderful as well.
The Compact Organisation (Mari's label...wasn't it owned by Tot
Taylor, ex-Advertising frontman and a solo artist who posited
himself as the return of Cole Porter?) was an odd lot, but I
recommend it for S-poppers with an interest in the tackier side
of UK early '80s pop, if for no other reason than the graphics,
which were dead-on approximations of early '60s sleeve design,
down to the hyperbolic liner notes.
As for Meri Wilson, you can find "Telephone Man" on Volume 21
of Rhino's indispensible HAVE A NICE DAY series. I was shocked
when I found this disc, as my friend Joyce had sung the song
for me some months or years earlier, insisting that this had
been an honest-to-goodness hit single when she was living in
Mississippi in the '70s. I'd thought she was just making it up
to yank my chain.
Last I heard of Mari Wilson, she was doing the theme song to the
okay-in-small-doses UK sitcom Coupling. Sounds very Peggy Lee-ish.
S
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 00:03:30 EDT
From: Will George
Subject: cataloging record collections
I'm sure there are many of you out there you have catalogued
vast collections of vinyl and CDs. I'm wondering if anyone can
recommend a good shareware (i.e. free) program that will do
that. I would like to have something that can pull from
categories (like if I wanted to see all my records from 1972,
it could find those, etc.) Is there any such program? Thanks
for the help.
Bill
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 00:33:03 -0400
From: Paul Payton
Subject: 3 quick comments
What a couple of posts from Charles Sheen! Would that some of
those acetates that disappeared could wind up in the hands of
some of members of this list. (Perhaps whoever made the
"disappear" discovered what they had and contacted someone who
understood their value; heck, stranger things have happened.)
John Rausch notes:
> [Donnie Iris'] "Agnes", great 80s synth "Popper". Kinda like
> a Shangs 80 style thing. Agnes was a waitress at a bar...Louie
> didn`t know she had a gun...well if ya know Red Bird melodrama,
> "Agnes" has it all.
Thanks - that was one of the titles I forgot. He certainly sang
songs about oddly-named ladies for the genre - Leah, Agnes - but
he had amazing talent. I thought he'd become another Springsteen
for a while there.
Phil Chapman, no wonder Tracy Ullman's "They Don't Know" was/is
so good! I learn more about the people on this list almost every
time, and most of it is amazing.
Country Paul
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 05:59:02 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Re: cataloging record collections
Hi Bill,
Did Microsoft Works come with your computer? That's what I use to
catalog my stuff. I use these categories: Song Title, Artist, Album,
Year, Label, Song Length, Lead-In Time (number of seconds at front of
song before singer comes in--lets you know when to shut up when you're
introducing a song)(I'm a DJ), Osbourne value, Goldmine value. Just a
click of the mouse to pull songs up by any of the above categories.
---Dan
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:51:05 -0400
From: Patrick Rands
Subject: re: Clinger Sisters
I am wondering if anyone can help me. I am looking for
recordings by the Clinger Sisters. Is there anyone who could
help me complete my collection with either a cd-r, mp3 or
cassette of any of the following songs? Or if you could sell me
the actual singles? Please let me know!
The Clinger Sisters 7"s
1. Shoop Shoop De Doop Rama Lama Ding Dong Yeah Yeah Yeah
2. The Lipstick Song
3. What Can I Give Him
4. Jingle Dingle Do
5. Puppet
6. Golly Mom
The Clingers 7"
9. Blackbird
10. Something in My Heart
I am having the hardest time finding the Clinger Sisters
singles. Please help me if you can - thank you!
Patrick
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:59:47 +0100
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: re: Soul Sisters
Tim must have seen the same tour I saw:
> ...I do remember that as the revolving stage took the DJ off, and
brought the Soul Sisters into view, one of the 'sisters'
stumbled and had to be steadied by one of the support band. Tim
NOW...remembering the size of the ladies, that's what I call a support
act!!!
Kingsley Abbott
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:07:21 -0000
From: Billy Spradlin
Subject: Re: Clinger Sisters
Patrick Rands wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone can help me...I am looking for recordings by the
> Clinger Sisters...cdr, mp3 or cassette...
I dont have any of her singles, but I do have the Cattanooga Cats
album on which Peggy appears (and did a fun little number called "My
Birthday Suit"!) I just copied it off to CD-R. A Medium grade copy on
Ebay is selling for 44 dollars..yikes!
Billy
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:24:25 -0000
From: Billy Spradlin
Subject: The Pirouettes - The Wrangler Stretch???
I was at a Goodwill thrift store in Lawton, OK last week (my mother
wanted to look for used romance paperbacks for grandma) and
discovered a 45 called "The Wrangler Stretch" by a group called The
Pirouettes. The 45 looks like a radio promo or giveaway to me, with a
small hole and the flip has a blank label with a instumental version
of the song. No record company except for the Blue Bell Inc (parent
company) logo. I almost passed it up thinking it was a country
sounding jingle but decided to get it anyway - it was only 10 cents!
The lead vocal sounds a lot like somone real familar to my ears - I
will post it when there is more space on musica. PS to all MP3
posters, only leave your songs online for 7 days, I believe that's
Yahoo's policy if you dont own the copyright...bla bla blah..
BTW By e-mail request I posted Cher's first single - Bonnie Jo Mason -
Ringo I Love You.
Billy
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:43:01 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Clinger Sisters
Patrick Rands wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone can help me...I am looking for recordings by
> the Clinger Sisters...cdr, mp3 or cassette...
Hi,
Patrick, about 7 of our English pounds, I'm informed, will get you a copy
of the 3CD box set "Chapel Of Love and other great girl group gems"
(Castle/Pulse PBXCD 353) containing the Clinger Sisters' "Shoop Shoop De
Doop Rama Lama Ding Dong Yeah Yeah Yeah", 59 other great tracks (19 of
'em new to CD) and a 3000+ word sleeve note. Cdr, MP3, cassette? Feh!
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 21:30:31 +0100
From: "Mick Patrick"
Subject: re: THE PIROUETTES
Original Message From: Billy Spradlin:
> I was at a Goodwill thrift store in Lawton, OK last week (my mother
> wanted to look for used romance paperbacks for grandma) and
> discovered a 45 called "The Wrangler Stretch" by a group called The
> Pirouettes. The 45 looks like a radio promo or giveaway to me, with a
> small hole and the flip has a blank label with a instumental version
> of the song. No record company except for the Blue Bell Inc (parent
> company) logo. I almost passed it up thinking it was a country
> sounding jingle but decided to get it anyway - it was only 10 cents!
> The lead vocal sounds a lot like somone real familar to my ears - I
> will post it when there is more space on musica.
Hi,
That was 10 cents well spent. I agree, the lead vocalist sounds like
someone famous, but I'll be buggered if I can put a name to the voice.
I would imagine she was a session-singing chum of the Sweet Inspirations.
Whatever, she's a chick with a great set of pipes.
The record exists in at least three different formats: the blank
label-flipped 7" you describe; a similar cardboard version featuring both
tracks on the face side and dance step illustrations printed on the
reverse; and a regular release on the Diamond label (D165) with "If You
See My Baby" as the A-side and "The Wrangler Stretch" as the flip. Both
tracks were produced by Jerry Ragovoy and written by Norman Meade (aka
Jerry Ragovoy) with Ben Raleigh.
What a nice fellow young Billy seems, escorting his Mom around the thrift
stores in search of Mills & Boone paperbacks for his grandma. He deserved
that 10 cent bargain and many more like it.
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:11:40 -0500
From: Tony Waitekus
Subject: RE: The Pirouettes - The Wrangler Stretch
I have "The Wrangler Stretch" too. I got it as a prize in a church fair
in the late 60's. I think this was a promotion having to do with
Wrangler jeans.
Tony Waitekus
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