Spectropop - Digest Number 503

• From: Spectropop Group
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002

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                        Jamie LePage (1953-2002)
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There are 5 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Re: Lee Hazlewood Documentary
           From: Kim Cooper 
      2. Hazlewood, King, Spree
           From: Paul Payton 
      3. RE: Hazlewood, King, Spree
           From: Keith Beach 
      4. Piglets/Wendy Richard/Barbara Kay
           From: Ian Chapman 
      5. Re: Barbara Kay
           From: Norman 


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Message: 1
   Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:29:16 -0700
   From: Kim Cooper 
Subject: Re: Lee Hazlewood Documentary

I'd sure like to know more (or, heck, anything!) about Suzi 
Jane Hokum, the young lady who had some involvement with Lee 
in the LHI era and did that great turn as a psychedelic Dorothy 
on "The Wozard of Iz."

Kim
--
Scram
PO Box 461626
Hollywood, CA 90046-1626
http://www.scrammagazine.com
out now, Scram 15--unpublished Gary Usher interview, Langley Schools Music
Project, Brute Force, Daniel Clowes, and more.



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Message: 2
   Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:42:17 -0400
   From: Paul Payton 
Subject: Hazlewood, King, Spree

To "finalrinse" re: Lee Hazlewood documentary: good luck. I 
e-mailed you off list as well, but salient names I'd like to 
see and hear from (if they're still alive) include Lester Sill, 
Sanford Clark, Duane Eddy, Al Casey, Suzi Jane Hokom, Phil 
Spector re: Spectors 3, and of course Nancy Sinatra. Maybe Virgil 
Warner, too - a superb country voice from the LHI Records days 
(nice duet with Suzi Jane on "Storybook Children").

A cursory tour of Jonathan King's website, http://www.kingofhits.com/
leaves me amazed. To Americans, he was a respected producer and 
a one-hit wonder. If his raves in his notes about his forthcoming 
8-CD box set are any indication, his must be quite the body of work. 
Any UK members with first-hand insight? (I'm not up on the sex 
scandal part, but I gather from a few of the posts that King's 
attitude toward whatever happened, as reflected in the tone of his 
own writings on the site, must have been like pouring gasoline on 
an already raging fire. My favorite diatribe posted on the site 
seems worthy of a Bulwer-Lytton Prize, whether or not you agree 
with "Johnny Reggae", its author. In its entirety: "This website 
perfectly encapsulates the pomposity and arrogance of King. 
Everything that is vacuous and loathsome about him is succinctly 
presented here for all the world and a plethora of psychiatrists 
to marvel at. As daft as a twenty foot tall chicken on acid but 
nowhere near as entertaining, the ludicrously unattractive JK still 
apparently clucks forth his own special brand of egocentric nonsense 
as if from beyond the grave.")

Beatle Bob wrote:
> Best way to pull up the Polyphonic Spree website is to just type in 
> their name on the search mode....I too had problems getting their 
> site up by searching their http://www.thepolyphonicspree.com mode, 
> which when you pressed the click to start it remained on the same page.

Use MSN's search engine - Yahoo just takes you to the click-here 
purgatory of the main site's opening page. Unfortunately, the 
"listening area" of Radio Good wouldn't open, either. Is this group 
destined to be just a rumor?

Country Paul



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Message: 3
   Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:56:44 +0100
   From: Keith Beach 
Subject: RE: Hazlewood, King, Spree

> but salient names I'd like to 
> see and hear from (if they're still alive) include Lester Sill, 
> Sanford Clark, Duane Eddy, Al Casey, Suzi Jane Hokom, Phil 
> Spector re: Spectors 3, and of course Nancy Sinatra>

Unfortunately Lester Sill is no longer with us. I had the good 
fortune to sit in on an interview with him in the late 70's. 
Fascinating man.I'll try and dig out the transcript of the 
interview to see if we discussed Lee Hazlewood.

Keith Beach



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Message: 4
   Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:25:58 -0000
   From: Ian Chapman 
Subject: Piglets/Wendy Richard/Barbara Kay

Norman wrote:
 > Apparently, Wendy Richard(s) only got paid a fee for her 
> contribution to the recording.  She can be heard, of course, on
> Mike Sarne's "Come Outside". She later became known from her roles 
> in 'Are You Being Served' and 'Eastenders' on British TV.

Although the vocal on "Johnny Reggae" and that of Wendy Richards 
on "Come Outside" emanate from the same gene pool of chirpy cockneys, 
it was actually Barbara Kay who was the voice of the Piglets. She 
had a few solo releases on Pye in the 60s (the best to be found 
amongst Mick and Malcolm's "Here Come The Girls" series for Sequel). 
Barbara was a UK session stalwart, hence the flat fee for that record.

The only records Wendy Richard made were all comedy duets.  The 
aforementioned "Come Outside" with Mike Sarne; a duet with a friend, 
Diana Berry, "Keep 'Em Looking Around" on Decca in '63; and a 1986 
remake of "Come Outside" with Mike Berry.

(Footnote of interest to St. Etienne fans:  Diana Berry is the mother 
of Sarah Cracknell)

Ian



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Message: 5
   Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 08:20:47 +0930
   From: Norman 
Subject: Re: Barbara Kay

Ian Chapman wrote:
> Although the vocal on "Johnny Reggae" and that of Wendy Richards 
> on "Come Outside" emanate from the same gene pool of chirpy cockneys, 
> it was actually Barbara Kay who was the voice of the Piglets. 

Thanks for putting me straight.  Not that I play the song much these days. 
But in future I won't picture Wendy doing the vocal.

Norman






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