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There are 20 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Hazlewood, King, Spree
From: "beatle bob"
2. One Tin Soldier
From: Will George
3. Popcorn Oldies Show - Sat June 15th
From: Mike Edwards
4. Re: Crystals - Gee Whiz
From: billy spradlin
5. Williams Bros/ Varese Sarabande/The Peels
From: Guy Lawrence
6. American Studios
From: Will George
7. Andy & David Williams
From: Norman
8. Re: Andy & David Williams
From: Jeffrey Glenn
9. Andy Kim/Crystals/Linda Scott
From: Don Charles
10. For those who might know...
From: Mark Wirtz
11. Re: One Tin Soldier
From: Dan Hughes
12. Re: One Tin Soldier
From: Paul Richards
13. Re: Sandy Posey
From: Davie Gordon
14. Re: Andy & David Williams
From: Mikey
15. Re: Jack Gold
From: Davie Gordon
16. Re: report on requested label credits
From: Davie Gordon
17. Re: American Studios
From: Peter Lerner
18. Re: American Studios
From: Mikey
19. Otis Blackwell
From: The Spectropop Team
20. Re: Sandy Posey
From: Phil Milstein
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:04:49 +0000
From: "beatle bob"
Subject: Re: Hazlewood, King, Spree
Paul,
Got hold of the guy who creates the Polyphonic Spree website you have been
having trouble getting on you're scree. He told me to tell you to try this:
http://www.thepolyphonicspree.com/main.html
Good luck,
Beatle Bob
>From: Paul Payton
>Reply-To: spectropop@yahoogroups.com
>To:
>Subject: Spectropop - Hazlewood, King, Spree
>Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:42:17 -0400
>
>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: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:13:25 EDT
From: Will George
Subject: One Tin Soldier
Can someone please clear something up for me that I've wondered
about for years? The song "One Tin Soldier" from the film The
Legend of Billy Jack was recorded by a group called Coven. I
have the single. But when I bought the single when I was a kid,
both me and my sister could have sworn that the version we heard
on the radio was by a different group. I've never been able to
find any trace of another version of this song. Does anyone know
the recording history of this Lambert-Potter tune? Additionally,
does anyone have any info on Coven? Thanks in advance.
Bill
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:30:10 -0000
From: Mike Edwards
Subject: Popcorn Oldies Show - Sat June 15th
The Popcorn Oldies Show originally broadcast on Saturday June 15th
(Radio 192 from Hilversum, Holland) is available for "streaming" at
the Popcorn Oldies website:
http://users.pandora.be/popcornoldies/html/radio.htm
Theo Dumoulin put together a quality playlist that includes:
Dusty Springfield/Long After Tonight Is All Over (Philips, 1965)
Nancy Wilson/Where Does That Leave Me (Capitol, 1965)
Karen Kelly/Don't Let The Hurt Show Through (Sound Stage 7, 1964)
P J Proby/Good Things Are Coming My Way (Liberty, 1967)
Verdelle Smith/A Piece Of The Sky (Capitol, 1966)
Sammy Turner/Raincoat In The River (Big Top, 1961)
Theo is giving us Phil Spector, Van McCoy, Bacharach-David in a one-
hour show. It is well worth checking out. If you have Real One
software, all you have to do is click "listen" when you arrive at the
URL.
I would be very interested to see other members' comments about the
popcorn genre.
Mike Edwards
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:32:11 -0000
From: billy spradlin
Subject: Re: Crystals - Gee Whiz
Gee Whiz Phil - I'd give it an educated guess and say the Crystals'
version came first just on hearing it. It sounds much more primitive
than "Zip A Dee Doo Dah". I love those vibes and the accapella
opening - shows that Phil was really listening to those George
Goldner doo-wop productions.
I always thought "Twist Uptown" was issued in mono only. I bet
Spector had a fit when he heard what the Capitol record club did to
his mono masters with the "Screw-O-Phonic" process.
BTW theres a copy of this album selling on E-bay - opening price $99!
Billy
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:03:39 -0700
From: Guy Lawrence
Subject: Williams Bros/ Varese Sarabande/The Peels
Just been over to the Varese Sarabande site to check out
the Williams Brothers CD.
http://www.varesesarabande.com/default.asp
Notice they've got a pretty good collection of novelty hits
coming out too, featuring our old friends the Peels.
They've also got some interesting looking new CDs by Dean
Torrence and Freddy Cannon. Anyone got these yet?
What are they (and the Williams Bros) like?
Regards,
Guy Lawrence
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:24:18 EDT
From: Will George
Subject: American Studios
I'm trying to compile a CD of great tracks recorded at Memphis'
American Studios. I know of Elvis' recordings, "Dusty In Memphis",
Jackie DeShannon's "Jackie", and Brenda Lee's "Memphis Portrait".
Can anyone offer some more great recordings in the same genre?
Thanks again.
Bill
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:54:03 +0930
From: Norman
Subject: Andy & David Williams
Re: Jeffrey Glenn
> I'm guessing your sister saw them when they appeared on
> The Partridge Family (Episode 88: "Two For The Show"
> ... Does this sound right?
Actually, after your info I think I may have seen that
episode! I reckon you are spot on, that would have to be
where she saw them.
Norman
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:22:32 -0700
From: Jeffrey Glenn
Subject: Re: Andy & David Williams
Mikey asked:
> Jeff, what the name of this CD that Varese issued?
Mikey, it's THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS: ANDY & DAVID - a complete
unreleased LP from about 1974 (forget which label Cary
Mansfield told us it was for, and I don't have the liner
notes here). There were three 45s issued (one of which was
"What's Your Name"/"Say It Again"); all the single sides are
here, plus the rest of the tracks from the unreleased LP.
Good 70's lightweight fluff!
Check out
http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=302%2D066%2D350%2D2
for more details.
Jeff
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:43:53 +0000
From: Don Charles
Subject: Andy Kim/Crystals/Linda Scott
On Andy Kim's "Baby, I Love You" Jeannie Thomas and Ellie Greenwich
were the backing voices. On at least one of Andy's other Steed
sessions (she doesn't recall which), Donna Marie of The Archies sang
background with Miss Ellie. Oddly enough, they never sang together on
Archies records, though.
La La Brooks' dynamite performance on "Gee Whiz" is one of my all-time
favorite Crystals performances, as well as one of Phil Spector's most
dazzling productions. I'd kill to hear it in stereo, and I can't
understand why it's never been reissued.
Thanks, Spectropoppers, for the info regarding Linda Scott's cover of
"You, Baby". Another of my all-time favorites.
Stuffed Animal
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:50:44 EDT
From: Mark Wirtz
Subject: For those who might know...
I met Kim Fowley in London in 1965. As many of you know, Kim
and I have had since then enjoyed a long, if at times sporadic,
friendship as well as professional relationship (Kim notably
inspired the "Teenage" in Teenage Opera). And that brings me
to a curiosity question that has intrigued me for a long time:
Through the years, I have been told on many occasions that Rodney
Bingenheimer was the "original," whom Kim merely emulated. Others
insist to the contrary. Since I had no personal knowledge of Kim
prior to 1965 (other than by way of his stories), do any of you
have any firsthand information that might put this question to
rest (or perhaps start a battle, LOL)? I would appreciate your
response greatly.
Kim, by the way, is alive, happy and active as ever (in all
departments, ahem, ahem, ahem) as the eternal "bad boy" teenager,
living in a house in the California desert, one hand holding the
phone, the other hand... nevermind,
LOL.
Best,
Mark (Wirtz)
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:27:22 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Re: One Tin Soldier
Hi Bill,
A Canadian quintet called the Original Caste did the original
version of One Tin Soldier, and it peaked at #34 in Billboard
in Feb 1970. This must be the version you remember. Lead vocal
was by a girl named Dixie Lee Innes.
The song was picked up as the theme for the movie BILLY JACK a
year later, and the movie version (and subsequent hit single)
was done by the Coven. That version peaked at #26 in Nov 1971.
Jinx Dawson was the lead vocalist.
Yer welcome,
--Dan
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:55:49 -0000
From: Paul Richards
Subject: Re: One Tin Soldier
Will George wrote:
> Can someone please clear something up for me that I've wondered
> about for years? The song "One Tin Soldier" from the film The
> Legend of Billy Jack was recorded by a group called Coven. I
> have the single. But when I bought the single when I was a kid,
> both me and my sister could have sworn that the version we heard
> on the radio was by a different group. I've never been able to
> find any trace of another version of this song. Does anyone know
> the recording history of this Lambert-Potter tune?
I've got 2 versions of 'One Tin Soldier', the version you must have
heard on the radio was by 'The Original Caste' on Bell.I don't know
much about them, nice harmony bubblepop with a good b-side 'Live for
Tomorrow'. I've also got another single by them'Highway/Mr
Monday', which is also really good. I'd love to hear more of their
stuff. The other version of 'One Tin soldier'I have is by Karen Young
on UK MajorMinor. Great song.
Paul R
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:07:45 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Re: Sandy Posey
Patrick Rands wrote:
> Sandy Posey recorded some early sides under the following names:
> Sandy Carmel, Betty York, Betty Richards, Sherry York, or as Sandy
> Does anyone have these 45s, have any thoughts on them?
> Also if anyone has Sandy Posey's
> Italian language recordings, I'd love to know, thank you so much!
Patrick,
Verrrry interesting , here we go
Hit 174 Betty York - "Downtown"
(b-side is by the Chords )
Hit 206 Sherry Young - "Goldfinger"
(b-side by Fred Hess)
Hit 238 Betty York - "My Love"
(b-side by Bobby & Buddy)
Hit 241 Betty Richards - "These Boots Are Made For Walking"
(b-side by the Chellows)
Hit 254 Betty Richards - "How Does That Grab You Darling"
(b-side by the Chords )
Hit 274 Sherry Young - "Single Girl"
(b-side by Connie Dee )
Hit as you probably know was a Nashville based "ghost" label
producing quick cover versions of hits for sale in supermarkets
etc. What's especially interesting is 274 where Sandy "covers"
her own hit - wonder if Chips Moman knew about this ?
Rising Sons 709 Sandy
"Love On A Mountain Top"/"My Rainbow Valley"
both Buzz Cason - Mac Gayden songs originally by
Robert Knight on Rising Sons. Presumably also
produced by them.
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:27:58 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Andy & David Williams
Jeffrey Glenn:
> Mikey, it's THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS: ANDY & DAVID
Thanks Jeff, I checked it out, looks like fun!!!
Your Friend,
Mikey
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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:10:38 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Re: Jack Gold
Patrick Rands wrote:
> Speaking of Jack Gold, he put out a version of the song "Summer
> Symphony" (under the name the Jack Gold Sound), which Lesley
> Gore also did. Does anyone know if he recorded any other
> singles?
I've seen around six Jack Gold singles singles listed - three on
Ascot and another three on Columbia. Gold left United Artists for
Columbia around late '69 and produced a lot of their MOR acts.
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Message: 16
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:55:16 -0000
From: Davie Gordon
Subject: Re: report on requested label credits
David A Young wrote:
> writer credits for The Sequins' "I'll Be
> Satisfied" on A&M.......Pipkin/Holloway/Holloway.
Thanks David
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Message: 17
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:18:00 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: American Studios
Will George:
> I'm trying to compile a CD of great tracks recorded at Memphis'
> American Studios. I know of Elvis' recordings, "Dusty In Memphis",
> Jackie DeShannon's "Jackie", and Brenda Lee's "Memphis Portrait".
> Can anyone offer some more great recordings in the same genre?
How about Merrilee Rush's "Angel Of The Morning" and the album of
the same name, produced by Tommy Cogbill and Chips Moman, which
includes some other great Dan Penn, Chip Taylor, Joe South and
Donna Weiss songs? And what about the Box Tops?
Peter
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Message: 18
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:46:34 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: American Studios
Will George:
> I'm trying to compile a CD of great tracks recorded at Memphis'
> American Studios.
Will, dont forget "Keep On Dancing" by The Gentrys....the song
with the best all time fade out and back in of all time!!!
Frug, kids, Frug!!!
Your Friend,
Mikey
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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:40:19 +0100
From: The Spectropop Team
Subject: Otis Blackwell
Otis Blackwell
Legendary songwriter Otis Blackwell, author of, amongst many others,
"Don't Be Cruel", "Great Balls Of Fire", "Handy Man" and "Fever",
has died. Otis was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1991,
but in the same year he suffered a stroke. He later moved to Nashville
where he passed away in May.
For a full obituary: http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/OBobit.htm
Please do read it.
The Spectropop Team
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Message: 20
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:13:02 +0000
From: Phil Milstein
Subject: Re: Sandy Posey
Davie Gordon wrote:
> Hit 274 Sherry Young - "Single Girl"
> (b-side by Connie Dee )
> Hit as you probably know was a Nashville based "ghost" label
> producing quick cover versions of hits for sale in supermarkets
> etc. What's especially interesting is 274 where Sandy "covers"
> her own hit - wonder if Chips Moman knew about this ?
That's a new one on me, an artist recording a budget knockoff of
their own hit! One could argue that rerecording one's own hits for
a faux "greatest hits" album falls within the same category, but
at least there the artist is trading on his own name/fame, rather
than hiding behind a typical ghost-label pseudonym. On the other
hand, I wonder if it's possible that Hit may have somehow reused
the original recording.
Mark Wirtz wrote:
> Kim, by the way, is alive, happy and active as ever (in all
> departments, ahem, ahem, ahem) as the eternal "bad boy" teenager,
> living in a house in the California desert, one hand holding the
> phone, the other hand... nevermind,
The latest issue of Ugly Things features an amazing cover interview
with Kim, reviewing his entire career chronologically via name-dropping
anecdotes. Must reading for any fan of his music and/or his schtick. In
the unlikely event that your local grocer fails to carry UT, visit
http://www.ugly-things.com/current.html for ordering information.
--Phil Milstein
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