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There are 22 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. The Liquid Room
From: David Ponak
2. Spector tale
From: John Rausch
3. The Gospellers
From: Bill Reed
4. Stereo Beatles
From: Alan Gordon
5. Flirtations for Wil
From: John
6. sad news
From: Alan Gordon
7. Mina, Love, radio, Who, and Marsha Brody
From: Country Paul
8. More Beatles
From: Alan Gordon
9. John Entwistle r.i.p.
From: Richard hattersley
10. the Beatles and the GGs
From: Patrick Rands
11. Marsha Brody
From: Simon White
12. Re: sad news
From: james botticelli
13. Mix Tape
From: Matt G
14. Soda Pop by Marsha (Not Eve Plumb!) Brody
From: Bob Rashkow
15. Gary Zekley/Clydie King
From: Jeffrey Glenn
16. The McKinleys
From: Ian Chapman
17. Beatles-inspired girls
From: Ian Chapman
18. Re: Mix Tape
From: Mark Frumento
19. Re: Soda Pop by Marsha (Not Eve Plumb!) Brody
From: james botticelli
20. Need some perspective
From: Justin McDevitt
21. Re: Mix Tape
From: james botticelli
22. Re: Capitol, from M Wirtz/New Voice Mysteries
From: Billy Spradlin
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:56:33 -0400
From: David Ponak
Subject: The Liquid Room
The Liquid Room, (usually) hosted by David Ponak (me), airs
every Saturday night from Midnight to 3AM (PDT) on 90.7FM KPFK
Los Angeles, as well as streaming at http://kpfk.org
This Friday, June 28th, Dougee Dimensional of Liquid Room staples
The Gentle People will be DJing here in Los Angeles.
Here's the scoop:
LEISURE
Friday, June 26 (and every FRIDAY) 10pm-2am, FREE!
@ Alto Palato - 755 N. La Cienega @ Waring
(Betw. Melrose & Santa Monica on the west side of the street)
RSVP to djsanto@transistorradio.com to insure easy entry...
The Liquid Room 6/23/02
I paid special tribute to the 60th birthday of Mr. Brian Wilson
on June 20 with 3 special sets.
1.The Association/Come On In
Birthday (WB)
2.The Ray Makers/Moonflower
Moonflower EP (Transistor)
3.Tom Jones/Promise Her Anything
The Burt Bacharach Collection (Rhino)
4.The Shins/Know Your Onion
Know Your Onion EP (Sub-Pop)
BW B-day set #1:
5.Beach Boys/Breakaway (Alternate Vers.)
Hawthorne California (Capitol)
6.Beach Boys/Solar System
Love You (Reprise)
7.Beach Boys/We'll Run Away
All Summer Long (Capitol)
8.Brian Wilson/Marketplace
Landy Locked (Geritol)
9.Beach Boys/Wind Chimes (Smile Version)
25 Years Of Good Vibrations (Capitol)
10.Beach Boys/Heroes & Villians
The Lei'd In Hawaii Rehearsals (Vigotone)
11.They Might Be Giants/Where Do They Make Balloons
No! (Rounder)
12.Julie Driscoll/Leaving It All Behind
1969 (One-Way)
13.Hooper/Milkee Lychee (???)
14.The Mamas & The Papas/Shooting Star
People Like Us (MCA)
15.David Bowie/Slip Away
Heathen (Sony)
16.Harpers Bizarre/The Biggest Night Of Her Life
Anything Goes (Sundazed)
17.Jaymz Bee And The Deep Lounge Coalition/Who Let The Dogs Out
Sub-Urban (Oglio)
18.John Zorn & Marc Ribot/Shaolin Bossa
Shaolin Ulysses: Kung Fu Monks In America (soundtrack) (unreleased)
BW B-Day set #2:
19.Beach Boys/Busy Doin' Nothing
Friends (Capitol)
20.Beach Boys/She's Got Rhythm
M.I.U. (Reprise)
21.Beach Boys/Kiss Me Baby
Today (Capitol)
22.Beach Boys/Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
Pet Sounds (Capitol)
23.Beach Boys/Surf's Up
Surf's Up (Reprise)
24.Jack Jones/Light My Fire
Where Is Love (RCA)
25.The Flaming Lips/One More Robot (Symphony 3000-21)
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (WB)
26.The Electric Prunes/General Confessional
Release Of An Oath (Reprise)
27.Beachwood Sparks/Ghost Dance 1492
Make The Cowboy Robots Cry (Sub-Pop)
28.Mum/Don't Be Afraid
Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
29.Quincy Jones w/the Morgan Ames Singers/Maybe Tomorrow
Resort+Music: Mediterranian Sea (Universal-Japan) (Thank you Kumi)
30.Papa Byrd/Pure Imagination
The Many Moods Of... (Transistor)
31.A Lonely Summer/Mieko Hirota
Good Night Tokyo (Readymade-Japan)
32.The Zodiac/Cancer
Cosmic Sounds Of The Zodiac (Elektra)
33.Stereo Total/L'Amour A 3
Musique Automatique (Bobsled)
34.It's My Party/Dusty
Can I Get To Know You Better (Mister Cat)
35.The Cyrkle/Squeeze Play
The Minx (soundtrack) (Flying Dutchman)
BW B-day set #3:
36.Beach Boys/Wonderful (Smile vers.)
25 Years Of Good Vibrations (Capitol)
37.Beach Boys/Mona
Love You (Reprise)
38.Beach Boys/Surfer Girl
Lost & Found (DCC)
39.Beach Boys/Matchpoint Of Our Love
M.I.U. (Reprise)
40.Beach Boys/The Lonely Sea
Surfin' U.S.A. (Capitol)
41.Brian Wilson/Love And Mercy
Live At The Roxy (Oglio)
42.Scott Walker/Only Myself To Blame
The World Is Not Enough (soundtrack) (MCA)
43.Hem/Lazy Eye
Rabbit Songs (Bar/None)
44.Boards Of Canada/Down Chorus
Geogaddi (Warp)
45.Roudoudou/Just A Place In The Sun
Just A Place In The Sun (Virgin-France)
46.Dengue Fever/Glass Of Wine (demo CD)
47.The Cryan Shames/Greenberg, Glickstein, David Smith & Jones
Synthesis (Sundazed)
48.Pink Martini/Song Of The Black Lizard
Lounge Story (Naive)
49.Marc Eric/California Home
A Midsummer's Day Dream (Revue)
50.The Ray Makers/What Would You Like To Play (Ursula 1000 Remix)
Moonflower EP (Transistor)
51.Paul Williams/Morning I'll Be Moving On
Someday Man (Reprise)
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:28:18 -0400
From: John Rausch
Subject: Spector tale
Hi all
A friend has sent me a link to an amusing interview/story type
audio file on the Phil Spector recording story of "River Deep
Mountain High".
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020626.atc.09.ram
I had to update my Real player before I could get the audio.
John Rausch
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:01:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Reed
Subject: The Gospellers
In case anyone cares (LOL) my attention has been
grabbed and subsequently throttled as of late by the
current top j-pop group in Japan, The Gospellers. For
quite some time now I have been aware of their
popularity but assumed they were just another pretty
boy band group in the vein of Smap or Tokio.
But a friend of mine in Japan whose judgement I trust
recommended them highly, and so I took a listen to
some downloaded tracks from the web. . .and I was
astonished at how good they are.
Essentially they are an acappella group, five Japanese
men in their mid-twenties, with some elements of
electronics and percussion added. There is a degree to
which they DO pander to teen tastes, with very slight
elements of rap and hip hop dropped into the mix. Also
I caught them on the weekly Japanese veriety show,
Music Fair, the other night, and they also have all
the boy band moves down pat. But the music is another
matter!
The Gospllers are simply all over the map
stylistically; and in fact, The Stylistics are the
group they most remind me of in terms of their basic
harmonies. And they do so sing some "Lonely Black Man"
type songs reminiscent of the Manhattans, Stylistics,
et al. But this is far from being just another decent
retro Doo-Wop group like the Nylons. Even though they
have not trafficked in jazz (yet!) I find the
Gospellers far more interesting than the Manhattan
Transfer
It is heartening to know that one of the most popular
music groups in the world today, is actually making
first rate music. Their biggest single yet, the ballad
"Promise," is entirely without instrumentation and
surely must be rank as one of the most beautiful
examples of vocal harmonization in a long while. The
much more modern Gospellers are not at all like The
Persuasions, but are certainly, even at their
relatively tender ages, in the same league
artistically as that venerated US group. (In fact, the
Persuasions are not really that old-fashioned, as you
might agree if you take a listen to their recent
wonderful "Persuasions Sing Frank Zappa" CD.)
Because I travel to and work in Japan, I am able to
get around some of the language and cultural barriers
that block much of the fine music being recorded and
performed there nowadays from crossing over to US
popularity. The tension between the relative richness
of the current pop music scene in that nation(Tatsuro
Yamashita, Eiichi Ohtaki, Motorharu Sano, Qypthone,
Pizzacatto Five, Love Psychedelico, Takahashi Mariko,
etc etc) and its lack of penetration into the west is
great indeed! I checked on the net and there are
probably more than a thousand pages devoted to The
Gospellers. Not a one in English, though.
Just like the US, the Japanese have more than their
fair share of musical garbage littered about their pop
music charts. Especially the dozens of replicate
groups cranked out with Frankensteinian regularity by
producer Tetsuya Komuo. Unlike the US and environs,
though, music of genuine artistry does manage to break
through there from time to time. Apparently, there is
even a degree of historical curiosity on the part of
Japanese listeners; i.e., there was a recent chart hit
there by the long-disbanded group, Folk Crusaders,
when a long-supressed single of thiers, more than
forty-years-old, Imogen Gawa, was released a few
months back.
I really can't think of any musical phenomenon in the
past few years in Japan that has piqued my interest
quite as much as the breakthrough of the Gospellers.
They are packaged as a group, superficially, like just
another boy band. TGOD, no nose rings, but the de
riguer hennaed and/or braided hair, etc. is all in
place. But just open your ears and listen and you'll
most likely be disabused of the Japanese Idol Singer
notion in no time flat.
When I first heard of the Gospellers I assumed from
their name that they had mistakenly appropriated it
from the English language as a way of connoting black
music. But in fact, I looked the word up and its
meaning is drawn from 14th century Christianity and
refers to a group of anti-papist rebels of the era, to
white, ones who kick over the traces. How terribly
erudite (and self-perceptive) of the Gospellers to
call themselves that! The name certain fits this
rebellious fivesome, who are, shaking up the Japanese
music scene like no one has managed to do in that
country since the coming of the group YMO in the
1970s.
As is ususally the case with Japanese imports, the
prices for their nine CD's are just way too
prohibitive for consummption on US shores at the
present time, but I predict that even though they do
not sing much in English, it won't be long before some
hip label picks The Gospllers up for distribution in
the West.
Bill Reed
communities.msn.com/nickdecaro
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:25:06 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Stereo Beatles
Jake wrote:
> One thing that has always got my goat is - when are EMI (or
> whoever it is nowadays) going to release the Beatles catalogue
> in mono? Those records patently DO NOT WORK IN STEREO.
Hi Jake:
i guess this was already dealt with, but...
i always liked having both the stereo and the mono versions of the beatles
stuff. you can hear cool different stuff with headphones. i'm hoping that
capitol blesses the rumours and releases "remixed" and remastered versions of
the early beatles albums. the remastered "yellow sub" album has fantastic
imaging because of the remixes. "hey bulldog" is incredibly clear... but, of
course, admittedly, the muffled original is the real thing.
and george martin says the beatles were there for most of the mono mixes thru
sgt. pepper, but never the stereo... even on pepper...
al babe
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 04:59:51 -0000
From: John
Subject: Flirtations for Wil
I purchased the Flirtations through either www.discol.com or
www.rockclassics.com. Both carry the harder to find girl groups. The
flirtations cd has 19 songs. It appears this was recorded in England,
as they were apparently bigger in the UK than the US. The liner notes
are pretty good and there are several pictures of the girls. The
label is Marginal Records. It appears this was released in 1995.
Hopefully one of the above mentioned sites still has them. Let me
recommend The Teardrops, a Cincinnati girl group from the 60's on
Saxony records. It, too, can be purchased at the web sites above. If
you're a true girl group fan, you gotta have this one. Great harmony.
A real 60's girl group sound!! By the way, does anyone know anything
about The McKinnleys? I heard they were from Scotland. Good heavens!
They sounded like the best of Phil Spector. Where did they record? I
can't imagine Scotland???
John
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:14:50 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: sad news
damn... John Entwistle died.
The Who forever!!!
al babe
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 02:00:21 -0400
From: Country Paul
Subject: Mina, Love, radio, Who, and Marsha Brody
Patrick Rands writes:
> Well since you brought up Mina the Italian singer I'd love to learn more
> about her. I have one not so good jazzy lp by her - but often have heard
> incredible tunes in 60s Italian films - and do have a track or two worth
> mentioning on Italian Graffiti compilations. Is she so hard to peg to a
> style or sound? Any albums worth getting on cd or record?
I've just got the one 45, 1960's "The World We Love In" - very pretty and
very grand Italian big pop production (meant in the best way - there is some
nifty pop our of Italy then and now). I never knew how major an artist she
is/was or isn't/wasn/t.....
Wow, groovy: Arthur Lee and Love are back touring this summer! Check out
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hektor/love/ for a fansite and
http://www.lovewitharthurlee.com/ for the "official" tour site and message
post. I gather it's Lee and a band, plus strings and horns, etc. A fan rave
and review of a concert is at http://www.geocities.com/tedkane/love.html.
(Thanks to my former radio buddy Stu Kaufperson for this info.)
Since we've discussed radio here, for our American members, Senator Russ
Feingold is smelling blood in the cross-ownership of radio stations and
cross-promotion with concerts whose promoters are also owned by the same
stations - and on and on. Salient quote: "Radio is one of the most important
mediums we have for exchanging ideas and expressing our creativity. I am
committed to fairness and competition and to ensuring that cross-ownership
of promotion services or venues is not used to hurt musicians, concert
promoters, or other radio stations." We'll see, Senator - and the plural of
"medium" is "media." His full text is here:
http://feingold.senate.gov/releases/02/06/062702medcon.html
I just heard that Who bassist John Entwistle died. Ouch! He and Townshend
were the two reasons I liked that group. I wish they hadn't taken that "Hope
I die before I get old" stuff so seriously....
Scopitone follow-up just in from Jennifer Sharpe:
> "This week's scopitone, Gale Garnett's "Where Do You Go To Go Away?", is
> available here: http://www.sharpeworld.com/weekly.html
Cool 45: Marsha Brody, "Soda Pop," Heart & Soul Records HS 101, 1967.
Produced by Cathy Lynn, arranged by Artie Schroeck. Sounds like a girl-group
take on "Cool Jerk." Also, it rocks. Anyone with more info that the label
gives? (And no, not Marcia Brady - is that how you spell it? I never did
watch that show....)
Outta here for a bit, will catch up soon.
Country Paul
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:06:07 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: More Beatles
From Richard Hattersley:
> "Rubber Soul" in stereo is like the first two albums which were recorded on
> 2 track.
Sorry if this has been covered and i haven't got to it yet, but:
The early stereo Beatle albums that I bought on Capitol had a split image
with the music on one channel and the vocals (with the monitors bleeding the
instrumentation into the vocal mikes( before the fab four used headphones))
on the other... so they were, at the very least, recorded on two tracks.
I'm not sure of this, but I've read that a lot of recording in the states in
the early sixties was done on a 3-track machine (?), but i think they were
using 2-track machines in England around that same time. Also, the USA had
eight tracks before Abbey Road Studios. In fact, I think it was Trident
studios in England that the Beatles recorded at one time because it had an
eight-track machine before Abbey Road Studios.
In Lewison's book, he mentions the Decca auditions being "recorded strictly
live onto two-track mono tape..." Lewison also mentions for his June 14,
1965 entry that during the recording of "Yesterday," that "the four-track
tape was set aside for completion..."
The great thing about the recent "Yellow Sub" soundtrack album is that all
the original tracks for those songs were transferred to a digital machine
and smpte synced (I assume it was smpte, or something like that) so that all
the original tracks were totally clean and first generation, as opposed to
being ping-ponged or bounced from 4 recorded tracks on one machine down to a
stereo image on another to give them two more tracks to record on. The
original way of "bouncing" added a generation each time it was "reduced" to
a new stereo image. Mr. Martin, being the consummate producer/engineer that
he is, could do this and get away with very little generation loss or hiss
by being very careful with saturation and db headroom. These originals had
to be "bounced" sometimes as many as 5 or 6 times (each time creating a new
stereo image) to get the desired open extra tracks. "Hey Bulldog" is
frighteningly "live" sounding on the new version. I assume this was what
Mr. Martin was trying to do to "refresh" the muddy sound on "Help" and
"Rubber Soul."
I hope this wasn't too redundant.
best stuff,
albabe
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:40:46 +0000
From: Richard hattersley
Subject: John Entwistle r.i.p.
Just heard this terrible news,John Enwistle of the Who has died.
Richard
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:33:28 -0400
From: Patrick Rands
Subject: the Beatles and the GGs
We recently had a discussion about the GG Beatles tribute songs
*and* the GG Beatles covers.
In between that discussion is the GG songs *inspired* by the
Beatles sound. To me this is slightly different than either of
the two categories previously discussed. The song however that
really catches my ear is the Cher song (Bonnie Joe Mason I
think it was released as) "Ringo I Love You" which was recently
posted in musica - this song has been ringing in my ears for
days - and in a good way mind you. It just so happens to be a
tribute and inspired by the fab four.
I recently got a very cute Clinger Sisters 45 with Golly Mom
b/w Puppet and it fits this category to my ears. So I'm
guessing that there was a short time in history (spring 1964?)
when GGs would go out of their way to do a fab-four-inspired-I
want-to-hold-your-hand kind of song. Is there anyway somebody
could shed some light on this inspired time period and cull
down the list of the Beatles tributes to the Beatles-inspired -
and what I mean here is a GG song *with* a Beatles guitar *or*
melody sound......I would so love to hear more of this type of
song - and it doesn't have to be about Ringo and the gang......
:Patrick
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:44:18 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Marsha Brody
Country Paul wrote:
> Cool 45: Marsha Brody, "Soda Pop," Heart & Soul Records HS 101,
> 1967. Produced by Cathy Lynn, arranged by Artie Schroeck. Sounds
> like a girl-group take on "Cool Jerk." Also, it rocks. Anyone
> with more info that the label gives?
"Soda Pop" is great!
Two others, although I know nothing about Marsha:
1 - "The Right Combination"/"I Cried"
[Cathy Lynn/P.Pott - Cathy Lynn/T.Kaye] prod by Cathy Lynn and
Artie Schroeck - Hot Shot Records HS 1000
"The Right Combination" is a big Motownesque production and was
extensively played on the Northern Soul scene. The flip is a girlie
jilted song with slightly eccentric back vocals.
2 - "Anything"/"Don't Tell Anyone" [Marcia Brody]
[B.Ross/J.L.Lambert - R.Ellis/E.Lewis/C.Gierlach] arr and
conducted by Milton Delugg - 20th Century 479.
Two nice girlie mid tempo things - the 'A' side has a tango feel
to it !
Hope this helps!
Simon
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:12:44 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: sad news
Alan Gordon wrote:
> damn... John Entwistle died.
He wrote "My Wife" didn't he? Its my favorite who song, well,
tied up with "Pictures of Lily"
--
Jimmy Botticelli
Taking The E-Z...Way Out!
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:25:07 -0400
From: Matt G
Subject: Mix Tape
Hey Everyone. I had to go to the SOURCE (That's you guys) to help
me with this one. It's kinda a stupid one, but I was wondering if
you guys had suggestions for a mix tape I can send to this girl.
I'm 18, and I wanted to send her a tape of all the best 60's
"Sunny sunday songs", you know, like music you listen to with the
top down going 50 with the sun blasting hard and the music blasting
harder. I wanted it to be songs that she primarily knows, like Supremes
or Temptations or Beach Boys, but also to get a little creative.
A mix tape is a big step, you know?
I'd be very happy to hear some of your comments or song ideas.
thanks a lot,
Matt
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:41:03 -0000
From: Bob Rashkow
Subject: Soda Pop by Marsha (Not Eve Plumb!) Brody
You know, Country Paul and Simon White have excellent taste. I have
been looking for "Soda Pop" by Marsha Brody which I have not heard
since the late 60s. Wish I could provide more information about her
or about the Heart & Soul label! Didn't know she did ANY other 45s,
this was exciting news. Cathy Lynn - didn't she have a recording
stint too? & suspect the B. Ross who co-wrote "Anything" is Brian
who produced The Music Machine. But why am I connecting J. Lambert
with Jerry Ross?? Am I mixed up or what here - wasn't there a Lambert
who either co-wrote or co-produced for Jay & The Techniques on
Smash??!! (Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell notwithstanding)
Bobster
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:56:31 -0700
From: Jeffrey Glenn
Subject: Gary Zekley/Clydie King
I'm gathering tracks for a 2-CD Don Grady/Gary Zekley (i.e. Yellow
Balloon-related) comp, and yesterday I found one of the most elusive
- Dick & Dee Dee's "Make Up Before We Break Up"/"Can't Get Enough
Of Your Love" (Warner Bros. 5860) for the very reasonable price of
$1.99. Both sides are produced, arranged, and cowritten by Zekley.
Many of you will know the B-side from the Varese Dick & Dee Dee
"Best Of..." CD, but "Make Up..." is even better - sounding like a
lighter version of the White Whale Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Spector/Righteous Brothers soundalikes.
Another track I'm looking for is Clydie King's "Missin' My Baby"
(Imperial 66139, 1965). I see it was reissued on LP on Kent's STAND
IN FOR LOVE v/a comp (Kent 056) which is now out-of-print. If anyone
has either the original 45 or the Kent LP, would they be able to play
this song to musica (as preferable a 160 kbps mp3)? It would be more
than greatly appreciated!
There are three other 45's I'm searching for which will complete the
comp, but I'll leave that for next time.
If anyone wants to see the proposed track listiing of the Zekley comp
(which also includes a handful of great tracks by The Visions and The
Clique before they were involved with Zekley) let me know and I can
post it.
Thanks!
Jeff
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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:54:52 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: The McKinleys
John asked:
> By the way, does anyone know anything
> about The McKinnleys? I heard they were
> from Scotland. Good heavens! They sounded
> like the best of Phil Spector. Where did they record?
> I can't imagine Scotland???
John,
The McKinleys were most definitely from Scotland, although they
didn't record there. They were sisters Jeannette & Sheila, from
Edinburgh. Although they missed out on the charts – God only knows
why - they had a reasonably high profile in the 60s. They cut four
singles, issued on Columbia & Parlophone in `64/'65, all fab – the
most Spectorish being "Someone Cares For Me". Like so many UK acts
of the time, they did the obligatory stint at the Star Club in
Hamburg and appeared on "Ready Steady Go!" In fact, there's a copy
in circulation on which they perform their blitzing "Sweet & Tender
Romance", looking every inch the trendy mods in their peaked caps.
They were signed to Iver productions, and associated with ace
songwriters John Carter & Ken Lewis, who wrote "Someone Cares For
Me". Although Terry Kennedy has been credited as the producer of
that track (he was head of Iver), Jeannette once told me that it was
actually Carter and Lewis who produced it. Their last UK 45, the
haunting "Give Him My Love" was co-written by Donovan, and covered in
the US by the Debs.
The girls returned to Germany in the late 60s and concentrated their
efforts there. They cut singles together and separately. Sheila had
some local hits – she did a nice German version of George
Harrison's "If Not For You". Sheila enjoyed further hits as one of
the mainstays of the Les Humphries Singers, who were hugely popular
in Europe. Jeannette scored a No.1 hit in Germany as half of the
duo Windows, with the song "How Do You Do".
Both Sheila and Jeannette now live in the UK. Sheila married
Merseybeat pioneer Howie Casey several years ago, following his split
from Barry St. John. They have a band and still perform regularly,
mostly abroad. Occasionally Sheila and Jeannette get together on
occasional projects, usually supplying background vocals.
Three of their 60s tracks - "Someone Cares For Me", "Sweet & Tender
Romance" and "Give Him My Love" recently appeared for the first time
on CD, on RPM's Dream Babes Vol. 3, "Backcomb 'n' Beat". It's My
Party recently revived "Someone Cares For Me" on their album.
Ian
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Message: 17
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 00:21:13 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Beatles-inspired girls
Patrick wrote:
> Is there anyway somebody could shed some light on this inspired
> time period and cull down the list of the Beatles tributes to the
> Beatles-inspired - and what I mean here is a GG song *with* a
> Beatles guitar *or* melody sound......I would so love to hear more
> of this type of song
Patrick,
These two you definitely need to hear:
Oma Heard's Great "Lifetime Man" on Motown's VIP label, the source
model for which is "Please Please Me", right down to the harmonicas
and the "ooooooh"s!
The Bootles "I'll Let You Hold My Hand" on Crescendo (or UK
Vocalion). Not, as you might expect, the Beatles song with a change
of lyric, but suffice to say it borrows heavily! Crescendo was a
West Coast label, and the Bootles are session gals. Hard to say
which permutation, but Darlene is definitely in there, maybe Merry
Clayton too.
Ian
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Message: 18
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:08:32 -0400
From: Mark Frumento
Subject: Re: Mix Tape
Matt G:
> I wanted to send her a tape of all the best 60's
> "Sunny sunday songs",
I place my vote for "Yellow Balloon" in keeping with the Gary
Zekley thread from earlier.
Just about any of the Turtles hits would fit nicely too.
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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:56:12 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Soda Pop by Marsha (Not Eve Plumb!) Brody
Bob Rashkow wrote:
> Cathy Lynn - didn't she have a recording
> stint too?
Assuming its the same Cathy Lynn, spelled Kathy Lynn (& The Playboys),
I have in my magic rock box 'o' 6T's pop rock 45's a 7 incher on Swan
called "Rock City"...standard, Link Wray derivative 1-4-5 guitah
instro-rocker
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Message: 20
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:42:41 -0500
From: Justin McDevitt
Subject: Need some perspective
Hi Spectropoppers,
It's been a while since I posted a message to the list, though
I've enjoyed reviewing the various topics over the last few weeks;
particularly the Fade-out song discussions.
Since joining Spectropop last December, there have been a number
of postings regarding Eternity's Children and the Millenium CD
collection. As it happens, a local record shop (one of the best,
if not the best in the Twin Cities) has a copy of a 25-song comp
of Eternity's Children tracks which, I believe, are from their
original first and second LP's. Prior to reading about this group
on Spectropop, I had never heard any of their music, which falls
into the genre of Psych-pop, even Sunshine pop, in reference to
comments of various Spectropop members.
I'm debating whether to buy this compilation and would appreciate
some perspective on this group, the quality of their music, harmonies,
melodies, instrumentation etc.
Secondly, I was perusing Amazon.com the other day and came across
four CD's by Millenium, "Angel Fire" being the first CD on this list.
For clarification, was Millenium an actual group that formed at some
point in time, or was it a collection of studio musicians put together
by Kurt Boetcher?
As I recall from past postings to Spectropop, The "Angel Fire" CD in
particular received high marks. Again, I would appreciate some insight
about this group and their sound as well as some recommendations
regarding which one of their CD's would be a good initial starting point,
in getting acquainted with this group.
I'm sure I'll receive some good input. Feel free to contact me offline,
or post to the list, as you choose.
Yours in peace,
Justin McDevitt
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Message: 21
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:02:52 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Mix Tape
Mark Frumento wrote:
> Matt G:
>> I wanted to send her a tape of all the best 60's
>> "Sunny sunday songs",
>
> I place my vote for "Yellow Balloon" in keeping with the Gary
> Zekley thread from earlier.
>
> Just about any of the Turtles hits would fit nicely too.
A real top-downer for me is "The Happening" by the Supremes. Also,
"We Can Fly" by the Cowsills. Not exactly obscure but I don't think
the young man--born in 1984--is necessarily looking for obscurities.
He'd be happy with hits I think..For him I would also recommend the
5 volume Sunshine Pop compilations on Varese Sarbande. A good combo
pack of nice hits and lesser known dusties. Make two tapes, one of
the hits, one of the misses.
Then ask her to be your Mrs.~ Ba-Da-Bapppp!
--
Jimmy Botticelli
Taking The E-Z...Way Out!
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Message: 22
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 06:49:29 -0000
From: Billy Spradlin
Subject: Re: Capitol, from M Wirtz/New Voice Mysteries
Leonardo Flores wrote:
> Both "Teenage Opera" and Tomorrow's "White Bicycle" were
> released on Bob Crewe's 'New Voice' label, Catalog # 825
> and 827 respectively. The "Teenage Opera" single is not too
> difficult to locate but I have never seen "White Bicyle" 45
> even offered up for sale, and I believe the rarest release
> on the label.
Were these New Voice 45's distrubuted by Bell/Mala or by Dot?
Thanks for the information
Billy
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