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There are 15 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. LEAD ME TO THE GALLOWS
From: Mike Rashkow
2. Million Dollars Worth of Girl Groups"
From: Bill Reed
3. Jangle Radio Update
From: Billy G Spradlin
4. Million Dollars Worth of Girl Groups
From: simon white
5. Orchids
From: Barry Green
6. "Walk Tall" by the 2 of Clubs
From: Will Stos
7. Thank you x 2
From: Country Paul
8. Keith Green Single
From: Ron Weekes
9. Re: "Walk Tall" by 2 Of Clubs
From: Jeffrey Glenn
10. Re: The Orchids, Marcie Blane, Hoffman, Klein and Holtzman
From: Ian Slater
11. CD Duplication
From: Mark Frumento
12. Re: THE ORCHIDS
From: Mick Patrick
13. Re: Bobby Jameson
From: Peter Lerner
14. Re: Patty Loveless
From: Peter Lerner
15. Re: Million Dollars Worth of Girl Groups
From: Jan Kristensen
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 19:43:38 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: LEAD ME TO THE GALLOWS
Dear Poppers,
I've had little to offer and little to say of late. It could be
that I'm out of information and ideas. It could be that I've
become disenchanted. It could be that there is a recent trend
toward areas about which I have not a great deal of interest.
It could be the seven month itch. It could be anything.
Well, boys and girls, as far as I can tell what is going on in
this pea brain of mine is that in the past six months or so I've
taken a left. I've always listened to a broad range of music.
There have been periods of jazz only, country only, oldies only,
big band, and various combinations of those genres.
Though I know I am going to be shunned, I have become fixated on
a whole lot of "new grass" - acoss the board, including Ricky
Scaggs, Del McCourey, Jerry Douglas and of course, The Soggy
Bottom Boys. Now I find my ears, my head and my heart all belong
to two girls that are way too contemporary to be discussed on this
site without inviting the charge of sacrilege.
Alison Krauss and Patty Loveless.
I believe they are the two best voices in the US today. One soft,
silky and seductive, the other crisp and cutting and crystalline.
I believe they are making outstanding records. Anathema you say.
Well maybe so.
At the risk of being excommunicated, I must recommend to all:
Mountain Soul, CD by Patty Loveless.
I've been listening to it for a month and it still sounds great.
"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" is as good a piece of music as
I've ever heard.
As far as Alison Krauss - you don't win all those Grammys without
being the real thing. Plus she is soome kind of fiddler and has
stuck with the boys what brung her.
Anyone wish to offer anything back on this musical crisis.
If not, lead me to the gallows
Rashkovsky
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:39:21 -0000
From: Bill Reed
Subject: Million Dollars Worth of Girl Groups"
Thinking that there might be a hidden, unearthed jewel included,
I picked up "Million $'s" yesterday. I was intrigued by the fact
that I had not heard of a single one of the thirty girl groups
listed on the back i.e. Terri and the Velveteens, The Taylortops,
The Shondelles and so on. You know how seductive that can be.
And if that turned out not to be the case, at least the liner
notes might be somewhat informative, I finally reasoned as my
excuse for plunking down 6.47 for a pig in a poke. But in both
instances, my surmises proved incorrect. A couple of the tracks
held up for a listen or two, but mostly the proceedings are
fairly woebegone.
All that the liner notes provided was the rather amusing notion
that, "If you had a million dollars to spend on purchasing the
original 45's of these recordings, you still couldn't buy them
all." That dubious statement was more or less shot down when,
upon arriving home, I checked through my fairly extensive reference
library, including various price guides, and could find only one of
the thirty listed, "Drip-Drop" by the Deb-Teens. And then only
because it qualified for inclusion on a rock and roll nonsense
lyrics web site.
Anyone else on the list ever come across this collection which DOES
function as a mildly fascinating look at what sub (or just barely)
pro, regional r&r recording of the late 50s and early 60s sounded
like?
During that era there must have been thousands of singles just such
as these that flooded the bins of Hometown USA. By the way. . .this
is said to be only V.1!!!! I CAN hardly wait for v.2.
Bill Reed
http://communities.msn.com/nickdecaro
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:56:46 -0000
From: Billy G Spradlin
Subject: Jangle Radio Update
Hi Everyone:
Live365 is now asking every broadcaster 5.00 bucks a month to
cover the copyright payments to the RIAA.
I think it's a rip-off (though Live365 needs the money) I feel
that non-commercial, non-profit netcasts like mine as well as
college or community FM stations who netcast should be able to
do it for (almost) free. But the greedy bastards of the RIAA
got their way (though they are still b*tching that 7 cents per
song per 100 users is still not enough $$$ for them!).
I run 4 stations on Live365, and right now I'm paying $5.00
for "advanced user stats" and 100kb extra space for Jangle Radio's
56K stereo stream and I was planning to do the same for 60's Jangle
Radio - but I may have to drop the 33k Mono stream or Spectropop's
"Girlpop" station (all 60's girl groups) to keep payments under
$20 a month.
I would really hate to do this, so if anyone wants to donate
funds via Paypal to keep Girlpop on the air (and to keep Live365
in business) please e-mail me privately.
Thanks
Billy
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:46:55 +0100
From: simon white
Subject: Million Dollars Worth of Girl Groups
There's also a series 'Million Dollars of Doo Wop'
The first two volumes are now rare in their own right!
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:54:04 EDT
From: Barry Green
Subject: Orchids
Mick Patrick:
> Holtzman was despatched to England where he produced the
> first single by legendary Coventry girl group, the one and
> only Orchids.
Hi Mick,
Are the Orchids' tracks produced by
Andrew Loog Oldham on any of the Girl Group
CD's currently available ?
Were they originally released on Decca ?
All the best
Barry
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:43:15 -0000
From: Will Stos
Subject: "Walk Tall" by the 2 of Clubs
I've heard about this record ["Walk Tall" by the 2 of Clubs]
from several people now, but I've never heard the actual recording.
Is it available on CD anywhere - and if not, would some kind
Spectropopper be able to post it to musica?
Will : )
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:29:33 -0400
From: Country Paul
Subject: Thank you x 2
Steve Crump, thank you for the Mina website,
http://www.minamazzini.com. You must know Italian - I don't,
but it looks very cool. Happily, lots of it is intuitive enough
to make a visit worthwhile.
Rex Strother: thanks for the answer to my question: FYI, what I
heard was Suzanne Vega's "In Liverpool" from 99.9 Degrees.
More soon....
Country Paul
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:31:27 -0600
From: Ron Weekes
Subject: Keith Green Single
I'm trying to find a copy (preferably on CD-R, or a clean mp3 file) of Keith
Green's third single that was arranged and produced by Gary Usher. If anyone
on the list can help me out, please email me privately at weekesr@byui.edu
The single is "You're What's Happening Baby" b/w "Home Town Girls". It was
released on Decca on June 6, 1966. For some reason this single is very hard to
find.
Thanks,
Ron Weekes
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:33:21 -0700
From: Jeffrey Glenn
Subject: Re: "Walk Tall" by 2 Of Clubs
Wil Stos wrote:
> I've heard about this record ["Walk Tall" by the 2 of Clubs] from several
> people now, but I've never heard the actual recording. Is it available on CD
> anywhere - and if not, would some kind Spectropopper be able to post it to
> musica?
As far as I know (and I did a web search to verify) this isn't on a legit
CD - at least not one that's currently available.
I've played it to musica.
Here are the full credits from the 45:
Walk Tall (Vance-Pockriss) - 02 Of Clubs, Fraternity F 975: 1967, Produced by
Carl Edmondson, Supervision: Bill Stith
Enjoy!
Jeff
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:28:26 +0100
From: Ian Slater
Subject: Re: The Orchids, Marcie Blane, Hoffman, Klein and Holtzman
Thanks Mick for bringing another mention of my current heart-throbs, the UK
Orchids, aka the Exceptions. I'd seen the credits "Hoffman, Klein" and
"Marvin Holtzman" on "Larry", the flip of their third record to be issued,
and Marvin also produced ""Don't Make Me Mad" the flip of "Love Hit Me",
their second release. Great to see the indirect link with Marcie Blane,
another of my favourites, confirmed.
Perhaps "Larry" was a tribute to the Orchids' mentor Larry Page
(http://www.centrohd.com/biogra/p1/larry_page_b.htm), later to assume great
success with the Kinks, but in 1963 the manager of the Orchid Ballroom (now
the Colosseum Club) in Primrose Hill St. Coventry where he discovered the
Orchids and sought to put his adopted city on the musical map.
I'm doing some research on the Orchids and related artists at the moment
from local sources, being a girl group nutter based in the English Midlands,
so I should be able to add extra bits to the excellent articles already
posted by Ian Chapman (in Spectropop girl group listings) and Bruce Eder (
http://allmusic.com/ > Search "Orchids" > "Orchids 60s"), but Bruce has
named the youngest of the group as Pamela Oliver - she was Pamela Jarman.
Work is getting in the way of more interesting activities at present
though...
Ian Slater
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:22:30 -0000
From: Mark Frumento
Subject: CD Duplication
Can anyone recommend a short run CD duplication firm? I've found some
companies on the Web but prices vary and obviously its hard to find
out how reputable they are. Any suggestions? Contact me off list.
Thanks.
Mark
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:45:16 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: THE ORCHIDS
Barry Green wrote:
> Hi Mick, Are the Orchids' tracks produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
> on any of the Girl Group CD's currently available? Were they
> originally released on Decca? All the best, Barry
Well, Spectropop's resident Immediate expert, it seems that Mr
Oldham produced a version of the fabulous Reg Dolls' song "Society
Girl" by the Orchids. Alas, it was never released. I've never heard
it. Maybe, just maybe, someone out there has an acetate, or something.
Watch this space.
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:09:25 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: Bobby Jameson
Bobby has been mentioned a couple of times. I was certain I remembered him as
an American who tried to launch a career in the UK in the wake of P.J.Proby, so
I looked him up in my books and found two 45s, one on UK Decca in 1964 and
another on the short-lived Brit label the following year. I have no
recollection at all of having heard either, but someone who owns the records
might be able to follow this thread.
Peter
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:55:58 +0100
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: Patty Loveless
Rashkovsky old chap. Don't feel guilty about your admiration for Patty
Loveless. You have at least one Spectropop soulmate in myself, and I'd go so
far as to say that her track "Nothin' but the wheel" from the album "Only
what I feel" must be one of the top 10 standout performances in my
collection. Alison Krauss's voice is a bit high and squeaky for my English
ears, but she is certainly some musician.
And if you fancy something a bit more hardcore "real country", can I
recommend Jann Browne, who is one of only two performers who could lure me
to California (regular Spectropoppers will know who the other one might well
be........)
Peter
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Message: 15
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:53:10 +0200
From: Jan Kristensen
Subject: Re: Million Dollars Worth of Girl Groups
I got 3 volumes of "A million dollars worth of girl groups" and I am waiting
for vol 4. Seriously. most of the tracks are from 1958 - 63 and are more female
doo wop than girl group songs. But it's a lot of fun and if you search real
deep, you can find a little bit of info of them.
Jan K
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