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There are 7 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Saturday Morning Playlist, 31st August
From: Simon White
2. Cool And Strange Music
From: Stuffed Animal
3. Re: Spectropop NY Party!
From: Will George
4. Serge surge...
From: Kingsley Abbott
5. Larry - the Orchids
From: Ian Slater
6. Re: Cool And Strange Music
From: Nick Archer
7. Spiral Starecase
From: Stewart Mason
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:59:05 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Saturday Morning Playlist, 31st August
Image - Alan Haven
One Broken Heart For Sale - Sissie Houston
More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase
When Love Grows Cold - Ron Grainer Orchestra
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Eartha Kitt
All In My Imagination - Val Mckenna
Batman Theme- Neal Hefti
The Joker -The Milestones
Aint That Funny - Jimmy Justice
I Beleive They're All talking About Me - Dawn
Ode To Billy Joe - Ray Bryant
I'm Gonna Try - Joanie Camp
A Little Bit Of Soap - Garnett Mimms
I Want You For My Sweetheart - Bobby Sheen
Tea For Two Cha Cha - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Bucket Of Tears - Peggy Lee
The Rat Race - Sam Butera
Them Terrible Boots - The Orlons
Not Me - Gary U.S. Bonds
Fascinating Girl - George Lemons
Backstage - Gene Pitney
Without Love - Little Richard
I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
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This Sunday, 1st September
on Soul 24-7b 7pm-9pm GMT
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The Metropolitan Soul Show
2 hours of Northern Soul.
This week - The Utterly Marvellous Simon White.
Any requests or dedications, let me know!
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:08:36 +0000
From: Stuffed Animal
Subject: Cool And Strange Music
Spectropop alert!
Check out the forthcoming issue of Cool And Strange Music!
Magazine for a triple treat . . . Skip Heller's loving look
at lounge music/Brill Building legend Burt Bacharach, Joseph
Levy's conga-pounding profile of mambo king Perez Prado, and
a celebration of Annette Funicello, the Queen Mother of
Bubblegum Rock, courtesy of Laura Pinto (The Pineapple Princess)
and yours truly. Take my word, it's the absolute ...!
Stuffed Animal
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:34:04 EDT
From: Will George
Subject: Re: Spectropop NY Party!
>That'd be great. I haven't seen Bill George around... I think
>it was he who first brought it up.
I'm here. I wasn't the first to bring it up; I just suggested
trying to rent part of the Brill Building. I have no idea if
that is a possibility or not. As far as I know, nobody has
started any planning for a NYC party yet. So if Sheila has some
ideas, I say go to it!
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:49:07 +0100
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: Serge surge...
Otis Fodder:
> Speaking of Gainsbourg, Sylvie Simmons (of Mojo Magazine)
> wrote a book (IN ENGLISH) on Serge called "A Fistful Of
> Gitanes". It was published last year. Highly recommended
> if you can track it down.
In response to the above Otis note, Sylvie's Serge book was
published by my own publishers, the small but perfectly formed
Helter Skelter who have their own splendid book shop at 4
Denmark Street in central London (an essential visit for any
'Poppers visiting London - it is on the site of the old Regent
Sound studios where so many essential 60s sounds were cut by
The Stones, John Carter et al.
Helter Skelter full and varied catalogue can be viewed at
http://www.helter.skelter.demon.co.uk
Nice people, well worth supporting, and still I believe the
world's only entirely music bookshop!
Kingsley Abbott
PS to Mikey - shame I didn't tie up with you in Manhattan in
July - next time maybe! Also, best of luck to Sheila with
the party - Knowing the wonderful Cha Cha Charming magazine,
it should be a real goodie and very well worth attending!
Oh for a charabanc that floats, eh chaps!
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 21:53:40 -0000
From: Ian Slater
Subject: Larry - the Orchids
Following my promise of a couple of months to play the
Orchids' "Larry" to musica, this is to advise members
that it is now there.
Ian Slater
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:55:32 -0500
From: Nick Archer
Subject: Re: Cool And Strange Music
Stuffed Animal:
> Check out the forthcoming issue of Cool And Strange Music!
> Magazine for a triple treat..........
Not to brag, well, OK to brag, my article about Nashville
record stores is also in this new issue.
Nick Archer
Check out Nashville's classic SM95 on the web at
www.live365.com/stations/289419
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 01:02:28 -0400
From: Stewart Mason
Subject: Spiral Starecase
I'm listening to a compilation called ROCK ARTIFACTS VOLUME
ONE that I bought a while back out of the 99 cent bin at an
FYE store just because it has a couple of songs by the short-
lived one-hit-wonder the Spiral Starecase on it. I quite
happily listened to "More Today Than Yesterday", the best
single the Fifth Dimension never did, and then a couple of
tracks later, during their other song "No One For Me To Turn
To", I realized after the second chorus that the singer kept
saying things along the lines of "Girl, I can't live without
you".
So I'm thinkin', "Huh. Open expression of a dysfunctional
lesbian relationship in 1969? That's odd". So I go check
the group out on AMG. And then I double-check in my handy-
dandy BILLBOARD BOOK OF ONE-HIT WONDERS, which I notice for
the first time has a picture of the group in it. And, to
quote Mr. Powers, "She's a man, baby".
I'm serious. I have fond memories of this song reaching
back as far as hearing my sister play the 45 on her Dansette
(another look in the book shows that it reached its chart
peak on June 14, 1969, 16 days before I was born) and it's
always been one of my favorite pure-pop singles of its era.
And it's somehow taken me until JUST ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES
AGO to realize that the lead singer isn't a woman!
Go figure.
Stewart
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