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There are 11 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Serge Gainsbourg songs at Friendly Persuasion
From: Nick Archer
2. Re: Sun Ra to the Batmobile!
From: Phil Milstein
3. Early Days; apology and correction.
From: Martin Roberts
4. Ed Sullivan, Strangeloves, Johnny Young
From: Lindsay
5. Re: Gabriel and the Angels
From: Tony Waitekus
6. Re: Batman/Sun Ra
From: Louise Posnick
7. Re: Teacho Wiltshire / Bert Berns
From: Ken Silverwood
8. Mello Cads at the Derby 10/8
From: David Ponak
9. Re: Sun Ra to the Batmobile!
From: Eddy Smit
10. LOU REED'S PAL JERRY VANCE
From: Mick Patrick
11. Re: Teacho Wiltshire
From: Mike Rashkow
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:12:58 -0500
From: Nick Archer
Subject: Serge Gainsbourg songs at Friendly Persuasion
Our friends at Friendly Persuasion have done it again!
This week's show features 54 songs of Serge Gainsbourg,
solo hits, and many productions and duets with Jane Birkin,
France Gall and Brigitte Bardot.
Here's the link to listen
http://www.antennaradio.com/friendlypersuasion/show.htm
Nick Archer
Check out Nashville's classic SM95 on the web at
www.live365.com/stations/289419
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:13:01 +0000
From: Phil Milstein
Subject: Re: Sun Ra to the Batmobile!
Billy Spradlin wrote:
> I have a Batman 45 (I think it was pressed by Peter Pan
> records) from the mid 60s called "Look Out For The Batman"
> b/w "It's The Batman" The first song's a a swingin' little
> tune that I played to death when I was a preschool DJ.
> - anyone know if Sun Ra is playing on this?
Just circumstantially, I would doubt it. Batman knockoffs
were a dime a dozen in '66. Every kid I knew had one, and
yet there was very little overlap among us.*
Now that I think of it, I can't recall any official
soundtrack release, and if indeed there were none, the
vacuum created by this absence, combined with the show's
remarkable popularity, might explain the phenomenon of so
many fake Batman "soundtracks".
--Phil Milstein
*I was fortunate, as it turned out, to have grown up with
the Tifton (Sun Ra/Blues Project) one, which may indeed have
jump-started my warped musical tastes.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:56:58 +0100
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Early Days; apology and correction.
I added an update from Al Hazan to his story of
Jack Nitzsche's Early Days but missed off a paragraph.
So there is now even more to read!
Apologies for the inconvenience caused,
Martin
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:28:11 -0000
From: Lindsay
Subject: Ed Sullivan, Strangeloves, Johnny Young
Mention of Ed Sullivan reminded me of the Strangeloves,
a group of New York lads who, for reasons best known to
themselves, claimed to be from the Australian Outback
(that's like, way out, you know, the back of beyond).
Apparently they were booked to appear on Ed Sullivan's show
but one of the Strangeloves was worried that his grandma
would see him and cut off the allowance she was giving him
to go through Law school... so they passed up the opportunity.
(You can read the whole tale at
http://archive.cln.com/charlotte/newsstand/c011197/music.htm )
There is an irony in the Australian connection, or
non-connection. A Strangelove song, "Cara-Lin", was covered
by Aussie teen idol Johnny Young. It was one side of a
double-sided No. 1 hit, and became something of a theme song
for Young, who would sing it repeatedly on the daily TV pop
show he fronted. He had these awkward, outstretched-arm claps
that he would do for that rhythmic refrain, and the kids
would join in, but it was 1966 and we were easily amused.
Oh, that's not all Johnny Young could do: he went on to write
the Russell Morris psych masterwork "The Real Thing".
See what happens? All it takes is for someone to mention
something like Ed Sullivan, and there I go...
Lindsay
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 05:49:53 -0700
From: Tony Waitekus
Subject: Re: Gabriel and the Angels
Ted L:
> A friend on another list is looking for writer(s) credits
> and publishing info for the flipside of a 45 by Gabriel
> and the Angels that appeared on the Amy label. The only
> info he has is that the A side is "Chumba." Supposedly,
> the record RnB-ish sounding and from the early '60s.
> Any info would be appreciated.
I found my copy of Chumba by Gabriel and the Angels at home.
The record is Amy 802. Here is the information on the flip:
Title: Hey! - Writer: R. Kellis - Publisher: Bettina Music
BMI - A Bloomberg-Barr Production - deadwax matrix #: 5611-3
Tony Waitekus
WHTS/All Hit 98-9
Mercury Broadcasting, Inc.
http://www.allhit989.com
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:38:57 -0400
From: Louise Posnick
Subject: Re: Batman/Sun Ra
Richard Williams:
> Sadly, I've never heard the Batman album. But I know that
> Pat Patrick, listed as "bass" in the personnel, usually
> played baritone saxophone with Ra's various arkestras. They
> tended to swap instruments -- John Gilmore, one of the best
> tenor saxophonists of his generation, and a big influence on
> John Coltrane, was also a terrific drummer -- but I don't
> remember Patrick playing anything other than reeds.
I thought there was something wrong with that myelf - I
never saw Pat play bass(not in the 10 years I knew him), but
I figured, who knows with all the surprises, why not one more?
Louise Posnick
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:36:39 +0100
From: Ken Silverwood
Subject: Re: Teacho Wiltshire / Bert Berns
Oh!!! What a faux pas, of course it was Bert Berns who arranged "Twist
& Shout", what I should have said was Teacho Wiltshire came up with the
arrangement for Chuck Jackson's great "I Keep Forgettin'" which is what
the other side of my brain meant !!!
Ken On The West Coast
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:24:31 -0400
From: David Ponak
Subject: Mello Cads at the Derby 10/8
The Derby and Franklin Castle present the musical event of your
dreams:
The Franklin Castle Small Circle Of Friends
Tuesday, October 8 at The Derby 98 http://www.the-derby.com/
4500 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles (323) 663-8979
Starring:
Mello Cads
Featuring David Ponak, Probyn Gregory, Nelson Bragg, Bob Remstein,
Linus Of Hollywood, plus the Mello Cad dancers: Lun*na & Gillian.
http://www.mellocads.com
The Sugarplastic
http://www.sugarplastic.com
Linus Of Hollywood
Performing with a full band for the first time ever!
http://linusofhollywood.com
http://franklincastle.net
With special appearance by Spookey Ruben
http://www.hi-hat.ca/spookeyruben/
Approximate set schedule:
9:30: Linus Of Hollywood
10:15 Mello Cads
11:15 Spookey Ruben
11:30 The Sugarplastic
Admission is $7.00
$5.00 discount admission is you say the secret password: "DRIFTER".
Here's what the critics are saying about Mello Cads "SOFT AS A ROCK"
"It's as if Sinatra had ditched the Cole Porter songbook in
exchange for a medley of Beach Boys hits, and had surrounded himself
with the crème de la crème of Wrecking Crew session cats, or as if
Scott Walker turned from Jacques Brel to singing sanguine, breezy
tunes while sipping a string of piña coladas.If Soft as a Rock was
any more of a loaded cocktail than it is, it would be almost lethally
boozy."
Stanton Swihart/All Music Guide
"On their debut CD, Soft As A Rock, the Mello Cads make it perfectly
clear that it's more about 'the Association or Harper's Bizarre' than
'the Beatles or the Stones.' With an ultra-schmaltzy persona that
makes Barry Manilow seem like Handsome Dick Manitoba, cocktail-
clutching head Cad David Ponak comes off like a cross between Jack
Jones and Mike Douglas in his wry, Playboy After Dark, delivery of
classic hits and curios by such soft-rock Svengalis as Paul Williams,
Burt Bacharach, and Jimmy Webb."
Jim Freek/Los Angeles New Times
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:27:52 +0200
From: Eddy Smit
Subject: Re: Sun Ra to the Batmobile!
Phil Milstein:
> Now that I think of it, I can't recall any official soundtrack
> release, and if indeed there were none...
The original Batman TV soundtrack album was released 1966 on 20th
Century Fox (S-)3180.
Eddy
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:00:22 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: LOU REED'S PAL JERRY VANCE
For the attention of dixigas and other VUers,
It took days rather than years to find my magazine article
about Lou Reed's old songwriting colleague Jerry Vance.
Send me you address and I'll bung a xerox copy in the mail.
Another of Reed's colleagues from that era, Terry Philips,
is interviewed in He's A Rebel, Mark Ribowski's biog of Phil
Spector.
Right, back to my precious Foxes, Tran-Sisters and Spongy &
the Dolls 45s.
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:48:15 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: Teacho Wiltshire
Teacho Wiltshire - Nice guy. Was already pretty old at the "time" of
his success. I think he did the great chart for The Exciters', TELL
HIM. Died very suddenly. Is that redundant? I've always thought that
Teacho was a corruption of Teacher. But in the south and other places
many first born sons are given the mother's maiden name as a first name.
Could be that. Ask Mick. Mick will know where he went to lunch on
March 17, 1953.
Rashkovsky
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