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There are 7 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Soft discography
From: Kingsley Abbott
2. Barry McGuire/Grass Roots?
From: Dan Hughes
3. Charlie Calello
From: Richard Williams
4. Re: Charlie Calello / Barry McGuire / Grassr Roots
From: Mikey
5. Re: Batman and Ra
From: Bill Reed
6. Instrumental hits
From: Richard Tearle
7. Re: Batman and Ra
From: Phil Milstein
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:35:13 +0100
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: Soft discography
Claus was looking for help with his discography,
so I'd suggest a publication worth searching out
from Japan would be "Soft Rock" - "Selected 500+
Soft rock & Other Related Titles". It's a very nice
200 page A5 publication with Japanese text, but the
record details and tracks are also in English. Best
of all it has hundreds of (albeit quite small) cover
and 45s label shots in full colour. It is 'supervised'
- edited I guess - by EM Records' Koki Emura and
published, I believe, by 'The Dig' The ISBN is
4-401-61686-3, seems to cost Y1800 and is a real
fave of mine. Most on this list would love it, and
seriously consider a Japanese night school!
Maybe Keiko could tell us more??
Hope this helps...
Kingsley Abbott
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:34:49 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Barry McGuire/Grass Roots?
Found this on a web site about Lou Adler:
"One prominent artist signed to Dunhill was former New Christy
Minstrel Barry McGuire. McGuire recorded a song [Eve of Destruction]
that had been written by Sloan and on which he was backed by the
original members of the Grass Roots."
Which original members? Anybody know the musicians on the first
Barry McGuire album? I thought they were all studio musicians.
---Dan
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:01:57 +0100
From: Richard Williams
Subject: Charlie Calello
A friend of mine, a film critic, used to have a little quiz that
went like this: name a well-known actor/actress who never appeared
in a good movie, or anything remotely like one. (The answer was
Rossano Brazzi.) My question, to which I do not have an answer, is
this: was Charlie Calello ever associated with a bad record?
Richard Williams
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:03:07 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Charlie Calello / Barry McGuire / Grassr Roots
Richard Williams:
> ...was Charlie Calello ever associated with a bad record?
All of this reminds me that I have a really rare Lp on RCA "Charles
Callelo plays Big Hits" or something like that. It's got "Rag Doll"
and "Navy Blue" on it, it's all orchestral and very hip!!!
Dan Hughes:
> ...(Barry McGuire) was backed by the original members of the Grass
> Roots...Which original members? Anybody know the musicians on the
> first Barry McGuire album? I thought they were all studio musicians.
They were. It's the Wrecking Crew, who did all of the Dunhill stuff.
Hal Blaine is DEFINITELY the drummer on "Eve of Destruction". It's in his
discography.
Your Friend,
Mikey
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:49:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Reed
Subject: Re: Batman and Ra
Don't know whether the following reference has been
invoked re: the Sun Ra - Batman thread. If so,
pardonez le redundance. If not:
from...
"Space is the Place: the Life and Times of Sun Ra" by
John F. Szwed:
"[Ed Bland] hired them. . .in Newark in January 1966
to record a children's record of Batman and Robin for
Tifton Record Company. Under the name of 'The
Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale,' and with Tom
Wilson as producer, they pieced together a band of Sun
Ra on organ, Jimmy Owens on trumpet, Tom McIntosh on
trombone, Al Kooper (on organ when Sun Ra wasn't
playing), Danny Kalb on guitar, and the rest of the
early rock band, The Blues Project. Though the Batman
theme does not appear on the record, most of the rest
of it was made up of arrangements of music in public
domain (such as a theme by Tchaikovsky), all played in
rhythm-and-blues style with prominent twangy guitars."
Bill Reed
http://www.pinkywinters.com
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:31:28 -0000
From: Richard Tearle
Subject: Instrumental hits
In my 60s group we recently had a poll and Classical Gas by Mason
Williams came out as the top instrumental hit of the 1960s - any
members here got any thoughts on that?
Cheers
Richard
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:26:21 +0000
From: Phil Milstein
Subject: Re: Batman and Ra
> from "Space is the Place: the Life and Times of Sun Ra" by
> John F. Szwed:
> ... the Batman theme does not appear on the record ...
Someone must have deleted Track 1 from Szwed's copy.
One thing that I'm not sure has been established about this session
is whether or not the Ra band and the Blues Project played
simultaneously with one another.
--Phil Milstein
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