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There are 15 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: The Reflections CD
From: Mikey
2. Re: American bad dreams - and good music
From: Dave Swanson
3. Re: soft sounds for gentle people comp
From: Dubois
4. Re: THINGS ARE CHANGING
From: Mick Patrick
5. Re: The Reflections CD
From: James Botticelli
6. New At Spectropop
From: Spectropop
7. Reflecting on the Reflections
From: Bob Rashkow
8. Re: The Monkees
From: Alan Gordon
9. Re: The Reflections
From: Mikey
10. Re: American bad dreams
From: Richard Tearle
11. Take Me For A Little While
From: Marci Marks
12. Re: The Monkees
From: Dave Swanson
13. Re: Things Are Changing
From: Lee
14. Smile A Little Smile for Me...
From: Norman
15. The Liquid Room 10/20/02
From: David Ponak
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:57:17 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: The Reflections CD
Re the Reflections CD:
> I checked offline with member Mike and he confirmed (the CD
> is) not the original Golden World recordings. I have most of
> their 45s. If you need anything let me know. I owe you one for
> "Looking In Windows" on Ripples 2. Don't forget that one called,
> "You're My Baby" - also done by the Vacels as the first record
> on the Kama Sutra label (or so I believe).
Mike here, and no, the CD is a combo of old acetates, and
re-recordings done at various times over the last 20 years or
so. Its not bad at all, but I agree, what I'd like are the
Golden World recordings.
However, there WAS an LP done in 1965, and that may be stereo,
so that's one way to get some better quality Reflections.
We need someone with all the 45s to dub them onto CDR!!
Mikey
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:38:41 -0500
From: Dave Swanson
Subject: Re: American bad dreams - and good music
I told myself I would refrain from more comments on this show, but I lied. Ok,
so I give the show another shot last night. Maybe I am being too picky, but I
think not. As "Doc Roc" wrote here "Who cares if the songs aren't correct to
the month or year?" well then he was very content with last nights debacle. I
am not talking about months here. The show last night was clearly set in late
1963 as the one kid's spelling bee even had the big 1963 banner behind them.
Moments earlier in the show some other kids,I have no idea on character names
here, are in a record store that is blasting "Do Wah Diddy" by Manfred Mann.
Now, seeing as how the British Invasion was such an important part of the music
history of the era and seeing as how The Beatles hadn't even hit the states
yet, how was this record store playing a record that was not even released in
the UK till August of '64? One would think that even if it didn't really
matter as to month or year of the music used in the show, they would at least
have to note that this is ridiculous. So in the next souple months (time-wise
on the show) the kids will sit down to watch The Ed Sullivan Show to see The
Beatles, will anyone note that this is old hat since that Manfred Mann record
was around for months already? I mean, I don't think this kind of, once again,
attention to detail is asking too much.
There, I have no more to say on this topic. Well, probably not.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:49:29 +0200
From: Dubois
Subject: Re: soft sounds for gentle people comp
> Does anyone know the track listing for the "Soft Sounds for
> Gentle People" collection as advertised in Ugly Things #20?
> (Phil Milstein's Shangri-Las '77 article is beyond fascinating!)
> The ad states the CD comp is comprised of "22 far-out slices
> of mid to late sixties (mostly) West Coast pop and soft psych
> including rare tracks from the Growing Society, Jim and Dale,
> Paper Fortress, Brigadune, and the Parade."
> Pet Records (Hermosa Beach, CA) is behind this release, but
> their ad has no e-mail/web contacts.
Ted is in search of the same things that I'm looking for too - the
address of that label. This comp seems exciting for soft pop lovers.
JED
PS: Does anyone know who owns United Artists?
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:51:36 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: THINGS ARE CHANGING
Keiko Kondo:
> Go to this URL: http://www.spectropop.com/gg/thingsarechanging.html
Well said, that young lady! The answers to the best questions are frequently
already on the Spectropop website. A tip: to search the discussion forum
archives, click here: http://www.spectropop.com/archive/index.html Typing in
the three little words Things Are Changing throws up a whopping 75 results.
Read them and find out everything (probably) you need to know about said
recording.
And remember, good jobs are out there.
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:32:02 -0400
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: The Reflections CD
Mikey wrote:
> We need someone with all the 45s to dub them onto CDR!!
I'll dub. I have a free standing CD recorder hooked up to my Technique
1200's. That's if someone wants to go to the trouble to send me the 45's....
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:30:31 -0000
From: Spectropop
Subject: New At Spectropop
Dear Members,
Just a reminder - the following items are presently situated
in the New At Spectropop section. Simply click and enjoy:
When Van Met Kenny - The Sandi Sheldon Story:
http://www.spectropop.com/SandiSheldon/index.htm
Spectropop Remembers Marshall Leib:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/MarshallLeib.htm
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane & The Rockabyes:
http://www.spectropop.com/BabyJane/index.htm
Nick DeCaro - Big In Japan:
http://www.spectropop.com/NickDeCaro/index.htm
Spectropop Recommends Josie & The Pussycats:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index.htm#josie
Jack Nitzsche At Spectropop:
http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/index.htm
More new features coming your way soon. Watch this space.
The Spectropop Team
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:57:03 -0400
From: Bob Rashkow
Subject: Reflecting on the Reflections
Hi, just wanted to say if it helps that for any of you Spectropoppers living in
eastern Michigan or western Ontario, Toledo area, etc. (If there happen to be
any) a good bet for used copies of The Reflections' 65 stereo LP, which I don't
have nor do I happen to own any of their Golden World 45w (YET...) COULD be
Record Mart somewhere near Woodward Ave. in either Ferndale or Royal Oak, sorry
I don't have more specific info, THIS IS NOT A PLUG!!!
Bobster
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:01:47 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: The Monkees
From Guy Lawrence
> Anyone know of a Monkees website that features hard facts about their
> recordings, session musicians, songwriters etc (kind of like the stuff we
> discuss here) rather than just fan club type stuff and what they're up to at
> the moment?
Guy:
As is the usual, I'm catching up here... only a week or so to go, so this may
have been answered.
I don't know of any websites, but if you can get your hands on the book that
came in the original Monkees Box-Set (the album shaped one, as opposed to the
box-thing), you'll find a very complete session listing of most of the players
on all their albums. Neat guitar parts by Stills, Young and all sorts of guys
that I had only heard rumored to have played with them till I read it here in
b&w.
albabe
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:43:27 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: The Reflections
Previously:
> We need someone with all the 45s to dub them onto CDR!!
Jimmy B:
> I'll dub. I have a free standing CD recorder hooked up to my Technique
> 1200's. That's if someone wants to go to the trouble to send me the 45's....
>>>>>>>Mikey writes again...
I wish I had them!! But someone here mentioned that they had them all. Can that
person come foward?. I have 3 Cd burners, and I would do the burn and send
everyone copies if the person would lend me the 45s.
Mikey
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:06:28 -0000
From: Richard Tearle
Subject: Re: American bad dreams
Firstly I have to say that we don't get the show in the UK - yet???
but I have been reading with great interest the comments made.
Secondly, I also have to say that it does annoy me intensly to hear a
soundtrack that is CLEARLY out of synch with setting. The problem of
course is not unique to this show - it seems to happen so many times.
Who then is to blame? Surely the researchers only need a copy of the
Guiness Book of Hit Singles (I assume its published in the States and
if not there must be an equivalent) and it doesn't even have to be up
to date! Whilst release dates in UK and US are obviously different
(and that works both ways) there really is no excuse, I feel. The
annoying thing about it is that somebody has obviously gone to a
great deal of trouble to get certain historical facts (whether
worldwide, national or even local) correct but doesn't seem to bother
with the soundtrack. Does it matter? In the broader sense of things
perhaps not: earlier comments suggest that whatever music is used was
certainly contemporary and therefore caught the feel of the times. I
would accept that to a degree, but when I watch tv or films, I want
to beleive that what I am seeing could happen - then the music brings
me back to reality and I feel somewhat cheated. Ok, maybe I'm being
picky or maybe its just me, but I don't think I'm alone in this....
Cheers,
Richard
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:52:04 EDT
From: Marci Marks
Subject: Take Me For A Little While
Hi Spectropoppers,
I wanted to let fans of Earl Palmer know that he leads a trio every Thursday
night at Charley-O's, a jazz club in Van Nuys, CA. It's casual and there's no
cover!
Did anyone see/hear the version of "Take Me For A Little While" last night
over the end credits of The Sopranos? It sounded like a Spector production
but I'm trying to figure out who was singing.
This is my first posting although I have been following the group for a while.
Regards,
Marci Marks
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:39:06 -0500
From: Dave Swanson
Subject: Re: The Monkees
I had heard a while ago that Andrew Sandoval was working on a Monkees book that
would be a sort of day-by-day account of everything. Recording sessions, live
dates, TV show filming,etc. What as happened to this project I don't know.
If/when it does happen, it should be quite amazing!
DS
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:52:19 -0400
From: Lee
Subject: Re: Things Are Changing
Has anyone actually heard the version of "Things Are Changing" by Julio Angel
(Alvarez) and Lucecita (Benitez)? Both were very famous Puerto Rican pop
singers in the mid-'60s. I know that a label for the release appears in a
discography of Lucecita's recordings, but does anyone have an MP3 they can post
to Musica?
Lee
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:08:02 +0930
From: Norman
Subject: Smile A Little Smile for Me...
Further to John from NJ's inquiry on THE FLYING MACHINE;
Tony Newman, Sam Kempe, Suart Colman, Steve Jones, Paul
Wilkinson could possibly be the line-up.
I look at the faces in Pinkerton's Assorted Colours and
see the same on the back cover of the album. Only in
The Flying Machine there are four instead of five.
Tony Newman is not the same person as the drummer of the
same name. Of course, I haven't seen the infomercial so
I can't confirm who's who.
Here is a run down of the tracks on the album.
(Which is an American pressing).
The Flying Machine Janus Records JLS 3007
Smile A Little Smile for Me (Macaulay-Stephens)
Produced by Tony Macaulay
All other tracks Produced by John McLeod
Side 1
Smile A Little Smile for Me (Macaulay-Stephens)
Marie Take a Chance (T. Macaulay)
Waiting On The Shores of Nowhere (Saker-Winsley)
That Same Old Feeling (Macaulay-MacLeod)
There She Goes (J. MacLeod)
Side 2
Baby Make It Soon (Macaulay-McLeod)
Broken Hearted Me, Evil Hearted You (T. Macaulay)
A Thing Called Love (G. Hubbard)
My Baby's Coming Home (Macaulay-McLeod)
Send My Baby Home Again (MacLeod-Jay)
It is interesting to note that Smile A Little Smile for Me,
released in 1969, was a big hit in America but did nothing
in Britain. I only came aware of the track when, around about
1971, I bought an album titled "The Tony Macaulay and John
McLeod Song Book" Astor GGS 1198 (Australia). This album
also featured Baby Make It Soon ( a track which the Marmalade
also recorded successfully but not chart wise).
Norman
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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:42:50 -0400
From: David Ponak
Subject: The Liquid Room 10/20/02
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.
The Liquid Room 10/20/2002
1.The Association/Come On In
Birthday (WB)
2.Amon Tobin/Back From Space
Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
3.Paul Mauriat/Black Harlem
El Condor Pasa (Phillips)
4.Pastel Vespa/L'Anarchie dan L'U.K.
L'Anarchie (Siesta-Spain)
5.Xantus and the Disciples/Healer's Lament
People Are Wrong (cast CD) (Sidesaddle)
6.Thomas & Richard Frost/Where Did Yesterday Go
Visualize (Rev-Ola-UK)
7.Royksopp/Rokyksopp's Night Out
Melody A.M. (Astralwerks)
8.Aretha Franklin/Satisfaction
Aretha Arrives (Atlantic/Rhino)
9.The Aluminum Group/Blow You Kisses
Happyness (Wishing Tree)
10.Ivor Cutler Trio/A Great Grey Grasshopper
Ludo (Rev-Ola-UK)
11.Sketch Show/Wonderful To Me
Audio Sponge (Daisyworld -Japan)
12.The Polyphonic Spree/Soldier Girl
(Fierce Panda-UK)
13.The Rolling Stones/Citadel
Their Satanic Majesties Request (Abkco)
14.Saint Etienne/Language & Soft Like Me
Finisterre (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
15.Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity/I Know You Love Me Not
If Your Memory Serves You Well (Dressed To Kill-UK)
16.Stereo Total/Love With The 3 Of Us
Musique Automatique (Bobsled)
17.Richard Harris/The Yard Went On Forever
The Webb Sessions 1968-1969 (Raven-Australia)
18.Rita Calypso/The Disadvantages Of You
Apocalypso (Siesta-Spain)
19.Bill Stewart/Sitting In The Park
One More Time (Chess)
20.Squarepusher/Love Will Tear Us Apart
Do You Know Squarepusher (Warp)
21.Pico/I Love You
ABC Pico First (Kitty-Japan)
22.Tahiti 80/1000 Times
Wallpaper For The Soul (Minty Fresh)
23.Nino & April/You'll Be Needing Me Baby
All Strung Out (Varese)
24.The Soft Boys/My Mind Is Connected...
Nextdoorland (Matador)
25.Karin Krog/Meaning Of Love
Raindrops, Raindrops (Crippled Dick Hot Wax-Germany)
26.Beck/Little One
Sea Change (Geffen)
27.Francoise Hardy/Chanson D'O
La Question (Virgin-France)
28.Isaac HayesA House Full Of Girls
Truck Turner (soundtrack) (Stax)
29.Orbital/Frenetic
Work (FFRR)
30.Linus Of Hollywood/Where Are You
Let Yourself Be Happy (Franklin Castle)
31.Lee Mallory/I'm With You
That's The Way It's Gonna Be (Rev-Ola-UK)
32.Juana Molin/No Es Tan Cierto
Tres Cosas (JM)
33.Fountains Of Wayne/Hat And Feet
Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
34.Uminski/Sentiments
Uminski (EastWest-France)
35.Gypsophile Vs. Shop/Your Garden Party
Deux Musicians En Crise (Radio Khartoum)
36.John Gregory/The Six Million Dollar Man
The Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks Vol. 2
(Universal-Ger)
37.Gabin/Delire Et Passion
Gabin (Astralwerks)
38.Spookey Ruben/Glenn, Take Care
Bed (Hi-Hat)
39.Komeda/Cul De Sac
Wht Makes It Go (Minty Fresh)
40.Soft Cell/What
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (bonus track) (Mercury-UK)
41.The Negro Problem/Watering Hole
Welcome Black (Smile)
42.Saint Etienne/Stop And Think It Over
Finisterre (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
43.Blue States/Season Song
Man Mountain (ESL)
44.Future Bible Heroes/Losing Your Affection
Eternal Youth (Instinct)
45.Paul Williams/Mornin' I'll Be Movin' On
Someday Man (Reprise)
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