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There are 26 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Mrs. Miller on CD
From: Simon White
2. Re: Phil Spector and Skiffle
From: Mick Patrick
3. Re: Rascals
From: Phil Milstein
4. Betty & Karen/Wellingtons
From: Peter Richmond
5. Re: The Wellingtons
From: Patrick Rands
6. Re: Rascals
From: Marc Miller
7. Re: Why quibble?
From: Leonardo Flores
8. Righteous Brothers - Hall Of Fame
From: Peter Richmond
9. Re: Betty And Karen
From: Martin Roberts
10. Re: Vontastics
From: Steve Harvey
11. music in commercials
From: Alan Gordon
12. Re: Northern Soul / Rascals
From: Efram Turchick
13. hermits and the dc5
From: Alan Gordon
14. 'Jack Nitzsche At Spectropop' updates
From: Ken Silverwood
15. Davy Jones--Whoops, Wrong Locker!
From: Bob Rashkow
16. Re: music in commercials
From: Phil Milstein
17. Re: music in commercials
From: bryan
18. Once Upon a Dream
From: Steve Harvey
19. People Suddenly Wanna Be "Free"?
From: James Botticelli
20. Re: Why quibble?
From: Mikey
21. Re: Betty And Karen
From: Mikey
22. Re: Why quibble?
From: Jeff Lemlich
23. Two Nitzschean Gems
From: Country Paul
24. Re: Girl-Group Bootleg CDs
From: Steve
25. Then He Kissed Me
From: Robert
26. Toni Jones; The Cupcakes
From: Mike Edwards
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:14:48 +0000
From: Simon White
Subject: Re: Mrs. Miller on CD
Stewart Mason wrote:
> Capitol released a Mrs. Miller retrospective in 1999 as part
> of their WILD COOL AND SWINGIN' series. It's still in print
> and readily available. Personally, when I found out that she
> was in on the joke and was purposely singing terribly (according
> to people who were around at the time in a recent article in
> Cool and Strange Music), some of the charm went out of the music,
> but perhaps that's just me.
I agree Stewart. The first album has something that the others don't.
On this [off] note one for the U.K. viewers. I have a memory of
an ITV programme with Jonathan Routh, latter part of the Sixties
where they held a contest for the worst singers. They chose in the
end a woman that looked like Rita Webb and a big opera looking
bloke. Did they ever make a record I wonder? Come to that, did Rita
Webb ever make a record?
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:42:33 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Phil Spector and Skiffle
Country Paul:
> RIP Lonnie Donegan...Mick Patrick, thank you for the write-up
> and the Spector-related Donegan track listing. You also mention
> "the first song Spector's group the Teddy Bears ever recorded,
> 'Don't You Worry My Little Pet.'" What an anomaly for them!
> It rocks out, although the vocal is recorded in murk-fi, several
> steps below lo-fi. So, Mick, question: I have faint memories of
> this song when new, but possibly by someone else. Is the Teddy
> Bears' version a cover? And of whom?
Paul, ".......Little Pet" was written by Phil Spector. I'd imagine
the version lurking deep in your memory bank is by those famous
"Chanson D'amour" hitsters Art & Dotty Todd, released on Era 1087
in 1958. Era was the parent label of Dore, the Teddy Bears' outlet.
Art & Dotty also recorded another Spector-scribed Teddy Bears number,
"Wonderful Lovable You", on Dart 51986, probably the same year.
Also of interest is another of Spector's skiffle period rockers,
"Where Can You Be", by Tony & Joe on Era 1083. Similar in sound to
"...Little Pet", to my knowledge, it is the only recorded version
of this Phil Spector composition.
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:16:58 +0000
From: Phil Milstein
Subject: Re: Rascals
Country Paul wrote:
> Finally (for now), I may be seeing Eddie Brigati at a Christmas party in
> December. (His significant other and I do voice work for the same producer.)
> While he doesn't like being pumped with questions about the old times, he
> sometimes is willing to talk. If there's any info folks here would like to
> know, I may be able to slide in an inquiry.
Perhaps you'd have better success extracting info on The Shangri-Las,
with whom The Rascals shared some behind-the-scenes personnel, than
on The Rascals themselves.
--Phil M.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:17:43 -0000
From: Peter Richmond
Subject: Betty & Karen/Wellingtons
Mick Patrick wrote:
> Details are: Betty And Karen, "I'm Not Satisfied" b/w
> "Stop And Listen", MGM K13559, 1966, both sides written by
> Ameche and Segalla, produced by Pat Jaques and arranged by
> Richie Tee........
>What else can I tell you? They were two white girls, kinda
> folky looking with acoustic guitars and long hair. I wouldn't
> be surprised if Ameche and Segalla were their surnames.
You are spot on with the surnames Mick, Betty Ameche and
Karen Segalla. The two tracks were recorded in New York City, 05 July 1966.
Simon White wrote:
>Funnily enough I got a copy of the Righteous Bros' version
> recently. It's rather good but for the over the top choir.
> Is the Wellingtons' version the same?
The Wellingtons version is more focused on the harmonies of
the trio themselves, they are the only singers on the track
- the arrangement of the basic backing track is very similar
to the one used on the Righteous Brothers later version though
nowhere near as much depth.
Peter Richmond.
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 18:26:07 -0000
From: Patrick Rands
Subject: Re: The Wellingtons
Oddly enough Entertainment Tonight is doing a spotlight on
TV theme songs tonight and it looks like they have footage
of the Wellingtons nowaday. In the blurb I saw last night
they showed some older men singing the theme.
:Patrick
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:07:45 -0500
From: Marc Miller
Subject: Re: Rascals
Mikey,
According to Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990
(Compiled Exclusively From Billboard), it reached #52.
Marc
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 19:21:05 -0000
From: Leonardo Flores
Subject: Re: Why quibble?
Steve Harvey wrote:
> Top 40, Top Ten, but Top Fifty?!? Might as well be Top
> Thousand. Compared to "Good Lovin'"'s placement it was
> a flop. Felix's vocals ruled for most of their singles
> after that.
Does anybody know if the 45 charted higher in the New York area
as opposed to the national charts. It seems that local charts
held a lot more power in the 60's as oppossed to today. Society
was a bit more localized than today.
I read stories where songs by the Yellow Ballon were top 5 hits
in certain areas but sank in others.
Cheers
Leonardo
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:21:59 -0000
From: Peter Richmond
Subject: Righteous Brothers - Hall Of Fame
The Righteous Brothers have been selected for induction to
the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.
The Award Ceremony will be on 10 March 2003 being screened on VH1.
Peter Richmond.
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:09:31 -0000
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Re: Betty And Karen
After a day's wait and especially for 'my mate' Mikey:
Betty And Karen, are now playing on musica.
Martin
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 18:29:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: Vontastics
Billy:
> I always thought "Day Tripper" was a British (slang) term,
> and no American black musican could have come up using that
> term.
Daytripper was about a prostitute. One of three hooker tunes
the Fabs did.
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:48:46 -0800
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: music in commercials
Speaking of the music in commercials being better than commercial music:
Does anyone know who does that really nice sparse arrangement of The
Beatles "Getting Better" for the Philips ads on American tv? Sounds a
little like Jellyfish.
albabe
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:54:53 -0500
From: Efram Turchick
Subject: Re: Northern Soul / Rascals
Michael Coxe wrote:
> The LP which contains "Silly Girl" - Once Upon A Dream - is one of
> the great 60s American pop masterpieces, sorely overlooked (ala Child
> Is Father To The Man by BS&T) & inexplicably only available as a
> German import.
>
> - michael
Michael,
Just had to pipe in here: Once Upon A Dream IS available domestically,
on 180 gram vinyl, from Sundazed Music. The first three Young Rascals
albums are available on 180 gram vinyl as well.
Visit http://www.sundazed.com for
more details!
Efram Turchick
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:06:17 -0800
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: hermits and the dc5
I must be in the minority here. But I have always really dug
the DC5. I may be of Russian/Jewish background, but I always
really liked that gestapo beat they had going on stuff like:
"Bits and Pieces" and "Any Way You Want It". I also thought
that "Because" was a great romantic slow dance song, still do
... great organ.
An as for Herman and his entourage... what can I say? When
I was 14 they really made an impression on me with "Wonderful
World," and "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat." They also were my
first foray into "oldies" like: "Mother-In-Law", "Sea Cruise"
and "Silhouettes". But my faves were "I Gotta Dream On" and
"Just A Little Bit Better". Then, of course, there was that
weird song about transgenderism: "She's A Muscular Boy".
A very forward thinking band.
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 23:55:07 -0000
From: Ken Silverwood
Subject: 'Jack Nitzsche At Spectropop' updates
Hello to all,
A piece of text from Mr Andrew Loog Oldham's tome '2 Stoned':
"As the morning light rose on Sunset Strip, Mick sat back in his
stool and sang it, Keith's acoustic gave him something to sing to,
Jack Nitzsche played a worldly harpsichord, Phil Spector gave the
lining by playing bass - and 'Play With Fire' was cut".
(For all you Lonely Surfers)
Ken On The West Coast.
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