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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: The Harmonica and The Beatles
From: Steve Harvey
2. History Channel
From: Neb Rodgers
3. Re: Verdelle Smith
From: Ian Slater
4. Re: I Remember You / Dawn
From: Norman
5. Re: Everly's two-fers
From: Steve Harvey
6. Re: Satisfaction
From: Billy G. Spradlin
7. Re: Satisfaction
From: Phil Chapman
8. Re: Matt Monro
From: Tim Viney
9. Re: Satisfaction
From: Richard Havers
10. Re: Satisfaction etc
From: Jeff Lemlich
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:27:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: The Harmonica and The Beatles
It's come back to me now, it was From Me To You that
was to start with a guitar intro, but was changed to
the harmonica at George Martin's request.
Please Please Me was a slow Roy Orbisonlike tune that
Martin rearranged into the hit we know now.
I always heard that Satisfaction started as a riff
that Keef heard one night and captured on his brand
new cassette recorder. Never heard anything about Roy
and that tune.
And the Beatles use to do "I Remember You" in their
set. You can hear it on the Hamburg tapes with Lennon
shouting the lyrics in the background while Paul is
trying to sing.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:25:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Neb Rodgers
Subject: History Channel
Interesting looking show on The History Channel tomorrow night for
audio-geek types, like myself!
Save Our Sounds Thursday , December 26 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM, EST and PST
The Emmy Award-winning series chronicles the Smithsonian Institution's
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Library of Congress's
American Folklife Center's fight to preserve audio recordings of our
cultural history. Native-American chants, oral histories from slaves,
music from legendary artists of the past, speeches of presidents and
other historical figures--all are rapidly decaying. We hear from audio
archivists and engineers, and musicians Mickey Hart, B.B. King, and
David Crosby: http://www.historychannel.com/ontv/index.html
Happy Holidays, Neb
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:01:41 -0000
From: Ian Slater
Subject: Re: Verdelle Smith
I've uploaded the album cover pic of Verdelle Smith to no. 32 in the
photos section of members' files area. Thanks to Martin for help too.
I've also given Erik a listen to "Tar & Cement" so please don't all
do it or his lines will melt!
Ian Slater
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:03:13 +1030
From: Norman
Subject: Re: I Remember You / Dawn
I take it as granted that John and Paul were in awe of Frank Ifield's
hit version and did fancy the mouth organ bit. Didn't they (The
Beatles) later record the song?
also - more importantly, thanks Allan Rinde for the info on DAWN:
> the backgrounds for Candida and the entire first album were done by
> Toni, Jay Seigel of the Tokens, and Robin Greon.
I guessed that Pam and Joyce Vincent and Telma Hopkins would have become
involved after the initial project. I still have my original Candida LP
by Dawn. Bell SBLL 6052 (released through EMI Australia). Not much
information is given on the sleeve apart from the mention, naturally, of
the Tokens and Dave Appell. Norman Bergen, Philip Frederick Margo XIV
also get arranging credits along with Dave Appell. The eight line of the
credits make me smile: "Special Thanks to Tony Orlando". (Yes, I know the
story). Interesting to note that Ronnie Amodea gets a song recorded on
side 1. I believe he played bass guitar on the album.
Norman
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 07:57:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: Everly's two-fers
tymespan wrote:
> An online shop connected with an Everly Brothers website has the next
> three releases in the Everly's two-fers available as pre-orders. No
> mention of when they'll be available but they have all the track
> listings: http://www.rockytop.nl/kentucky/
This is great news since I thought they'd given up. Wonder why 2 Yanks
and Image weren't put out first? They would have really kicked off the
series in a grand style.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:23:32 -0000
From: Billy G. Spradlin
Subject: Re: Satisfaction
> I always heard that Satisfaction started as a riff that Keef heard
> one night and captured on his brand new cassette recorder. Never
> heard anything about Roy and that tune.
Another story goes that the Stones wanted to use a horn section
on "Satisfaction" but Andrew Loog Oldham didnt want to pay session
musicans or they were running behind on session time. So Keith used
fuzztone instead. Vox proably sold more fuzztone stomp boxes from
that 45 than any ad.
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:49:13 -0000
From: Phil Chapman
Subject: Re: Satisfaction
Steve Harvey:
> I always heard that Satisfaction started as a riff that Keef
> heard one night and captured on his brand new cassette recorder.
> Never heard anything about Roy and that tune.
This subject cropped up briefly a year or so ago in digest #260:
http://www.spectropop.com/archive/digest/m728.html
Here's my two-penn'orth:
> ....it was ALO who played The Supremes' "My World Is Empty
> Without You" to Mick & Keith in order to 'influence' the
> writing of their next hit "Paint It Black"............. I got
> this straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, when I was
> making tea...er, assistant engineer, on a Stones session. It was
> also revealed that the guitar riff on "Satisfaction" was
> 'influenced' by the opening brass figure of "Nowhere To Run"
> . However, all parties at
> the time were under the influence of much more than just girl
> group classics :-)
And yes, I vaguely remember Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" being
mentioned as well.
Phil
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:58:01 -0000
From: Tim Viney
Subject: Re: Matt Monro
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that Frank Sinatra rated Matt
Monro very highly. I must admit that I am more and more appreciative,
these days, of Matt Monro's body of work.
Tim
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:23:25 +0000
From: Richard Havers
Subject: Re: Satisfaction
The Satisfaction saga.......this is what I wrote in Bill Wyman's recent
book.....from his diaries and contemporary accounts.
We wrote it in Tampa, Florida, by a swimming pool. It was Keith's
initial idea. (Mick - Rolling Stone Magazine October 1968)
Mick's memory failed him, it was written in Clearwater Florida. Keith
woke up in the middle of the night with the riff in his head and put it
down on tape. In the morning Mick said the words for the riff were I
Can't Get No Satisfaction. (Bill)
On Monday 10th May they went to Chess Studios at 1 p.m. and worked
until 10 p.m. amongst the tracks they cut was 'Satisfaction',
I didn't think much of 'Satisfaction' when we first recorded it. We
had a harmonica on then, and it was considered to be a good B-Side or
maybe an LP track. (Keith - NME 3rd September 1965)
I heard a Demo of the original track before the fuzz-tone was put on,
and it was Brian on harmonica. I made a bet with Mick, Keith and Brian,
that it was going to be the biggest record the Stones had ever had,
even before the fuzz-tone was put on. (DJ Scott Ross)
Two days later (may 12th) they were at RCA Studio in Hollywood with
Dave Hassinger re-working 'Satisfaction'.
Charlie put down a different tempo, and with the addition of a
fuzz-box on my guitar, which takes off all the treble, we achieved a
very interesting sound. (Keith - NME 3rd September 1965)
After we had listened to the Master we discussed whether it should be
the next Single. Andrew and Dave Hassinger were very positive about it,
so we put it to the vote. Andrew, Dave, Stu, Brian, Charlie and I voted
'yes', while Mick and Keith voted 'no'. It became the next single by
the majority vote. (Bill)
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 22:11:50 -0000
From: Jeff Lemlich
Subject: Re: Satisfaction etc
An argument can also be made about the influence of "It's The Same
Old Song" on the Stones' "Under My Thumb"...
Jeff Lemlich
http://www.limestonerecords.com
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