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There are 2 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Jeff Foskett / Melisma / Ian Whitcomb
From: James Botticelli
2. Re: Demis Roussos
From: Frank
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:50:46 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Jeff Foskett / Melisma / Ian Whitcomb
Kingsley Abbott:
> any current discussion on classy falsettos should include Jeff Foskett,
> currently with Brian Wilson's band.
and aural evidence of this assertion of Jeff's prowess can be found
at......?
Bob Rashkow:
> I take it melisma is that variance of notes within one single
> note that everybody's been into in the last decade or so?
essential question...what are we using as baseline value??..hard to answer
to be sure, may we open to members? (hey that wasn't s'posed to come across
that way!)
James F. Cassidy:
> (Ian Whitcomb) also earned instant Spectropop hero status for producing
> Mae West's rock 'n' roll album on Tower in the mid-'60s.
Elaboration please?
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:30:54 +0100
From: Frank
Subject: Re: Demis Roussos
> ...the worst proponent of them all--Demis Roussos....
Demis Roussos was (and still is) an incredibly gifted singer. I've known him
personally from the very beginning (I co-wrote one of the Aphrodite's early
song). He could have done great things if he had been interested but I
always had the feeling that he was just there for the money (unlike his pal
Vangelis) and he did not really care. Bad management took him away from the
success he had in the beginning. He now regularly gives concerts in
churches.
Frank
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