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There are 13 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Del etc
From: Dan Hughes
2. Re: Soul Quiz
From: Stephanie Campbell
3. More WBZ memories
From: Stewart Mason
4. Re: Phil Spector in the Telegraph
From: Neb Rodgers
5. Ford Theatre
From: Stewart Mason
6. Soul Quiz
From: Al Pavlow
7. Re: Producers Norman Gregg & H. Ratner
From: Jason
8. Re: Spector in the Telegraph
From: Estufarian
9. Re: Soul Quiz
From: Steve Harvey
10. Hardy Boys on CD
From: Christopher Davidson
11. MIke Smith Returns
From: John Hesterman
12. Re: Gigi Parker
From: Jeff Lemlich
13. Re: Fugs / Ford Theatre
From: James Botticelli
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:55:40 -0600
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Re: Del etc
The Bobster sez,
> My friend from Skokie, Ill. is 47 and
> he informed me the other night that
> quite possibly DJ Clark Weber has
> passed on....
Or quite possibly he has not:
http://www.clarkweberassociates.com/
---Dan
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 01:05:17 -0000
From: Stephanie Campbell
Subject: Re: Soul Quiz
M. Anthony wrote:
> Another small quiz for you all. You might need your soul
> hats on for this one. Below is a list of records. They all
> have something very specific in common. Two things, actually.
> So what links them all? The quickest, smartest kid on the
> Spectropop block will win a selection of CDs from my
> collection.....
I know I'm wrong but I'm going to say they have a Motown
connection where someone either produced it or wrote the song
who was with Motown or connected with Motown. I think they all
have a Motown connection. Lori Burton wrote for Motown and Bettye
Lavette sang for Motown and some of the songs were written by
Motown writers. I think that's it.
Stephanie Campbell
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 00:19:29 -0500
From: Stewart Mason
Subject: More WBZ memories
Clark wrote:
> I'll never forget (Dick Summer's) sponsor, "The Psychedelic
> Supermarket".
James Botticelli replied:
> Now you're pushin' me buttons lad. My formative concert going
> years were spent at The Psychedelic Supermarket, now a parking
> garage at Boston University if it hasn't been filled with
> Big Dig Dredge (locals know what I be talkin' 'bout here).
> I saw Moby Grape, The Fugs, Country Joe & The Fish, Procol
> Harum, & Blood Sweat & Tears here, a smoky basement/garage
> that seemed like the hippest place on the planet in 1968.
My wife's first concert that she went to by herself was the Fugs
at the Psychedelic Supermarket. She was all of 13 at the time,
and two questions bug her about this: 1) Why she wanted to go
since, although she likes them a lot now, she wasn't a particular
Fugs fan at the time, and 2) Why on earth her parents -- who were
a professional photographer and the manager of several Cambridge
coffeehouses and were most hip on the folk scene, certainly enough
to know the Fugs -- nonetheless *let their 13-year-old daughter
go alone to a Fugs concert!*
I forwarded her everyone's memories of WBZ and she responded with
a question: she used to listen to Dick Summer's overnight show
on her transistor as an impressionable pre-teen, and she remembers
a song he used to play regularly that she thinks might have been
taken from one of the aforementioned books of poetry, along it
was definitely sung. It was a counting song, and the main lines
she remembers are:
1 hen, 02 ducks, 03 speckled geese
8 brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
9 something something old men on roller skates
10 lyrical spherical denizens of the deep
and
700 Macedonians in full battle array
Anyone remember that?
S
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:36:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Neb Rodgers
Subject: Re: Phil Spector in the Telegraph
Here's a link to the recent Phil Spector interview from
The Telegraph.
-Neb
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Pop's lost genius
(Filed: 04/02/2003)
Phil Spector produced some of the greatest pop hits of all time,
from Be My Baby to Imagine. Notoriously eccentric in his heyday,
his slow retreat into self-imposed exile only multiplied the
myths that surrounded him: insane genius, tyrannical egomaniac,
demented control freak. The reality is no less extraordinary.
In his first interview for 25 years, he breaks his silence to
Mick Brown
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/02/04/bmspec01.xml
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 00:45:18 -0500
From: Stewart Mason
Subject: Ford Theatre
While I'm at it, does anyone have any info/memories/opinions
on the Boston band Ford Theatre? They had two albums on
ABC-Dunhill in '68 and '69, TRILOGY FOR THE MASSES and
TIME CHANGES, and one local hit single in late '67, "Who You
Belong To," which was truthfully their only really great
song. I'm just wondering because my friend R. Stevie Moore,
a cult hero of no small stature himself, is the nephew of Ford
Theatre's guitarist, Harry Palmer, and considers his uncle his
greatest mentor and biggest fan.
S
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:58:49 -0500
From: Al Pavlow
Subject: Soul Quiz
Just a quick guess:
They're all Motown-related...Jobete published tunes
Al P
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:50:43 -0000
From: Jason
Subject: Re: Producers Norman Gregg & H. Ratner
Claus wrote re. Norman Gregg & H. Ratner:
> Anyone with similar interest in these producers?
It's interesting you mention this. I was desperate for info
on this producer as well! I do believe it was just one guy--
Norm Ratner. I've got him as producer of The Forum on Mira
Records, The Hook on UNI and Mark Eric on Shamley (a UNI
subsidiary). The Mark Eric LP in particular is amazing...
great Beach Boys styled harmony drenched pop. From what I
can tell, Ratner started off on Mira with The Leaves and The
Forum and then progressed on towards UNI. I'm a big fan of
the UNI label in general and would love to get my hooks on
that Orange Colored Sky & Future LPs!
Jason
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 20:55:18 -0000
From: Estufarian
Subject: Re: Spector in the Telegraph
The article is on the Telegraph web site:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?
xml=/arts/2003/02/04/bmspec01.xml
Good reading.
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 16:26:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: Soul Quiz
They all came out on those little black records we used to call 45s!
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 06:32:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Davidson
Subject: Hardy Boys on CD
I think I posted this info some time ago, but both Hardy Boys
albums are indeed available on CD -- not quite kosher, of
course, but they're out there. Check out the following website:
http://www.wingnuttoons.com/ToonsCD.html ...and you'll find a
bunch of home-recorded (albeit very professionally) CDs of
bubblegum & TV-related music. The owner of the site likes to
trade music for music, or video for video. The Hardy's CDs were
taken off very clean copies of the albums.
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Chris Davidson
The Sixth Dave Clark Five
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:55:53 -0800
From: John Hesterman
Subject: MIke Smith Returns
For those of you who may be interested, Mike Smith (keyboardist, lead
vocalist and primary writer) of the Dave Clark Five will be touring the U.
S. East Coast and Midwest in March. His new band, Mike Smith's Rock Engine
literally kicks tail! For information on his schedule, go to
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Theater/9169/index2.html .
Looking good, Mike!
JWH
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 22:25:38 -0000
From: Jeff Lemlich
Subject: Re: Gigi Parker
Doo Wop Daddy wrote:
> re gigi parker: the four seasons appear on the song "lonely girl
> blue". others may appear on this side also. as far as the other
> side, i have not heard it, so i can not offer an opinion.
Both sides are now playing in musica.
Jeff Lemlich
http://www.limestonerecords.com
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:25:21 -0500
From: James Botticelli
Subject: Re: Fugs / Ford Theatre
Stewart Mason wrote:
> My wife's first concert that she went to by herself was the Fugs
> at the Psychedelic Supermarket. She was all of 13 at the time,
> and two questions bug her about this: 1) Why she wanted to go
> since, although she likes them a lot now, she wasn't a particular
> Fugs fan at the time
Because they were called The Fugs which sounds like _________, and she
probably wanted to hear them sing either "Slum Goddess From The Lower
East Side" or "Saran Wrap". Plus Tuli wore a license plate on his zipper
that said "DICK".
> 2) Why on earth her parents -- who were a professional photographer
> and the manager of several Cambridge coffeehouses and were most hip on
> the folk scene, certainly enough to know the Fugs -- nonetheless *let
> their 13-year-old daughter go alone to a Fugs concert!*
The answer to that lies in the question itself...they were Cambridge
liberals ;-)
> While I'm at it, does anyone have any info/memories/opinions
> on the Boston band Ford Theatre?
They were another band I saw at the Psychedelic Supermarket in '68 or '69.
Wall of Prog! So overblown that I loved it at the time. Sort of in that
Colleseum, If mode as I recall. I have a 45 by them somewhere with some over
the top title. Hope that helps...
JB
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