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Jamie LePage (1953-2002)
http://www.spectropop.com/Jamie.htm
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There are 4 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. A Message From The Lovelites
From: S'pop Team
2. Re: RIP Adam Faith
From: Peter Lerner
3. Count Five
From: Doc
4. RE: Smith, Hooven and Winn
From: Alan Warner
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:09:57 -0000
From: S'pop Team
Subject: A Message From The Lovelites
I am writing to Spectropop members to tell you about some of
the wonderful things that occurred during our time talking to
Mick Patrick and collaborating with him and others on The
Lovelites' Story.
Although Linda and I have remained in touch all these years,
we had lost touch with our writers, Vinnie Poncia and Peter
Anders, as well with our third member Joanna. At one point
Mick turned me on to someone who was able to find someone to
connect me with Peter. The third person in this chain did
email me and I found out that the he is a close friend of
Peter's. Linda and I were so excited we could hardly stand
it! Anyway, after finding out that I could not contact Peter
via email, this connection, Rick, did speak with Peter and
about 2 weeks later Peter called me at home, after 36 years of
no contact...it was like we had never parted company. Later on
Linda spoke with Peter too. Peter still has some affiliations
with the music business that I hope you hear about that at a
later date.
Linda and I are planning a reunion with Peter and, hopefully,
Vinnie will be present too. Vinnie is still actively involved
in the music business. Peter and he are still good friends and
communicate regularly. If I get permission, I hope to get and
distribute some pictures of that reunion; so stand by! We remain
in touch with Rick as well, for he was so helpful in getting
Linda, Peter and myself to communicate.
So Spectropop friends, from the beginning to, now, the middle of
our journey, it has been nothing but fun. We also managed to
find our old manager, Larry Tashman, who has sent me some old
tapes of a group that Linnie and I knew in Brooklyn, but who
never recorded. Just the best in rock and roll, I must say.
Maybe we can get it to Mick to play it to Spectropop...I am not
sure about that yet, but I will certainly try.
All seems so much brighter knowing that old friends are well and
quite productive. Again, Linda and I thank Mick for making this
upcoming reunion possible. He is just the best, as you all know!!
We will be in touch and new things evolve.
Sincerely,
Louise and Linda of the Lovelites
http://www.spectropop.com/lovelites/index.htm
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 22:31:11 -0000
From: Peter Lerner
Subject: Re: RIP Adam Faith
We all had to buy our first 45 sometime, and mine was Parlophone
R4643, "Someone Else's Baby" by Adam Faith. It would have been
April 1960, and I would have been aged 12. It seems like a pretty
average song now, but those pizzicato strings and tense John Barry
accompaniment were wonderful then. The B-side was an exciting
arrangement of a Lionel Bart song "Big Time", all about teddy boys
and bicycle chains. All so far away now! And I bought Adam's next
single, too, another Vandyke/Johnny Worth piece of fluff, "How
About That!", with a beautiful song on the B-side, which I have
only recently recognised for what it was, an early Bacharach-David
collaboration, "With open arms". Adam sings like an angel on that
one. What a nice guy.
Peter
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 18:20:29 -0500
From: Doc
Subject: Count Five
In the Summer of '66, between high school and college, my best
friend and I took a VW road trip from Kansas to LA.
Driving along a road in Southern California, we passed a small
club. The sign out front advertised, Appearing Tonight, Count Five,
Psychotic Reaction.
We laughed. It sound like a really odd group and song. Acid Rock
was still on the horizon. And, we debated for miles, which was the
group name and which was the song title?
A few weeks later, Top 40 radio answered our question!
Too bad we didn't catch the show that night!
Doc
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 08:43:11 -0800
From: Alan Warner
Subject: RE: Smith, Hooven and Winn
Guy Lawrence:
> Anybody got any other credits on the writers -
> Smith, Hooven and Winn?
Smith is Alfred Smith which is Brenton Wood's real name;
he used his first name when, for the Whiz label, he recorded
duets with Shirley Goodman of 'Shirley & Lee' and 'Shirley
And Company' fame; they were billed as 'Shirley & Alfred'.
Messrs, Jeff Hooven and Hal Winn also had success with
teen star Johnny Crawford for whom they wrote his biggest
hit, CINDY'S BIRTHDAY (Del-Fi: 1962) as well as the follow-
up, YOUR NOSE IS GONNA GROW (Del-Fi, also '62).
Hal Winn wrote the lyric THREE STARS WILL SHINE TONIGHT to
Jerry Goldsmith & Pete Rugolo's THEME FROM DR. KILDARE which
became a Top Ten hit in '62 for the star of that TV show,
the crooning Richard Chamerlain.
Rock on!
Alan Warner
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