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There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: unanswered question
From: Phil Chapman
2. Re: wayne newton
From: Artie Wayne
3. Round Robin/Betty Barnes/Ann Sidney
From: Ian Chapman
4. Author! Author!
From: Stuffed Animal
5. Re: My Name Is Michael
From: Mike Rashkow
6. Re: A question for Mike Rashkow
From: Mike Rashkow
7. Re: Metropolitan Soul on Soul 24-7 playlist 9th March 2003
From: Michael Edwards
8. Re: unanswered question
From: Mike Rashkow
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:33:37 -0000
From: Phil Chapman
Subject: Re: unanswered question
Rich:
> Have a song in my music files [Studio "A" -
> Don't Forget About Me] I found a while ago and
> I sent to a friend, and he swears the lead vocal
> is by someone he has heard before....
I played both sides of this interesting one-off (1967)
to musica last January, and would really like to know
who's singing the lead. Here's the label info:
Studio "A" - Don't Forget About Me (Kapp K-840).
Arranged:Al Gorgoni, Engineer:Brooks Arthur
(A Daughter's Music Production).
Phil
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:07:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: wayne newton
James Botticelli:
> His voice was the very model of control in his youthful
> days. I never tire of listening to him.
James.......I agree with you Wayne Newton always had a
compelling voice.....I always thought he could've been
bigger in pop music if he hadn't persued a career in Vegas.
Anyway, I'm proud to have written "Better Now than Later"
[with Ben Raleigh] which was the B-side of "Danke Schoen".
regards,
Artie Wayne
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:39:02 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Round Robin/Betty Barnes/Ann Sidney
Guy Lawrence wrote:
> I'm looking to get together a Round Robin discography and
> a "Complete Works" CDR for my own amusement but I need a
> bit of help. Can anyone tell me the name of the duet he
> recorded with Yvonne Carroll?
Guy, the duet is the perennial "Don’t Let Go", on Domain
1407. The flip is an instrumental, "Up & Down" – no writer
is credited. Both sides bear the usual "Sepe/Brooks
Productions" logo. For the record, my fave Round Robin
track is "Little People".
Country Paul asked for Betty Barnes "Requiem (For A Girl
Born Of The Wrong Times)" to be played to musica. It’s now
there for all to experience. Paul, I’d like to hear your
reaction - and anyone else’s - to what I regard as the
ultimate in the girl-group death-disc genre. I currently
have Ms. Barnes Kapp follow-up winging its way across the
Atlantic. I await with interest – how could anybody follow
that??!!!
John Frank:
> (who is still amazed that Ann Sidney's "The Boy In The
> Woolly Sweater" made it to at least #8 in Las Cruces,
> New Mexico. Despite the bad review in "That Will Never
> Happen Again", I love it!)
Bad review? Umm...I guess that was me. What did I put –
was it that bad? (Checks) "Breathtakingly dreadful". Oh.
Quickly back-pedalling, I admit I failed to appreciate this
camp little classic. Hey, it was a long time ago – tastes
change, we grow up!! It is in fact a record I wouldn’t like
to part with today. It came from the pen of UK
singer/songwriter Valerie Avon, ex of the Avons, who scored
with their UK cover of "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The
Back Seat".
And Ann Sidney herself? There’s a story. She eclipsed her
Butlin’s Holiday Camp "Miss She" title, won in 1964, by
taking the Miss World crown later that same year. After
that, the world was her oyster. She went on to join Bob
Hope on his ’64 USO military Christmas tour of Vietnam,
appeared in the Dirk Bogarde movie "Sebastian" in ’67 and
three years later played Dana in the Mick Jagger cult film,
"Performance" (hey, a Nitzsche link, Martin!) Some may recall
her scene with James Fox. Let’s just say neither of them
were wearing woolly sweaters.
Ian
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:00:27 +0000
From: Stuffed Animal
Subject: Author! Author!
The Righteous Brothers in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame....great! Fantastic! A well-deserved honor for
Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. I don't know anybody who
thinks they shouldn't be inducted. So I'm happy....
....until I remember that Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, who
wrote the songs that put the Righteous Brothers on the map
(not to mention the fact that "Lovin' Feelin'" is the most
played rock 'n' roll record of all-time) are still not in
the Hall. That's when I get P****D! Grrrrrowf! Snarl!
Stuffed Animal is no longer happy! Is the nominating board
holding some kind of grudge against Brill Building songwriters?
There's absolutely no excuse for it when AC/DC can get into
the RRHF while Jeff and Ellie, Barry and Cynthia, Neil and
Howie and Bob Crewe sit cooling their heels, waiting and
waiting and WAITING to get their props! What's the *^*#+*&
matter with these people? This is like snubbing the British
Royal Family as far as I'm concerned.
Stuff
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:11:54 EST
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: My Name Is Michael
Dan wrote:
> For the record, the song's title is "Playground In My Mind".
Never remember anything you can look up.
Albert Einstein
as quoted by Rashkovksy
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:13:40 EST
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: A question for Mike Rashkow
> if someone were to go back to the originals and
> do just that!
I'd like to go back to all my originals and make them
sound better. Most of them make me cringe.
Rashkovsky
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:15:06 -0000
From: Michael Edwards
Subject: Re: Metropolitan Soul on Soul 24-7 playlist 9th March 2003
Simon White wrote:
> For those who missed the show....
And for those who didn't miss it. Thanks for the songs in
musica. As I was listening to the Ad Libs, I noticed that
http://www.recordmaster.com shows it has a value of $300!
So really, thanks! Eden Kane's "Magic Town" is a nice
alternative to the Vogues.
I noticed a distinct mellowing of the pace on Sunday's show.
Was that intentional or is the "scene" moving that way? The
combination of:
Freddie Scott - Where Does Love Go - Colpix
Dee Dee Sharp - The Night - Cameo, and
Pat Thomas - I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face - Verve
could have easily made a Popcorn Oldies' playlist. A very
enjoyable two hours. Thanks
Mike Edwards
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:16:58 EST
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: unanswered question
Phil C. writes:
> would really like to know
> who's singing the lead. Here's the label info:
> Studio "A" - Don't Forget About Me (Kapp K-840).
> Arranged:Al Gorgoni, Engineer:Brooks Arthur
> (A Daughter's Music Production).
I'm going to take a guess - Jon Voight's brother who wrote
"Angel Of The Morning" and "Wild Thing".....Chip Taylor.
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