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Spectropop - Digest Number 831
- From: Spectropop Group
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003
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Jamie LePage (1953-2002)
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There are 8 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. New At S'pop
From: S'pop Team
2. Re: Faux Shangs / Sophisticated Boom Boom
From: Mick Patrick
3. Re: Brian Wilson
From: Mark Frumento
4. Tony Hatch
From: Mark Wirtz
5. B.T Puppy girls
From: Ian Chapman
6. Re: B.T. Puppy Girls
From: Martin Roberts
7. Re: The Cat In The Window
From: Billy G Spradlin
8. Re: Brian Wilson
From: Mark Wirtz
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:22:32 -0000
From: S'pop Team
Subject: New At S'pop
In no special order, the following features are new at S'pop.
Bonnie & the Treasures:
http://www.spectropop.com/HOTB/index.htm
The Lovelites:
http://www.spectropop.com/lovelites/index.htm
Where The Girls Are:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index.htm#WTGA5
George Goldner & Tico:
http://www.spectropop.com/tico/index.htm
Jimmy Jones:
http://www.spectropop.com/recommends/index.htm#JimmyJones
S'pop Remembers:
http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/
Enjoy!
The S'pop Team
Spectropop - Spectacular! Retro! Pop!
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:08:40 -0000
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Faux Shangs / Sophisticated Boom Boom
Pekka Johansson wrote:
> ...will the Pussycats' excellent song "The Rider" appear on a
> forthcoming volume (of "Where The Girls Are")? In my opinion,
> this is by far the best among their releases - one of those
> wonderful records that sound more like the Shangri-Las than
> the Shangri-Las themselves.
The S'pop Team have kindly obliged and played the above-mentioned
platter to musica. I concur, it's the absolute cat's whiskers.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/
Ppprrrrrrrrrrr
MICK PATRICK
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:44:23 -0000
From: Mark Frumento
Subject: Re: Brian Wilson
Watson wrote:
> Not so very long ago, I saw Brian Wilson burst into tears and
> bury his head between his knees at the very mention of Smile.
Steve Harvey wrote:
> My point is that I think Brian is sometimes purposely distant,
> but is actually a lot more attuned to what is going on than
> what others might think. It's more of a defensive facade than
> not being aware of his surroundings.
I guess on one hand I don't totally disagree with Watson but as
I read his message I was wondering if Brian started crying at
one more persistent fan asking yet another inane question about
an album that doesn't exist.
My thoughts on all this lean toward Steve's though I have never
met the man myself. Quality aside, I think Brian wants to be on
stage and I doubt anyone is forcing him to play music he doesn't
want to play.
For some reason it bugs people that Brian hired a band to make
him sound good. I don't hear anyone complaining when Neil Diamond
does the same thing.
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 01:27:21 -0000
From: Mark Wirtz
Subject: Tony Hatch
I am so very happy that Tony is finding the recognition
and appreciation that he is enjoying in this highly
respected forum. Tony was one of the very, very few
musical innovators and torch bearers during the 60s,
that may have been inspired by, but defied and refused,
to follow any "trends" or "rules" at large at the time.
Tony was (deservedly) fortunate by scoring in the US, a
fact that lent him an undeniable credibility and for which
I always envied him.
Bottom line, Tony was an original UK pop auteur maverick,
and he always has been, and remains, one of my heroes!
Mark Wirtz
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 01:59:04 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: B.T Puppy girls
Mike wrote:
> "Strange Strange Feeling" – Chiffons, Cinnamons [same
> group?]; "Why Am I So Shy" – Chiffons, Three Pennies [same
> group?]......
Country Paul:
> I believe the Chiffons and FOUR Pennies ("My Block,"
> Rust) were the same group, so it's possible.
Hi guys,
I see your logic, but I feel another girl-group urban myth
coming on here! (e.g. Shangri-Las=Bon-Bons=Beatlettes;
Ellie Greenwich=Butterflies; Ronettes back Chiffons on
"Love Me Like You're Gonna Lose Me" etc, etc).
The Chiffons, Cinnamons and Three Pennies were all separate
entities. The pre-teen-sounding Three Pennies' "Penny For
Your Thoughts" also came out as the Penny Sisters with a
different flip, but the same release number (501). I believe
these gals even had an album. As for the Cinnamons, their
first 45, "I'm Not Gonna Worry ('Cause I Know He's Mine)" is
girl-group excellence.
Anybody any info on the English Muffins 45?
Ian
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:06:17 -0000
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Re: B.T. Puppy Girls
Ian asked:
> Anybody any info on the English Muffins 45?
Hi Ian,
English Muffins, Penny Sisters and The Three Pennies are
different group names for the same recordings. The records
are so good they named the group thrice.
Martin
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 06:18:02 -0000
From: Billy G Spradlin
Subject: Re: The Cat In The Window
Mark F:
> I presumed that "More Golden Hits" was a compilation of
> material "previously recorded" to cash in on their past glory.
The Turtles left White Whale under very messy legal circumstances
(I think they broke up before while still under contract to the
label - and that took years to settle), so the label took the
band's unreleased and unfinished material and used it to pad out
albums like "Wooden Head" and "More Golden Hits". Some early LP
tracks like "Eve of Destruction" were also re-released as singles
to little success.
Billy
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 04:24:03 -0000
From: Mark Wirtz
Subject: Re: Brian Wilson
Hey, guys? Wake up! We all love music, and most of us revere
Brian for what he crucially and historically gave to it, and
us. Where are your manners? Your respect? So he's got a few
handicaps, so what? (don't YOU too, by now, have a few if
you're over 50???). For crying out loud, the man is not only
(miraculously) still alive, active, overcame one of his biggest
fears in life, to APPEAR live in public (now more than just as
a part of a band but as a featured soloist), severely lost weight,
has regained many of his previously lost psychological faculties,
has not only survived and rebounded from a normally fatal path,
but aparently manages to maintain a working couple relationship.
Think about those valiant feats!! (Many of you can't even go so
far as quitting smoking, DUH!), Don't you have any shame to so
ridiculously nit-pick aids like him reading cue cards to keep
things on track on stage (something you accept everytime you see
anybody on TV communicating anything, including our president!)?
All I can say is, thank God, Elvis is not rising from the grave
to only to be told he looks a bit pale and kinda shitty and doesn't
'rock' like he used to, or Marilyn Monroe resurrecting, only to be
told by you fireside critics that (by now, inevitably) she looks
like an old hag.
Come on, friends, get a hold of yourself! I, for one, would gladly
rob my savings to go and see Brian and his wonderful band, even he
were to merely recite the yellow pages (from cue cards).
And I bloody mean it!
Mark Wirtz
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