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There are 19 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Warren Schatz
From: Stephane Rebeschini
2. Re: Beau Brummels
From: Alan Gordon
3. Re: Warren Schatz
From: Mike Rashkow
4. Re: Popeye-Nnillssonn
From: Roger Smith
5. Re: Little Eva
From: Andrew Jones
6. Strawberry Park
From: Mark Frumento
7. Re: KMPX
From: Alan Gordon
8. Lindsey Buckingham - can i ask this?
From: Alan Gordon
9. Cokes all round
From: S'pop Team
10. Re: Strawberry Park
From: JJ
11. John Randolph Marr / Nilsson related
From: JJ
12. Re: Shames/Consortium
From: Mark Frumento
13. Re: The one and only Cher
From: Mary
14. Re: Strawberry Park
From: Mikey
15. The Innocents interviewed!
From: Country Paul
16. Re: Tony Hatch & Bobby Rydell
From: Mick Patrick
17. Re: The one and only Cher
From: Shawn Baldwin
18. Little Eva
From: John Clemente
19. IDs, please!
From: John Frank
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:11:37 +0200
From: Stephane Rebeschini
Subject: Re: Warren Schatz
George Ritter writes:
> I noticed your thread and wonder if you might know where
> veteran producer Warren Schatz is working these days. Band
> members of a group (Banchee) he produced 35 years ago are
> looking for him.
Warren Schatz can be contacted at:
Warren Schatz
Perfect Sound Studios, Inc.
105 West 55 Street / Suite 4F
New York, NY 10019
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:48:13 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: Beau Brummels
Dave Swanson:
> Finally...great news on the Beau Brummels Rhino Handmade thing.
> Any idea what is will be?
Dave:
I hear it will be "mostly" complete. All the albums, but missing some
of the very redundant stuff on that Sundazed box set from a few years
back. But that's all I know.
peace,
albabe
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:13:12 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: Warren Schatz
George Ritter writes:
> I noticed your thread and wonder if you might know where
> veteran producer Warren Schatz is working these days. Band
> members of a group (Banchee) he produced 35 years ago are
> looking for him.
Just an anecdote re Schatz, I remember playing him a song that I had
written -- he suggested a harmonic variant that was perfect, added
another dimension to the section. Best change given me since my Mom
dealt me a new diaper. Warren was all self taught both as a studio
mechanic and a musician--kind of grew up at Associated Recording from
what I understand---maybe even a foster son of one of the owners.
Very nice guy.
Rashkovsky
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:58:11 -0400
From: Roger Smith
Subject: Re: Popeye-Nnillssonn
> I hear that the "Popeye" movie is coming out on DVD sometime soon.
> Good news for Nnillssonn fans.
Unfortunately, there won't be any extras on the DVD. It would have been
cool to hear a Robert Altman commentary on the wild things that went on
in Malta during the filming. Of course, that might have made the DVD
unsuitable for children. :-)
According to Nilssonian Curtis Armstrong, BMG has been talking with
Marakumi Wolf and Harry's estate about the possibility of a DVD release
of "The Point!" Dunno if anything will come of it, but it's interesting
news!
-- Roger
http://www.harrynilsson.com/
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:43:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Jones
Subject: Re: Little Eva
About Little Eva: A genuinely talented girl who was in the right place
at the right time (baby-sitting for Goffin and King). Hail and farewell!
About WLS/WCFL: When I was a kid, my brothers would sometimes tune in to
WLS in the Sixties - to a small-town kid in Michigan, that station was
awesome. I listened to it again for a brief time in the mid-Eighties -
it was still great. I discovered WCFL around that same time
(mid-Eighties), ironically not because of its music programming, but for
an old-radio-drama show that ran on it every week! I did get to listen
to its music, though, and I was really saddened when it changed its
format to ... well, let's not get into that here.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:14:06 -0000
From: Mark Frumento
Subject: Strawberry Park
I recently got a 45 by a group called Strawberry Park: "Summer Is a
Coming" b/w "Beach Party." It's dated 1982 but is a dead ringer for
10cc doing the Beach Boys. Both sides are really great, melodic
harmony pop cira the late 60s. The 45 I have is from Australia but it
looks like the group may be from Sweden or Holland based on the
copywrite information on the label. The producers and writers are Rob
and Ferdi Bolland. Anyone know anything about this group or the record?
I can play the record to music if that would help.
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:51:58 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: KMPX
Country Paul:
> Apropos of nothing, a friend sends me lists of this stuff periodically,
> and today's (April 7th) birthdays include an interesting cross-section:
> 1967 - Progressive Rock radio begins at KMPX-FM, San Francisco
God I'm old.
peace,
albabe
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:37:25 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Lindsey Buckingham - can i ask this?
One more before I get back to work. Anyone know anything about Lindsey
Buckingham's unreleased followup to his '92 "Out Of The Cradle" album,
"Gift Of Screams?"
albabe
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:52:12 +0100
From: S'pop Team
Subject: Cokes all round
Dear members,
Anniversaries can be stressful events. It's a year since
Jamie went to that great Tiki Room in the sky. Would he
have wanted this day to be an unhappy one? We doubt it.
Chances are he'd prefer we mixed an exotic cocktail and
remembered some happy times. Alas, we can't shake a fresh
Daiquiri for all 900 of you. However, we are able to offer
Cokes all round. Better yet, your barstaff today are:
Petula Clark, Jan & Dean, Fontella Bass, the Vogues,
Nancy Sinatra, the Four Seasons and Sandy Posey.
Click here and they'll be right along to take your order:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectropop/files/musica/
Cheers Jamie,
The S'pop Team
Spectropop - Spectacular! Retro! Pop!
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:09:33 -0000
From: JJ
Subject: Re: Strawberry Park
Mark Frumento wrote:
> I recently got a 45 by a group called Strawberry Park: "Summer Is a
> Coming" b/w "Beach Party." It's dated 1982 but is a dead ringer for
> 10cc doing the Beach Boys. Both sides are really great, melodic
> harmony pop cira the late 60s. The 45 I have is from Australia but it
> looks like the group may be from Sweden or Holland based on the
> copywrite information on the label. The producers and writers are Rob
> and Ferdi Bolland. Anyone know anything about this group or the record?
> I can play the record to music if that would help.
*c.1981 BOLLAND & BOLLAND(Rob and Ferdi) had a hit with "In the army
now", but the more famous Big hit vers. is fr c.86, by Status Quo.
I´m pretty sure they came fr Holland.
JJ
a rare visit to these shores...
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:01:11 -0000
From: JJ
Subject: John Randolph Marr / Nilsson related
Can anyone supply any vital info on JOHN RANDOLPH MARR, who made one LP
on US WB Seven Arts, late ´69/early ´70......Produced by NILSSON HOUSE
PRODUCTIONS in association with Brit GARY OSBORNE(ex-Vigrass & Osborne/
Choc Watchband == UK gr, not the US). Have a (gut) feeling JRM is English,
but not sure.
Thanx!
JJ/Sweden
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:54:30 -0000
From: Mark Frumento
Subject: Re: Shames/Consortium
Kingsley Abbott wrote:
> Question for Clark Besch or anyone who knows - Is the Shames CD on
> Varese? Still available?
I guess without going back too many posts this is about the Cryin'
Shames? Thier complete output (that I know of) is available on
Sundazed released last year. Of the 3 LPs (on CD the 45s are added)
my favorite is A Scratch in the Sky. It's really an underrated
harmony pop LP. The strongest of songs being "A Carol for Lorelei"
but plenty of other great tracks. The CD added the great "It Could be
We're in Love" and their version of "Young Birds Fly" which holds up
against the version by the mightly Flower Pot Men.
While we're on the subject of harmony pop I've read that Sanctuary is
preparing a compilation of material by the great UK band Consortium.
Anyone know details? The partial track listing I saw looks great.
It's about time this band get it's own CD!!
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Message: 13
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:49:41 -0000
From: Mary
Subject: Re: The one and only Cher
> Unfortunately I missed the NBC broadcast of the CHER Final
> Tour, which aired tuesday past.
> I missed it as well, but I DID catch her last Final Tour...
> there's always another one around the corner.....
I agree. There will probably be at least one or two more "farewell
tours". How many times did Frank Sinatra "retire" before he actually
did so? Will Cher beat his total?
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Message: 14
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:33:13 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Strawberry Park
Mark Frumento:
> I recently got a 45 by a group called Strawberry Park: "Summer Is a
> Coming" b/w "Beach Party." I can play the record to music if that
> would help.
>>>>Please do!!!!
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Message: 15
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:22:48 -0400
From: Country Paul
Subject: The Innocents interviewed!
As I've mentioned here before, I'm a big fan of the Innocents,
with and without Kathy Young. (You can find a recent photo of
them together at http://www.kathyyoung.com/Innocents.htm
taken April, 2002. Upon visiting The Innocents' interesting
website, http://www.theinnocentsmusic.com I had some questions
about their music, most of which are the kind of arcania that
we Spectropoppers delve into, which Jill West (I'm assuming
Jim West's wife) was kind enough to answer for me via e-mail
(and let me share with you) on behalf of The Innocents.
American fans can get the Ace CD, which reissues the bulk
of their Indigo output, at the site. The CD came out in 1992
and has a lot of very nice previously-unreleased demos. Sadly,
omitted from the package was their excellent 45 on TransWorld,
"Tick Tock" [Goodnight My Darling]/"The Rut." I asked about
its history. Jill responded:
"'Tick Tock' was put out on TransWorld - produced by Gary
Paxton, Kim Fowley and Bobby Rey. They also produced 'Honest
I Do' and the flipside 'My Baby Hully Gullys.' When we signed
with Indigo Records and 'Honest I Do' started charting, they
released 'Tick Tock.' We never did other recordings on Trans-
World.
"To answer your question re: 'The Rut' [an instrumental], it
was played by the studio musicians that backed us when Paxton
and Fowley produced 'Honest I Do.'... When 'Honest I Do' rocketed
up the charts on Indigo and Paxton and Fowley had only one cut of
ours, 'Tick Tock,' they put together 'The Rut' for a flipside so
they could release a single.
"There are cuts on the Ace CD that they included which were never
completed and not intended for release, but it appears that Ace
included everything of ours that Indigo had on tape - ready or
not. (Three of the songs we wrote are incorrectly credited - we
will be addressing this.) We think they did an excellent job of
remastering and got a quality sound from the existing masters -
some songs which they did not have masters for they took off
discs."
I asked about a post-Innocents 45 credited to Bobby James: "5000
Tears Ago" [wr. Batcheld-Roberts]/"Memories Linger" [wr. John
Marci], Indigo IND-145, "A Mar-Vic Production," arr./cond/by
Clyde "Skip" Battin:
"'5000 Tears Ago' was done by Jim West [the group's distinctive
lead voice]. It was the last music done on Indigo and was done
by Jim to get out of contract (he used his middle name - Robert -
and his first name - James - hence, Bobby James). There is no CD
of this, we hope to include it in a compilation of our works we
are working on."
One of the songs on the Ace CD I hadn't heard before came from
the Innocents' Indigo album [LP-503, "Innocently Yours," 1961].
I asked about the trade-off of lead vocals on this beautiful track:
"The second lead in 'It Was a Tear' is Al Candelaria. He is the
lower voice that you hear in the part 'at last...'. Jim West does
leads and high harmony. Darron Stankey does middle harmony. Al
Candelaria does low harmony. Al's voice is soft and wide."
This quote comes from the Innocents' website:
"We are in the process of compiling material that many of you have
never heard. It will include 'My Heart Stood Still,' which we are
proud to report came in at #8 in the 2002 Top 50 Countdown
presented by Dave Justice on his 'radioactivegold.com' radio show
of his most requested songs of the year. We are also writing new
songs that will be available."
Of course, I had to ask when these would be forthcoming, and if
there were other projects happening. Jill answered:
"We are currently finishing our 1984 4-song EP which will be
available on our site soon (we have a late May target date). We
hope to do a compilation of many of our songs that are not available
on CD this year. We hope to include 'Tick Tock' with it. We are
also planning to have two original Christmas songs ready by the
holiday season this year.
"Jim is also working on music with a country and adult contemporary
spin - and has begun rehearsing for a part in an upcoming musical
so,.....the beat goes on!!"
--signed "Jill West for THE INNOCENTS"
In closing, if you like the group check out the site and let them
know if you'd be interested in their new and unreleased work.
P.S.: Could anyone please direct me to an Indigo 45rpm discography?
I've seen Both Sides Now's excellent history and album discography
at http://www.bsnpubs.com/indigo.html but can't find a listing of
singles.
Country Paul
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Message: 16
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:26:14 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Tony Hatch & Bobby Rydell
Mike Edwards:
> I was listening to a spoken track by Bobby Rydell entitled
> "A Message From Bobby" where he discusses his then current LP
> "Top Hits Of 1963". Bobby mentions that during the course of
> that year he visited London for the premiere of "Bye Bye Birdie",
> met the Royal Family and recorded some tracks in London. One of
> these of course was "Forget Him", written by Tony Hatch, which
> reminded me that Tony wrote under two pseudonyms, Mark Anthony
> and Fred Nightingale. Mick Patrick recently asked for some
> questions to submit to Tony, so does Tony have any comments on
> the Bobby Rydell sessions? The resultant LP "Forget Him"
> contained some fabulous songs, such as "Darling Jenny" that Tony
> wrote.
I have at my side a copy of the New Musical Express 1964 Annual,
published in late 1963, price 3 shillings and 6 pence. Contained
therein is a nice article entitled 'The Story Behind The Song' by
David Gillard, from which I quote:
> I opened the pages of my daily paper one morning and the first
> thing that I saw were the headline's of a woman columnist's
> article - FORGET HIM IF HE DOESN'T LOVE YOU. And immediately as
> I read that, a tune came into my head. It kept coming back to me
> all day at the office, so in the dinner hour I decided to settle
> down and write a song with the words I had read as the opening
> line. I managed to do it and offered the finished product to
> Bobby Rydell when he came to Britain. He liked it and recorded
> it but neither of us even thought that it would be released as a
> single, let alone turn out to be a worldwide hit. Just goes to
> show you the power of the press.
> TONY HATCH
"Forget Him", produced by Tony Hatch and written by him using the
pen-name Mark Anthony, was a #13 hit for Bobby Rydell in the UK in
the summer of 1963. The record reached #4 in the USA early the
following year. I spent years thinking this delicious song was
written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Wrong! I'd also highly
recommend Tony's own instrumental version.
More Tony Hatch stories to follow.
Mick Patrick
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Message: 17
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:53:25 -0500
From: Shawn Baldwin
Subject: Re: The one and only Cher
John Rausch:
> Unfortunately I missed the NBC broadcast of the CHER Final
> Tour, which aired tuesday past.
Dang - I really love Cher. I didn't think it had been aired
yet.
Shawn
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Message: 18
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:02:30 -0400
From: John Clemente
Subject: Little Eva
Hello All,
It is with much regret that I pass along the following
information:
Singer Little Eva of 'Loco-Motion' fame dies at 59
Friday, April 11, 2003 Posted: 4:22 PM EDT (2022 GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Singer Little Eva, who as a
teenager recorded the hit 1960s dance song "The Loco-Motion,"
has died after a long battle with cervical cancer, her manager
said Friday. She was 59. Eva Narcissus Boyd died Thursday at
Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston, North Carolina, manager
Brenda Cape said.
"She had cancer. She fought it for a long time," Cape said.
Boyd was working as a baby sitter for songwriters Carole King
and Gerry Goffin when they asked her to record a song they had
written called "The Loco-Motion" in 1962. The song was a hit
for Little Eva that year and again for Grand Funk Railroad in
1974. Boyd had other minor hits including "Keep Your Hands Off
My Baby" in 1962 and "Old Smokey Loco-Motion" in 1963. She sang
background for The Drifters, Ben E. King and others. Cape said
Boyd continued to work until October 2001 when she became too
weak from her illness to perform. Boyd is survived by two
daughters, a son, 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
I was fortunate enough to interview Little Eva for 'Girl Groups'.
May her legacy never die.
John Clemente
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Message: 19
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:33:46 -0700
From: John Frank
Subject: IDs, please!
Everybody knows now that Bonnie isn't Ronnie, and that Little
Eva (R.I.P.) really did sing "Loco-motion" and not her employer.
John Clemente confirmed for me in his book that The Halos on
Congress really were The Angels. But over time, I've accumulated
from here and there some questions about the identity of other
artists that I bet someone here can answer.
1. Linda Scott's back-up group on her 1963 version of "Let's Fall
In Love" (Congress 200) sounds suspiciously like The Tammys.
Could it be?
2. Another version of The Butterflys' "I Wonder" was released on
the SSS International label in 1969 and credited to The Blue
Angels. Are they really the Ronettes?
3. I don't want to start rumors, but to my ears, Marsha Brody
("Anything"/"Don't Tell Anyone", 20th Century, 1964) sounds a
lot like Ginny Arnell.
4. I got a couple of Dorothy Prince songs via a tape trade. On
the tape annotation, next to her name was "Betty Everett". Any
truth to that? Prince released 3 singles on the M-Pac label in
1963. The songs I got were "Hey Mister" and "Lost A Love".
5. And finally, a question about a songwriter: I keep encounter-
ing the last name Chandler as a writer of some excellent songs,
sometimes teaming up with Barry Devorzon. Who is this Chandler
(or these Chandlers, as the case may be)? Some examples are The
Cannon Sisters' "Second Best" and "I'm Sorry I Went", Dean
Cannon's "When Love Goes Wrong (Nothing Goes Right)", "Beginning
of the End," by Diane Emond, and probably the best-known one in
this list, "What About Me?" by Ramona King and by Charlotte
O'Hara, whom we also know as Bonnie.
Thanks to Mick and Phil for continuing to open my eyes to the
world of faux Shangs. Your help is immense!
John
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