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There are 9 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Odd Musical Moment on TV
From: David Coyle
2. Re: Linda Laurie
From: Artie Wayne
3. Re: Early Nancy Sinatra
From: David Ponak
4. Re: Radio concepts/Norah Jones
From: Stewart Mason
5. Re: Billy Spradlin's radio show
From: Billy G Spradlin
6. Re: Early Nancy Sinatra
From: Artie Wayne
7. Songs Of War
From: Patrick Rands
8. Re: Radio
From: Norman
9. Re: Linda Laurie & Bert Berns
From: Mick Patrick
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Coyle
Subject: Odd Musical Moment on TV
I was watching one of those blooper specials on I think it was ABC the
other night. It was a 50th anniversary show, hosted like always by Dick
Clark. Anyway, he showed an outtake that apparently hasn't been aired
before, from the show "McHale's Navy" in 1962. The cast was bored
waiting for the director to yell action, so they start improvising. One
of the cast members starts singing "Papa-oom-mow-mow," ala the great
Rivingtons hit, and another starts improv-ing lyrics in a high-pitched
doowoppish voice, singing "I love you baby, baby, I love you..." Pretty
soon the whole cast, including Ernest Borgnine, is "papa-oom-mow-mow"ing
and dancing around. It was pretty funny.
Of course, this was followed up by the classic "naked woman at the door"
clip from "The Soupy Sales Show."
David
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:18:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: Linda Laurie
Mick.......If you see Linda Laurie tell her Artie Wayne from Genghis
Cohen says "Hello". By the way.....Alex Harvey wrote "Delta Dawn".
regards, Artie
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:09:23 -0400
From: David Ponak
Subject: Re: Early Nancy Sinatra
Mike Edwards wrote:
> But you know, isn't the onus on Rhino Records to do the right thing
> and issue a compilation CD of Nancy's early Reprise 45s. I'm sure
> she has enough fans to make it a strong catalog item. Failing that,
> they should turn the tapes over to Sundazed (who reissued Nancy's
> albums) and prod them into bringing out a CD.
Rhino/Warner Strategic Marketing no longer owns these masters. They're
now in the hands of Nancy herself, so she (and her managment) calls
the shots as to how the material gets reissued and compiled.
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:34:48 -0400
From: Stewart Mason
Subject: Re: Radio concepts/Norah Jones
Tom Taber writes:
> With KB 1520 Buffalo, and Cincy's 1530 beside it at night, "Oldies"
> Radio is in better shape, IMnot-soHO, than it has been in years. I
> have been thinking of developing a concept to give such stations
> one element they are missing that original Top 40-50-60 stations
> had - some new songs added every week!
I have long said -- I believe at least once in this very forum -- that
I would love to program an oldies radio station that went on the air
on, say, January 1, 2004, that was limited in its playlists only to
songs that came out before, say, January 1, 1958. And on January 8,
2004, you can add any song that was released the week of January 1-7,
1958, and so on in perpetuity. I think that would be a fascinating
listen.
Country Paul notes:
> Rex again:
>> So we all like to buy the latest, well-marketed "slick" album (can
>> you say Norah Jones?), leaving less time and money to diversify.
>> Plus we remain safely part of the "in" crowd.
>
> I was actually privileged to see Norah Jones play live in a surprise
> appearance inder a nom de plume at a club in NYC, standing about 3
> 1/2 feet away from her. She was indeed very good - but not as
> overwhelming as I would expect with all the attendant hype. Frankly,
> I think that she sounds so different from all the divas and slick pop
> on Contemporary Hit Radio - plus she's no slouch in the looks
> department - that significant success, if not the overwhelming amount
> she's attracted, was inevitable.
It must also be said that if "Don't Know Why" had come out in 1965 on
Pye or MGM -- and there is absolutely no reason why it couldn't have,
from the song to its arrangement and production -- most people on this
list would be hailing it to the skies as a forgotten classic of the '60s
and demanding that someone play it to musica. It's a phenomenal song
and an excellent performance.
S
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:13:22 -0000
From: Billy G Spradlin
Subject: Re: Billy Spradlin's radio show
Mike Edwards:
> ...What is live 365? How do you program the shows? Are there any
> other shows that we should consider?
Check http://www.live365.com/broadcast/ for how to broadcast.
Basically all I do is upload my songs (mp3s) to their servers and
they stream them for me. Basic service costs 4.99 per month.
As for other stations - check the stations I have recommended or type
in oldies (or any genre) in the search box. Glad you liked the station.
BTW that's me doing the "Golden Age of Pop!" liner! :)
Billy
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: Early Nancy Sinatra
Mikey.....How ya' doin'. Have you ever heard the XXX rated version of
"Like I Do" It was actually commercially released on a b-side of one
of her early records. I heard that it was recorded as a joke.......
but it wasn't funny to her father Frank Sinatra who fired everybody
at the label who helped it escape!!!
I no longer have a copy of it.......I gave it to Stanley Greenberg
[Florences' son] which earned me some points at Scepter records.
regards,
Artie
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 15:30:55 -0000
From: Patrick Rands
Subject: Songs Of War
I'm not sure how many, if any of you, tuned in Tuesday night when I
played my songs of war segment on my radio show (90,3 FM in the
Boston area) but for the record here's what I played that hallowed
eve.
Songs of War radio special (Tues Apr 29th 2003, 06 -7:20 PM)
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Ballad Of The Ghost Squadron
Donna Lynn - Navy Blue
Diane Renay - Kiss Me Sailor
Fats Domino - Sailor Boy
Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Sailor Boy
Brenda Hall - Soldier Baby Of Mine
The Exceptions - Soldier Boy
The Soldier Boys - I'm Your Soldier Boy
The Detergents - Soldier Girl
Dale Brooks - Army Green
The Shangri-Las - Long Live Our Love
Sugar and Spice - Cruel War
Miss Toni Fisher - West Of The Wall
Phil Ochs - Draft Dodger Rag
The Turtles - Eve Of Destruction
The Spokesmen - Dawn Of Correction
Chris Lucey - World War 3
Major Herschel Gober - Picture Of A Man
The Zombies - Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)
The Pretty Things - Private Sorrow
The Animals - Sky Pilot
The Masters Apprentice - War Or Hands Of Time
Edwin Starr - Stop The War Now
Nara Leao - Grandola, Vila Morena
Vince Vance & The Valiants - Bomb Iran
Believe it or not I forgot to play The Shirelles song Soldier Boy.
I'd like to thank Phil Milstein and Phil Chapman for setting me up
with some of these songs, without them it would not have been
possible. Maybe next time I can go from 1980 to the present day
(Soldier Girl by Polyphonic Spree anyone?). Have a good one!
:Patrick
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 19:47:28 +0930
From: Norman
Subject: Re: Radio
Hi
With the recent discussion of available radio stations giving us our kind of
music I was prompted to share this site with you: http://www.coastfm.com.au/
It is a Community station in Adelaide that includes some interesting
programmes playing 50's 60's and 70's memories. Should anyone be interesting
to listening it is broadcasting via the net. The time zones would be a
problem I suppose. My recommendations would be Phil and Rob, John Morrissey,
Mark Constable, Alex Rex and Judith Waugh.
I have had the pleasure of appearing on three of those programmes playing my
choice of 60's pop so I know from experience that you will hear some
interesting titles spun with a distinctive Aussie outlook. John Morrissey has
a particular liking for music that is American, as well as Australian, and
often features the such gems as The Fireballs, American Breed and even Paul
Revere and the Raiders.
All music played by the announcers is their personal choice and because they
lived the 40's 50' 60's and 70's they know what was being listened to below
the top ten.
Cheers
Norman
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 19:26:56 +0100
From: Mick Patrick
Subject: Re: Linda Laurie & Bert Berns
My recent missive concerning Linda Laurie prompted an off list
response from Brett Berns, son of the great Bert. Here's an
extract:
> Thanks so much for your Linda Laurie bio...I don't know many
> people who could name Keetch, Caesar and Dino. (Dino was a
> Great Dane, though - a gift from my father's first publisher,
> Robert Mellin.)
>
> Ever since I first came across those two obscure (Linda Laurie)
> tracks - "Jose He Say" and "Chico," I have wondered just what
> they were thinking when they recorded those songs. Over the
> years, I've heard many stories about my dad's sense of humor,
> and I like to think that "Jose He Say" is a really wonderful
> example of this...And the flip side "Chico" (co-written with
> Linda Laurie) is one of my favorites, a rich expression of his
> passion for Latin grooves and horns.
>
> Do you know how to get in touch with Linda Laurie? Is she in
> New York City?
Linda Laurie's most famous composition, "Leave Me Alone (Ruby
Red Dress)", is published by Anne-Rachel Music Corp and Warner/
Chappell Music Inc of Los Angeles, and The Brooklyn Music Co of
Santa Barbara. I suspect Anne and Rachel are Linda's middle names,
making her Linda Anne Rachel Gertz. I imagine she would be
contactable via one or the other of those companies.
I have a nice photograph of Linda buried in my collection, plus
a 7-inch 4 track EP from France containing her above-mentioned
pair of Keetch label recordings, should such pictorial artefacts
ever be required.
Brett, can you tell me anything about another of your father's
Keetch acts, the Pussycats, purveyors of the cod-Jamaican "Come
On And Ska"?
Mick Patrick
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