Spectropop - Digest Number 891

• From: Spectropop Group
• Date: Fri, 23 May 2003

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                        Jamie LePage (1953-2002)
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There are 16 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Diane Renay and Friends
           From: Mike Edwards 
      2. Re: Italian Graffiti
           From: Scott Swanson 
      3. Re: Heaven Sent Jingle
           From: George Leonard 
      4. Re: Artie Wayne & Bob Crewe
           From: Artie Wayne 
      5. Diane Renay & Friends Radio Show
           From: Wes Smith 
      6. Re: Adam and Eve - Buzz Cason
           From: Jeffrey Glenn 
      7. Re: Italian Graffiti
           From: Steve Crump 
      8. Re: Diane Renay & Friends Show
           From: Ronnie Allen 
      9. Re: Italian Graffiti
           From: Frank 
     10. Re: Heaven Sent Jingle
           From: Clark Besch 
     11. Re: Don't Go Breakin My Heart / Heaven Scent Commercial
           From: Justin McDevitt 
     12. Re: Stolen Licks
           From: Stewart Mason 
     13. Re: Anyone know who this was?
           From: Ken Silverwood 
     14. Re: Manfred  Mann
           From: David Mirich 
     15. Re: Italian Graffiti
           From: Mick Patrick 
     16. Re: Italian Graffiti
           From: James Botticelli 


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Message: 1
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:03:33 -0000
   From: Mike Edwards 
Subject: Diane Renay and Friends

Many thanks to Ronnie Allen for the Internet radio show that 
has just finished. Diane Renay was his guest and she hung in 
there for 3 great hours. Ronnie had gone to the trouble of 
assembling a bunch of phone-in tributes from such artists as 
Bobby Goldsboro, Lou Christie, Dee Dee Sharp, Johnny Tillotson 
and Eddie Rambeau. The real surprise was none other than Bob 
Crewe calling in live (we even heard his dog barking) and 
staying on for about half an hour to discuss Diane's career. 
Clearly, Ronnie put a lot of effort into getting all this 
together and he's earned all our thanks. Great job and great 
ending!

Mike Edwards





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Message: 2
   Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:57:00 -0700
   From: Scott Swanson 
Subject: Re: Italian Graffiti

Patrick Rands:
> My questions involve the following two songs:
> Emilio Pericoli / Quando Quando Quando
> Dino / Eravamo Amici

"Eravamo Amici" was written by a British beat group called the Shel Carson 
Combo, who moved to Italy in May 1963 and changed their name to The 
Rokes.  I think Dino's recording of the song may pre-date The Rokes' 
version (from c. 1964/65).

Francoise Hardy also recorded the song in 1964, as "Nous etions amies".

Hope this helps,

Scott
(swandwn@agora.rdrop.com)



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Message: 3
   Date: Thu, 22 May 03 22:52:22 -0700
   From: George Leonard 
Subject: Re: Heaven Sent Jingle

Wow, did that take me back. What is your interest? "Heaven Sent" was a 
saccharine, my-first-perfume for teenyboppers (we had one then, so I 
know.)
GL



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Message: 4
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:12:18 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Artie Wayne 
Subject: Re: Artie Wayne & Bob Crewe

Stuart..........Sorry but I don't remember the names of the demos I sang on for 
Bob Crewe or the nature of the problems he was having with the 4 seasons.

As far the secret remastering of the "Dawn" album .......technology being what 
it was you could only press so much information onto a "record" without it 
distorting or skipping. Every producer was trying to get more bass.........more 
highs......louder ....better sounding cuts sometimes made at obscenely high 
levels. Some companies like Motown were routinely able to accomplish this, but 
other companies prefered "safe" pressings cut at lower levels [to avoid returns]
so they would remake the "master" without the knowledge of the producers.

I remember when I co-produced the Shirelles and the Kingsmen in 1966, our
engineer, Bill Symsyck, carved our initials in the matrix, and we were able to 
spot check records that were being sold to make sure they were using our 
original parts...[they were]

regards, Artie Wayne



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Message: 5
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 06:59:30 -0000
   From: Wes Smith 
Subject: Diane Renay & Friends Radio Show

Congratulations to both Ronnie and Diane for the most captivating 3 
hours of TOTAL enjoyment!

My only regret was that the 3 hours went by in about an hour to me!

I can tell for sure that Diane's peers think just as highly of her as 
her many devoted fans do!

Thanks, Ronnie for all the work you did to help make it so GREAT---and 
also, thanks Diane, for being the WONDERFUL person that you really are!

Sincerely, Wes Smith






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Message: 6
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 06:30:42 -0700
   From: Jeffrey Glenn 
Subject: Re: Adam and Eve - Buzz Cason

Chris Ball:
> Can anyone help me with the lyrics, chord progression or even a copy of 
> 'Adam and Eve' by Buzz Cason. It was a hit here in Australia in 1968 (I 
> think!). Great song - a real cult classic.

Chris, it's now playing in musica.  Kind of a bubblegum "Ode To Billy Joe."

Jeff



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Message: 7
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:56:47 -0000
   From: Steve Crump 
Subject: Re: Italian Graffiti

Patrick Rands:
> My questions involve the following two songs:
> Emilio Pericoli / Quando Quando Quando
> Dino / Eravamo Amici
> 
> Does anyone have any information on these two songs? Quando Quando 
> Quando is used liberally in the movie Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life - 
> 1962), but I know not a thing about the history of this song, except 
> that it was recorded by many. The Dino songs has a tremendous 
> production, which I'm guessing was done by Ennio Morricone. The 
> melody sounds really familiar though and I'm left wondering if it's a 
> cover of a spectropop tune.

Hey Patrick - how are you??

Quando Quando Quando was written by Tony Renis & Alberto Testa and 
was a finalist at the 1962 San Remo song Festival. Tony Renis had a 
huge hit with it. At the 1961 Festival, the winning song was Al Di 
La - featured in the Warner Bros film Rome Adventure and sung on 
screen by Emilio Pericoli.

Eravamo Amici was indeed arranged by Ennio Morricone - the song also 
sounds familiar to me, but I'm not aware of any other version.
By the way, Dino did a killer version of You've Lost That Lovin' 
Feelin' - also arranged by Ennio and sung in Italian.  

Tony Renis and Alberto Testa wrote quite a few songs together, most 
notably Grande Grande Grande by (ta daa) Mina - better known as Never 
Never Never by Shirley Bassey.

***sorry - just had to mention Mina*** 

Cheers

Steve



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Message: 8
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:42:55 EDT
   From: Ronnie Allen 
Subject: Re: Diane Renay & Friends Show

Thank you so very much for your extremely nice words!

I truly felt I was in "Rock and Roll" heaven last night even though everyone 
was alive!

I hope that one thing that came across this evening is my personal passion 
for oldies music and the artists who made those great recordsings back in the 
50s and t0s.

Happily so many of them have been Diane's "friends" and that's what enabled 
me to turn  my little "hairbrained" scheme of a few weeks ago into a happy 
REALITY!

As for Bob Crewe, what can I say? He was SO VERY GENEROUS to participate 
live-by-phone in the last 45 minutes as my TOP SECRET surprise guest.

I hope there will be other shows such as this in the future but for now I 
will savor the joy I got from doing this show.

Yes there were a couple of significant technical glitches in the third hour. 
But all the e-mail I have received indicates that it did not take away from 
people's enjoyment of the show. (Although, of course, the stage wait for "Bob" 
to come on was a bit of a problem for me!) 

I will be removing all these glitches prior to having the show archived on 
the WBCB website. 

LIVE RADIO is LIVE RADIO and things DO happen! 

However I want people who missed the show tonight to be able to hear the show 
without those little bugaboos!

In addition to Bob Crewe I wish to thank all the other artists who 
gracioiusly agreed to be interviewed for the show and all of you on the 
spectropop mailing list  who have sent me such wonderful private comments about 
the show.

Just a personal note the fact is that, in spite of everything, I still prefer 
LIVE radio over PRE-RECORDED radio, even though things "tend to happen" when 
one is doing the former! 

Ronnie
E-mail: RonnieOldiesGuy@aol.com



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Message: 9
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:49:23 +0200
   From: Frank 
Subject: Re: Italian Graffiti

Patrick Rands:
> Does anyone have any information on these two songs? Quando Quando
> Quando is used liberally in the movie Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life -
> 1962), but I know not a thing about the history of this song, except
> that it was recorded by many. The Dino songs has a tremendous
> production, which I'm guessing was done by Ennio Morricone. The
> melody sounds really familiar though and I'm left wondering if it's a
> cover of a spectropop tune.

Wasn't Quando Quando, recorded also by Pat Boone? It was a huge hit in
Europe in the sixties and was used in "Il sorpasso" because it was such a
hit.

Frank




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Message: 10
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:50:16 -0000
   From: Clark Besch 
Subject: Re: Heaven Sent Jingle

Nick Archer wrote:
> I'm looking for an mp3 copy of the jingle for "Heaven Sent" 
> frangrance that was popular in the mid to late 60's. I used to hear 
> it a lot on WABC and WLS. Not a politically correct jingle, here are 
> some of the lyrics:
> 
> "Suddenly, you are all of the things that he wants you to be,
> A little bit naughty but heavenly,
> With Heaven Sent, Heaven Sent..."
> 
> I did a search on google and found a link claiming Paul Simon wrote 
> this jingle. Can anyone help with info or audio?

Nick, I too have searched for this jingle for decades!  I loved that 
jingle!  First, I found an ad for Heaven Scent in one of my old teen 
mags.  Get this, it had the sheet music & lyrics on the page--that 
was the whole ad!  I guess they liked the jingle enough to use it in 
printed form too!!!!  Then, some guy sent me a cassette of it off 
radio about 15 years, and altho it was the correct jingle (not the 
greatest quality), it was not the "version" I remembered from WLS.  
Thus, there must have been several versions ala the Coke commercials 
of the day.  At the moment, I cannot make MP3's, but am expecting to 
get such a "setup" soon and then I could send what I have.

In a similar veign, I am also looking for a Fifth Avenue candy bar 
jingle that WCFL played with cool rockin' female vocal.  I had 
searched long and hard for the Cyrkle's 7Up Wet & Wild jingle that 
WCFL played too, but Sundazed has come to the rescue and released an 
underdub version of the radio version on 45.  What a great thing that 
was for me!  Good luck, Nick, and if you get a copy--remember 
me!!! ;)  

Clark




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Message: 11
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:53:17 -0500
   From: Justin McDevitt 
Subject: Re: Don't Go Breakin My Heart / Heaven Scent Commercial

Hello Spectropop,

Bobster, I was going to post a message in response to your inquiry. However,
I figured that my post would be pre-empted by others in the group, which in
fact was the case. 

I first heard this Bacharach track in 1965 and until I purchased the three
Cd comp of his music, I spent years trying  to find out the name of the
artist or group who recorded this great song.  

Nick, I too, would love to get a hold of the Heaven Scent commercial. Like
you, I remember hearing this spot on Wabc NY and Wls Chicago. 

So many of the commercial jingles from this time had that whimsical, magical
quality to them, reminiscent of the Sunshine pop genre. 

Others spots had an easy jazz/bosa nova flavor to them and were equally as
pleasing to the ear. 

Similar to the Heaven Scent commercial is one that advertised a shampoo or
hairspray called Psssssst. I can't recall if this was the name of the
hairspray, or rather the sound that it made upon leaving the bottle to
sculpt lovely female tresses, and a few male tresses as well, I'm sure. 

Discussion of these non-soft drink commercials got some attention on
Spectropop a year or so ago and someone mentioned that so many of these
spots were never saved and were ultimately tossed into the dumpster once the
spot was pulled from airplay.  Though, hope springs eternal in that there
has got to be a person out there who recorded these great jingles on an old
Webcor, or wallensak reel-to-reel and still has them. Not only this, but
this individual has had the good sense to transfer them onto cassette, or
Cd. Wouldn't that be groovy!

What great memories.

Justin McDevitt



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Message: 12
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 00:16:47 -0400
   From: Stewart Mason 
Subject: Re: Stolen Licks

Bill Craig writes:
> Also with regard to the two versions of "My Little Red Book", 
> I can remember being struck by the contrast between Love's 
> version with its garage guitar semi-dissonance and the original 
> slick Manfred recording. But I dug them both.

Speaking of stolen licks, Pink Floyd's original manager Peter Jenner tells
the story that their early signature song "Interstellar Overdrive" came
about because he tried to hum the guitar riff of Love's version of "My
Little Red Book" to Syd Barrett, but couldn't quite remember it.  Syd
started playing what Jenner was humming and that became "Interstellar
Overdrive"'s main riff.  Compare the two sometime -- once you know the
connection, it's obvious!

Stewart



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Message: 13
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:21:59 +0100
   From: Ken Silverwood 
Subject: Re: Anyone know who this was?

DJ Jimmy Bee:
> I'm wondering if you heard the version by Astrud Gilberto on 
> Verve. BTW, that song was recently covered by The Wondermints 
> on a Bacharach tribute CD from--oh--about 98 or so. "One drop 
> of rain doesn't make a flower grow."  Or thereabouts.

Kind of contradicts "I believe with every drop of rain that falls, a flower 
grows"? Who had the greener fingers? Yes, to the Wondermints, though it was an 
album of assorted covers of which "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was one. Though 
where they'd heard Geoff Goddard's "Spaceman" I can't begin to work out!! 
Recomended!

Ken On The West Coast



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Message: 14
   Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:31:43 -0600
   From: David Mirich 
Subject: Re: Manfred  Mann

Bill Craig:
> Also with regard to the two versions of "My Little Red Book",
> I can remember being struck by the contrast between Love's
> version with its garage guitar semi-dissonance and the original
> slick Manfred recording. But I dug them both.

I was listening to the B Springsteen garagy version of Blinded by the Light 
tonight and was struck by the slickness of the Manfred Mann production of 
that song in comparison.

Dave Mirich



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Message: 15
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 20:04:34 +0100
   From: Mick Patrick 
Subject: Re: Italian Graffiti

Patrick Rands:
> Does anyone have any information on these two songs? Quando Quando
> Quando is used liberally in the movie Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life -
> 1962), but I know not a thing about the history of this song, except
> that it was recorded by many. The Dino songs has a tremendous
> production, which I'm guessing was done by Ennio Morricone. The
> melody sounds really familiar though and I'm left wondering if it's a
> cover of a spectropop tune.

Frank: 
> Wasn't Quando Quando Quando, recorded also by Pat Boone?

Indeed it was, on Dot 16349 in 1962.

Other versions include:
Brad Swanson (Thunderbird 538)
Claudio Villa (Epic 9524, 1962)
Cliff Richard (Epic 10070, 1966)
Emilio Pericoli (Vesuvius 1055, 1962)
Enzo Stuarti (Jubilee 5488, 1964)
Toni Arden (Decca 31694, 1964)
Tony Della Malva (Groove 58-0013, 1963)

I have a niggling feeling that Ben E. King did it too but, if he did, 
I'm too tired to trace it. Perhaps it was the Drifters? If so, I'm sure 
someone will............Tell Me When. HA!

Thank God it's Friday.

Mick Patrick



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Message: 16
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:28:04 -0400
   From: James Botticelli 
Subject: Re: Italian Graffiti

Frank wrote:
> Wasn't Quando Quando, recorded also by Pat Boone?

Unless I missed another posting, I remember it best by Englebert Humperdink.
He sings the bejezuz out of it in fact. Probably his best chestnut..
JB




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