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There are 10 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Beverly Bremers
From: Simon White
2. Crazy Horse and my home town
From: Martin Roberts
3. Re: Turtles' Eve
From: David Goodwin
4. Re: - Discuss It or Talk About It?
From: Simon White
5. London/Robbs
From: Bob Rashkow
6. Jack Nitzsche Update
From: Martin Roberts
7. Re: The Critters
From: Clark Besch
8. The Wham Of Sam
From: Stuffed Animal
9. Re: Beverly Bremers
From: Mark Wirtz
10. Re: Al Casey/Wildcats/Darlene Love
From: Ian Chapman
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 02:02:37 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Beverly Bremers
I just had a very pleasant evening with a lady named Beverly
Bremers visiting London from California.
I hadn't realised until today that she had recorded under the
name Beverly Ann, whose two RCA sides "He's Coming Home" and
"You've Got Your Mind On Other Things" were big Northern Soul
plays. She mentioned tonight her first record , on, she remembered,
Pickwick and called "We Got Trouble". Sounds like a goodie!
Anyone know it?
A little research and the Spectropop archive throws up 'Showcase'
as the label. It the flip of Bev's version of "The Great Pretender"
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:21:38 +0100
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Crazy Horse and my home town
Andrew Hickey ranted:
> London has an intense aura of evil about it that means only
> truly great music can entice me down...
Samuel Johnson said "When a man is tired of London, he is tired
of life" and even with my advancing years I still find London
exciting. But evil? Nah. Not 'comfortable' and 'safe', it's a
huge bustling city with dark alleys and shadows but bright squares
and friendly folk of every ethnic background and a vitality only
found when millions of people are crammed into a small area.
Steve Harvey wrote:
>"I Don't Want To Talk About It", I think this tune was the one
> written by the late Danny Whitten of Crazy Horse, Neil Young's
> backing band.
I'm currently working with Chris P. James, Editor of "Shake!
Nashville's only music magazine" on a small review for Jack Nitzsche's
"Record Reviews" page. Chris has just published the nearest thing
I've seen to the 'complete' Crazy Horse story. Ten pages of history
and interviews with the living band members and associates including
Danny's sister Brenda. Excellent.
Martin
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:47:44 -0500
From: David Goodwin
Subject: Re: Turtles' Eve
>Now playing at musica The Turtles' poppy version of "Eve Of
>Destruction." If I remember correctly (which I should, as I
>just finished reading it last week), Richie Unterberger wrote
>in his excellent folk-rock history "Turn Turn Turn" that the
>song was originally offered to The Turtles, but they turned
>it down. The book does not mention that they went on to do it
>after all. Now, anybody wanna hear Jan & Dean's version?
I always thought that was weird...everyone makes a big deal out
of the Turtles "rejecting" EoD, but it shows up on It Ain't Me Babe
....rejected it as a *single* is more appropriate, 'tho White Whale
decided to release it as a single in the late sixties.
-D
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:57:18 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Re: - Discuss It or Talk About It?
Message from LONDON (born and bred)
Simon White:
> I also have a version by The Instigations on T-Bird records
> and to my horror have just discovered that Rod Stewart
> recorded it too.
Steve Harvey:
> Wasn't the R*d St*w*rt record, "I Don't Want To Talk
> About It", not "Discuss It". I think his tune was the
> one written by the late Danny Whitten of Crazy Hose,
> Neil Young's backing band.
Would that it were that simple, Steve. While he did indeed
"Talk About It", a Google search reveals he did "Discuss It" too!
I have gone through thirty five years of never hearing this
version and I have no desire to hear it now. However it throws
me into a bit of a dilemma because I do tend to collect the
versions.....oh gawd help me.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 12:24:41 EDT
From: Bob Rashkow
Subject: London/Robbs
So London is the L.A. of the UK?!
Oh, am I sorry I didn't even KNOW about Arthur Lee playing the
Park West. That's what I get for not always scanning the live
music section on Friday.
What a blast with this Wilson vs Valli thing, but I can't
possibly take sides. This is like comparing and contrasting
Spector and Crewe. I hold the Beach Boys and the 4 Seasons
in high regard. I will say, though, that Brian et al conjure
up more of a place and a time period with their early and mid-
sixties product. "Surfin' Safari" just as an example makes me
think of Redondo Beach or any one of the South Coast venues then,
or at least enables me to imagine it......my cousin had some of
the Seasons' 45s and we used to practice "dancing" to them. So
"Let's Hang On" in particular merely summons up the living room
of an apartment in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago--yet it,
and so many other of the 4 S's records, are dear to my heart! :--)
Almost forgot! Patrick Rands, why DIDN'T "Race With The Wind"
become a bigger hit--a puzzler, huh? Could you enlighten those
of us who are mystified by this (and happen to love the Robbs!)
It was such a great tune! They were so talented! More's the pity!
Bobster
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:01:06 +0100
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Jack Nitzsche Update
Ramona King - "What About You" on Eden is the latest Record of
the Week at http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/index.htm
and, as an added bonus, I've played the Cannon Sisters original
to musica.
For next week we have two more Bodie Chandler songs to choose
between, both sung by Eddie Hodges on Columbia, Produced by
Terry Melcher and arranged by Jack Nitzsche.
On The Radio http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/radio.htm
is playing parts 2+3 of the drum demos. Lots more new things
are in the pipeline.
Martin
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 17:13:04 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: The Critters
Chris Ullman wrote:
> Finally there was an offshoot, the Giant Jellybean Copout who
> featured Jim Ruan, that I've read about elsewhere in the Spectropop
> listings, who did one single "Awake in a dream/Look at the girls" of
> which the flipside can be found on Fading Yellow 3, and is like a
> jazzy Pet Sounds, and certainly a must hear for any fans of the band.
Chris, I love both sides of the Giant Jellybean Copout 45.
I always assumed Bob Dileo (wrote the songs) was the man behind
this record in all ways (writer, singer, etc). The 45 got picked
by Billboard to make Top 60 in 68. In '69, Bob had a solo 45 on
Columbia called "Band in Boston" which is another very pop oriented
psych thing complete with phasing. I really thought it was cool
(not unlike what the Arbors did later in the year with "The Letter").
In 70, he also did "I Just Can't Help Believin" and "Jessica" as I
remember (?) as 45s which all went nowhere on the charts. I wonder
who Bob is and where he went.
It's not unlike the early 70s Paramount artist "Kyle" who I've
found to be producing now. Really liked his "Times That Try a
Man's Soul" LP. Or John Beland, whom I had no idea about other
than having a tape of his first song and "Banjo Man". After seeing
someone bidding on an item on Ebay of his (a trade ad), I emailed
the bidder and it WAS HIM! He sent me to his website and I find out
he was a big part of the music industry!! Sometimes you find out
they're still doing the music "thing'!
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 19:09:18 +0000
From: Stuffed Animal
Subject: The Wham Of Sam
Does anyone out there know the current whereabouts of Sammy
"Lavender Blue" Turner? Is he still alive? And if so, is he
still performing?
Stuff
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 19:45:25 -0400
From: Mark Wirtz
Subject: Re: Beverly Bremers
I had the pleasure of working with Beverly on a single
co-produced by Jimmy Bowen for then CBS US. (I worked under
the name Marc Peters at the time). One of the sides was
"The Prisoner" that I wrote for her with Susan Steward.
Beverly was dynamite, an absolute professional, and great
fun. If you are still in contact with her, please say a warm
hello to her from me (Marc Peters, LOL - I doubt she has even
a clue as to who Mark Wirtz is).
mw :)
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:13:06 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Re: Al Casey/Wildcats/Darlene Love
"What Are We Gonna Do In '64?" was by the Wildcats - who were
really the Blossoms. It came out on Reprise, and it was a Jack
Nitzsche co-production, as I'm sure Martin will attest. Both
sides of the record appear on CD in fabulous sound quality on
the indispensable Japanese comp "Pixie Girls" (Warner WPCP-3540,
if it's still available.)
The KC-Ettes on Al Casey's "Surfin' Hootenanny" - also the Blossoms.
Darlene Love's "Stumble & Fall" did escape on non-DJ copies. Check
out Mark Landwehr's excellent Phil Spector label gallery by following
the Spectropop "P.S. Records Label Gallery" link (over there on your
left!) It has a whole page dedicated to "Stumble & Fall".
BTW, it was reissued by Collectables as a 45 in the 80s, as a
red/yellow Philles design, (except for the Collectables logo stamped
over it!) Neither the mix on it or the "Rare Masters" album is as
good as the original 45 - the backing vocals on "(He's A) Quiet Guy"
in particular are much clearer.
Ian
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