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SPECTROPOP - Spectacular! Retro! Pop!
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There are 3 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Welcome UK members
From: Michael Edwards
2. Re: Bob Dileo etc
From: Clark Besch
3. guide to the groops
From: Don Lonie
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:03:10 -0000
From: Michael Edwards
Subject: Welcome UK members
I understand that a number of those planning to attend the Spectropop
bash next week are coming from the UK. I don't know what plans these
fellow members have and how long they will be spending in the New
York area, but if any of them would like to see eastern Long Island
and perhaps Fire Island (remember the Village People?), I would be
pleased to take them around. I can fit another 3 in my SUV and I live
about an hour east of the City. I could rearrange my schedule to be
free on Saturday, Sunday or Monday following the party. Just don't be
like my daughter and argue with the music that goes in my CD changer!
Let me know. It would be a pleasure as a number of UK members have
done nice things for me since I joined the group.
Mike Edwards
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:48:27 -0000
From: Clark Besch
Subject: Re: Bob Dileo etc
Hi Jeff, thanks for the info on Bob Dileo. I was always curious as
to who he was. Any info on how he got signed, where he was from,
what happened to him in music after Columbia dropped him?
As I am a fan of stereo, I have never seen a mono/stereo dj copy
of Bob's records. I'd love to hear "Band in Boston" in stereo! All
of my copies are mono with B sides. I checked and I have a dupe
of "Jessica". What do you propose for trade? I do not sell records--
only HOARD them! :) I can't help it--I love 45s!
I see you're big on Zekley and Grady stuff? I really liked some
"Rain" song Gary Zekley did on an import Japan Cd. I have it on
cassette, but would love to get stereo Cdr burn. Any other things
you can think of? I did some work on the Yellow Balloon Cd Sundazed
put out--a cool 18 minute interview is included which makes for a
very unusual and unique Cd. I wish there were more Cds with
interviews of the artists from the 60's on end as bonus tracks.
Also, I recently got a cool Palace Guard best of Cd which includes
the Don Grady single he fronted for them. Nice Cd!
BTW, the flip of "Jessica" is indeed interesting. "Sing to Me" is
a Lee Mallory song--didn't he write the fantastic Montanas song "Take
my Hand"?? The Montanas are great!--oops, I can't get started on
them. Anyway, "Sing to Me" is produced by Jimmy 'the Wiz" Wisner as
the A side was. Altho Peter Dino arranged the session, Bob Dileo did
the "Strings", so he must have had some bonus talents?? If you ever
see any of Bob's stuff in stereo, including the Copout 45, I'd love
to hear them! I like both sides of that 45! take care, Clark
PS. Larry Lapka, how do I get a copy of your Robbs Cdr? I'll trade
you mine as soon as I get it done.
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:50:33 -0400
From: Don Lonie
Subject: guide to the groops
Previously:
> If I remember they did manage to get some teen mag coverage & were in
> a paperback book from around '68 that featured only pop acts with really
> good-looking guys in them. Every Mother's Son and the Evergreen Blues
> were in it and possibly the Monkees, Grapefruit, and the Five Americans
> and the Strawberry Alarm Clock--don't remember the name of it. It made
> the rounds of some 6th-grade girls and that's where I first saw the name
> The Robbs.
Mike Dugo:
> Anybody know the name of this book? Thanks
I thought this rang a bell. I only have two of these books which I
picked up I can't remember where, a year or so ago.
They're called "Flip's Groovy Guide to the Groops" I have the 68 one
and the 69-70 one. And sure enough in the 68, we have the Robbs, in
between The Righteous Brothers and The Royal Guardsmen.
(That's a nice sentence, isn't it? "In between the righteous brothers
and the royal guardsmen".)
Oh well. You want me to read to you what they say about The Robbs?
"The Robbs were just an ordinary southern California rock group. They
played successfully at local dances and high schools. Then Dick Clark
spotted them and signed them to play at his Chicago Teen Fair.
It was a scary debut. Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Young Rascals,
Lou Christie and Freddy Cannon were heading the bill. No one had ever
heard of The Robbs.
So there they were - an unknown group singing their unknown
compositions. But somehow the magic came through and the audience
yelled and screamed for more.".
That would be such a nice story if not for the fact that I had never
heard of The Robbs until a month or so ago.
Don
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