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There are 16 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Spectropop West Coast Summit???
From: Alan Gordon
2. Re: Terry Knight
From: Simon White
3. Re: Dean Martin
From: Alan Gordon
4. Re: Let Me Get Close To You
From: Steve Harvey
5. Re: Please Please Me (slowly...)
From: Steve Harvey
6. Re: Please Please Me (slowly...)
From: Alan Gordon
7. Re: Spectropop West Coast Summit???
From: Michael Edwards
8. Re: The Beatles in Hamburg
From: Steve Harvey
9. Ulysses
From: Simon White
10. Re: Bobby Rydell
From: Alan Gordon
11. Beatles at the flower shop
From: Martin Roberts
12. Re: Ulysses
From: Sebastian Fonzeus
13. Re: Johnny And The Hurricanes
From: Mikey
14. Re: Cameo-Parkway in the UK
From: Ken Silverwood
15. The October Country
From: Art Longmire
16. Re: Cameo-Parkway
From: Ken Silverwood
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:50:23 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: Spectropop West Coast Summit???
Elliot Kendall:
> Time for a West Coast Spectropop summit...??
Yes... I know of at least one other person besides me that resides
in San Francisco and "contributes" to this discourse...
anyone else?
peace,
albabe
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:28:14 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Re: Terry Knight
Thanks for all the Terry Knight info, chaps. I almost feel I know Terry
personally now.
Now about that spare, unwanted copy of Wilson Pickett and the uncredited
Cissy Houston singing "Come Home Baby" that someone has lurking....
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:31:40 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: Dean Martin
Hey Martin and any other Dino fans!
I know there's at least two others besides myself that are Dino fans
in here - I think Country Paul told me his wife was a big fan. So...
My question is: Has anyone purchased those Dean Martin Show DVD/video
tapes that are advertised on late night TV? They seem pretty cool.
Lotsa guest stars, including a very young and cute Goldie Hawn.
Any info? How long are the dvds?
peace,
albabe
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:53:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: Let Me Get Close To You
Years ago I got a live tape of Alex Chilton with "Let Me Get Close
To You" on it. When I saw him live I asked him did the original and
he sited Skeeter Davis. Kind of a surprise as I'm friends with Joey
Spampinato and he was married to Skeeter at the time. Small world
and all that.
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:56:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: Please Please Me (slowly...)
>From what I've read the Beatles were going over their show with
Martin and he was giving the thumbs up and down on material. Our
local barber, Frank Pingatore ended up having to cut hair for
another 30 years when George KOed "Clarabella" during this
process. Luckily he got some dough from the Beatles at the BEEB
disc. I think the Nurk Twins just played the stuff live and George
commented on it as they played it.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:53:41 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: Please Please Me (slowly...)
Mikey:
> You haven't heard it because it doesn't exist, not even in acetate form.
Steve Harvey:
> No, there is no recording of this version that I know of.
whew... You guys really had me going. That often mentioned (by Paul and
John in interviews) recording is one of the holy grails of Beatleologists
like myself.
In a band I was in years ago, we did a version that was my musical image
of what I imagined the Beatles original recording to be. Lotsa fun to
try and sing it in Roy's Operatic-Rock style. Gawd, what a voice he had.
peace,
albabe
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:00:46 -0400
From: Michael Edwards
Subject: Re: Spectropop West Coast Summit???
Elliot Kendall writes:
> Time for a West Coast Spectropop summit...??
Albabe responds:
> Yes... I know of at least one other person besides me that resides
> in San Francisco and "contributes" to this discourse...
> anyone else?
See if you can book Bimbos 365 down by the Wharf. You may find you get
a good crowd. I know I'll be there.
Mike Edwards
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Harvey
Subject: Re: The Beatles in Hamburg
A story about the Beatles' last Star club appearance. My guitar
teacher, John Kay, was playing with Haley at the time and met the
Beatles on their last gig in Hamburg before they hit the Big Time.
They gave Bill their record, Love Me Do, to take back to Milt
Gablerat Decca. Bill played it for Milt who said, "Sounds like the
Everlys" before discarding the disc. A year later he was weeping
with the rest of them.
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:33:28 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Ulysses
As the Terry Knight info request seems to have been a succsess may I
be permitted another one?
Does anyone have any info on Ulysses "Broken Hearted Man" on Buddah?
It's a Pat Upton Song.
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:22:33 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Re: Bobby Rydell
To: Ron & Art Longmire. Subject: Bobby Rydell
FYI: I've noticed recently that there are a few Bobby albums now out
on cd. They are undoubtedly bootlegs disguised as real record fodder.
The one I picked up a few years ago is "Bobby Rydell: The Original
Hit Records," Park 556. 30 tracks from singles and flipsides. Retched
art direction and graphics, bad printing, decent sound... and the only
way I was gonna get to hear them, except to play my scratchy old 45s.
I assume they are from the actual singles - since they are edited so
tightly so as not to have any 45 ambient needle-sound - and have been
"de-popped." There are at least two 2fers that are out now too. You
might check them out to see if anything you are looking for is on them.
If any of you folks have heard these, I'd be curious to know how
groovy they are. I usually don't prescribe to buy these "illegal"
entities that are representations of previously legitimate releases,
but, it's unlikely that any real Rydell stuff will ever hit the
streets since Allen Klein owns all the Parkway and Cameo stuff... and
we've all probably heard Klein horror stories. I hear from folks in
the business that his daughter is now in charge of their ownings, and
that she may be just as "without ruth" as her pappy.
peace,
albabe
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:34:13 +0100
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Beatles at the flower shop
Steve brought the fantasies flooding back:
> From what I've read the Beatles were going over their show with
> Martin and he was giving the thumbs up and down on material.
It's all true, wish I'd saved a tape for myself!
Martin
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:42:00 +0200
From: Sebastian Fonzeus
Subject: Re: Ulysses
Hi!
Simon White wrote:
> Does anyone have any info on Ulysses "Broken Hearted Man" on Buddah?
> It's a Pat Upton Song.
All I know is that the same song also was recorded by The Spiral Starecase
(in which Pat Upton sang and played the guitar) and released on the
flipside of "More Today Than Yesterday" on Columbia.
Take care!
/Sebastian
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Message: 13
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:15:10 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: Re: Johnny And The Hurricanes
I asked:
> David....What is the the title and # of the CD that
> has Johnny and the Hurricanes doing vocals and Beatle
> type stuff?
Dave:
> The titles of the CDs are "Johnny And The Hurricanes
> Live At The Star-Club Hamburg, Vol. 1 and 2." I will
> look up the number for you, but I do know they were
> reissued on the Atila label, apparently by Johnny
> Paris himself a few years ago. Possibly limited run
> jobs, I bought them at a record show.
Thanks, Davey Boy!!!
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:33:14 +0100
From: Ken Silverwood
Subject: Re: Cameo-Parkway in the UK
Mike Edwards:
> UK London must have contracted with Abcko to release Cameo-
> Parkway material in the UK in the late 70s because a number of
> 45s and albums were issued. You have mentioned Dee Dee Sharp's
> "The Cameo Parkway Sessions" and others included:
> Orlons - Best Of
> Chubby Checker - Greatest Hits
> Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again/The Twist on 45
> Various - The American Dream (The Cameo Parkway Story 1957-63)
> Various - Philadelphia Freedom
Yes Mike, I have the aformentioned Cameo-Parkway Story LP, I also
have the American Dream "London American Legend" LP & on cassette
somewhere exists a second volume of hits tagged on with oddities
from Bruce Channel, Johnny Crawford & Jimmy Clanton etc, these
albums have a date of 1975 printed inside, whilst Dee Dee's is
from 1978/9. The annotator on the interior (these are double albums)
is an Adam White, whilst all pics are courtesy of NME.
Ken On The West Coast.
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Message: 15
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:40:44 -0000
From: Art Longmire
Subject: The October Country
Anybody here ever heard the group October Country's album? I have
never heard or even seen a copy of the group's LP but picked up a
copy of their 45 "October Country" back in 1984. That was a real red-
letter day for me because I had been looking for the song since I
started buying records back in 1971 and was starting to doubt it even
existed! I first heard the track on the radio around late 1967 or
early '68 and it really stuck in my mind, although I was only 12.
Later I tried to research it and came up empty everywhere (this was
long before the internet and record research price guides!)
When I found a copy (at a Salvation Army thrift store)I remember
thinking "I wonder if it will sound as good as I remember it from
childhood?" Well it sounded as good-if not better-than I remembered.
I always love it when I can track down a "musical Grail" from my
childhood.
I know that Michael Lloyd of West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
fame wrote and produced the tune and wondered if anyone had a chance
to hear the whole LP. The review I saw at the AllMusic Guide site
rated it very highly.
Art Longmire
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:37:24 +0100
From: Ken Silverwood
Subject: Re: Cameo-Parkway
Simon White:
> I dream of Cameo Parkway. I was recently exposed to The Bronzettes'
> "Hot Spot" and I can honestly say it has restored my faith in music's
> ability to make me jump around.
That's funny I dream of Big Top & Twirl!!!! Should we call for Freud?
Ken On The West Coast.
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From: Simon White
To: spectropop@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: Spectropop - Re: Cameo-Parkway
Ken Silverwood wrote:
> A tentative question: I am in possession of a Dee Dee Sharp
> LP, "Cameo-Parkway Sessions," on London American, issued in
> the late 70s. I was under the illusion that none of the Cameo
> -Parkway stuff has been available, legally, since a certain
> ABKCO acquired them?
There were a number of albums released at that time Ken -
Orlons, Chubby Checker, Tymes, Dovells, maybe more - and some
tasty 45s too - Yvonne Baker's "You Didn't Say A Word" and Bobby
Paris' "Night Owl" - a double sider I think; Chubby's "You Just
Don't Know" and "At The Discotheque" and things like "Slow
Twisting," the inevitable "Let's Twist Again" and "The Twist"
and possibly more - although that's all I can think of.
Decca must have had the rights at that time and as far as I know
nothing has legally been issued since. Mr Phil Chapman may have
some more info on this one.
Am I allowed to mention at this point the recently UK released
Grapevine 45 (G2K 134) which is a previously unissued (different
song same backing track) acetate version of Yvonne Baker's above-
mentioned Northern Soul Classic, in this case entitled "Think It
Over" and credited to The Chesterfields?
I dream of Cameo Parkway. I was recently exposed to The Bronzettes'
"Hot Spot" and I can honestly say it has restored my faith in music's
ability to make me jump around.
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