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Volume #0119 July 18, 1998
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This monophonic microgroove recording will not become obsolete
Subject: Chess Records - The Agreement
Sent: 07/16/98 10:40 am
Received: 07/17/98 12:53 am
From: Richard Globman, rglobXXXX@XXXneocomm.net
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Scott gave some great info on the Chess Records saga:
>The 1976 agreement between Joe Robinson and Marshall Sehorn was a
>3-page licensing agreement with a 189 page schedule of master
>recordings. (By way of contrast, MCA's contract with Sugarhill
>Records was approximately 60 pages long.) The master recordings
>contained on the 189 page schedule included all of the gems of the
>Chess Catalogue,
Scott...
I assume this gave them the rights to use the Chess label? You
know, the 3-CD Chess Blues Box Set and all that?
>as well as more recent songs like "Rapper's Delight" by the
>Sugarhill Gang.
HO-tel, MO-tel, HOL-i-day Inn....
(Sorry, lost my head...I just absolutely LOVE Rapper's Delight.
DICKY "and I know all the words to O.P.P." G
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Subject: Hedgehoppers Anonymous
Sent: 07/16/98 11:38 am
Received: 07/17/98 12:53 am
From: John King, GBMGIDXXXX@XXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Also, speaking of Jonathan King. He now has a trade publication
called the Tip Sheet out of London. He is responsible for getting
Chumbawamba's "TubThumping" released and the group singed to a
major label. He still has hit ears and continues to champion great
pop records.
John King
gbmgidXXXX@XXXom
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Subject: long live the hotel sheets!
Sent: 07/16/98 6:06 am
Received: 07/16/98 9:00 am
From: Jeffrey Thames, KingoGrXXXX@XXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
In a message dated 98-07-15 13:01:47 EDT, you write:
<< "Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes/You closed your cover
before striking/Father had the ship-fitter blues/Loving you has
made me bananas..." >>
at the risk of sounding like a broken record... #1: is there
legitimate cd availability on this one?? i'm not sure i could
locate my (wlp) 45 copy if i tried, and it saddens me deeply...
#2: i love this list...
jeff [but iodine'd all alone]
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Subject: Music Stores
Sent: 07/17/98 8:18 am
Received: 07/17/98 8:12 am
From: WILLIAM STOS, wsXXXX@XXXt.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
I'd like to take a little time to tell you about the appalling
state some music stores are in with regard to oldies music. I live
in a city of about 150 000 in Ontario Canada. We have several music
shops in town, but the two largest, Sam The Record Man (a large
Canadian franchise) and MusicWorld do not have a separate oldies
section. This is understandable, because few music stores I've
visited elsewhere do anyway, except for Tower Records in NYC.
Today I decided to check out these two shops in the hopes I could
find something new to which to listen. Music World, which in the
past has been pretty good with some oldies artists, had a
depeleted stock. Sure there were Beatles, Beach Boys, and Elvis
stuff, but little or nothing from almost ever other major artist
of the 60s.
I decided to go across town to visit the larger SAM THE Record
MAN store. Even less! I saw one compilation of Marvelettes stuff,
all of which I had, and only one Supremes collection, which I also
had. The only thing that seemed a little hopeful was a compilation
by Duane Eddy, but I've only heard of him and decided not to buy
that disc. When I visted the 60s section of compilations I found a
poor crop at best, with most of the recordings being new by old
artists, which isn't bad, but not great either. As a collector of
girl group records specifically I know that I will rarely find
anything I don't already have in these music stores, but what
about regular oldies fans? What are they supposed to do? There is
a demand for such music in my city because an oldies station which
was taken off the air was put back on by popular demand, but the
Billboard TOP 10 series wasn't even there for these fans to buy!
Then, while walking through a WALMART to exit the mall, I stopped
by the music section. Sometimes I've noticed some oldies artists
get put on the cut-out rack. Low and behold, what do I find but a
Shangri-las album with three tracks I didn't have, a Shirelles
album with two tracks I was missing, a comp by the 60s Three
Degrees (featuring Sheila Ferguson), an early Glady Knight and the
Pips comp, and finally 20 newly recorded tracks by the Supremes. It
was mixed in with such "other" music as "The Olsen Twins (from FULL
HOUSE sing." Some of this stuff wasn't exactly in popular demand,
but WALMART actually had it, and this is the real kicker, for only
$4.00 bucks on CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If that's not bad enough, the way the current exchange rate is
looking, that works out to about just over $2.00 American. For
CDs?! It is truly a sad day when I can find 5 cds for about 20
bucks Canadian at a cheap discount store and nothing at two large
mainstream, franchise music stores. Is this only happening where I
live or have you other collectors found the same problem? Larger
communities aren't that bad, but I was appalled by this discovery!
Will
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Subject: various
Sent: 07/15/98 2:53 pm
Received: 07/15/98 2:56 am
From: Jamie LePage, le_page_XXXX@XXXties.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Since Claudia posted about Noel Harrison's A Young Girl, I can't
get it out of my head. I have the single somewhere on the blue
London label. What a morbid lyric. Child of springtime still green
lying here by the road. It's almost as overdramatic as Leader of
the Pack. I adore both, and this illustrates the point made here
recently that, out of "hearing" is out of mind. The oldies stations
playlists generally don't reflect the overall realtime popularity.
That poses a danger of diminishing the recognition of certain
records of that era. What a drag.
I don't know much about Myddle Class, except I believe they released
Road to Nowhere. I'm not sure if their version preceded Carole's own
45 release of the song.
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le_page_XXXX@XXXties.com
RodeoDrive/5030
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Subject: Oldies Radio/WMQX (Greensboro)
Sent: 07/16/98 10:40 am
Received: 07/17/98 12:53 am
From: Richard Globman, rglobXXXX@XXXneocomm.net
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
My man Leonard SED:
>........But one of the best kept secrets is Greensboro's WMQX,
>Oldies 93. This station is managed by Gary Weiss, son of Bob
>Weiss, who once owned the famous WIXY-1260 in Cleveland. It also
>has one of the old WIXY jocks, the great Jack Armstrong, "Your
>Leader."
>
>Unfortunately, WMQX is not on the net, either. They have a large
>playlist, and mix in lots of soul, Brill Building, and, of course
,
>"beach" music. (Dey in Carolinah, man.)
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Yep...that is one great station. Jack Armstrong rocks. The thing I
miss about radio these days is the lack of strong personalities who
play what they want and not what comes off some computer. Remember
the powerhouse days of WABC-AM in NY when they had just about
every highly-paid jock in the country?
MXQX (93.1) has a lot of "theme" shows...Motown Monday, the Buddy
Holly hour, "everything you wanted to know about Mary Wells but
were afraid to ask", etc. And, as Leonard mentioned, they do play
tons of that sweet, sweet, east coast beach/shag music, especially
on Sunday night from 5-8 when they play nothing BUT beach music
(although it is a syndicated show, who the hell cares?).
DICKYG
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Subject: Crazy Bananas
Sent: 07/16/98 11:27 pm
Received: 07/17/98 12:53 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXXX@XXXcom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
> Also, from my old record collection I found a couple others:
>"Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" by Guy Marx
I'm so crazy, I have a LIVE version of "Bananas" (as well as the
45) taped off the Tonight Show in the 60s!
Doc
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