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Volume #0125 August 4, 1998
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The Teenager Records Made For The Hit Parade
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Subject: Oldies Format
Sent: 08/03/98 2:53 am
Received: 08/03/98 6:27 am
From: David Feldman, feldXXXX@XXXderables.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Jamie said:
>Still, I was really surprised by this. And, like you
>Dave, I suspected it was a cable radio thing because there
>were no commercials or DJs. Imagine that...
>
And I ran into a wonderful station with a similar format in
Orlando -- definitely an automated station, but one with
commercials. In the first half hour of listening, they played "
Warmth of the Sun," the 4 Tops "Ask the Lonely," and the Jewels'
"Opportunity" (a song, unaccountably, that is featured in "The Last
Days of Disco"). The strategy of the station seems to be play
either underexposed songs of popular acts or one-shots that were
less obscure when they were released but have been buried because
the act is now lost to posterity.
Great stuff.
Dave Feldman
CD of the Month: It's a tie!
Belle & Sebastian: "If You're Feeling Sinister"
Billy Bragg & Wilco: "Mermaid Ave."
Word of the Week: "jejune"
Movie of the Week: "There's Something About Mary"
Best Time Killer of the 90's: Filling out the UPDATED gender survey at
"http://www.imponderables.com"
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Subject: The Ronettes
Sent: 08/02/98 9:07 pm
Received: 08/03/98 6:27 am
From: R Teyes, RTeXXXX@XXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
The Ronettes
Jon Rausch (webmaster of the ONLY Ronettes Web Page) sent me a
copy of a video of the Ronettes in Hullabaloo which I hadn't seen
in more than 20 years..truly beautiful! They sang live "Is This
What i Get For Loving You?" by Phil Spector, Goffin & King)..the
producers apparently put the instrumental to the song in the
background while the girls sang live...with those flowers in their
hair and those voices, they sounded magnificent!
The rest of the tape included the only Darlene Love in many shows
from way back then and some current ones..Darlene has one of the
most beautiful and thunderous voices in the scene..I don't know
why today she is not on top..I saw her at the Bottom Line here in
New York and she was something else..she also was courteous and
gracious to me when I went backstage..
Robert the Ronette Hound
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Subject: Re: Spectropop V#0124
Sent: 08/03/98 12:57 am
Received: 08/03/98 6:27 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXXX@XXXcom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
>through their collections. If Cousin Fannie was 15 years of age in
>1963, and buying records, she's 50 now... if Cousin Frankie was 13
>and buying records in 1963, then he's 48 now... give them a call!
Man! I can't imagine first hearing these records 30 years after
they were hits! I remember hearing each one new on the radio and
taping them on my reel to reel off the air!
On the other hand, my second favorite music is Classical, and I
didn't hear that when the songs were new! And third is Big Band.
So, I guess I can imagine it!
Doc
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Subject: The Girlfriends and old 45s
Sent: 08/02/98 11:39 pm
Received: 08/03/98 6:27 am
From: WILLIAM STOS, wsXXXX@XXXt.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Jimmy wrote:
> Hi Will,
>the Girlfriends also recorded "I Want to Be Happy," a raucous
>version of that song. I have it on tape, too.
Great! Was it on the same label do you know?
>ask your RELATIVES who are now in their 40s - 50s, if you can look
>through their collections.
Sigh, none of my relatives collected the stuff I like. I have some
old 45s from a garage sell, nothing I quite like. But heh, does
anyone else collect these?
Sherry by the 4 seasons on Stateside
Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders
Good Thing by Paul Revere and the Raiders
Let me Be by the Cascades
Maryianne with the Shaky hands by the Who
Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones on London
My True Love by Jack Scott
baby, Please Don't Go by Them
Instant Karma by John "Ono" Lennon on Apple
Wagon Wheels by the Ames Bros
Dandelion by the Rolling Stones on London
etc etc
All these records were printed in Canada, and some on Candian
labels if any of you collect that sort of thing. They're actually
in pretty good condition too.
Do I have anything special on my hands? Let me know. I haven't
listened to them.
Will
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Subject: The Superbs
Sent: 08/03/98 2:53 am
Received: 08/03/98 6:27 am
From: David Feldman, feldXXXX@XXXderables.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
While writing the last note and mentioning "Ask the Lonely," it
rekindled a memory of another song that was released around the
same time: The Superbs' "Baby Baby All the Time." Anyone else
remember this retro-ballad that was released on Dore Records?
Anyone know anything about the group, which I assume was L.A.-
based (still, I never saw them or heard any publicity about them,
and I was living in L.A. at the time).
DF
Dave Feldman
CD of the Month: It's a tie!
Belle & Sebastian: "If You're Feeling Sinister"
Billy Bragg & Wilco: "Mermaid Ave."
Word of the Week: "jejune"
Movie of the Week: "There's Something About Mary"
Best Time Killer of the 90's: Filling out the UPDATED gender survey at
"http://www.imponderables.com"
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