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Volume #0148 September 18, 1998
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We recommend you to consult your record dealer
Subject: Chico and the Egyptians
Sent: 09/18/98 7:11 am
Received: 09/18/98 7:21 am
From: Jamie LePage, le_page_XXXX@XXXties.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Got a copy of a great record that I can't stop listening to.
Absolutely knocks me out. Chico's Girl by "the Girls" issued on
Capitol. Written by Barry and Cynthia, it starts with a left hand
piano riff (like We Gotta Get Out Of This Place) and builds into
full blown castaneted choruses. The solo! Fuzz guitar at it's
finest, it reminds me of Billy Strange's solo on Zip-a-dee-do-Dah.
Typical "Nobody understands my baby cuz he's a rebel" lyric, even
the banal subject matter works on this record. It's a Barry and
Cynthia song I had never heard before, really a fantastic record,
and very late for a GG disc. I guess around '66 by the sound of it.
The other side that I really can't stop playing over and over,
thanks to Doc and Will Stos, is Tammys' Egyptian Shumba. Will
wrote "Egyptian Shumba still hasn't died down." Not around here
either, brother! This is one of the wildest GG records, maybe THE
wildest GG record I ever heard!
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le_page_XXXX@XXXties.com
RodeoDrive/5030
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Subject: C. Boettcher/Greenwich&Barry/Ballroom CDs?
Sent: 09/17/98 1:51 pm
Received: 09/18/98 12:11 am
From: Dan Murphy, daniXXXX@XXXa.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Hello,
Does anyone have information about the following CDs?
1. A Warner Japan release of Curt Boettcher's "There's An Innocent
Face" LP
2. A Polygram Japan release of a various artists
collection of Barry/Greenwich songs
3. A Creation/Rev-Ola UK release of Ballroom/Sandy Salisbury tracks
The first two are apparently already out in Japan and there is a
reference to #3 in the September "Record Collector" magazine
(which I have not yet been able to get a copy of). If I can locate
a copy of the magazine locally this weekend I will pass along the
info to the list, if there is interest. Thanks in advance for any
help.
Dan Murphy
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Subject: Martin Denny
Sent: 09/17/98 2:48 am
Received: 09/17/98 3:24 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXXX@XXXcom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
>Carol Kaye, in more than one of her posts on the web, stated
>adamantly that Herb didn't play on his own records. Of course,
>she's also said she played bass on all the Monkees hits, so who
>really knows?
>Anyone?
Don't know about that, but when I was researching Liberty Records,
I learned that Martin Denny was not on most of "his" own records.
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Subject: Carole Kaye, Herb and other delights
Sent: 09/17/98 8:01 pm
Received: 09/18/98 12:11 am
From: Kieron Tyler, kierXXXX@XXX.org.uk
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Don't forget that Carole Kaye also said that she played on Motown
tracks which were certainly recorded in Detroit. She reckoned that
the tapes were taken to LA to be finished. Shades of Bernard Purdie
playing on the Beatles records perhaps?
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Subject: carol kaye
Sent: 09/17/98 10:42 am
Received: 09/18/98 12:11 am
From: john rausch, jXXXX@XXXnet
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
jamie wrote:
Carol Kaye, in more than one of her posts on the web, stated
adamantly that Herb didn't play on his own records. Of course,
she's also said she played bass on all the Monkees hits, so who
really knows?
jonr says:
...i have talked to carol several times and she really seems to be
nice,she always emailed me within an hour or so to reply. i asked
her once why everyone is wearing sunglasses in those pics in all
the books showing "in studio" shots of the wrecking crew...she
said that the fluorescent lighting was so bright in there that the
only way to read the sheet music was to don shades...
here's carol kaye`s websXXXX@XXX://www.carolkaye.com/
jonr
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Subject: the dreaded NR stamp
Sent: 09/17/98 12:50 am
Received: 09/18/98 12:11 am
From: Mark Landwehr, mslXXXX@XXXbs.com
To: Spectropop List, SpectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Hi, gang...Here's a question which might have been answered before
I became a Spectropop member, but I'll ask it anyway. What does an
"NR" stamped on a record label mean?
My thought is that it stands for "New Release"...Why? Well, I've
only seen it on stock copies, never on a promo, and I believe it
was to tell radio people that it was the latest release from that
artist and not just extra copies of something they already had. I
know that in the 70's we would get new releases in stock-copy form
every so often, but they would usually have a sticker saying "Not
for Sale" or something like that on them to tell the P.D./M.D.
that this was a new release (and they should listen to it). It
made it a "pseudo-promo" copy - If you were low enough on the
radio-station "food chain" you might never see an actual promo
copy of anything, so the sticker (or "NR" stamp) would alert you
to the fact that this record was not a re-release, but brand new.
That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it until I hear something
more logical...Any thoughts?
Mark (Philles Phanatic)
http://www.toltbbs.com/~msland/Spector/
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Subject: the old island album thing
Sent: 09/17/98 1:02 am
Received: 09/18/98 12:11 am
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXXX@XXX12.nj.us
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
jonr proposes:
>the old island album thing, if you had 5 lps(cds) to take on a
>deserted island forever...
Seems to me that the problem we have to face is that so much of
the music we've been talking about has tended to be singles-based.
Would we therefore be allowed to bring best-of anthologies? Or do
the 5 lp's have to have been originally issued *as* lp's?
(btw, there really *is* a cartoon on Nick called the angry beavers,
and it's about these two beavers, you know, little animals that
live in the woods and make dams and eat birch trees. Just to
clarify that I wasn't putting people on.)
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Jack Madani - Princeton Day School, The Great Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540 Jack_MadXXXX@XXX12.nj.us
"It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they
drive him into the profession of a schoolmaster." --Seneca, 64 A.D.
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