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Volume #0001
10/30/97
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Subject: I said now hey ev'ree bah deeee
Sent: 10/24/97 1:14 AM
Received: 10/24/97 8:10 AM
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
To: Spectropop, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Ya know, this list used to be a helluva lot more civil in the old days.
jack "eff you, eff me, eff that man behind the tree" madani
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Jack Madani - Princeton Day School, The Great Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540 Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.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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Subject: Carole King's City
Sent: 10/29/97 2:51 AM
Received: 10/29/97 8:34 AM
From: David Marsteller, davebXXX@XXXXXXlin.org
To: Spectropop, spectroXXX@XXXXXXcom
A few months ago, I *finally* sprung for a bootleg copy of The City's
"Now That Everything's Been Said" lp. Does anybody have the inside scoop
on why that album has yet to be reissued? Does Carole King hate it so
much that she won't allow it, or is it something more mundane like the
masters can't be found? I don't think it's nearly that bad that Carole
won't let it be reissued; well there are a couple of songs that aren't
that great, but can any album with 'I Wasn't Born To Follow' be all that
bad?
Later
Dave
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Subject: Dixie Cups
Sent: 10/29/97 1:41 PM
Received: 10/30/97 12:19 AM
From: Paul Urbahns, purbaXXX@XXXXXXorg
To: spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
I have a record of the Dixie Cups "Chapel Of Love" album in stereo. I
understand this was done by Columbia Record Club. Has any of the Dixie
Cups songs been issued in stereo on CD?
Paul URbahns
purbaXXX@XXXXXXorg
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Subject: Hi Children of the 60s! Sent: 10/29/97 4:54 PM Received: 10/30/97 12:19 AM From: David Bash, bashXXX@XXXXXXt.com To: spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com Hello Star Children, I really want to thank Jamie Le Page for his gracious invitation for me to join this list. I know many of you already, and I'd certainly love to get to know the rest of you. I'm not sure of the exact concept that Jamie had in mind for the list, but I'd love it if we were able to explore many regions of 60s pop, including girl groups, British Invasion, and late 60s soft pop and pop/psych. Hopefully, you allow me to indulge my desires by letting you know of some of the wonderful 60s albums I found at a record show last Sunday, here in Southern California. The funny thing is, I once had all of these albums, but foolishly purged them as well as 4,000 others one fateful October day in 1993: 1. It's A Happening World-The Tokens: Truly an underrated gem of a disc. Tracks like "It's A Happening World", "Perhaps, The Joy Of Giving", "For All That I Am", "Bye Bye Bye", and "Portrait Of My Love" are brimming with exquisite vocal and instrumental arrangements that are a lot more ambitious than one might expect from the Tokens. 2. Orange Colored Sky-Orange Colored Sky: An overlooked album on UNI that typifies the wonderful pop/psych sound that was blithely ignored by the masses, and could be found in cutout bins in the late 70s. 3. Sing Valley Of The Dolls-The Arbors: Although The Arbors music might border on MOR (okay, it crosses the border), the vocal arrangements are beautiful enough to be transcendent. 4. A Harvard Square Affair-The Cambridge Concept Of Timothy Clover: Some very pretty and spare melodies by this Bostonian that you won't want to miss. 5. The Ark-Chad And Jeremy: This Gary Usher Produced LP helped to foster a new image for Chad and Jeremy, elevating them from the ranks of Peter And Gordon. Lots of soft, willowy pop/psych melodies helped lift this album above the mundane. I hope we hear from everyone on this list, and that we get some great threads going! -- SpectroPop Rules!!!!! Take Care, David Bash
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Subject: where's the influence? Sent: 10/28/97 5:40 PM Received: 10/29/97 1:05 AM From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us To: spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com As part of my preparation for this groovy new list, I read Mark Ribowsky (sic)'s book on Phil Spector, called _He's A Rebel_. There's a bunch of stuff in there that I want to discuss, but what the hell, I can't blow it all on digest #1. So here's my first topic for discussion: musical influences and inspirations for the classic songwriters of the early sixties. I've seen and read Leiber and Stoller discussing their love for the new bebop jazz coming out of NYC in the late forties and early fifties, read about how the piano-playing guy of the two (is that Leiber or Stoller? I allus forget) would spend scads of time down on 52nd street. And now in the Spector bio I read a very similar tale about Phil and his deep love for jazz of the bop kind. But one listens to the *songs* these cats are writing, and I don't hear it at all. Why the monstrously large dichotomy? Brian Wilson has a similar love for jazz music (Gerswhin, Four Freshmen, Hi-Lo-type stuff), and in his music you definitely *can* hear the influence, and from a pretty early point in his career, too. But L&S were , as far as I know, writing Hound-Dog-style I-IV-V chord progressions right up until the end of the sixties, and Spector likewise (when he actually *wrote* music, that is, instead of just grafting his name onto the songwriter credits, but that's grist for another post). Do folks have any thoughts on this matter? Foithermore, what do folks know about the musical inspirations of other people such as Sedaka, Mann/Weil, Barry/Greenwich, Goffin/King? Doc Pomus I guess I know was in love with the blues, and it shows in his writing. But as for the others, I don't know anything about their muses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Madani - Princeton Day School, The Great Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.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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