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Volume #0243 March 14, 1999
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Dusty Springfield
1939 - 1999
Subject: Dusty bows out in style
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Ian Chapman, iandXXXXXXXXlnet.co.uk
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
The UK evening news tonight reported on Dusty's funeral
which took place today. Planned by Dusty herself, there
was a traffic-stopping procession, as her casket was
carried through the streets of Henley-on-Thames on a
horse-drawn glass carriage!!
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/295000/images/_295648_dusty_carriage300.jpg>
Crowds of people ignored the bad weather to line the
streets leading to the church, outside of which were
loudspeakers playing classic Dusty hits. Go, girl!!
Amongst those present were Pet Shop Boys, Kiki Dee and
Lulu, who read the eulogy. There were floral tributes from
Paul McCartney, and from the Rolling Stones.
Ian
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Subject: Farewell To Dusty Springfield
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Jamie LePage, le_page_XXXXXXXXties.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Funeral services were held on Friday for the 1960s pop
star once described as Britain's finest white soul singer,
Dusty Springfield. Born Mary O'Brien in London, Dusty first
found fame as a member of the folk trio The Springfields.
Going solo, she had a string of hits including I Only Want
To Be With You, Stay Awhile, The Look of Love, and Wishin'
and Hopin'.
Hundreds gathered in the rain Friday to join friends and
celebrities at the funeral. A live simulcast broadcast the
service to fans gathered outside. "You Don't Have to Say
You Love Me" played as the crowd of well-wishers and fans
watched a horse-drawn carriage bring her coffin to a
church in the riverside town of Henley-on-Thames, west of
London. A bouquet of flowers in the coffin spelled out
"Dusty."
60s contemporary Lulu addressed the congregation, and
Elvis Costello read a note from Burt Bacharach.
It said: "You could hear just three notes and you knew it
was Dusty. It was such a rare and beautiful voice. I just
want to add my thanks for every beautiful note Dusty sang."
Dusty Springfield will be inducted into the US Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame next week.
As Robert Bates mentioned in the last issue, DUSTY IN
MEMPHIS has been reissued with 14 tracks. The album was
originally released in 1969 and was produced by Jerry
Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin.
There is another Dusty release DUSTY IN LONDON, featuring
more unreleased material Springfield recorded in England
for Atlantic.
Dusty is a favorite of the Spectropop list members for all
the right reasons. Great songs, strong arrangements,
fantastic delivery. Her music will continue to inspire
long after her passing.
Here are some links if anyone would like to read more.
http://www.crl.com/~tsimon/springfi.htm
http://www.isd.net/mbayly/march99-news.htm
http://www.rainbow.net.au/~dusty/index.html
http://members.aol.com/SBell25999/index.htm/Dustydevotedly.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_295000/295552.stm
Jamie
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Subject: Re: Dusty In Memphis, Deluxe
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: David Bash, BashXXXXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Bates, Robert (Cahners -NYC), robaXXXXXXXXrs.com wrote:
> I just heard that Rhino has released a "deluxe version" of
> "Dusty in Memphis," with a whopping ten bonus tracks; I
> understand some of them were produced by Jeff Barry. I
> already have the non-deluxe version of "Memphis" - with a
> mere three bonus tracks - and I was wondering if the new
> ones were worth having.
Hi Robert,
Yes, I think you'll find the deluxe version worth having.
Lots of previously unissued tracks all done in her
inimitable fashion. I mean, who else can make a song like
Bread's "Make It With You" sound soulful, as she does on
this deluxe edition!
You could probably find this disc for as low as $13.99 at
your local record store, and if you trade in your
then-to-be obsolete earlier version, it will cost you even
less! Go ahead, take the plunge!
--
Spectropop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David Bash
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Subject: Plantation Records information
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Stewart Mason, flamiXXXXXXXXcom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Does anyone have any information on the history of the 60s
/70s label Plantation Records? They seem to have been a
southern label that specialized in soundalike covers of
current pop hits whose records mostly showed up at five
and dimes and gas stations (I remember them from my own
childhood because my father was a district manager for the
now-defunct southern discount store chain TG&Y and all his
stores had bins of cheap Plantation 8-tracks), but they
did originals as well in both pop and country styles.
I ask because I just yesterday found a Plantation sampler
that featured a childhood favorite, Harlow Wilcox's
"Groovy Grubworm," which according to Joel Whitburn was
actually a Billboard Top 40 hit in 1969. Great song. The
only web information I found was a passing line in a short
Webb Pierce bio that said "By 1977 he was recording for
Plantation Records," which in context carries strong
overtones of "yes, he was reduced to that."
Mostly I'm wondering if their focus was on the quickie
covers or original material, if anyone interesting sang
these covers (the one on this sampler is a cover of Ray
Stevens' "The Streak" that's uncannily similar), if they
were related to any other labels, and if I'm right in
assuming Shelby Singleton was somehow involved in all this.
I mean, slightly sleazy southern label in the sixties
and seventies, it only makes sense that he'd be around.
Stewart
***************************FLAMINGO RECORDS***************************
Stewart Allensworth Mason
Box 40172 "Oh, I don't know, I'm more
Albuquerque NM 87196 of a titmouse myself."
www.rt66.com/~flamingo
*********************HAPPY MUSIC FOR NICE PEOPLE**********************
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Subject: BOUNCE spectroXXXXXXXXties.com: Non-member submi
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
========= Start of forwarded message =========
Ronnie Spector & Joey Ramone Chat March 24-on David Bowie's
Website.
You can let people know that it's on Bowienet at 4:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time.
The reason I picked the time was to get European fans as well.
Joey
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Subject: The Teardrops
Received: 03/12/99 4:31 am
From: wsXXXXXXXXtyenet.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
I was just asked about a group called the Teardrops,
possibly from Cincinnatti. I'll pass on the message. Any
clues? I believe I have a song called "You Won't Be There,
" by them which I really love, but it could be a different
group.
"I was wondering if you have heard of a girl group,
possibly from here in Cincinnati called the Teardrops. I
just picked up three 45s by the group today. They are
early 60s, on Saxony Records, which is out of Cincinnati.
The records look rather new, though I could be wrong about
that. That tracks are: That's Why I'll Get By b/w Tonight
I'm Gonna Fall In Love Again, I'm Gonna Steal Your
Boyfriend (same on both sides), and I Will Love You Dear
Forever b/w Bubblegummer. All of the tracks are written by
a Paul Trefzger and produced by Bud Reneau. Any clues?
Thanks.
Chris"
Will Stos
The Girl Group Chronicles
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Frontrow/2301/index.html
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Subject: Cinderellas On Broadway
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Ian Chapman, iandXXXXXXXXlnet.co.uk
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Just got a copy of the new Westside CD "On Broadway", a
cross section of Brill Building tracks from Mann/Weil,
Greenwich/Barry and Goffin/King. Due to licensing
limitations, they've used a few obscurities alongside the
more familiar stuff, but it makes a change from another
collection composed mainly of well-known hits. An
"alternate" version of the Cinderellas "Baby Baby (I Still
Love You) is included, but I was slightly disappointed
that this turned out to be exactly the same as the issued
version - but minus the terrific sax break near the end,
which I'm sure many will agree is a highlight of the
record. It's replaced by the back-ups singing the chorus a
couple of times over. I was also hoping that some of the
studio chat that was found when this version was
discovered, would be included, but no....
Anyway, I'm reliably informed that another Cinderellas/
Dimension unissued track has been found.....Mann/Weil's
"Good Good Lovin'", which many of you will know from the
Blossoms later version. The Cinderellas' apparently isn't
as "produced" as their other tracks, has more of a demo
feel, but it is scheduled to be included on the
forthcoming "Girls Will Be Girls" compilation I mentioned
a few lists back....the one which will also feature
Diane's "The Company You Keep".
Ian
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Subject: girls who surf, etc.
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Frank Youngwerth, FMXXXXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
>the girl groups who tossed their hat into the (surf/drag)
>rings just didn't seem to have it. They ended up sounding
>too cute, or just plain bad sometimes. What does everyone
>else say about this subject?
Surf/drag seems to me like a reaction to the girl group
sound(s), allowing guy voices to get in on some of that
wonderfully produced innocence. Consider how obsessed
Brian was with Phil's work.
So then girls doing the surf/drag thing would sometimes
comes across as awkward, since it's s'posed to be the guys'
take on the girl sound.
Some of the better girl group surf/drag-themed records are
pretty obscure. Like "I Miss My Surfer Boy Too" by the
Westwoods.
I, too, enjoy the big-beat adult pop style. One of my
favorites is "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" by Frank
Sinatra. Cilla Black did a lot of fine work (despite some
previous Spectropop Ethel Merman comparisons),
particularly her versions of gorgeous Paul McCartney songs
like "Love of the Loved," "It's For You," and "Step Inside
Love."
Finally, just got a nice British 2-CD comp of Bobby Vee,
which includes a haunting previously unreleased
Goffin-King song "The Idol," and the Spectoresque "Run
Like the Devil," which got no higher than #124 in
Billboard, but surely is one of Vee's best.
Frank
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Subject: Happenings
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Ian Chapman, iandXXXXXXXXlnet.co.uk
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
The Happenings started out as the Four Graduates. Bobby
Miranda (lead singer), Dave Libert, Tom Giuliano and
Bernie Laporte. The hair was a bit longer by the time of
their '68 "Psycle" album, Javed, and the suits weren't
there, but I guess compared with a lot of the '68 scene,
they were still pretty clean-cut. Whilst I quite enjoy
their re-working of chestnuts like "My Mammy" and "I Got
Rhythm", I think their best cut was the Linzer/Randell
beaut "Goodnight My Love".
Ian
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Subject: Kinks
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Dave Mirich, DmirXXXXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Big L writes:
> Listen to the Kinks songs "Down By The Riverside," and
> "Phenomenal Cat."
> There ought to be a word to describe songs like these, but
> I haven't found it yet.
What album are these songs from?
Dave Mirich
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Subject: My Dad
Received: 03/12/99 4:31 am
From: Marc Miller, marXXXXXXXXcom
To: 'spectroXXXXXXXXties.com', spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Big L, Stewart -
"My Dad" is on another CD that's currently available. It's
called (are you sitting down?) Donna Reed's Dinner Party.
It also has songs by Shelley Fabares (Johnny Angel, natch),
Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Roy Hamilton, and (gasp!)
Mike Douglas. It's on a Sony label called Nick At Nite
(catalog# 67148).
Marc
>>>>>I am looking for any CD that has the song "My Dad"
>TV STARS SING (K-Tel 3388, released in 1995) has not only
>"My Dad" but singles by Ricky Nelson, Shelley Fabares,
>Johnny Crawford, Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens...
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Subject: Domenic Priore
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Glenn Sadin, glenn_marXXXXXXXXlink.net
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
>For the fellow asking SMiLE questions, enjoy this brief
>bit of information. For more, good music stores carry Dom
>Priore's book, "Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile".
Domenic Priore is a good pal of mine, so if any of you have
any specific questions about "Smile," I'd be happy to ask him
for you!
Glenn
gsaXXXXXXXXnemedia.com
glenn_marXXXXXXXXlink.net
Guitarist/Vocalist/Songwriter for THE BERKELEY SQUIRES:
http://www.termites.com/BerkeleySquires.html
Read about JAPANESE POP MUSIC from the '50s to the '90s!:
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_mariko/nihon.htm
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Subject: Tommy Tedesco
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Paul MacArthur, Rtf_XXXXXXXXedu
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
>We miss Tommy Tedesco, what a sense of humor.
What a great column he had in Guitar Player magazine.
Learned a ton about studio work from that column.
- Paul
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Subject: Smile/Brian Wilson
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: JM, jhorwXXXXXXXXwesleyan.edu
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
I'd like to express what seems to be a minority opinion,
that the stuff that's emerged from the Beach Boys' "Smile"
sessions isn't all that exciting and pales in comparison
with the stuff Brian was producing in '64-65.
More than that, though, I think "Smile" represents the
point at which Brian became totally alienated from his
audience and his muse led him in directions that betrayed
his true talents. This process began with "Pet Sounds"
which while musically ambitious and often breathtaking, is
also quite arch, pretentious, and obscure. I like much of
"Friends" and "Wild Honey," and even some of "20/20" and
beyond, but it's nothing I'd live or die by.
To me the Beach Boys peaked with "All Summer Long" and,
especially, "The Beach Boys Today!" (along with the "Don't
Worry Baby" 45). These are the records I hold closest to my
heart, records I can play for days on end without getting
embarassed or frustrated... records I can play without
needing the argument of Brian the Auteur or Brian the
Troubled Genius to justify them.
The basis for the obnoxious Legend of Brian Wilson is his
notorious reclusiveness and wigged-out-ness, the
tantalizing obscurity of the "Smile" stuff, and the
pretentious musical-metaphysical "ambitions" of that and
later music. I get really tired of reading stuff that
deifies Brian for making music that hardly anyone's ever
heard-- and that no one's heard in its intended form.
To me this misses his true greatness, which was investing
songs about cars and girls (and even surfing, a pretty
parochial concern especially if you live in the Midwest as
I do!) with incredible emotional resonance... the songs are
exhilirating and enrich my life to the extent that they
make otherwise mundane moments feel equally exhilirating.
The Beach Boys (aka Brian) were an incredible studio band
who didn't "raise pop music to the level of art" or even
"transcend pop music" but who made the most of an existing,
tride-and-true, youth-oriented, consumer-oriented art form.
When Brian started to feel that he was better than all that,
he lost touch with that part of his talent that most
people (rightly) responded to.
Just thought I'd stir up some debate. I'd love to know if
anyone agrees with me.
JM
P.S. Strange that there hasn't been more talk of Dusty
Springfield on this list. She is my hero... For her
stubbornness, for the marvellously unique and sensual
quality of her voice, for her good taste, for her bad
taste, for her adventurousness, for her perseverance, for
the bewildering beauty of her phrasing, and for the
exuberance and joy (even when she was singing about sad
things, she made you feel glad to be alive) of her records.
I was very saddened by her death although we all knew it
was coming.
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Subject: UK 45s
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Ian Chapman, iandXXXXXXXXlnet.co.uk
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
45 rpm records in the UK always had the small hole. The
majority would have the press-out centres, but that was
only for the purpose of juke-box use. Most record-buyers,
therefore, would leave the discs intact, and in today's
collecting terms, a record is considered devalued if the
centre has been pushed out. A lot of records came "solid",
i.e. with no removable centre at all. There was a period in
the late 60s/early 70s when Phonogram-distributed labels
were issued with large holes, but these came with a
small-hole plastic tri-adaptor already in place. The
company later introduced the "all plastic" totally solid
45 with the label design moulded directly onto the vinyl
itself.
Ian
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Subject: Cathy and Cookie/The Tammys
Received: 03/14/99 4:51 am
From: WILLIAM STOS, wsXXXXXXXXt.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Hear another question, collectors....
Have you ever heard of the duo called Cathy and Cookie?
I have two of their songs, "Hi Diddle-De Diddle," and
"That Man Of Mine." I love their wild sound, but did
they record anything else?
Thanks in advance,
Will
p.s. I hear the Tammys will be included as a part of a
new Lou Christie cd coming out this month or next.
Finally some Tammys stuff on cd! Viva Egyptian Shumba!
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Subject: 45s Again
Received: 03/12/99 4:31 am
From: Paul Urbahns, PaulurbXXXXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Big L wrote:
<< The 45 rpm single was made for one purpose: jukeboxes. >>
Sorry, your a mile off on that one. Any history book will
tell you it was a powerplay between RCA and Columbia.The
original RCA players (they made their own at first because
45s would not play on any known record player) plugged into
the radios or other record players you had. That when they
developed phono inputs and the small plug we call an RCA
plug. Up until then I understand record players were
seperate devices with their own speakers, amplifier, etc.
Juke Boxes simply converted once they stopped making 78s.
Paul Urbahns
paulurbXXXXXXXXom
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Subject: 45s again
Received: 03/13/99 8:38 am
From: Paul Urbahns, PaulurbXXXXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXXXXXXties.com
Jamie wrote:
<< A 45 starts out as a wad of
black plastic known as a "donut" (I think), which is
placed between the two stampers and then sort of pressed
like a waffle iron. I may be wrong, but I think the 45s
come off the press with the big holes already cut. >>
There may be more than one type of pressing machine, but
the ones I've seen only did small whole records then they
were punched after the fact. Have you ever gotten an off
center record? That wouldn't be possible if what you state
was true.
Triming the edges and punching the center out was part of
the finishing process, at least in the 60s.
Paul Urbahns
paulurbXXXXXXXXom
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