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Volume #0318 September 8, 1999
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This is the new design in today's music
Subject: Rosecrans Blvd.
Received: 09/07/99 6:36 am
From: David Feldman, fexxxxxnderables.com
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Tobias is obsessed, with good reason, with the...
> Re: Rosecrans lyric :
I think I mentioned this on the list once before, but the
only time I had a chance to ask Jimmy Webb a few questions
(on an online chat), I asked him about this song (probably
my favorite JW composition) and he chuckled. The
inspiration for the song was evidently a flight attendant
who relieved JW of his virginity. Many flight attendants
live in this South Bay area of L.A., and every time he
went to see her, he passed the Rosecrans Ave. exit sign.
At the risk of waxing a la LePage, I've always viewed the
song as murder mystery song, with a lover's betrayal a
metaphor for murder. When the lover is "shot down on a
noncombatant mission" and the song ends abruptly with "I
wonder why I did it," it is like a sudden confession from
a murderer on Perry Mason. The singer is the murderer.
The Fifth Dimension version dull? Gee, it's my favorite 5D
song -- love the arrangement, and most of all, I love Billy
Davis's vocal -- I think he understands the lyric on a much
deeper level than Rivers.
Dave Feldman
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Subject: If You See Me Getting Smaller I'm Leaving
Received: 09/07/99 6:35 am
From: Hans Ebert, xxxxxigator.com
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
A question: Jimmy Webb wrote a song on the El Mirage album
called "If You See Me Getting Smaller I'm Leaving."
Who inspired this line?
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Subject: British Sunshine
Received: 09/08/99 4:34 am
From: DJ JimmyB, DJJimxxxxxcom
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Does anyone know where and how the British Sunshine Pop
compilations can be obtained?
Thanks in advance again..
Jimmy/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on 88.1FM WMBR,
Cambridge at MIT on Tuesdays from 6-8am.
It can be heard in Real Time by downloading Real Audio
and visiting our wevsite at www.wmbr.org
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Subject: I Met Him On A Sunday- original is available
Received: 09/07/99 6:36 am
From: Paul Urbahns, Pauluxxxxxcom
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Billy wrote:
>The 1958 original on Tiara Records (re-issued by Decca)
>that some writer has called "The First Girl Group Record"
The original Hit version is on the Rhino comp "Best Of the
Girl Groups, Vol. 2" Most Shirelles Greatest Hits sets I
have found the Scepter '66 version because they don't know
any better. besides it's easier to license all the Scepter
stuff from one source rather than try to license one song
from Decca (oops MCA) The Shirelles two disk set on Tomato
(R271731) has the I Met Him On A Sunday '66 labeled simply
as I Met Him On A Sunday, but it is placed in the proper
sequence with the other 1966 releases including the B side
Love That Man. All tracks were licensed from Rhino.
Paul Urbahns
pauluxxxxxcom
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Subject: Re: Revola
Received: 09/07/99 6:36 am
From: Jamie LePage, le_pagxxxxxities.com
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Dave Mirich, Dmxxxxxcom asked:
>Does anyone have the web address for Revola?
http://www.creation.co.uk/revola/
RA clips there if your computer can handle it...
Best,
Jamie
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Subject: Shirelles
Received: 09/07/99 6:36 am
From: Michael B Kelly, docxxxxx.com
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Shirelles
By the way, the Shirelles were offered "He's A Rebel"
before the Crystals, but they turned it down as too
controversial.
Doc
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Subject: Eli's coming and other delights...
Received: 09/07/99 6:36 am
From: Jamie LePage, le_pagxxxxxities.com
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
David Feldman wrote:
>> I'm sure you're all familiar with the Shirelles song "I
>> Met Him on a Sunday" ... A neighbor of mine had a
>> version of that song that was ten times better
>Might you be thinking of Laura Nyro's version...
I think Laura Nyro is so underrated and we don't discuss
her great work nearly enough here.
Laura Nyro died at 49 of ovarian cancer. Such a waste.
Nevertheless, she left for posterity some fantastic songs.
She debuted at the age of 19 and was quickly discovered by
David Geffen. After Geffen signed her she penned such
classic songs as "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic"
and "And When I Die."
Nyro worked with Charlie Callelo, Roy Halee, Arif
Mardin etc., and it is to her fine credit that her songs
are regarded as classics today. Undoubtedly Nyro's work
will continue to be highly regarded in generations to come.
"Laura Nyro, didn't she write a song for Fifth Dimension
or something?"
Check out her works. A treasure of recordings awaits the
uninitiated.
Surrey on down,
Jamie LePage
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Subject: the high-pitched voice/the dum dum ditty
Received: 09/07/99 6:35 am
From: Jack Madani, Jack_Mxxxxxk12.nj.us
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
spectxxxxxities.com writes:
>Of course, too, 1962-1963 was
>the heyday of the high-pitched voice... witness the
>closing note on "I Had A Dream."
Or my latest brand-new fave, Lori Martin's The Home Of The
Boy I Love and Mine 'Til Monday, from the new Del-Fi GG
comp. I confess, that kind of cewpie doll voice makes me
all wobbly in the knees.
Robin Ward, Miss Cathy Brasher, Bonnie, sigh.
One other thing: who's GENIUS idea was that thing that the
Goodies do in the middle of their version of The Dum Dum
Ditty, when one of the girls says "I wanna say yeah yeah,"
and then all of a sudden you hear the TOUGHEST chick EVER
drawl, "yeah yeah yeah" just before the wall of sound
comes crashing back in like a collapsing stack of empty
packing crates?
BTW, that isn't the same backing instrumental track as the
Shangri-La's used, is it? It's pretty darn close.
jack "how does he get in so much trouble" madani
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