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Volume #0328 October 5, 1999
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both in monophonic and stereophonic editions
Subject: Boys Town/Philately
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: Ian Chapman, iaxxxxxalnet.co.uk
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Robin Wills wrote:
>Hey Ian,
>It was your review that initialy made me seek out Boystown
>and you don't even have a copy! Actually Mick Patrick
>played me it about 6 years ago. Will there ever be another
>Philately? I really treasure those old issues. My copy of
>Boystown is a promo and so was Mick's, I guess it didn't
>get a proper release.
Hi Robin,
Yep, still searching! Mick and I used to get 45s from a
particular dealer (sadly no longer in the biz) who would
send each of us packs of singles "on approval" to audition
- we kept the ones we liked, returned the ones we didn't.
Mostly we each got copies of the same 45s, but sometimes
if the guy had only one copy of a particular single, it
was down to pure luck which of us would get it in their
package. And Mick got lucky with "Boy's Town"!! Jealous?
You bet I was! But vengeance was mine when I later got the
Westwoods "I Miss My Surfer Boy Too" and Andrea Carroll's "
The Doolang". Ha!! :-)
I get asked a lot if "Philately" will ever make a comeback.
I honestly doubt it at present, as Mick is kept pretty
busy compiling and annotating myriad girl-group
compilations (this on top of a regular "day job"). However,
I do know that there is another issue of "That Will
Never Happen Again" in the pipeline - a second volume of
"Pop/Soul Blondes". I don't know the full details, but I
believe most of it is finished. But when it will actually
appear is anybody's guess! Rest asssured, Spectropoppers
will be the first to hear about it if & when!
Ian
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Subject: Diane Renay
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: john rausch,xxxxx.net
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Hi Diane,
A friend of mine was going thru some old People magazines
and gave me an issue from 1996 which has a nice little
article on you. Lots of great pics too! I have never
really seen any vintage photos of you aside from the Navy
Blue lp cover. I Love the pic of you with the Rolling
Stones. I took the liberty of uploading the pics to share
with others on this list. Maybe you can comment on some of
the pictures sometime?
Diane Renay http://rauschj.tripod.com/dr.htm
John Rausch
Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes at
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/2469/
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Subject: "How Does It Feel"
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: DJ JimmyB, DJJimxxxxxcom
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
There exists a Japanese recording (done recently) of on of
my favorite lesser known Ronettes songs, "How Does It Feel".
I want to know the name of the artist who recorded it
and where I might obtain a copy of the record, CD or even
a cassette copy..Anyone? Jillll? Hellllp!
Jimmy Botticelli/Feelin' Helpless
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Subject: How Does It Feel Abkco
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: Billy G. Spradlin, bgsprxxxxxhlink.net
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
>I only really listen to the mid-sixties disc of Back To
>Mono, the one with The Ronettes' "Paradise" and Ike &
>Tina's "River Deep Mountain High". It's Spector in his
>finest noise/ambient mood. Are there many other equally
>great/dense/reverby tracks from this period that Spector,
>for whatever reasons, didn't include on Back To Mono?
I would have love to have seen "How Does It Feel" on the
box set. It's one of my favorite Spector productions since
my high school days when I found the 45 of "Walking in The
Rain" at a local garage sale.
Its on ABKCO's "The Best of The Ronettes" CD. My only
gripe is that there are only 3 songs on this CD that don't
appear on the box set. "The Best of The Crystals" has 7
songs not on the box set (all B-sides), "The Best of
Darline Love" has 5 songs not on the box, and repeats 2
songs from the Crystals best-of.
Also, why wasn't "I Can Hear Music" on the box? I also
prefer the original 45 version of The Crystals "All Grown
Up" over the Chuck Berry-Inspired alternate take on the
box set, luckily the original was used on the Crystals
best-of.
The first and third CD run around a hour, and the second
CD has a 53 minute running time, so there was still room
for more songs on CD. Perhaps they cut back on songs so
everything could be fit on 3 vinyl LP's. I wished they
would have maxxed out every CD with a 70 minute running
time like Rhino does, but I'm still grateful that Phil did
re-release all this on Compact disc. Now I hope ABKCO's
will get off their lard butts and re-release the
Cameo-Parkway material.
Billy G. Spradlin
29 Rim Road
Kilgore, Texas 75662
Email: bgsprxxxxxhlink.net
Homepage: http://home.earthlink.net/~bgspradlin/
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Subject: Robin & His Merry Boots
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: Mark Landwehr, mxxxxxbbs.com
To: Spectropop List, Spectxxxxxities.com
> I also remember a live
> action TV version of Robin Hood that came out in the late
> 50's, so that article might be referring to this also.
>
A Robin Hood movie (non-cartoon) came out in 1957, and a
subsequent TV series appeared, both starring Richard
Greene as the Robin-meister...Neither of these were Disney
productions as far as I can tell. The TV show was a
syndicated UK job.
> Finally, driving into the seedy side of the city, do
> Phil Spector bootlegs exist?
>
Boots of Philles 111 "(Let's Dance) The Screw" have been
floating around since the late-70s, and there is a boot of
"Paradise" by the Ronettes on Philles (which never issued
a single of it). Are there others???
Mark
The Phil Spector Gallery (updated at
http://www.toltbbs.com/~msland/Spector
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Subject: Ronettes on cd/Spector bootlegs
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: john rausch,xxxxx.net
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Someone wrote asking about the Presenting The Fabulous
Ronettes on cd and Spector bootlegs I would imagine Phil
is in no hurry to release this classic Ronettes lp on cd
due to legal battles with Ronnie,Nedra and Estelle,who
have a royalties lawsuit going on since last summer. I have
a Japanese cd of the original lp in stereo. But it is not an
official Spector released product and is recorded directly
from a clean vinyl source. There is another import cd comp.
called the "ultimate ronettes" which has most of the lp in
stereo and also has most of their Colpix lp included too
(stereo) and a few other misc. tracks. Also there are
bootleg Spector 45s out there.I have "lets dance the screw"
and "walking in the rain b/w paradise" on colored vinyl. I
am sure there are others that were pressed.
John Rausch
Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes at
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/2469/
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Subject: sonny bono
Received: 10/05/99 12:40 am
From: john rausch,xxxxx.net
To: Spectropop List, spectxxxxxities.com
Here`s a nice site devoted to Sonny Bono,muscian/producer.
Seems to be very thorough.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1306/sonny.htm
John Rausch
Phil Spector`s Wall Of Sound at
http://members.tripod.com/~rauschj/
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