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Volume #0403 April 5, 2000
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PLAYABLE ON STEREO & MONO PHONOGRAPHS
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Subject: Crestelli Takes Cake
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: DJ JimmyB
To: Spectropop!
In a message dated 4/3/0 3:07:06 PM, you wrote:
>This may have been the alltime spectropop post of alltimes
>. I swear I shed a tear while reading this.
I heartily concur...Botticelli
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Subject: Re: The Hairer! ======> The Ronettes
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: Jimmy Cresitelli
To: Spectropop!
For Jack Madani and the rest of the Spectropop Crew...
glad you enjoyed my nostalgic walk around the corner and
up the block. The early 60's in Brooklyn were SO cool. I
was only 7 by the time the summer of 1963 ended (America's
truly last innocent summer), but the memories and the
soundtrack are vivid. (I have a writer's memory, it being
my avocation.) There were bad girl gangs (beehived,
mascaraed, switchbladed dropouts who smoked), who
regularly beat up on good girls (usually cheerleaders and
babysitters), even going so far as to ban certain of them
from their Mc Kinley Park turf. Led by Joanie "Queen of
the Park" S., they ruled for years... her hair for years
looked like a black-varnished, industrial-sized
wastebasket sitting atop her head. She eventually married
an ex-con and tried to live a normal housewife's wife in a
basement apartment on the block (Tupperware parties), but
it didn't take. She liked me, though, because I was
fascinated with her and always took the time to ask her
questions about her exotic lifestyle.
And the boy gangs: the Eighth Avenue Midgets struck terror
into any good Catholic school boy, so much so that you went
blocks out of your way if you knew they were up ahead. "
Chico has a jacket that says 'Rebels' on the back," maybe
so, but these gangs were REALLY bad. Richie S., Joanie's
brother, came to a bad end, and I remember him stealing a
penknife from me when I was... eleven?... and letting it
get to me until I went to his house and DEMANDED that he
give it back. Which he did. I think he respected me, brat
that I was.
In 1970, Joanie S. gave me her cherished copy of the
Ronettes' Philles album.
I still have it, too, signed by Ronnie years ago when she
sang at the old Club 802 in Bay Ridge in... what, 1976? It
was where Travolta filmed "SNF" on their disco floor.
Thanks for letting me tap into the vaults, boys and girls...
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Subject: If My Car vocalists
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: Doc Rock
To: Spectropop!
3) If My Car Could Only Talk To Me - Lou Christie.
Beautiful clanging production on this one. Jack Nitszche's
much-beloved Well Of Sound. Who were those backing
vocalists?!?!?!
The Angels.
Doc
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Subject: Re: barnstorming production
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: Frank
To: Spectropop!
>Anybody else on the list got any barnstorming production
>favs?
>
>Jake Tassell
There's at least one more it's a version of Clapton's
LAYLA produced by Lou Eizner and arranged by Will Malone
and sung by Ronnie Charles. Speaking of Wall Of Sound this
has got to be the big Wall of China. By the way do you know
if the records you listed are still available?
Frank
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Subject: Susan Rafey
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: DJ JimmyB
To: Spectropop!
In a message dated 4/3/0 3:07:06 PM, you wrote:
>1) The Big Hurt - Susan Rafey.
>This has got to be one of the aurally biggest Wall Of
>Sound type records I've ever heard. I can only guess that
>this record was produced by Godzilla, arranged by King
>Kong and engineered by Ben Grimm from The Fantastic Four.
>You need to hear this to believe it.
I actually own that rekkid, and I believe David Ponak does
as well. In fact it was produced by Alan Lorber for Verve
Records in 1966 (It is not a Spector Wall Of Sound
recording, but a wall it truly is). Alan Lorber was the
man who produced the infamous "Bosstown Sound" for MGM
Records in 1967. Failure though it was--mainly due to
massive hype and minimal REAL talent--the era produced a
few memorable records, among them the great Orpheus LP's.
Happily the sound died a rather quick death but the
original Orpheus LPs are usually priced at $12 -$15 around
Boston. God Only Knows where one can dig up a copy of Susan
Rafey's LP. The quote above is correct though. This version
of the Toni Fisher's pioneering trip into phase-shifting
equals the original in strengh and listenability. And that
fuzz guitar....It IS a killer, trust us.
Jimmy Botticelli/still grinnin' at Crestelli's take on Brooklyn
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Subject: A Question...
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: Keith D'Arcy
To: Spectropop!
Hi All,
I've recently had my head ripped off by "Every (Little)
Breath I Take" by Roddie Joy on Red Bird. Anybody know if
this song has ever made it to CD in a reasonably good
remastered form? What a giant track. I'd also like to find
a remastered version of "Do What You Wanna" by Dee Dee
Barnes. Another brilliant pop moment; great vocal.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
KD
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Subject: High Fidelity
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: Jamie LePage
To: Spectropop!
Spectropop Listers in the United States are surely aware
of Touchstone Picture's new romantic comedy release "High
Fidelity," but I wonder if it isn't worth mention here.
There is a lot of hype going around; perhaps members
familiar with the project can present a more balanced
perspective.
I haven't seen the flick, but the synopsis apparently is:
Self-professed music junkie Rob Gordon (John Cusack) onws
a not-too-successful all-vinyl record store in Chicago.
Rob and his staff, armed with "vast knowledge of pop
music" (I hope that doesn't mean Elton John and Santana!),
converse about their relationships, comparing and
intermingling real life experiences with the music they
love. The screenplay is based on a novel by Nick Hornby.
One reviewer of the film mused that "in many ways music
helps define us, or at least in our minds, as it can be
anything from our 'soundtrack', to our social compass, our
shrink, an emotional release, or just a good way to have a
good time".
I thought that was interesting. It reminded me of Jimmy
C's recent post on Brooklyn hairdos and the ever-present
transistor radio. Certainly pop music up to the mid-60s
was a common "soundtrack" for nearly everyone. After rock
became serious, popular music progressively splintered
into different genres and sub-sub-genres (alternative
post-modern drums n' bass ambient house, anyone?), little
by little the across-the-board common soundtrack for a
generation seemed to disappear.
Has anyone seen the film yet, and if so, irrespective of
the period of music these "pop" vinyl junkies are "vastly
knowledgeable" about, will it appeal to us music junkies?
Jamie
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Subject: BEHIND THE WALL OF SOUND
Received: 04/05/00 5:33 am
From: CHRIS KING
To: Spectropop!
Dear fellow Spectropopsters.
DA DOO RON RON, my femme-tastic (you won't hear a single
MALE lead vocalist!) celebration of 60's girl group &
sassy soul sisters, has a further trio of dates in London
during April. There's an Easter eggstravaganza on GOOD
Friday 21st April Upstairs @ The Garage & two nights @ the
downstairs bar of The Social. Full details below. Many
thanks, Chris.
DA DOO RON RON APRIL DATES
Tues 11th APRIL - @ the downstairs bar of The SOCIAL, 05 ,
Little Portland Street, London, W1 (Venue Tel:-0171-636-
4992) 7pm - Midnight Admission free DJs Chris & Dec
Good Friday 21st APRIL - Upstairs @ The GARAGE, 20 - 22,
Highbury Corner, London N1 (Venue Tel:-0171-607-1818) 9pm
- 3am Sterling 4 w / flyer DJs Chris & Mark Norton
Tues 25th APRIL - @ the downstairs bar of The SOCIAL
For more info please check out the DDRR Web site:-
http://www.shimokawakelly.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
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