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Volume #0421 June 13, 2000
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an intimate collection of today's tunes
Subject: RIP Revola
Received: 06/13/00 2:30 am
From: Jack Madani
To: Spectropop!
>To answer some questions which have come up...yes, Revola
>has shut down along with it's parent label
>Creation
Devastating news. In the past year I got a whole pile of
marvelous reissues on the Revola label (Ballroom,
Eternity's Children, Sunshine Company among others), and
that web site, well, it was just so much *fun*!
>however some of us are now with
>Poptones.....a Millennium compilation, 'Misty Mirage',
>and both the Joey Stec album and the Sandy Salisbury
>album will be released worldwide by Poptones,
That's good to hear. Is Misty Mirage available yet on
Poptones, and how can that be gotten?
Also, I'm sorry to be so clueless, but where and how can
those Ripples compilations be obtained?
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Subject: session most liked to have attended
Received: 06/13/00 2:30 am
From: geo carlsone
To: Spectropop!
I've always had a time travel fantasy about
being at both the recording and mixing sessions
of Don't Worry Baby; and it's an understatement
to say that I wouldn't change a thing with that
marvelous song.
Next task is to pick the favorite non Beach Boy
session I'd have liked to have been at.
mt
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Subject: Which Recording Session?
Received: 06/13/00 2:30 am
From: Kingsley
To: Spectropop!
Oh, it is difficult...but after much thought I'm going to
plump for "I Wonder" by The Crystals. Change anything?
Well, yes...I'd just add a few layers to that quiet
instrumental break...Ther must have been one musician
somewhere in LA who wasn't on it!
Kingsley Abbott
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Subject: A new (?) soft rock compilation
Received: 06/13/00 2:30 am
From: Dr Hibbert
To: Spectropop!
Is this one recommended? The tracklisting looks
interesting atleast...lotsÅ@of unknown artists to
me (...Alzo & Udine, huh?????)
"It's A Soft Rock World" JPN : 1996 Keystone SR 9601 (CD)
Something Going / Alzo & Udine
C'mon And Join Us / Alzo & Udine
I Wanna Be With You / Eternity's Children
The Other Side Of Me / Eternity's Children
There's Always Tomorrow / Keith
Try To See It My Way / Joanie Sommers
Gettin' Through To Me / Royalettes
Close Your Mouth / Free Design
Within You / Inner Dialogue
Mine Forever More / Collage
Many Are The Times / Lee Mallory
Autrefois / New Wave
On The Edge Of Love / Sundowners
Love Years Coming / Strawberry Children
On To Something New / Royal Groove
The Children Of St. Monica / Don Grady
Questions And Answers / In Crowd
When You're Not Here / Sunrays
Someday / Paper Dolls
Come To The Sunshine / Van Dyke Parks
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Subject: Count Basie?
Received: 06/13/00 2:30 am
From: Lindsay Martin
To: Spectropop!
> From: Doug Morris, Count Basie's first 1936 Decca
> recording session with John Hammond.... Ooh! wait a
> minute - this is Spectropop
Not as off-topic as it sounds, Doug. By co-incidence,
I've been listening to some Count Basie from the 30s &
40s in recent days and remarking on how close some of
these tracks are to early rock'n'roll.
Lindsay
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Subject: holy cow
Received: 06/13/00 2:30 am
From: Jack Madani
To: Spectropop!
This is totally freaking me out.
You know the B-52's "Rock Lobster," that terrific slice
of retro-surf-punk-whatever?
I think they copped several of its essential riffs from a
Sunrays tune called "Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously."
I need someone to confirm or deny this for me because it
really is freaking me out how closely the riffs match up.
Specifically, I'm speaking of the part in Rock Lobster
that I used to think was a nod to the classic surf
instrumental "Out Of Limits." Followed by the rockin'
riff during which Fred namechecks all the weird fish
("there goes a catfish chased by a dogfish").
Those two parts both can be found in the Sunrays tune I
mentioned above. Plus during the turnaround Rick Henn
sings, "you know you're not the only fish left in the sea."
And then comes the B-52 riffs.
How in hell did a band out of Athens GA in the late
seventies ever hear of what would have at the time been
an impossible to find obscure single by a band that
everyone assumed was no more than a one-hit wonder?
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