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Volume #0047 03/01/98
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DESIGNED TO ENHANCE IRREPLACEABLE MONOPHONIC RECORDINGS
Subject: Calling All Music Writers
Sent: 2/27/98 8:38 AM
Received: 2/28/98 3:02 AM
From: Paul MacArthur, rtf_XXX@XXXXXXdu
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
I am looking for experienced music writers for a project I will be
starting this summer. If you are a SOLID writer please contact me
OFF-LIST for details.
I am interested in writers who specialize in one or more of the following
genres: rock, pop, jazz, folk, country, r&b, lounge, classical, new age.
Historical knowledge is a plus!!!
Thanks.
- Paul
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Album of the Week: Beach Boys HOLLAND
RIP: Carl Dean Wilson (1946-1998)
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Subject: doc rock's take on Nino & April
Sent: 2/25/98 9:41 PM
Received: 2/27/98 1:48 AM
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
dockrockz sed:
> I could not disagree more with the comments about Nino
> Tempo and April Stevens CD SWEET AND LOVELY, which I
> reviewed last year for Discoveries magazine.
Well, as you no doubt saw from the subsequent Spectropop digest, I myself
*also* disagreed with my first comments. Anyhoo...
> The 1985 cut, "I'm Fallin' For You," is
> uncharacteristically country, with Nino yodeling.
Personally, I like the wacky lyrics best about this cut. My wife, who
was in the next room while I was playing this disc, thought I had changed
the cd when I'm Fallin For You came on.
> "Teach Me, Tiger," a pre "Deep Purple" April solo hit
> record from 1959, was inspired by a very popular TV ad of
> the time for hair cream. In the ad, a pre-Get Smart
> Barbara Feldon rolled around on a tiger rug and growled,
> "Hi, Tiger!" to the camera. The sound was pre-Ginger,
> more Marilyn-Monroe-in-the-fifties.
Of course, Ginger was doing her own take on Marilyn. Did you ever see
her sing I Wanna Be Loved By You on Gilligan's Island? Not all that far
removed from Teach Me Tiger.
But that begs the issue of the inspiration for the track, which I find
utterly fascinating! I guess that would be kind of like how the
Pepsodent ad ("you'll wonder where the yellow went...") begat "Who Wrote
The Book Of Love." Thanks for passing along that tidbit of information,
Doc.
> "I Love How You Love Me," is a masterpiece, perhaps my
> favorite non-hit record from the mid-sixties. Nino and
> April belt it out, complete with bagpipes and electric
> guitar! Hey, it worked for me when I bought the single
> in 1965, and it's even greater in stereo CD sound.
I still find the bagpipes to be a distraction from an otherwise rocking
track, but I certainly won't begrudge you the right to like it. In
general, the whole album has grown on me since my first impressions.
>One of the best cuts is "The Coldest Night of the Year,"
I'll agree with you there. It's a marvelous song. Personally, I think I
like You'll Be Wanting Me Baby better. But TCNOTY is a winner, no doubt
about it.
>The only criticism I have of the CD is that it left out
>wonderful cuts like "I Surrender Dear," ""Our Love," "My
>Old Flame," "Sea of Love/Dock of the Bay (medley)," and
>"No Hair Sam" (a great answer record to Charlie "Mohair
>Sam"). Maybe if we're lucky, there'll be a volume two?
But here's the thing: the cd has plenty of room on it. Why DIDNT they
add a few other tracks?
In a similar vein, I'm slightly peeved that the WB "Girl Groups Of The
60's" cd only clocks in at 47 or 48 minutes. Why not add a few more
songs? Compilations like these aren't necessarily going to be harmed by
too many tracks, since they don't have the cohesive integrity of an
original elpee of songs.
Ace and Sequel seem to be two of the better reissue labels for giving the
listener as much music as the medium will bear.
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Jack Madani - Princeton Day School, The Great Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540 Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
"It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they
drive him into the profession of a schoolmaster." --Seneca, 64 A.D.
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Subject: March Discoveries
Sent: 2/25/98 2:30 AM
Received: 2/25/98 8:07 AM
From: Marie-J. Leclerc, XXX@XXXXXXron.ca
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Hi, I've just bought the latest Discoveries (March 1998 #118) and there
is a great page remembering Nick Venet, and also a review of the Pet
Sounds Sessions. With pic of Brian with Leaf and Venet. Also, very
interesting articles on the British Blues, and, Peter Green!
Take care, Marie
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Subject: Re: Salute To NASCAR
Sent: 2/25/98 10:47 PM
Received: 2/27/98 1:48 AM
From: Paul Urbahns, PaulurbXXX@XXXXXXm
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Does anybody on the list live close enough to a UNION 76 gas station to
purchase a copy of the Salute To NASCAR CD by MIke Love, Bruce Johnston
and David Marks of The Beach Boys? I'd probably be willing to buy the gas
too if necessary.
Email me direct. PaulurbXXX@XXXXXXm
No UNION 76 stations in Kentucky.
Paul Urbahns
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