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Volume #0051 03/07/98
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Music for the Teenager Market
Subject: Vintage Radio Web Site
Sent: 3/5/98 11:50 PM
Received: 3/6/98 2:22 AM
From: Javed Jafri, javedjaXXX@XXXXXX.ca
I found an interesting web site which features "air checks"
of some of the legendary radio personalities from the
halcyon days of top 40 radio (circa late 50's to mid 70's).
These are actual snippets of the broadcasts. For a radio
junkie like myself and someone who actually heard these DJ's
in the mid to late 60's it's a most welcome trip down memory
lane. Talk about flashbacks, features like this make the
web truly interesting.
You get to hear the DJ's, commercials, news and snippets of
songs, some of which you definitely do not hear anywhere
anymore. I have heard a few Beach Boys songs including a
few seconds of All I Want To Do which was featured as an
album cut on Jack Armstrong's show on CHUM in Toronto in
1969. You will find that broadcast if you go to the bottom
of the web page and click under "extras" The sound quality
is not the greatest and you do hear a lot of commercials and
yes it all does sound very corny now but when was the last
time you heard "come alive you're in the Pepsi generation"
In the summer of 1969 I graduated from top 40 to FM
Underground radio and that is to this day my all-time
favorite radio format but the golden age of top 40 ranks as
a close second and I certainly got a rush out of revisiting
the diversity of the format. It was great to hear the
transition from the soft pop of the Association's "Never My
Love" to the high Voltage of the Music Machine's "Talk
Talk". Top 40 radio particularly from 1965 to 1969 was a
virtual smorgasbord of everything from MOR to POP-ROCK to
PSYCHEDELIA to GARAGE.
The address of the web site is www.reelradio.com
"It's a long long time to be gone but a short time to be
there"
Javed
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Subject: BMI/Vicki Carr
Sent: 3/7/98 1:30 AM
Received: 3/7/98 1:56 AM
From: le_page_XXX@XXXXXXies.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Jack wrote:
>Some of the tracks on the disc have ASCAP master numbers,
>and some have BMI master numbers, but I'm pretty sure that
>doesn't mean anything (e.g., He's A Rebel has a BMI number,
>and that was definitely recorded in the States).
A quick clarification - ASCAP & BMI have nothing to do
with masters. ASCAP and BMI are the two major copyright
performance societies in the United States. The British
counterpart is PRS. These societies function as collection
agencies for public performance of musical compositions, not
records (or masters). Similarly, an indication of ASCAP or
BMI affiliation does not necessarily mean the composer is
American.
--
I really don't care much for It Must Be Him, but after
reading Jack's and Doc's posts, I really want to hear this
album. The mention of Nick DeCaro arrangements is enough,
plus I've never heard her version of Pitney's "He's a
Rebel."
--
le_page_XXX@XXXXXXies.com
RodeoDrive/5030
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Subject: beware of Old CDs
Sent: 3/6/98 10:30 AM
Received: 3/7/98 1:56 AM
From: D mirich, DmirXXX@XXXXXXm
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
I sent $35 to a fellow from the net a few months ago for a
couple of CDs which never arrived. He did cash the check.
Many messages to him have been unanswered. He calls himself
oldXXX@XXXXXXm.
Dave Mirich
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Subject: For the "record" (heh heh)
Sent: 3/6/98 7:21 PM
Received: 3/7/98 4:15 AM
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
>For the record...Spector's version of "Rebel" was recorded
>about an hour before Vikki's. ...Aaron Schroeder, the
>publisher, offered it first to the Shirelles, who turned
>it down as too rough. Then he offered it "exclusively" to
>Spector and Snuffy, simultaneously.
Oh yeah, Doc Rock has jogged my memory about this. The
story of the simultaneous exclusives was written about in
the Spector biog (coincidentally named "He's A Rebel").
Thanks, Doc, for setting me straight.
I have a question about another pair of competing versions:
the Cookies and the Shirelles both recorded the song
"Foolish Little Girl." Which is considered to be "the"
version? I'm inclined to think it's the Cookie version,
since the song itself is so perfectly suited to their
"chorus-vs.-low-alto-lead" style. But I don't know for
sure, since there's no discography info included in my Rhino
Shirelles Best Of or my Sequel Complete Cookies.
Those Cookies, man. Reeeal tight backing harmonies.
jack
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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: 1970's
Sent: 3/6/98 1:21 PM
Received: 3/7/98 1:56 AM
From: Javed Jafri, javedjaXXX@XXXXXX.ca
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
>
> From: David Marsteller, davebXXX@XXXXXXlin.org
> To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
>
> On Thu, 05 Mar 1998, Paul MacArthur wrote:
>
> > The post-Nixon seventies? Saturday Night Fever. The Sex
> > Pistols. Boston.
>
> On one hand, I tend to agree. There was a distinct period
> where most of what was popular was really awful. I actually
> started listening to classical music to avoid Frampton
> Comes Alive... But there was a lot of good music in the mid-
> to-late 70s. Stevie Wonder was still in creative mode
> through the 70s. John Cale was doing some of his best work
> for Island. Roxy Music and Eno were both active. The
> Flamin' Groovies slaved away to little US impact. Then the
> whole New York scene came alive- Blondie, yes, but also
> Talking Heads, Television, and the British contingent of
> Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson and others. Unfortunately, if
> you were listening to the radio and not seeking out
> publications like Trouser Press, you were in the dark.
> Dave
Dave,
I agree with your sentiments about the 70's but I have to
add a few more names. Lets not forget the Ramones, Nick
Lowe, Dave Edmunds and Rockpile, Jonathan Richman and The
Modern Lovers.
Also we should not forget the early 70's power-popsters such
as Big Star, Stories, Blue Ash and the Raspberries. There
were other champions of melodic pop- rock in the early 70's
such as 10 CC, Todd Rundgren, The Wackers and The Dwight
Twilly Band. Finally, what about the glam rock movement and
The New York Dolls, T-Rex or even Sweet.
Granted most of this music did not make the top 40 but once
the influence of Punk and New Wave finally reached the top
40 somewhere around 1979 to 80, it resulted in perhaps the
most exciting times for top 40 radio in more than a decade.
Here in Toronto we had a rather hip top 40 station ( 1050
CHUM) which started to add selections by the Ramones and
other lesser known names to augment New Wave material by the
likes of The Knack, Blondie and The Cars. Of course, you
still got the usual late 70's suspects like Journey, Elton
John, Kansas etc.....but radio was exciting again. The
Boomtown Rats, XTC, and The B 52's actually made the top ten
here in Toronto. What's more, the station also started to
play like minded music from the 60's such as the Music
Machine and the Seeds. The punk rock movement for me at
least put some excitement back into the music scene and
there were many similarities between the mid to late 70's
and mid to late 60's. Remember how many of the 60's classics
were brought back in cover versions within the confines of
the Punk/New Wave movement.
Javed
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