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There are 13 messages in this issue of Spectropop.
Topics in this Digest Number 99:
1. Re: Parade
From: Frank
2. Re: Parade
From: "guille milkyway"
3. Re: I Can Hear Music
From: Richard Havers
4. Re: I Can Hear Music
From: "guille milkyway"
5. Re: I Can Hear Music
From: "Bryan Thomas"
6. "I Can Hear Music" cover versions
From: "Spector Collector"
7. Pop Masterpieces
From: "Dr. David Mirich"
8. Re: Randy's A&M discography
From: "mikey1"
9. Re: Featured soloists
From: Richard Havers
10. PF Sloan - session musician
From: Sing Dude
11. PF Sloan
From: Dean Scapolo
12. Re: featured musicians
From: Carol Kaye
13. Re: Featured soloists
From: Ron
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 01 08:52:41 +0100
From: Frank
Subject: Re: Parade
Randy,
Is there any way to get a copy of your A&M discography ?
Frank
>Hi, Guille:
>
>This is the complete list of singles by the Parade on A&M:
>
>841: "Sunshine Girl" b/w "This Old Melody"
>867: "Welcome, You're In Love" b/w "She's Got the Magic"
>887: "Frog Prince" b/w "Hallelujah Rocket"
>904: "I Can See Love" b/w "The Radio Song"
>943: "Welcome, You're In Love" b/w "Lullaby"
>950: "She Sleeps Alone" b/w "A.C./D.C."
>970: "Laughin' Lady" b/w "Hallelujah Rocket"
>
>And on the Forget-Me-Not reissue series,
>8539: "Sunshine Girl" b/w "The Radio Song"
>
>Their album, unreleased in the U.S., was numbered SP 4127.
>
>Source: "A&M Records: The Discography" (Mazama Books), copyright 1993,
>2001R.M. Kosht.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Best regards,
>Randy Kosht/A&Mania
>Publisher of the original A&M Records discography
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:23:15 +0100
From: "guille milkyway"
Subject: Re: Parade
thanks so much carlos and randy.
randy:
Their album, unreleased in the U.S., was numbered SP
4127.
There was an album?? I thought there were only the
singles. Where was it released?
guille milkyway
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:24:07 +0000
From: Richard Havers
Subject: Re: I Can Hear Music
There is a great version by Ellie Greewich on a CD called I
Can Hear Music, The Ellie Greenwich Collection (released in
1999). It originally came out on an album of hers from 1973
called Let it Be Written Let it Be Sung (her version that
is).
--
Best Wishes
Richard
[Ed. note: You can hear a clip of this version by linking
to I Can Hear Music CD at Spectropop's Jeff & Ellie Page:
http://www.spectropop.com/hjeffandellie.html]
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 14:30:15 +0100
From: "guille milkyway"
Subject: Re: I Can Hear Music
Mark:
> I'm trying to get a list of all the groups that recorded
> the song I Can Hear Music. I heard a version many years
> ago on the radio, but never caught the group's name. Can
> anyone help?
There's a nice version of the song on Mark Wirtz
Orchestra's "Come back and shake me - Teenage Dancing
Made in England", probably released around 1969.
Cheers,
guille milkyway
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 22:07:18 -0800
From: "Bryan Thomas"
Subject: Re: I Can Hear Music
Obviously the Beach Boys' version...
> > I'm trying to get a list of all the groups that
> > recorded the song I Can Hear Music.
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 01:18:44 -0000
From: "Spector Collector"
Subject: "I Can Hear Music" cover versions
Mark heard a version of "I Can Hear Music" on the radio
years ago and asked who else had recorded the song. Most
likely suspect in his case: California (who had both 7"
and 12" versions of it). But it's also been recorded by
(at least) the following:
Cynthia Clay
Annie Golden, Pattie Darcy, Keith McDaniel, and Lon Hoyt
(from the "Leader of the Pack" cast album)
Ellie Greenwich
Jose
Fran Kowalski
Larry Lurex (pre-Queen Freddie Mercury)
Monday Blues
Lise Uyanik and Mobile City
The Ventures
The Mark Wirtz Orchestra and Chorus
In addition, the disco remix company Disconet did their
thing with the original Beach Boys version, and the Boys
subsequently recut it as a duet with Kathy Troccoli on
their "Stars and Stripes" album.
And Mark Landwehr's Phil Spector label site lists an
acetate of Phil himself doing the song.
Hope this solves your mystery, Mark; anybody know of any
other versions?
David A. Young
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:11:58 -0700
From: "Dr. David Mirich"
Subject: Pop Masterpieces
I recently got a group of young people who work at the
local coffee shop hooked on Pet Sounds. Next, I passed
them a copy of the Smile sessions, then the Millennium -
Begin. To me, these would be three of the Top 10 Pop
Masterpieces that every young person should know about.
I suppose next I'll turn them onto Love - Forever Changes,
and maybe Sagittarius - Present Tense. To round out the
top ten maybe I would consider Left Banke, Yellow Balloon,
Sunflower (Beach Boys), Beatles' Revolver and --- well,
I'm not sure what else would be worthy of the moniker
"Masterpiece" (or even whether some of my favorites would
qualify).
Would anyone else take a stab at the Top Ten Masterpieces?
It would help me in my education, and that ot the young
coffee shop crowd. Thanks in advance.
Dave Mirich
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 11:07:39 -0500
From: "mikey1"
Subject: Re: Randy's A&M discography
"Frank" wrote:
> Randy,
> Is there any way to get a copy of your A&M discography ?
> Frank
Randy...I'd really like to get one also.
thanks
Mikey
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:29:07 +0000
From: Richard Havers
Subject: Re: Featured soloists
Hi Rex
In Philips' biog the feeling you get is that he played
the guitar, but it's not confirmed. I think that before
the flute was added to the Mamas & Papas version there
was a harmonica part. I'm sure I didn't dream that and
read it somewhere.
Was P.F. Sloan that proficient on guitar?
--
Best Wishes
Richard
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 11:37:52 EST
From: Sing Dude
Subject: PF Sloan - session musician
In a message dated 2/3/01 5:08:49 AM, spectropop writes:
> >I heard that PF Sloan was the guitarist on the
> >well-known guitar solo opening on California Dreaming.
> >Is this true?
>
> No, it was Tommy Tedesco. PF Sloan was never a session
> musician.
Not true at all. Sloan sang on many, many sessions. And yes,
singers ARE musicians. :-)
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 09:13:49 +1300
From: Dean Scapolo
Subject: PF Sloan
Hi all.
> No, it was Tommy Tedesco. PF Sloan was never a session
> musician.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PF Sloan a session
musician on Jan And Dean's album: Little Old Lady From
Pasadena? along with Steve Barri, then known as the
Fantastic Baggys.
I know he was part of quite a few studio groups: The
Fantastic Baggys, The Rincon Surfside Band, and the
original line up of the Grass Roots who recorded the
single Where Were You When I Needed You.
I'm still after anyone and everyone's list of their ten
favorite albums of all time....
Dean
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Message: 12
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 12:47:48 -0800
From: Carol Kaye
Subject: Re: featured musicians
>'He's A Rebel' was Steve Douglas, who was a Spector regular.
Steve was probably on every LA date Phil did....I'm
guessing also you're right.
>Who played the flute solos on California Dreaming, etc.?
Could have been any of the regulars of the clique then:
Plas, Jim Horn, even Steve played fairly good flute, but
surely Bill Green...all these were known for flute. Russ
Wapensky's book will have the correct credits for these
well-known recordings in his book, he's wrapping it up
now, so later on this year, this book (10+ years in the
making) will be going to press -- his meticulous research
is all from the Union studio musican contracts, not from
the less-trustworthy studio sheets sometimes quoted.
Carol Kaye
http://www.carolkaye.com/
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Message: 13
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:29:08 EST
From: Ron
Subject: Re: Featured soloists
Rex Patton writes:
> >Michael Gessner wrote:
>
> >I heard that PF Sloan was the guitarist on the
> >well-known guitar solo opening on California Dreaming.
>
> ...it could have been PF Sloan because the track was
> cut (with the Mamas and Papas singing background vocals)
> for and appeared on, Barry McGuire's album This Precious
> Time. PF Sloan had written McGuire's hit "Eve of
> Destruction" and had worked with him on that song, so it
> would make sense that the producer (Lou Adler) would
> bring him back for any future endeavors. The Mamas and
> Papas used the exact same track for their version, so it
> may be him. At the same time, it could just as easily
> be...John Phillips himself, as I've read that he played
> acoustic guitar on all of their sessions and if he came
> up with the lick to begin with and could execute it well
> enough, he may have switched to electric 12 string to do
> so.
In a chat several years ago P.F. Sloan indicated that
he did play the opening notes of "California Dreamin'".
He is listed on the back of the LP as one of the
musicians.
Ron
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