========================================================
|
__| __ \ _ \ __| __| __| _ \ __ \ _ \ __ \
\__ \ | | __/ ( | | ( | | | ( | | |
____/ .__/ \___|\___|\__|_| \___/ .__/ \___/ .__/
_| _| _|
========================================================
Volume #0063 04/09/98
========================================================
Spectra-sonic-sound ...the ultimate in High Fidelity
Subject: Brill-oh
Sent: 4/7/98 3:41 AM
Received: 4/7/98 7:21 AM
From: ELRON BEE, ELRONXXX@XXXXXXm
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
In a message dated 4/6/98 12:35:10 PM, you wrote:
<<there's nothing that terribly wrong about
the CD. Of the 68 tracks I have logged in my database from
this CD set, none of them were re-recorded, though a few
sound marginal >>
My copy is missing the line "my dad said find someone new"
in The Leader of the Pack!! I wrote thXXX@XXXXXXears ago,
when I first got it, but got no satisfaction. Otherwise, I
think the set is fine for what it is...putting all the BB
best songs in one place. RB
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /8/98 - 07 :21:32 AM ]---
Subject: French pop update
Sent: 4/7/98 4:28 AM
Received: 4/7/98 7:21 AM
From: Marie-J. Leclerc, XXX@XXXXXXron.ca
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
I want to say thanks to the Spectropop listers for your
help with my questions regarding French artists. To answer
some more questions, here is an update on Francoise Hardy,
France Gall ,Sylvie Vartan and Serge Gainsbourg.
Francoise has a new album out, I have seen it yesterday,
there were also many cds available from different period of
her career. Jeff, if I was you, I would go for a Best Of or
for my favorite, "Musique Saoule", that one is particulary
good, you can find on it a duo with her husband Jacques
Dutronc (yes, that Jacques).
France Gall released a cd in 96 aimed to the US market. All
the liners are done in English, but the singing is French.
That album is simply called "France", all music/words were
composed by the late Michel Berger (France's husband). This
is a depressing album shall I say, the music is excellent
though, the words introspective. France's life has been
tragedy after tragedy lately, she lost Michel in 92, he was
only 43, than she battled cancer, and finally lost her
daughter , only 19, last December. She came here to do
promotion for the album in 96, the cd "France" is on Warner
Music.
Sylvie Vartan is still going on , but since the 70's, her
work is more Vegas style than pop.
As for Serge Gainsbourg , years of drugs and alcohol abuse
had killed him in the end. The album Jeff has, "Comic Strip"
is one of the best choice I can think of to buy, to be
followed by "Couleur Cafe", in the same collection.
All the best, Marie
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /8/98 - 07 :21:32 AM ]---
Subject: Newbie
Sent: 4/7/98 9:18 AM
Received: 4/8/98 1:51 AM
From: Michael Carpenter, StagefriXXX@XXXXXXmsn.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Hi folks...
I'm a newbie here thanks to Jamie LePage. Looks like a lot
of fun. Some of you i already recognise.. ahh the power of
infamy, and the rest, i look forward to not getting too much
in the way until i know what I'm talking about.
Catch A Wave
Michael
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /8/98 - 07 :21:32 AM ]---
Subject: Re: Please can you help?
Sent: 4/7/98 4:49 AM
Received: 4/7/98 7:21 AM
From: Doc Rock, docroXXX@XXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
>From: AXXX@XXXXXXane.prestel.co.uk
>
>I heard a song called "Sharing You" by Little Eva (also a
>hit for Bobby Vee in 1962). I'd like to know what year
>Little Eva released that song?
>
>I'd be very grateful for your help as soon as possible.
>Thanks.
>
>Ange
Ange,
Little Eva's version of "Sharing You" came out in October of
1962, five months after Bobby Vee's hit the charts is the
US, four month's after Bobby's hit the British charts.
I collect both Bobby Vee and Little Eva, but I've never
heard her version. How is it?
Doc
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /8/98 - 07 :21:32 AM ]---
Subject: Re: Little Eva
Sent: 4/7/98 4:32 AM
Received: 4/7/98 7:21 AM
From: BashPop, BashXXX@XXXXXXm
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
<< I heard a song called "Sharing You" by Little Eva (also a
hit for Bobby Vee in 1962). I'd like to know what year
Little Eva released that song?
I'd be very grateful for your help as soon as possible.
Thanks.
Ange>>
Hi Ange,
"Sharing You" is from 1962 as well. It had been a hit for
Bobby Vee, and then was given to Eva for her "Llllloco-
motion" album.
The song appears on the new and excellent Little Eva
compilation, "The Complete Dimension Recordings" on the UK
label Westside Records. Twenty nine tracks in all,
including one of my favorite songs of all time "Makin' With
The Magilla", that was heard on the Magilla Gorilla cartoon
series (there was even a video made a few years ago, which
was aired on Cartoon Network!)
--
Spectropop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /8/98 - 07 :21:32 AM ]---
Subject: VH1 Top 100
Sent: 4/7/98 5:48 AM
Received: 4/8/98 1:51 AM
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
I'll tell you who I noticed was *not* on the list:
No Phil Spector or any Spector-related groups.
Perhaps that was due to the parameters of the voting.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /8/98 - 07 :21:32 AM ]---
Subject: Re: Spector and Fowley
Sent: 4/9/98 1:17 AM
Received: 4/9/98 1:24 AM
From: le_page_XXX@XXXXXXies.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
I commented:
>> a Phil Spector boot called "Phil and Friends vol.1"
>>...tracks by Lennon, Darlene Love, Dion, Fowley etc."
>>Fowley?
Brad replied:
>......I would guess that it includes Kim's "Give It to
>Me," a track that was included on the PHIL SPECTOR 74/79
>...album...Kim's track is fairly forgettable, consisting
>largely of Kim repeating the title over a heavily phased
>and echoed New Wave-ish track that's little more than organ
>and drums.
I was happy you were kind enough to say the track was "fairly
forgettable," because that's exactly what I did - I forgot!
But, now that you mention it, I think I listened to about
half of it once and never played it again.
If you listen to the Dion album, Cher's single, or the
Darlene single "I Love Him..." it is easy to hear what
gradually happened to Phil's Wall of Sound after multitrack
recording, gates, solid state equipment and newfangled
outboard gear changed the way music was recorded. You hear
the first hint of the transition on the Checkmates sides.
Anyway, that Fowley track...like you said, is heavily
phased...New Wave and little more than organ and drums.
Somehow, that doesn't describe a Spector side to me at all.
Nope, and the songwriter credit sandwiches Fowley between
the Kessel Kids (We've talked on the list before about them
and their relation with Phil). Listening to this track and
thinking about the people involved, I would say this is
purely bogus Spector, regardless of the "Featuring the Wall
of Sound Orchestra" credit on the album.
Kessels made a Rodney single, too. Sounds about the same in
terms of style and quality. Rodney and Fowley were two
important scenesters in the L.A. New Wave scene then; they
were often together at the Whisky or Starwood. At the time
everyone was using a makeshift studio located in an office
building just across the street from the Chinese Theater,
mainly because it was the cheapest multitrack studio in
town. The Kessel kids cut Rodney's record there. I would
bet they cut the Fowley side there as well.
So the bodyguards, together with their revolvers, took to
the studio to create... Uncle Phil picked up the tab and put
the results on the 74/79 album. But all of this is purely
speculation...
I don't see Fowley and Spector together in the studio in
the mid-70's. No way. Fowley was like this 7 foot tall
lanky, intense, nervous guy with an enormous unfocused
energy. I just can't picture the reclusive Phil being able
to concentrate on anything except Fowley's intimidating
height and dominating personality.
Anyway, Brad, thanks for reminding me about this. I actually
took the record out to recall what else was on it. What crap
artwork!
--
le_page_XXX@XXXXXXies.com
RodeoDrive/5030
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /9/98 - 01 :26:10 AM ]---
Subject: ah, the great old days
Sent: 4/8/98 10:47 AM
Received: 4/9/98 1:23 AM
From: Big L, biXXX@XXXXXXmail.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Javed sed:
>>>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...
>>> 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.
Ah, my leedah Big Jack!! He is doing the morning
shift on WMQX-93.1 in Greensboro NC, which I could
hear before I moved to California last month (ho
hum....)
I have been thinking about cover versions. In my
estimation, here are some that became "stand alone"
versions, maybe better than the original, certainly
different enough to consider them on their own merits:
Go Away Little Girl - Happenings
Who Do You Love - Woolies
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Tracks Of My Tears - Johnny Rivers
Walk Away Renee - Four Tops
Anyone want to add to the list? Or, what are the most
pointless covers of all time? I nominate the current
rash of country artists covering 60s hits, like
Alabama doing "My Girl." What's the point? Aside from
the twangy voice, it sounds exactly like the Temps
version. Same thing for that cover of the Eagles'
"Take It Easy."
My most hated cover of all time, however, was that
70s version of "Last Kiss," a song I detest in ANY
version (my opinion.)
==
Big L Check out my Radio Legends pages at:
biXXX@XXXXXXmail.com http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9816
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /9/98 - 01 :26:10 AM ]---
Subject: An interview with Bob Crewe
Sent: 4/9/98 12:38 AM
Received: 4/9/98 1:23 AM
From: Doc Rock, docroXXX@XXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
In about 10 days, I will be doing an interview with Bob
Crewe. Off hand, the main confections I have for him are
Billie and Lillie, Freddie Cannon, Four Seasons, Tracy Dey,
Rag Dolls, Mitch Ryder, Bob Crewe Generation, Frankie Valli.
What am I missing?
And does anyone have any burning questions you'd like to
have asked?
Thanks.
Doc
---[ archived by Spectropop - 04 /9/98 - 01 :26:10 AM ]---
End
Spectropop text contents © Spectropop unless
stated otherwise.
All rights in and to the contents of these documents, including each element embodied therein, is subject to copyright
protection under international copyright law. Any use, reuse, reproduction and/or adaptation without written permission of the owners is a violation of copyright law and is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.
