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Volume #0081 May 9, 1998
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Crisp, clear, sparkling - Perfect even at high volume
Subject: Dream Babes (RPM); HCTG Vol.NINE??
Sent: 5/8/98 7:01 pm
Received: 5/9/98 2:44 am
From: Jack Madani, Jack_Mad2.nj.us
Two items that I saw in a local store, and I shore hope that
someone can give me some info on them:
On the RPM label, "Dream Babes Vol.1" which is not to be
confused with M&M's "Dream Boy" series. How is that RPM disc?
Is it as good as, say, Here Come The Girls vols 1 or 8?
I thought that the Here Come The Girls series was finished at
volume 8, but there was a "Volume NINE." I wrote down the
subtitle of the disc but I left that slip of paper at home
today. It seemed to be a compilation of just a handful of acts
(sort of the way volume three or five is in the series), and if
I remember the names they were the Saphires and Honey & the
Combs plus a couple others.
Any helpful descriptions of these discs would be most
appreciated.
jack
sixties girlgroup junkie
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Jack Madani - Princeton Day School, The Great Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540 Jack_Mad2.nj.us
"It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they
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Subject: It Came from Canada
Sent: 5/8/98 11:02 am
Received: 5/9/98 2:44 am
From: Javed Jafri, javedja.ca
Subject: "Big Town Boy"
> From: Doc Rock, docroom
>
> >"Big Town Boy" by Shirley Matthews is actually not such an
> >obscure record here in Toronto. I believe Shirley was from this
> >area and that song was quite a hit here. The song is still
> >played on the radio here. I have always liked it and have
> >wondered why it never did anything in the States.
>
> Obscure is relative. Growing up in the Kansas City area, I
> never heard of it. Moving to Toledo, I find it was a big hit
> here and in Detroit!
>
> Doc
I can guess why "Big Town Boy" became a hit in Detroit. It was
probably because of initial airplay on the Canadian border Top
40 station, CKLW/Windsor Ontario, which was very popular in
Detroit from the mid 60's until the early 70's.
> Subject: Re: Staccatos
> From: BashPop, Bashm
>
> Hi Javed,
> I really like The Staccatos, and they have a song called "Let's
> Run Away" that IMHO is their best. It's a folk-pop number with
> amazing harmonies! Are there any Staccatos compilations out
> there, either on vinyl or CD?
>
> The debut album by Five Man Electrical Band is a late 60s pop
> gem that has been greatly overlooked by many people, including
> collectors.
I think there was a Les Emmerson/Five Man Electrical Band
collection released a few years ago in Canada which also
included some Staccatos material. That might be the closest
thing to a Staccatos comp. Sorry but I don't have the label
info.
I was perhaps unfair to the FMEB in my first post because I
remember them mostly for "Signs" and the other (Canadian) hits
that followed but they did have some releases that predate Signs.
Javed
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Subject: Re: Spectropop V#0080
Sent: 5/8/98 7:24 am
Received: 5/9/98 2:44 am
From: JohnBarone, beachbmail.com
>I'll never forget the day that our local station, KEWI (Big
>KeeWee), played only Beatles for 24 hours one early 1964 day.
>Imagine, the Beatles having the Top 5 songs on Billboard at
>once!
Didn't the Bee Gees come close to equalling or this mark during
their Saturday Night Fever fling. I seem to recall quite a few
Bee Gees tunes being played all the time, in addition to songs
that they wrote but were performed by others such as Tavares,
Samantha Sang and Yvonne Eliman(SP?) It would be interesting to
see the Billboard charts from the period. I guess its from
about mid 1977 to the end of the year when they dominated the
charts. My guess is that all of these songs were up there in
the chart at the time: How Deep Is Your Love, Stayin' Alive,
Night Fever, More Than a Woman (separate recordings by the Bee
Gees and Tavares) You Should Be Dancing, and Emotion by Samantha
Sang and If I Can't Have You by Yvonne Eliman.
JohnBarone
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Subject: Regional Hits
Sent: 5/8/98 11:27 pm
Received: 5/9/98 2:44 am
From: Richard Globman, rglobeocomm.net
Doc SED (referring to "Big Town Boy" by Shirley Matthews):
>Obscure is relative. Growing up in the Kansas City area, I
>never heard of it. Moving to Toledo, I find it was a big hit
>here and in Detroit!
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Interesting observation, Doc. Question: What makes certain
songs big hits in some parts of the country while the same song
might be completely ignored in other areas?
Point in fact: In 1963, a relatively obscure Atlantic artist
called Willie T cut a record called "Thank You, John". While
pretty much ignored in most areas of the country, it was a
gigantic hit along the eastern seaboard (mainly VA, NC, SC) and
sold so many records in that small area that it actually pushed
the record onto the Billboard Top 100 list...at maybe #95 or
something like that.
In fact, this song pops up on our local oldies station about
every 5 minutes or so. But most people never heard of it.
What causes this? And, can anybody think of any other examples
of regional hits like this one?
DICKYG...."Inquiring minds...."
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Subject: Sukiyaki lyrics
Sent: 5/8/98 12:06 pm
Received: 5/9/98 2:44 am
From: David B Ponak, dpoink.net
Sukiyaki Lyrics, (excuse my possibly bad translation)
Ue o muite aru koo Walking with my head held up
namida ga kobore nai yoo ni So that my tears won't fall
Omoidasu haru no hi Remembering that spring day
Hitori bo chi no yoru Alone at night
Ue o muite aru koo Walking with my head held up
Niji n da hoshi o kazoete Counting the fading stars
Omoidasu natsu no hi Remembering that summer day
Hitori bo chi no yoru Alone at night
Shiawase wa kumo no ue ni Happiness is above the clouds
Shiawase wa sora no ue ni Happiness is above the sky
Ue o muite aru koo Walking with my head held up
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni So that my tears won't fall
Nakinagara aruku Walking and crying
Hitori bo chi no yoru Alone at night
(Whistling Solo)
Omoidasu aki no hi Remembering that fall day
Hitori bo chi no yoru Alone at night
Kanashimi wa hoshi no kage ni Sadness is beyond the stars
Kanashimi wa tsuki no kage ni Sadness is beyond the moon
Ue o muite aru koo Walking with my head held up
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni So that my tears won't fall
Nakinagara aruku Walking and crying
Hitori bo chi no yoru Alone at night
Hitori bo chi no yoru Alone at night
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Subject: The Sukiyaki Association
Sent: 5/9/98 10:33 am
Received: 5/9/98 10:35 am
From: Jamie LePage, le_page_ies.com
Marty Rudnick asks:
>Does anybody know the lyrics to "SUKIYAKI" by Kyu Sakamoto?
This is an interesting song. I believe it holds a couple of
records in terms of chart success; say - Mr. Wielage, do you
have any noteworthy musictrax facts about this song? I
understand Sukiyaki is unique in having been a Billboard top
ten single in three different decades. Certainly this is the
only Japanese language song to ever hit #1 in US. The name "The
Sukiyaki Song" is really lame, though. It's actually called "Ue
o Muite Aruko." Renaming it Sukiyaki is the same as releasing
Blue Suede Shoes in Japan and calling it "The Hamburger Song."
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Francesc Sole, fss wrote about the Association:
>today I found a cd by The Association called "The French 60's
>EP & SP Collection". I think we didn't mention this in some
>previous messages about this band.
Right, we had mostly talked about Curt B and the early records.
Association catalog is not represented as it should be on CD. I
have been thinking of getting the French EP collection, anyone
that has heard it have any comment?
Next Tuesday at the BMI Pop Awards Richard Addrisi will be
given the Seven Million Performance Award for co-writing
Association's "Never My Love." Reportedly, this has always
been one of Alan Haber's favorite songs in the whole wide
world ;-).
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le_page_ies.com
RodeoDrive/5030
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Subject: Re: The Association
Sent: 5/8/98 7:59 pm
Received: 5/9/98 2:44 am
From: Jeff Glenn, Jeff_Gl.nba.trw.com
<today I found a cd by The Association called "The French 60's
EP & SP Collection". I think we didn't mention this in some
previous messages about this band. It features 20 songs:
Cherish/Don't Blame The Rain/Along Comes Mary/Your Own Love/No
Fair At All/I'm The One/Looking Glass/Come To Me/Windy/Sometime
/Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies/Standing Still/Never My Love/
Requiem For The Masses/Everything That Touches You/We Love Us/
Time For Livin'/Birthday Morning/Six Man Band/Like Always.
It boasts to have remastered and digitalized sound and it
really sounds good stereo to my ears, except for Looking Glass.
It comes as a double cardboard- 1996, MAM Productions, Magic
Records 175042. No address given.
Francesc>
Francesc, I have to disagree with you on this one. I too picked
up the "French 60's EP & SP Collection" and had to turn it back
in because the noise reduction had been applied so
heavy-handedly that you could hear the noise gates "pumping" as
they opened and closed rendering the disc virtually unlistenable
to my ears. And it's a shame as there are some songs here (from
their second LP RENAISSANCE) that are available nowhere else on
CD.
The best available Association compilation CD is by far the
Japanese FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES CD. It features a much
better overview of their career from their second 45 - a
version of Dylan's "One Too Many Mornings" - to a 1980 45 on
Elektra - "Dreamer" (unfortunately mastered from the 45, but
the only sonic flaw in the set). It also features some of the
later WB 45's like "Goodbye Columbus." The sound quality (
aside from "Dreamer") is really first rate - you can really
tell that one of the basses on "Along Comes Mary" is an upright
bass - and it's almost all stereo (only "One Too Many Mornings"
is mono).
Another excellent Association CD was a U.S. disc released on
Pair Records (licensed from WSP) called SONGS THAT MADE US
FAMOUS. This was a two-fer of their first and third LP's (AND
THEN ALONG COMES...THE ASSOCIATION and INSIGHT OUT) without the
original artwork or any liner notes. Still, for a late 80's
release it boasts very good, clear sound, and the stereo mixes
of both albums were used. Alas, it's out of print, and I
haven't even seen one used for many, many years now.
Hey, Jamie, why haven't they put out the Association LP's out
on CD in Japan? After all WB in Japan reissued all four Harpers
Bizarre LP's in the early 90's. And it would be nice if someone
(maybe even WB) would issue a good 2-CD anthology on the
Association, licensing their first 45 ("Babe I'm Gonna Leave
You" on Jubilee Records in 1965 - yeah, the same song that Led
Zeppelin recorded in 1969, and a good version of it too) and
carrying on through their Elektra 45's (and please include the
vocal tour-de-force "Over the Persian Gulf," the B-side of the
second Elektra 45 in 1981).
Jeff
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