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Volume #0091 May 26, 1998
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Subject: Little Milton-R&B Master
Sent: 05/24/98 12:17 pm
Received: 05/24/98 12:21 pm
From: CLAUDIA CUNNINGHAM, TPXXX@XXXXXXnet
To: spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
It occurs to me that no one ever mentions Little Milton
Campbell in the same breath as many of the other great R&B
masters of the mid sixties. One may think of Johnny Taylor and
Clarence Carter to name two, with a similar sound, but somehow
Milton has slipped through the cracks.
He had a great R&B single called We're Gonna Make It and a
nifty follow up called Who's Cheatin' Who in the summer of 1965.
I just bought a cassette featuring the fiftieth anniversary
of Chess Records and Milton's hits were all there...including
an unknown tune called We've Got the Winning Hand which is
fantastic. The blaring, thumping brass sound behind Little
Milton makes it impossible not to stand up and start tapping...
the musicians were the best I've heard in a long, long time.
Milton is still around, playing the smaller clubs and I think
folks should give a listen to his pure, soaring vocals. The
more you listen to him the better he sounds, believe me.
One other thing: One genre of R&B seldom talked about is the
early Sixties sounds of the New Orleans, Louisiana singers such
as Fats Domino/Ernie Kaydo and Clarence Frogman Henry. R&B
doesn't get much better than this and the tunes sound as good
today as they did when first came out. Any comments, anyone?
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Subject: Murray was right (SYN-co-paaaate it!)
Sent: 05/25/98 8:00 am
Received: 05/26/98 1:03 am
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
The Melody Goes On series has pointed out to me the incredible
hold that a certain rhythmic structure held for the "soft rock"
crowd: the keyboards booping out a very steady quarter-note dit
dit dit dit, while the bass does a syncopated counter-thingy
against it. It's like what you'd hear in a Brian Wilson
production, or perhaps a Penny Lane-era Beatles track, although
I give more credit to Brian because the vocal arrangements on
these TMGO songs have more affinity for Beach Boys than for
Beatles.
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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: Re: Jackie Trent
Sent: 05/24/98 6:27 pm
Received: 05/24/98 11:37 pm
From: Francesc Sole, fsXXX@XXXXXXs
>Are there Jackie Trent/Tony Hatch albums?
>If so, are they any good? I adore her stuff on HCTG.
There's a great cd on the British label RPM called Jackie Trent
- Where Are You Now My love. The Beat Singles and More. Volume
One. RPM 161 Needless to say, this is a superb cd. Extensive
liner notes on a fold-out inlay which includes Jackie's
comments on every song and cool photos, very good sound quality
and, most importantly, beautiful songs!! This is from 1996 and
they announce a Volume 2, although I haven't seen it yet.
Francesc
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Subject: Re: Spectropop V#0090
Sent: 05/24/98 9:08 am
Received: 05/24/98 5:51 pm
From: joel thomas, aoirXXX@XXXXXXies.com
> A friend of mine mentioned that he had heard about a Pixies
> Three cd recently being released.
>
> I would love to get it if it's available. Have any of you
> Spectropops heard about it?
would that be the 3 cd set? pretty good stuff, we listened to
some of it at work (quite possibly the only large conglomerate
music store employees in America who would) and i really
enjoyed it.
joel
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Subject: Pixies Three
Sent: 05/25/98 2:26 am
Received: 05/25/98 6:00 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXX@XXXXXXom
Jack asked about the Pixies Three.
Their "new" CD is about 3 years old. It features new recordings
as well as old favorites. It can be purchased at their web site.
Kaye answers all mail. Tell her Doc Rock sent you!
If anyone needs a copy of my Pixies Three article, just ask!
Doc
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Subject: Re: The Rag Dolls
Sent: 05/25/98 3:09 am
Received: 05/25/98 6:00 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXX@XXXXXXom
Billy G. Spradlin wrote:
>Is there an import CD anywhere with "Dusty" or "Society Girl"
>on it? The reason im asking is that the Mp3s were recorded from
>worn 45's, and Id like to find better (and legit) copies of them.
Billy,
I don't know of any CDs, but I have Rag Dolls 45s as well as an
8x10 of the trio!
Doc
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Subject: Re: uncredited Spector
Sent: 05/26/98 2:26 am
Received: 05/26/98 2:27 am
From: le_page_XXX@XXXXXXies.com
Jack Madani wrote:
>>I had read some years ago that Phil Spector was the uncredited
>>producer on [Timi Yuro's] "What's a Matter, Baby", his only
>>production under his contract with Liberty. Can anyone verify?
>
>I heard a dj say on the radio
>a couple years ago: Spector produced three or four tracks
>for Elvis Presley? Sounds crazy, but the dj really seemed to be
>in earnest about it.
I don't profess to know much about it, but going by the various
resources, there are three commercial releases on Liberty by
Spector, and Timi Yuro is not among them. Although I hadn't
heard the Presley story before, I have seen it written that
Spector at one time or another claimed he produced some of the
Leiber/Stoller records he was involved with. I personally think
he did both Home of the Brave and Close Your Eyes by Bonnie,
along with the only Spector/Wilson song ever Things Are
Changing. I guess he (and Nitzsche) had a strong hand in a few
big Stones singles off Out of our Heads: Satisfaction, Last
Time and Play With Fire. The percussion is a big hint at that.
The sloppiness of the other tracks on the album is another.
Theory, I keep waiting for someone to either support it or
knock it down.
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LePageWeb
RodeoDrive/5030
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Subject: Total Addrisi
Sent: 05/25/98 7:43 pm
Received: 05/26/98 1:03 am
From: Jack Madani, Jack_MadXXX@XXXXXX2.nj.us
Because Dicky Globman has complained that I haven't posted
enough arcana, here is the skinny on Don and Dick Addrisi, from
the inlay that accompanies Columbia/Legacy's "Rock Artifacts
Volume 2:"
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Don and Dick Addrisi, better known as The Addrisi Brothers,
started as recording artists and songwriters in 1958. Their
earliest chart success was in 1959 with Bob Keane's Del-Fi
label, where their rocking "Cherrystone" made #62. After
several follow-up singles failed to chart, they recorded a
single for Imperial in 1960, then recorded "The Dance is Over"
in 1962 for the Pom Pom label. This led to a linkup with Warner
Brothers Music, where the brothers spent about a half-dozen
years as writers while occasionally recording their own singles
for the Warner Bros. and associated Valiant labels. One of the
Addrisis' own singles from 1964, "Little Miss Sad" [Valiant],
was redone the next year by a Michigan-based "garage band," the
5 Emprees, and turned into a midwest top-10 hit [Freeport]. It
was also during this time that they wrote many tunes for the
Association, including their million-selling "Never My Love" [
Warner Bros.] in 1967 and the top-40 "Time For Livin'" [Warner
Bros.] in 1968. After a 13-year absence, they again charted in
1972 with "We've Got To Get It On Again." Released in late 1971,
the song re-established the duo as hit performers, as the
song made top 10 on the Easy Listening chart as well as top 25
overall. Unfortunately, they couldn't follow it up, and it
proved to be their only hit for the next five years....By 1977,
the Addrisis had moved to the Buddah label, where they had their
biggest hit as recording artists, "Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On,"
which reached #20, and a recording of their own version of "
Never My Love," which reached #28 on the Easy Listening chart.
After a minor hit with "Ghost Dancer" [Scotti Bros.] in 1979,
the hits stopped. Don Addrisi died in November, 1984.
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I'll also mention here that Don & Dick wrote "A Bit Of Love,"
the 1967 single that reached #12 (Billboard Pop chart) for
Vikki Carr and which appears on her Liberty Legendary Masters
best-of release.
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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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