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Volume #0126 August 5, 1998
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Long Playing Microgroove Unbreakable Record
Subject: Re: RONETTES & DARLENE LOVE
Sent: 08/04/98 8:14 am
Received: 08/05/98 6:31 am
From: Jimmy, JimmyXXXX@XXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Hi! Enjoyed R. Teyes'; description of the Ronettes and Darlene on
TV. I have a tape of the Blossoms ("Girl Groups: Story of A Sound"
) doing "Needle In A Haystack" on (I think) Shindig, about 1965.
It's great... what's very funny is that, at one point during the
choreography, Darlene and Jean goes THIS way, but Fanita goes THAT
way-- the wrong direction, and she quickly tries to right herself,
but you can tell all three of them are trying not to crack up!
there's also great video of the Blossoms doing back-up during
Aretha's cover of "The Shoop Shoop Song." Also, in I believe video
of "What the World Needs Now" by Jackie De Shannon, the Blossoms
are shown riding slowly-moving platforms as they do their back up;
Fanita starts to lose her balance at one point. Poor Fanita! Great
singer, but not too good in heels! I was also privileged to see
Darlene and Ellie on Broadway in 1984, in "Leader of the pack,"
and met them both afterwards. The musical highlight of MY life: a
giant Christmas stocking appears on-stage... the intro to
"Christmas" revs up... the music gets louder and louder... then
slowly, majestically, like a queen, Darlene Love appears, arising
from behind the stocking like she's coming out of it, arms raised
in the air like on the cover of the Christmas album... the intro
voices carol "CHRISTMAS!!!" as Darlene absolutely, magnificently,
incredibly launches into a sonic version of the song, blowing the
roof off all of Broadway with her voice. I burst right into tears
when she did that! I still get chills thinking about it... WHAT a
performance THAT was!!!!! Excuse me... now I'm all feklempt...
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Subject: Ronettes and the Superbs
Sent: 08/04/98 8:28 am
Received: 08/05/98 6:31 am
From: WILLIAM STOS, wsXXXX@XXXt.com
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
R Teyes, RTeXXXX@XXXom wrote:
> Jon Rausch (webmaster of the ONLY Ronettes Web Page)
I have to agree with Rob. There are some other ronettes pages
around but no one does them justice like John!
>While writing the last note and mentioning "Ask the Lonely," it
>rekindled a memory of another song that was released around the
>same time: The Superbs' "Baby Baby All the Time." Anyone else
>remember this retro-ballad that was released on Dore Records?
I know of a girl group called the Superbs who were Supremes
sound-a-likes, but I only thought they recorded in the later 60s.
Is this them, or another group with the same name?
Will
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Subject: Re: Spectropop V#0125
Sent: 08/04/98 9:10 am
Received: 08/05/98 6:32 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXXX@XXXcom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXXX@XXXties.com
Is there a way to access "back issues" of Spectropop?
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