Spectropop - Digest Number 98

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• Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 23:33:08

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There are 10 messages in this issue of Spectropop.

Topics in this Digest Number 98:

      1. Re: Featured soloists
           From: Richard Havers 
      2. Re: Featured soloists
           From: "Mike" 
      3. Re: Featured soloists
           From: Rex Patton 
      4. parade
           From: Carlos 
      5. Re: Parade
           From: "Randy M. Kosht" 
      6. re: Airplane instrumental
           From: "Jack Madani" 
      7. Over the city, in an airplane...
           From: Tobias 
      8. I Can Hear Music
           From: Mark 
      9. Vine Street
           From: Stewart Mason 
     10. Harping Bizarre
           From: Jamie LePage 


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Message: 1
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:12:08 +0000
   From: Richard Havers 
Subject: Re: Featured soloists

Hi Mike

At a guess the sax player on 'He's A Rebel' was Steve
Douglas, who was a Spector regular. Douglas definitely
played the sax on Da Doo Ron Ron.

I would doubt the P.F. Sloan rumour.
-- 
Best wishes

Richard



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Message: 2
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:59:52 -0800
   From: "Mike" 
Subject: Re: Featured soloists

Michael Gessner wrote:


>who played sax on He's A Rebel?

Steve Douglas

>Who played the flute solos on California Dreaming, etc.?

Dont know

>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.


Mikey



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Message: 3
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:28:30 -0500
   From: Rex Patton 
Subject: Re: Featured soloists

Michael Gessner wrote:

>
>Does anyone know who played some of the well-known solo
>bridges in 60s songs? 
>
>For instance, who played sax on He's A Rebel?
>Who played the flute solos on California Dreaming, etc.?
>
>I heard that PF Sloan was the guitarist on the
>well-known guitar solo opening on California Dreaming.
>Is this true?
>
>Thanks,
>	
>Mike

Steve Douglas played the sax solo on "He's A Rebel" and
Jim Horn played the flute solo on "California Dreamin.'"
As far as the opening solo on the latter, 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 since
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 Tommy Tedesco,
Glen Campbell, Howard Roberts, Bill Pitman, Barney
Kessel, Al Casey, Mike Deasy or Jerry Cole. Or maybe
even John Philllips 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.

Rex Patton





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Message: 4
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 20:44:58 +0000
   From: Carlos 
Subject: parade

"guille milkyway" wrote:

> Can anyone tell me complete list of The Parade
> singles on A&M in teh late 60's, apart
>from
> "Sunshine Girl"?

Hi 

All A&M singles are compiled on a CD (Japan only
POCM-2014).

Sunshine girl/This old melody 
She's got magic/ Welcome you're in love
Frog Princess/Hallelujah rocket
The radio song/I can see only you
Welcome you're in love/Lullaby
She sleeps alone/A.C.D.C.
Laughin' Lady/Hallelujah rocket

Comments on "From Brass to Gold (A&M book)",
anyone?

carlos



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Message: 5
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:33:59 -0800
   From: "Randy M. Kosht" 
Subject: Re: Parade


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: 6
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 07:46:38 -0500
   From: "Jack Madani" 
Subject: re: Airplane instrumental

>Someone posted an instrumental file on the e-group
>called "Airplane". Who is the artist?

Why, that would be me.  
In my haste to [play] the file I neglected to fill
in the ID information.

Artist:  Jack Madani
Album:  Net Sounds 3: Net Sounds Forever
Year:  2000
written by Brian Wilson



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Message: 7
   Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 03:57:33 -0000
   From: Tobias 
Subject: Over the city, in an airplane...

Mike asked:
>Someone posted an instrumental mp3 on the e-group called 
>"Airplane". Who is the artist?

The song is by the Beach Boys and the artist is the Jersey
devil himself, Jack Madani. It's a lovely cover version,
isn't it?

Toby

PS. Jack once did a beauuuuutiful version of Spring's
"It's Like Heaven" too. Check it out if you can, it may be
available somewhere on the 'Net...and let's not forget
Jamie's "In My Room"! : -)



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Message: 8
   Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:56:55 -0500
   From: Mark 
Subject: I Can Hear Music

Greetings, Spectropop fans,  

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? I know it wasn't The Beach Boys or Spector's
version. 

Thanks for your help. 

Regards, 

Mark



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Message: 9
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:22:38 -0700
   From: Stewart Mason 
Subject: Vine Street

Two questions concerning one of my favorite early Randy 
Newman songs:

1. The tradition when recording this song was that it
started with a snippet of another song, so that the
first line ("That's a tape that we made, but I'm sad to
say it never made the grade") would make sense.  Harry
Nilsson's version (on NILSSON SINGS NEWMAN) starts with
a verse and chorus of a terrific song seemingly called
"Anita."  Anyone know if there's a full-length version
of this song available anywhere?  Is it a Nilsson
original?


2. I have versions of "Vine Street" by Nilsson, Van
Dyke Parks (opening with an old recording of Van Dyke
singing one of my favorite traditional folk songs,
"Blackjack Davy," also known as "Gypsy Davy") and
Harper's Bizarre (opening with a great Templeman/Scoppetone
original called "Bye Bye Bye").  Did anyone else ever
record this?  It's one of my favorite songs of the whole
Waronker-mafia period of Warners releases.

Stewart







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Message: 10
   Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 04:06:40 -0000
   From: Jamie LePage 
Subject: Harping Bizarre

alan zweig wrote: 

> ...thanks for taking my question seriously. I guess I
> should be gracious and thank the rest of the people who
> replied. 

It's probably a good idea. That's usually what happens
around here.

> But I didn't really need to hear about Winchester
> Cathedral or other novelty songs, which I already knew
> about.

No worries. I didn't think I needed to either, but then I
read about the Carter/Stephens connection, as well as the
Bonzos/trad jazz connection. It actually proved a more
interesting topic than I thought it would. The thread also
brought out the info on new John Carter comps on the way
>from Em Records. Great! Thanks everyone for the input!

> [Harpers Bizarre] did so many of these novelty tunes that
> it almost seemed like they were actually a Roaring
> Twenties nostalgia novelty act who did a couple of pop
> tunes on each record to keep the company happy. 

It *almost* seemed like that, but not quite. Right? That
is, it would seem like that if we didn't know it was
actually the people at the successors to Autumn who
encouraged the Tikis, a Brit beat-sounding combo from
Northern California, to explore Rodgers/Hammerstein,
Gershwin and Cole Porter, etc. in addition to more
contemporary material by Roger Nichols, Randy Newman, VDP
and Paul Simon, and to work with arrangers such as Perry
Botkin, Jack Nitzsche and Nick DeCaro. Harpers Bizarre
albums were A&R'd (by the company) heavy-handedly, and
they were definitely not the end result of any fluke. But
you know all of this already, right?

Anyway, it was a good topic, Alan, and thanks for bringing
it up.

Jamie

n.p. Knock On Wood - Harpers Bizarre



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