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There are 15 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Jerry Riopelle
From: S'pop Projects
2. Al Kooper Interview
From: John Stewart
3. Curtis Woodson - Memories of the 1962 Motown Revue book
From: David Bell
4. Addrisi Brothers Song
From: Tracy Pernell
5. The Fleetwoods
From: Phil Hall
6. Re: Sadie The Cleaning Lady
From: Sean
7. Mark Barkan acetate playing at musica
From: Stefan Wriedt
8. Re: Jerry Riopelle
From: Gary Myers
9. New Cameo-Parkway discs
From: Peter Andreasen
10. Mike Smith Benefit pix
From: Unsteady Freddie
11. Re: New Cameo-Parkway discs
From: Nick Archer
12. Re: The Fleetwoods
From: Austin Roberts
13. Re: Addrisi Brothers Song
From: Joop
14. Re: Sadie The Cleaning Lady
From: Thomas
15. Re: The Fleetwoods
From: Martin Jensen
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 01:31:53 +0100
From: S'pop Projects
Subject: Jerry Riopelle
As the auteur behind a stream of magnificent recordings by artists
such as Ramona King, Bonnie & the Treasures, Ramona King and Nino
Tempo & April Stevens, JERRY RIOPELLE is one of S'pop's most
admired producers. Back in 1984, Joel Najman interviewed him
exclusively for Philately, the magazine of the Phil Spector
Appreciation Society. We're pleased to announce that that interview
is now available on-line at S'pop.
An excerpt:
Joel Najman: What can you tell us about the public service song
"Things Are Changing"?
Jerry Riopelle: My goodness! My wife has been working for Dr Landy,
who is Brian Wilson's shrink, and I've been telling her about this
song that I wrote with Phil Spector and Brian, but I couldn't
remember the title of it! Phillip originally started the song with
Brian, but it was just a chorus or something, nothing to do with
the lyrics. I made the track and produced one version, with Darlene
Love, I believe.
Read the full interview here:
http://www.spectropop.com/HOTB/HOTBpart3.htm
Enjoy and let the discussion begin.
The S'pop Team
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:51:43 +0100
From: John Stewart
Subject: Al Kooper Interview
An interview with Al Kooper from the UK newspaper, The Independent:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/interviews/article309323.ece
John
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:31:01 -0000
From: David Bell
Subject: Curtis Woodson - Memories of the 1962 Motown Revue book
A book that a lot of Motown fans, and that includes me, have been
looking forward to for a long time now is Curtis Woodson's "Memories
of the 1962 Motown Revue."
A couple of years ago an abbreviated version of the book was
published in Detroit and a lot of fans were very disappointed when
they could not get hold of a copy for love nor money, again including
me.
Through Annette Helton, an original Vandella, I managed to get hold
of Curtis' email address and have been having a lively correspondence
with him for about 3 months now. I'm delighted to say that this
marvellous, must-have book is printed and almost ready for sale. It
will be just a couple of days now before purchase is available.
Curtis has been working on his website, which you can view at:
http://www.1962mts.com
It's not yet complete but soon will be - hopefully, by this Friday.
You can read about Mr Woodson himself, how he became involved with
the 1962 tour in an official capacity and how to order the book,
although the link is not quite ready but will be very soon. There is
a beautiful picture of Diana Ross in Washington DC on the News page,
which tells of several options of how to purchase the book. It'll be
good ol' Paypal for me. Curtis also gives details of an option to
have the book signed by him with an inscription of your own choosing.
I've been privileged to have seen a couple of his photos of the
Vandellas and Mary Wells, as well as a stunning one of Rosalind
Holmes with the Supremes.
There are photos of all the artists who participated in that historic
almost legendary tour - "Marvellous" Marv Johnson, Mary Wells, the
Miracles, the Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye, the "original" Vandellas, the
Contours, the Supremes, Singin' Sammy Ward and Choker Campbell and
his Big Band.
Although the photos are not yet on the page, there is also an option
to buy posters of certain poses, including 3 for Supremes' fans plus
the Vandellas, Mary Wells, the Marvelettes and the Contours
performing "Do You Love Me?" on the opening night of the tour.
I would urge any serious Motown fan to look at Mr Woodson's site and
order a copy of this monumental book. So many of the great Motown
stars are featured here in all their glory in 1962. This book is a
testament to the beginnings of the music we all love so much.
Finally, I should say here that I have no connection with the
publication of this book. I'm simply a Motown fan through and through
and have tried to give Mr Woodson every encouragement to go ahead and
get his photos published.
Best wishes,
David
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:15:04 -0000
From: Tracy Pernell
Subject: Addrisi Brothers Song
Greetings, All Addrisi Brothers Spectropoppers:
If you have any knowledge of their song, "Somebody Found Her (Before
I Lost Her), please give me the info---I know Dennis Lambert wrote
it, because he had a solo version of it on his 1974 album, but any
other information (producer, label, et al.) would be greatly
appreciated.
Spectropopping in Nashville,
Tracy Pernell
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:12:23 -0000
From: Phil Hall
Subject: The Fleetwoods
I just got an e-mail from Gary Troxel of the Fleetwoods, one of my
absolute all-time top 10 favorite groups. They are still together,
although I don't know if either of the original girls are in the
group. They still perform together and will be appearing November
19 in Toledo, OH.
Phil H.
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:34:48 -0000
From: Sean
Subject: Re: Sadie The Cleaning Lady
Martin Roberts wrote:
> ... "Sadie The Cleaning Lady" ... Despite being written by Madara/
> White/Gilmore the song is not really my cup of tea but the 2 45s
> that I know may still interest S'poppers. Johnny Farnham's (UK
> Columbia 8355 '67) release, produced by David McKay ... has Ellie
> (Greenwich) and Jeff (Barry)'s "Friday Kind Of Monday" as the A-
> Side.
That's interesting, I thought "Friday Kind Of Monday" was a Finders
original. I'd like to hear the original of that. Is it available on
CD?
I know of another Sadie version by SIW MALMKVIST - "The Man Who Took
The Valise Off The Floor/Sadie the cleaning lady" Atlantic 584 229
(who I'm guessing is Swedish or German) and THOMPSON, JACK. plays,
Sadie the cleaning lady.. LP (1968)(A NZ LP), and I've seen 2 to 3
versions by obscure UK artists, while flipping through my "Forbidden
Fruit" mags.
Sean
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:20:26 -0000
From: Stefan Wriedt
Subject: Mark Barkan acetate playing at musica
I have posted an unknown Mark Barkan acetate to musica. Can one our
US friends here identify the female singer on it? It sounds familiar
to me, but my ears are not the best. Googling around, I haven't found
any entry of "Here I Am" apart from BMI's.
Here's the info on it:
Here I Am (demo)
written Mark Barkan & Victor Millrose, published by Ensign Music.
from A Famous Demo NY acetate.
Thanks for giving it a listen - Steve
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:49:14 -0700
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Jerry Riopelle
S'pop Projects wrote:
> As the auteur behind a stream of magnificent recordings by artists
> such as Ramona King, Bonnie & the Treasures, Ramona King and Nino
> Tempo & April Stevens, JERRY RIOPELLE is one of S'pop's most
> admired producers. Back in 1984, Joel Najman interviewed him
> exclusively for Philately, the magazine of the Phil Spector
> Appreciation Society. We're pleased to announce that that interview
> is now available on-line at S'pop:
> http://www.spectropop.com/HOTB/HOTBpart3.htm
Interesting interview. Last year I discovered that Riopelle was on a
local Tampa, FL record, circa 1959. It was one of the few local hits
during the time I lived in the area (Bradenton, '57-'62).
gem
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:41:12 -0000
From: Peter Andreasen
Subject: New Cameo-Parkway discs
Great news: Abkco is finally releasing seven CDs with Cameo-Parkway artists,
such as Dee Dee Sharp, The Orlons and Bobby Rydell. Try http://www.oldies.com.
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:59:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Unsteady Freddie
Subject: Mike Smith Benefit pix
I have posted three pages of pictures from the recent Mike Smith benefit held at
B.B. King's in New York City. They include shots of:
Billy J. Kramer
Peter & Gordon
The Zombies
Denny Laine
Fab Faux
http://www.readyunsteadygo.com
Hope you can get a sense of what a great evening it was!
Dig it!
Unsteady Freddie
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:26:03 -0500
From: Nick Archer
Subject: Re: New Cameo-Parkway discs
Peter Andreasen wrote:
> Great news: Abkco is finally releasing seven CDs with Cameo-Parkway
> artists, such as Dee Dee Sharp, The Orlons and Bobby Rydell. Try
> http://www.oldies.com.
Chubby Checker! Finally!!
Nick Archer
Franklin, TN
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:44:18 EDT
From: Austin Roberts
Subject: Re: The Fleetwoods
Phil Hall:
> I just got an e-mail from Gary Troxel of the Fleetwoods, one of my
> absolute all-time top 10 favorite groups. They are still together,
> although I don't know if either of the original girls are in the
> group. They still perform together and will be appearing November
> 19 in Toledo, OH.
I believe it was the original 3 who performed for the PBS show
several months ago.
Austin R
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:07:07 -0000
From: Joop
Subject: Re: Addrisi Brothers Song
Tracy Pernell wrote:
> If you have any knowledge of their song, "Somebody Found Her
> (Before I Lost Her)", please give me the info---I know Dennis
> Lambert wrote it, because he had a solo version of it on his 1974
> album, but any other information (producer, label, et al.) would be
> greatly appreciated.
Tracy, The Addrisi Brothers version of "Somebody Found Her" is from
1974 on the Bell-label:
http://www.singlesdb.com/a/addrisibrothers-the.php
And Dennis Lambert recorded his own version of the song in 1972 on
the album "Bags & Things". Brian Potter is the co-composer of this
song. I own the album which was produced by Steve Barri.
Joop greets
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:25:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas
Subject: Re: Sadie The Cleaning Lady
Sean:
> I know of another Sadie version by SIW MALMKVIST
When Ms Malmkvist charted here in Sweden with the Swedish version in
1968, it was advertised as being an original song written especially
for her. It was supposed to be her breakthrogh in the UK. I don`t
think it was issued in Britain though. A German version was issued in
1971.
Thomas
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:28:05 -0000
From: Martin Jensen
Subject: Re: The Fleetwoods
Has anyone here ever heard some of the one-off solo-singles that Gary
Troxel is said to have cut during the late 60s after the Fleetwoods
had disbanded?
with regards,
Martin, Denmark
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