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There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Metropolitan Soul playlist - 7th September
From: Simon White
2. Re: Ventures
From: Jack Russell
3. Brooklyn Benefit
From: Brian
4. Tin Pan Alley
From: Dave Monroe
5. Re: I Spy Shelby Flint
From: Anthony Parsons
6. Re: " It's Written All Over My Face"
From: Hans Huss
7. Re: Naomi Wilson; The Carolines; The Victorians; and "What Makes Little Girls Cry"
From: Julio Niño
8. Re: Royalties to the right people
From: Mike Rashkow
9. Righteous Brothers Chart Entries Request
From: Peter Richmond
10. Re: Relief Telethon tonight
From: Artie Wayne
11. Jigsaw - One Way Street?
From: Bob Radil
12. Message from Jean Thomas
From: Ken Charmer
13. Keep a Splicin' Little Richard
From: John DeAngelis
14. Re: Kenny Shepard sings Van McCoy
From: Brent Cash
15. Re: Shelby Flint
From: Gary Myers
16. Re: The Victorians
From: Stefano Boni
17. Re: 'He Don't Really Love You'
From: Simon White
18. Re: Ventures
From: Joop
19. Re: Tin Pan Alley
From: Roger Smith
20. Re: "What Makes Little Girls Cry"
From: Joop
21. Re: Slippin' and Slidin'
From: Simon White
22. Re: Royalties to the right people
From: Fred Clemens
23. Epic 'Memory Lane' 45s
From: Michael
24. Ray Singer & Johnny Arthey
From: Mark Frumento
25. "Mbube"
From: Phil Hall
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:16:18 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Metropolitan Soul playlist - 7th September
I won't bore readers with details of the first hour of this, the
third 'Metropolitan Soul' show on Starpoint. I will say however, that
it contained tracks by Esther Phillips, Major Lance, Marlena Shaw,
Betty Lavette, The Tams, Jackey Beavers and The Fantastic Four - but
all from a period post 1970.
This then, is the second hour playlist:
NORTHERN Soul / 60s HOUR
HONEY BEE - DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES
STOP AND LISTEN - PATTIE DREW
HELP ME - MITTY COLLIER
WITH ALL THATS IN ME - MARV JOHNSON
I JUST KEPT ON DANCING - DOUG BANKS
THIS GETS TO ME - POOKIE HUDSON
GOTTA GIVE HER LOVE - THE VOLUMES
KEEP IT COMING - BOBBY GARRETT
IT MUST BE LOVE - INTRUDERS
I SEE A RAINBOW - EDWIN STARR & BLINKY
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HARLEM RUMBLE - FRANK FOSTER
GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE - CLYDE MCPHATTER
IT'S TORTURE - MAXINE BROWN
I'LL NEVER LET YOU GO - THE O'JAYS
WHAT GOES AROUND - THE FOREVERS
GOTTA TELL SOMEBODY - TONY TALENT
STUCK ON YOU - YVONNE CARROL
I'VE GOT A SECRET - SHARPEES
AINT GONNA LET IT GET ME DOWN - GAYLE HARRIS
THIS TIME TOMORROW - TAMMY MONTGOMERY
New show live on Wednesday 14th September, 1.30 pm GMT
http://www.starpointradio.com/
Simon White
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:47:24 +0100
From: Jack Russell
Subject: Re: Ventures
Dennis Hoban wrote:
> Amen to that, Gary. My uncle's guitar teacher was Nokie Edwards of
> The Ventures. I have his solo album, "Nokie!" My uncle was MY first
> guitar teacher. Which makes me, in a weird way, Nokie's guitar
> grandson.
Les Paul certainly invented the electric guitar and Chet Atkins
astounded us all as kids growing up post-folk/Pete Seeger etc. But it
was Buddy Holly and The Ventures who gave the solid-body guitar its
real birth here in the UK.
The Shadows followed hot on those heels but The Ventures were just
that bit more jazzy with their Jazzmaster sound, as opposed to the
Stratocaster of Buddy and Hank Marvin. Walk Don't Run and Perfidia
were slavishly copied by my band long before we thought of getting a
vocalist! They deserve every accolade that can be laid at their door.
I am not sure if it was true or false but I once played a gig in
Wick, which is as far north in Scotland as you can go without a boat,
and in the local pub after the gig we were introduced to a guy who,
local legend had it, had been the bass player with The Ventures. Now
because The Ventures were really only two guys they may have had
itinerant sidemen and it could have been true. I was a great fan but
in the UK we did not have access to really good lineup info so I
could never prove it one way or another. Does anyone know if it could
have been true or whether the locals were just pulling our wire?
Jack Russell
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:12:38 -0000
From: Brian
Subject: Brooklyn Benefit
Well, it was all good intentions, but I now see (too late) the exact
same message I just submitted was already posted here this morning.
Here are the email addresses back in that got lopped off there.
Naturally, "(AT)" = @ and "(DOT)" = .
Brian
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Trinity Parish Church Episcopal Discretionary Fund
200 N Elm St.
Searcy
AR 72143-5271
(Write "Katrina Fund" in memo line of check)
paypal to: trinityparish (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
Send donations to:
NOMC Emergency Fund
Funds will be distributed by:
SW LA Area Health Education Center Foundation, Inc.
103 Independence Blvd.
Lafayette
LA 70506
desk: 337-989-0001
fax: 337-989-1401
Contact: Kathy Richard directly at (337) 989-0001
email: finance (AT) swlahec (DOT) com
http://www.swlahec.com/
musiciank (AT) swlahec (DOT) com
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dave Monroe
Subject: Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley (tin pan AL-ee) noun
Popular music industry; composers, songwriters, and music publishers
considered collectively.
[After West 28th Street in New York City where music publishers were
formerly centered. From the cacophony of cheap pianos and hack
musicians the area came to be known as Tin Pan Alley (apparently from
the term tinny piano) and eventually became generalized to refer to
the whole music industry. The term, popular in the past, is less used
today.]
The corresponding term in the UK is Denmark Street in London. The UK
capital also has the literary equivalent of Tin Pan Alley/Denmark
Street in Grub Street, a collective term for hack writers.
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus:
http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=tin+pan+alley
"[Neil Diamond's] got one foot planted in Tin Pan Alley songcraft and
the other in Vegas shtick." Greg Kot; Kneel to Neil; Chicago Tribune;
Aug 2, 2005.
This week's theme: metaphorical terms having origins in New York.
[...]
Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/tin_pan_alley.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/tin_pan_alley.ram
Permalink:
http://wordsmith.org/words/tin_pan_alley.html
http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 02:50:37 -0500
From: Anthony Parsons
Subject: Re: I Spy Shelby Flint
S.J. Dibai:
> I think a lot of people don't realize that (Shelby Flint's) voice
> was featured prominently in an episode of "I SPY" entitled "Laya."
> There was an Earle Hagen melody that was used as a recurring theme
> throughout the episode, and then during the tag scene we got to
> hear a recording of Shelby singing it with lyrics over a silent
> film sequence of a broken-hearted Bill Cosby wandering through the
> ruins of ancient Greece. It was one of the most beautiful scenes in
> the history of television. The song, incidentally, was called "The
> Voice In The Wind." Did Shelby put this out on record in the '60s?
> It's really a great song.
Hi SJ: Your post sent me to my soundtrack section and the booklet
accompanying Film Score Monthly's I Spy CD. While the track you
mention is not on the CD, there is a reference to it in the booklet.
According to the notes (I assume by Lukas Kendall), Earle Hagen won
an Emmy for Best Dramatic Score for Laya. There is even a picture of
him accepting the Emmy in the booklet. Lyrics for The Voice In The
Wind are credited to Gene Lees. Further reading in the booklet
reveals that the master tapes for Laya "could not immediately be
found but hopefully will be located for a future volume". Of further
note is the fact that there were 2 I Spy soundtrack LPs issued in the
60s, one on Warner Bros. (WS 1637, May 1966) and a second one on
Capitol (ST 2839, January 1968). These albums are distinguished by
the fact that unlike many 'soundtrack' LPs of that era, these re-
recordings used the original orchestrations. The Warner LP was
produced by Hagen himself and the Capitol LP is said to be "produced
and released by Capitol". I don't know if The Voice In The Wind is
on either LP, but I'm sure someone else here could verify. I have no
idea if a 45 was ever released.
Obviously Film Score Monthly plans to use Laya when they release a
second volume of I Spy. I Spy is unique in that there were original
scores composed for each of its 82 episodes, with 53 of those scores
by Earle Hagen. My own favorite Earle Hagen compositions are the
original theme from That Girl (the instrumental used in the first two
seasons) and his exciting theme from The Mod Squad. I've never seen
the I Spy episode Laya, but am very much looking forward to catching
it based on your description.
Sincerely,
Antone
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 01:08:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hans Huss
Subject: Re: " It's Written All Over My Face"
I wrote:
> Jimmie Raye's 'That'll Get It' is Moon Shot 6708 ... The uptown
> ballad flip, 'It's Written All Over Your Face', is equally
> wonderful...
Phil M:
> Not the same song as Marva Holiday's of that title, is it?
No Phil, it's a different tune entirely.
Hasse
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:07:43 -0000
From: Julio Niño
Subject: Re: Naomi Wilson; The Carolines; The Victorians; and "What Makes Little Girls Cry"
Hola everybody.
S.J. Dibai wrote about Naomi wilson:
> ... I don't believe I'm crazy.....or at least as crazy as this
> story suggests. Did (Naomi) Wilson's version (of "Gotta Find A
> Way") become a hit anywhere? Where was she from? Any info on her
> Swan connection? And what's the 411 on Theresa Lindsey, for that
> matter?
I don´t know anything about Naomi Wilson, but I like her Vandellas-
ish "Gotta Find A Way". I also like the flip, a version of The
Students' "So Young". I have another question about her: is she the
singer of "Come On Baby And Hurt Me" (what a suggestive title), by
Naomi and Harry on Atco?
And talking about great girl voices, I also want to thank Mick for
playing the exciting "You Are My Baby" by The Carolines. It´s
gorgeous. Apart from this song and the wonderful "Can´t Stop Loving
The Boy", did they record anything else? The singer's voice immerses
you violently in a kind of Brill Building fantasy.
And finally, thanks also to Ian Slater for posting the Victorians´
"Monkey Stroll". I wasn´t familliar with it, and I think that, with
"What Makes The Little Girls Cry" (which I first discovered, being a
kid in bad company, now I´m just bad company, in the ultra-
accelerated version of a Spanish punk combo) is my favorite song by
them.
By The Way, talking about "What Makes Little Girls Cry?". French
singer Marie Laforêt , recorded in 1963 a marvelous song entitled
"Qu´Est Ce Qui fait pleurer Les Filles?", a version of a Crewe-Gaudio
song titled precisely "What Makes Little Girls Cry?". Could anybody
please tell me who recorded the original version of that song? Thanks.
Chao.
Julio Niño.
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:28:37 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: Royalties to the right people
Artie:
> As an African-American, it's incomprehensible to me that the
> composer, Solomon Linda, a Black South African was denied the
> monies due him, because at the time, under the rules of apartheid,
> Blacks weren't allowed to earn royalties.
Phil C:
> Hi Artie, if I understand the story correctly, it seems ironic that
> the apartheid ruling turned out to be the very reason that Solomon
> Linda ever saw *any* money for "Mbube"/"Wimoweh"/"Lion Sleeps..."
> during his lifetime....The real sleight-of-hand took place later
> when the Tokens' flip of "Tina", namely "The Lion Sleeps Tonight",
> began to chart....... Despite all parties now knowing that the song
> was essentially another reworking of Solomon Linda's "Mbube" with
> new lyrics, the revised copyright described "The Lion Sleeps
> Tonight" as 'based on a song by Paul Campbell'.
Well, not to be a contrarian--but: Miriam Makeba's eponymous first
album, circa 1960 on RCA contains MBUBE and credits it to J. Linda.
So what part of "we didn't write it" didn't these guys understand. I
wouldn't expect any better from Hugo and Luigi. What did they ever do
that was really any good anyway? Bunch of slick suits as far as I
could tell.
MR
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:39:37 +0100
From: Peter Richmond
Subject: Righteous Brothers Chart Entries Request
I wonder if anyone out there in Spectropop, could assist me with some
additional Righteous Brothers chart entry information for my website.
Specifically, I would very much like to know the US & UK Album Chart
entry details of;
Dirty Dancing OST
Ghost OST
Unchained Melody - The Very Best Of The Righteous Brothers
plus any Bill Medley entries on the US Country Music Charts
If it is easier, then please contact me offlist.
Many thanks.
Peter.
www.righteousbrothersdiscography.com
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Artie Wayne
Subject: Re: Relief Telethon tonight
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast will air tonight
in the United States at 8:oo Eastern time [shown on the West Coast at
8:00 Pacific time].
ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, UPN and the WB will simulcast the hour long
telethon to raise money for the victims of hurricane Katrina.
Several cable networks have also signed on to air the show including
E, Bravo, CNBC, Court TV, Lifetime, the Style network, TBS and USA
Network. The concert will also air on radio and be streamed online,
including AOL, Yahoo, and Real.com.
The event will also be televised in 95 countries around the World.
The musical artists schedueled to appear include Garth Brooks, Mariah
Carey, Sheryl Crow, Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige, the Foo Fighters,
Randy Newman, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keyes, Kanye West, the Dixie Chicks
and Paul Simon.
Regards, Artie Wayne http://artiewayne.com
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:40:17 -0000
From: Bob Radil
Subject: Jigsaw - One Way Street?
RE: The MP3 posted in Musica, Jigsaw - One Way Street.
Is this the same act that in 1975 had a hit with "Sky High"
Bob Radil
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:26:21 +0200
From: Ken Charmer
Subject: Message from Jean Thomas
I heard back from Jean Thomas after passing on the feedback from this
group and this was her reply:
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"Wow!! You guys know more about my background in the record industry
than I do or can remember. They are wonderful reminders, at least
about the ones I can remember! If you have a copy of a song or two
on the Evie Sands LP, I'd love to hear it. I don't have any of those
recordings.
"Re Jeannie Thomas on "Say Something Sweet To Me"/"My Heart Has Told
Me What To Do" on the Strand label? from Simon White: As for Jeannie
Thomas or Jeanne Thomas (I was recorded under both of these names), I
don't recall the songs or recording on the label mentioned above. If
someone could send me one of the recordings I could answer that.
"The only songs I know of that I recorded under Jeannie Thomas
are "You're The Root Of My Evil" and "All You Had To Do Was Love Me"
on the Minuteman label which was part of Columbia Records. As Jeanne
Thomas I recorded "Life Of The Party" and "Too Good To Be Bad" which
was for Bob Crewe's label New Voice, part of Bell Records, and as
Jeanne Fox I recorded "Working Girl" (written and produced by Chip
Taylor) for Rainy Day Records, part of Jay-Gee Records."
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If anyone posts a track to Musica I'll pass it on to Jean. I hope to
be able to post some of the lesser known tracks mentioned by Jean as
she has offerred to get these to me later this year.
More soon
Ken
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:18:57 -0000
From: John DeAngelis
Subject: Keep a Splicin' Little Richard
Country Paul wrote:
> I don't remember if it was "Slippin' and Slidin'" or "Lucille" by
> Little Richard which was about 1:20 in its original; some
> judicious splicing stretched it out to about two minutes.
I think the Little Richard song that had to be spliced in order to be
made longer was "Keep A Knockin'."
John DeAngelis
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:53:56 -0000
From: Brent Cash
Subject: Re: Kenny Shepard sings Van McCoy
Robert Indart wrote:
> I was just wondering if Kenny Shepard's "Try To Understand" on the
> Maxx label, in 1964 was ever released on CD it was written by Van
> Mccoy. If not can it be posted on musica. To my understanding Kenny
> Shepard recorded as Kenny Young in 1969 on the Share label with
> another Van Mccoy song. This information I got on the Kenny Young
> article on Spectropop website. Thanks!
Hi Robert, Martin Roberts turned me onto some Kenny Shepherd stuff
on Kapp awhile back (released a couple of years after the Maxx single
you refer to, approx.'66), so maybe he knows the story on "Try To
Understand" as well. Thanks for checking out the article.
Best Wishes,
Brent Cash
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:11:25 -0700
From: Gary Myers
Subject: Re: Shelby Flint
Previously:
> I always loved Shelby (Flint)'s "Angel On My Shoulder" and "Cast
> Your Fate To The Wind"
And I'll add "I Will Love You."
gem
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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stefano Boni
Subject: Re: The Victorians
Ian Slater wrote:
> Further to previous discussion, I've played (the Victorians')
> "Monkey Stroll" to musica. Enjoy!
Thanks for posting that, Ian. It's an interesting track. Is there any
chance that someone might have, and can post their tracks: "Happy
Birthday Blue" and "If I Loved You"?
Stefano
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Message: 17
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:51:17 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Re: 'He Don't Really Love You'
Hans Huss wrote (amongst other things):
> 'He Don't Really Love You' (Moon Shot 6703) was the Delfonics'
> first record, recorded in late 1966, released in early 1967.
There is another version of the song, unreleased I believe (maybe
Hans knows different?) without the very heavy kettle drum sound
that features so prominently on the Moonshot version. I will do a
comparison when I get a minute to get the 45 out of the cupboard,
but I think the vocal track is different too.
I suspect the song was actually recorded for Cameo/Parkway but the
label went down before it was released. The version without the drum
may be the one that Cameo didn't release and it was later 'beefed up'
for the Moonshot release.
Forgive me if this information is freely available elsewhere, but I
suspect a number of 45s that appeared around this time were
originally slotted for Cameo/Parkway release (maybe this is
documented somewhere?) but again didn't get the chance, which might
explain the one-off Intruders 45 on Excel for instance (the label
that basically became "Gamble") and releases on labels like
Fairmount, Winchester and Liberty Bell.
I'm currently giving myself a headache trying to thread through all
the Philly connections with Gamble and Huff, Thom Bell, Stan Watson,
Billy Jackson, Jimmy Wisner et al. What a supremely gifted and
talented group of people.
Simon White
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arthurs
Homepage:
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Message: 18
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:23:53 -0000
From: Joop
Subject: Re: Ventures
Gary Myers wrote:
> To me, the most notable omission in the RnRHOF is the Ventures!
> "Walk Don't Run" influenced every young drummer and guitarist at
> that time, and for years many young bands tried to sound like the
> Ventures. I believe they are the biggest selling guitar-based r'n'r
> instrumental group ever.
Dennis Hoban wrote:
> Amen to that, Gary. My uncle's guitar teacher was Nokie Edwards of
> The Ventures. I have his solo album, "Nokie!" My uncle was MY first
> guitar teacher. Which makes me, in a weird way, Nokie's guitar
> grandson. The Ventures deserve enlistment in the Hall of Fame. Any
> way we could influence the Board of Directors?
The Ventures had been listening to the records of Chet Atkins and
came across "Walk don't run", but Chet on his turn had listened
closely to Johnny Smith's original version of the song.
http://www.originals.be/eng/main.cfm?c=t_upd_show&id=6667
Joop greets
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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:54:08 -0400
From: Roger Smith
Subject: Re: Tin Pan Alley
Previously:
> Tin Pan Alley (tin pan AL-ee) noun. Popular music industry;
> composers, songwriters, and music publishers considered
> collectively. [After West 28th Street in New York City where music
> publishers were formerly centered. From the cacophony of cheap
> pianos and hack musicians the area came to be known as Tin Pan
> Alley (apparently from the term tinny piano) and eventually became
> generalized to refer to the whole music industry. The term, popular
> in the past, is less used today.]
Harry Von Tilzer ("I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear
Old Dad") is said to have inspired the name by putting pieces of
paper between the strings of his piano to get a "tinny" sound he
liked. The sound of Von Tilzer's piano inspired songwriter Monroe
Rosenfeld to write a song called "Tin Pan Alley."
-- Roger
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Message: 20
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:06:27 -0000
From: Joop
Subject: Re: "What Makes Little Girls Cry"
Julio Niño wrote:
> And finally, thanks also to Ian Slater for posting the Victorians´
> "Monkey Stroll". I wasn´t familliar with it, and I think that, with
> "What Makes The Little Girls Cry" (which I first discovered, being
> a kid in bad company, now I´m just bad company, in the ultra-
> accelerated version of a Spanish punk combo) is my favorite song by
> them. By The Way, talking about "What Makes Little Girls Cry?".
> French singer Marie Laforêt , recorded in 1963 a marvelous song
> entitled "Qu´Est Ce Qui fait pleurer Les Filles?", a version of a
> Crewe-Gaudio song titled precisely "What Makes Little Girls Cry?".
> Could anybody please tell me who recorded the original version of
> that song?
As the copyrightyear of the song is 1963
http://www.semi-meridian.fr/oeuvres.php?OEU=71668
I think the Shepherd Sisters released the original version of the
song on Atlantic 2176 in early 1963.
The Victorians' song was composed by Lou Josie.
By the way Julio there is a version recorded by this Spanish actress
Soledad Miranda. Listen to a sample of her version here:
http://www.amybrown.net/miranda/records.html
Joop greets
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Message: 21
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:45:39 +0100
From: Simon White
Subject: Re: Slippin' and Slidin'
Country Paul wrote:
> I don't remember if it was "Slippin' and Slidin'" or "Lucille" by
> Little Richard which was about 1:20 in its original; some judicious
> splicing stretched it out to about two minutes.
How did I miss this one? My eyes are trained to spot the word
"Little" and the name "Richard" even if they appear on the same page
up to twenty two lines apart.
You may be thinking of "Keep a Knockin'", which is spliced from a
short radio station recording (with a line "I'm drinking gin and you
can't come in" removed) or "Jenny Jenny" which (from memory) is two
takes spliced together. There maybe another but I'm pretty sure it's
not "Slippin' and Slidin'", which certainly exists in earlier less
Little Richard-styled takes by the man himself and in different and
earlier forms by Eddie Bo and Al Collins.
Incidentally, and tying up two threads, I have here a 45 of The
Carroll Brothers doing 'Slippin' and Slidding' (sic) on Cameo 213
from 1962. It's a white label DJ copy. My question to members is:
Who were the Carroll Brothers and why would Cameo release this awful
45? It appears to be live (to an audience of about say, three) and
the lead Carroll mangles the words all over the place. And I know Mr
Penniman isn't always the easiest to understand but did the lead
Carrroll brother really think Richard sang "Oh mama Linda, She's a
silly sender, Oh you better remember"? It is really a very poor
affair indeed. The official 'A' Side is a version of "Bo Diddley",
which is so pointless as to not warrant mention at all. The released
45 seems to have 'Don't Knock The Twist" as the 'B' side. This demo
is obviously worth at least three figures to collectors of dreck so
I'm open to offers (this is British irony by the way).
Much better is "Slipping and Sliding" by Spic & Span on V Tone from
1961, which is in a rough Everly Brothers style. Are we allowed to
mention the Everlys here? I love "Price Of Love" and "Ferris Wheel"
and their version of "Lucille" is one of the few covers versions of
Little Richards material I can bear to hear.
Holy Mackerel!
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Message: 22
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:50:49 -0000
From: Fred Clemens
Subject: Re: Royalties to the right people
I can say (with some authority) that Miriam Makeba wasn't the first
to credit "Linda" as composer. The Kingston Trio gave Linda credit
in 1959, along with "P. Campbell" (which was a ficticious name for
the Weavers). Initially, the Tokens only gave credit to Creatore,
Peretti, and Weiss. When their RCA (LION SLEEPS TONIGHT) lp was
issued, another name was added, A. Stanton. Campbell's name never
appeared until much later. When I spoke with Phil Margo last year, he
mentioned that the Tokens made much contribution to the making of
their song but were never credited.
It can be noted here that "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" wasn't the first
version of the Linda song to contain the almost exclusive "Wimoweh"
chant. The Kingston Trio's 1959 recording gave a translation to the
true meaning of the song prefacing their singing of the tune.
In 1960, two separate (English language) versions were recorded that
contained words. The Randy Sparks Three (an early incarnation of the
New Christy Minstrels) gave words in their alternately titled "Eh
Wimoweh" (that sounds familiar!). The one-time lyric: "Lion come
creepin' through the long tall grass, as I was strollin' one day, I
say Mr. Lion please let me pass, don't you do me no harm, eh-
wimoweh!". It even included a lion's growl during the opening of the
song.
The other happened in October, 1960 (almost a full year before the
Tokens would record their version), when Kitty White introduced her
own version as "Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps)". Her words, however, had
nothing to do with a sleeping lion (as one might expect from the
title). She chose rather to sing about a tribute for the love of her
man (she did sing "wimoweh" as part of her lyric).
Fred Clemens
http://www.bobshannon.com/fred/Mbube%20Listing.html
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Message: 23
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:02:21 -0000
From: Michael
Subject: Epic 'Memory Lane' 45s
Does anyone know approximately (or precisely, if you know) when Epic
Records began and discontinued their 'Memory Lane' series of 45s...
the blue labels with the flower petals?
I once bought a Gerry and the Pacemakers album at a flea market, and
I didn't know until I got home that tucked inside the cover (in
addition to the Pacemakers LP) was a Dave Clark Five 'Memory Lane' 45
of "Because" and "Do You Love Me." I'm curious when this was issued/
sold...but I'm curious about the series in general.
Thanks.
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Message: 24
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:25:31 -0000
From: Mark Frumento
Subject: Ray Singer & Johnny Arthey
I was listening to Phil's Spectre II and some of the Righteous
Brothers' knock-offs reminded me of a 45 I have by an act called Jon-
Plum. They only recorded two 45s and the one I have 'You Keep
Changing Your Mind' (SNB, 1969) is a wonderful Spector-a-like
produced by Ray Singer (listening to it makes me think that he picked
up a trick or two from his first producer Mark Wirtz). Musical
direction on the record was by Johnny Arthey (who did nice work with
The Angelettes etc). I'm wondering if anyone else has other records
by the combination of these two men? or information about their work
together? I'm mostly curious if either of them worked on other records
in the Spectropop spirit.
I'll play 'You Keep Changing Your Mind' to musica when there is space.
Mark F.
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Message: 25
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:29:17 -0000
From: Phil Hall
Subject: "Mbube"
Phil Chapman wrote:
> "The Lion", pronounced Uyimbube
I work with a lady from Africa who speaks Zulu, and she assures me
that "Mbube" translates as "corn meal" or "land". Maybe it's a
dialect thing.
Phil H.
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