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There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: I Had A Dream
From: Ronnie Allen
2. Re: Zekley/Grady
From: Dan Hughes
3. Re: Zekley/Grady
From: Billy G Spradlin
4. Red Bird/Shadow Morton
From: John Rausch
5. Re: Re: DJ Dick Summer
From: james botticelli
6. Euro - Visions
From: Dubois
7. The Ronettes
From: John Rausch
8. Re: Zekley/Grady
From: Stephane Rebeschini
9. Re: Zekley/Grady
From: Phil Chapman
10. Re: Zekley/Grady
From: Billy G Spradlin
11. Motown musicians/Ripples 8
From: Kingsley Abbott
12. Sylvia & the Sapphires
From: Ian Chapman
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 19:52:50 EDT
From: Ronnie Allen
Subject: Re: I Had A Dream
Phil Chapman asked:
>Couple of questions for the experts - Who are the backing vocals, they
>sound familiar, and who is the male 'preacher' vocal that says "Do you
>take this girl to be your wife?"
The male 'preacher' was none other than Bob Crewe!
Diane and I talked about this during the two interview shows I did with her.
Ronnie Allen
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 18:44:43 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Re: Zekley/Grady
Jeff asks about Don Grady's singles. I think I have the album he
recorded as Don Agrati; doubt that helps you any but just in case...
---Dan
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:01:54 -0000
From: Billy G Spradlin
Subject: Re: Zekley/Grady
Jeffrey Glenn wrote:
> I was rereading the article on Gary Zekley in the third Dumb Angel
> Gazette, and it talks about the rare version of "Summertime Summertime"
> that was released on Br'er Bird Records as by Our Gang. The M&M Japan
> CD THE MELODY GOES ON VOL. 1 contains the B-side of this 45, but does
> anyone have the A-side that they could play to musica? There are
> reportedly only 22 copies of this record around in the hands of
> collectors, but if anyone was to have a copy (or a burn, or an mp3 -
> anything!), it would be someone on this list :-)
I have it on a homemade CD-R comp of Zekley productions - I'll play
of MP3 of "Summertime, Summertime" to musica. The song also appears
in a remixed stereo on Jan & Dean's "All The Hits - From Surf City to
Drag City) 2-fer.
> Also does anyone have a discography for Don Grady's 1964-66 45's on
> Capitol and Challenge?
Heres what I found in Goldmine's R&R Price Guide:
Capitol 5181 A Broken Heart Knows Better / I Think You're Thru
Challenge 45-1305 Let It Happen / Out
Canterbury 501 The Children of St Monica / A Good Man To Have Around
Canterbury 507 Leaving It Up To You / Impressions With Syvonne
I have Challenge 45-1305 Let It Happen b/w Out. I liked the A-side
(with a cool slapback echo effect) to make a mp3 of it, and I'll play
that too.
Billy
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 20:57:18 -0400
From: John Rausch
Subject: Red Bird/Shadow Morton
In reply to someone`s Red Bird label question .
Here is a good site to try for info on your question.
http://redbird.icehost.co.uk/
And in the same note, here is a Shadow Morton site I found also:
http://www.lirock.com/shadow01.html
For an interview with him that was previously in an issue of
Gold Mine mag.
And a real Shadow Morton website here:
http://www.shadowmorton.com/
John Rausch
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:58:12 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Re: DJ Dick Summer
Phil Milstein wrote:
> in his New York incarnation Dick used to read that stuff on
> the air, over light pop instrumental beds.
As I try to remember that kind of September, I have downloaded
a floppy that indicates a familiarity with that "Summerian"
approach....Can it be that Dick was the father of the soft spoken
FM LP track Playa/DJ of the late 6T's "rock" revolution???? Was
I had??~ And, if so, was I bad? Or should I be sad that the lad
was mad and did his thing despite good vs. bad? Time for bed!
--
Jimmy Botticelli
Taking The E-Z...Way Out!
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 20:43:47 +0200
From: Dubois
Subject: Euro - Visions
As a spectropop user I shamelessly give a plug to my record
label & musical project, as we all share the same musical obsessions
it may ring a bell.
Best
Jean-Emmanuel
PS: Kingsley (Abott) I would like to know if you finally succeded in
getting the Delon/Melville album?
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Deluxe & Faem, the Paris-Lisbon express
French pop & international flavour
Alain Delon/Jean-Pierre Melville - the tribute Album
Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe and Alexander Faem, leading lights of Paris'
dandified underground, have brought together France's finest musical
innovators from the past twenty years, all for your leisure pleasure.
Here's the eagerly-awaited Tribute to Delon/Melville album (out
now-distributed worlwide by Wagram). The album, equal parts pure pop
and psych-poesy, renders homage to the universe of director Jean-Pierre
Melville and his preferred actor Alain Delon. In passing, it also pays
its respects to cult clarinettist Marcel Zannini and 70s singer Christophe.
The 17-track CD contains: "Krimi at the Kino" (sung by Deluxe), "Parisville"
(sung by April) "Mein name ist Melville" (sung by Ariel Wizman - Merricks remix) & other great pop songs. To bring out the record, the Euro-Visions
label has been resurrected (last album to appear under that imprint was
Gainsbourgsions, April March's tribute to Serge Gainsbourg).
For Tribute to Delon/Melville - eleven songs of distinction and oddball
innovation - task-masters Deluxe & Faem have brought together:
- Luis Rego (part of cult 60s comic troupe The Charlots; has since appeared
in a slew of arthouse efforts)
- Ariel Wizman (atypical radio and TV presenter; half of the Grand Popo
Football Club)
- April March (US chanteuse)
- Bertrand Burgalat (head of the Tricatel record-label; has worked with
everyone
from Nick Cave to Laibach)
- Héléna Noguerra (Pop siren, singer of breezy, Brazilian-tinted songs)
- Jacno ("French touch" precursor; trivia: first ever Frenchman to make it
on an NME cover)
& remixes by
Saint-Etienne (UK), Merricks (Germany), Mansour (France), X-Ray pop (France)
and Sylvain Aubé of Monokini (Canada)
An album that's resolutely pop, equal measures eccentricity and psychedelic
poesy.
Find out more at http://www.euro-visions.net
Press contact: d-luxe@wanadoo.fr
Order the CD: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066RA6/qid%3D1022494090/402-7831853-1878518
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 21:04:09 -0400
From: John Rausch
Subject: The Ronettes
Just thought I`d share an email with fellow Spectropoppers.
Recieved this from Stu Phillips of Colpix label fame. He has a
book coming out and I have had several pleasant exchanges with
him recently. I have shared his website address and email with
several friends and they had recieved personal replies from Stu
also.
John Rausch
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From: "Stu Phillips"
To:
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: The Ronettes
> Dear Jon,
> Just a note to remind you that The Ronettes recorded 13 sides
> for Colpix Records and an album was released on Colpix Records.
> Although the Ronettes did not have any big hits on Colpix or May
> Records, the group's first recording contract was with Colpix
> Records. They were auditioned by the label and signed. After a year
> they informed the label that they were going into another line of
> work, and the label released them.
> My name is Stu Phillips and I signed and produced the group.
> If you like, you can read about it in my book titled "Stu Who? forty
> years of navigating the minefields of the music business", which will
> be released in September.
> For more info visit my web site http://www.stuwho.com
>
> Stu Phillips
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:40:49 +0200
From: Stephane Rebeschini
Subject: Re: Zekley/Grady
Jeffrey Glenn a écrit :
> Also does anyone have a discography for Don Grady's 1964-66 45's on Capitol
> and Challenge?
Hi - Here's a 45 discography of Don Agrati/Grady. It comes from various
sources, including the "MegaGuide for singles". Any correction/update
welcome!
45s :
1 I'll Have To Say Goodbye/Oh Oh (Checker) 1963
2 Summertime Game/Little People (Orange Empire OE 91647/8) 1964?
3 It's Better This Way / One Good Turn Deserves Another (Capitol 5362)
1965
4 Don't Let It Happen / Out (Challenge 59328) 1966
5 Children Of St. Monica / Good Man To Have Around The House (Canterbury
501) 1967
6 Impressions With Yvonne / Leaving It Up To You (Canterbury 507) 1967
7 One Man Woman / Story (Elektra 45846) 1973
8 Blood Stream / Two Bit Afternoon (Elektra 45860) 1973
NB : (1) to (6) by Don Grady. (2) with the Palace Guard
Stephane
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:21:40 -0000
From: Phil Chapman
Subject: Re: Zekley/Grady
Stephane Rebeschini wrote:
> Hi - Here's a 45 discography of Don Agrati/Grady. It comes
> from various sources, including the "MegaGuide for singles".
> Any correction/update welcome!
Hi Stephane, even though the Mega Guide is brilliant, it does contain
several inaccuracies and spelling errors.... for example, you can
find Capitol 5181 "A Broken Heart Knows Better"/"I Thinks You're Through"
by artist 'DIB GRADT' !!
Phil
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:37:17 -0000
From: Billy G Spradlin
Subject: Re: Zekley/Grady
> Don't Let It Happen / Out (Challenge 59328) 1966
Im curious, does anyone own a stock copy of this 45? My promo copy
has "Let It Happen" as the title. BTW its up at musica
Billy
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:59:54 +0100
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: Motown musicians/Ripples 8
Richard is of course spot on with his key names of bass players
and drummers at 2648. Benny B predates James J somewhat at
Motown coming as he did from King in Cincinatti where he was
recording as far back as early 50s. James J only switched to
electric bass after he came to Motown, and did early sessions on
an old upright. The Dr Licks book is indeed well worth searching
out, as is a new Motown one by Bill Dahl (he of masses of great
CD notes) called "Motown - The Golden Years" - quite a good
price on Amazon, where I got mine. It includes great pics by
Weldon A McDougal (of The Larks), and is today's 'pick'!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873492862/qid=22539122/sr==2-1/ref==sr_2_1/104-3016105-4507926
Kingsley Abbott
Also, for those who may be interested in such things, the likely
line-up for Ripples 8 (mid/late summer) is as follows:
BUTTERFLY
(RIPPLES VOL. 8)
1. FLORIBUNDA ROSE: One Way Street
2. THE BLINKERS: Dream Secondhand
3. EPISODE SIX: Time & Motion Man
4. BRITT: You Really Have Started Something
5. THE TWO OF EACH: Trinity Street
6. THE NEW FACES: Like A Man
7. THE RAINBOW PEOPLE: The Walk Will Do You Good
8. THE TREMELOES: Gentleman Of Pleasure
9. YOUNGBLOOD: Masquerade
10. PUSSYFOOT: Dee Dee Do Your Dance
11. THE MONTANAS Let's Ride
12. THE ONYX: It's All A Put On
13. THE MARMALADE: Butterfly
14. GARY ASTON: His Lordship
15. THE QUIET WORLD OF LEA & JOHN: There Is A Mountain
16. LINSEY MOORE: Linsey's Song
17. ANAN: Standing Still
18. FRESHMEN: Close Your Eyes
19. VAL McKENNA: Don't Hesitate
20. JAMES GALT: With My Baby
21. JOHN SUMMERS: Don't Fool Yourself
22. THE CANDY DATES: Show Me How To Live
23. JOHN CHRISTIAN DEE: Take Me Along
24. PINKERTON'S: Mum And Dad
25. CONSORTIUM: Cynthia Serenity
26. STRAWBERRY JAM: This Is To A Girl
27. TUESDAY'S CHILDREN: Ain't You Got A Heart
28. WAYS & MEANS: Sea Of Faces
29. TRADER HORNE: Morning Way
30. THE BLOOMFIELDS: Hanging On The Next Tradewind 3.17
Should any of you have any info on the obscurer artists
here I'd love to hear from you off list!
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 23:54:57 +0100
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Sylvia & the Sapphires
Will Stos enquired:
> Also, for girl group experts... Who are Sylvia and the
> Sapphires who sang "Shopping Around"? It sounds like the
> best Crystals take-off ever, but the instrumentation sounds
> too modern to be from the 60s. The 70s or 80s maybe?
> Still, the vocals and lyrics are a great tribute to the
> girl group era. Was this, like It's My Party,
> a tribute group? Was this from a movie soundtrack?
No, Will, just a bit of retro fun that came out on the
Stiff label in '82 by a trio of sisters that were session
regulars on the UK scene at the time - the Mason Sisters,
Sylvia, Vicki and Ruby, from Croydon.
After pastiching the Spector/girl group style with "Shopping
Around" and its equally good flip, "Street of Love",
the girls targeted Motown and the Supremes for the follow-up,
"Baby I'm A Fool For You".
They also supplied the backing vocals for Pete Wylie/Wah's
"Story of the Blues", itself more than a little
Spector-influenced. The sisters regularly appeared with
Wah! on TV performing the song.
Ruby, the eldest, had recorded back in '69, with a version
of BettyEverett's "Getting Mighty Crowded" on UK Fontana,
billed as Ruby James. Sylvia later joined the Pet Shop
Boys entourage and is featured heavily on many of their
tracks and videos - check her out as Miss Liberty in the
video of "Go West". (Did you work with Sylvia, Phil?)
Incidentally, another superb retro girl-group item from the
same period came from the Jodelles, with their
Spector-styled "My Boy" and "Girls Fall In Love".
Their other track, "The Choo-Choo" was a pretty authentic
60s-sounding soul-dance groover after the style of
"Hitch Hike".
Ian
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