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There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Click 45s
From: james botticelli
2. Re: Merry-Go-Round
From: Billy Spradlin
3. Re: Voola !
From: james botticelli
4. Re: Maggie Stredder
From: MarkWirtz11@aol.com
5. Re: Rashkovsky's RV
From: Mike Rashkow
6. Re: Merry Go Round on CD
From: unclemeatz
7. Re: Merry-Go-Round/Stones
From: Dave Swanson
8. Hanky Panky
From: Martin Roberts
9. Re: Rick Cunha - (I'm a ) Yo-Yo Man
From: james botticelli
10. Re: Maggie Stredder
From: Mark Wirtz
11. Re: Maggie Stredder
From: David Bell
12. Re: Voola !
From: simon white
13. Penniman clones
From: Kingsley Abbott
14. Rolling Stones remasters
From: Lou Bova
15. Re: chiffons
From: Will Stos
16. Re: Bunker Hill
From: Phil Milstein
17. Debby Boone
From: Jack Madani
18. The Summits' "Hanky Panky"
From: Stuffed Animal
19. The Tokens Exposed!
From: Stefan Wriedt
20. Blades Of Grass........
From: Joe Foster
21. Emmit, Merry-Go-Round
From: Alan Gordon
22. Re: Phil on Juke Box Jury / Mystery 45
From: Phil Chapman
23. Re: Debby Boone
From: james botticelli
24. Re: Debby Boone
From: Phil Chapman
25. Re: Blades Of Grass........
From: Phil Chapman
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:26:49 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Click 45s
Erik wrote:
> I have the "Click" L.P. (ABC 677) with "Many Times Jimbo"
> being my favourite track. I'm still looking for two non-LP
> 45s that he made on Laurie:
> Girl with a mind/Rainmaker (Laurie ????)
Laurie... and great
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Laurie 3365 - Sun Come Up/Drifters Medley 1966
Laurie 3402 - Dancing Babies/Fat Lady In The Wicker Chair 1967
Laurie 3419 - Girl With A Mind/Rainmaker 1968
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:44:35 -0000
From: Billy Spradlin
Subject: Re: Merry-Go-Round
Check out http://www.emittrhodes.net/ It has truckloads of
information about him and his albums, lyrics, even a few MP3s
of live TV appearances. Last year they were polling to see if
they wanted a 70's rarities-outtakes compilation. I hope this
CD is still in the works.
One Way Records has released Emitt's first (and best IMHO) ABC
solo album on CD and Edsel records in the UK released a best-of
under the (dumb) title "Daisy Fresh From Hawthorne" which has
several tracks not on "Listen Listen". You can get both CD's
from amazon.com!
Billy
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:53:02 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Voola !
Simon writes:
> "Esquerita And The Voola" has to be heard to be believed!
Mike Rashkow:
> I'll check it out. A madman for sure!
Has anyone heard Bunker Hill? Another screamin' brutha who had
one song resurrected for the "Back From The Grave" garage rock
LP series called "The Girl Can't Dance". Atypical of the other
guitar-based tunes on the albums. Still looking for info on him....
--
Jimmy Botticelli
Taking The E-Z...Way Out!
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:15:10 EDT
From: MarkWirtz11@aol.com
Subject: Re: Maggie Stredder
Carole Gibson writes:
> Re: Maggie Stredder's biography. I didn't get my Dusty Bulletin
> today, but if the book is 'The Girl With The Glasses', I got
> it at a show Maggie did with the Vernons last year and she also
> brought along some copies to Dusty Day in April.
Would you mind telling me who the publisher of that book is?
Ta,
Mark Wirtz
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:46:28 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: Rashkovsky's RV
Jim Cassidy writes:
> I'm still trying to figure out how you drove the motorhome to
> Europe. Pontoons?
Shipped it First Class via Air France
Rashkowsky
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:49:21 -0500
From: unclemeatz
Subject: Re: Merry Go Round on CD
Hopefully I'm not late in the game here...to answer the question
that was posed, there actually *was* briefly a reissue of the
Merry Go Round availible from A&M Japan. I acquired a copy
earlier this year, and CDR'd it before selling it on eBay (heck,
I needed the cash), so if anyone's interested, please do
contact me. It'll come back in print eventually, but the Japanese
disc was a great placeholder; no bonus tracks, but absolutely
stellar sound.
And FWIW, all of Emitt's solo albums (INCLUDING American Dream)
are currently in print in Japan.
-D
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:22:10 -0500
From: Dave Swanson
Subject: Re: Merry-Go-Round/Stones
By the way. If/when any of you get the Stones remasters, listen
to "Ruby Tuesday". Something here is messed up! The lead vocal
seems too loud and the double tracked vocal seems buried, if
there at all! When Mick hits the first chorus, it sounds off key!
It's pretty sterile sounding and there is indeed something missing
there. Some of the stuff on the sampler does sound cool, but I'll
have to wait for the individual cd's to make a clear call.
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:52:14 +0100
From: Martin Roberts
Subject: Hanky Panky
John asked;
> Can any Poppers give some details on a disc by the Summits on
> Rust doing the Barry/Greenwich song "Hanky Panky"?
Bid to win! sure you'll like it, typically it's "A Bright Tunes
Production", grittier than their usual style.
My copy is on Harmon Records 1017, a-side "He's An Angel",
even better!
Martin
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:23:43 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Rick Cunha - (I'm a ) Yo-Yo Man
Country Paul:
>> Speaking of Records by Pete, they had an 45 by [Rick] Cunha
>> (of Hearts and Flowers) and [Jim] Dawson (later a solo singer-
>> songwriter) called "Yo-Yo Man." Clever and well-done novelty
>> song, but the vocals worked because they were "character"
>> voices with an undertone of poignancy. Any input on this label?
Den Lindquist:
> Ah, "Yo-Yo Man"...
> A 1974 single from the fledgling GRC label - not sure where the
> label called home (Nashville??), but this label hit the charts
> with Sammy Johns (Chevy Van) and East LA Car Pool (Like They Say
> In LA) in the mid-70s.
> I was a radio music director in '74, and remember the GRC
> promo-woman taking me out to lunch to pitch one of the label's
> early acts, Ripple, a band that was attempting to ride the wave
> of popularity of the beverage of the same name (neither was very
> good). Press kit included a wine-skin (unused, if I remember)
> that's still lying around here somewhere...
Ripple, the funk band? Not so good? Our paths diverge here bro'.
Their LP fetches mucho DeNiro, not that this makes it good, but
they are the guys who did "I Don't Know What It Is, But It Sure
Is Funky" which was sampled by Kid 'n' Play in 88 or so and is a
real hard to find item and one I find extremely righteous in a
hard funk vein. Wanna part with the press kit?
--
Jimmy Botticelli
Taking The E-Z...Way Out!
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:09:50 -0000
From: Mark Wirtz
Subject: Re: Maggie Stredder
Carole Gibson writes:
> Re: Maggie Stredder's biography. I didn't get my Dusty Bulletin
> today, but if the book is 'The Girl With The Glasses', I got
> it at a show Maggie did with the Vernons last year and she also
> brought along some copies to Dusty Day in April.
Would you mind telling me who the publisher of that book is?
Ta,
Mark Wirtz
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:20:46 EDT
From: David Bell
Subject: Re: Maggie Stredder
I did eventually check on amazon.co.uk and Maggie's book is
available there.
David.
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:42:13 +0100
From: simon white
Subject: Re: Voola !
james botticelli wrote:
> Has anyone heard Bunker Hill?
He was the lead singer with The Mighty Clouds Of Joy, under
another name, apparently [his real name was David Walker, I think].
'Hide And Go Seek' and 'Little Red Riding Hood' are in the same
vein, real screaming black rock and roll a la Little Richard, but
without the....finesse - and there's a word you wouldn't usually
use in that context!
Check out Big Danny Oliver, Screaming Joe Neal, Hamonica Fats,
Pretty Boy [Don Covay], and Joe Tex for other stuff.
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:27:51 +0100
From: Kingsley Abbott
Subject: Penniman clones
Interesting to read the bits about Esquerita -
made me recall another Little Richard influenced
track that rocks a good deal...try "Strollie Bun" by
The Blonde Bomber (aka Walter Rhodes)! It was
on Hull Records in 1960, and can be found on
Westside's great double CD "The Hull/Mascot Story"
WESD 222 from 2000. It was I believe the last in their
series of label story issues (End, Gone and other
Goldner businesses), and musically to my mind was
the strongest and most varied. All are well worth
picking up if you see them at reasonable prices.
So, several folk have sprung to the defence of The
Love Generation...I shall find time to re-visit them
with an open mind!
Kingsley
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:10:21 -0700
From: Lou Bova
Subject: Rolling Stones remasters
Call me crazy, nutty or just plan paranoid but a few years back
(1998 or so) my buddy who did (& still does) the import buying
for Sam The Record Man in Toronto brought in the Stones catalogue
from England to sell alongside the (at the time) North American
version due to the rumour that the catalogue was quietly remastered
for the British market.
Well they came in and we A/B'd some of our faves to see if there
was a difference and our verdict was that there was. The scope
of the soundscape was wide open just like you find on a lot of
Japanese releases. and the overall sound was much more clean &
defined.
All this talk of a remastered Stones catalogue makes me a bit vary.
Has anyone caught wind of who and when this remastering job was
actually done? I get a suspicious feeling that Abkco did do the
remastering back in '97/'98, kept it quiet, the Polygram/Universal
contract ran out in '99 and Abkco laid in the weeds for a few
years which gives credence to the "remastering" marketing of the
Stones catalogue here in 2002. Throwing the CDs out as Super Audio
CDs or whatever just adds icing to the cake.
I agree with Dave Swanson about the mono versions of the early
releases. Like all releases back then, more time was spent on the
mono mix and usually an assistant engineer was left with the duties
of the stereo mix. My mono LPs have a kick that the stereo ones
just don't have either on LP or CD. Hell, if they want us all to
cough up more dough for something we all own about 4 times give us
something to get excited about. Even the hardcore collectors have
a breaking point. (And the major labels still wonder why people
are at home burning CDs from downloads ?!?!)
Lou Bova
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Message: 15
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:06:00 -0000
From: Will Stos
Subject: Re: chiffons
David Bell wrote:
> Well, I have the virgin vinyl, a never played Chiffons LP on
> BT Puppy from Australia. Now who has the energy and wherewithal
> to get it released?
Sadly I have the energy and enthusiasm, but no experience with
reissue labels or getting publishing rights. I just hope some
nice Spectropopper will release the Chiffons' extensive catalogue
on a new compilation - preferably 2-CDs!!!!! If I knew how and had
any business sense I would. Over the last 10 years there hasn't
been a really good compilation released that doesn't just repeat
tracks already available on another CD. Tracks from Sweet Talkin'
Guy, and My Secret Love, and the later singles are killer! But
where are they? If anyone knows how to approach a reissue label
about this, please let us/me know.
Will : )
ps thanks for the info David!
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Message: 16
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:49:53 +0000
From: Phil Milstein
Subject: Re: Bunker Hill
> Has anyone heard Bunker Hill? Another screamin' brutha who had
> one song resurrected for the "Back From The Grave" garage rock
> LP series called "The Girl Can't Dance". Atypical of the other
> guitar-based tunes on the albums. Still looking for info on him....
Protege of Link Wray, also from the Maryland backwoods. That's
the Wraymen backing up the Hill-man on The Girl Can't Dance,
and I believe all his other sides. Kicks mag got the goods on
him in one of their last issues.
--Phil Milstein
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Message: 17
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:43:51 -0000
From: Jack Madani
Subject: Debby Boone
I was transferring a few vinyl things to digital and came
across someone that folks may not have thought of as being
in the Spectropoppy vein:
Debby Boone.
Remember her treacly 1977 monster hit "You Light Up My Life,"
from the treacly movie of the same name? Well, on the heels
of that surprise hit she put out an LP also called You Light
Up My Life. Side 1 featured more of the same kind of bland
Joe Brooks songwriting and production as graced YLUML; but
then all of a sudden side 2 started to not suck! Produced by
either Mike Lloyd or Mike Curb, Debby is joined by her three
sisters in a reasonably fair approximation of a girlgroup sound.
These are the songs on side 2 of the LP:
From Me To You (Lennon/McCartney)
Baby I'm Yours (Van McCoy)
When The Lovelight Starts Shining
Through His Eyes (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
End Of The World (Kent/Dee)
Hasta Manana (Anderson/Anderson/Ulvaeus)
There's even a tune co-written and produced by Bob Gaudio,
"When I Look At You My Love."
These girlgroup type cuts do bear the stamp of their vintage,
1977, with elements of that big sort country-crossover
orchestration typical of Kenny Rogers or Dolly Parton (most
notably in the helium-high upper octave string parts and the
acoustic guitar noodling), but taken as an attempt to recreate
an updated girlgroup sound they aren't too bad. I'm especially
fond of Baby I'm Yours.
But even better is a non-LP track the Boone sisters cut which
was released as the B-side of Debby's 45 of YLUML. Get this:
they recorded He's A Rebel! It's got a crunchy electric rhythm
guitar, a good sax solo, and sleigh bells in the percussion!
With a good compressed overall sound, it's about the last thing
one would expect to be on the flipside of that particular 45.
I just had to share this with folks, so I've played it to musica.
Enjoy.
jack
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Message: 18
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:06:13 +0000
From: Stuffed Animal
Subject: The Summits' "Hanky Panky"
John Rausch:
> Can any Poppers give some details on a disc by the Summits on
> Rust doing the Barry/Greenwich song "Hanky Panky"? I've seen
> it in an auction and was interested in its worthiness to my
> collection. I have heard of it but never actually HEARD it.
> So, relying on someone to "spill the beans".
This may be the first cover of The Raindrops' "Hanky Panky"
ever to be released. I don't know the release details, but I
do know that an early Jeff Barry-Artie Resnick song, "He's An
Angel", is on the flipside. I'd say it's collectible!
Stuffed Animal
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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:22:09 +0200
From: Stefan Wriedt
Subject: The Tokens Exposed!
Stefan:
> A note (almost) directly from Bear Family. As of today,
> (30th July 2002), The Tokens box set is shelved because there's
> no way to sell any good number of copies after Collectables
> will put out these "2 albums on 1 CD" things.
Stephen:
Which LPs are Collectables doing?
as it looks now, the RCA albums ...
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Message: 20
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:32:23 +0100
From: Joe Foster
Subject: Blades Of Grass........
A long shot for you listers, but do you or anyone you know
have the following singles.....
By the Blades Of Grass.....
You Turned Off The Sun (Jubilee 5622)
Charlie And Fred (Jubilee 5616)
Somebody must have!!!!!
I'm in the midst of mastering a project, and the tapes of
these two have absconded somewhere between Roulette's old
vault and Abbey Road.......if anyone can help, there may
well be a beer in it!.......
later
Joe
PS.....still no Marshall Lieb experts then, eh?.....
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Message: 21
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:43:13 -0700
From: Alan Gordon
Subject: Emmit, Merry-Go-Round
Billy Spradlin:
> I would love to see Emmits other 3 albums on CD (The American
> Dream, Mirror and Farewell to Paradise). There are bootlegs
> from the UK available but are all from vinyl.
> I lucked out and found his last 2 ABC ablums in great shape at
> a local record store here in East Texas. I need to sit down and
> copy them to a CD-R - been too busy to do so!
If I'm not mistaken, One-Way records did a reissue of Emmit's
first album. I don't think it was from vinyl, but the sound was
a bit muffled, if I remember correctly.
Okeee, so, let's get whoever is interested and start licensing
this great stuff. I'm a commercial artist and have done some CD
art etc., so we got dat covered. Anyone wanna lend their talents
and give it a shot?
Emmits Merry-Go-Round stuff would probably fit nicely on a single
disk, even if nice out-takes and the like were discovered. If I
remember right, those two albums had some repeat tracks. Mebbe
just the singles.
And his 3 solo albums plus the nice newer material on the Rhino
collection (and maybe more) would make a nice 2 disk set.
I'm only half funnin' here. I was the art director on a Marty
Balin, sorta-bestof that Rhino distributed for a friends teeny
label just after the '89 earthquake here in SF. I rewrote the
liner notes, sequenced the songs (basically chronological) and
dealt with Cema etc. for all the licensing. It was a pain, mostly
because I'm not a huge Balin fan... ah, but to do it
for music that I really love...
best dishes,
albabe
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Message: 22
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:49:25 -0000
From: Phil Chapman
Subject: Re: Phil on Juke Box Jury / Mystery 45
Billy G. Spradlin wrote:
> I read somewhere (He's A Rebel?) that Spector was so furious
> he walked off the show! I would love to see a tape of it. BTW,
> I dont think I have heard this record before, what CD is it on?
Undeterred by Phil's disapproval, Jackie Trent (prod. Tony Hatch)
went on to record a pounding version of "You Baby" a la Len Barry,
which went 'Northern' for a while.
This and "If You Love Me" are included on her 50-track, 02 -CD
set: "Where Are You Now [The Pye Anthology]".
Billy, you can relive the moment - I've played the first minute
of the tune, as on JBJ, to musica.
Phil
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Message: 23
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:44:32 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Debby Boone
Jack Madani wrote:
> Debby Boone.
> Remember her treacly 1977 monster hit "You Light Up My Life,"
> from the treacly movie of the same name?
Jack, that piece-o-blecccch is too hard to forget, unfortunately.
Thanks for the good news on side 2. "Baby I'm Yours", the Barbara
Lewis "vehicle"? I did not know that was written by Van McCoy,
although he's supposed to have authored an unseemly amount of mid
to late 6T's pop. Anyone know where a listing might exist on his
authorship history?
The hidden good news in Debby Boone-land is that next to Mantovani
and "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", that soundtrack is at this
moment in every thrift store in America for a buck or less. Happy
hunting turntablists!
--
Jimmy Botticelli
Taking The E-Z...Way Out!
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Message: 24
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:58:05 -0000
From: Phil Chapman
Subject: Re: Debby Boone
Jack Madani:
[Debby Boone - He's A Rebel]
> I just had to share this with folks, so I've played it to musica.
> Enjoy.
Thanks, I did enjoy the full sound, and thick vocals, until I got
to the change of chord underneath "He's not a rebel, no no no!"
and I was immediately transported to a local Greek restaurant,
where the 'hits' band kind of get things right, but not quite:-)
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Message: 25
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:10:10 -0000
From: Phil Chapman
Subject: Re: Blades Of Grass........
Joe Foster wrote:
> A long shot for you listers, but do you or anyone you know
> have the following singles.....
> By the Blades Of Grass.....
> You Turned Off The Sun (Jubilee 5622)
> Charlie And Fred (Jubilee 5616)
I have a mint UK pressing of "Charlie And Fred"
(Stateside SS2101), which you are welcome to use.
Cheers!
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