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There are 6 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Personal Charts
From: David Feldman
2. Dusty Springfield
From: D C Hampton
3. Re: Personal Charts
From: Stephanie Campbell
4. Decca discography?
From: Scott Swanson
5. Re: Personal Charts
From: james botticelli
6. Brian Wilson dream
From: Bill George
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:51:17 -0500
From: David Feldman
Subject: Re: Personal Charts
Previously:
> Did anyone else avoid schoolwork in this manner?
In the third-sixth grade, when I my 45 collection was small enough, I
used to create a top 40 of my all-time favorite singles. I still have
the lists, although it's been awhile since I've stumbled onto them.
When I did, I was rather amazed at my good taste! The first record I
ever bought with my own money was "Rock Around the Clock," when I was 5
years old, but I notice that I was enamored of the stuff from 1959-
1961. I seemed to have particularly favored R&B -- I know that
"Money," "Kansas City," and "Quarter to 3" all made #1 at various
points.
I still have the same feelings about the period of 1955-1963. I
prefer, say, James Brown or early Motown or the Fleetwoods to Little
Richard or Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley. And the one-hit wonders of
the 59-62 period were so superior.
I was quite obsessed with lists and surveys of all kinds. If there was
any kind of top 10, top 40, or top 1000 countdown anywhere on radio or
TV, I was there to listen.
Dave Feldman
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 18:37:01 +0000
From: D C Hampton
Subject: Dusty Springfield
From: Billy Spradlin
Subject: Re: Your Hurtin' Kinda Stereo separation
Is this the Mercury Chronicles 3-CD Anthology that came out in the USA a few
years ago? My main gripe is that they used fake stereo mixes of many of
Dusty's early hits instead of the mono single mixes. ("Wishin' And Hopin'"
been on other hits CD's in true stereo before - but its in muddy fake stereo
here) For a package as nice as this one it was a dumb mistake. Either the
mono tapes were missing or the remastering engineers/compilers didn't bother
to find them.
For what it's worth, "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love" is my hands-down favorite
Dusty recording, be it monaural or stereo . . . and I hear she hated that
one with a passion!!!
I'm in total agreement with you about the fake stereo. In fact, I hate it
so much, I rarely listen to THE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ANTHOLOGY anymore. But
that wasn't the only disappointment for me. I couldn't stand the garish
packaging, and the track selection left much to be desired - the third disc
in particular was quite mediocre. It should've been deleted. In my
opinion, the majority of stateside Dusty Springfield CD reissues are awful.
SIMPLY DUSTY, the 4-disc UK retrospective, isn't without its problems, but
it's far and away better than anything available in North America.
Stuffed Animal
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:45:46 -0700
From: Stephanie Campbell
Subject: Re: Personal Charts
I was the same way and people were amazed that I could remember chart
numbers when I got older!!! I think there must be thousnds of people like
us or those Joel Whitburn chart books and those one hit wonder books and
girl group books wouldnt be selling as well as they do.
I think if those books got MORE promotion they would even sell 300,000
copies there are so many people who want to know the stories behind these
songs and dont know that books like this exist.
Steph
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:54:04 -0700
From: Scott Swanson
Subject: Decca discography?
Greetings all,
I am trying to put together a list of U.K. Decca 45s from the '60s. Right
now I'm working on entries from 1964 -- I would appreciate it if anyone out
there has any details on the following Decca 45s from that period:
Decca F.11805
11822
11835
11847
11855
11860
11865
11869
11881
11886
11894
11895
11897
11899
11906
11914
11931
11938
11941
11952
11977
11988
11997
11998
P.S. If a Decca discography is available online somewhere, please let me
know so I can put an end to my senseless research. :)
Regards,
Scott
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:03:38 -0400
From: james botticelli
Subject: Re: Personal Charts
Stephanie Campbell wrote:
> I was the same way and people were amazed that I could
> remember chart numbers when I got older!!! I think there
> must be thousnds of people like us.....
This makes for an interesting exception to a rule I've heard
from women. Stephanie, a woman, is a chart number conisseur.
According to the theory, originally advanced by one Mrs Botticelli,
it is men who chart, measure, graph and otherwise quantify an
ungraspable experience called life. Women, on the other hand,
are more global, embracing large concepts and overarching emotions
rather than breakin' it all down by number. Fact or fiction, this
is the theory. This supposedly is the raison d'etre for sports
pages and racing forms. And then Along Comes Stephanie and My
World Fell Down.
JB/still remembers that The Elgins charted R&B #9 in '66 with
the original "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 00:36:02 EDT
From: Bill George
Subject: Brian Wilson dream
I had a dream that I was listening to a recording of The Beach Boys (with
Brian Wilson) singing "September Song." I could hear the arrangement very
clearly. It worked great. I wouldn't have thought of that song with the BW
treatment, but it really could work.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Spectropop...
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