Spectropop - Digest Number 571

• From: Spectropop Group
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002

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                        Jamie LePage (1953-2002)
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There are 9 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Seeking info on Robert Ackoff a/k/a Bo Gentry
           From: Billie R. McNamara 
      2. Bill Dorsey error
           From: Country Paul 
      3. Speedy Gonzales
           From: Keith Beach 
      4. Re: Ed Sullivan DVD's - 04 Seasons/ Who CD
           From: Leonardo Flores 
      5. Ed Sullivan DVDs
           From: Robert Beason 
      6. Lorraine & The Socialites
           From: John Clemente 
      7. Jerry Palmer, WHOO artists
           From: Country Paul 
      8. Red, White and Rock on PBS
           From: Will Stos 
      9. Party People
           From: Kingsley Abbott 


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Message: 1
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:30:12 -0000
   From: Billie R. McNamara 
Subject: Seeking info on Robert Ackoff a/k/a Bo Gentry

I'm trying to write a feature article on Robert Ackoff, better 
known in pop/rock music circles as Bo Gentry, for the Acuff-Ecoff 
family journal.  Other than the details available in synopses 
of the copyright-related lawsuit that was filed by his family 
following his death, I haven't been able to find anything about 
his personal life -- birth, family, personality.  I'm also trying 
to compile a complete discography of his production/writing work.

Does anyone have any suggestions on sources I could check (either 
online or print)?

TIA for all suggestions.

(Ms.) Billie R. McNamara, Coordinator
Acuff-Ecoff Family Archives
Web site:  http://www.acuff.org/



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Message: 2
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 02:36:34 -0400
   From: Country Paul 
Subject: Bill Dorsey error

Jeff Glenn wrote:
> ... my copy of "Suck A Sour Lemon"/"But Not Today" is on 
> Double Shot 103 from 1966.  Any idea which one is the original 
> issue?

Yours is the one and only - I erred.  Jerry Palmer was indeed 
on Gaiety, but Bill Dorsey was not.  I got my labels confused. 
(Gaiety used several colored backgrounds, including the same 
yellow as Double Shot.)  I'd call it more jazzy than novelty, 
but whatever you call it, I think "Suck A Sour Lemon" is a 
pretty cool track.

Country Paul



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Message: 3
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:57:16 +0100
   From: Keith Beach 
Subject: Speedy Gonzales

Heard Pat Boone's "Speedy Gonzales" on the radio this morning.
Does anyone know who the fabulous female voice is?  It would be 
a shame if such a great comedic performance wasn't rewarded 
with some sort of career.  I'm pleading with EVERYBODY not to 
respond with lists of rare and unreleased Pat Boone songs.

I've got a hankering to go to Montana again soon. How about a 
Spectropop get-together in a log cabin?  BUT SERIOUSLY...L.A. 
seems like a very relevant place.  Maybe we could hire a hall 
at Fairfax High School.

Keith Beach




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Message: 4
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:39:39 -0000
   From: Leonardo Flores 
Subject: Re: Ed Sullivan DVD's - 04 Seasons/ Who CD

> I'm mad as hell that they didn't include ANY of Dusty 
> Springfield's 3 "Sullivan" appearances on the DVD....

Hopefully the Dusty DVDs will come out soon, but I'm extremely 
happy that I will FINALLY see some LIVE footage of The 4 Seasons 
performing one of their late sixties hits!!!!!  I've always 
wondered how their music sounded in a live setting back in those 
days and all these years later I'm finally going to be able to 
watch what I've always dreamed about!

Also I just heard the new expanded version of the first Who LP 
just reissued on Universal and it sounds sooooo good!  The 
packaging is amazing!  You're all in for a treat! 
More on this tomorrow.......

Cheers
Leonardo Flores




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Message: 5
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:08:27 +0000
   From: Robert Beason 
Subject: Ed Sullivan DVDs

Time-Life Video is advertising the Ed Sullivan DVDs at $24.99 
per volume for an hour (or even less!) of content.  Contrast 
that with $19.99 for four hours+ of content on the Hullabaloo 
DVDs.  What a ripoff!  And as other members have pointed out, 
many important performances are missing; no Dusty and, I might 
add, no Jackie DeShannon either.

Bob Beason



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Message: 6
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:25:51 -0400
   From: John Clemente 
Subject: Lorraine & The Socialites

Lorraine & The Socialites were managed by Joe DeAngelis, 
(now deceased) and he was associated with Kama Sutra.  Their 
Warner Bros. single was a Kama Sutra production.  Read all about 
them in "Girl Groups".  Anyone living in New York City can check 
out Lorraine Anthanio Lofaso's jazz and blues show that premieres 
about every three months at Iridium.

Regards,

John Clemente




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Message: 7
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:21:04 -0400
   From: Country Paul 
Subject: Jerry Palmer, WHOO artists

The London Spectropop party sounded like a lot of fun!  
Thanks everyone for sharing the joy online.  If there's a 
gathering in NYC, something on this order of magnitude will 
be hard to follow....

Jeff Lemlich: Jerry Palmer #2 in Orlando?  As I mentioned in an 
earlier post, the joy of creating radio surveys is they can become 
personal vehicles for one's own taste.  I wonder what the Music 
Director was thinking!  We all have our ideal musical worlds, 
and looking back on my radio career, I know I stuck my neck out 
too for certain artists and favorite records I believed in.  Also, 
in those times, if you were the smaller rocker in town, you tried
to do some more interesting stuff to provide an alternative to the 
bigger and more mainstream station.  Some other quite interesting 
records:

Lyme [Warren Zevon] & Cybelle, "Follow Me" (White Whale) - great 
song; it also got serious airplay in Providence, RI, top 40 radio 
as well as regional action elsewhere.  (He could [obviously] sing; 
Cybelle, his girlfriend, had a more casual relationship with the 
notes! But she did have the feeling....)

Paul Peek, "Pin The Tail on the Donkey" - one of Gene Vincent's 
Blue Caps.  I've never heard this, but I'm told he was quite the 
rockabilly cat.

Don French, "WHOO Theme" - he had a wonderful Elvis imitation on 
"Lonely Saturday Night" (Lancer) - cool, bluesy, mysterious, 
swaggering, stripped-down electric guitar arrangement - just what 
Elvis could have been if he hadn't been Tom Parkerized into 
blandness.  I never knew French did anything else. (The flip was 
an energized but average rocker called "Goldilocks.")

Top 40 radio sure was more eclectic in 1966 - Slim Harpo's "Baby 
Scratch My Back" and the Harden Trio's "Tippy Toein'" on the same 
station...!  By the way, the Harden Trio had a beautiful version 
of the Everly Brothers' "Let It Be Me" on a follow-up 45; not a 
chart record, but a sound (male and two female voices) that might 
appeal to some in this group.

Thanks for the memory flashes and the info, Jeff.

Country Paul






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Message: 8
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:10:34 -0000
   From: Will Stos 
Subject: Red, White and Rock on PBS

Did anyone catch this television special?  It was on the PBS 
channel down in New York or Michigan (I forget which one we 
get up here on cable).

It was quite late at night and I couldn't bear to stay up to 
watch it all, but there were some great acts!

By far the best was Rosie of Rosie and the Originals.  She 
sounded sooooo good!  Didn't miss a beat, sounded as if she 
just came from the recording studio.  Absolutely fantastic!  
Also on that I saw were Jimmy Clanton, the Fireflies, the 
Dixie Cups, and the Toys (with Barbara Parritt, who now 
performs with Johnnie and Joe, coming in to do back-up for 
Barbara Harris).  I don't know if they're showing it at 
different times in different markets, but it's a must-see 
for Spectropoppers.

Does anyone know if the videos from these shows are available 
for sale?  I love PBS, but I can't afford to send out $120 as 
a pledge to get the tapes.

Will : )




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Message: 9
   Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:48:56 +0100
   From: Kingsley Abbott 
Subject: Party People

Lovely to read all the enthusiastic postings 
about the faboo party - must add mine and give 
big thanks to all the wonderful folk who organised
everything and provided the great food.  Excellent
to put faces to some names I've known for a long 
time and to renew some old friendships.  Yes, 
Elisabeth and The Actionettes were as good as 
everyone says, and I'm pretty damn sure that with
an extra large Coke inside him that Malcolm could be
persuaded to join the dancing girls!!  Torn between the 
delights of M&M's record boxes (I bow to their 
tremendous and detailed knowledge) and the upstairs
bar, and the rare videos downstairs, like many others
I went into yoyo mode on the stairs.  Lovely to meet
Keiko all the way from Tokyo for the party!  Please 
let's do it again (with name badges) next year!!

Kingsley Abbott




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