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Volume #0258 April 19, 1999
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From the entertainment capital of the world
Subject: Re: Harpers Bizarre
Received: 4/18/99 6:19 PM
From: Stewart Mason, flXXX6.com
To: specXXXcities.com
Doc Rock asks:
>Stewart Mason, flXXX6.com wrote
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>Tobias' mention of Harpers Bizarre reminds me that I
>recently bought their THE SECRET LIFE OF HARPERS BIZARRE
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>Who is listed as the producer?
That would be Anna and Joey's dad, Lenny Waronker.
Stewart
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Box 40172 "Visne saltare? Viam Latam
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www.rt66.com/~flamingo
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Subject: another www.on-air.com experience
Received: 4/17/99 1:49 PM
From: Jack Madani, Jack_XXX.k12.nj.us
To: specXXXcities.com
"Ya Gotta Take A Chance" by the Bonetts. Big BIG wall of
sound, real uptempo. Sounds like a Gold Star recording for
sure, but in a funny way I can't put my finger on, it
doesn't sound like Spector. It sounds like David Gates.
What a winner of a faux-spector number! Anybody with any
info?
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Jack Madani - Princeton Day School, The Great Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540 Jack_XXX.k12.nj.us
"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred."
--Henry Cabot Henhouse III
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Subject: Tracey Dey
Received: 4/17/99 1:49 PM
From: john rauschXXXo.net
To: specXXXcities.com
Hi all
Can anyone tell me about Tracey Dey? I know she was
produced by Bob Crewe, had an answer song to the 4 Seasons
Sherry, etc...There is a cd i came across with some more of
her material, and one song in particular is called Ska Doo
De Yah and is simply irresistable,one of those songs you
hear once and it is stuck in your head forever.Has anyone
on the list heard this song? where is it from? and where is
Tracey now?
Thanks
John Rausch
Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes at
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/2469/
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Subject: Geeto-Tiger!
Received: 4/17/99 1:49 PM
From: Billy G. Spradlin, bgspXXXthlink.net
To: specXXXcities.com
Jack Madani, Jack_XXX.k12.nj.us wrote:
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>On www.on-air.com today I heard a neat little faux-early-
>beachboys tune called "Geeto Tiger" by the Tigers. In fact
>it wasn't half bad. Would I be right in guessing this is a
>Gary Usher or Roger Christian project?
I dont have my original Colpix 45 handy, but I dont believe
Usher or Christian were involved. Its very likely the
Tigers were a studio group.
It's on Sundazed's "Surf & Drag" Volume 2 CD, and I agree
its a fun song. The white label 45 is worth a lot of money,
since it was a promotional item Colpix pressed for Pontiac
dealers to promote the new GTO. Wished I had the picture
sleeve (I found it for 25 cents at a thrift store!)
One thing I credit Pontiac for is not dragging the GTO logo
through the fuel economy minded late 70's-early 80's with
crummy 4 cylinder small cars, like Ford did with the
Mustang.
Billy G. Spradlin
29 Rim Road
Kilgore, Texas 75662
Email: bgspXXXthlink.net
Homepage: http://home.earthlink.net/~bgspradlin/
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Subject: Ray Davies' innocence?
Received: 4/17/99 1:49 PM
From: Robert Charles-DunnXXXcult.com
To: specXXXcities.com
Big L asked:
"So, opinions... was this a very clever double entendre'
couched in a manner that would only be understood by the
target audience, or is it innocent, as Ray Davies claims?"
Unless and until an Englishman travelled outside the UK, he
would not have known that 'fag' meant anything OTHER than
cigarette, or its more arcane second definition in the UK:
'to fag' was to serve as a valet for an older boy at
boarding school, which made you his 'fag.' 'Fagging' was
ripe for cruel exploitation, vividly depicted in Tom
Brown's School Days and other Dickensian literature from
100+ years ago, but that's hopelessly obscure for those who
didn't attend boarding school. For those who did attend
boarding or prep schools, on either side of the Atlantic,
Davies' 'David Watts' is another stunner.
What's more, Davies used Cockney rhyming slang -
birthplace of hiphop? - in several songs. If US listeners
were perplexed by 'fag,' what about their reaction to
'Harry Rag?' [Cockney for 'fag.']
Tom's old ma is a dying lass
Soon they reckon she'll be pushing up the grass
Well, her bones might ache and her skin might sag
Still she's got the strength to roll herself a harry rag
Harry rag/Harry rag/Do anything just to get a harry rag
Well I curse myself for the life I've led
Roll meself a harry rag and put meself to bed
Though Ray was clearly not afraid to deal with 'homo'
themes. Recall the 'Crying Game' scenario of 'Lola?'
"Walks like a woman/talks like a man." A lifetime before
'Dude Looks Like A Lady.'
Because of his literate aspirations/pretensions, Ray
Davies' body of work contains a lyrical depth missing from
many of his contemporaries. His best work stands alongside
the finest of the period, and has stood the test of time.
Granted, he could get a bit too Noel Coward fey-coy
occasionally, but that's why brawling brother Dave was
always around, to give him a swift one up the arse, keep
him honest.
For those who like the 60's-Anglo stuff, might I recommend
Ray's 'Storyteller' most highly? It's the history of The
Kinks, as we came to know them, in a lovingly-etched, sepia
detail: the family saga, the little green amp, the tweedy
Python-ish managers, it's all there, as only Ray can tell
it.
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Subject: Moby Grape's Skip Spence dead
Sent: 4/14/19 12:53 PM
Received: 4/20/99 1:43 AM
From: Dame Edna Hoover, wXXXnet.se
To: specXXXcities.com
Hey all,
here's some sad news....
//Tobias
-----Original Message-----
ALEXANDER 'SKIP' SPENCE
We've just received the news that Alexander 'Skip' Spence
died, apparently from cardiovascular failure in a Santa
Cruz, Calif. hospital on Friday, April 16. A trust fund,
administered by Spence's son, has been established in
Santa Cruz to help defray the family's expenses. Members
of Sundazed's extended family are urged to send whatever
they can to:
Omar Spence, trustee
TF Alexander 'Skip' Spence
attention Marilyn Guzman
Comerica CA,
1960 41st Ave, Capitola CA 95010.
Skip Spence had been an integral thread in San Francisco's
hip rock tapestry right from the beginning--when Marty
Balin picked him out of a crowd in 1965 (because of the
way Spence looked, so goes the legend) and appointed him
the drummer for a folk-rock band Balin was assembling at
the time. When Spence left the San Jose combo he'd been
playing with up until then, he informed them that Balin
was still torn between two names for his newfound group,
and the San Jose outfit could assume the name Marty didn't
select. Thus Jefferson Airplane became a San Fran legend
and the Otherside remained a South Bay musical footnote.
Always a man with itchy feet, Spence soon moved on after
one album with the Airplane, to hook up with Moby Grape
for their first two classic longplayers. Spence then
jumped ship in 1969 to record Oar, his solo masterpiece--
an album with the power to carry the listener through the
other side of the looking glass of the mind into uncharted
mystical realms. Oar has long been slated as a focal point
in Sundazed's summer release schedule, and now, sadly, it
must also become a monument to one of rock & roll's
undiscovered national treasures. --Jud Cost
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