I was finally able to get this one out to musica.

Rydell had 3 or 4 singles on Reprise from
1967-68, including this one, and "The Lovin' Things"
(the Grass Roots hit), all non-LP, and fairly scarce.
Hope you enjoy.

Den

Hi Everyone,

I've noticed in past posts people have asked this question,
but I haven't really found an answer to it...

I'm looking for the lyrics to the "Leader of the Pack" musical,
in particular "Rock of Rages", so I can perform this song for
an exam I have coming up. Does anyone know where I can find
these lyrics?

Thanks for your time!

-Amanda

Hi everyone,

Finally, it's time for me to add my two cents' worth, even
if it's a week late! My apologies, but life has been quite
crazy since my return to Manchester, and to all involved,
please be assured this wasn't a reflection of my enthusiasm
in the slightest...

One year ago, if you'd told me that in August 2002 I'd start
performing again - and singing my favourite girl group songs
no less! - I would have laughed it off.

If you'd told me that a year on, I'd be singing in New York,
surrounded by friends and illustrious 60s guests, followed by
a cocktail party the next evening with Maxine Brown, I would
have been dialling 911 and telling them to send a straightjacket
sharpish!

I never fail to be amazed at the amazing chain of events that
have taken place for me since last August, but this had to be
the grandaddy of them all. Everyone has summed up the music,
the atmosphere and the events so I won't repeat that too much.
But for this little girl from Toronto, via Manchester, then onto
London and New York, this was a total dream come true and I can
only express my heartfelt thanks to everyone for supporting me
along the way.

Infinite love and thanks to Sheila, not only for taking on the
task of organising the event (I know how stressful it can be!)
but for being such a wonderful friend in the ten years we've
known each other.

And to Mick, Phil, Martin, the UK 'poppers - for their
continuous encouragement over the past year, and for insisting
that I had to get to NYC even when I thought it was impossible!

Love to my email friends with whom I finally got the chance to
spend some quality time with - Keiko-chan, David A. Young and
Phil Milstein. You are all fabulous and great fun, and I only
wish I could hang out with you more often.

And how wonderful to also become acquainted with names that
were familiar to me, but who I'd never spoken to - such as
Country Paul (what a pro!), Mark F. and John Clemente. (If I
have missed out your name, please forgive me - some of the
weekend was a blur, not helped by all those Cosmos at the
Slipper Room!)

It was an honour to be there, and even more of an honour to
sing for all of you. I hope I did the party (and Lesley and
Felice) justice!

See you next time - maybe Amber will be on parole by then...

love,
elisabeth xx

Joe Foster wrote:

> I'm currently mastering a reissue of October Country for
> release on Rev-Ola imminently......from the original masters
> licensed from Sony......

**WONDERFUL NEWS!! Any sign of Smoke in the Pipeline?(hehehe)

JJ

PS Waiting for THE POOR to "ENRICH" me!!

Mike Edwards wrote:

> One song I have always wanted
> to hear by Brian is one also recorded by Jackie DeShannon
> called "He Don't Understand You", a title Jackie co-wrote
> with Randy Newman. Anyone help?

I wouldn't mind hearing that one myself.  I guess that it
would be the male version of "She Don't Understand Him Like
I Do".  That is my favorite Jackie song.  She got a lot of
airplay here in Cincinnati with that one and her version of
"Oh Boy".  Although I had heard "Buddy" previously, they were
my real introduction to Jackie.  It caused this mostly singles
buyer to go out and buy the LP "Breakin' It Up on the Beatles
Tour", which still gets a lot of play in my house. But alas,
it is one that hasn't made it to CD yet.

Ron

I am doing some research and just happened across this mammoth
study of Tico and George Goldner. Thrilled!

Adelante
Mark

There was an amazing LP released on Colpix in the mid sixties
that I cannot get out of my mind.  It was a full LP of pop
songs of the day done in a "beautiful music" style by Stu
Phillips.  Percy Faith, and the Hollyridge Strings were doing
the same concept at the time, with great success, but this LP
by Stu Phillips was in a totally different realm, musically
speaking.  Super lush full orchestra, and dreamy chorus, with
incredible arrangements, very different from either Faith or
Hollyridge recordings, put this into the stratosphere
of "beautiful music".

The haunting way Stu took pop songs and strung them out into
amazingly significant mini-works-of-art, still leaves me
breathless.

Unfortunately, the LP I had is long gone, and it never seems
to appear on CD.  Anyone else have any comments regarding this
wonderful recording, or know of where it might be available on
Compact Disc?

Phil Milstein wrote:

> Barbara Feldon checked in with her own Get Smart-themed 45,
> "99" b/w "Max," on RCA. Both sides are spoke-sung in her
> trademark kittenish voice. If anyone requests it, I can play
> either or both sides to musica.

If you could post 'Max' to musica I would be very grateful!
I'm a big fan of 60s spy TV shows and get an especially big
kick out of tie-ins like the inevitable gimmick records. '99'
is great, btw, for anyone who has not heard it. A great
smoldering lounge song.

Are there other songs that actually dealt with spy-subjects
from the actors of this genre? Off the top of my head, I can't
think of any. The Patrick Macnee/Honor Blackmon one is great,
even becoming a hit again when re-issued in the late 80s/early 90s.
There are more than a few 'golden throat' type LPs from this area
that I'm sure I don't need to name. I especially like the singles
that used the catch-phrase prominently, such as Telly Savalas'
'Who Loves Ya Baby?'. Also, if anyone has the 'Where's the Beef'
cash-in song and wants to post it, I wouldn't complain. I can hear
the groans already...

jon

Dear UK-based Spectropoppers -

Just to let you know that Da Doo Ron Ron - the one & only 60s
girl group club - follows up its June sell-out with its monthly
shindig on Friday July 11th @ the Sussex Arts Club, 7 Ship Street,
Brighton, BN1. Tel:-01273-778020.  9pm - 2am.  £4 on the door.
Da doo DJs Chris 'Da Doo' King & Si Bridger spin their familiar
mix of 60s girly sounds a-go-go from the likes of The Ronettes,
Dusty, Supremes, Marvelettes, Lesley Gore, Barbara Lewis, Chris
Clark, Shangri-Las, Petula, Lulu, Helen Shapiro, Vandellas, Brenda
Holloway, Shirley Bassey & so on. You'll NEVER hear a MALE lead
vocal @ DDRR!

We're celebrating our 5th Birthday in October this year.

DDRR web-site:- http://clubdadooronron.users.btopenworld.com/

Please feel free to mail me for further info.

Many thanks for your indulgence,

Kindest regards,

Chris Da Doo

Phil Milstein wrote:
> Barbara Feldon checked in with her own Get Smart-themed 45,
> "99" b/w "Max," on RCA. Both sides are spoke-sung in her
> trademark kittenish voice. If anyone requests it, I can play
> either or both sides to musica.

FYI: Both Barbara Feldon tracks are on a Don Adams compilation CD
issued by Raven titled "Get Smart!" Also, the original RCA single
came in a picture sleeve.

Jeffery Kennedy
San Francisco

I phoned Malcolm Baumgart last night and it's unfortunate that
he's such a technophobe because he has a copy of the Myrtelles
45 somewhere in his flat in London.

Mick, can you go and deconstruct a pile for him and find it?
(Tee hee).

David.

David Bell:
> I phoned Malcolm Baumgart last night and it's unfortunate that
> he's such a technophobe because he has a copy of the Myrtelles
> 45 somewhere in his flat in London. Mick, can you go and
> deconstruct a pile for him and find it? (Tee hee).

Hey la,

Maxie has no desire to own a computer. Neither has he any wish to
be in possession of a J Cloth. Damp or otherwise. If you want the
record finding, may I suggest you enlist the services of those
two birds from TV's How Clean Is Your House?  And should these
comments find their way back to Mr Baumgart, I shall know exactly
who the blabbermouth is! :-)

I don't have the Myrtelles 45. In fact, I don't want one because
it isn't very good. However, many years ago, Ian put both sides
on a cassette for me. Then he swapped the record for some shiny
beads. However, I still have that tape. I shall endeavour to
locate it and make mp3s. Expect them to appear in musica when
space permits. Watch this space.

Hey la,

Mick Patrick (in Marigolds)

Hi Martin

Thank you so much for posting 'He's Not There' by Sunny. I
absolutely love it! It never ceases to amaze me how much good
material there is out there on acetate. Problem is that much of
it is uncredited.

I recently picked up an acetate recording by Lyn Cornell called
'As Long As You Keep Loving Me'. As far as I can tell this was
never commercially released by Lyn.

Thanks again though for letting me hear the Sunny track.

Best Wishes

Ken

Hi Simon

Thanks very much for the information on Rosetta Hightower's
appearance at the Rocket in London last year. Hopefully this
will not have been a one off and we can look forward to more
live music by Rosetta (if anyone spots her name anywhere please
do let me know). I'd lost touch with what Rosetta was doing and
over the last few years have taken the opportunity to ask Barry
St. John, Doris Troy, Madeline Bell and Ruby James if they knew
what had become of her but none of them did.

It's good to know Rosetta is still around! Check out her album
of Motown covers (Rediffusion label 1971).

Best Wishes

Ken

Mike Edwards wrote re. a Spectropop West Coast Summit:

> See if you can book Bimbos 365 down by the Wharf. You may
> find you get a good crowd.  I know I'll be there.

Woooooooh Nelly!

I said I was interested in partaking... not organizing...

I'd certainly help if there were a few folks that were
interested... but my shoulders are too thin (metaphorically
speaking) to take on that entire responsibility.

Smiles,

albabe

Martin Roberts wrote re. Dean Martin:

> I passed your Dino query to the resident expert. Buy, buy,
> buy is the advice!  A thriving market in 'shady' "The Dean
> Martin TV Show" videos and I've watched my share with Sue,
> the ones from the 60s are great fun.  At an hour long
> (without adverts - Shame!) should make the legit DVDs fairly
> essential.

Sorry if I'm a bit dense here.  So... does your friend have
the TV advertised ones... or are you talking about boots?

How long are the TV advertised "legit" DVDs?  Quality: sound/
picture?

I remember the old shows.  At first I had to argue with my
dad as to what we would watch in that particular hour... he
was bigger than me then.  Star Trek or something else was on
at the same time, and being a very young hippy punk, it was
sacrilegious to watch Dino.  But after a few viewings I noticed
the "Goldiggers..."  Yeow... seriously sexy babes.  It didn't
take much to get me to watch the show after that.

Now I actually really "dig" Dino himself, man.

peace,
albabe

For any of you Donna (and/or Dick Dale) fans.  I found this
great pic a short while back at a movie poster store here in
San Francisco.  Unfortunately the store is out of business now.

I had to crop it a bit in the scanning because there is a small
chunk of one of the corners missing.

I've never seen it on any site or anywhere, for that matter...
except... Donna Loren at Brian's Drive-In Theater

I sent it to Brian, of Brian's Drive-In Theater site a while back,
but I forgot about you folks.  And in case you haven't had the
privilege... Brian's site is very cool.

I don't know if I can, but I'll try to post it to the S'Pop Yahoo
group site for those of you who get the digests.

peace,
albabe

Clark Davis:
> Unfortunately, the (Stu Phillips Colpix) LP I had is long gone,
> and it never seems to appear on CD. Anyone else have any comments
> regarding this wonderful recording, or know of where it might be
> available on Compact Disc?

I'm very friendly with Stu, and I'll ask him what he knows. He's
also speaking in L.A. on 17th July (if you're in that neck of the
woods), so you can ask him directly. See earlier posting on him a
couple of days ago.

Cheers!

Ian..........How ya' doin'? I never knew we had any recording on the
song you mentioned.Thanks for the heads up.

regards, Artie Wayne

Yes!

For all you completists out there I've compiled (with the help of
several in-the-know S'Poppers) two CDs worth of Mark Wirtz produced
45s from the 60s. All of the songs, with the exception of one, have
not appeared on any CD/CDR. In essense this collection is a
continuation of the Mark Wirtz Anthology I started last year.

As most of you know by now it's been one of my "chores" to expose
(yes, perhaps over expose?) Mark's work to others. As I've come to
find out there are people all over the world with the same objective.
In fact Keiron Tyler, a writer and CD compiler in the UK, reports
that his full length article about Mark will be appearing in an
upcoming Mojo magazine. In addition, a Japaese fan sent several songs
previously unknown to me. These songs have apparently been making the
rounds in Japanese Mark Wirtz collector circles for some time. Pretty
cool to find these pockets of interest.

Anyway, write me off list if you'd like to know more. In the mean
time thanks to Phil, Martin, Harvey, Paul, Luis and other's who dug
deep into their collections.

Hello Albabe,

Sorry I didn't make myself clear: BUY, BUY, BUY!

The complete story as I know it:
Worldwide, the only "Dean Martin TV Show" DVD available for purchase
is called "That's Amore". Great sound and picture quality, it plays
for over an hour and is very, very highly recommended.

In various States of the USA, regional releases have been made
available to test the public's willingness (or otherwise) to buy more
product from Dean Martin's TV Show's. Again Sue (and I) would advise
purchase and if you don't mind Sue would be interested to know the
shows on sale in your area - off list perhaps!

Besides these official releases, there is an underground market in
'grey area' videos from the TV show. At present it is the only way to
see acts such as the Righteous Brothers and Jan and Dean etc. The
quality is not as good and they can be expensive but are also great
fun.

Two other TV series' hosted or starring Dean Martin are also available
on DVD or video: "The Colgate Hour" (Dean and Jerry Lewis) and "The
Roasts". Both, depending on your sense of humour, can be quite funny
but are not essential for a Dino way of life.

Reading your Dino introduction, I'd suggest you owe your dad a copy of
"That's Amore" as a Thank You!

Martin

(While wearing Marigolds) Mick Patrick observed:
> Maxie has no desire to own a computer. Neither has he any wish to
> be in possession of a J Cloth. Damp or otherwise. If you want the
> record finding, may I suggest you enlist the services of those
> two birds from TV's How Clean Is Your House? And should these
> comments find their way back to Mr Baumgart, I shall know exactly
> who the blabbermouth is! :-)

So, Mick, are you Kim or Aggie? I see you as the one with the feather
boa marigold. Gotta go, they're on Channel 4 as I write.

David
(who's no blabbermouth unless the scandal is absolutely vitriolic)!

Mick Patrick wrote:
> I don't have the Myrtelles 45. In fact, I don't want one because
> it isn't very good. However, many years ago, Ian put both sides
> on a cassette for me. Then he swapped the record for some shiny
> beads. However, I still have that tape. I shall endeavour to
> locate it and make mp3s. Expect them to appear in musica when
> space permits. Watch this space.

Thanks Mick

If a copy of the disc does turn up I'd be very interested in buying
it. My primary interest is in 60's UK session girls so I have pretty
much complete collections by Sue and Sunny, Barry St.John, Sylvia
McNeill, Lyn Cornell, Valerie Masters etc. etc. Would like to get
the Myrtelles disc for completeness.

Cheers

Ken

Hi All,

The LP 'What A Beautiful Place' by Catherine Howe is incredibly rare
(and incredibly expensive when it does turn up). I'd like to badger
the owners of the master tapes to put it out on CD. The LP was
released on the Reflection label. Does anyone know who might own the
rights to Reflection releases? Also has anyone come across any single
releases by Sylvia McNeill on United Artists?

Cheers

Ken

I'm also in San Francisco - and interested.

- Michael

NP: some Poindexter Brothers & The Icemen cuts.

Couple of interesting new issues for you US chappies just landed on
the ole worktops here - The Millennium 'Pieces' (SCM 9002) and Sandy
Salisbury's 'Do Unto Others' (SCM 9001).  The Sandy CD appears to be
mostly the Poptones issues of a couple of years back, with some that
were on the later Revola issue of his, but the Millenium has some
new tracks of mostly Michael Fennelly/Joey Stec composition.  Both
are on a new US label Sound City Entertainment.  Several of the
Millenium tarcks are full on Critters-type summer sounds, and if
they are demos as seems likely, then they were excellent ones!  Both
will make parteners to the Sundazed 3 Disc set for a pretty complete
picture.

Kingsley (no financial interest!)

The Liquid Room, (usually) hosted by David Ponak (me), airs
every Saturday night from Midnight to 3AM (PDT) on 90.7FM KPFK
Los Angeles, as well as streaming at http://kpfk.org

The Liquid Room 6/28/03

1.The Association/Come On In
Birthday (WB)

2.Goldfrapp/Train
Black Cherry (Mute)

3.Margo Guryan/Sunday Morning
Take A Picture (Franklin Castle)

4.Cymbals/Track 6
Love You (JVC Victor-Japan)

5.Bikini Machine/Bum Bum Boogie
Yeh Yeh Vacances (Rambling-Japan)

6.Eiko/.....
60's Cutie Pop Collection-Suki Suki Edit (King-Japan)

7.Black Box Recorder/These Are The Things
Passionoia (One Little Indian-UK)

8.Little Richard/I Saw Her Standing There
Glass Onion-Songs Of The Beatles (Warner-UK)

9.The Turtles/Guide For The Married Man
Anthology (Rhino)

10.Mike Flowers Pops/Velvet Underground Medley
A Groovy Place (London-UK)

11.Tommy February/Bloomin'
Tommy February (Epic-Japan)

12.Spookey Ruben/Tricky Boy Wonder
Bed (Hi-Hat)

13.Eels/Love Of The Loveless
Shootenannty (Dreamworks)

14.Roy Budd/Getting Nowhere In A Hurry
Get Carter (soundtrack) (Castle-UK)

15.The Flaming Lips/The Strange Design Of Consciense
Fight Test (WB)

16.New Order/Your Silent Face
Power, Corruption & Lies (Qwest)

17.Yoko Nagisa/Ai No...
Single (Initial Note-Japan)

18.Ennio Morricone/La Cosa Buffa
More Mondo Morricone (Coloseum-Germany)

19.Jackson 5/Can I See You In The Morning
Third Album (Motown)

20.Blur/Ambulance
Think Tank (Virgin)

21.Tony Lasley/Happiness
Beat Nova (Supernova)

22.Michele Legrand/Blue, Grey, Green And Gone
Recorded Live At Jimmy's (RCA)

23.Seksu Roba/Moonsong
Pleasure Vibrations (Eenie Meenie)

24.Jaco Pastorius/3 Views Of A Secret
Punk Jazz-The Jaco Pastorius Anthology (Rhino)

25.The Blondes/So Far Away
Swedish Heat (Teenacide)

26.Paul Mauriat/Romantic Laser
Chromatic (Phillips-France)

27.April March/There Is Always Madness
Triggers (Tricatel-France)

28.Baden Powell/Canto De Ossahna
Os Afro-Sambas (Forma-Japan)

29.Benjamin Biolay/Little Darlin'
Negatif (Virgin-France)

30.Steve Lawrence/Go Away Little Girl
Go Away Little Girl (Harmony)

31.Irving/I Can't Fall In Love
I Hope You're Feeling Better Now (Eenie Meenie)

32.Them/You're Just What I Was Looking For Today
Now And "Them" (Revola-UK)

33.Candypants/Mandalay
Candypants (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

34.Sonoko/Souvenir De La Mer
La Debutante (Crammed Discs-Belgium)

35.Peter Lacey/Chime On
Anderida

36.Curtis Mayfield/We've Only Just Begun
Live (Rhino)

37.Broadcast/Pendulum
Pendulum (Warp)

38.The Evolution Control Committee/Star Spangled Bologna
Plagiarhythm Nation (Seeland)

39.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark/Messages (Single Version)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (Virgin-UK)

40.Eel-Fille Unique/Homme Sympathique
Parvaion-Global Indie Clubpop (Eenie Meenie)

41.The Folksmen/Start Me Up
A Mighty Wind-The Album (Sony)

42.Steve Lawrence/Angel Eyes
Steve Lawrence Sings Sinatra (GL Music)

43.Armando Trovajoli/Seven Golden Men
Le Scat (Culture-Japan)

44.Jacques Dutronc/Hippie Hippie Hourrah
Jacques Dutronc (Vogue-France)

45.Paul Williams/Mornin' I'll Be Movin' On
Someday Day (Reprise)

I have another song titled "October Country" by an artist named
Michael McGinnis. It appears on his LP "Welcome To My Mind" on
the Forward label from 1969. If anyone has any info regarding
this LP please let me know, I haven't been able to turn up much
on it other than an entry on a Japanese website that is only
partially in English.

The "October Country" song on this album is an outstanding track
with an extremely melancholy, mournful, almost apocalyptic feel.
I especially like the horns on the song, which are reminiscent of
the horns used on Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man". Several years
after finding this LP I found that the song's lyrics are actually
a poem by Ray Bradbury from his book "The October Country".
However, this is not acknowledged in the songwriters credits.

Another noteworthy song on the LP, called "Orange Ice", is the
most upbeat, psychedelic track and is another superb tune. This
song has a childlike, whimsical atmosphere that still manages to
sound slightly sinister, and clocks in at less than two minutes.

For the most part the album is what I would call country rock,
not as psychedelic as the title "Welcome To My Mind" would lead
one to believe...the backing musicians are former members of
The Moon and Colours. If anyone else has run across this or has
any info on who McGinnis is, please post here or e-mail me.

Best,

Art Longmire

I'm pleased Ken liked the Sunny acetate playing on musica.
At the same time as acquiring this and several other UK demo
recordings I bought 3 ten inch female-voiced "Screen Gems
Columbia" demos, recorded at "Dick Charles Recording Studios",
NYC.  Musically only one is of interest, "Run To My Lovin'
Arms".  The song was of course released; perhaps best known
in the UK as sung by Billy Fury and in the US by April Young.
A good T. Powers - G. Fischoff song which I feel with a better
production could have been a fair sized hit.  I've no idea who
the vocalist is and no other information to go with the disc,
bar the comment written in pen, "Female Version". Nice piano!
Now playing at musica.

Martin

Martin Roberts wrote re. Dino DVDs:

> Worldwide, the only "Dean Martin TV Show" DVD available
> for purchase is called "That's Amore"... etc.

"ay, there's the rub;"

I assumed everyone knew what I was talking about... I should
go back to teaching, just to re-educate myself on how to
communicate simple basic ideas to others... doh.  I apologize
for my ignorance and lack of said ability.

I purchased the "That's Amore" DVD a short while back.  Great
stuff.  A bunch of interviews with Dino's business partner
from years ago.  And bits and pieces from Dino's Variety show.
There's also a few really great live numbers of him performing
with some hip orchestra way back in the olden days.

With that said...  Here in the colonies we have these *very
interesting* late night advertisements on cable TV... in fact
we have channels that do nothing but show these half hour to
one hour long advertisements disguised as commentaries or
"reports" on everything from scrotal ointment to.... Dino
(...and beyond).

The ad that I saw a few nights back advertised 7 (seven)
separate DVDs (or tapes) that were supposedly episodes of the
Dean Martin Variety Show.

I called their 1-800 number and didn't get that much information
from their friendly but very uniformed order-taker.  He sorta
informed me that:

They are $19.95 each.  Except the first one which they discount
for $9.95.

They are 1 (one) hour each.   Which, to me, is a vast waste of
the possible 6 hours of very high res "superbit" plus 5.1 &
stereo sound that is available on double (triple) layered DVDs.
But it's all commerce.

They are (and I quote) "probably compilations" rather than
entire shows.

After you receive the first *single* disc, they then send you 2
at a time, every other month, for $19.95 each, which amounts to
a whopping $39.90 for 2 hours of yummy but very expensive stuff.

Has anyone ordered these discs yet?

peace,
albabe