Hope it's ok to give my latest issue a plug, hot from the printers Soul Up North #45 includes articles on: Benny Gordon (Simon White) McKinley Jackson (Howard...
I like what Mark has written and concur with just about all of it. As someone who has remained a BB fan, even when it was un-cool to be so, since the very...
... Ms. King was on my initial first 10 list on the strength of her work with Dimension and that unbelievably good string arrangement you mentioned. She got...
One of my favs which I would call a shoulda-been-a-hit, or bigger hit, was Austin Roberts Philips 45, Ricky Ticky Ta Ta. I would assume that all on this board...
... The Swanks were from Minnesota and the song does appear on a comp CD featuring Minnesota bands. I will pass the CD name on to you as soon as I locate my...
... Genya Ravan was also a terrific producer. She cut a song that John Hill and I wrote about 30 years ago, it seems, that was well produced. Consider me a...
Austin Roberts
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Oct 1, 2004 8:00 am
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... Sorry, but I have to disagree, Frank. Claude had an amazingly expressive and intense voice. Eeven if it wasn't technically perfect, it was certainly less ...
... I believe that's true. Sorry, I should have explained myself better. I meant to say it wasn't the track on the EP that was marked out to be the hit, if you...
... I can suggest two reasons: * Brian was also the Beach Boys' producer. Since the group's best records were as much products of their productions as of their...
Never having heard "Mr. Turnkey," and assuming it's not explained in the lyrics ... how does one go about nailing their own wrist to the wall of a prison cell?...
... After the first BBs phase, and beginning with, approximately, "The Beach Boys Today," it seemed to me (and I'm not certain that I could ever be convinced...
Early backups by 4 Seasons: As is the case in many of the early backups in which the 4 Seasons were a part of, some of these appear to have at least one female...
Mike Miller
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Oct 1, 2004 4:12 pm
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... A division of Time and Shad, later Mainstream -- all part of Bob Shad's empire. ... Fred, I live two miles up Meyersville Road. (Are you here in my...
... I've taken the liberty of playing a RealAudio version of the song from my record copy to musica. Sorry, but I can't do MP3s on my home base. Perhaps this...
Just wondering. In the early '70s I worked with a songwriter/singer named Tom Austin. This was in Los Angeles. I have a tape of him which I think is a demo I...
It was really great working at Polydor in the '60s. My job was to help build the label. If my memory serves me correctly, "Watch us happen" was our motto. ...
Sadly, my major wrong-speed experience post-dates S'pop. I'd bought this copy of the early Eighties 12" single "Blue Monday" by New Order. It was 12-inch, no...
... Could the highest voice be that of Frankie Valli? (Though, honestly, I didn't think it sounded like the Four Seasons on backing vocals.) Maybe someone can...
... His website is http://www.angelfire.com/la/tommymclain . It claims that his Zen-simple, soulful and eloquent reading of "Sweet Dreams" sold 10 million ...
... This is absolutely true, although it wasn't a law, just a sort of French custom. habit. The only exception were regular singles issued for jukeboxes, which...
Now playing at musica is a hot piece of track titled "Twelve Months Later," the flipside to The Sheep's "Hide And Seek" (and reminding me of Dino, Desi &...
I'm new to the group -- it's great. Does anyone know about: Vertigo 8001 - THE GERMZ-No Easy Way Down/Boy Girl Love Vertigo 8002 - The RAVENETTES - Baby Pull...
... Nicely put, Austin. And, even though I *haven't* had a hit (not yet, anyway <g>), I feel blessed to have played music all my life, to still be playing and...
... Yes. Actually, although my wording did not make it clear, I was thinking of people who have told me of making top in Billboard (etc.), yet the record never...
... Joe, This was used from early 1968 and onwards at a time when the company first set up on its own over here having always been represented via the Coral...
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