Country Paul (re Gary U.S. Bonds):
> Gary's energy is remarkable for a man of any age; he still hits
> all the high (and low) notes with ease, and he can handle a
> ballad or blues as well as a rocker. He also looks closer to
> 50 than 70.

Those of us in the UK have been having a treat as Gary has been appearing
as guest star on Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings' current tour. With Georgie Fame,
Albert Lee and wonderful girl singer Beverley Skeete, the band is top notch,
playing R&B, soul, Cajun, New Orleans, blues and more. Gary sang "School
Is Out", "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three" when I saw the band in High
Wycombe, and it gave me such a happy feeling. Bill himself is no youngster,
at 73, but he also looks 20 years younger. Well worth a visit for
Spectropoppers who like good music well played.

Peter

Eddie Hodges:
> Let me know if you haven't heard "If Love Could Rule the World."

Hello Eddie,

I've really been enjoying your music (and a couple of your movies) for
the past couple years. It would be great if we could hear "If Love Could
Rule The World", and the Paper Fortress tracks!

Are there other lesser-known singles (A-sides and B-sides) that we
should know about?

Dale

P.S. "The Water is Over My Head" should have been a hit! It's a great
song and performance!

"Super Baby Cakes - Jimmy Radcliffe & Friends" hits the street today!

Amazon UK: http://tinyurl.com/y925qej

Amazon US: http://tinyurl.com/yald4ha

We're looking forward to the reviews!

Cheers & all the best,

Chris

Country Paul:
> Didn't they have a song called something like "Tiny Dancer"
> (not the Elton John song)? As I remember it was very pretty.

Are you sure you're not thinking of "Tiny Goddess", the Nirvana cover?

Paul

Tom DeCillis:
> ... It has also put frontman Frankie Valli back in the
> spotlight. He'll sing Wednesday at Memorial Auditorium
> in Raleigh, North Carolina, the same hall where "Jersey
> Boys" played a successful run over the summer.

Just saw him with the "new" Seasons. GREAT show!

JB

Country Paul:
> ... Bill Dunnam. http://www.myspace.com/billdunnam
> Dunnam's bio is pretty amazing -- if he did half of what
> he says he did (and there's no reason to doubt him) he
> would be a phenomenal resource for anyone into Louisiana
> rock and pop. I'm surprised by the rehashed middle-road
> music he's playing on his site -- not bad, just totally
> unexpected from his history. Guess the corporate world
>got to him!

I played parts of three of the songs and they are all great standards.
What does that have to do with the corporate world? Maybe he just likes
songs with excellent melodies, chord progressions and lyrics. I've been
playing those kinds of songs -- along with rock and all kinds of other
things -- for a few decades. Maybe that would seem surprising to
someone if I told them about my working with Dickie Betts in 1961,
but I've always been jazz-oriented and, fortunately, I've grown a lot
musically since I was 18.

One thing that bothered me in Dunnam's bio was when he mentioned that
several songs by The Playboys made the Billboard Top 30, when that
never happened. For me, that sort of thing always raises doubts about
other content.

Gary E. Myers / MusicGem

I picked up some records recently that I'd like to mention.

First of all, I picked up the Ellie Greenwich CD on Raven Record, which
compiles her LPs "Composes, Produces And Sings" (1968) and "Let It Be
Written, Let It Be Sung" (1973), as well as a 1970 single of "Ain't That
Peculiar" and, from 1962, "Big Honky Baby". Some great singing by her
on both LPs, and a lot of hits on the 1973 LP. I did not have them
on record, so this is a real treat!

Another Australian-made CD I picked up recently is "Donna Lynn Meets
Robin Clark" on Rare Rockin' Records. It features Donna's LP and her
Capitol and Epic singles, along with four singles of Robin Clark. Great
sound quality.

A few 45s I acquired of late that I am really enjoying:

Jody Sten - Smiling Teddy Bear / Stir It Up
Armar Records (New York) 121; sounds like from 1963.

A few Canadian ones:

Pat Hervey - The Land I Dream Of / Can't Get You Out Of My Mind
AME 108; 1971

Lynda Layne - I'm Your Pussycat / I Don't Want To Go
RCA Victor Canada International 57-3366. The label credits the back-up
singing (on both sides) to The Charmaines. That is the first 45 I have
found where The Charmaines back-up.

The Girl Friends - I Will / Once In A Lifetime Boy
CAL. Both songs are terrific. "I Will" is closer to a ballad. "Once In
A Lifetime Boy" was written by the same fellow as who wrote Pat Hervey's
"Mr. Heartache".

I have played to musica several Phil Spector-produced backing tracks,
some of them with backing vocals and/or studio chatter, which I
acquired from another list. They are: "Things Are Changing", "Today
I Met The Boy I'm Gonna Marry", "River Deep Mountain High", "You've
Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", "Baby I Love You" and "Walking In The Rain".

Most exciting of all, most of these are in stereo! Or, at least, some
form of it -- the instruments are still the all-in Wall of Sound, and
are centered in the middle, but the backing vocals and studio chatter
are panned L or R.

I think "Be My Baby" might be a different take  than the released
version, based on the way they sing the word "baby". But have a listen
and see what you think.

All in all I think they're pretty cool, and Wrecking Crew freaks are
gonna love 'em! 

Enjoy,

Marc

Bob Matonis:
> Bobby Caldwell, a member of the Missouri Country Music
> Hall of Fame and recent inductee to the International Steel
> Guitar Hall of Fame, has died at his home in St. Louis,
> after a lengthy battle with cancer.

I'm very sorry to hear that. About 10 or 15 years ago Bobby was working
for St. Louis Music, and the music store where I worked sometimes dealt
with them. We spoke once or twice briefly about Jules Blattner and about
the fact that Bobby had once mistakenly received a royalty check for the
other Bobby Caldwell. I didn't even know of his steel guitar work.

Gary E. Myers / MusicGem

Jason Odd, per my research on Lenny Capello/Lenny Damon:
> Country Paul, nice work. I'm not familiar with Lenny Capello,
> but your research inspired me somewhat.

And yours inspired me -- got some checkin' to do; thank you (a month late,
but life is what happens when you're making other plans!)

Jason continues:
> Apparently he played with The Rockets, a New Orleans swamp-pop
> group, that at different times included Dick Holler and Jimmy
> Clanton, Bill Dunnam. http://www.myspace.com/billdunnam

Dunnam's bio is pretty amazing -- if he did half of what he says he did
(and there's no reason to doubt him) he would be a phenomenal resource
for anyone into Louisiana rock and pop. I'm surprised by the rehashed
middle-road music he's playing on his site -- not bad, just totally
unexpected from his history. Guess the corporate world got to him!

Paul Carr:
> Yes -- The Jackpots...
> Yes "King Of The World" is one of the greatest pop songs of
> the '60s, period. It's a shame that the rest of the CD is
> filled with lame cover songs.

Didn't they have a song called something like "Tiny Dancer" (not the Elton
John song)? As I remember it was very pretty.

Peter Andreasen:
> Sony-Legacy has anounced a massive release of
> the Phil Spector catalog. Also, at
> http://feedback.legacyrecordings.com/pages/6333-reissue-requests
> you can make requests for future reissues. If you have any
> suggestions please feel free to share them there.

Cher's "A Woman's Story" is a marvelous oddity that should get renewed
exposure. Does anyone know if the  track goes on much longer than the
fade-out on the 45? For a record that moves that slowly, it positively
cooks!

Re: "Plantation Gold: The Mad Genius Of SSS, Jr. and Plantation/SSS Records,
1967-'76", Who did "I Am The Grass," please? I remember playing it on WHIM
in Providence; what a bizarre record! Perhaps based on having a #1 record
out of the box in a socially conservative style, many of the tracks I remember
on Plantation stuck with and proselytized that viewpoint, the most egregious
being the Lt. Calley track. But Singleton had his share of straight-ahead
country (and pop) hits, and I'm sure the entire roster of Plantation reflected
that as well. He was a major character; if you haven't read it, check his
profile in John Broven's "Record Makers and Breakers" -- he was truly a
character among characters.

And thanks to Phil M. for the amazing photo file,
http://www.fineprintheroes.com , which has pictures of most of these folks.
I just burned 90 minutes browsing through much of it.

Country Paul

John Berg:
> Thanks, Eddie. Now can you tell us what song was on
> the flipside of that single? I've never been able to find
> an actual copy of the record, so this has been among my
> many "someday I'd like to find out more about ..."
> questions.

I appreciate the interest in these old tunes. On the flip side
of "Shadows And Reflections" was a song written by Ed Cobb, my
producer at the time, called "If Love Could Rule the World." Of
course, our association ended with the release of "Butterfly High"
and "Sleepy Hollow People," songs I had written and recorded
with my friend and writing/producing/publishing partner, Tandyn
Almer, and were released "as is" under the band name The Paper
Fortress, on the VMC label.

Ed Cobb heard the airplay of that record and immediately knew
it was me doing the vocals, which ended our association and my
contract with Sunburst Records. It was a difficult time for me --
I didn't plan for all that to happen, but it let me know how badly
things can go awry in the music business if one does not have
the proper control of properties and entrusts them to others.
Live and learn -- sometimes, the hard way.

Let me know if you haven't heard "If Love Could Rule the World."

Take care, everybody. Down the road ...

Eddie Hodges

Phil X. Milstein:
> Anyone seen the new "Pirate Radio" yet?

-----

Deena Canale:

I did, last weekend in a sneak preview. As I've been telling everyone
who's asked, it's a fun romp but it has more in common with its
British ensemble-cast romantic comedies made by the same team ("Notting
Hill," "Love Actually," etc.) than with the better classics of rock
& roll cinema. Preposterous and historically inaccurate plot, plus
it's riddled with anachronisms. If you're going to set your flick
in '66, DON'T have your characters wear more '68-looking clothing
and listen primarily to '67/'68 era tunes! The soundtrack even
ventures into '71 territory at one point with "Won't Get Fooled
Again."

One of the most ludicrous scenes had a jock saying the F-word over
the air -- come on, the pirates patterned themselves after American
commercial Top-40 Boss Radio, not Lenny Bruce!

It might be fun for a future rental, but I wouldn't bother paying big
theater bucks to see it unless you get a kick out of playing "spot
the anachronism."

-----

Damian Bassett:

I caught the movie during the summer. Air Canada showed it on
flights, billed as an "international film"!

The writer/director, Richard Curtis, has a great track record ("Four
Weddings And A Funeral", "Notting Hill", "Love Actually", "Bridget
Jones", etc). In all of these, Curtis brilliantly uses music (mostly
'60s and early '70s) to support and advance the story. He also attracts
an outstanding ensemble of British (with the occasional American)
actors to his films.

"The Boat That Rocked" (aka "Pirate Radio") has the same elements --
great soundtrack and cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman being the token
Yank). The problem with the movie is that there really is no story!
Pirate radio was born in 1964 and shut down in 1967. End of story
in less than ten minutes.

Curtis has "invented" a romantic, "coming of age", bromance story
to fill the remaining 1:50. The cast is talented with some funny bits.
Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy, in particular, create characters that
fall just short of caricatures. On the other hand, Rhys Ifans and Emma
Thompson must be repaying some large debt to Curtis to have
accepted and played the roles they did.

Notwithstanding the above, it would be a treat to sit down with
Richard Curtis over a beer to discuss why he chooses the songs that
he does in his movies. He is absolutely brilliant at it. In this movie,
his choice of Duffy's cover of Lorraine Ellison's "Stay With Me" is a
showstopper. I would love to know why that song, of all the '60s R&B
songs available, was chosen.

All in all -- rent it, don't spend theatre dollars.

-----

Phil Hall:

When I was stationed in Germany in the mid '60s, the AFN (Armed Forces
Network) played little or no current Top 40. We knew about the off-shore
pirate stations, and in order to hear the latest American hits we
tuned in to Radio Luxembourg, which we thought at the time was
one of them.

-----

Ken Silverwood:

I saw this movie earlier this year and now have the DVD. It is very
enjoyable, as long as you view a  lot of the supposed events with
a pinch of salt. (I won't give any away). The cast playing the DJs
(who I am very  familiar with) are near spot on. The soundtrack,
of course, is perfect.

-----

The Four Seasons' backstory reads like the stuff of fiction -- street
toughs from New Jersey sing their way to the top without ever quite
escaping their hardscrabble origins -- and it seems ripe for
dramatization. So it's not surprising that "Jersey Boys," the musical
about The Four Seasons, has been a success.

But it might be surprising that it's been truly successful, a box-office
hit that has won both a Tony Award and a Grammy award. It has also
put frontman Frankie Valli back in the spotlight. He'll sing Wednesday
at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, North Carolina, the same hall
where "The Jersey Boys" played a successful run over the summer.

One of the best ideas Plantation ever had was the great not-for-sale
"Top 40 Bootleg" albums. These were started around 1970 and 1971
and featured top DJs and stations from around the country in excellent
quality. Just short 4- or 5-minute bits in many cases, but today they
are some of the only snippets of some of these guys and stations!

Plantation did the first two LPs, and then Mercury picked up the
ball and issued five or six more over the '70s. THAT is what makes
Plantation great for me. Also, "You, I" by The Rugbys and Eddie
Middleton's "Until Then" 45s from the same period. Oh, and who
could forget my Kansas buddies, The Jerms, with their update of
"Green Door" in '69?

WLSClark

Bob Matonis:

>> Bobby Caldwell, a member of the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame
and recent inductee to the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame,
has died  at his home in St. Louis, after a lengthy battle with cancer.  <<

I'm very sorry to hear that. About 10-15 yrs ago Bobby was working for St.
Louis Music, and the music store where I worked sometimes dealt with them.
We spoke once or twice briefly about Jules Blattner and about the fact that
Bobby had once mistakenly received a royalty check for the other Bobby
Caldwell. I didn't even know of his steel guitar work.

Gary E. Myers / MusicGem

Chris Brame:
> I just heard an enjoyable interview with Donna Loren on KNWH
> (Palm Springs, CA), on "Bulldog" Bill Feingold's show with Kevin
> Holmes. She was an absolute delight, and said she'll be coming
> to perform in L.A. (from her home in Hawaii) on Valentine's Day
> next year. They played her torch-song remake of "It Only Hurts
> When I Cry"; she still has a great voice.

What is the story behind this new version of "It Only Hurts When I Cry"?
Is she recording again?

The trailer preview for "Beach Blanket Bingo" has an alternate take of
the song, with Donna getting teary-eyed at the end of her performance
of 'It Only Hurts...". In the actual film, she remains dry-eyed.

John F. Black
Seattle

If you've had the name of a session drummer -- or bassist, or
arranger, etc. -- on the tip of your tongue but couldn't quite
finish the thought, the Fine-Print Heroes photo gallery is an
excellent place to begin your search. Simply plug the word
"drummer" into the site's Search button (in the upper-left
corner of the page), and thumbnails, with caption text and
linked to the respective full page, will appear.

A few tips on usage of the Search feature:

* The first Results page will show only three thumbnails (a
quirk of the Gallery frame on which FPH resides), but with another
button which will bring up a fuller slate of hits (if the results
of your search number more than three, that is).

* Clicking that Show All button will only bring up thumbnails for
the first 20 hits, but with a button to bring up the next set.

* The present version of the gallery includes "only" 600 images
(many of them, however, showing multiple people); thus, not all
session drummers -- or bassists, or arrangers, etc. --  are yet
included. We have plans, however, to grow the site by at least
as much again over time, and so, if you can hang in there with
that tip-of-the-tongue thought, that name you are searching
for will most likely appear eventually.

Another great use for the FPH Search feature is to help sort out
all those Arties: Artie Resnick, Artie Kornfeld, Artie Ripp, Artie
Wayne, etc., etc.

The fun begins at http://www.fineprintheroes.com

Dig,
--Phil M.

Bobby Caldwell, a member of the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame
and recent inductee to the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame,
has died  at his home in St. Louis, after a lengthy battle with
cancer. He was 68.
 
Caldwell started playing music at the age of five, and his first
paying job was at the age of 14, with Tex Schroeder. He also put
together one of the greatest St. Louis rock & roll bands of the
'50s-early '60s: The Teen Tones, featuring Jules Blattner.
 
Caldwell was also the guitar player on the first St. Louis Hop show
with host Russ Carter, St. Louis' version of American Bandstand.
 
In the 1950s Bobby played fair dates, dances, and clubs with Ike
Turner, Chuck Berry, Little Milton, and other top-name performers.
He played guitar on some of finest St. Louis record labels of the
'60s, including Bobbin, K-Ark and Norman. These recordings included
"Gamblin' Man", "Rock & Roll Blues" and "Let's Try It Just One
More Time."
 
Caldwell also received great exposure on the St. Louis midday show
The Charlotte Peters Show, a five-day-a-week program. There he
backed up such notable performers as The Ink Spots, Steve Allen,
Carol Lawrence, Al Hirt and many more. Caldwell was with the show
from around 1957 until it went off the air in 1970. He also released
a CD of tunes that were recorded live on The Charlotte Peters Show
from 1966. And all of this while he was still a teenager!
 
With all  the rock & roll  and pop music Caldwell was playing, he also
had a love for country music. Playing with some of the top St. Louis-
area country acts he became so proficient at finger-style playing that
he was commissioned by Mel Bay to write two books on the Chet Atkins
style of playing. Caldwell & Bay became close friends, and played
many gigs together until Bay's death in 1997.
 
Caldwell went on to work with some major country and Grand Ol' Opry
acts such as the Wilburn Brothers, Ray Price, Carl Smith, Stringbean,
Johnny Bush, Billie Joe Spears, Barbara Fairchild and Barbara Mandrell.
 
Caldwell's biggest live gig of the past 20 years was as leader of the
International Steel Guitar Convention Band. The convention, held
annually in St. Louis during Labor Day Weekend, is the world's largest
and most prestigious steel guitar convention. The city is also the home
of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, to which Caldwell learned from his
hospital bed that he had been elected to the 2010 class. He had already
been elected to the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
 
Caldwells' best CDs include "Zane Beck Meets Bobby Caldwell", "Finger
Style Guitar", "A Little This And A Little Of That", "Friends Of Steel"
and "Bobby Caldwell Trio Swings".

Bobby Caldwell (in glasses) playing lead guitar on "Lover Doll" by
Jules Blattner & The Teen Tones (K-Ark): http://tinyurl.com/yh6gbl4

Recent photo of Bobby Caldwell: http://tinyurl.com/yb5bphe

-Beatle Bob

Chris Mezzolesta:
> Ah, if only I could buy Telstar: The Movie but it's Region
> 2 only!

You might want to invest in an all-region player. There are cheap ones
sold by Coby at discount stores that only cost around $30. That was
the best $30 I've ever spent.

Back to "Telstar": other than scattered screenings in film festivals,
it doesn't appear to me that the film is headed for a U.S. release
theatrically. Whether a studio would be interested in a "direct to video"
release of it in Region 1 or not remains a dubious proposition. A lot
of companies aren't taking chances in this economy.

I ordered a copy recently from amazon.uk, where I found it on sale for
less than £6.

John Black

Ronnie Allen;
> To access this Bobby Goldsboro radio interview show, or
> any of my previous ones, please visit the "Jersey Girls
> Sing" website at http://www.jerseygirlssing.com

There's a couple of rare Goldsboro tracks at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfLYHKtP1_w

The second song sounds like " It's Too Late."

Mike Bennidict

I always wondered why Billboard magazine didn't include catalog
items when tabulating sales on their Top 200 album and singles
chart. Now finally all of that has changed!

Los Angeles (Reuters) -- Good news for fans of Michael Jackson,
the Beatles and other veteran artists. The compilers of the Billboard
200, the benchmark pop albums chart in the United States, said
on Wednesday they would dramatically overhaul the listing later
this month to include catalog recordings as well as current
releases.

The Billboard 200 generally lists only albums released in the past
18 months, and accordingly failed to reflect two of the biggest
events in the music world this year: Jackson's death and the
reissue of the Beatles catalog.

Fans scooped up millions of copies of both artists' albums, but
an 18-year-old policy at trade publication Billboard meant that
the stampede was marked in its relatively obscure Top Comprehensive
Albums chart, which combines both current and catalog releases.

The comprehensive chart essentially becomes the new Billboard 200.
The change takes effect for the week ended November 22. Sales
data, collected by tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan, are published
on Wednesdays.

If last week's Billboard 200 were based on overall sales, 35 catalog
titles would storm the chart, led by Jackson's "Number Ones" at
No. 13, Billboard said.

For the complete story: http://tinyurl.com/ykn2vat

Regards, Artie
http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/about-artie-wayne/

Margaret Still wrote:
> Plantation issued what I consider the worst Vietnam War-
> related record ever: C Company featuring Terry Nelson
> doing a song called "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" (Plantation
> 73, 1971). Interestingly, the 45 label notes that it was
> recorded at Fame Recording Studio, Muscle Shoals, Ala. --
> and this record went gold!

I've played to musica a cover version of this song, by John Deer, on
Royal American. According to a Billboard article Tex Ritter also cut
a version, but Capitol declined to release it, apparently due to the
unsettled nature of Calley's conviction.

--Phil M.

Martin Roberts:
> We discussed somewhile ago whether "Telstar", the movie on
> Joe Meek's life, had gotten a cinema release. A year ago I
> saw it as part of the London Film Festival, but I believe it
> had a very short release at the local movie palaces. The good
> news is that it's out now on DVD, and includes some extra
> scenes.

Thanks for the review, Martin. Next up: anyone seen the new "Pirate
Radio" yet?

--Phil M.

Ah, if only I could buy Telstar: The Movie but it's Region 2 only!
Who knows if it will ever come out here, or at least get added
to the Netflix instant-watch feature.

I am re-reading Barry Cleveland's book "Joe Meek's Bold Techniques"
and am still on the search for John Repsch's book. While I have not
actually heard scads of Meek music myself (other than "I Hear A
New World", "Best Of The Tornados" and various isolated tracks),
the story is so stranger-than-fiction that it begs watching, to
see how this guy made all this music on his own. The hero of home
recorders everywhere. I'll keep looking!

Chris Mezzolesta / Voiceguy1 Communications

Margaret Still:
> Bobby Warren (don't know anything about him) co-wrote and
> produced.

I spoke with Bobby Warren a few years ago. I found him during my continuing
Wisconsin music research. He turned out to be a different Bobby Warren from
the one I was seeking, but we had an enjoyable conversation and discovered
that we had both worked with the same guitarist at different times. (I always
enjoy those kinds of connections).

Gary E. Myers / MusicGem

Jason Odd:
> When I wrote the sleeve notes for "Plantation Gold: The Mad
> Genius Of SSS, Jr. and Plantation/SSS Records, 1967-'76", I was
> torn betweenthe chance to talk up Singleton, his labels and roster
> in a historical sense, or to go for the outrageous. I figured the
> music was something else, so I went for the historical, with a
> little bit of flavour -- after all, Singleton tried it all, and
> sometimes twice!

Hi Jason,

I sincerely hope I didn't offend you with my admittedly caustic comments
about "Plantation Gold". I had assumed (having not yet read the liner notes)
that the set was focused specifically on Shelby's novelty productions. As
such, my notes reflect a quite different standard than had I realized it
was meant as a more generalized collection.

Whichever the case, however, and in the event it didn't come across in my
earlier post, I think the collection is brilliant, and hope to gift several
friends with a copy (apiece!) when gifting time arrives later this year.

Thanks for doing such a great job, even if it was (if I'm reading your
comments correctly) a bit of a struggle to compile. The result was certainly
worth the effort!

--Phil M.

Chris Brame:
> I just heard an enjoyable interview with Donna Loren on KNWH
> (Palm Springs, CA), on "Bulldog" Bill Feingold's show with Kevin
> Holmes. She was an absolute delight, and said she'll be coming
> to perform in L.A. (from her home in Hawaii) on Valentine's Day
> next year. They played her torch-song remake of "It Only Hurts
> When I Cry"; she still has a great voice.

Thanks for the tip, Chris! Donna's a doll, and who'd have thought that
the innocent "Shindig" singer would turn out to have such a randy sense
of humor?

For the record, quicker access to the interview .mp3 can be found via
http://podcasts.sixradiosites.com/knews/bfpodcast.html -- once there,
look for the November show 5, and download "Hr2".

Dig,
--Phil M.

Hi all Spector fans. Sony-Legacy has anounced a massive release of
the Phil Spector catalog. Also, at

http://feedback.legacyrecordings.com/pages/6333-reissue-requests

you can make requests for future reissues. If you have any suggestions
please feel free to share them there.

Ronnie Allen;
> To access this Bobby Goldsboro radio interview show, or
> any of my previous ones, please visit the "Jersey Girls
> Sing" website at http://www.jerseygirlssing.com

Does Bobby still make that cricket sound? I saw him live back in
the '60s, and he seemed fascinated with a funny sound he did with
his mouth. He kept doing it all through the concert.

---Dan

We discussed somewhile ago whether "Telstar", the movie on Joe Meek's
life, had gotten a cinema release. A year ago I saw it as part of the
London Film Festival, but I believe it had a very short release at
the local movie palaces. The good news is that it's out now on DVD,
and includes some extra scenes.

It's well worth buying. The look and feel of the times are captured
brilliantly, the acting is superb, and the story line stays true to
John Repsch's "The Legendary Joe Meek" book. I won't give the ending
away -- suffice to say they're digging two holes -- but the brightness
and optimisim at the beginning of the film darkens by the latter half,
and Con O'Neil's performence is nothing short of riveting. Check out
http://www.telstarthemovie.co.uk/ and go buy a copy.

Martin