A friend of mine recently forwarded to me a link to a website featuring some amazing, hand-painted, one of a kind* posters for mid-'60s pop concerts, all of...
... Agreed - but "Come Away With Me" (on Dot) is at least as psychedelic as the Stones' "2000 Light Years From Home," which it apes so well. ... If I'm not...
... The Tom Jones of Morocco! I've been spinning on occasion his (English language, they all seem to be) covers of Eddie Purrell's "The Spoiler" and Bob and...
... The true story of the making of The Chipmunk Song" as told to me by Si (aka Simon the chipmunk) is found in Liberty Records. Doc Michael "Doc Rock" Kelly ...
Firstly, a Happy New Year to those for whom it is relevant . Would some kind individual be able to point me in the direction of some biographical information...
I'm so far behind so this may have been clarified already but... ... My Rhino set has it as track 19 on disc 2. Right before 'New Recruit'. Regarding Alive and...
I know I'm a little late with this one but the definitive British car song was and is "Beep Beep" by the (New) England vocal group, the Playmates on UK...
... Dusty's first self-penned, and one of my favourite of her flips, "Once Upon A Time", was also given a French treatment in the form of Françoise Hardy's...
... The origins of "Silent Night" I've always thought were relatively well known, but ... "The Christmas Eve of 1818 was at hand. Pastor Joseph Mohr of St....
... Did you ever have any luck with this? Did you know that Sem Sinatra has the whole "!Revolucion con Brasilia! The Exciting New Sounds of The Girls From...
I think Spacey's desire to make a film about Darin overran his logic. The whole point of the Darin's life was that he lived about three lives in his one short...
... You're welcome! Here - I'll post it again for those who missed it first time around - http://www.boydproductiongroup.com is his webpage, but you can order...
... By strange coincidence I have the very 45 in front of me now. When I found this, Phil C. quipped that it was probably a Claire Francis production, although...
... We spun "Zoizoi" last night! The OG (er, "ooriginal gansta") 45 seems regularly to go for $120 or so on eBay, though a friend reported a while back not...
Happy New Year to my fellow Spectropoppers! Those of you are interested in Japanese pop music may want to check out a new website called Nippop that's been...
... I'm a little confused. The British release was of a different version than the American one? My mom claims she went to college (Univ. of Conn.) with The...
... Dave, if you have any foreign languages France Gall tracks, could you either play them at Musica or send them over? I see France quite regularly and I'm...
... The decision to include chart positions was a made real late - it dawned on me on Monday that Decemeber '74 marked the end of Bell so I'd not a lot of time...
Finally found the book I've been going through boxes for... Louisville's Own was published in 1983 by Brenda and Bill Woods. It covers local recorded music...
... Actually, (Ghost) Riders In the Sky (remake of a 1949 Vaughn Monroe number one hit) by the Ramrods entered the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1961, stayed...
Since everyone is chiming in with the Claire Francis records they've uncovered, I figured (as a public service, so to speak) I'd compile a list of them. Here...
Scott Swanson
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Jan 2, 2005 4:00 pm
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Hola Everybody: ... Hola Frank, there´s a great CD with a collection of France Gall´s songs in German issued between 1968 and 1972 in Decca. It was released...
Steve...How ya' doin'? You have a point when you say, "Having someone as old as Spacey playing Darin is pointless"...but I've seen a couple of clips that...
Davie...How ya' doin'? in 1963, I produced a master with Joey Powers, "Midnight Mary", which I wrote with Ben Raleigh. My friends, Jerry Landis [Paul Simon]...
Dear Scott, Thanks so much for all your efforts. You are a gem! See below for a list of records I would like to hear. Mick, Martin, and Phil and Ian had been...
