Hey Will: Pat of the Chiffons once told me that she has an acetate of an unreleased song called "Gee How I Love That Boy" on which she sang lead vocals!!...
That reminds me of a VHS tape I bought for a dollar of an early 50's Abbott and Costello broadcast. One show had Les Paul & Mary Ford as guests playing live...
Each Vogues song has a different story: "You're The One" was recorded in Pittsburgh with the Fenways providing the backing track. "Five O'Clock World" uses...
David Lerchey, member of doo-wop group Del Vikings, dies at 67 Associated Press HALLANDALE, Fla. - David Lerchey, a founding member of one of the first...
Ed Salamon Re: Ray Peterson, R.I.P. ... NY Times has his age as 65 as well. If he was really 69, it sort of undermines my earlier thesis about the blurring of...
... And I join in: Back when stores like Woolworth's used to sell cutout 45's in plastic bags with five (?) discs to a bag, I found myself the proud owner of ...
A million thanks for identifying my phantom song. During the 60's I was attending a boarding school in Atchison, Kansas. No offense to the people of Kansas,...
... Looks like "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" was released by Penny & The Overtones around 1958 (Rim 2021). Both songs are available on the CD "The Lovely Ladies...
Scott Swanson
swandwn@...
Feb 1, 2005 8:48 am
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... I recall "Woo Hoo" as being a pretty big record nationally. Fans of the late, great Steve Allen may remember a regular segment on his old show where he...
... I don't know the actual song you are looking for, but it might be by guitarist Alvino Rey, who made a whole career out of the "talking guitar" gimmick. One...
... Actually Peterson was 69. The Times interpolated his age based on an old bio that had shaved a few years off of his age for the teen market. ... I think...
... But these guys are not among them. I have no doubt that Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Bobby Rydell on the "Dick Fox's Golden Boys" tour are the original...
... The "Sonovox" goes back to probably the 1930s. You can see it being demonstrated in Walt Disney's movie "The Reluctant Dragon" (1941) to show how the train...
... I think they're now saying he was actually 69, but past publicity had subtracted four years. ... I don't know about a CD, and I still don't have capability...
I am looking for some information on the band Fuse, which recorded one LP and had two singles on Epic in 1969 or so. They would have faded off the face of the...
One of the great things about living in Nashville is having friends like Ed Salamon getting some of us old radio guys together with some of the old music...
There's a long obituary of Ray Peterson in UK's The Guardian newspaper today by journalist Dave Laing. Unfortunately, there isn't an accompanying photo. The...
Thanks to S'poppers for the info on "Forever" and how the "Talking Guitar" sound was created. I'm not sure why I said it was "Hawaiian", maybe the South...
... Skip, next time you or any of the other esteemed "Nashville Cats" visit with Danny Davis can you ask him what he remembers about having produced a single...
"Please let him love me" is by Margaret Ross? Wow. I haven't enjoyed a new-to-me musica track this much in a long time. This could have been released just as...
... I had this on a 45 - it struck absolute terror into my 5 year old heart at the time and mere mention of it now Paul, has made me sweat. The piano voice is...
This may have been discussed here recently, but has anyone here heard this disc? It advertises having first-time ever true stereo versions of "A Whiter Shade...
Now I could be wrong on this but I think the Rock-a-Teens were from the Richmond ,Va. area and the lead singer was Jess Duboy. He did a lot of on camera...
Austin Roberts
GEORGEROBERTSON@...
Feb 2, 2005 7:06 pm
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RIP David Lerchey. The NY Times ran the same obit that Bill Swanke reprinted, slightly edited to their style. ... There's an entire album in this style on...
Joni Mitchell did a lovely, subdued version of it on her "Chalkmark in a Rainstorm" LP from 1988. Steppenwolf also did a slow, blues- metal version on "Early...
