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Post by manho on May 28, 2008 8:11:34 GMT -5
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Post by david on May 28, 2008 9:29:40 GMT -5
Little Anthony had by far the biggest hit of that lot, but I never much liked the song.
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Post by david on May 29, 2008 7:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on May 29, 2008 10:34:30 GMT -5
'Come See About Me' is one of the top 3 or 4 ever 'Premies tunes (awesome handclaps), but my girl Pet gets the nod from me as well. 'Downtown' was the first 'crossover' hit I can remember. Back in those days 'crossover' meant that my mother liked it.
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Post by cripes on May 29, 2008 11:04:31 GMT -5
btw, that Shindig clip of the Supes is boss. Shindig featured live performances as opposed to Hullabaloo which was always lip synced. You really can't reproduce those always perfect Motown recordings live, but this is close enough.
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Post by david on May 30, 2008 7:20:29 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on May 30, 2008 12:30:12 GMT -5
'Keep Searchin' rocks my week the most. Honorary mention to 'Saturday Night @ the Movies'.
I don't think I heard 'How Sweet it Is' until James Taylor's version became a hit in the seventies, thus giving the song a stink I can't wash out of my mind. The Jerry Garcia Band used to open a lot of their shows with this too....it didn't help.
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Post by manho on May 30, 2008 14:57:40 GMT -5
"I don't think I heard 'How Sweet it Is' until James Taylor's version became a hit"
right. imagine how bad you'd feel if you wrote a cool song and somebody phoned you and said, "hey james taylor has covered your song".
like, can anybody cover any song they want? doesn't the writer have a veto?
pick of the bunch? i'll go for the stones. no white guys ever got closer to a black sound than the stones with this record.
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Post by owen on May 30, 2008 15:59:21 GMT -5
"right. imagine how bad you'd feel if you wrote a cool song and somebody phoned you and said, "hey james taylor has covered your song".
maybe the cheque in the post softens the blow.
ill go with the stones too. one of jagger's best vocals.
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Post by david on May 31, 2008 7:57:17 GMT -5
I'd forgotten about the James Taylor version of How Sweet It Is. Thanks so much for reminding me. I just think of it as a cool Marvin Gaye song, one of his better early ones.
I like Saturday Night at the Movies (particularly this performance, where Johnny Moore seems to be channeling Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), but not as much as their true masterpieces, like Up On the Roof or Under the Boardwalk.
The Stones doing Little Red Rooster . . . it's like some of those country blues covers on the first Bob album. It's really good, but I have to be in the right mood. I can pretty much always listen to a good Motown single.
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Post by david on May 31, 2008 8:50:44 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on May 31, 2008 11:27:18 GMT -5
Fun week here. Did Canada get 'I Feel Fine' first? Here's the 'Fish & chips' video of I Feel Fine. Roger Miller takes care of business in 1:47 nicely. I read that in the recording studio they always had to make Roger write another verse because his songs would clock in at one minute. Dick & Dee Dee give some nice falsetto cheese (it was all Dick) with Thou Shalt Not Steal. These days 'Terry' by Twinkle accelerates my motorbike the most. |
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Post by manho on May 31, 2008 12:51:08 GMT -5
there's a nice story about twinkle in the hamburg book i told you all about last year. she was a sweet innocent girl and, incredibly, her family agreed to let her go over to hamburg and perform. she was 17 and all her clothes were clean. she had to go back to england after a couple of weeks of dirty sheets, greasy gas stoves and lecherous drunken english musicians broke her spirit.
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Post by david on May 31, 2008 13:22:09 GMT -5
I think I Feel Fine was released a couple of days earlier in Canada than in the US or UK, just long enough for it to register on the charts a week before the others. This happened with a few Elvis singles as well. I don't know why.
I'd take Gene Chandler and Betty Everett as the best of the non-Beatles singles here. Thou Shalt Not Steal has a nice hook though.
I'd never heard that song by Twinkle before. It seems to owe a little something to Leader of the Pack. But if you're going to steal from somebody . . .
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Post by manho on May 31, 2008 13:40:01 GMT -5
"It seems to owe a little something to Leader of the Pack. But if you're going to steal from somebody . . ." www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirt/twinkle.htmlooks like twinkle got there first. and she wrote it herself while the las had to hit the brill. |
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Post by david on May 31, 2008 13:54:07 GMT -5
Interesting link. So did Shadow Morton, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich lift it from her? I don't believe in coincidences in pop music songwriting . . .
I still think Leader of the Pack is miles better, but Twinkle deserves some cool points for doing it first.
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Post by owen on May 31, 2008 17:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by manho on May 31, 2008 17:52:28 GMT -5
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Post by manho on May 31, 2008 18:03:27 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 1, 2008 8:22:02 GMT -5
There were also the "death rock" singles like The Last Kiss, Teen Angel and Endless Sleep, but Terry and Leader of the Pack have the most in common. I remain suspicious.
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