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Post by johnpoole on Aug 9, 2016 19:49:23 GMT
Chocolate Watch Band didn't play on half of their 'classic' songs. David Axelrod sacked the original Electric Prunes from the Electric Prunes. Even ? and the Mysterions ended up as a completely different band to the ones who recorded 96 Tears. Funny how The Monkees took all the flack for being a manufactured band wasn't it? The practice was ubiquitous and as that wonderful recent Wrecking Crew doc shows it was the same bunch of session musicians on played on half of the 1960s anyway. The Chocolate Watch Band did play on their best known songs, although on the track later included on Nuggets - 'Let's Talk About Girls' - it was the group's lead vocalist who had been replaced without his knowledge by a session singer ... but some of their LP tracks (mainly instrumentals) were either by session musicians or a completely different group. I think the flack for the Monkees was first generated by an interview with Mike Nesmith in which he complained about not being allowed to play on their records. I do seem to recall some controversy in the press in the following year about members of the Love Affair not having played on their hits although I doubt that anyone cared very much.
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 8, 2016 21:01:19 GMT
The Standells final records were recorded by the KK session players for instance Not sure about that, although the Standells' song 'Try It' was covered by the Ohio Express. The Shadows of Knight certainly did end up with KK, although their lead singer was the only remaining member by that time.
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 8, 2016 18:24:35 GMT
As I recall Bubblegum first turned up as a musical description in 1968 for the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the Ohio Express, and other Kasenetz-Katz productions. I don't remember it being used in connection with non Kasenetz-Katz recordings until later.
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 6, 2016 21:46:51 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 2, 2016 14:08:55 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 1, 2016 14:33:50 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 1, 2016 12:44:30 GMT
This story seems a bit strange as there were at least two LPs which featured commentary from the 1966 World Cup final.Having heard neither of these I can't confirm if the radio or TV commentary was used and of course it may just have been the goals which featured. The double LP also featured the quarter and semi finals, interviews with Gerald Sinstadt, and apparently music by Joe Loss. Commentary on the final appears to have been by "Geevers" Wynne Jones, Jeff Ewer, & Peter Lloyd, so seemingly not from BBC radio. Possibly recorded after the event especially for the LP? www.discogs.com/Various-World-Cup-1966/release/8550711www.gardenofearthlydelights.com/Soccer.html
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 29, 2016 9:08:20 GMT
The "bonus disc" will only be available as part of the box set, but it appears that the intention is for most (or all?) of the other discs to be made available separately sometime next year. Really? That is much more generous than I had hoped for. Extremely cool news. To be honest, I can easily do without Atom heart mother related stuff, but the early recordings on there will be welcome additions to my collection. To each their own with different eras of floyd. I shall keep an eye out for legit releases from this set. Clarification from the press release - rather than the individual discs, six of the seven "book style packages" will be made available separately early in 2017. The "Bonus Continuation" will remain exclusive to the box. www.pinkfloyd.com/news/pdfs/Pink_Floyd_The_Early_Years_Press_Release.pdf
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 29, 2016 8:42:01 GMT
Are all the tracks definitely from the same edition of the mystery show? Given that all four singles were released in November and December 1966, surely that narrows it down a bit. The Kinks, Small Faces and Donovan were on the 1.12.66 edition of TOTP, but not Dave Berry. Dave Berry appeared on Crackerjack on the following day 2nd December.
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 28, 2016 20:15:50 GMT
Hmm, there is some really nice stuff on there, but I am mainly interested in Barrett era Floyd, so a lion's share of that material would be somewhat wasted on me in honesty. I wonder if there is any remote possibility of some individual CD/ DVD releases of this material or if I am eventually going to have to cave and get the lot for around a quarter of the material? Probably the latter I suspect. The "bonus disc" will only be available as part of the box set, but it appears that the intention is for most (or all?) of the other discs to be made available separately sometime next year.
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 27, 2016 9:11:56 GMT
It is not clear exactly when the upbeat jingle was recorded. 6th February, 1964: London, Pye Studios. Producer: Jonathan Rollands. Sound engineer: Glyn Johns. Recording of an advertising-jingle for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies breakfast cereal. - Kellogg's Rice Krispies I (BJ/J. Walter Thompson) - Kellogg's Rice Krispies II (BJ/J. Walter Thompson) -unverified Note: First aired on ITV in early 1964. Two different films to this 30-seconds-advertising jingle exist. www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/1964.htmThey were paid £400 according to Bill Wyman
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 24, 2016 18:06:27 GMT
The Who appeared on "Crackerjack" because it was just another promotional platform and they wanted to sell records. It probably didn't seem odd to them. Lots of more obscure bands also appeared on children's programmes. Many fans of the Creation are unlikely to know that they once appeared on the "Five O' Clock Club" because the footage is missing. The Who probably didn’t even have any say in which show they played on, despite all the groovy rebel stuff we might apply to them now. I remember when I worked in the BBC offices in Manchester in the early/mid nineties the Mark Radcliffe show was the regions big flagship show and there was a big Whiteboard up on one wall showing all the acts marker penned in for the weeks and months ahead. Any agonizing was always over an unfilled guest spot. The records could always look after themselves. I bet it was the same with Crackerjack. “OK Leslie/Pip/Peter, next weeks song medley is…such and such. We need cabbages and pencils for the games. Oh and those nice boys from the Who are coming in at 2pm for a run through.” All grist to the light entertainment mill and as you say no big deal at all The odd thing is that the Who appeared on Crackerjack in November 1968 after having previously avoided appearing on children's TV, and they mimed 'Magic Bus' which had been on release for several weeks and was already going down the chart after having peaked at No.22. But perhaps they needed the £100 in the pre-Tommy period.
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 24, 2016 17:55:09 GMT
Given that the BBC flew the unknown Bob Dylan to sing a few songs in a TV play (he was paid to act,too,but couldn't),it's possible that Howlin' Wolf had his expenses paid,I suppose,or was over here for other reasons Howlin' Wolf had been in Europe since the end of September for the American Folk Blues Festival, followed by the Big City Blues Tour, and he then appeared at the Marquee Club (26th November) and Manchester Free Trade Hall (6th December) and maybe other dates accompanied with his guitar player Hubert Sumlin and Chris Barber's Band. They also recorded four tracks on 30th November (later released by Chris on a CD) which I guess were for broadcast on Saturday Club on 12th December genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e9fc664aa5c34bc2883bfb89028c6aa6
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 20, 2016 20:16:57 GMT
Re: - Howlin Wolf on Juke Box Jury as mentioned above - I don't believe that the record was Smokestack Lightning, my memory is that it was a later release and as far as I'm aware the Wolf did not visit the UK until October 1964 a few months after his Top 50 (not 30) hit in June/July. He continued touring in Europe in November. If I remember correctly Lonnie Donegan was one of the jury and my best guess is that the transmission date was 12th December, 1964 and the record 'Love Me Darling' (recorded a few months earlier and released here at the end of the previous week) genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/abf5eb2ae2984222b24ae5d74f9f0b5bwww.45cat.com/record/7n25283Sorry this is a little late...
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Post by johnpoole on Jun 4, 2016 9:59:09 GMT
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