I did, they say they can't imagine me in all that. they lack imagination. also, in their eyes I am old lady who wears suits and vintage dresses.

Wow, dw, I totally feel you on that. Call it a medical expense and take it off your taxes. :)

Heh. What I'd rather have is my insurance cover it. :)

That could work., if there was a vitamin S. Or you could call it a new anti-depressant.

Here's the Rhino Girl Group Box Set

Hmph. Apparently they couldn't license any of the Phil Spector stuff with The Ronettes or The Crystals which makes the whole thing dubious. A girl group box set without "Be My Baby"? Why bother? No "My Boyfriend's Back," No "Please, Mr. Postman"? No "He's So Fine" No "Da Doo Ron Ron"?

They do have some cool oddball tracks like "Nightmare" by The Whyte Boots and "Funnel of Love" by Wanda Jackson but I don't even consider that to be in the girl group category, nor songs by Dolly Parton or Irma Thomas (though I love them both). They do have some demos by Ellie Greenwich and Carol King, but still, this is a not even close to a definitive collection, and veers wildly from accepted notions of what constitutes a Girl Group.

Not qualified to make this judgement so I'll just say "What Hec Said" because hello?

That site is awesome, David. I just watched BIlly Bragg's Sexuality, which I haven't seen in AGES.

Okay, I uploaded "Around the Way Girl" Travis Morrison stylee, to buffistarawk.

And here's a place that has a link embedded in it to his cover of Ludacris's "What's Your Fantasy." [link]

Y'know that 33 1/3 series of books? Aspiring writers take note:

A few days early, but what the heck...If you're interested in writing a book for the series, for publication in Spring 07 or Autumn 07, you've got between now and October 31st to email me (david@continuum-books.com). No need to write up a proposal yet - just very briefly tell me who you are and what you might be interested in writing about, and I'll add you to the list. Everyone on that list will then receive an Invitation to Pitch (with guidelines on how to do so) in early November, and with any luck we'll be able to sign up 7 or 8 of the best proposals, for publication in 2007.

And not to come across all Cher or anything, but these may well end up being the very last books in the series, so let's hope they're good'uns.

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No "My Boyfriend's Back," No "Please, Mr. Postman"? No "He's So Fine"

Girl Group Greats (Rhino 76708)

The whole thing is (at best) minor hits. It's meant to supplement their other girl group comps. Yes, the Crystals & Ronettes are missed, but they're just a Spector greatest hits package away. They did manage to get Motown, which is a change from twentysome years ago when Rhino released its first girl group compilation, Wonder Women, which had a snazzy hologram of the Shangri-Las from one angle and either the Dixie Cups or Chiffons from another angle (been a while since I looked at it & I can't find it online.)

CRYING IN THE RAIN - Carole King. Okay, she wrote "The Locomotion," "One Fine Day" (played on this one, too), and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" so her girl group bona fides aren't in question, but this is an Everly Brothers song! I'm actually pointing this out not to nitpick but as an excuse to say that I have a beautiful bootleg version of this by Richard & Linda Thompson. I think she sang an Everlys tune when Misha & I saw her a couple years ago.

Sissy Bar - "Gin and Juice"

I wanna go to the 4AD thing SO BAD!