( continues...) the nervous excitement of adolescent sexuality . . . Sugar Sugar has one of the sexiest moments this side of Tim Buckley when vocalist Ron Dante explodes ‘like the summer sunshine, pour your sweetness over me’.”
The end result of this hoo-ha was the Bubblegum Achievement Awards in New York, the genre’s spiritual home. Such luminaries as Ron Dante,
Toni Wine (fellow Archie and author of Groovy Kind of Love) and Mark
Volman of the Turtles were awarded Gummies. Presented by Cooper, the Gummies are “beautiful custom trophies of a golden woman holding aloft a real pink bubblegum ball. This music has brought so much pleasure to people, it was really cool to give some of that back to the people who made it.”
Smay and Cooper describe Lost in the Grooves as “a capricious guide”
that may not have a sequel. Neither says they want to declare war on
the world of Q and other classic rock publications. “I don’t get
angry,” says Smay, “I just shake my head that people choose Thriller
over Off the Wall, or misunderstand Mick Taylor’s contribution to the
Stones, or missed the Everly Brothers’ mid-Sixties career.”
Cooper tries “not to worry too much about what the canon holds. It
seems to me that the canon is becoming less and less meaningful.” Her
work means that the odds on the Archies making the cover of Q some time soon are still slim, but just a little less slim.
Hec, thanks for name-checking the Everlys.
Though all I have of theirs from that era is a 2-CD compilation from the Warner Brothers years.
Though all I have of theirs from that era is a 2-CD compilation from the Warner Brothers years.
Well, that's a lot more than most people have. The Everlys were still in their early 20s in the mid-sixties. They couldn't get their songs on the radio anywhere after the British Invasion, but groups like Chad and Jeremy or Peter and Gordon would cover those same mid-sixties songs and have hits. One of their mid sixties songs, "A Man With Money" became something of a mod classic covered by several groups, including The Who.
I have the Everly Brothers box set and it has more great, unheard music than almost any other box set I have on a single band or musician. Most boxes taper off in quality on the last disc, but the Everlys did fantastic work even into the early seventies where they explored a lot of great country rock.
They actually did fairly well in the UK during the mid-60s. XM's '60s channel does a weekly "here and there" show of the Top 10 this week in 196whatever, alternating between "here" (the US) and "there" (the UK). Apparently "Gone, Gone, Gone" was a big UK hit.
I found the pretty version (with an excellent Wings photo!): [link]
Ah, now Wings. I saw them on an old Flip Wilson rerun last weekend, performing (I kid you not!) "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
I can't say I liked it, but it was far better than it had any right to be.
John Cale’s Paris 1919
Ah! Thank you for reminding me that I need to buy that track from iTunes tonight. (I *wish* I could get a copy of the cover version Trio Nocturna performed live, but they never recorded it.)
Carp.
Now I can't open Safari for some reason.
Anyone have the link to the page of links to the music exchange CD's? If not, no biggie - I can just threadsuck again....
eta: Nebbermind. I had emailed it to myself....
[link]
Gah. Before I ripped erinacous's CD I typed all the song and artist names in. Now I discover that the songs were actually in a completely different order than on her webpage. I don't know yet if I screwed up while ripping it (iTunes ripped in random order?), or if the CD I got had the songs all in the wrong order....
Still, it's kinda' fun, listening to a song and picking a likely song name and band from a list....
eta: OK, I'm gonna need some help figuring out some of these songs.
First: Do you suppose the song "The Robot With the Accordion" has something that sounds like an accordion, and something that might be a robot?
eta²: OK, these are the ones I can't figure out. All but one (eta: or 2) are instrumentals.
Song - Artist
Pink Mood - Tipsy
Losing Myself Too - John Cunningham
VTQ From the Block - The Voodoo Trombone Quartet
16/20 - JuJu Club
Can someone tell me what these songs sound like? OK, it would probably be easier if someone could tell me how long each of these songs are.....
Also, "In the Street" by Alex Chilton is missing from the CD....
eta³: OK, using iTunes I've narrowed the unknown songs down to two.
McCartney II
gets a namecheck in LitG! I love that album. I ended up with a copy as a kid somehow, but for some reason gave the LP to a friend a few years later. I'm still not exactly sure why. Thanks for reminding me that I've been meaning to get my hands on a copy.
