From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #51 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Saturday, 3 August 1996 Volume 96 : Number 051 In this issue: Velvet Elvis Re: IRS folding? & More Re: IRS folding? & More -Reply Cuby & The Blizzards Phantom on Ed Sullivan? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: William_Jones@ITA.DOC.GOV Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:20:08 -0400 Subject: Velvet Elvis Lisa mentioned a club named Velvet Elvis and that reminded me of the band by the same name that put out a CD on Enigma in the late 80's. I think they were from Kentucky. It wasn't the rockin'est thing around, but I thought they had some decent songs. Anyone know if they had a second album and/or what happened to the band? Just wonderin'. Thanks - be seeing you, Bill ------------------------------ From: mmaxwell@primenet.com (Matthew Maxwell) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:53:06 -0700 Subject: Re: IRS folding? & More IRS was absorbed by EMI, who had been keeping the label afloat for the last couple of years. Back catalog has been swallowed up by EMI, and a friend of mine who has reason to know, suspects that unless artists want to license the masters for exoribtant rates, or unless the repressings would move a lot of units in a fairly short time (c.f. REM, etc.) then you shouldn't be holding your breath for a flood of repressings from any particular band. But then IRS hasn't been a very good label since about 1988 or so, maybe even earlier. Matt - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Matt Maxwell | mmaxwell@primenet.com | http://www.primenet.com/~mmaxwell "In the early days my meals were cold black coffee and fingernails" -- Rod Serling ------------------------------ From: Bob Pisciotta Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:53:36 -0600 Subject: Re: IRS folding? & More -Reply ..you shouldn't be holding your breath for a flood of repressings from any particular band. But then IRS hasn't been a very good label since about 1988 or so, maybe even earlier. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True, but wouldn't a retrospective box set (similar to, say, the Stiff Records box set) be a wonderful thing? I still have fond memories of the Best of IRS vols. 2&3. Bob Pisciotta ------------------------------ From: TweeKid@aol.com Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 12:36:14 -0400 Subject: Cuby & The Blizzards >From this weeks Billboard magazine: NETHERLANDS: Legendary blues outfit Cuby & The Blizzards will reunite for a fall tour of the lowlands under the banner "Cuby is Back". ------------------------------ From: "Derek Grime" Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 12:25:20 -0400 Subject: Phantom on Ed Sullivan? The Born Bad liner notes state that The Phantom, of "Love Me" fame, appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in the early sixties. He was on a major label, but it seems unlikely... Can anyone confirm that this actually happend? - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek Grime EMail: derek@coredp.com C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures http://www.coredp.com/index.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #51 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"