From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #34 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Saturday, February 8 1997 Volume 01 : Number 034 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 07:14:18 -0500 From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com Subject: What's yellow and smells like bananas? Monkey shit. The discussion so far: > Try doing a search on Sid & Marty Kroft. I'm pretty sure they were the > loonies behind the Splits. Nope, You're wrong, sir! It was Hanna-Barberra! And I say, H-B produced the show around characters created by S & M Kroft. It's true! Craig ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 97 12:53:36 UT From: "Bill Holmes" Subject: RE: Ear Pierrcing Punk Just to complicate matters further, there is a label called EAST SIDE DIGITAL (a.k.a. "ESD" for short) that boasts artists like Bill Lloyd, Terry Anderson, the Yayhoos and many other "roots pop" and country artists. They also issue the "Rig Rock Deluxe" series, which are essentially great songs of the road, or the complete antithesis of "Convoy". Good label, great product. All The Best, * Bill Holmes * bholmes_fm@msn.com http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8282 (c) 1997 Elmer Fudd - All wights wesevved. - ---------- From: Bomp-Sender@bolis.com on behalf of MENACHEM TURCHICK Sent: Friday, February 07, 1997 5:59 PM To: bomp@bolis.com Subject: Re: Ear Pierrcing Punk >i am curious, what is the deal with the east side digital vs. the aip >pebbles? i usta work for a distributor and bought all the east side digital ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 08:46:50 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: What's yellow and smells like bananas? To further bolster Craig who said: > And I say, H-B produced the show around characters created by S & M > Kroft. It's true! from http://www.hype.com/nostalgia/tv/banana_splitz/bananain.htm The Alleged Law Suit Kudos to Tim Grothause for the following tidbit. "Hanna-Barbera sued McDonalds over copyrightinfringement, claiming that the "Grimmace" infringed on the earlier shape, concept, etc.of "The Banana Splitz." (Humans wrapped in shag carpet.)" Actually, the suit was launched by Sid and Marty Kroftt. Doin' it, Doin' it, Doin' it/Doin' the Banana Splits, y'all, Brian Phillips ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 10:16:30 -0600 From: tj@ice.net (T.J. O'Brien) Subject: Re: What's yellow and smells like bananas? >To further bolster Craig who said: > >> And I say, H-B produced the show around characters created by S & M >> Kroft. It's true! > >from http://www.hype.com/nostalgia/tv/banana_splitz/bananain.htm > >The Alleged Law Suit >Kudos to Tim Grothause for the following tidbit. "Hanna-Barbera sued >McDonalds over copyrightinfringement, claiming that the "Grimmace" >infringed on the earlier shape, concept, etc.of "The Banana >Splitz." (Humans wrapped in shag carpet.)" Actually, the suit was launched >by Sid and Marty Kroftt. > > > >Doin' it, Doin' it, Doin' it/Doin' the Banana Splits, y'all, >Brian Phillips >########################################################### >Maybe I got the facts wrong here, but I heard Sid and Marty Krofft actually came up with all the characters for McDonald's (the Hamburglar, Grimmace, Mayor McCheese, etc.), but McDonald's "scrapped" their ideas, and then used them anyway, resulting in a lawsuit. At least the Krofft bros. can't be held responsible for those stupid little dancing McNuggets! Anyhoo, I found the unofficial Sid and Marty Krofft home page if anybody's interested: http://www.west.net/~popomatic/Krofft.html - -T.J. ############################################################ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 08:36:06 -0800 From: dothepop@ix.netcom.com (Lisa Lindstrom) Subject: Re: Ducklings >Yorktown Records (Arc Sound Co, Ontario) released a comp. in 1982 simply titled UGLY DUCKLINGS. The album collects sixties and seventies recordings.All the material is worthy of repeated listening *not* just the classic cuts. The sleeve is very easy to spot and features a Disney characterization of the Ducklings on a red background. Unfortunately the lbum is probably long out of print.> Actually, all the material on the album is from around '66-'67. Some of it is from the "Somewhere Outside" LP, some tracks from singles. The Ducklings did release a *new* album in '81 or '82 where they redid some old songs in a new, hard rock style that, um, sucked. It came out on Razor Records, the same label that put out the 2nd Viletones five-song EP (produced by Ugly Duckling's Roger Mayne). There is, I believe, a pirate CD version of "Somewhere..." floating around, also. Alan W. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 10:30:23 +0000 From: "moonbaby@serv.net" Subject: Rhino's 3-CD Poptopia Hey, y'all... I hadn't seen any mention of this on the list, so I thought I'd just forward the message directly to ya. This is from the promo dept. at Rhino (still one of my fave labels). I'm anxious to see the entire track listings, and I figure there will be a lot of "well, duh!" selections, but who knows? Could be a cool thing... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RHINO DISCOVERS POPTOPIA! ON MAY 27 Three-CD Series Defines Power Pop Genre with Gems from the '70s , '80s, and '90s LOS ANGELES - Rhino explodes with the dynamically sweet sounds of power pop on May 27 with the release of POPTOPIA! 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POWER POP CLASSICS OF THE '80S spotlights power pop's video generation, including The Smithereens ("Behind The Wall Of Sleep"), The Romantics ("What I Like About You"), Marshall Crenshaw ("Whenever You're On My Mind"), and The Plimsouls ("A Million Miles Away"). POPTOPIA! POWER POP CLASSICS OF THE '90S showcases bands unabashedly influenced by power pop's originators, including Jellyfish ("That Is Why") and The Lemmonheads ("Into Your Arms"). The '90s volume also reveals the future of power pop through such up-and-coming groups as The Rooks ("Reasons") and The Wondermints ("Proto-Pretty"). All three volumes of POPTOPIA! feature extensive liner notes with personal prologues penned by artists from each respective decade, including Eric Carmen (Raspberries), Todd Rundgren, Doug Fieger (The Knack), Peter Case (The Plimsouls), Marshall Crenshaw, and Matthew Sweet. The packaging features bold, vibrant pop art-style cover illustrations. A power pop revival is beginning to emerge. An annual Poptopia! music festival takes place in Los Angeles that features more than one hundred current power pop bands during two weeks of live performances. Power Pop!, the first comprehensive book about the genre, will be available in January 1997. From The Gin Blossoms (multiplatinum artists influenced by early power pop bands) to The Rembrandts ("I'll Be There For You") to the Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do, and the genre's growing number of fanzines, power "pop"-ularity continues to gain momentum. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DJ Johnson - Editor, Cosmik Debris E-Zine Now at http://www.cosmik.com/cosmikdebris Cosmik Debris: If we were a fight, they'd stop it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:54:24 -0500 (EST) From: Tawsurf@aol.com Subject: Re: Ear Pierrcing Punk In a message dated 97-02-07 23:05:46 EST, you write: >It's one of the AIP Pebbles. I'm fairly certain that the East Side >Digital series only had four volumes. I'm not sure where the "East Side >Digital" label name came from - maybe Greg will clue us in - but they >were essentially a Greatest Hits of Pebbles package. A few years later >the decision was made to reissue the entire vinyl series on CD, so I'm >sure the vast majority of the ESD tracks will show up on the AIP >releases. Some of these songs have been reissued 4 or 5 times under the >Pebbles banner! Besides the ESD and AIP CDs, and the vinyl originals, >there was a Pebbles box set, a "Great Pebbles" CD for the Japanese >market, and three Best of Pebbles volumes in England. wow, that's interesting....the east side digital label is from minneapolis and may be part of rykodisc, at this point. the rest of the esd label, to the best of my memory, has nothing to do with 60s punk. a stack of residents records, for example. yeah, there were just four from esd but with lots of trax. todd ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 13:20:43 -0800 From: gary mollica Subject: Re: What's yellow and smells like bananas? ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com wrote: > > Monkey shit. > > The discussion so far: > > > Try doing a search on Sid & Marty Kroft. I'm pretty sure they > were the > loonies behind the Splits. > > Nope, > You're wrong, sir! It was Hanna-Barberra! > > And I say, H-B produced the show around characters created by S & M > Kroft. It's true! My turn: From SATURDAY MORNING TV: (In a chapter about the Kroffts:) However, the Kroffts' characters were not TV's first king-sized puppet outfit... Full-sized people puppets have appeared on Captain Kangaroo & many of Shari Lewis's shows,but it was Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968) that would send the wardrobe department into overtime...."The show simply evolved when we decided to make some of the characters we were drawing larger & thereby give them more charm" says co-creater Joseph Barbera. Best, GaryM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 97 21:53:00 GMT From: g.nicoll@genie.com Subject: another Smoke break It was very interesting for me, as a huge fan of the band Smoke, to see the lively discussion here the other day about the British, the Australian, and the "two" American bands using that name. No, it seems that there are at least THREE American bands called Smoke. Nobody mentioned the Atlanta alterna-lounge band by that name. They've got two CDs on Long Play Records and many tracks on regional compilation albums. Smoke' frontman is a gravel-throated wierdo who looks like Iggy Pop and sounds a much like a stone-drunk Tom Waits (he used to dress in drag, call himself Opal Foxx, and front a similar band called the the Opal Foxx Quartet). The band behind him consists of banjo, cello, tuba, guitar and drums, and all the songs are dark, bizarre, meandering tales of unrequited love ("Luke Perry's Feet") or about being a round peg in a square hole ("Freak"). - -- GREGORY NICOLL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 19:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: Squishy@aol.com Subject: Re: Ear Pierrcing Punk In a message dated 2/7/97 3:00:41 AM, you wrote: <> ESD Licensed CD rights to a few titles from us in the '80s, at at time when it was not yet economically feasible for us to manufacture our own CDs. They were limited editions of 1000 and quickly went out of print. I believe there were 4 volumes of Pebbles, completely different recombinations of familiar titles from the vinyl series plus a few odd bonus tracks, with all new liner notes, organized around themes (their suggestion) of "sex", "drugs" and "rock and roll" plus a fourth miscellaneous volume. ESD also released CDs of the Barracudas and Pandoras. These are all quite hard to find now, I believe. Greg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:15:46 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Robinson Subject: Re: Ear Pierrcing Punk Does anyone know if and where the ESD version of Pebbles can be had. I have the AIP series and only one copy of the ESD version. And where did they find the MAD SOUNDS doing *To Masterbate*?????? Mark At 01:54 PM 2/8/97 -0500, you wrote: >>It's one of the AIP Pebbles. I'm fairly certain that the East Side >>Digital series only had four volumes. I'm not sure where the "East Side >>Digital" label name came from - maybe Greg will clue us in - but they >>were essentially a Greatest Hits of Pebbles package. A few years later >>the decision was made to reissue the entire vinyl series on CD, so I'm >>sure the vast majority of the ESD tracks will show up on the AIP >>releases. Some of these songs have been reissued 4 or 5 times under the >>Pebbles banner! Besides the ESD and AIP CDs, and the vinyl originals, >>there was a Pebbles box set, a "Great Pebbles" CD for the Japanese >>market, and three Best of Pebbles volumes in England. > > - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - - http://www.tiac.net/users/mrobin - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 00:41:15 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Uhle Subject: Re: another Smoke break On Sat, 8 Feb 1997 g.nicoll@genie.com wrote: > It was very interesting for me, as a huge fan of the band Smoke, to see the > lively discussion here the other day about the British, the Australian, and > the "two" American bands using that name. > > No, it seems that there are at least THREE American bands called Smoke. At least FOUR: A low budget group ca. '68 from the Grand Rapids Michigan area released a 45 called "Half Past The End." The labels originally said some guy's name, but they pasted stickers over that with "The Smoke" on them. It's an OK psychy garage disc, as I recall... Frank ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #34 *************************