From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #54 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Friday, February 28 1997 Volume 01 : Number 054 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 03:16:09 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: I just saw the Blue Comets on Ed Sullivan! ...and I dug it! Hooray for TV Land! They sang two songs, "Blue Chateau" and "Ga Ga Ku"(I hope I got this right!). This is the first time that I have ever seen them. Not only did they play the standard drums, guitar, bass and organ(don't know what kind), they also played Sax, Flute and Koto. Both songs started slowly and then...boogie! They worked up quite a frenzy. 'Blue Chateau" was partially in English and partially in Japanese. I looked at Hitomi's page(where I found a picture of the Mops, thanks Hitomi!) and I didn't see a mention of them. Doing a quick search I notice that they had recorded on Epic, BLUE EYES, BLUE COMETS '66, they opened for the Beatles in Japan(thanks again, Hitomi!) and they apparently recorded into the 1970's. 1. Who were they? 2. What does "Ga Ga Ku" mean? On the same "best of" show, the Turtles sang "Happy Together" and "She's My Girl". I have got to watch Sullivan more often. And that's where I was last night, Brian Phillips Brian Phillips http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 1997 10:23:34 U From: "J. Emery" Subject: re- laika & cosmonauts they are currently writing material for a new record. they recently = signed a deal with Warner Bros. (!), but it may be just a European = thing--i'm not sure whether that means their stuff here will continue to = come out on upstart or warner. the cosmonauts are the best live band i have ever seen (instro or not). = i think they may be bionic. if they come within 3 states of your = hometown, it's worth the drive to see them. there is not another = surf/instro band around these days that is even half as good as these = guys. joe death valley ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 18:42:12 UT From: "brynne and scott " Subject: RE: re- laika & cosmonauts I saw these guys play for 30 minutes in a record store and it was great. They have a very funny sense of humor. That same night I went to the bar they were playing and it was even better. Did they keep hawking their t-shirts at your show? It was pretty hilarious. Lost that organ sound too. Scott >the cosmonauts are the best live band i have ever seen (instro or not). = i think they may be bionic. if they come within 3 states of your = hometown, it's worth the drive to see them. there is not another = surf/instro band around these days that is even half as good as these = guys. joe death valley< ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:01:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Williams Subject: Harry the Hairy Camel Does anyone know who did this, and what year? It was around 1979 I think. I only remember the verse lyrics, but they went sumthin' like this: Ey oop! Ey oop! I'm 'arry the 'airy Camel Ey oop! Ey oop! I'm 'arry the 'airy Camel, d d g a (chords below for clarity if in fact it's in d. Heavy English brogue here, too.... Thanks. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 97 16:27:42 -0400 From: Laura Taylor Subject: I Like Johnny, but not Scooby(shoot me!) ! ENTERTAINMENT ! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Songwriter Ben Raleigh dies in fire - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Los Angeles) The man who wrote the words to both Johnny Mathis' song ''Wonderful, Wonderful'' and the theme to the cartoon show ''Scooby Doo'' has died. Ben Raleigh died in a kitchen fire. He was 83. A spokesman for the coroner's office in Los Angeles says Raleigh was cooking in his apartment when a burner set his robe on fire. Raleigh won a Grammy Award for writing the Lou Rawls hit ''Love is a Hurtin' Thing.'' He also wrote ''Tell Laura I Love Her'' for Ray Peterson. (sound: upcoming) (Copyright 1997 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APNP-02-28-97 1602EST "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 08:28:56 +0900 From: "Hitomi I" Subject: RE: I just saw the Blue Comets on Ed Sullivan! Hi Brian I have never seen the video! They are Japanese GS, started '60 as instrumental band. The sound was influenced Jazz and latin music. They went to USA in March '68 to April , and appeared on Ed Sullivan show. ' Blue Chateau' was their most famous song, which was released march '67. It was beginning of GS fever! 'Ga Ga Ku' means Japanese traditional religious song style,not particular song's name. I think usually they didn't use Koto. The song's name is 'Etenraku' ( The Spiders- another Japanese band played the song as 'Etenraku Go Go' ) It's exixotic melody sounds psychedelic. In '60s Blue Comets was one of famous GS, made many hit songs. They were only GS which recorded ' Louie Louie' in their album, its incluedes latin number like Mas Que Nada, La Bamba. But they were jazzy and moody for rock 'n roll kids. Hitomi I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cutie Morning Moon '60s garage rock page from TOKYO http://www.kiwi-us.com/~hitomi/ e-mail hitomi@kiwi.co.jp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 18:30:29 -0800 From: gary mollica Subject: What's Happenin' Howdy, Just a brief note as I've been in the middle of quite a few trades & trying to do my Audities tape. I'm WAY behind in everything. I had a freak accident a few day ago resulting in extensive burns to my right arm, shoulder & back. My concentration isn't wonderful & have only been able to handle a few e-mails at a time. I'm over 800 messages behind. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up by this weekend. I did manage to get a few tapes out, but spending most of my time sleeping & listening to 30s jazz (now playing - Jelly Roll Morton - Complete General Sessions '39-40, with the original version of Winin' Boy). Hope to be back on track by the end of the weekend at the latest. This is my 1st 'puter session since Tuesday. Thanks for your patience! All the best, GaryM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:24:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mattdietr@aol.com Subject: ? and the Mysterians I know this thread was thoroughly explored a few months back, but I just bought a copy of an Italian CD of ? and the Mysterians' first album, and it sounds very nice. This is an Italian "import" (I love these polite, legal terms!), and the label is Ant (cat. #30.11). Anyway, the 12 original tracks from the album sound as if they came from the masters, or some other very noise-free source, though they don't have much of a juiced-up, remastered sound. Still, they sound good. There are four bonus tracks that are definitely lifted from vinyl, but very clean vinyl. Anyone else own this CD or know anything about it? It was only $18 (cheaper than the $20 boot that's been at the same store for months) so I tried it. It has the original cover art and liners as well. This will probably be one of those times when I get burned when Cameo decides to license out a top-notch re-release to Sundazed or someone, but who can wait, what with life being so short and all. Matt ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #54 *************************