From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2001 #72 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com X-BompList-Administrator: efd@xnet2.com bomp-digest Saturday, February 3 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 072 This is the digest version of the Bomp list. ***HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE:*** Send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or go to . Here's what people are yacking about in this digest: Cryan Shames (formerly regional hits/national hits) HOODOO3005@aol.com Re: Re: Casablanca HOODOO3005@aol.com Re: Angel HOODOO3005@aol.com Chuck Jackson vs. Charles Jackson HOODOO3005@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:06:34 EST From: HOODOO3005@aol.com Subject: Cryan Shames (formerly regional hits/national hits) In a message dated 2/3/01 1:22:19 AM Central Standard Time, Mike F. sez, after a diatribe on NY oldies radio: << Glad you mentioned the Cryan' Shames. More Chicago heroes. And the ONLY one of their hits that NY radio ever played was "Sugar And Spice." Even their version of "Up On The Roof," by New Yorker/Brill Building Girl Carole King, didn't make it to the radio here. >> Across the country, the Cryan Shames were nothing but "Sugar & Spice," but here in Chicago, they were the next Beatles. "Up On The Roof," "I Wanna Meet You," "Mr. Unreliable" (single version---the album version is an inferior remake), "We Could Be Happy," "First Train To California," and the hard-rocking psych of "Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David, Smith & Jones" were all radio hits between 1966-68. Their three Columbia albums (all of which charted in Billboard) are extremely common (and cheap) in the local used bins. The oldies station here in Chicago probably has the same playlist as the one in NY, with two glaring exceptions, both by the Cryan Shames: "Sugar & Spice" and "It Could Be We're In Love." The latter was a showstopping love ballad that was #1 on Chicago's top 40 stations---SGT. PEPPER broadened your mind, but "It Could Be..." got you laid in Chicago back in '67. Yeah, our oldies station gets its playlist from a programming consultant same as NY...but these two Shames songs were so big, they were forced to add these to the rotation. Do L.A. oldies outlets play the Merry-Go-Round? Probably not... The Shames and the Buckinghams are overlooked by most garage fans (except for me and Mike F.), but if you like this kind of Garage Lite, it doesn't get any better. I always did like both bands' take on psychedelia---they were hip enough to pick up on the innovations of the time (I hear a lot of PET SOUNDS in some of the Shames' later work), but there was a certain AM radio innocence that most U.S. bands were losing track of. The Robbs come dead close to this synthesis on their Mercury album, but the Buckinghams and the Shames produced some of the best progressive pop (accent on pop) this side of England. JP ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:10:53 EST From: HOODOO3005@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Casablanca In a message dated 2/3/01 1:22:19 AM Central Standard Time, Mike F. is kickin' chickens all over the barnyard again! << <<<< have a video called "Inside the Casbah... A History of Casablanca Records and Filmworks" with a pretty amusing Angel segment... >>>> So does it include Lenny & the Squigtones?>> How about Suzanne Fellini? Ouch......... >> I never heard Suzanne, but I saw the ads for her album in the rock magazines in 1980. Realizing that disco was indeed dead, Casablanca went "new wave" for a DAY---that's how we wound up with Suzanne Fellini and Bugs Tomorrow. Where are you now, Sue Saad? OUCH! JP ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:12:40 EST From: HOODOO3005@aol.com Subject: Re: Angel In a message dated 2/3/01 1:22:19 AM Central Standard Time, owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes: << Angel actually put out a new CD last year. >> So do they still have the logo that reads the same way upside down? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:19:17 EST From: HOODOO3005@aol.com Subject: Chuck Jackson vs. Charles Jackson In a message dated 2/3/01 1:22:19 AM Central Standard Time, owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes: << the murray the k show (CD) has an awesome chuck (jesse's brother) jackson version of "beg me" >> Jesse does have a musician brother named Charles Jackson, who used to sing with the Independents, a soul harmony group from the early seventies. But the Chuck Jackson who sang "Beg Me" (among others) is from a whole nother Jackson family (and its' not Tito or Latoya's, either). ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2001 #72 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com