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From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Subject: Re: Fleetwood Mac question
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:47:53 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <8eWueDa00Uh701D6cF@andrew.cmu.edu> Anna Matyas <am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>Does anyone know if "Silver Spring" ever made it on to a Fleetwood Mac
>record?  If so, which one?

No. At least, not yet. It was caught in the legal entanglements resulting from
the bickering that drove the band apart. Nicks wanted it to appear on
'Rumours' but Fleetwood refused; it caused her to hold a grudge which
lasted many years.

A lot of that has been settled, and it's possible that the track will appear
in =two= places before long:

	Stevie Nicks' forthcoming album, but re-worked and under a different
        title
   
	The forthcoming (1/93) Fleetwood Mac box set.

Buckingham/Nicks is also due for an early 1993 CD release, with some
new tracks recorded this summer.

>And could someone send me the lyrics?

I don't think I've ever seen them in print. I'd transcribe them from the
45, but I don't have the time right now.

I do have a slightly scratchy 'extra' vinyl 45 if you're interested; make
me an offer.


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Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:43:59 -0400 
From: Anna Matyas <am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Fleetwood Mac question


Does anyone know if "Silver Spring" ever made it on to a Fleetwood Mac
record?  If so, which one?

And could someone send me the lyrics?

Does anyone have the lyrics for "Sara"?

Thanks,
Anna


Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: davisonj@bnr.ca (John Davison)
Subject: Re: Phone numbers/tones in songs...
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:03:24 GMT

In article <152290001@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
>/ hpuerca:rec.music.misc / davisonj@bnr.ca (John Davison) /  1:46 am  Aug 18, 1992 /
>        As long as you're collecting, here are some recordings in which
>telephone sounds can be found:
>
>"Bad Connection", Yazoo, _Upstairs_at_Eric's_
>                  ^^^^^
>
>I could have sworn Vince and Alison were "Yaz", not "Yazoo".....

        In the United States they were forced to use the name "Yaz" after it
was found that someone else was using the name.  Incidentally, the front side
of the cover of my LP copy of _Upstairs_at_Eric's_ has a sticker placed over
the area where the "oo" would be, but the spine still says "YAZOO".

        They continued to use the name "Yazoo" in the U.K.


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From: sana@McLaren.t-sisi.tis.co.jp (Kaz "ACID" Sanada)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: * * a lyrics quiz you can POST to * *
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:24:25 GMT
	<1992Aug12.174029.9029@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
Reply-To: sana@McLaren.pontneuf.tis.co.jp
Followup-To: rec.music.misc
Organization: Toyo Information Systems Co.Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
In-reply-to: lisa's message of 12 Aug 92 17:40:29 GMT

Well, it's my chance to try:-)

In article <1992Aug12.174029.9029@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> lisa writes:

>Love Is Strange                         Mickey & Sylvia

    Recently Everything But The Girl replayed in "Accoustic".

>True Love

    Hmm, is it by Glenn Frey? Or Matt Bianco? Or Wang Chung?

>Modern Love				David Bowie

cf.Modern Day Love by Dial M (does anybody know this duo?)

>My Love					Commodores

   What about Paul McCartney?

>Baby Love				Diana Ross & Supremes

   "Love Baby" by Fortran 5:-):-)

>Victim of Love				The Eagles

   Is it different from that of Erasure?

>Game of Love

   Fairground Attraction.

>Power of Love				Deee-Lite, Luther Vandross, others

   Huey Lewis and The News, for example.

>(Pride) In the Name of Love		U2

    Naked Eyes also have "In The Name Of Love".

           Kazuhiro Sanada
Toyo Information Systems Co.Ltd., Japan (TEL:03(3271)5211)
  sana@McLaren.pontneuf.tis.co.jp --Love will overcome Time and Distance--
From: katiel@athena.mit.edu (Katie Livingston)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Bonzo Dog Band: Crude discography/notes/ramblings/etc.
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:11:48 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Viv Stanshall interestingly enough also supplied many of the lyrics to
some of Steve Winwood's post-Traffic solo albums, notably Arc of a Diver.
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.games.trivia
From: ghblee@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Lee Han Boon)
Subject: Re: * * a lyrics quiz you can POST to * *
Organization: GINTIC Institute of CIM, NTU
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:39:07 GMT

rone@girtab.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
: 
: 5150
: no, no van halen 'love' songs

How about "Why Can't This Be Love?" from 5150?  :)


- h.b.-
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: moeller@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Mc Mars)
Subject: Need name and artist of this song!!!
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 08:52:17 GMT

I've heard this song on the radio, which I really liked, although I
missed out on hearing the female singer's name, could anybody help me
out please???


The song goes something like this (it's a modern sort of pop song);


that's what it comes back to (coming back to you)...

No matter what you say, it doesn't matter what you do.. 
No matter what you say, no matter what I do..

One day you'll see it my way, I don't know when (could be anywhere)
another wreck on life's long highway, 
another trip you know we'll have to share.

It's gonna last forever, and there's nothing I can do,
Put yourself together, that's what it comes back to.

Nothing I can do without it, your love must be true,
nothing I can say about it keep coming back to you..
(it all comes back to you)



Any help on this matter would be most appreciated!!


Thanks,

-- Mario Moeller /                                           _
                / This is what the KLF are about ------ |/| |_
------------------------------------------------------- |\|/|
m o e l l e r @ m u l l a u n a . c s . m u . o z . a u ______
From: rob@cwi.nl (Rob van Rooijen)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Bonzo Dog Dooda Band
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:23:31 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam


Someone just gave me a tape with music and fun from the Bonzo Dog Dooda Band.
Does anyone have any informtion about band members etc. Rumours are they are
the later Monthy Pythons..... Any truth in that?!?

Rob.

-- 

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From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: "You're so vain" - Carley Simon. Who is it about?
Date: 21 Aug 1992 04:32:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: hijack.berkeley.edu

In article <25415@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
>Joe "Now if somebody would explain to ME what "Hotel California" is about" Chew

I think I heard Don Henley explaining it in an interview as being about the
transition from the 1960's to the 1970's.  I'm not sure how the song is
supposed to be connected to this transition.

Ken Shirriff			shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
From: micbrian@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (MAD MAX - THE ROAD WARRIOR)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Did Karen Carpenter ever record "Ticket to Ride"?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:52:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug14.140855.16843@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, vulcan@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (patricia.m.chmiel) writes...
>While watching the Beatles perform "(She's Got A) Ticket To Ride" on
>a "Best of Ed Sullivan" show, my brother-in-law said "Funny, I
>don't associate that song with the Beatles."  Sister Sarah and I
>ask "Who do you associate it with?"  He replies "Karen Carpenter"!
>Sarah and I look at him like he's nuts.
> 
>So, _did_ Karen Carpenter ever record the Beatles' "Ticket To Ride"?
>If, so, (bonus question) can you name the album it's on (assuming
>it was on an album!)?

The Carpenter's did record the song, making changes to it so that it was
"he" instead of "she" in the song.

I have it on an LP titled The Singles, 1969-1973.

Brian
From: md@sound.esm.rochester.edu (Mike DeMurga)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Sam Phillips + T-Bone
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:27:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY

In article <63898@cup.portal.com> AXIOM@cup.portal.com (Lowell D Kaufman) writes:
>T-Bone's stuff is alot more eclectic than his wife's stuff.  I would
>not necessarily say that a fan of one will be a fan of the other.
>
>T-Bone emphasizes alot of songwriting style, but isn't as poppy or (often, 
>not always) as atmospheric.
>
>Most of his album's are quite good:
>
>"Proof Through the Night": This one might come closest to Sam Philip's stuff
>(but not really).  He has alot of friends like Richard Thompson and
>Pete Townshend playing with him.
>
>"T-Bone Burnett": A terrific folk/country record emphasizing his simple
>songwriting style.  
>
>"Criminal Under my Own Hat"  His most recent one, has alot of varying
>styles and is damn good as well.
>
>"Truth Decay" and "Trap Door" are also good items.  
>
>He also has alot of early work done as The Alpha Band which I don't
>like as much (this is when he's toured with Dylan as part of the Rolling
>Thunder Revue).
>
>T-Bone is a talented songwriter who I put in the same group as Peter Case,
>Bob Neuwirth, etc.  They're all moralistic, simple styled writers who
>know how to craft a song real well.
>
>Hope this helped.

Sam Phillips has an album that came out before "Wow" that T-Bone produced.
It's called "The Turning" and has two good songs she wrote with T-Bone.
It's under Leslie Phillips, not Sam and may be tough to find. 
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: stuart@apollo.hp.com (Stuart Troutman)
Subject: mother's lament?
Originator: stuart@mingus
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:04:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA


I need some help with the final line of an old traditional English music hall 
or pub song. It was made somewhat popular in a loose version recorded by Cream 
on their 2nd album, "Disraeli Gears" (1967). The title they used was "Mother's 
Lament", but I understand that the song goes by other names. Anyway, I need the 
correct words to the final line. Below are straight English and sort of phonetic 
"Cockney" renditions of the song as I've heard it performed.


A mother was washing                            Ah muvvah wuz woshing
Her baby one night                              'Uh baiby wun noight
The youngest of ten                             D'yongist uf tenn
And a delicate mate                             In'uh delly-kit maite

The mother was poor                             D'muvvah wuz poouh
And her baby was thin                           In'uh baiby wuz fin
'Twas naught but a skeleton                     'Twuz nowt baht ahn skellington
Covered with skin                               Cahvahd wif skim

The mother turned 'round                        D'muvvah tun'roun'
Pulled the soap off the rack                    Pool d'sawp awff d'reck
She was only a moment                           She wuz awnly ah mawmint
But when she turned back                        But when she tun'd beck

Her baby had gone                               'Er baiby 'id gon
And in anguish she cried                        An' in ainguish she croyed
"Oh where has my baby gone?"                    Aahw wheh'as moy baiby gon
The angels replied                              De aingels reployed

"Oh your baby has gone down the plug hole       Aahw yuh baiby 'as gon dan d'plug'ole
Your baby has gone down the plug                Yuh baiby 'as gon dan d'plug 
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin    D'poouh li'uhl fin wuz sahw skinny'n'fin
He should've been washed in a jug               'E shood've been woshed in ah jahg

Your baby is perfectly happy                    Yuh baiby is puhfecly 'eppy
He won't need a bath anymore                    'E won' need a bahf inny mowuh
He's a-muckin' about                            'E's a-muckin' aboat
With the angels above                           Wif de aingels abahf
Not ___?___                                     Nowt ___?___
But ___?___ ___?___ ___?___"                    Baht ___?___ ___?___ ___?___


                                                     -stuart@apollo.hp.com


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From: tmadson@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Todd Madson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Phone numbers/tones in songs...
Date: 21 Aug 92 05:25:02 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

Actually, I remember that "Don't call us, we'll call you".  As I recall,
it was actually the dialup for CBS records.  
 
 Pat Metheny/Lyle May's "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" has a
really interesting bunch of phone metaphors throughout.  The cover shows
a highway with an approaching car and an outstretched telephone receiver.
One of the songs is called "It's for you".  And, the title track has a 
brief sequence where a voice speaks the numbers:  38, 42, 55, 3, which
could concievably add up to the telephone number 384-2553, somewhere in
the U.S.  Where is Pat Metheny from, anyway, Missouri?

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From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Phone numbers/tones in songs...
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:48:21 GMT
Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Phone ringing and being answered and the song continued being sung down
the line - "Fol de rol" on Hatfield and the North's 1st album.
-- 
_____________________________________________________________
Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
From: khan@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Did Karen Carpenter ever record "Ticket to Ride"?
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:25:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bt9D9v.I9w
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

M.A. Murphy <MURPH@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

>In article <BszDF9.62H@acsu.buffalo.edu>, micbrian@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (MAD MAX - THE ROAD WARRIOR) says:
>>
>>In article <1992Aug14.140855.16843@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>,                       om (patricia.m.chmiel) writes...
>>vulcan@cbnewsj.cb.att.c
>>>While watching the Beatles perform "(She's Got A) Ticket To Ride" on
>>>a "Best of Ed Sullivan" show, my brother-in-law said "Funny, I
>>>don't associate that song with the Beatles."  Sister Sarah and I
>>>ask "Who do you associate it with?"  He replies "Karen Carpenter"!
>>>Sarah and I look at him like he's nuts.


Sounds like Sarah and you both owe your friend an apology. ;-)

>>>

>Back when I was 12 or 13 my parents had just a very few cassettes.
>A couple of them were Carpenter's albums.  That was my introduction to
>the song as well.

>>>So, _did_ Karen Carpenter ever record the Beatles' "Ticket To Ride"?
>>>If, so, (bonus question) can you name the album it's on (assuming
>>>it was on an album!)?

>I've since managed to accumulate a few Carpenters' albums on vinyl,
>though I don't happen to have the album with this track.  It is on
>the album that has "Rainy Days and Mondays" on it (is this also the
>title?  If I were home I could check the Singles or other reference
>material for the title).

It's on _The_Singles:_1969_-_1973_, as well as the new double-CD collection
_Yesterday_Once_More_ (re-released as _Classics_).

--
Scott Coleman                                                    tmkk@uiuc.edu

Free Advice: It is inadvisable to read Bush's lips at an official banquet.
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Lyric request - for old farts only!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 17:15:36 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <14AUG199216220636@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>, bschlesinger@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Barry Schlesinger) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug13.002900.15562@dg-rtp.dg.com>, cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes...
|> >nimouat@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Nikos Mouat) writes: 
|> > 
|> >| "There is a house in New Orleans, 
|> >|  They call the rising sun,
|> >|  And it's been the ruin of many a poor [boy/girl]
|> > 
|> >It's "boy".  Girl?  Is there a version I don't know about?
|> > 
|> The song was around long before the Animals.  It's about a young woman 
|> in a house of prostitution (the rising sun is the red light at the 
|> door).  The Animals changed it (I guess to match the gender of the 
|> singer) and lost the point of the song.  Incidentally, the song has 
|> passed into the traditional area, and so, trying to find the precise 
|> "right" lyrics has lost its point.

Yes, I now remember that coming out in a previous thread on this subject.
Obviously, I was thinking only of lyrics in teh Animals' version.

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Help with song title
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:48:04 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Aug12.023845.3189@ducvax.auburn.edu> ggmar@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
> In article <1992Aug11.155907.12733@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin) writes:
> > In article <9208101925.AA16162@TIS.COM> sas@TIS.COM writes:
> >>
> >>Hi all--
> >>
> >>	A co-worker and I were discussing a song at lunch today, but
> >>could not remember the title or the group.  The only thing we could come
> >>up with was the number 867-5309, and the controversy involved.  Seems
> >>that was a phone number mentioned in the song, and people who had that
> >>number all across the country would receive phone calls as a result.
> >>
> >>
> >>So, anyone have any ideas about the title and/or the artist/group
> >>involved.  I think it may have been single hit, with not much else from
> >>this artist/group.  
> > 
> > 2 similar songs come to mind:
> > 
> > BEachwood 4-5789 by the Marvelettes
> > & 634-5789 by Wilson Pickett, I believe.
> > 
> > Both are from the 60s.
> 
> "867-5309" was by Tommy Tutone. If my memory serves me, it was on in the Top 10
> in May or June, 1982.

In the same notion, there's 6060-842 by the B52's ca. 1979.  Luckily, numbers
starting with X0X and X1X are traditionally reserved for area codes and not
valid phone numbers (though this may change, see telecom lists and groups).
I'm not sure why the wierd 4-3 hyphenation, it's not obvious in the song,
in fact they play rmhyming games with 606-(0842/Watiting for you)

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Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: vulcan@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (patricia.m.chmiel)
Subject: Did Karen Carpenter ever record "Ticket to Ride"?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:08:55 GMT

While watching the Beatles perform "(She's Got A) Ticket To Ride" on
a "Best of Ed Sullivan" show, my brother-in-law said "Funny, I
don't associate that song with the Beatles."  Sister Sarah and I
ask "Who do you associate it with?"  He replies "Karen Carpenter"!
Sarah and I look at him like he's nuts.

So, _did_ Karen Carpenter ever record the Beatles' "Ticket To Ride"?
If, so, (bonus question) can you name the album it's on (assuming
it was on an album!)?

Many thanks!
Pat Chmiel
AT&T-Bell Labs
Middletown, NJ
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: dspace@hoh.mbl.edu (Dave Space)
Subject: Monty Alexander
Organization: MBL/WHOI Library
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:45:43 GMT

Does anyone know if the jazz pianist Monty Alexander (from Austrailia
I think) will be appearing anywhere in the US in the forseeable future ?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: pnorman@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Peter T.  Norman)
Subject: Help: Warner Canada Tel Number wanted
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:35:22 GMT

Could someone please let me know the telephone number to Warner Canada?
I am sure that members of the newsgroup would appreciate it if you replied
to me directly; I will post the number to the group in a sufficiently
obvious manner if/when I find out.

Thanks very much
-- 
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( )---------------------------------( )  not offend anyone, we   |
 |  "... i think i've reached that   |   would make them about   |
 |  point, where every wish has come |   sewing, maybe; although |
 |  true and tired disguised oblivion|   even that could be      |
 |  is everything i do..."           |   ...dangerous"           |
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From: ebm@corvair.almaden.ibm.com (Eli Messinger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: who sings "no surf in Cleveland USA"
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:43:22 GMT
Organization: Jay Maynard Fan Club

Michel Labrousse...

> 	All I know is that this song has been released in 1979, which is
> kind of late for a surfsong that sounds like an early sixties Beach boys
> song. I'd really want this information because I'm from Cleveland and a
> (wind)surfer. Thanks in advance.

This was performed by "The Euclid Beach Band", I believe on the Epic label.
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From: miked@syscon.rn.com (Mike DeMetz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: "You're so vain" - Carley Simon. Who is it about?
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:34:15 GMT
Organization: Syscon Corporate Headquarters - South Bend, IN USA

jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:

>>The subject line says it all.  So far, people have said Warren Beatty,
>>James Taylor, Mick Jagger, and the obligatory "Duh, I though it was about
>>me. HAHAHAHA!"

>I've heard or read that Carly Simon said it was about Warren Beatty.  
>This was relatively recently (i.e., a long time after the song came out),
>which leads me to believe there might be some reference in the media hype
>regarding ol' Rabbit Warren's recent movies, "Bugsy" and "Dick Tracy."
>If you want _proof_ then you're in the wrong newsgroup -- we AFUers can't 
>even prove that discussing "snuff films" leads to pointless flame wars.

>Actually, I've been thinking about the song because only recently did I
>realize (yeah, I'm kinda slow) the central irony of it.  The "wife of a
>postman" is going to spend the rest of her life grudging around because
>she didn't hit the expected jackpot -- WHO'S so vain, now?

>Joe "Now if somebody would explain to ME what "Hotel California" is about" ChewI heard it was about a drug rehab center.
Organization: Doctoral student, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA