// Hey, folks, I accidentally sent this to the unmoderated list --
// twice!!!!  Sorry!
// bits and pieces...
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: Re: NN: I read that last message, and I gorked
   From: RonHennesy@aol.com

(( My first 45 was "Earth Angel" by the Penguins.
 
 Sid "I still have all of my 45's" Porter
  >>

I too had "Earth Angel" as one of my first 45s!  Also the Cadillacs's "Down 
the Road," the Nutmegs's "Story Untold," and Bill Haley's "Rocket '88" (which 
I read recently was one of the first recorded rock-and-roll songs).  

Does anyone know where someone can get pre-Decca Bill Haley recordings like 
"Rocket '88" and "Crazy, Man, Crazy"?  I think they were on the Essex label.

For you youngsters, we're talking 1950s.

Best wishes,

Ron Hennessy

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Subject: Re: NN: I read that last message, and I gorked
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 01:32:39 EDT
   From: RonHennesy@aol.com

(( The really big names over here - Adam Faith, Cliff Richard, Billy Fury - 
never got anywhere in America. Then along
 came the Beatles and everything changed.....
 
 Mike "lost in the sixties tonight" Barrett >>

Back in the '60s I had the good fortune to travel to some of the "colonies" 
and former colonies, like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.  Cliff Richard 
and the Shadows were all over the radio and in British movies in these 
places.  I became a fan bought a few of Cliff's albums, with songs like "I 
Got a Funny Feeling."  I remember the Shadows did nifty Ventures-like 
instrumentals, in addition to accompanying him.

Cliff also surfaced in the '70s singing in the America movie "Xanadu" 
opposite the wonderful Australian singer Olivia Newton John (who I still have 
a crush on).  I wish he had appeared in the movie too.  I remember seeing and 
hearing Cliff and Olivia singing a duet or two from the movie on TV at the 
time.

What is Cliff Richard up to these days?

Best wishes,

Ron Hennessy

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Subject: Re: NN: I read that last message, and I gorked
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 08:05:01 +0100
   From: "Mike Barrett" (mikebarrettuk@hotmail.com>

> What is Cliff Richard up to these days?

Ron, Cliff is something of an institition in the UK. He was knighted a few
years back, and is now SIR Cliff Richard - I think he was the first pop star
to get that honour. He still tours regularly, appears on TV occasionally, does
musicals, and still has hits - at last count he'd had something well over a
hundred chart entries, starting in the late 50s, and is the only artist over
here ( or probably anywhere! ) who has had number one records in each of the
last five decades, the 50s to the 90s.

He is also known as the Peter Pan of pop music, as he is now approaching 59,
but looks quite a bit younger. He's never married - perhaps his heart is in
the clouds? - and remains very popular with all age groups.

Oh and the second 45 I ever bought was "Please Don't Tease" by Cliff - still
a great pop song! And I wonder if anyone DIDN'T have a crush on Olivia
Newton-John?

Best wishes,

Mike

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Subject: NN: RE: Nanci's Birthday Beanie
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:47:13 EDT
   From: MMcLean7@aol.com

>Anyway, can anyone find a Beatles song that we're not all sick to death
>of?

Yes, I can, but I don't think NanciNet has enough bandwidth to list them all.

Mickey McLean
Greensboro, NC

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Subject: NN: Beatles oongs I'm not sick of
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:53:55 -0600
   From: "Mark Gardner" (markdgardner@mindspring.com>

> Anyway, can anyone find a Beatles song that we're not all sick to death
of?

How about:

I Want to Hold Your Hand
Hey Jude
Across the Universe
etc.

And I've heard them hundreds of times!

Admittedly it can be hard to hear the Beatles as music rather than the
social and musical phenomenon which they also were (and still are). The
Anthologies and Live at the BBC releases helped me. I also read a book
called "Tell Me Why" by Tim Riley, which analyzed the Beatles' work song by
song, album by album. Even after a lifetime with their music, I learned a
lot.

Mark Gardner
Louisville, CO

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Subject: Re: NN: Beatles oongs I'm not sick of
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:51:55 PDT
   From: "Len Dene" (conx2@hotmail.com>

How anyone in the West cannot be influenced by the Beatles is beyond my 
understanding. I would think that Nanci Griffith is well aware of their HUGE 
influence on music generally. Someone needs a 'prick up his ears' - these 
typos are a nuisance... :)

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Subject: RE: NN: Nanci in Saratoga
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:05:23 -0400
   From: Maureen Scott (mscott@shore.net>     

Who is Nanci's new guitarist that is so terrible??

Maureen

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Subject: NN: Nanci & the Beatles
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>

Whether the Beatles influenced Nanci or not, Maggie (Mary Margaret) has
in her possession a tape of herself and Nanci as teenagers, harmonizing
on "You Got to Hide Your Love Away."  (BY the way, on Beatles books,
besides TELL ME WHY, let me recommend THE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS,
which describes day by day what went on at Abbey Road from 1962 till
the bitter end.)

As for 45s, surely oe of them should be "A Whiter Shade of Pale."

Reid

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Subject: NN: Nanci live on the Net
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:05:37 EDT
   From: Tricia9999@aol.com

Btw, the concert in Saratoga was broadcast live on the internet and Nanci 
said that it would be repeated at some later date. Anyone see it? Anyone know 
the address for future reference?

Tricia

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Subject: NN: 100 greatest...
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:10:21 PDT
   From: "steve johnson" (steve_c_j@hotmail.com>

Hi NNers!
   I've been watching VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock, which concludes 
tonight with the top 20, and it appears that Nanci has been unjustly omitted 
from the list! The honorees were selected by celebrities instead of 
musicians... everybody knows Nanci is a musician's musician!! The list, in 
addition to rock stars, includes women artists performing soul, rap, jazz, 
even country (EmmyLou & Dolly). Nanci deserves this recognition, too !!
    Steve" can't wait to visit N. Wisconsin" Johnson

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Subject: NN: Macca, Nanci & Buddy
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:04:01 +0100
   From: "C Mortlock" (nancig.fan@ukgateway.net>

Hi there

Out of lurkdom at last!

You lucky Nanci-netters in the USA- my dream line up of Paul McCartney,
Nanci Griffith and the Crickets has been announced.  The bad news is you
can't buy tickets, you can however enter a contest (for details go to
www.mplcommunications.com and click on the juggler).

September 7, Roseland Ballroom, New York is the venue.

Rave on.

Claire

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Subject: Re: NN: Some new, good ones
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:26:23 EDT
   From: RonHennesy@aol.com

skimbro@bhset.org (Shawn Kimbro) writes:

(( Bill & Audry - Looking Back To You
 Hillbilly harmony from the land down under.  The absolute best version of 
"We'll Sweep Out The Ashes" I've ever heard,
 and that includes the one by Gram Parsons' and Emmylou Harris'.  This is 
currently only available as an import but
 it'll catch on soon and pick up an American label.  Never though I'd be 
singing along to "You Are My Sunshine" again!
 Of course it's impossible not to sing along with every track on the record. 
I highly recommend this album!
 
  Warm Regards,
 -Shawn >>

Hello Shawn!

Reading about singing along to "You Are My Sunshine" called to mind my 
all-time favorite rendition: Ray Charles' 1962 version.

In case you haven't heard it, Ray tosses in an R & B flavor, with shots of 
bossa nova and jazz; gobs of 7th chords sung by the Raylettes; and harsh 
polyharmonies blasted out by trumpets and saxophones.  This is a thilling 
syncopated verion of the old song.

Regards,

Ron Hennessy

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Subject: Re: NN: High Fidelity and vinyl
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 11:29:56 EDT
   From: RonHennesy@aol.com


((  Listening to them on CD would be like watching colo(u)rized Laurel and 
Hardy...or voting Conservative...it just ain't right ;-) >>

Hello Robert,

I'll have to disagree with you about it not being "right" to hear old 
recordings on CD's.  For example, I've been enjoying the heck out of Hank 
Ballard's albums from the 50s' on CDs: in their original configurations of 
songs and with the original artwork from the cardboard covers, front and back.

For those of you who are curious, Hank is an R & B singer/songwriter who was 
popular in the '50s and early '60s, but is still making good albums.  He was 
a colleague of James Brown on the King label, and according to James in his 
autobiography, first helped Brown get signed to the label.

Hank wrote and recorded "The Twist" about 3 years before Chubby Checker's 
version, but also many wonderful songs which became hits for him, such as 
"Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go."  They are often humorously raunchy, using 
clever puns and avoiding bad language.  Instrumentally, the songs feature 
terrific saxophone and guitar solos, or antiphonal duets, with trumpet and 
piano staying discretely in the background.

I got started on Hank, realizing he's a long way from Nanci; but James Hooker 
has written he's a big Hank Ballard fan.

Best wishes,

Ron Hennessy

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Subject: NN: RE: Nanci in Saratoga
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 11:00:08 -0700
   From: "Susan Krauss" (susankrauss@earthlink.net>

The curfew at Villa Montalvo wasn't because of another show that night
because none were scheduled.  I think it's because the Front Lawn is
actually near some of the houses of there and the sound probably carries.
But that doesn't matter.  Iris should have played for about 30 minutes and
then Nanci should have come on and played a full set.  I've been swamped but
I'm planning to call Villa Montalvo and complain.  I've been to a bunch of
shows at VM this summer (though Nanci was the only Front Lawn show) and all
the opening acts played short sets and we got full sets from the headliner.

And the guitarist did stink.  He didn't know the songs, he made a ton of
mistakes and his solo leads were uninspired.

Susan
mailto:susankrauss@earthlink.net

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Subject: NN: Nanci in Indy?
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:14:42 EDT
   From: Halesbop@aol.com

I sent a post on this last night but it never appeared in my box, so maybe it 
didn't make the list. If it did, sorry for repeating. 
    
Checking Pollstar, I noticed that Nanci is scheduled for Starlight 
Summerstage, the summer concert series at Butler Univ. in Indianapolis, for 
Aug. 26. This has long been a date on John Prine's itinerary--and still 
is--but now Nanci appears to be on the bill as well. Ticketmaster and the 
Starlight website do not mention Nanci. I emailed Starlight Friday night but 
don't expect any response until Monday, if at all.

Does anyone have the real goodies on this one? As those who saw Nanci and 
John tour together in '93 (or any other time) know, this has the potential to 
be a very special evening. Also, it would be the first time they've gotten 
together, onstage anyway, since their respective successful bouts with 
cancer. 

If somebody can verify this appearance by Nanci, would you please share what 
you know with the list? Looks like it could justify another road trip, even 
though this concert has been on sale for some time and it's doubtful that any 
great seats remain.

thanks,
 Steve

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Subject: NN: Seconding Rosaryville
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 20:19:51 -0400
   From: "Kristina Plath" (flyer23@angelfire.com>

Hi All

To second Shawn's recommendation of Kate Campbell's "Rosaryville"....

This is a beautiful album.  There are a couple of rockers, songs meant to be
sung a la Ford Econoline, in the car at the top of your lungs.  But then there
are songs like "Look Away" and "Rosa's Coronas"-- songs that speak of social
issues and people and places that need to be heard.  

Kate's starting to mature songwriting-wise...there are a lot of gems on this
album.... all they need is an ear to listen....

Kristina in Delhi, NY where it's still a hunnard and two in the shade (but
they're sayin' this'll break by Monday!  Yipee!)

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Subject: NN: That Indy show
   Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:17:44 EDT
   From: Halesbop@aol.com

    I recieved a reply to the email question (about the August 26 show) I 
sent to the Starlight Summerstage website. Here it is:

Subj:   Re: Nanci with Prine?
Date:   7/31/99 5:32:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From:   KsSideshow
To: Halesbop

Yes Nanci Griffith will be with John Prine.  She will open the show with one 
hour set and then could possibly come out and play a song or two with John 
Prine.  No promises!!  The show will begin promptly at 8pm.  Thanks for your 
interest and we hope to see you there.

Kent Smith

 
  Sounds pretty good to me!

Steve

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   From: MISTERCD@webtv.net (SID PORTER)
   Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:48:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: NN: I read that last message, and I gorked

     I still have 4 old Essex, Bill Haley EP's, with Rocket 88, Crazy
Man Crazy, etc.  I saw an import CD of the old Essex stuff a while ago,
but I don't know, if ti still available .       Throw these 45's into
that mix also:
When You Dance - The Turbans, Glory Of Love - Five Keys, Pledging My
Love - Johnny Ace, Ko Ko Mo - Gene & Eunice, I'll Be Home - Flamingos,
etc.  Makes you want to go back there, doesn't it?        I have one of
those CD Juke Boxes that holds 110 CD's that I keep stocked with
nothing, but 50's and early 60's music.  All I have to do is hit random
and I'm back there!

Rock on,
Sid


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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:37:40 -0400
From: "Donate von Bredow-Gardner" (dvbgardner@genelogic.com>
Subject: Re: NanciNet #99729

I went to the '99 Lilith Fair at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD,
this week and the surprise guest was Emmylou Harris.   She harmonized on
selected songs with the Pretenders, Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow and Sarah
McLachlan.  Her folksy style was a most welcome supplement to the individual
styles of the various artists.  Truly enjoyed this surprise.   The weather was
hot and we were caught by an enormous thunderstorm -- it seemed like Woodstock
(the ORIGINAL one!)....... we were dripping wet and muddy and had a blast! 
Donate "still cleaning off my shoes and bags from a rainy, muddy, awesome night
at the Lilith Fair" von Bredow-Gardner
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From: MISTERCD@webtv.net (SID PORTER)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:11:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: NN: Beatles oongs I'm not sick of

     How could anyone EVER get tired of "A Day In The Life"???

Sid Porter


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