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Discovered this band from Montreal last year ,one of my "coup de coeur" .
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Discovered this band from Montreal last year ,one of my "coup de coeur" .
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It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Pandora's Box, (1989)
This is one of those Jim Steinman 'mini opera show tunes', like a Meatloaf song, or Total Eclipse of the Heart. Pandora's Box had one CD, never released in North America. They were composed of studio singers and musicians who worked with Steinman regularly.
This original version is sung by Elaine Caswell. Five years later, the song hit #2 on Billboard for Celine Dion, with pretty much the same musical arrangement, but Celine's English completely butchers the lyrics, by comparison. The Loaf himself eventually recorded the song as a duet, with some woman from Norway.
This video was directed by avant garde director Ken Russell, who directed the films The Devils, The Who's Tommy, Altered States, Whore, and others. It was his only foray into music video directing. I think that's Elaine playing the corpse in the video.
This is one of those Jim Steinman 'mini opera show tunes', like a Meatloaf song, or Total Eclipse of the Heart. Pandora's Box had one CD, never released in North America. They were composed of studio singers and musicians who worked with Steinman regularly.
This original version is sung by Elaine Caswell. Five years later, the song hit #2 on Billboard for Celine Dion, with pretty much the same musical arrangement, but Celine's English completely butchers the lyrics, by comparison. The Loaf himself eventually recorded the song as a duet, with some woman from Norway.
This video was directed by avant garde director Ken Russell, who directed the films The Devils, The Who's Tommy, Altered States, Whore, and others. It was his only foray into music video directing. I think that's Elaine playing the corpse in the video.
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Young Lust by Ellen Foley, (1979)
Ellen did the female backing vocals on Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell album, (1978), but did not appear in the videos - that was Karla DeVito, lip synching Ellen. Karla has been married to 70's 'sensitive boy' actor Robbie Benson since 1982. Ellen starred on season one of Night Court, and she has extensive credits on Broadway.
Young Lust features Mick Ronson on lead guitar, and Ian Hunter on keyboards. Hunter previously fronted Mott the Hoople, and Ronson is best known for being the guitarist of David Bowie's Spiders from Mars backing band from 1970-73.
This is just a static frame of the single sleeve, audio only YouTube clip.
Ellen did the female backing vocals on Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell album, (1978), but did not appear in the videos - that was Karla DeVito, lip synching Ellen. Karla has been married to 70's 'sensitive boy' actor Robbie Benson since 1982. Ellen starred on season one of Night Court, and she has extensive credits on Broadway.
Young Lust features Mick Ronson on lead guitar, and Ian Hunter on keyboards. Hunter previously fronted Mott the Hoople, and Ronson is best known for being the guitarist of David Bowie's Spiders from Mars backing band from 1970-73.
This is just a static frame of the single sleeve, audio only YouTube clip.
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Go All the Way by Raspberries, (1973)
Raspberries were fronted by Eric Carmen, who later wrote the wuss classic All By Myself. They were from Ohio. They made the bad career choice of trying to be a Glam band in America; that was a big scene in the UK at the time, but it hardly caught on, stateside.
Back in 1973, this song was not played on AM radio before 9:00 PM in Montreal, because of the lyrics. This lip synched performance is from The Mike Douglas Show, where, apparently, it was OK to play the song in mid afternoon, just not on the radio, because on TV, you knew they were wearing clothes.
Raspberries were fronted by Eric Carmen, who later wrote the wuss classic All By Myself. They were from Ohio. They made the bad career choice of trying to be a Glam band in America; that was a big scene in the UK at the time, but it hardly caught on, stateside.
Back in 1973, this song was not played on AM radio before 9:00 PM in Montreal, because of the lyrics. This lip synched performance is from The Mike Douglas Show, where, apparently, it was OK to play the song in mid afternoon, just not on the radio, because on TV, you knew they were wearing clothes.
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Don't Go by Yazoo, 1982
Yazoo, known as Yaz in North America, were the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke. Alison was sort of the 'new wave Adele' of her day, and Vince wrote most of the songs on the first Depeche Mode album, before leaving the band based on a disagreement about what types of songs the band should have been doing. Don't Go was a big song in alt clubs for at least five years.
This video is from a lip synched appearance on a 1982 episode of Top of the Pops.
Yazoo, known as Yaz in North America, were the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke. Alison was sort of the 'new wave Adele' of her day, and Vince wrote most of the songs on the first Depeche Mode album, before leaving the band based on a disagreement about what types of songs the band should have been doing. Don't Go was a big song in alt clubs for at least five years.
This video is from a lip synched appearance on a 1982 episode of Top of the Pops.
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Backstabbers by The O'Jays, (1973)
Like Raspberries in #392, The O'Jays were from Ohio, but the two bands went to different schools, literally, and figuratively.
The O'Jays were on the Philadelphia International Records label, along with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Lou Rawls and The Three Degrees, with most of the songs composed and produced by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, with music performed by the Philly International 'house band', MFSB, which stood for Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers in press releases, but actually meant Mutha Fuckin' Sons of Bitches.
The Stylistics are often considered a Philadelphia International band, and they were on the label long after their chart hit period. Thom Bell wrote and produced The Stylistics, as he had previously done for The Delfonics, and Bell was a frequent collaborator with Gamble and Huff.
This O'Jays lip synched performance is from Soul Train, probably from 1973, but possibly 1974.
Like Raspberries in #392, The O'Jays were from Ohio, but the two bands went to different schools, literally, and figuratively.
The O'Jays were on the Philadelphia International Records label, along with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Lou Rawls and The Three Degrees, with most of the songs composed and produced by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, with music performed by the Philly International 'house band', MFSB, which stood for Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers in press releases, but actually meant Mutha Fuckin' Sons of Bitches.
The Stylistics are often considered a Philadelphia International band, and they were on the label long after their chart hit period. Thom Bell wrote and produced The Stylistics, as he had previously done for The Delfonics, and Bell was a frequent collaborator with Gamble and Huff.
This O'Jays lip synched performance is from Soul Train, probably from 1973, but possibly 1974.
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Fuck Off by Wayne County and The Electric Chairs, (1978)
I used to have the original vinyl 45 single of this, with the Eddie and Sheena B side, but it was one of the things I had to sell to get me through the school year, when I went back to college in 1983-84. Wayne was originally a transvestite, who later became a transsexual, and changed his first name to Jayne. This got some airplay on our campus radio station in 1978, and not just on my Friday 4-6 PM show, when the student union building was generally empty, and I could play just about anything.
Just a static image audio YouTube clip, using the sleeve of the EP re-release, from God knows when.
I used to have the original vinyl 45 single of this, with the Eddie and Sheena B side, but it was one of the things I had to sell to get me through the school year, when I went back to college in 1983-84. Wayne was originally a transvestite, who later became a transsexual, and changed his first name to Jayne. This got some airplay on our campus radio station in 1978, and not just on my Friday 4-6 PM show, when the student union building was generally empty, and I could play just about anything.
Just a static image audio YouTube clip, using the sleeve of the EP re-release, from God knows when.
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bobistheowl said:
"if you don't want to fuck me then baby fuck off"
That is harsh and actually inappropriate to tell Amy to listen to.
As far as your Wikipedia like knowledge of music goes, it still does not excuse the message the band wanted to send.
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Don't Touch Me There by The Tubes, (1976)
I read about The Tubes in Creem magazine long before I heard them. They're best remembered for the 1983 song and video She's a Beauty, but they had several popular FM radio successes in the mid to late 70's, besides this one, including White Punks on Dope and What Do You Want From Life, the last line of which was "the arm of a baby, clutching an apple". They dressed a lot like Lady Gaga in their concerts, but 35 years earlier.
Don't Touch Me There is a duet between Tubes lead singer Fee Waybill and frequent guest Re Styles, with Wall of Sound arrangement by Phil Spector's right hand man, Jack Nitzsche.
Static image of the album sleeve for the audio only clip.
I read about The Tubes in Creem magazine long before I heard them. They're best remembered for the 1983 song and video She's a Beauty, but they had several popular FM radio successes in the mid to late 70's, besides this one, including White Punks on Dope and What Do You Want From Life, the last line of which was "the arm of a baby, clutching an apple". They dressed a lot like Lady Gaga in their concerts, but 35 years earlier.
Don't Touch Me There is a duet between Tubes lead singer Fee Waybill and frequent guest Re Styles, with Wall of Sound arrangement by Phil Spector's right hand man, Jack Nitzsche.
Static image of the album sleeve for the audio only clip.
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Say Goodbye to Hollywood by Ronnie Spector and the E Street Band, (1977)
This is one of the dozen or so rare vinyl 45's that I stole from my campus radio station in 1978. I had the last show on Friday, and I locked up. Most of them were free promo copies of songs no DJ there would ever have played, anyway, if they could have even found them. They didn't miss 12 from the 8,000 or so in the rack on the back wall.
This may be the loudest 45 rpm single ever recorded. When playing the single on a turntable, I had to turn the volume down two, to have the sound level equal to almost any other song. Say Goodbye to Hollywood, penned by Billy Joel, should have been a huge hit, in a better world than this one. The production and strings arrangement is by Steve Van Zandt.
The song was finally released on CD in 1995, on the Cleveland International Records 1977-1983 compilation, Sony Music Special Products A26505 CIR 1007-2, which contains an excellent good to crap ratio, considering that I had only heard of about half the artists contained on the disk. The [Irish] Rovers song, Wasn't That A Party was released on Cleveland International.
Slide show with audio YouTube clip. There are live video performance vids, but not with the same music backing track, and that's essential.
This is one of the dozen or so rare vinyl 45's that I stole from my campus radio station in 1978. I had the last show on Friday, and I locked up. Most of them were free promo copies of songs no DJ there would ever have played, anyway, if they could have even found them. They didn't miss 12 from the 8,000 or so in the rack on the back wall.
This may be the loudest 45 rpm single ever recorded. When playing the single on a turntable, I had to turn the volume down two, to have the sound level equal to almost any other song. Say Goodbye to Hollywood, penned by Billy Joel, should have been a huge hit, in a better world than this one. The production and strings arrangement is by Steve Van Zandt.
The song was finally released on CD in 1995, on the Cleveland International Records 1977-1983 compilation, Sony Music Special Products A26505 CIR 1007-2, which contains an excellent good to crap ratio, considering that I had only heard of about half the artists contained on the disk. The [Irish] Rovers song, Wasn't That A Party was released on Cleveland International.
Slide show with audio YouTube clip. There are live video performance vids, but not with the same music backing track, and that's essential.
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Still Sane by Carolyne Mas, (1979)
Carolyne Mas deserves a Hollywood biopic, and I hope that happens, during her lifetime. Hers is a story of great talent, derailed by incredibly poor decisions made on her behalf, broken promises, a tragic incident which almost cost her her life, and her eventual recovery, by which time, the public was no longer interested.
Most of her videos on YouTube were posted by Carolyne herself. I wrote her an e-mail about ten years ago, and did receive a personal reply.
Carolyne had a reputation early in her career as The female Bruce Springsteen, and it was well earned. I saw her live at Le Spectrum in Montreal in 1982, and she was one of the most dynamic performers I've ever seen. Her live sound was never accurately captured in the studio.
Mercury Records didn't know how to market her, dressing her in a silly hat for promo videos in 1979 that made her look like Helen Reddy. Concert promoters ripped her off, and caused her to have to sell her publishing rights to pay her band for gigs that never took place. In the late 80's, she came home one night to find a burglar robbing her home, and he slashed her throat, severing her vocal cords. A few years ago, she was going to retire, and was selling off her collection of guitars. She pretty much gives away her old recordings these days, seeing as how she made next to nothing from them the first time around.
I see on the YouTube page that she will be performing again in Europe, where, along with Canada, she was always more popular than in her home country, where she was largely ignored. Ladies, she ought to be one of your Rocks. She has been one of mine for 30+ years.
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3sDnhAljQ
if you can stomach the hat in the promo clips. When I saw her, she had long, frizzy blonde hair, but from a bottle.
Carolyne Mas deserves a Hollywood biopic, and I hope that happens, during her lifetime. Hers is a story of great talent, derailed by incredibly poor decisions made on her behalf, broken promises, a tragic incident which almost cost her her life, and her eventual recovery, by which time, the public was no longer interested.
Most of her videos on YouTube were posted by Carolyne herself. I wrote her an e-mail about ten years ago, and did receive a personal reply.
Carolyne had a reputation early in her career as The female Bruce Springsteen, and it was well earned. I saw her live at Le Spectrum in Montreal in 1982, and she was one of the most dynamic performers I've ever seen. Her live sound was never accurately captured in the studio.
Mercury Records didn't know how to market her, dressing her in a silly hat for promo videos in 1979 that made her look like Helen Reddy. Concert promoters ripped her off, and caused her to have to sell her publishing rights to pay her band for gigs that never took place. In the late 80's, she came home one night to find a burglar robbing her home, and he slashed her throat, severing her vocal cords. A few years ago, she was going to retire, and was selling off her collection of guitars. She pretty much gives away her old recordings these days, seeing as how she made next to nothing from them the first time around.
I see on the YouTube page that she will be performing again in Europe, where, along with Canada, she was always more popular than in her home country, where she was largely ignored. Ladies, she ought to be one of your Rocks. She has been one of mine for 30+ years.
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3sDnhAljQ
if you can stomach the hat in the promo clips. When I saw her, she had long, frizzy blonde hair, but from a bottle.
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Sabre Dance by Love Sculpture, (1968)
Love Sculpture was from Wales, and led by guitarist Dave Edmunds. This is a live performance from the German monthly television music show Beat-Club, from I believe, October, 1968. The live performance was released as a UK single, and hit the top 20.
These guys used to play stuff like this at the sound check, before a gig. They didn't need to rehearse; this was rehearsing. Edmunds plays guitar, he doesn't learn how to play certain songs on guitar. There's a huge difference between the two.
Dave Edmunds was the first act signed by Led Zeppelin to their Swan Song record label. He also played on Nick Lowe's albums, (late 70's/ early 80's), and Nick played on his, and they played together as The Rockpile. Dave Nick, and The Rockpile were all signed to different labels, but in concert, they would play a few songs from each repertoire.
I couldn't find this on YouTube, so I put a copy up for you. It might be there, but the YouTube search parameters are so shitty. You can specify exactly what you're looking for, and the result may come up on page 25, if at all, because they think you may be interested in some other stuff more than what you specifically indicate that you want to see.
Love Sculpture was from Wales, and led by guitarist Dave Edmunds. This is a live performance from the German monthly television music show Beat-Club, from I believe, October, 1968. The live performance was released as a UK single, and hit the top 20.
These guys used to play stuff like this at the sound check, before a gig. They didn't need to rehearse; this was rehearsing. Edmunds plays guitar, he doesn't learn how to play certain songs on guitar. There's a huge difference between the two.
Dave Edmunds was the first act signed by Led Zeppelin to their Swan Song record label. He also played on Nick Lowe's albums, (late 70's/ early 80's), and Nick played on his, and they played together as The Rockpile. Dave Nick, and The Rockpile were all signed to different labels, but in concert, they would play a few songs from each repertoire.
I couldn't find this on YouTube, so I put a copy up for you. It might be there, but the YouTube search parameters are so shitty. You can specify exactly what you're looking for, and the result may come up on page 25, if at all, because they think you may be interested in some other stuff more than what you specifically indicate that you want to see.
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IfYouSeekAmy said:
On the original cassette tape version of the Hounds of Love album, there was an extended instrumental version of Running Up That Hill.
Kate Bush only had one concert tour, for about six weeks in 1979. The last show at Hammersmith Odeon Theater in London was recorded for home video, and it's great. Kate 'invented' the hands free microphone almost every performer uses on stage these days, so she could sing and dance at the same time. I think it was made with a wire clothes hanger. I think in the Hammersmith show, she had a different costume for every song.
She also had a 1979 Christmas special for TV, and appeared on TV a few times in 1978, on Top of the Pops, lip synching Wuthering Heights, on Saturday Night Live, and on the first episode of a really cool music show from Birmingham, England called Revolver, that I picked up on a now defunct torrent site called thebox. There was a nice collection of rare Kate Bush promo videos available on Demonoid at one point.
I have all of the above.
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Sophie B. Hawkins - MuchMusic Spotlight, (1992)
This is one of those videos on YouTube that I can't find in the search, even if I ask for the exact file name; it shows me pages of results for other things. I have to find it in my channel, then paste the url twice in a row, to get the video display to go from inside my channel to the regular area where other people can see it.
The spotlight contains three videos, Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover, California Here I Come, and I Want You, (Bob Dylan cover). The videos you can probably find elsewhere, But I like the interview sections where Sophie is talking to Ziggy Lorenc. I've know a few women with personalities like Sophie's, and when I talk to them, I say about ten words, all night, and I sure am entertained. I'd want to do Sophie, if she would do guys. (14 mins, 35 sec.)
Page link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gx...n7wAHE&index=72&list=UUMOzhFm09zMwU-G-j6s1Ehw
This is one of those videos on YouTube that I can't find in the search, even if I ask for the exact file name; it shows me pages of results for other things. I have to find it in my channel, then paste the url twice in a row, to get the video display to go from inside my channel to the regular area where other people can see it.
The spotlight contains three videos, Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover, California Here I Come, and I Want You, (Bob Dylan cover). The videos you can probably find elsewhere, But I like the interview sections where Sophie is talking to Ziggy Lorenc. I've know a few women with personalities like Sophie's, and when I talk to them, I say about ten words, all night, and I sure am entertained. I'd want to do Sophie, if she would do guys. (14 mins, 35 sec.)
Page link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gx...n7wAHE&index=72&list=UUMOzhFm09zMwU-G-j6s1Ehw
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Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul - Take it Inside (1982)
Take it Inside was written by Steve Van Zandt, (The Sopranos, The E Street Band), for Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes for their 1978 album, Hearts of Stone, and is still a part of the set list at most Jukes gigs, to this day. Steve reclaimed a few of his own songs for the 1982-83 Disciples of Soul tour, in support of the Men Without Women album.
Key members of The Disciples of Soul were Jean Beauvoir, (he's the black guy with the blonde mohawk that played with Wendy O. Williams in The Plasmatics), Dino Danelli, (ex Rascals drummer), Monte Louis Ellison on percussion, in the chinese hat, and La Bamba on trombone, (Asbury Jukes, Conan O'Brien Show band). This is from the German Rockpalast TV show, and all of the other musicians were local Germans; the band wasn't popular enough to take the whole five piece horn section to Europe. The German guy on baritone sax is good, but he's not Eddie Manion.
I saw Little Steven live three times, in 1983, on this tour, in 1984, without the horn section, and in 1987, as one of the support acts for U2 at Exhibition Stadium, along with Los Lobos. In 1984, I met the band as they were arriving at the club for the sound check, and I walked in with them, and acted like I was supposed to be there, and I got to watch the sound check, and speak to Steve, Dino, and Jean. They probably knew I wasn't supposed to be there, but they probably did the same thing themselves, when they were younger. Nice friendly guys.
Take it Inside was written by Steve Van Zandt, (The Sopranos, The E Street Band), for Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes for their 1978 album, Hearts of Stone, and is still a part of the set list at most Jukes gigs, to this day. Steve reclaimed a few of his own songs for the 1982-83 Disciples of Soul tour, in support of the Men Without Women album.
Key members of The Disciples of Soul were Jean Beauvoir, (he's the black guy with the blonde mohawk that played with Wendy O. Williams in The Plasmatics), Dino Danelli, (ex Rascals drummer), Monte Louis Ellison on percussion, in the chinese hat, and La Bamba on trombone, (Asbury Jukes, Conan O'Brien Show band). This is from the German Rockpalast TV show, and all of the other musicians were local Germans; the band wasn't popular enough to take the whole five piece horn section to Europe. The German guy on baritone sax is good, but he's not Eddie Manion.
I saw Little Steven live three times, in 1983, on this tour, in 1984, without the horn section, and in 1987, as one of the support acts for U2 at Exhibition Stadium, along with Los Lobos. In 1984, I met the band as they were arriving at the club for the sound check, and I walked in with them, and acted like I was supposed to be there, and I got to watch the sound check, and speak to Steve, Dino, and Jean. They probably knew I wasn't supposed to be there, but they probably did the same thing themselves, when they were younger. Nice friendly guys.
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