smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: K-Tel is Swell |
| Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:15:16 -0600 |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (2.1 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
At 11:36 AM 2/28/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> On
>Ronco's "Hit Explosion" is one of my Holy Grail
>searches - "The Princess And The Punk" by Barry Mann.
>I've tried to fix it in Cool Edit and other editing
>software...but I really need a better copy. Everytime
>a Barry Mann compilation comes out - this song never
>makes the cut. I remember posting on this list
>sometime around 1997 if anyone knew where I could find
>a copy. The search continues...
I used to have that 45 - It came out on Arista back in the mid 70's. One of my
favorite places is musicstack.com for finding rare singles.
Bingo! Found a copy of your 45 - but its in New Zealand with 5 dollar postage.
http://www.musicstack.com/item.cgi?item=7782275
http://www.musicstack.com/search/barry_mann.html
>Out here in Hawaii we got a lot of Canadian K-Tels in
>Woolworths, Ben Franklin and Sears. Did anyone else
>have that happen in your local record stores back
>then?
I bought a few Canadian K-Tels in Cutout bins at Wal-Mart, TG&Y and K-Mart
back
in the late 70's and early 80's. I miss those days going in and digging
through
the bargan racks.
My favorite K-Tel Canada release was one called "Here Comes Summer" which was
a hodgepodge of summer oldies and remakes (Jamies, some anonymous instrumental
group called The Surfers and 70's Jan & Dean) and some Canadian artists like
Chilliwack (California Girl) and Chris Ruhkne (Summer Girl). It was the
second
Chilliwack song I heard - "Arms Of Mary" got some Top 40 airplay here in NE
Oklahoma before that.
Picked up a lot of good imports back then. My University bookstore also had a
bargan bin with LP imports from Singapore and Mexico. When you can get Early
Kinks and Searchers albums and compilations, Talking Heads, Devo and the
Ramones "It's Alive" for 4-2.99 each you cant really bitch about the crappy
vinyl.
I bought my first Beatles bootleg at Wal-Mart - a copy of "Introducing the
Beatles" which had a big "Stereophonic" banner but played mono.
http://www.ktelclassics.com/ AWESOME! The best K-Tel site I have seen so
far.
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.