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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: EBN DOZN/Pat Wilson |
| Date | Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:26:41 -0400 |
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At Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:12:45 Stewart wrote:
>EBN OZN's Top40 hit in Canada was...."Bag Lady (I Wonder)".
>
>Oh, sweet Jesus. I had completely blocked out the painful memory of that
>one. If anything, that one's even worse than "AEIOU." I think if you were
>going to fight for the title of Worst Album Released By A Major Label In
>The 1980s, you would have to go far to beat that one, on the basis of those
>two songs.
LOL! :-)
>Anybody else remember "Bop Girl" by Pat Wilson? Australian, I believe, and
>only managed an EP on Warner Brothers circa early 1984. Great little
>gimmicky song in a sort of Josie Cotton style.
That was a great song -- stuff my ex-wife used to like which I could
actually tolerate (though she also liked "Tarzan Boy" by BALTIMORA which is
polluting JACK radio stations everywhere....but "JUNGLE Boy" by Duanne Eddy
wasn't too bad)....just fired up the Pat Wilson track here....seems Aqua did
a nice little lift of the melody line for "Barbie Girl"....hmmm....there's a
thread brewing here:
'girl' titled songs vs. 'boy' titled songs.
>And did anyone else think it was admirably forthright that not one but both
>albums by Slow Children included "President Am I"? It's like RCA said
>"let's just come right out and admit this is their best song by a factor of
>100."
Not familiar with that band/track. I know SONY put The Killer Dwarfs'
"Doesn't Matter" on two albums back-to-back. The song was a huge radio hit
in Canada on their 'Dirty Weapons' album, and it was nominated for a
Juno....but the label were too short sighted to create a video to accompany
it and all momentum was lost. So...the Canadian SONY A & R rep for the
follow-up album, 'Method To The Madness', decided they'd try it again for
the US market by adding the track to that record and creating a video a year
later. It didn't work. The song never caught on stateside.
>See, this is what iTunes and the like should be doing: a CD by Pat Wilson
>would sell 13 copies, but how many people would download "Bop Girl" if they
>had the opportunity?
I'm thinking quite a few would....maybe those people that don't know that
John Waite had more than one hit :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
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