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| From | Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> |
| Subject | FW: audities-digest V4 #303 (15 msgs) |
| Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:11:12 -0400 |
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Someone, I think Stewart, used the name "Sunshine Pop" for the bands/songs
that I put in my original email request (see below) - I think that's a good
description of what I had in mind. Some of the bands y'all suggested fit my
category, some not so well - Seekers? Yes / Hollies? Maybe / ABBA? No. But
I guess all in all, most of your suggestions would fit.
However this is a comp (or maybe it will be 2 comps!) where I want most of
the songs to be hits or semi hits, recognizable to the average person. So
can you folks toss me some songs by these bands that were hits? Or if the
band in question didn't ever have any hits, what would be the one song of
theirs that would stand up best amongst bona fide hits by the other bands on
the comp?
I listed the bands that everyone came up with after my original email,
below...
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:41:06 -0400
<<<From: Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu>
To: "audities@smoe.org" <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Soft pop comp
Message-ID: <C0ED2F82.62E8%seamand@upmc.edu>
If you were to make a comp of soft pop from the late 60s/early 70s,
featuring groups with lots of vocals/harmonies, and top 40 hits, who and
what would you include? I'm thinking stuff like The Association (Windy,
Along Came Mary, Cherish, etc), The Cowsills (The Rain The Park And Other
Things, Indian Lake, Hair), Spanky and Our Gang (Sunday Morning, etc), The
Fifth Dimension, Mamas and The Papas, etc>>>
Dillard & Clark,
The Zombies,
The Lovin's Spoonful (maybe?),
The Choir,
The Seekers,
Rick Nelson,
Paul Williams
Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends
The Parade
The Match
Harper's Bizarre
The Millennium
Sagittarius
Sandy Salisbury
Curt Boettcher
The Tokens
The Free Design
Orpheus
Will you be Staying After Sunday? - Peppermint Rainbow
Yellow Balloon,
Scott Mackenzie,
ABBA
Terry Sylvester-era Hollies
"Jody" by the Status Cymbal,
"More Today Than Yesterday" by the Spiral Starecase,
"Morning Girl" by the Neon Philharmonic,
"Love Can Make You Happy" by Mercy,
"Elenore" by the Turtles...
but mostly "Master Jack" by Four Jacks and a Jill.
Best sunshine pop hit ever, though it's really not very sunshiny at all.
early Bee Gees,
the Left Banke,
the Byrds
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