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