From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #918 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, November 1 1998 Volume 01 : Number 918 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Original recording of Love Potion #9 [jennifer@mail.durham.net (Jenni] Re: Original recording of Love Potion #9 [dalevy@aol.com (DALevy)] Re: new.... [Srm9988n@aol.com] Re: Dark movies [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers)] Re: Green Eggs and Ham Found! ["Sam Patch" , mfreeman@columbus.rr.com says... > Hi Mark I have a Rock N Roll Hits of the 50's & 60's All by the original artists and it includes Love Potion #9 by The Clovers. Unfortunately it doesn't have a date. Hope this might help. Jenn >I was in the process of transcribing the set list of a recent Fruvous tape I >made which included a Love Potion Number Nine medley. I decided to search >the net for a reference to the original recording of that song. > >I came across an unexpected issue. Depending on where I look, it says either >the Coasters or the Searchers were the original artists, either in 1960 or >1965. > >Does anyone have any definitive information on this? > >I'd appreciate an answer via email, as I don't get to this newsgroup nearly >as often as I'd like. > >For those so inclined, feel free to check out my web site and let me know >what you think. > >http://home.columbus.rr.com/mfreeman/moxy.htm > >Thanks, > >Mark > > > ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 1998 20:02:47 GMT From: dalevy@aol.com (DALevy) Subject: Re: Original recording of Love Potion #9 I believe the Searchers version is the one that most of us would recognize. It was very typical pop of the time -- an upbeat melody with a catchy phrase that gets repeated a lot . Back in those days, we listened to AM radio and stations' playlists would consist of the top 10 songs over and over and over again. Love Potion #9 was one of those. (Actually, the playlists were more like the top 40, but the top 10 songs were in a very heavy rotation.) (Come to think of it, not much has changed in radio. Except now the sound quality is better since it's on FM and in stereo.) Doug Levy (showing his age a little) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 20:58:28 GMT From: Srm9988n@aol.com Subject: Re: new.... Welcome Dagonet! > So I had to find 'em myself. Lo and behold, I got _Wood_ and _B_ this > weekend. I am pleased. Good! Now you're started on true Fruheadness ... you're pleased with the "noncommercial" stuff. (As if any of it's top-40) > Other musical interests: Rawlins Cross, Great Big Sea, Alan Parsons, Ookla > The Mok, Dan Fogleberg, etc, etc. Ooooh! ooooh! Good taste! (Like that wasn't obvious already ;) ) - -- Lori "...When I am dreaming, I don't know if I'm truly asleep or if I'm awake And when I get up, I don't know if I'm truly awake, or if I'm still dreaming..." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:00:29 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Dark movies In article <363c9719.1070865@news.ucdavis.edu>, nicole.the.wonder.nerd.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org says... > Goody, other Dark-Crystal-philes! > > Maybe you TMBG/Dark Crystal fans can help me with a question. I think > that the Mono Puff song "Pretty Fly" sounds *a* *lot* like the song > Kira sings as she and [Jen] are floating down the river. A friend > insists that I'm on crack. What do you think? Hey, now I have an excuse to go out and rent the movie! I haven't seen it in about 15 years...just never think about getting it when I have the opportunity. Tom's got one Mono Puff CD, but he's just informed me it's not the one with that song. Maybe I'll have to go out and get that too. Just to see whether or not you are on crack. k@ owned by Fizzgig the orange kitty ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:48:05 -0500 From: "Sam Patch" Subject: Re: Green Eggs and Ham Found! Sam: "Read my lips...I CAN'T PICK THAT UP!" Max: "If I weren't so amused by his sniveling, I'd come out there and rip your limbs off!" I guess I should've played Thawk-A-Mouse, instead of picking it up... - -- Tom "Some things can be done, as well as others." - --Sam Patch http://www.frontiernet.net/~tkieslin JennCyn wrote in message <19981101040810.25072.00002660@ng-fi1.aol.com>... >> wow, a celebrity in our midst... ;p anyone else out there a fan of >> LucasArts's Monkey Island game series? if not, they're *incredibly* amusing >> & difficult little adventure-type games. lots of fun. and mr. threepwood's >> the protagonist. hey, maybe *that's* what i'll do tonite to keep my mind >> off of all those lucky folks at Noho... > > Now if we get a threesome in here named Laverne, Bernard, and >Hoagie, or if Sam & Max drift in..... > >- j ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 98 20:57:36 GMT From: queenchicky@hotmail.com (Katie Fitzpatrick) Subject: being one of the infamous converted.... hi, all. just stopping by because my good friend caroline just let me know that she had joined the members of this kind group of folks..... i am one of the aforementioned fru-virgins converted this past weekend. *katie waves* having heard not a single song of the band (thanks a *lot*, caroline, for leaving me out) i tagged along friday nite mainly out of boredom and a craving for live music (the rusted root show i went to thursday nite turned me into a junkie). i was far from disappointed. first of all, jess klein, the opening act, was amazing. i swear, guys, she has the most amazing voice i've heard in a long, long while. then someone came out on stage and told us that the boys'd be doing two sets, and i got a little nervous, wondering what the hell i'd gotten myself into here....what if i hated them? needless to say, before they had even gotten onstage i realized that that would be far from a problem. the bj and rachel narrative was hysterical (and parts of it have turned into inside jokes now amongst us fortunate few -- "oh, what a trip it has been!" ), and the songs were great. they were onstage a good hour that first set, and then when they came back out did at least another hour, including the previously mentioned proposal -- i gotta tell you, tom, that was amazing. (i wish that i had written down a setlist, but i wouldn't have even known what to write if i'd thought of it.....sorry i can't help, unfortunate 5.) we had been considering leaving in after the first set (!) to go to a party on campus, but no one wanted to leave. halfway through the second set i was trying to think of who i could get to go with me saturday nite, caroline had been planning on going to some pagan ritual i *still* can't spell last nite, and i really wanted to go again.....i was that smitten. we all left the show on such an amazing high....it was wonderful. then all day yesterday i was trying to figure out a way to get there last nite, the whole time trying to resign myself to not getting there. i went into town, ran errands, then got home in time for dinner, and ate with caroline. everyone else left, me and her were sitting down at the table, and the concert came up in conversation. she said something like, "too bad we can't go again tonite." and i said, "well, why can't we?" and somehow in about a 3 minute period of time i got her to change her mind about that silly pagan thing. ;) so we went, and they played a set of covers......it *was* as good, if not better, than friday nite. i've gotta go, plus this is really long already (sorry, folks, for taking up so much of your time as a newbie). all i have to say is i'm in love. :) later, katie knfitzpa@mail.smith.edu queenchicky@hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:02:24 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Okay, we were all dweebs in high school... My belated birthday present to Tom ("b" and "Wood") finally arrived in the mail yesterday. I opened up the Wood CD this morning, popped it into the player, and started looking through the liner notes only to find a picture of Mike, I mean Michael Koppelman, that kid who used to write Rush lyrics on the choir room blackboard in an attempt to be all cryptic and stuff. The junior boy all of us senior girls thought was kind of cool and mysterious, but then when he opened his mouth, we realized he was nothing special. My first reaction was, of course, to wonder what a picture of my old schoolmate from Grand Forks, North Dakota was doing in such a cool place as this. My second reaction was, "but this is *my* favorite band, you hear me? *Mine!*" I'm pretty sure it's the same guy...he looks kind of the same. According to the notes, apparently he recorded and mixed the album or something (and his name was misspelled). Well, yeah, last I heard he had gone on to become a sound engineer. I just can't help feeling a little, well, I dunno. It's one thing to *meet* famous people you admire, or even to meet someone whose brush with greatness has been closer than yours (it didn't bug me to see Jason's name in liner notes, after all, or to know that the band talks to Doug personally while onstage) - but when it's someone you knew as a kid, and someone who brushed the greatness so much as to be a part of it, and long *before* you had your own chance, well, it's just...weird. I dunno. Michael, if you happen to be reading this, no offense is intended. After all, you know how excruciatingly dweeby *I* was back then. But it really was my friend Kristi who made those crank phone calls back in '83, not me. Honest. k@ firing up the inkjet, plugging in the iron ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #918 ********************************************