JSngry Posted February 28, 2019 Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 https://www.dustygroove.com/item/899764?sf=Ranny+Sinclair&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=Ranny+Sinclair&sort_order=artist Not the kind of thing to experiment with, you're either all in on the concept or else just walk away now, don't look back, no regrets. But I'm in, and this is marvelous, often not for the music, but all these women, only a few of which you're likely to recognize now, they made records for Columbia. How did all that happen? God only knows, the imagination reels with possibilities, all kinds of possibilities. It's like the crate-diggers and their Funky 45s on on the other side of the tracks, the tracks that lead to making a 45 or two for Columbia. You do that math. Some of the records are ok, actually, and this one is really, uh...groovy! Produced by Teo Macero, arranged by Dick Hyman, song by Floyd Huddleston and "D. Williams", did they have ANY idea what a pot record this was? and then you get John Simon & Bonnie Herman! etc etc etc. These maths, should you choose to engage them, are just nuts. People got to this point and then did this, and then what happened? Too late to ask that, the records live! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted February 28, 2019 Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 Chills. Not in a good way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 Just now, Chuck Nessa said: Chills. Not in a good way. Yeah, that's definitely one of the maths. I mean, Lor Crane, pop A& R producer at Columbia Records, if that doesn't give you chills (not in a good way), your humanity is in a bad place. Like I said, for specialized tastes only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 Never throw your dreams away. and what are your dreams? to get that boy. THAT boy! Never throw your dreams away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted February 28, 2019 Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 54 minutes ago, JSngry said: Never throw your dreams away. and what are your dreams? to get that boy. THAT boy! Never throw your dreams away. She's just trying to get Johnny angry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 That song's by "J. Levine" aka Joey Levine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Levine Arranged by Allen Stanton:https://www.discogs.com/artist/270579-Allen-Stanton?page=1 Joannie Sommers could/can sing for real. It's a trip, and ultimately chills (not in a good way) that you have this potentially wonderful aspirational soar going on, and then you get to the bridge, and it's just some chick pouring it all out for pay in service of - again, for pay - what grownass men think that young girls want to hear about what these men think are there dreams for their future. And yet, still a delightful piece of second-tier ear candy. At the same time it's some fucked up, probably totally unintentional misogynistic poison. The earlier the mindfuck takes hold, the less there will be to worry about. Until the game gets figured out #metoolongbeforetoday. It's poison, it's candy...IT'S CERTS!!!! Groovy. Truly groovy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, JSngry said: That song's by "J. Levine" aka Joey Levine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Levine Arranged by Allen Stanton:https://www.discogs.com/artist/270579-Allen-Stanton?page=1 Joannie Sommers could/can sing for real. It's a trip, and ultimately chills (not in a good way) that you have this potentially wonderful aspirational soar going on, and then you get to the bridge, and it's just some chick pouring it all out for pay in service of - again, for pay - what grownass men think that young girls want to hear about what these men think are there dreams for their future. And yet, still a delightful piece of second-tier ear candy. At the same time it's some fucked up, probably totally unintentional misogynistic poison. The earlier the mindfuck takes hold, the less there will be to worry about. Until the game gets figured out #metoolongbeforetoday. It's poison, it's candy...IT'S CERTS!!!! Groovy. Truly groovy. All too common in that era. Especially creepy the more you know about Phil Spector. And Gerry Goffin for that matter. Carole King did outgrow that stuff by 'Tapestry'. Edited March 1, 2019 by felser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 That's Bernadette Peters top right, correct? Which one is Joanie Somers? Top center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 8 hours ago, GA Russell said: That's Bernadette Peters top right, correct? Which one is Joanie Somers? Top center? Correct on both counts. 12 hours ago, felser said: All too common in that era. Especially creepy the more you know about Phil Spector. And Gerry Goffin for that matter. Carole King did outgrow that stuff by 'Tapestry'. IIRC, both that one and "Do The Screw"(?) were done for "business purposes", either as contract judo, or DJ mindfuck about B-sides, something like that. They were not meant to be taken seriously, although they didn't tell anybody that at the time, that would've blown the purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 44 minutes ago, JSngry said: IIRC, both that one and "Do The Screw"(?) were done for "business purposes", either as contract judo, or DJ mindfuck about B-sides, something like that. They were not meant to be taken seriously, although they didn't tell anybody that at the time, that would've blown the purpose. You are correct on "Do The Screw", but "He HIt Me..." was actually a lavishly produced A-side. But it creeped out too many people and did not chart, despite their songs immediately before it ("Uptown") and immediate after it ("He's a Rebel") being huge hits and absolute classics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Hit_Me_(And_It_Felt_Like_a_Kiss) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 Ok, I thought I remembered reading somewhere that they wrote it as some kind of a dark joke or something like that, maybe that Spector wanted something to put on a B-Side to force the A-Side and they figured, hey, this should do it. But maybe that was something and/or somebody else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2019 Patti Page almost gets it, but almost don't count. This shit ain't easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2019 Doris Day, otoh, takes a total POS song and, with the help of an unnamed arranger, hits it out of Ear Candy Park. But it still wasn't a hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 I swear to god, John Simon has a bass clarinet playing a bari part on that Bonnie Herman rrecord. That record is a gem, a true gem. Bonnier Herman, ftw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted March 5, 2019 Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 Bonnie Herman had a weird solo career outside of the Singers Unlimited. She tried to launch a pop career with the John Simon prod., but then went into jingles. Then she did some religious stuff like this: And this: Then she somehow wound up on ECM on a Eberhard Weber album: Then did a Windham Hill album with Fred Simon, and somewhere along the line recorded some cuts on an Interfaith record, where she sings about Muslims, Christians and Jewish people. After that, she recorded a thing with Lyle Mays called "Moses the Lawgiver" and finally was driven into retirement by Gen Puerling's death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 "Driven into retirement"? what does that mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted March 5, 2019 Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 I once got a very warm postcard from Herman after I wrote a favorable review of singer-pianist Audrey Morris, whom we both loved. Made my day. Never met her, though. She was/is married to a good Chicago-based drummer, Tom Radtke. Interesting interview with Herman can be found in the midst of this Steve Cerra blog post about The Singers Unlimited: https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-singers-unlimited-part-1.html About "driven into retirement after Puerling's death" -- the interview suggests that she disliked performing in public and only felt at ease singing in the studio. One might guess that she also only or mainly felt at ease (inspired?) in the midst of Puerling's vocal settings and with her SU colleagues and just chose to call it quits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 I've never heard her singing anything but that she didn't sound warm (no joke intended). She seems to be very much loved by those who have known and/or worked with her. Used to detest the SU, but that was because of only hearing them with the Boss Brass and stuff like that. Hear their a cappella things a few years ago and did an immediate revision of opinion. Then the albums with Farnon sealed the deal. And I did not know that she's Woody Herman's niece! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted March 5, 2019 Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 The Steve Cerra SU interview/profile is in four parts: https://www.richardmoxham.com/bonnie-herman/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 13 hours ago, JSngry said: "Driven into retirement"? what does that mean? I think I was trying to convey the sense that some outward force was controlling her career, but now that I read that interview Larry linked, it seemed it all had to do with the fact that she wasn't comfortable with live performance. I liked their discussion of the distasteful use of vibrato in both classical (opera) music and popular music. Here's that phenomenal thing she did with Lyle Mays: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 21 hours ago, JSngry said: And I did not know that she's Woody Herman's niece! She is also Bernard Herrmann's mother! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 No she isn't, silly. But she is Woody's niece, at least according to this guy: https://www.richardmoxham.com/bonnie-herman/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted March 7, 2019 Report Share Posted March 7, 2019 She's probably an alien from some advanced planet where every note they sing is perfectly in tune, without using too much vibrato, like the people from this planet. I want her to have my baby, or if she's too old for that, we'll have to clone her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2019 There is one hit on this compilation: This was not a hit: That's too bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 I marvel at the level of detail the Japanese will apply as necessary. This release has a thicker-than-usual booklet. They resized the CD jewel case so the booklet fits comfortably within - it's a little thicker than the standard CD jewel case. Wild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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