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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Groovy Cassette Compilation
Message-ID: <687@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 18:17:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 18:17:03 1985
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Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: Cassette, Compilation, Garage Door, 84 Rooms

In article <10778@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> ebm%ingres@ucbvax.ARPA (Grady Toss) writes:
>_Behind the Garage Door Volume 1: An Anthology_

>... The tape features a wide array of musical styles, from Tuxedomoon like
>synth pieces to honest-to-gosh Rock 'n' Roll.  Lots of interesting
>covers, including The Melon Colony doing Billy Joe Royal's _Down in the
>Boondocks_; Master Cylinder doing a demented medley of Glen Campbell's
>Wichita Lineman_ and Smokey Robinson's _Tears of a Clown_...

Sounds like it's right up my alley!  (Wish I still had a tape of me and
a drummer friend doing a Ramones-like devastation of Helen Reddy's "You And
Me Against The World"... you should hear what a D#m7-5/A chord sounds like
when played through a Chiquita practice amp miked from an Angstrom away!)

>Little Carl Day covering the Elvis hit _Little Sister_...

Hell, everyone from Marshall Crenshaw to Ry Cooder's covered that one!  I
wanna hear "Do The Clam"!!!

>Great pop from the Poison Ivy League (I believe this name is a pun on the
>English vocal group, The Ivy League...

Possible, although they might have borrowed it from the Elvis tune of the
same title (cf. _Book of Rock Lists_).

>who sang the background vocals on The Who's _Can't Explain_).

Richard Butler's _Maximum R&B_ credits the Ivy League with background
vocals on "Can't Explain"; however, Pete Townshend's self-review of "Meaty
Beaty Big and Bouncy" (in Rolling Stone) credits the Beverley Sisters.  Any
idea which is correct?  (I'd guess the latter.)

The Ivy League is not to be confused with the Ivy Three (who had a hit with 
"Yogi" inthe early 60's, and whose members included future Lovin' Spoonful 
producers Charles Koppelman and Don Rubin), or with the well-known athletic 
conference. :-)  *This* Ivy League was a British group who had a number of UK 
hits, some of which were released Stateside on Cameo (who, BTW, released the 
first US single by the Kinks!).  Of these, only "Tossing And Turning" (not the 
Bobby Lewis tune) made any impact here, barely squeaking into the Hot 100 in 
1965 - which, coincidentally, was about as well as "I Can't Explain" did here!

>...Plus lots lots more--17 action packed tracks in all.  Every time I take
>this tape out and carry it around in my Personal Potable I realize how great
>the cassette-only music world really is.

I could use a Personal Potable myself... the water's not very good around 
here!  :-)


AWR