>>"Memo From Turner" – 2:45
* Recorded on 17 November 1968, it is unknown who plays on this song ...
the purported line-up of James Mason on guitar and Jimmy Miller, or whoever else, on drums <<

the excellent nzentgraf.de has Al Kooper on guitar on the Metamorphosis version,
Ry Cooder on guitar on the movie version,
and the following line-up on the first demo version:
MJ (voc)/Steve Winwood (gtr, bass, p, org)/Jim Capaldi (dr)

Right, thanks for the heads-up!

But it still sounds suspicious to me...

Be My Baby is a monster, but don't think of Phil Spector as a one-trick pony.

Don't forget:
Spanish Harlem
Da Doo Ron Ron
He's A Rebel
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Today I Met The Boy I'm Gonna Marry
Then He Kissed Me
Wait Til My Bobby Gets Home
Girls Can Tell
Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts
The Best Part Of Breaking Up
UNchained Melody
You've Lost That Loving Feeling
River Deep/Mountain High
Pretty Little Angel Eyes
I Love How You Love Me
Every Little Breath I Take

And those are just the hits - I'm not even listing other personal favorites.

Plus, he produced End Of The Century for the Ramones (which I think is the perfect balance for Ramones of Punk & mature - a balance they never really struck on any other record).
Also, the first song the man ever wrote was "To Know Him Is To Love Him" - he also played and sung on the recording (the title of which was based on the epitaph on his father's headstone).

Don't sell Phil Spector short, the man was great great great.
Even though he was an absolute maniac.

I would say Phil Spector made some of the most violent-sounding pop sngs of all time - just listen to Da Doo Ron Ron, it's relentless. I would go so far as to say his work was a precursor to the Velvets.

Just to add: Chris Farlowe's Out Of Time got no. 1 and competed with the likes of Strangers In The Night and Paperback Writer!!!

Hey yeah and what about Andrew Loog's aborted Necrophilia
...that's just one big Mr Spector style trip...and a damn good hip listen.






ROCKMAN

"We're wasting time": What an appropriate title.
The demorecordings of Mick backed by sessionmen/the Andrew Oldham Orchestra shouldn't have been presented as a Rolling Stones effort.

Rockman Wrote:
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> For you NICOS .....
>
> Donna Lynn released I'd Much Rather Be With The
> Girls
> in March 1965. Her only track to crack the charts
> was
> her novelty record My Boyfriend Got A Beatles
> Haircut.....
>
> [i9.photobucket.com]
> IMMERBOY%202/GLIMMERBOY%203/DONNALYNN2.jpghttp://i
> 9.photobucket.com/albums/a66/GLIMMERBOY/GLIMMERBOY
> %202/GLIMMERBOY%203/DONNALYNN3.jpg
>
> In 2002 Memphis based rockers Reigning Sound also
> pumped
> out a good version of the Richards/Oldham gem
> which can
> be found on their CD Time Bomb High School - In
> The Red ITR084.......
>
> [i9.photobucket.com]
> IMMERBOY%202/GLIMMERBOY%203/RSound.jpg
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Thanks Man RockMan........... you made my day

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Pretty ain't she....



ROCKMAN

Yeah........ I should check here out some day (oh Donna Oh Donnahhhhhhhhh)

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24 February 1965 promo shoot for the release of
the Toggery Five's cover of the Oldham/Richards
penned I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys........
Model in centre is Mick girlfriend at the time Chrissie Shrimpton....






ROCKMAN

I'm Going Down sounds really unfinished. Too bad!

OT: Is Flowers a better album? And isn't it's story similar to Mets?

"I'd Much Rather be with the Boys" was also a staple of Johnny Thuners shows for many years. Until he OD'd that is.

>> Is Flowers a better album? And isn't it's story similar to Metamorphosis? <<

Flowers is a way more "normal" compilation than Metamorphosis - more like High Tides & Green Grass;
and the Stones did have something to do with its release, the cover design, etc.
whether it's "better" than Metamorphosis or not depends on what you're looking for.
if you're looking for Jiving Sister Fanny, Metamorphosis is definitely better. :E



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Flowers covers singles & leftover tracks from 66-67. Only CD to get some songs on it, I think.

Flowers ...ya need it for Ride On Baby...AND Sittin' On A Fence



ROCKMAN

Right. You used to need it for more before the UK CD releases of Aftermath and Between the Buttons.

>> Ride On Baby ... AND Sittin' On a Fence <<

which are addictive -
the guitars! the guitars! the guitars!

With itunes, ya don't really need it fer nuthin'!

loog droog Wrote:
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> Rockman Wrote:
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> -----
> > Whoo whoo man...Spector may have slipped with
> > Let It Be
>
> Looks like he may have "slipped" with a gun, too.



Happiness isn't a warm gun



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Rockman Wrote:
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> Flowers ...ya need it for Ride On Baby...AND
> Sittin' On A Fence


Thanks. I will have to pick it up.

Jiving Sister Fanny is also on London Years.

bigbang Wrote:
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> Rockman Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Flowers ...ya need it for Ride On Baby...AND
> > Sittin' On A Fence
>
>
> Thanks. I will have to pick it up.
>
> Jiving Sister Fanny is also on London Years.


_____________ a very nice trifecta

Sometimes I like albums just for one or two standout tracks. Metamorphosis has several tracks I really dig - I Don't Know Why, Jiving Sister Fanny, I'm Going Down, Family, Don't Lie To Me, If You Let Me, Out Of Time ... enough for me to like the album.



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Liner notes - Beat At Abbey Road 1963-1966



ROCKMAN

Godzi

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."