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Played And Sung Like The Original Hits! John Phillips and his wife, Geneviève Waite.

Played And Sung Like The Original Hits! John Phillips and his wife, Geneviève Waite.

Released Friday, 5th February 2021
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Played And Sung Like The Original Hits! John Phillips and his wife, Geneviève Waite.

Played And Sung Like The Original Hits! John Phillips and his wife, Geneviève Waite.

Played And Sung Like The Original Hits! John Phillips and his wife, Geneviève Waite.

Played And Sung Like The Original Hits! John Phillips and his wife, Geneviève Waite.

Friday, 5th February 2021
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Abigail - Biting My Nails (1976) Co-written by John Phillips and his wife at the time, Genevieve Waite. Abigail was a sex symbol in Australia, and she appeared in Mel Gibson's first film, "Summer City" in 1977. She played the part of "woman in pub". 

 

Barclay James Harvest - Child Of The Universe (1974)

Barclay James Harvest - Loving is Easy (1978)

Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird (1971) I don't get how a band like this got to record for such a long time. They really do rely on cliché after cliché. The Moodies are very similar, but there was a kind of charm in their records that just doesn't exist here. It's like a cross between Trans-Siberia Orchestra and America. 

Devo - Mongoloid (1977) Band name subtitled "The D-Evolution Band" on labels. "Jocko-Homo" - from the soundtrack of "In the Beginning Was the End.. (the truth about DE-EVOLUTION)" a film by Chuck Statler. Chuck Statler, arguably the godfather of the music video, is a pioneer who directed music films for upstart record labels and emerging superstars like Elvis Costello, Madness, and DEVO before MTV’s existence. 

Electric Light Orchestra - Beatles Forever (1982) Jeff Lynne: "It's 'cause it's so fawning, y'know. It's so over the top, y'know. Um... maybe one day it'll come out. I'd like to sort of redo it or something." Recorded for their Secret Messages album, which was originally intended to be a double album. This track didn't make it onto what turned out to be another 4/4 sunny dirgefest. I didn't even buy their last record. 

In Buffalo, there used to be a TV station (1977-78) called MICR, on which you could see local announcements being posted bulletin-board style, in rolling text on a screen. While that was happening, a guy would spin tunes. So...a guy was playing a song that seemed to reach into my primordial soul. It was like a dream that came true. It was "One Summer Dream" by Electric Light Orchestra. I called the DJ and he (Bill Elliot maybe?) obliged me, live on TV, with 3 or 4 more songs by this band. I remember he played "Fire On High" which I immediately recognized as the intro music to CBS Sports Spectacular (a competitor to Wide World of Sports on ABC). Thus began my 4-year allegiance to all things ELO. I scarfed down their entire discography. Learned much. I know the year because he told me that their new album was coming out soon. A double album! I just liked the sound. Those doubled Ovation guitars, the safe arrangements, the real orchestra. It really inspired me/us the same way Rush, King Crimson, The Beatles had. 

Ella Fitzgerald - It's Up To Me and You (1968) She didn't write too many songs herself, but she DID write this one, a paean to MLK, in the wake of his murder. 

Barclay James Harvest - Beyond The Grave (1975)

Genevieve Waite - Biting My Nails (1974) Geneviève Waite, a South African actress, singer and former model, married John Phillips on 31 January 1972, and they had two children, Tamerlane Phillips and Bijou Phillips. They divorced in 1985. She died in 2019. Listening to this album reminds me of listening to the Gayle Moran album I Loved You Then...I Love You Now. The feeling that I am the only person in the world listening to this at this particular moment. But no more! Now YOU are listening as well. 

Devo - Mongoloid (1978) Album version 

Genevieve Waite - Love is coming back (1974)

Genevieve Waite - Times of Love (1974)

Gunhill Road - 42nd Street (1971) Gunhill Road or Gun Hill Road. Gunhill Road issued one album on Kama Sutra Records, which was produced by Kenny Rogers. The album was issued twice because at the time, the drug references made in the song 'Back When My Hair Was Short' were frowned upon. So a new version was recorded, and the album was reissued with different sequencing. To no effect. Except for the Top 40 hit. Which is to say, it reached #40. 

Gunhill Road - Back When My Hair Was Short (1972) Original nasty version. 

Gunhill Road - Baked Bean Band (1971)

Genevieve Waite - Mr. Blue (1974)

Paul McCartney - I'll Give You a Ring (1982)

Renegade Soundwave - Biting My Nails (1989)

The Primitives - The Ostrich (1964) Lou Reed's first group with John Cale was the Primitives, a short-lived group assembled to support an anti-dance single penned by Reed, "The Ostrich". I never liked Lou Reed, Nico, The Velvet Underground, or anything related. I think that "Walk On The Wild Side" would have been another joyless dirge if it were not for my man Bowie.

On Pickwick Records whaaaaa?

John Phillips - Let It Bleed, Genevieve (1970) From the only record he released in his lifetime, The Wolf King of LA.  

John Phillips - Mr. Blue (1975?) Recorded with members of the Stones. 

The "bands" Tribe and King's Road made soundalikes for the Pickwick label, and they are notable for their ham-handed attempts to capture the energy of the original "happenings" with fake crowd noise and announcements. I love them. 

Tribes - I Think I Love You (1970)

Tribes - Mama Told Me Not To Come (1970)

Tribes - Mississippi (1970)

Tribes - Question (1970)

In the tradition of...

Barclay James Harvest - Taking Some Time On (1970)

These two record covers. 

So THIS was the record we had when we were kids. What a scam!! The Tribes became Tribes became Tribe. 

Naughty Pickwick Records. 

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