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Re: [newmellotrongroup] My First Recording Experience - 1965

2009-12-29 by marabus

Bernie,
You must be very proud and happy to land those 45's.I'm surprised they 
didn't more airplay.The Kingsman(Louie,Louie)were on Wand and Dionne 
Warwick was on Scepter I believe.
Anyway congradulations and thanks for sharing!
Pete

Tron400 wrote:
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>
> A few weeks ago, I was searching around on eBay and the rest of the 
> Web to see if I could find a copy of the 45 that I recorded with my 
> first band, second incarnation. I had lost my sole copy many, many 
> years ago and was shocked to find two, apparently unplayed, DJ copies. 
> I bought them both and a Stanton USB turntable, and converted them to 
> MP3. The band was called The Last Five and the single was recorded 
> while I was still in high school, in late 1965 on the Wand label at 
> the Scepter-Wand studio in New York, under the direction of Florence 
> Greenberg. Both songs were written and sung by Basil (Bill) Matychak, 
> who went on to form Buffalongo. Members of Buffalongo, minus Bill, 
> eventually formed Orleans and King Harvest, who covered a Buffalongo 
> song, Dancin' In The Moonlight. Here be teh tunes:
>
> Side A: http://www.leisureland.us/audio/kickingyou.mp3
> Side B: http://www.leisureland.us/audio/weatherman.mp3
>
> Bernie
>
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