Wait, hold on a sec - Chad & Jeremy's producer was Van McCoy? THAT Van McCoy? Of "The Hustle" fame? I - and the foundations of disco - are shooketh. :O
Well, not the producer, just one of their songwriters. But yeah, he's had one hell of a musical curve, though hardly more astonishing than the Bee Gees, for instance.
But but . . . I thought that what's what you told me the last time I received a 1965 artist to review, that there were different UK and American threads to your posts. Have I got this entirely wrong? Why am I suddenly in 1965 when I've been happy enough in the early 60's? And am I the only one suddenly propelled into the (relative) future? Time-travel can have wonky effects on the brain, I know, but still . . .
Spot on, and they certainly were lost well below my musical radar at the time, preferring the similar marshmellowiiness of a Left Banke, for example, whose melodies were often killers (Walk Away Renee). There's a clear touch of Burt Bacharach in their horn-filled arrangements, renders their fluffy sound far too anemic to last out the 60's. You've come up with the very esoteric "milquetoast", which I'd never ever heard before. No surprise from a star linguist, I suppose.
Wait, hold on a sec - Chad & Jeremy's producer was Van McCoy? THAT Van McCoy? Of "The Hustle" fame? I - and the foundations of disco - are shooketh. :O
Well, not the producer, just one of their songwriters. But yeah, he's had one hell of a musical curve, though hardly more astonishing than the Bee Gees, for instance.
But but . . . I thought that what's what you told me the last time I received a 1965 artist to review, that there were different UK and American threads to your posts. Have I got this entirely wrong? Why am I suddenly in 1965 when I've been happy enough in the early 60's? And am I the only one suddenly propelled into the (relative) future? Time-travel can have wonky effects on the brain, I know, but still . . .
OT: Can I rejoin the 1961 thread? I feel out of place thrust into the future, as much as I prefer the middle years of the 1960's . . .
I'm not sure what you mean. There are no separate threads for US and UK releases.
Spot on, and they certainly were lost well below my musical radar at the time, preferring the similar marshmellowiiness of a Left Banke, for example, whose melodies were often killers (Walk Away Renee). There's a clear touch of Burt Bacharach in their horn-filled arrangements, renders their fluffy sound far too anemic to last out the 60's. You've come up with the very esoteric "milquetoast", which I'd never ever heard before. No surprise from a star linguist, I suppose.