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I've read about it, but seem to have a helluva time finding any.
Heard 2 songs each from the bands Hello (NY Groove and Tell Him) and Catapult (Let Your Hair Hang Down and Teeny Bopper Band).
Does anyone have any????
Love what I've heard from both.
Looks like they might just be imports, but hopefully someone has 'em.
If anyone can give me any more info, good tunes to look up, etc, that would be cool too.
NY-Groove eh? would that be a cover of the (KISS- Ace Frehley classic?(great tune..)
Actually, Hello did it first. There is a compilation CD for Hello available thru Amazon.com, and a CD called Junk Shop Glam also available thru the same source. That CD is a comp of various of those songs.
Hello's NYG resembles "Givin' It Up For Your Love" by Delbert McClinton and "Hey, Little Girl" by Brownsville Station, plus the 4/4 stomp of Hamilton Bohannon's early music.
Er !! thanks for clearing that up .. i think?
"If it looks like sh*t, tastes like Sh*t and smells like sh*t, you can pretty much guarantee its gonna be sh*t ! (L.O.l) .. ("Hardly the flair of The Prometheus Society quote.."):-)
Thanx Jay. I figured you'd be able to help a bit.
Is that JSG comp worth the money? I'll try to check out some of the others you mentioned.
Have you heard Catapult. Great old tune. Another cool one is Bonnie St. Claire-Clap Your Hands, Stamp your Feet. Also Kenny-Julie Ann and Racey's-Kitty
<font size="4" face="Arial">Well, Ace did copy the Hello single, which was released in this country.Quote:
Originally posted by Marshy:
Er !! thanks for clearing that up .. i think?
"If it looks like sh*t, tastes like Sh*t and smells like sh*t, you can pretty much guarantee its gonna be sh*t ! (L.O.l) .. ("Hardly the flair of The Prometheus Society quote.."):-)
I think you need to work on your quotes [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font size="4" face="Arial">There are several comps in that vein that are worth the money. The Bonnie ST Claire tune is on several comps. The song "Little Boy Blue" by Angel(not the DC band), which had Sweet connections, is great, has that 4 on the floor percussive sound. The singles that Cozy Powell did for RAK are also great, such as "NaNaNa". They are also on various comps. "Kitty," the basis for Toni Basil's hit "Mickey." "Bang, Bang Bullet," by Streak is great as well.Quote:
Originally posted by glamfly:
Thanx Jay. I figured you'd be able to help a bit.
Is that JSG comp worth the money? I'll try to check out some of the others you mentioned.
Have you heard Catapult. Great old tune. Another cool one is Bonnie St. Claire-Clap Your Hands, Stamp your Feet. Also Kenny-Julie Ann and Racey's-Kitty
I'll throw up some links later.
Thanks Jay...links would be good. I did find one good link already. The glam bear one.....but any help is great. The 4 on the floor percussion is exactly what I'm really digging the more I hear.
Barry Blue's "Dancin' on a Saturday Night" and "Miss Hit and Run" are good too.
Here's a link to comp of Hello. I have this one. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...music&n=507846
You can hear how their version of NYG sounds different than Ace's. The comp on sale with the Hello CD is great as well. I have that also.
In case it wasn't clear, the Hello single was released here in the USA and Ace covered it.
I think it was actually written by Russ Ballard. Kiss themselves also covered his 'God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You' many years later.
'New York Groove' was a UK top twenty hit for Hello back in the mid-seventies. They made a few Top Of The Pops appearances but were most successful in Germany for some reason...
I know Russ wrote the song. Kiss never covered it, but it was on Ace's solo album, the one when they all released solo albums at the same time.
Yes, Hello's career was longer in Germany because glam didn't die out as soon as it did elsewhere.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ September 21, 2005 10:05 AM: Message edited by: JayForSure ]</font>
Yes, that was the only one of the 4 solo singles I couldn't get with the picture sleeve and mask. I tried for ages with no luck. My local Woolworth's was pretty crap though.
I remember that the Gene mask used to terrify my cat - and my copy of the Paul single was mispressed with the wrong b-side.
Let this thread die? Never! I want it to pass that rotten fruit thread by as many pages as possible! [img]wink.gif[/img]
Too right. They're not even talking about fruit anymore. What's more, they've had over 600 posts without once mentioning the most glamorous fruit of all - the pink grapefruit...
...uummmm...pink grapefruit...
Let's leave the fruit on the other post. I wanna talk about some more obscure glam!
LOL! It is not.
Just a bee-zare coinkidink, huh?
Link to hear NYG in its entirety:
http://www.crapfromthepast.com/favorites/sounds2/
Well then, Phil, do so! BTW...your nym IS based on Phillip Tagget-Adam's habit of wearing those fly glasses in the early day of Roxy, is it not?
NEW YORK GROOVE:- Spoooky or what? i just posted on this topic last night and when i was finished,i went into the living room to chill, one of my kidz was sat watchin' "idle hands" kinda horror comedy affair, (anyone?) and theres a scene where two young Lurvers are geddin it on in the back of a car prior to attending a fancy dress party,(dressed as Gene and Paul) and they r indeed listening to Frehleys new York Groove !!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOohhhhhhhhh scarrrry.
marshy:-)
Ever heard the Left End album?
Er nope !!! why?
Interestingly raunchy glam in a more melodic/tighter version of Dolls/Alice style.
...and another topic bites the dust...
(that damn fruity thing is still going strong...)
...and where is glamfly to discuss forgotten glam?
...and the damn fruit thread keeps rotting away whilst this one drops to the second page...
Chris Norman from Smokie did that horrible duet with SuziQ called "Stumblin' In." As for "Alice," it was considered sort of glam, but a country band covered it and did a bang-up job, I might add.
Left End? Never heard of that one.
I've been searching for that Streak-Bang Bang Bullet tune you mentioned, and am having no luck.
That link you posted for the Hello-NYG was pretty cool. I already had that tune, but many interesting tunes on there.....like, the original "We Got the Beat", and I didn't know Tina Turner originally sang that Ace of Base tune.
btw, was Smokie considered glam? Judging by the sound, and look, I would say no, but it seems like I've seen them mentioned in that genre.
"Next Door to Alice" is a great tune. I like the version where all the drunks yell "Alice, Who the Fuck is Alice" in between the chorus. LOL!
bump...
The only junk shop glam I know is Buttz.
Weren't Smokie about as glam as Dr. Hook?
Chicory Tip still play in the pubs here.
Smokie's glam associations came about through their connections with Chinnichap.
Hey Jay, is there a website which lists all the bands that worked with Chinn/Chapman??
It seems like they worked with a shitload of bands, that all had a similar sound, and I dig most of it. But there are probably some bands that either I don't know, or that I didn't know worked with them, such as Smokie. I know the band, and have the tunes but wasn't aware they were associated with C/C. And yeah, Smokie reminds me a lot of Dr. Hook, who were also good.