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  Boynextdoor (boynextdoor) 2-Debutant Username: boynextdoor Post Number: 23 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.165.96.66 |
Does anyone remember these girl groups from the 60's and anything about them? I think I heard the Mckinleys were from Scotland? | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 4-Laureate Username: robb_k Post Number: 147 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.81.25.163 |
I have one record by The Cake, on Decca 32179 from 1967? titled "Baby That's Me"/b/w "Mockingbird". I heard "Baby That's Me" on the radio a few times. I think it made the bottom of some charts. It was a remake of a Jack Nitzche/Jackie DeShannon penned song that had been originally released on Cameo 331, by The Fashions. I like The Fashions' version much better, but The Cake's version is good also. It was a York-Pala production, arranged by Harold Battiste, produced by Green and Stone. Engineer was Stan Ross. Didn't Harold Battiste work out of Nashville or Memphis and a few from New Orleans? I seem to remember him having arranged a lot of Southern (US) soul sessions. | ||
FrankM (frankm) 1-Arriviste Username: frankm Post Number: 7 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.154.32.92 |
The McKinleys were from Scpotland and worked with John Carter (The Ivy League,The flower Pot men) Sheila Casey(still married to Howie Casey), as Sheila McKinley, appeared with her sister Jeanette as the McKinley Sisters and appeared on concerts with the Beatles in Scotland. There'saphotograph here http://beehive.thisishull.co.u k/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID= 7646&PageID=51430 | ||
Randy Russi (randy_russi) 3-Pundit Username: randy_russi Post Number: 43 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 169.139.180.100 |
I saw the Cake perform on TV and the song they did was "Mockingbird" so I always thought that was the intended A side. Never new anything about them except that one single on Decca. | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 4-Laureate Username: robb_k Post Number: 164 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.81.201.207 |
Randy: The record has the diamond after the master number on the Mockingbird side. However, to me that doesn't mean that it is necessarily the "plug or A side", as I believe more than half the Decca, Coral and Brunswick records have the better side and earlier master number as the side WITHOUT that marker! Perhaps the marker means: NON-Plug side???? In any case, I heard "Baby That's Me on the radio, and NOT Mockingbird. I think it was WLS in Chicago, or the pop station in L.A. that played more different records, and the more obscure, stuff, but don't really remember. I think they played "Baby That's Me" rather than "Mockingbird", as the former had a "Philles" sound. It didn't, really, but to a top 30 pop dj, it might be close enough. I can hear why they didn't play "Mockingbird", at least on the top 30 station. Although, by far, the more soulful and interesting of the 2 sides, the girls hit a tonne of flat notes. On the "Wall of Sound" side, their singing is weak and uninspired, but reasonably on key. To me, both sides are only marginal. I'd definately trade it to get something I like. If I can keep my collection together until I'm near death from advanced old age, and I'm able to donate my collection as one of the co-founders of an historical R&B/Blues/Jazz/Soul record museum in Den Haag, I certainly would expect that The Cake record probably won't be included. |
