Tuesday This And That

Wow!  The Stray Cats have reformed and are doing a 21-city tour this fall.

All three original members (Brian Setzer - guitar, vocals, Lee Rocker - upright bass, vocals and Slim Jim Phantom - drums, vocals—will be onboard.

They will Rock These Towns:

October 25th – Mount Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
October 26th – Rockford, IL – Hard Rock Casino
October 28th – Louisville, KY – The Louisville Palace
October 29th – Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
October 31st – Columbus, OH – Mershon Auditorium
November 1st – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Casino
November 2nd – Northfield, OH – MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage
November 4th – Morristown, NJ – Mayo Performing Arts Center
November 5th – Westbury, NY – Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair
November 7th – Mashantucket, CT – Foxwoods Resort Casino
November 8th – Verona, NY – The Event Center at Turning Stone Resort Casino
November 9th – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre
November 11th – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
November 13th – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
November 15th – Albuquerque, NM – Route 66 Casino Hotel – Legends Theater
November 16th – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre
November 18th – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Resort & Casino at San Manuel
November 19th – Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
November 20th – TBA – TBA
November 22nd – Santa Rosa, CA – Ruth Finley Person Theater
November 23rd – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

If you're into Dionne Warwick, this one's for you ...

It's a brand new box set of her COMPLETE Sceptor recordings, 1962 - 1971, including previously unreleased alternate takes and live performances.

It truly is a massive collection, spread out over twelve discs and available now.

More information here:  https://theseconddisc.com/2025/07/31/dionne-warwick-scepter-box-out-tomorrow/ 

Speaking of massive collections, the complete works of Marianne Faithfull recorded for Decca (UK) is also available now.

This one's a 6-CD box set with a 76-page booklet ... a career-spanning look at her "British Invasion Years" when she suddenly became more than just Mick Jagger's girlfriend!

Here is Harvey Kubernik's take, along with a bit of his 1995 interview with Marianne:

MARIANNE FAITHFULL’S COMPLETE DECCA CATALOG REISSUES NOW OUT ON VINYL, CD & DIGITAL FORMATS; Harvey Kubernik Marianne Faithfull 1995 Interview   By Harvey Kubernik Copyright © 2025 Singer, actress, author and performer Marianne Faithfull’s complete UK Decca catalog has been reissued on LP, CD and streaming.   Before her passing on January 30th this year, Marianne completed work on two projects that were to commemorate her 60th anniversary in music; the first was her final EP, Burning Moonlight, a collection of four songs inspired by her Decca recordings, the second was her contribution to this series of reissues where she talked in-depth about her Decca recording career for the first time.   All four of Marianne’s original Decca albums: Marianne Faithfull, Come My Way, North Country Maid and Loveinamist have been reissued on vinyl alongside Cast Your Fate To The Wind: a new double LP of the collected singles, B-sides and rarities. Simultaneously, a 6 CD box set will be released called Cast Your Fate To The Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings, which features all the albums reproduced on miniature facsimile LPs, a new double album of the singles, B-sides and rarities, five art cards and a 76-page book featuring many rare and unpublished photographs.  Three of the original albums are appearing on vinyl for the first time since they were released, and the artwork on all four original LPs has been recreated where possible from the original images giving a high-quality finish to this set of reissues.  The music has been remastered from the original tapes by Grammy nominated producer Andrew Batt, who was the Executive Producer of Burning Moonlight. He also contributes a full-scale reassessment of the Decca recordings in his in-depth sleeve notes included in each LP and the CD box set. In these, Marianne comments on the source of the songs and her role in the recordings, conclusively debunking the received wisdom that in this phase of her career she was little more than a record label puppet.   In 1964, Marianne Faithfull was spotted by the impresario Andrew Loog Oldham, and her recording career began in June, 1964, with the release of her debut single “As Tears Go By.” “As Tears Go By” is a song penned by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Andrew Loog Oldham. It reached a top ten position in the UK singles chart. The Stones then recorded their own version, included on the American pressing of December’s Children (And Everybody’s) in 1965. Their American record label London issued “As Tears Go By” as a single that landed in the number six spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The Rolling Stones subsequently performed the tune on an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show.   Andrew Loog Oldham: The fact is forgotten that Marianne had, between August of ‘64 and the summer of ‘65, four Top Ten hits in the UK. ‘As Tears Go By’ and ‘Come and Stay With Me’ held up.  “For one, it was obvious that ‘this thing of ours’ was not going to disappear. We had come in following the Twist, Davy Crockett, Skiffle, and Trad Jazz. Skiffle and Trad Jazz had been very important; they had been the BBC and the Establishment's last chance to control the key to what music we got to hear. You had during 1957-1958 like The Six-Five Special, hosted by Pete Murray (God bless him!) and Jo Douglas, which invited us all to deck up in jeans and sweaters and be really daring with our shirt collars turned up. There were villains, there was mayhem, action and, if we had not had Pirate Radio, I might not have had a hit with Marianne Faithfull's ‘As Tears Go By.’ The BBC would not touch it ... they said Marianne could not sing. Mind you, that's what they'd said about Mick Jagger a year earlier when the Rolling Stones failed their BBC live audition. They said ‘The singer cannot sing.’ The BBC was the enemy, a limp wristed arm of the government trying to keep kids on a rationed musical diet of trad jazz and skiffle.” A news announcement from ABKCO provides an overview of Faithfull’s Decca releases. “Its melancholy reflection would set the tone for many of her subsequent recordings and in the wake of the singles success, Decca wanted to consolidate her position with a pop LP. However, in an early show of artistic strength Marianne resolved to record an album based on the folk songs she had been performing in local clubs before she was signed. Decca agreed, on the proviso she delivered the pop album, too, and so it came to be that Marianne had two debut albums released on the same day in April, 1965: an unprecedented move for a largely untested artist.  “Marianne’s folk debut, Come My Way, contains some standout recordings, including the title track written with guitarist/producer/arranger Jon Mark, who would become one of the most important figures in Marianne’s early career. He not only played on all Marianne’s Decca albums, but also accompanied her onstage and at TV appearances.  “Other highlights include her interpretation of the traditional songs “Once I Had A Sweetheart” and “Fare Thee Well,” the latter more than a match for Joan Baez’s original recording. The album was a personal collection in more ways than one, as songs like her spoken word recitation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwock” and “Full Fathom Five” from Shakespeare’s The Tempest came out of her work with the Prospect Theatre, a local theatrical group that she performed with before her recording career.  "Marianne’s eponymous pop LP was produced by Mike Leander, one of the key musical forces behind the ‘60s pop scene and, along with Jon Mark, the key person behind Marianne’s early work. He was instrumental in creating her signature folk-pop style and would go on to produce almost all of her Decca recordings. The album was roughly divided between cover versions and songs written specifically for her, including another of her biggest ‘60s hits, “Come And Stay With Me” by Jackie DeShannon. Featuring Jimmy Page, the song remained a personal favorite from the period; aside from her debut single, it was the only one of Marianne’s early hits that she performed on subsequent tours. Although pop in sound, several of the standout tracks on the album were actually selected by Marianne from her collection of folk records including “What Have They Done To The Rain?” and “Plaisir d’amour,” which became a favorite encore.  “Marianne released two folk albums in the ‘60s and it is not generally understood that they were conceived as a pair; where Come My Way had been largely compiled from music of the American folk revival, her second, released in April, 1966, was built around songs from the British Isles. Rightly hailed as her finest LP of the ‘60s, North Country Maid’s contribution to the folk revival has never been fully recognized, as many of its songs were not yet the established folk standards they would soon become. Featuring emotive interpretations of Cyril Tawney’s “Sally Free and Easy” and Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” the album also included the traditional “She Moved Thru The Fair,” which is one of the few songs Marianne performed throughout her life. Having first sung it on the local folk circuit in Reading before her pop career began, it remained a favorite encore and also appears on her final EP Burning Moonlight.   “For her last Decca long player, Marianne returned to the pop scene. Released in March, 1967, Loveinamist was a hybrid comprised of earlier hit singles “Yesterday” and “This Little Bird,” alongside new recordings in the folk-pop style that defined her signature sound. Loveinamist featured a clutch of impressive interpretations from the songwriters that suited her best, including a stoic “Reason To Believe” by Tim Hardin, the gorgeous folk-pop ballad “With You In Mind” by Jackie DeShannon and the baroque psychedelia of Donovan’s “In The Night Time.”  “The 2-LP compilation Cast Your Fate To The Wind groups together all the singles, B-sides and rarities released in the UK, alongside four previously unreleased recordings. These include “A Strange World,” the pop track earmarked by her discoverer Andrew Loog Oldham as the follow up to “As Tears Go By” but abandoned in favor of Marianne’s choice of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” (also included), a haunting a cappella version of “She Moved Thru The Fair,” an outtake from the Loveinamist sessions that gives this set its title, and an alternative version of Donovan’s trippy “Good Guy.”  “The album also has a couple of Marianne’s earliest compositions “Oh Look Around You” and “I’d Like To Dial Your Number,” which appeared on the B-sides of her singles alongside more well-known tracks like her only UK EP, Go Away From My World, and the singles “Summer Nights” (which would become one of Marianne’s biggest hits of the ‘60s), “Tomorrow’s Calling” and her cover of The Ronettes’ “Is This What I Get For Loving You?” The collection closes with her final Decca release, “Something Better,” which signified the end of an era in more ways than one, even though it was the self-penned lyrics to the B-side “Sister Morphine” that became her defining artistic statement, and one that eventually led Marianne to her next musical quantum leap.  “Marianne’s furious resurfacing in the late ‘70s with Broken English completely superseded her earlier artistic achievements, and for a time she felt the need to distance herself both personally and artistically from her earlier incarnation.  “Inadvertently, this led to one of the biggest misconceptions about the early stage of Marianne’s career, namely that she was not creatively involved in her ‘60s releases, or that these recordings did not have the same artistic consideration behind them as her later music. She was at pains to correct that impression on these reissues; ‘I think I did express a lot in my early work, what people hear with the jump between these recordings and Broken English is just experience; life happened, but for me it’s all been connected. The music changed, my voice changed, but my approach to making records has always been the same: I’ve always known what I was doing.’  “2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Marianne’s two debut albums and in the months before her passing, she reflected on this early part of her career with renewed appreciation: ‘I don’t think people realize how much care and real consideration we put into this early material. It took a long time for me to appreciate it, but now I do and I’m really proud of what we did, and I hope you all like it as much as I do.’”  One of the highlights of Faithfull’s recording career on Decca, later heard and seen in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, is Marianne singing “Something Better,” a Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin tune, arranged by Jack Nitzsche and produced by Mick Jagger.   I asked Circus director Michael Lindsay-Hogg about Faithfull’s sequence in the film. “It goes back to the song,” he enthused. “It goes back to Marianne and the years when she and Mick were going out together. She was a beautiful girl with a lovely figure. And she was the only girl except for Yoko Ono. Marianne appeared and I thought ‘this has to be about her and the camera work.’ A one of a kind beauty. And the way Tony Richmond lit her with her hair on her face. She was a beautiful young woman. It was partly celebrating her. And, then there is that long musical break where the camera circles around and ‘what would we cut away too?’ And so I thought ‘let’s do the unusual thing of just holding on her when she is not singing. Just move the camera around. “I also wanted contrast with her because there were a lot of men on the show. Everyone on the show, were guys, except for Yoko. At the time, there weren’t a lot of women in the rock ‘n’ roll world yet. There was wonderful Dusty Springfield, but mainly guys.” During 1995, I interviewed Marianne Faithfull when Faithfull: An Autobiography, written with David Dalton, was published.  Portions of our conversation were published in my first book This Is Rebel Music: The Harvey Kubernik InnerViews. Q. Throughout all your recording career, you’ve included speech or narrative aspects to your vocal singing style. You never had a ‘Motown’ voice. A. (laughs). It’s something I’ve done all my life. Listen to ‘Jabberwock.’ I’ve always included the spoken word. The talk. To their credit, really, the music business let me do it. Q. In your Decca period, you covered Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind.” I noticed you were in one of the hotel room scenes in Bob Dylan’s Don't Look Back film that chronicled his 1965 British tour. In your autobiography, in the Dylan Redux chapter, you provide a glimpse of Dylan in action. He wrote a poem for you and then tore it up. In your autobiography, I thought it was one of the sections where you and David Dalton worked really hard in bringing the moment to the reader. A. I think that was the bit that David did best. I didn’t work the hardest on that, David did.  But it was wonderful. I wish he’d written the whole book like that.  And all the Bobby Newirth stuff was so beautiful. Q. Had you never seen a person like Dylan or an American like him in 1965? A. Never. Never seen.  Never in my wildest dreams could have imagined anyone like Bob in 1965. His brain, but I was frightened.  I didn’t know they were probably more scared of me. I don’t know. They were all on methedrine.  He played me the album ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ himself on his own.  It was just amazing.  And I worshiped him anyway. That was where I got very close to Allen (Ginsberg) ‘cause Allen was the only sort of person I could recognize as being somewhat like me. Q.  On the Decca label you recorded a version of the Phil Spector-produced Ronettes’ “Is This Is What I Get For Loving You,” a song written by Spector, Carole King and Gerry Goffin. A. I can tell you that while Andrew Loog Oldham turned me on to Phil Spector and Jack Nitzsche, Bob Crewe and the Four Seasons, the Mamas & the Papas, and a lot of things, the person who really educated me on the Motown level was Mick. I would have never gone that deeply into Motown without Mick. We just played the songs at home constantly. It must have been great fun for him.

There I am at age nineteen and I've never listened to the Miracles before. 'The Tracks of My Tears ...' Mick would run down the bass lines, song constructions on the label, and actually act out the songs in front of me! [Chuckles]. It was really an amazing education. And, of course, when I wanted another type of thing, I'd go and see Keith and then it was all blues. It all kind of fitted in somehow," she marveled.

Mick and I wore out the grooves on the records so much we'd have to buy them again. For a long time it was Vivaldi and Marvin Gaye in the morning. That's how we lived. Which is so wonderful. And I had Mick telling me everything. He knew everything. He knew the names of the session musicians at a snap. So did Jack Nitzsche. Brilliant man. We never could quite get it together to do an album, but at least we have 'Sister Morphine.'"

Q. May I proudly announce that I recently did a series of interviews with the Funk Brothers, the surviving Motown session men who are spotlighted in the documentary film, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

A. Oh God ... I'm dying to see that movie. Oh man ... Oh man … Nice to see the players get some attention. I like the idea that Berry Gordy still cares that much. He cares about the Motown legacy and we're not just talking about money. There's something he did there that he cares very much about. It's incredible. Obviously, he knows what he did, but for me, it changed my life. I found the Stax records myself. I was lucky.

Mick knew the Motown records already, but they knocked me for a six. That's why I know about the Four Tops doing 'Walk Away Renee.' I spent years listening to Motown. Smokey Robinson ... His voice ... The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage.' [Sings the first two lines]. The most beautiful stuff I've ever heard...And to this day I'm sure some Motown songs are in the Stones' live repertoire."

Q. There has been some books on Brian Jones and kind of a musical re-evaluation of his many instrumental talents?

A. I use Brian. I have a whole lot of friends on the other side that I call up when I need them. I use Brian, Janis and now I’ve got Tony Secunda and Denny Cordell. Well, Brian was a genius but he was a very irritating person. Keith really loved Brian.  They were all very much in love with me at that time. Not only me, but I was one of the many women they were in love with. Keith and I are still very close. I’m under his wing and I know I will always be under his wing.

Q. In the autobiography, you write some of the Rolling Stones characters in their songs came out of LSD.

A. Of course they did. I don’t think acid is relative or relevant anymore. I wouldn’t do it again. But I think that it was important then, and I think it taught us a lot. I mean, I pushed them away so much. It’s my fault. The door is open completely. I had to push them away, I suppose, to find my own spot. Much too much. Mick, too. ‘Cause I couldn’t stay in that position. Don’t be too harsh on Mick. (smiles).  You’d really like him and he’d support you. He’s a good guy.

John Waite -- Dodge City CONVICT???

Haha.  Fun story for the guy heading to sing with Rick Springfield at the show in my home town, Dodge City!

Questions are: Did he get a ticket and what did he do wrong?

Did he have to sing "Isn’t it Time" (Babys) to the officer?

Clark Besch

Deputies pull over 80s rock star en route to Dodge City show

Goldmine reviews the new John Cafferty album …

https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/eclectic-discoveries-music-by-john-cafferty-david-lowery-ally-venable-and-more#gid=ci0300f0c07000256f&pid=jc-and-tbbb

From Tom Cuddy ...

Stevie Nicks Fractures Shoulder, Reschedules Tour Dates: ‘Apologies to the Fans for This Inconvenience’
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-nicks-fractures-shoulder-tour-dates-rescheduled-1236477035/#utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=referral 

Kent,

Your readers may be interested in my recent posts related to Brian Wilson at the time of his passing.

Brian Wilson G.O.A.T.

https://prayforsurfblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/goat.html

My One-On-One with Domenic Priore (SMiLE historian)

https://prayforsurfblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/domenic-priore-one-on-one.html

SMiLE in Three Words

https://prayforsurfblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/smile-in-three-words.html

Brian Wilson's Spiritual Vibe

https://prayforsurfblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/brian-wilsons-spiritual-vibe.html

Thanks for all you do to keep great music alive!

Phil

More photos to share from Jim Roup! 

Happy Birthday 🎂🎈!!! to Paul Anka! Seen here with first wife Anne and Stephanie "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E" Powers after dining at Spago in Hollywood.  

And remembering Ahmet Ertegun on his birthday, July 31, 1923! Founder of Atlantic Records, producer and song composer. Discovered and signed some great music legends. 

One time I was setting up a photo of Ahmet and Phil Spector at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills. I remarked to them, "Two rock and roll legends!"  Right before I took the photo Ahmet said to Phil, "Sinatra said we were shit!"!!!! 

Happy Birthday 🎈🎂!!! August 3rd to director/writer/actor John Landis. He has done many great projects over the years. Met him back at Emerson Jr. High in West Los Angeles. Here he is on the Disney studios lot.  

Remembering Loni Anderson ...

 

Jim Roup

And finally, here's the latest Book Selection from our in-resident Forgotten Hits Head Librarian, Chuck Buell . . .

Historically, his book reminds us that if not for him, Herman's Hermits would not have had their Number One Summertime Hit around this time in 1965!

CB ( which stands for "Classic-Books Boy!" )

 

FOR THE RECORD:
Peter Noone's Henry became husband number eight when he married the widow next door ...

The REAL Henry had a total of SIX wives ...

And became infamous for seeking to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled ... and then breaking away from The Church Of England when The Pope denied his request.

History shows that when The Pope denied his request for an annulment (apparently invoking the very first "you break it, you bought it" rule), Henry took matters into his own hands, separating The Church Of England from papal authority.  Determined to have his own way (he was, after all, The King of England!), he appointed himself The Supreme Head Of The Church Of England and dissolved all convents and monasteries.  Not to be outdone (and in an effort to have the final say in the matter), King Henry was then excommunicated by The Pope.  (But that didn't stop him ... from his "Above The Law" position, he also had his marriage to Wife #4 annulled seven years later ... suffice to say that between six wives and multiple mistresses who also bore him children, King Henry got his way ... and also really got around!)

With all of this being said, it's probably a safe bet that BOTH Henrys knew a thing or two about what made a marriage work ... 

And let's face it, KING Henry could always have his wife beheaded if things weren't going well!!!  (He pulled THAT trick a couple of times, too!!!)  kk

60 YEARS AGO TODAY:

8/5/65 - Jan Berry of Jan and Dean was accidentally knocked off a camera car and broke his leg on the first day of filming a new television series, “Easy Come, Easy Go.” Several other people were also hurt, causing Paramount to cancel the series entirely.

(This poor guy couldn’t catch a break – six months later, accident-prone Jan Berry will nearly be killed while racing at Dead Man’s Curve!  That accident kept him laid up for most of the rest of his life.)