Reminder - MaryWilson and girl groups on now-915 pm saturday

[luke]

PBS ch 13 NYC

[marv2]

PBS ch 13 NYC

Thanks Luke!

[daviddesper]

Show was great! First of all Mary Wilson looked SPECTACULAR!!! Whatever she is doing to take care of herself, she should package it and sell it. She looked 15 years younger than her age and was the perfect choice to host this show. So kudos to TJ on that decision.

Great variety of acts. Some very interesting clips and there was a nice variety of soul vs. pop with even some country flavor thrown in. No one act was given any preferential treatment which of course allowed for more to be featured.

My viewing partner, who has watched Youtube and Shindig videos until his eyes bleed, remarked several times "I have never seen ANYTHING by her on video!" so that is more testament to the selection.

For me personally, I enjoyed the Shangri-las clip and it was fun to see The Toys, one of my favorites of that era.

As always with one of these shows, you can't please everyone so there were some notable and disappointing omissions of some who were listed on the CD tracks but did not make it on to the show. Would love to have seen a Dionne clip, maybe the Chiffons, and the Orlons would have been nice.

But all in all a great show. And did I mention how great Mary looked??? Wow!!!

[kenneth]

I agree, it was a really entertaining show. Seeing some of the stagings and settings from the shows at the time was really fun. Some were inexplicable. What was Dusty Springfield doing in that car with the guy sleeping next to her? Couldn't figure out that one.

My only disappointment was I don't think there were any performances which weren't lip synched. I know hard to come by from back then, but I was hoping there'd be a few. I think every single performance was lip synched to the recording.

Did anyone else spot Darlene Love singing backup on stage to Mary Wells and "My Guy"? Seeing her made me wonder how she felt watching The Crystals "sing" her recording of "He's a Rebel." Though that wasn't featured, seeing her in the background made me recall how long it took her to get any recognition for her great voice - and hit records credited to others!

In Southern California, the 6-CD set is available for a $150 donation. Not a bad price for all that music.

I agree, Mary looked great also.

[Kamasu_Jr]

I had a rare Saturday night off. I had the program on but went to sleep. I did record it. I would have liked Mary Wilson to have told more personal stories about the girl groups rather than just read from a script. I did notice that the original recordings had been dubbed onto some clips where the performances were live like Respect. I 'd like to know what's on the DVDs. And I like that there are new ways to pledge such as making monthly installments. But I bet you don't get the gifts until PBS has gotten the entire pledge amount.

[milven]

.. And I like that there are new ways to pledge such as making monthly installments. But I bet you don't get the gifts until PBS has gotten the entire pledge amount.

Interesting point. I never thought of that. And you are probably right.

Mary did look good, but I think she would look better with short hair. Maybe they think that they will look matronly with short hair. They all do it. Diana, Mary, Barbra, Cher, and Tina.

Gladys and Bette have short hair and they look good.

Mary did a good job of hosting. I recorded it and have not finished watching it, but I like what I've seen so far.

[Kamasu_Jr]

ALL RIGHT! I gots my $150.00 and I IS dynamite! What's on those DVDs?

[carole cucumber]

ALL RIGHT! I gots my $150.00 and I IS dynamite! What's on those DVDs?

3 DVD-SET, GIRL GROOVES Here are 44 hit songs by girl groups and solo female singers in the rarest footage and original performances from back in the early and mid-1960s. $150 Track Lists: *song NOT in broadcast program DVD #1 – Girl Grooves [[approx. 45 mins.) My Boyfriends' Back - The Angels Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March Heatwave - Martha & The Vandellas Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles The Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield A Lover's Concerto - The Toys I Hear A Symphony - The Supremes It's My Party - Lesley Gore * Chapel Of Love - The Dixie Cups * I Can't Let Go - Evie Sands * This Is My Song - Petula Clark * Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark * Tell Him - The Exciters * DVD #2 – Girl Grooves [[approx.. 45 mins.) The Loco-motion - Little Eva The Mashed Potato - Dee Dee Sharp My Guy - Mary Wells If You Should Lose Me - Barbara Lynn What The World Needs Now Is Love - Jackie DeShannon The End of the World - Skeeter Davis Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore My Love - Petula Clark Rescue Me - Fontella Bass Respect - Aretha Franklin Baby I Love You - The Ronettes * Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin * The Shoop Shoop Song - Aretha Franklin * Don't Just Stand There - Patty Duke * All I Really Want To Do – Cher * Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis * Good Good Lovin' - The Blossoms * DVD #3 – Girl Grooves [[approx. 30 mins.) Be My Baby - The Ronettes Gee Whiz - Carla Thomas The Shoop Shoop Song - Betty Everett Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas * Needle In A Haystack - The Velvelettes * The Gong Gong Song - The Ikettes * It's Gonna Take A Miracle - The Royalettes * Navy Blue - Diane Renay * Yes I'm Ready - Barbara Mason [[Remember) Walkin' In The Sand - The Shangri-Las *

[carole cucumber]

CD TRACKS

CD #1 – Girl Grooves

1. One Fine Day - The Chiffons
2. You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore
3. Party Lights - Claudine Clark
4. My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels
5. I Hear A Symphony - The Supremes
6. I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield
7. Wonderful Summer - Robin Ward
8. Give Him A Great Big Kiss - The Shangri Las
9. Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens
10. I Met Him On A Sunday - The Shirelles
11. Kiss Me Sailor - Diane Renay
12. Sally Go Round The Roses - The Jaynetts
13. Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis
14. Chapel Of Love - The Dixie Cups
15. Mama Didn't Lie - Jan Bradley
16. Heatwave - Martha & The Vandellas
17. Bobby's Girl - Marci Blane
18. The Boy From New York City - The Ad Libs
19. Maybe I Know - Lesley Gore
20. Playboy - The Marvelettes
21. [[Remember) Walkin' In The Sand - The Shangri Las
22. Wishin' & Hopin' - Dusty Springfield
23. Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes
24. Born Too Late - The Poni-Tails
25. Broken Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughan

CD #2 – Girl Grooves

1. Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
2. My Guy - Mary Wells
3. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
4. It's My Party - Lesley Gore
5. The Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri Las
6. I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March
7. That's How Heartaches Are Made - The Marvelettes
8. Navy Blue - Diane Renay
9. It's Gonna Take A Miracle - The Royalettes
10. Follow The Boys - Connie Francis
11. Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas
12. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne
13. Something's Got A Hold On Me - Etta James
14. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
15. Sweet Talkin' Guy - The Chiffons
16. Tell Him - Patti Drew
17. Do-Wah-Diddy - The Exciters
18. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Dee Dee Warwick
19. Judy's Turn To Cry - Lesley Gore
20. Mama Said - The Shirelles
21. This Old Heart Of Mine - Tammi Terrell
22. Popsicles & Icicles - The Murmaids
23. Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart - The Supremes
24. Nothing But A Heartache - The Flirtations
25. What The World Needs Now Is Love - Jackie DeShannon

CD #3 – Girl Grooves

1. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
2. Oh No, Not My Baby - Maxine Brown
3. Yes, I'm Ready - Barbara Mason
4. I Love How You Love Me - The Paris Sisters
5. Stay Awhile - Dusty Springfield
6. After All - The Miracles
7. I'll Save The Last Dance For You - Damita Jo
8. The Old Crowd - Lesley Gore
9. You'll Loose A Good Thing - Barbara Lynn
10. Helpless - Kim Weston
11. Pushover - Etta James
12. My Heart Can't Take It No More - The Supremes
13. Triangle - Janie Grant
14. Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics
15. The Real Thing - Tina Britt
16. The Nitty Gritty - Shirley Ellis
17. Tell Him - The Exctiers
18. I've Told Every Little Star - Linda Scott
19. Let Me In - The Sensations
20. I Know [[You Don't Love Me No More) - Barbara George
21. I Want To Meet Him - The Royalettes
22. The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield
23. Keep On Loving Me - Frances Nero
24. You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me - The Dixie Cups
25. To Sir With Love – Lulu

CD #4 – Girl Grooves

1. Respect - Aretha Franklin
2. Anyone Who Had A Heart - Dionne Warwick
3. Easier Said Than Done - The Essex
4. The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
5. The Shoop Shoop Song - Betty Everett
6. Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby - The Cookies
7. My Love - Petula Clark
8. Good, Good Lovin' - The Blossoms
9. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
10. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares
11. The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - The Raindrops
12. Maybe - The Chantels
13. Don't Just Stand There - Patty Duke
14. My One & Only Jimmy Boy - The Girl Friends
15. Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis
16. Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes
17. I Can't Stay Mad At You - Skeeter Davis
18. Gonna Make Him My Baby - April Young
19. Since You've Been Gone - Aretha Franklin
20. Opportunity - The Jewels
21. You're Absolutely Right - The Appollas
22. Don't Make Me Over - Dionne Warwick
23. A Walking Miracle - The Essex
24. I'm Blue The Gong Gong Song) - The Ikettes
25. You're No Good - Betty Everett
26. Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens
27. The Plea - The Chantels
28. I Can't Let Go - Evie Sands

CD #5 – Girl Grooves

1. South Street - The Orlons
2. The 81 - Candy & The Kisses
3. Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharp
4. Wah-Watusi - Orlons
5. Society Girls – The Rag Dolls
6. Gravy - Dee Dee Sharp
7. Cross Fire - Orlons
8. To Know Him Is To Love Him - Teddy Bears
9. Rock Me In The Cradle Of Love- Dee Dee Sharp
10. Don't Hang Up - Orlons

CD #6 – The Ronettes & The Crystals Original Hits

1. Be My Baby - The Ronettes
2. Baby I Love You - The Ronettes
3. Walking In The Rain - The Ronettes
4. Do I Love You - The Ronettes
5. Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts? - Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
6. [[Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry - Darlene Love
7. He's A Rebel - The Crystals
8. He's Sure The Boy I Love - The Crystals
9. Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals
10. Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals

My question is ... why not 5 cd's as cd #5 & #6 are so short and the selections could have been put onto 1 cd.?

[Kamasu_Jr]

Thank you Carole. I made my pledge to WKNO here in Memphis. I was told that members or pledge makers would get the premiums while they were making the monthly installments.

[Kamasu_Jr]

With the installment plan, can you imagine how much your local PBS station will get from you IF it has other shows or gifts you want later on? And it's tax deductable. Please pledge to your local PBS affiliate.

[kenneth]

What's interesting about the very short sets on CDs 5 and 6 is that CD 5 is exclusively Cameo-Parkway [[except possibly for the Teddy Bears track) and CD 6 is exclusive Phil Spector productions. Perhaps they had to separate those tracks due to some contractual obligation? Methinks this is a question for Mr. Lubinsky!

[Kamasu_Jr]

Are the Spector produced songs in stereo?

[kenneth]

Are the Spector produced songs in stereo?

Another good question for Mr. Lubinsky. I believe the Spector tracks could be heard in true Stereo, but of course Spector preferred Mono. One of his box sets is called Back to Mono for that reason. I think it enhanced his Wall of Sound.

[marv2]

Another great program. Mary was superb as usual and looked amazing. Thank you TJ for all the work you put into these special tributes. Now I have some ordering to do!

Marv

[Kamasu_Jr]

Uh huh. Sure.

[tjl]

Thanks all - - Mary was one of the best hosts we've had, she was really right for this show.

On the cd configs - it all has to do with licensing ownerships and arrangements. Sorry, no new stereo on the Cameo/Parkway material or the PS stuff. But Tom Moulton did a wonderful new stereo mix of "Yes, I'm Ready" on the CD set as well as "Stay Awhile" on the cd set.

[zani57]

TJ --
Your shows are great. I watch them over and over, when they repeat.I'm hoping this '60s Girls My Music Special receives multiple airings for years to come. Earlier this year, our local PBS SoCal in Southern CA aired the "Hullabaloo" My Music Special and I thought it was great. It was scheduled to air and each time PBS SoCal pulled it and ran some brain power program in its place. Was there a problem with the licensing? I wanted to see the show again and was planning to donate to get the gift combo package. Did this program get pulled?
Thank you, TJ. Please keep these great shows coming!

Thanks all - - Mary was one of the best hosts we've had, she was really right for this show.

On the cd configs - it all has to do with licensing ownerships and arrangements. Sorry, no new stereo on the Cameo/Parkway material or the PS stuff. But Tom Moulton did a wonderful new stereo mix of "Yes, I'm Ready" on the CD set as well as "Stay Awhile" on the cd set.

[tjl]

Hullabaloo has nothing to do with licensing - sounds like a local scheduling decision for the local market.

It's impiortant to remember that the stations have many shows they need to run [[and re-run) to pay for what they provide 365 days a year. So, in general, when a show is aired again-and-agan-and-again - - it means more people join in and support the cause every time the shows repeat. For the lesser viewer supported shows, not so much repeating.

Please remember - - if not for the station and the pledgers of all their shows [[not just mine), we could not have made [[or continue to make) any of our shows. It's like Martha Reeves once shared that Ronnie White shared with her, every one [[or show as I see it) has it's 15-minutes. It's not all that different from making hit records back in the day really. Some shows hit big - others, not so much - I've had the biggest of hits and flops along the way, I'm just thankful I could have the opportunity to work on all of them.

Thanks again for the kind words, I'd promsie to think about an all girls 60s sequel - - but with so few existing early 60s girls footage [[no Chiffons big hits, no Orlons big hits, anywhere we could find -- - so much missing from the 1960-65 era). I think the show and dvd set for Girl Grooves, offers a lot.

Keep in mind, Mary Wilson was a driving reminder for me to get the Girl Grooves show done. Whenever I would see her [[going back to before I made Doo Wop 50 and 51), she always reminded me how important it was for us to do a show like this in this format. It took us a while to get there - - but we did, thanks in big part to Mary's kindness for what it is we do in our "My Music" series.

Before this, I felt it important to keep a constant presence of female singers throughout a show, in our live shows especially. So this was an experiment to try an "all themed" girl singers show and package. Partly, I guess because I got tired of people telling me of the unwritten "old radio" rule that dj's couldn't play two girl group songs back-to-back often. I figured, as Sam Cooke sang - it was time to change that, at least on tv if I could.

As for Dionne, there's much more I want to do with her - thankfully, the Burt Bacharach show we did was very popular. so this gives me and my co-producers [[Jim Pierson and Paul Brownstein) a good chance to try and explore putting together something similar just for her great songs that didn't fit in Burt's show [[starting with some of her later material and earlier standards and classics she's performed over the years).

Then of course, I still have my "Miracles" fantasy show......meantime, more Girl Singers of the 60s that didn't make this show or dvd, are on the short list for our releases next year.

[luke]

Superb show tj. Are there performances on the dvd that didnt make the show? The quality of the clips was amazing. Most bizarre-Skeeter Davis' hair and the set she was singing on!! The moon-end of world? Jackie De Shannon and Barbara Mason knocked me out! And Mary Wilson just perfect! Were you and Mary together or separately filmed?

[JohnnyB]

Superb show tj. Are there performances on the dvd that didnt make the show? The quality of the clips was amazing. Most bizarre-Skeeter Davis' hair and the set she was singing on!! The moon-end of world? Jackie De Shannon and Barbara Mason knocked me out! And Mary Wilson just perfect! Were you and Mary together or separately filmed?

This show hasn't aired in my area yet. I'm curious--were any performance clips of The Supremes shown during the broadcast? If so, which clips were used?

[Roberta75]

This show hasn't aired in my area yet. I'm curious--were any performance clips of The Supremes shown during the broadcast? If so, which clips were used?

I Hear a symphony was included JohnnyB.

Roberta

[Kamasu_Jr]

That tired clip of the Supremes singing I Hear A Symphony and standing in front of musicians who don't play from Hullabaloo was used, plus a short clip of the trio singing Where Did Our Love Go from Hullabaloo 64 was shown. I said the clips were "tired" because there appears to be no more footage of the original Supremes that we haven't seen.

[marv2]

There are appearances from foreign television plus all that stuff Berry has and clips in the archives of local Detroit Television and other local broadcast stations.

[JohnnyB]

That tired clip of the Supremes singing I Hear A Symphony and standing in front of musicians who don't play from Hullabaloo was used, plus a short clip of the trio singing Where Did Our Love Go from Hullabaloo 64 was shown. I said the clips were "tired" because there appears to be no more footage of the original Supremes that we haven't seen.

Thank you both for the response.

[kenneth]

That tired clip of the Supremes singing I Hear A Symphony and standing in front of musicians who don't play from Hullabaloo was used, plus a short clip of the trio singing Where Did Our Love Go from Hullabaloo 64 was shown. I said the clips were "tired" because there appears to be no more footage of the original Supremes that we haven't seen.

That was a funny clip! The Supremes all looked great and the choreography was fun to watch, but having those musicians there - just sitting there - was odd. The one elderly, heavyset musician they kept focusing on looked like he was sleeping! I kept thinking they'd fake playing or something, but I guess they were just props!

[daviddesper]

TJ:

Most definitely bring on a Dionne special!!!!! That would be "MUST SEE TV" in this household!