johnfowles
06-19-2007, 07:55 PM
The imminent Mariposa festival and a message from the Everly Brothers Yahoo group has prompted me to bring up the
subject of one of my long time favourite groups again
It is said that the reason TheTwo Tones did not appear at the very first 1961 festival was because the organisers thought they were insufficiently folk music orientated
per:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/chron02.htm
"The first Mariposa Folk Festival is held. The Two Tones are not invited because they are deemed to be too commercial!"
Indeed Gord once confirmed to me that he and Terry (Whelan) were at the time trying to sound like The Everlys
the Yahoo message at:-
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EverlyBrothers/message/917
said
"Here's another classic Everly Bros. moment as they perform on the
Alma Cogan Show on Apr. 6, 1960. Who is that backing them? Why, it's
The Crickets!" "Cathy's Clown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jpymg74xDU
which is amazing as I saw the show live with the Crickets in Derby, England in April 21960 and have saved this cutting from the New Musical Express man and boy all these long years since
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/everly/crickets.jpg
if you cannot read the text try this produced by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) from that jpeg picture/scan of the yellowing cutting
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/EVERLY/crickets_text.txt
yet another Gord connection is that the aforementioned ditty "Cathy's Clown" was in fact the very first single release on Frank Sinatra's just launched record label Reprise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_Records
There I read
"Reprise was sold to Warner Bros. Records in early 1963."
to complete the story I also read on yet nother wiki at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records
that:-
"In 1960, the company signed the Everly Brothers (who were previously on Cadence Records) with the first ever million dollar contract in history."
and at:-
http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/warnerstory.html
"The Everly Brothers started off at Warners with their biggest seller ever, "Cathy's Clown," in April of 1960"
http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/wbps5151.jpg
also
"But the biggest Warner Brothers signing in 1962 was the folk singing trio, Peter, Paul & Mary"
and of interest to us
"Also in 1963, Warner Brothers Records purchased the Reprise label. Reprise had been started by Frank Sinatra in 1960 as a vehicle for his own recordings and the recordings of his Las Vegas cronies, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. By 1963, it was starting to be termed "ailing" in the record trade press, and Warner's deep pockets rescued it from failing."
yet strangely the compiler of that particular WB history page overlooked the big news of 1970
"After making headlines by signing a $1-million recording contract with a new record label,
But then our Lightfoot guru Wayne Francis also got it slightly wrong in his chronology by saying that in 1969
"In November, Lightfoot signs with Warner Brothers Records to record on their Reprise label,"
since reprise was not theirs for three more years apparently
subject of one of my long time favourite groups again
It is said that the reason TheTwo Tones did not appear at the very first 1961 festival was because the organisers thought they were insufficiently folk music orientated
per:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/chron02.htm
"The first Mariposa Folk Festival is held. The Two Tones are not invited because they are deemed to be too commercial!"
Indeed Gord once confirmed to me that he and Terry (Whelan) were at the time trying to sound like The Everlys
the Yahoo message at:-
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/EverlyBrothers/message/917
said
"Here's another classic Everly Bros. moment as they perform on the
Alma Cogan Show on Apr. 6, 1960. Who is that backing them? Why, it's
The Crickets!" "Cathy's Clown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jpymg74xDU
which is amazing as I saw the show live with the Crickets in Derby, England in April 21960 and have saved this cutting from the New Musical Express man and boy all these long years since
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/everly/crickets.jpg
if you cannot read the text try this produced by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) from that jpeg picture/scan of the yellowing cutting
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/EVERLY/crickets_text.txt
yet another Gord connection is that the aforementioned ditty "Cathy's Clown" was in fact the very first single release on Frank Sinatra's just launched record label Reprise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_Records
There I read
"Reprise was sold to Warner Bros. Records in early 1963."
to complete the story I also read on yet nother wiki at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records
that:-
"In 1960, the company signed the Everly Brothers (who were previously on Cadence Records) with the first ever million dollar contract in history."
and at:-
http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/warnerstory.html
"The Everly Brothers started off at Warners with their biggest seller ever, "Cathy's Clown," in April of 1960"
http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/wbps5151.jpg
also
"But the biggest Warner Brothers signing in 1962 was the folk singing trio, Peter, Paul & Mary"
and of interest to us
"Also in 1963, Warner Brothers Records purchased the Reprise label. Reprise had been started by Frank Sinatra in 1960 as a vehicle for his own recordings and the recordings of his Las Vegas cronies, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. By 1963, it was starting to be termed "ailing" in the record trade press, and Warner's deep pockets rescued it from failing."
yet strangely the compiler of that particular WB history page overlooked the big news of 1970
"After making headlines by signing a $1-million recording contract with a new record label,
But then our Lightfoot guru Wayne Francis also got it slightly wrong in his chronology by saying that in 1969
"In November, Lightfoot signs with Warner Brothers Records to record on their Reprise label,"
since reprise was not theirs for three more years apparently