Tracy Cattell of the Primitives...HOLY MOLY!
Brent Busby
specifically, I had never seen Tracy Tracy (actually Tracy Cattell) of
The Primitives, and their video for "Crash."
Oh my god! This woman is Venus, I'm in love... :)
(Cool music too...reminds me of the Lightning Seeds...)
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Mort Shuman
proudly wore one of their t-shirts...bought the album, loved it, and then
was also impressed with the follow up ("Lovely"). Reminds me of my
sophomore year in college...
Good band, but burned out too quickly.
Never seen the video for Crash - I guess she's featured prominently? Was
this on VH1 Classic??
Mort
"Brent Busby" <br...@studio.catmind.org> wrote in message
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Lord Hasenpfeffer
> I first got into the Primitives back in the mid/late 80's when Morrissey
> proudly wore one of their t-shirts...bought the album, loved it, and then
> was also impressed with the follow up ("Lovely"). Reminds me of my
> sophomore year in college...
>
> Good band, but burned out too quickly.
>
> Never seen the video for Crash - I guess she's featured prominently? Was
> this on VH1 Classic??
I still have the "Crash" 45 that I bought when it was new in late '88.
Billboard had just created its "Modern Rock Tracks" chart that September
and "Crash" was one of the first songs listed in it. Had it not been
for that chart, I'd have missed out on a lot of fun tunes that to this
day I've still only heard being played on my own private turntable -
although I've since learned that KROQ was also playing them at the same
time. I just couldn't pick up their signal being that I live a
1/2-continent away from 'em! :)
Myke
Brent Busby
: Never seen the video for Crash - I guess she's featured prominently? Was
: this on VH1 Classic??
Well, I downloaded a very nicely done MPEG file from another newsgroup
which it looks like someone captured from there. It's over 90MB...
And oh yes, she's featured prominently. The things I've read about them
would suggest she looks the way she does because the band liked Blondie
so much, but I think she managed to look a LOT more like Marilyn Monroe
than Deborah Harry. Or maybe a UK new wave version of her anyway.
Debbie Harry my eye! :)
HAL 9000
So it would be nice if you could give us a hint of some web page where we
could "check her out" and confirm or deny you "HOLY MOLY"...wows
"Brent Busby" <br...@studio.catmind.org> wrote in message
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Yeff
> I can't actually remember how she looks...
> So it would be nice if you could give us a hint of some web page where we
> could "check her out" and confirm or deny you "HOLY MOLY"...wows
I just did a cursory Google and didn't come up with any images. I probably
didn't try hard enough.
The "HOLY MOLY" moment I had was back in the day when MTV showed videos. I
knew who Linda Rondstadt was but I really didn't care. She wasn't on my
radar. I was in my basement with MTV on when her video for "Get Closer"
was aired. She wore a red dress with white polka dots that she kept
pulling up to thigh-height as she danced and sang. She had her head tilted
forward as she sang and would look up through her bangs at the camera as
she sang. Pulling up that dress and staring at the camera with that demure
yet sexy look made me wonder why the hell I hadn't been paying attention to
her! You can get somewhat of a hint of that by looking at the album cover:
<http://www.redskybooks.net/cgi-bin/rsb455/014382.html>
Years later I worked at a Radio Shack in San Antonio and we'd play one of
her Spanish language albums on one of our demonstration systems. I didn't
understand a word she was saying but came to realize just how incredibly
good her voice really was. A coworker summed it up best with, "I don't
know what she's singing but damn, she's singing it well!" She pulled a lot
of Latino customers into our store, a good 85% of whom only wanted the
album name so they could go downstairs to the record store and get it. <g>
-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com
Brent Busby
: I can't actually remember how she looks...
: So it would be nice if you could give us a hint of some web page where we
: could "check her out" and confirm or deny you "HOLY MOLY"...wows
The only pictures I've been able to find have been tiny and grainy, so what
I should probably do over the weekend is take some stills from the video for
Crash and post that. I'll post them as soon as I get them made.
Naz Reyes
Yeff wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:20:33 +0100, HAL 9000 wrote:
>
> > I can't actually remember how she looks...
> > So it would be nice if you could give us a hint of some web page where we
> > could "check her out" and confirm or deny you "HOLY MOLY"...wows
>
> I just did a cursory Google and didn't come up with any images. I probably
> didn't try hard enough.
>
> The "HOLY MOLY" moment I had was back in the day when MTV showed videos. I
> knew who Linda Rondstadt was but I really didn't care. She wasn't on my
> radar. I was in my basement with MTV on when her video for "Get Closer"
> was aired. She wore a red dress with white polka dots that she kept
> pulling up to thigh-height as she danced and sang. She had her head tilted
> forward as she sang and would look up through her bangs at the camera as
> she sang. Pulling up that dress and staring at the camera with that demure
> yet sexy look made me wonder why the hell I hadn't been paying attention to
> her! You can get somewhat of a hint of that by looking at the album cover:
> <http://www.redskybooks.net/cgi-bin/rsb455/014382.html>
It's gotta be that half Mexican / half German thing :)
>
>
> Years later I worked at a Radio Shack in San Antonio and we'd play one of
> her Spanish language albums on one of our demonstration systems. I didn't
> understand a word she was saying but came to realize just how incredibly
> good her voice really was. A coworker summed it up best with, "I don't
> know what she's singing but damn, she's singing it well!" She pulled a lot
> of Latino customers into our store, a good 85% of whom only wanted the
> album name so they could go downstairs to the record store and get it. <g>
The song "Quireme Mucho" is exactly that. It's one of the most beautiful
Spanish songs ever created, and Linda made it even better with her voice. It's
in the soundtrack of the "Mambo Kings", starring Antonio Banderas. The
soundtrack is worth getting just for THIS song! Oh - btw, Antonio Banderas'
singing ain't half bad, either, with "Bella Maria de Mi Alma" (another moving
love ballad).
-Naz
HAL 9000
engine) and found some album covers on a very poor web pages...
In the mean time my mouse died (and gone to heaven), so until Monday
there'll be no surfing just mailing and posting.
My god how stupid it is to use Windows using keyboard only...
"Yeff" <zoo...@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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Lord Hasenpfeffer
> I did also some search on Google and AltaVista (definitely the best search
> engine) and found some album covers on a very poor web pages...
> In the mean time my mouse died (and gone to heaven), so until Monday
> there'll be no surfing just mailing and posting.
>
> My god how stupid it is to use Windows using keyboard only...
Such is life in the GUI hammock.
Myke
Bo Williams
> It's gotta be that half Mexican / half German thing :)
She was a hot chick, no doubt. Right about 'til she got mixed up with
Jerry Brown. ;)
All kidding aside, her greatest hits volume 1 and 2 are excellent
acquisitions for anyone who cares about pop music. Volume 1 even
reaches back to "Different Drum" by the Stone Poneys, and if you don't
know that song you're missing out on one of the most spectacular pop
songs of all time. I feel like I've been given something special every
time I hear it.
--
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Troublemaker
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Jeez - all this about Linda made me remember the HUGE poster I used to have
of her when I was in my early teens. You know the one where she's wearing
roller skates, satin shorts and a satin jacket? I believe she was standing
in a hallway or something along those lines.
Troublemaker
"Troublemaker" <surfingtr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I remember now - it looks like it was taken the same time as the picture on
the front of her "Living in the USA" album cover.
HAL 9000
Who's the hot one than, Tracy or Linda ; )
Yeff
> Hey people, make up your mind...
> Who's the hot one than, Tracy or Linda ; )
What a silly question. Stevie's the hot one. <g>
-Jeff B. (who's lusted after the Welsh Witch for years)
HAL 9000
> What a silly question. Stevie's the hot one.
Stevie Wonder.., hmmm..., ok..., sorry..., I didn't know you prefer boys ; )
Yeff
Stevie Wonder's a witch?
-Jeff B. (who walked right into that)
HAL 9000
> Stevie Wonder's a witch?
O yeah..., with that wicked appearance, long blond hair and metallic voice
; )
Naz Reyes
It still amazes how she managed to pull a stunt like releasing a dance
club tune like "Stand Back" in 1983. It was totally unlike her back then.
Perhaps, it was her way of saying bye-bye to her "trailer park roots" in
a more indirect way. If you check her pix in the 80s, she looked
so...uhh..."clean" in more ways than one. Little did people know,
though, that she went from smoking grass to snorting coke heavily (Gold
"Dust" Woman, anyone?).
Yea - that's a step up, alright. Sheesh :-)
-Naz
Lord Hasenpfeffer
> Perhaps, it was her way of saying bye-bye to her "trailer park roots" in
> a more indirect way. If you check her pix in the 80s, she looked
> so...uhh..."clean" in more ways than one. Little did people know,
> though, that she went from smoking grass to snorting coke heavily (Gold
> "Dust" Woman, anyone?).
>
> Yea - that's a step up, alright. Sheesh :-)
She's apparently come through all of that though in more recent years
with a little bit of weight gain to show for it.
Myke
Zaragon
> HAL 9000 <mur...@neobee.net> wrote:
>
> : I can't actually remember how she looks...
> : So it would be nice if you could give us a hint of some web page where we
> : could "check her out" and confirm or deny you "HOLY MOLY"...wows
>
> The only pictures I've been able to find have been tiny and grainy, so what
> I should probably do over the weekend is take some stills from the video for
> Crash and post that. I'll post them as soon as I get them made.
I liked the song alot when I heard it on constant rotation on WFNX in
Boston in the summer of 1988. But when I got back to Portland that
fall and saw the video on MTV my jaw dropped to the floor. I taped it
and treasured it since then. I bought the album too, which was the
kind of catchy two minute pop/punk that I liked at the time, though
later outgrew (I sold that album years ago.)
A few years ago, when I bought my dazzle card for digitizing
videocassettes, I made MPEGS of the video for "Crash" as well as other
vidz with hotties from that time frame like Transvision Vamp and the
Darling Buds and (best of all) this really hot, unidentified Spanish
pop chick who I taped off Univision in summer 1990. I titled the VCD
"Sexy Blonde Musical Lust Objects 1988-1990."
A couple years ago I did a web search on Tracy, but all I found were
some very small, low bitrate jpegs that were probably scanned in the
mid-90's.
TS
Brent Busby
: I liked the song alot when I heard it on constant rotation on WFNX in
: Boston in the summer of 1988. But when I got back to Portland that
: fall and saw the video on MTV my jaw dropped to the floor. I taped it
: and treasured it since then. I bought the album too, which was the
: kind of catchy two minute pop/punk that I liked at the time, though
: later outgrew (I sold that album years ago.)
Yeah, I have to admit, if I hadn't seen the video, I probably would have
just said the song was typical tasteful 80's UK rock...but that's about
all. You just have to see Tracy to get the full experience. :)
: A few years ago, when I bought my dazzle card for digitizing
: videocassettes, I made MPEGS of the video for "Crash" as well as other
: vidz with hotties from that time frame like Transvision Vamp and the
: Darling Buds and (best of all) this really hot, unidentified Spanish
: pop chick who I taped off Univision in summer 1990. I titled the VCD
: "Sexy Blonde Musical Lust Objects 1988-1990."
Hahaha!
: A couple years ago I did a web search on Tracy, but all I found were
: some very small, low bitrate jpegs that were probably scanned in the
: mid-90's.
That reminds me...I *still* haven't gotten those framegrabs made and
posted. I'm afraid I still haven't sent in my taxes yet though, so I've
been a little busy with that for now...
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+ br...@catmind.org together." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
+ Pekin, IL (USA) ...who would have just loved "retro."
MCT
> acquisitions for anyone who cares about pop music. Volume 1 even
> reaches back to "Different Drum" by the Stone Poneys, and if you don't
> know that song you're missing out on one of the most spectacular pop
> songs of all time. I feel like I've been given something special every
> time I hear it.
"Different Drum" is a great song. I think a lot of people either a)
don't know that the person singing is Linda Ronstadt or b) have never
heard of the Stone Poneys and think of it as a "Linda Ronstadt song",
but don't realize how old it is.
Another Linda Ronstadt song that I've always had a soft spot for is
"How Do I make You", from her 1980 sort-of-new-wavey album "Mad Love".
A sizable hit when new, but basically forgotten today -- like a lot
of songs from the 1980-82 era, it falls into that "not '70s
(chronologically), but not '80s either (stylistically)" gap.
A while back I saw an interview with Linda in which she came across as
putting down her older music, saying she doesn't want her kids to
listen to it, etc....
Lord Hasenpfeffer
>
> "Different Drum" is a great song. I think a lot of people either a)
> don't know that the person singing is Linda Ronstadt or b) have never
> heard of the Stone Poneys and think of it as a "Linda Ronstadt song",
> but don't realize how old it is.
Because of my hippy phase that began the day after John Lennon was
murdered, I was always tuning into the local "oldies" station that
showcased the music of the 60s and 70s during the 80s...so I was very
aware of "Different Drum" at the time and have always loved it. And
Linda Ronstadt was always "on my radar". I've always thought she was
gorgeous.
> Another Linda Ronstadt song that I've always had a soft spot for is
> "How Do I make You", from her 1980 sort-of-new-wavey album "Mad Love".
> A sizable hit when new, but basically forgotten today -- like a lot
> of songs from the 1980-82 era, it falls into that "not '70s
> (chronologically), but not '80s either (stylistically)" gap.
There is one (1) 60-minute cassette in my personal radio tape library
which was recorded in 1980. I don't have the exact date but I do know
that it was recorded in March. It's of an AM pop radio station, KELI,
and includes "How Do I Make You". Excellent tune. Very Blondie-like.
I love the fast drum intro. :)
> A while back I saw an interview with Linda in which she came across as
> putting down her older music, saying she doesn't want her kids to
> listen to it, etc....
Pfftttt...
Myke
MCT
> > don't know that the person singing is Linda Ronstadt or b) have never
> > heard of the Stone Poneys and think of it as a "Linda Ronstadt song",
> > but don't realize how old it is.
>
> Because of my hippy phase that began the day after John Lennon was
> murdered, I was always tuning into the local "oldies" station that
> showcased the music of the 60s and 70s during the 80s...so I was very
> aware of "Different Drum" at the time and have always loved it.
An odd bit of trivia that I came across recently: Do you know who
wrote "Different Drum"?
Patrick
>wrote "Different Drum"?
>
Wasn't it Mike Nesmith of the Monkees?
~Patrick
MCT
Yes it was. I was surprised to see that a song written by one of The
Monkees became such a big hit, given the lack of involvement that The
Monkees were allowed to have over their own music at the time (granted
that Nesmith probably had the highest music credibility of the four).
I was also interested to see that this song was written by a man,
because as sung by Linda Ronstadt, I've always thought that it has a
bit of a gender-stereotype reversal that couldn't have been that
common on the pop charts in 1967.