From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #74 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, April 30 1997 Volume 02 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) [Neil Leacy ] RE: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) [John Schofield ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:23:14 From: Neil Leacy Subject: Re: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) >On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Neil Leacy wrote: > >> Cat Steven's best known hit is "Morniing Has Broken". But who actually >> wrote the well known piano intro, cadenza and outro as well as arranged >> the choir parts (and all in one day) but was never credited on the album >> or to this day been paid his session fee of UK9? > > Rick Wakeman? Right on the nose! If you listen to Catherine of Arrogon (I think) from Rick's _Six wives of Henty VIII_ album you'll hear the similarity of phrasing as Rick was playing this just before the session started and when they realised that "Morning..." was only 45 seconds long. So Cat suggested that Rick played what he heard when he first walked in as an intro. Rick said no as it was something off his solo album to be, but he agreed to write something in a similar vein. Eventually they stretched the song by repeating the first verse and Rick's intro as well as a cadenza. Then Cat suggested a choir and so they rounded up ten singers from the various studios close by and Rick scored the choral parts as well. The whole thing was done in less than a day. When eventually released it went straight to number one and has apparently earned Cat nigh on UK3 million in royalties. Rick still hasn't been paid or credited. However, and this is the divine retribution... No one has properly worked out the piano part that Rick composed and he's never written it down. And to this day he still has at least 2 phone calls a year asking him for the score as someone is recording their own version. But he won't because, as he said, "according to the album credits I wasn't there and had nothing to do with it..." In the cold light of text this may read as malicious but trust me Rick isn't bitter and it was a very funny evening as he talked about various episodes in his life. If his "Piano Tour" ever comes near you I'd highly recommend it even if I wasn't a long time fan of him. TMDR content - Close, But No Cigar, Bill! Liberace has been dead for some time ! Regards, Neil Leacy IT Support (nleacy@it-excelsior.britax.co.uk) ==================================================================== For further information on child car seats designed and produced by Britax-Excelsior visit our web pages at http://www.britax.co.uk/ ==================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:29:51 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: The Fog Lifts I really must apologize to everyone on Alloy for having kicked up a fuss without really intending to. For some reason, I never received the original "Sackcloth and Ashes" post (a function of our mail server going up and down for the past three days, apparently, losing bits and pieces as it went along), so I didn't understand some of the follow-up posts. I called a friend of mine and said, "Gee, all I said to Alloy was, 'Sorry to have been a nuisance.'" I just got the original post from said friend, and all is now clear. I see that a post of mine to the Tap Room, venting some of my frustration (impotent raging at the silence, if you will) with the server slow down there (can't quite get away with playing in FES without raising the boss' suspicions when you have to wait ages for threads to load) and my chagrin about being off-topic here got transferred to Alloy. (I fear that I've come off as some petulant bonehead, but that's not really my character, I promise.) I know that Slarvi had the best of intentions in posting my Tap Room rant here - I just didn't get it - literally. I'm very sorry and more than a bit embarrassed about all this, to be honest. 20+ years of Catholic guilt make me feel awful that my big mouth has caused poor Paul to have to offer any administrative notes to this happy group. No harm done, I hope. Can anyone tell me whether or not the Tap Room ever did speed back up? With sincere best wishes, Melissa - ------------------- Melissa R. Jordan - ------------------- Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (phone) (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:20:28 +-1000 From: John Schofield Subject: RE: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) - ---------- From: Neil Leacy[SMTP:nleacy@it-excelsior.britax.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 1997 19:23 To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) >On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Neil Leacy wrote: > >> Cat Steven's best known hit is "Morniing Has Broken". But who actually >> wrote the well known piano intro, cadenza and outro as well as arranged >> the choir parts (and all in one day) but was never credited on the album >> or to this day been paid his session fee of UK9? > > Rick Wakeman? >>> Right on the nose! I must admit I would have backed Bill and put my money on Liberace (was he dead then?), however did you know that Rick also did the keyboards on David Bowie's original 'Space Oddity'. I think that was 1969 so it probably doesn't pass as 70's trivia. Anyway, I'll get back in my box now. Regards to all, John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:06:47 +-1000 From: John Schofield Subject: Alloy: test Please dis-regard this message - test only ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #74 **************************