From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #250 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, September 5 2003 Volume 08 : Number 250 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Roxy X-Mas Single from 1980 ["Rod LeCloux" ] Re: [AVALON] Roxy X-Mas Single from 1980 [Daniel Atterbom ] [AVALON] Hyde Park Refund [tracy-elliott13@ukonline.co.uk] [AVALON] Yet another European- NY shows tree [=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ole-Petter_D] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:58:27 -0500 From: "Rod LeCloux" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy X-Mas Single from 1980 Just came across the below info regarding a Dumbells (aka Roxy Music) X-Mas single on the net. Has anyone heard this? Any comments to add or corrections? Rod (Green Bay) The Dumbells - 7-Inch (1) Giddy Up (Incl. Sleigh Ride) (L. Anderson, arr. Dumbells) 2.50 (2) A Christmas Dream (Dumbells) 3.20 Producer: The Dumbells 1980 At least Phil Manzanera is present on this record. The B-side sounds like "Europe 70-1" from "Primitive Guitars". Some newspapers even say that it's done by all members of Roxy Music as a Christmas gimmick. No confirmation could be obtained about this. GB: Polydor/EG POSP 209 _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:32:47 +0200 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy X-Mas Single from 1980 At 10.58 -0500 03-09-04, Rod LeCloux wrote: >Just came across the below info regarding a Dumbells (aka Roxy Music) X-Mas >single on the net. Has anyone heard this? Any comments to add or >corrections? This has been on list from time to timew, here are some of postings: Reece some years back, 13 Oct 1999: >And finally - the supposed 'Roxy Xmas Single' of 1980 ('Giddy Up' by The Dumbells) was purely a Manzanera and Friends project. Bry said he did not appear on it himself, nor does he appear on the 'I Got A Woman' single by the Banshees - circa 1964/65 - he'd left the Band some months earlier. So don't believe some 'Rare Record Guides' that say Bry appears on that single - he doesn't. At 13.30 +0000 98-12-08, Martin Stockman wrote: >One amusing, and seasonal, story in this month's Q magazine, (with fetching >photo of GI clad Ferry sandwiched between cyber-air-hostesses Chanter >sisters circa Siren tour,) has Roxy recording a Christmas single entitled >Giddy Up / A Christmas Dream in December 1980. A Ferry/Manzanera >composition, they decided it was too naff to use the Roxy name, so they put >it out "for a laugh" under the pseudonym Dumbells. Anyone got it ? It was on >EG records number POSP 209. At 09.20 -0600 98-12-08, Victor Hastings wrote: >oh yeah. it's a curiosity for sure. mostly guitar work and rhythm machine, >with ferry shouting 'giddy up' in the background. a hoot. At 20.58 +0100 98-12-08, Han Snijders en Willy van der Geest wrote: >I've found it years ago. I asked a local recordstore to look for it in >England. And I said to him that I was willing to pay $30 for it. A few days >later a man came in his shop looking for Roxy bootlegs. The storemanager >told him he had a Roxyfreak in is shop paying $30 for a single and he gave >the man my telephonenumber. So I met this man and he had a big collection of >Roxy Ferry things and he's always finding rare things for me. So this >expensive single turnout to be a best buy. >The numbers itself are not realy my cup of tea, but it's like poststamp: you >have to get them all. At 13.22 -0500 99-11-27, JObinv01@aol.com wrote: >I have this single. The b-side A Christmas Dream is in fact a track from >Phil's "Primitive Guitars" album Europe 70-1 which sounds a wee bit J.M.Jarre >ish. At 17.51 -0500 99-11-28, David Neuhaus wrote: >I found the following at Phil Manzanera's web site, in response to >someone's question about a Roxy holiday single. (The entire message >chain can be found in the discussion room.): > >"What a coincidence. Phil and the Team were wandering around his studio >today and he picked up a 45 (remember them?) and >said "'Giddy Up', Bryan's on this and me and most everyone else". We had >never heard of it but there it was, as round >and black and small as life. Clearly something for the Roxy archive at >some stage." > >Here's what the label states on the 45 that I picked up in NYC many >years ago. >Side A label says GIDDY UP (INC. "SLEIGH RIDES") (2.50) (L. Anderson >arr. Dumbells) >Side B label = A Christmas Dream (3.20) (Dumbells) >I also found the following scratched into the vinyl around the label on >side A: TINSLE TRASH > >The 45 is from EG/Polydor, 1980. I picked it up because a sign in the >store listed it as Roxy Music. Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:02:53 -0500 From: Karen Swenson Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy X-Mas Single from 1980 Daniel Atterbom wrote: > This has been on list from time to time, here are some of postings: I have become curious, as you also dug up the exact date of Ivor C.'s last posting a while back: Is there a searchable archive of Avalon posts online somewhere, or have you somehow saved them so you are able to search the content on your own computer? (I know they are archived at smoe.org, but AFAIK they are not searchable, which would be a nice feature for anoraky Avalonians.) Karen ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:14:44 +0200 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy X-Mas Single from 1980 At 16.02 -0500 03-09-04, Karen Swenson wrote: >I have become curious, as you also dug up the exact date of Ivor C.'s >last posting a while back: Is there a searchable archive of Avalon >posts online somewhere, or have you somehow saved them so you are able >to search the content on your own computer? A: Not that I know and I've kept all my e-mails since 1997 (apart from some Avalon ones that were lost a while ago). Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:09:30 -0400 From: "M" Subject: [AVALON] Yet another NY shows tree Just got back from a vacation in Southern California and Vegas and found the package from R. Deagle waiting. Thanks to him, I can offer up to five copies. of the NY shows. If anyone in the US still needs a copy, e-mail me offlist. M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There was a young lady called M Whose real name was *ahem* *ahem* "The thing is," she said, "I'd rather be dead" "Than let out the truth just for *them*" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:41:15 +0100 From: tracy-elliott13@ukonline.co.uk Subject: [AVALON] Hyde Park Refund Sorry to bring this up again - but following Jane's email I again emailed Way Ahead. Originally they had refused to refund the booking fee, but have since had a change of heart and have now refunded this. For those who have not received a refund of booking fee, if you would like to see/use the email I sent please let me know. Regards. T - ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:06:57 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ole-Petter_Dr=F8nen?= Subject: [AVALON] Yet another European- NY shows tree Also thanks to RD, I can offer up to five copies of the Roxy-NY-2003-3cd-set. This offer goes for Europe only. opd - ----- Original Message ----- From: "M" To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:09 AM Subject: [AVALON] Yet another NY shows tree > Just got back from a vacation in Southern California and Vegas and found the > package from R. Deagle waiting. Thanks to him, I can offer up to five > copies. of the NY shows. If anyone in the US still needs a copy, e-mail me > offlist. > > M > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > There was a young lady called M > Whose real name was *ahem* *ahem* > "The thing is," she said, > "I'd rather be dead" > "Than let out the truth just for *them*" > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #250 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest