From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V2 #143 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, August 26 1997 Volume 02 : Number 143 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Cool Signature :) [Phil Hall ] Re: Listening to our gal... [Phil Hall ] Re: Cool Signature [Beverly Martin ] Re: Listening to our gal... [hough.14@osu.edu (Weasel)] Re[2]: Roll Call [Becky Witter-R26405 ] Re: Roll Call [MAPNINGER@aol.com] Re: Listening to our gal... [georgep ] Re: Listening to our gal... [georgep ] Re: Roll Call [rrumsby ] Re: Roll Call ["Bob James" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:24:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Hall Subject: Re: Cool Signature :) Uhhh, Jacki, ignore the previous posting, it was meant for Jacli! Phil (who just cannot wake up this morning) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:20:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Hall Subject: Re: Listening to our gal... On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jacli LM Primo wrote: > >Jeff ... do you know any radio stations that play our favorite gal?< > > Just wondering if anyone else in the Boston area has any good answers > for that one. I live in Brockton and it seems like the only places I > ever get to hear Basia are Paperama, Caldors and Bradlees! Jacki, The only Boston-area jazz station I know of, the "Oasis" (whatever that stands for), has yet to play Basia during the times I have listened, or Peter White, for that matter. There is a station in the Hampton NH area calling itself "The Stage" (I'm not good at album serial numbers or radio station call-letters) that typically plays two songs by the same artist, usually a studio cut then a live cut. I have heard Basia on this station, but it's always the same two songs: Cruising for Bruising and Time and Tide - both studio versions. They once played Matt Bianco's Buddy Love - but it is long enough so that they did not play anothr MB cut... The Boston newspapers are'nt too particularly fond of Basia, either. After the '94 concert at HarborLights the Globe's reviwer opened with something like the following: "Don't tell the 3000 or so Basia fans who turned up at HarborLights last night that she can't carry a tune in a bucket...." or something very similar to that. Something about good music that offends the Brahmins, I guess.... Phil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:06:35 -0500 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Re: Cool Signature > Jacli wrote: > > > Beverly Martin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > "Now the internet has all these people who are sitting > > > around typing one-handed, and they're illiterates! > > > I mean: 'Fick me! Fick me!', 'Fondle my tots!'" > > > > > > --Bette Midler, "Diva Las > Vegas"<< > > > > Hey Beverly, jacli here :) > > Ordinarily I would've sent this directly to you but I can't seem to > find > > a personal EM for you... Anyhow, great sig, ciao,j > > Jacli -- Thanks!!! That's right off her "Diva Las Vegas" HBO Special -- she slipped that one in between her Sophie Tucker tales..... of course my favorite of that one is kinda blue (but here tis, paraphrased...): "I got a dozen roses from my main man, and I told my girlfriend: 'Do you know what this means? Now I'm gonna spend the next two weeks flat on my back with my legs wide open' And my girlfriend sez to me: 'Don't ya got a vase?'" -- Bette Midler Thank you kindly for reading my sig and visiting my website(s).... I'll be updating soonest!!! -- Beverly who believes in the two B's... Basia and Bette and also in S&S - Sugar and Spike, the two cutest toddlers on the planet! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** NEW AND IMPROVED *** (as of 7/18/97!) Hey! Visit my new website(s): FEATURING THE ONE AND ONLY SUGAR AND SPIKE WEBSITE ON THE WHOLE BLASTED INTERNET THINGIE!!! http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/S&SMain.html AND MY OLD "STAND-BYS" AT: http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/index.html http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/twice1.html - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Now the internet has all these people who are sitting around typing one-handed, and they're illiterates! I mean: 'Fick me! Fick me!', 'Fondle my tots!'" --Bette Midler, "Diva Las Vegas" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:18:29 -0400 (EDT) From: hough.14@osu.edu (Weasel) Subject: Re: Listening to our gal... Speaking of hearing her on radio, I was just in the student health center here at Ohio State U. in Columbus, and they were playing REWARD on 92-Z over the PA system.... kinda neat hearing Basia in the most unexpected places. - -Jer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:20:00 -0500 From: Becky Witter-R26405 Subject: Re[2]: Roll Call _______________________________________________________________________________ Well, yet another lurker speaks up... I'm Becky Witter from Phoenix, AZ. Believe it or not, my parents turned me on to Basia back in 1987 with Time & Tide. I didn't really like it at first, being a strictly Top 40 teen back in those days... but it started growing on me. Astrud and Time & Tide were my favorites from that first album. The second album sent me over the edge. Cruising For Bruising, Take Him Back Rachel... the list goes on... I listened to that non-stop through the duration of my college years. Drove my soccer mates nuts playing it on long road trips... fun fun fun. TSI was a long awaited treasure for me - I really love Yearning & More Fire Than Flame. Since getting onto this mailing list, I've gone truly nuts searching for import singles, etc. Having a great time. Oh, I've seen Basia 3 times in concert... it's been wonderful to see her gain confidence and truly open up to her audiences over the years. The first concert, she was so shy, she almost never even looked at the audience... very charming. Found out about Matt Bianco, ran out and bought the tape. Peter White played a solo "set" in the middle of the second concert, and I ran out and bought his CD as well. Other tastes run the gamut from Garbage & No Doubt to Sheryl Crow, Joan Osborne, Alanis, Celine, Gloria, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, Madonna... love those chick singers! Anyway, I really enjoy this list... imagine my surprise to 154 messages, mostly from the Basia list, when I returned from my London vacation! Keep it up all! Is the Roach watch still in effect? No word yet? Becky ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:42:49 -0400 (EDT) From: MAPNINGER@aol.com Subject: Re: Roll Call Hi All - My name is Mary Ann and I'm from NJ. I first heard Basia in 1993. My husband & I had recently returned to NJ from a 3-year stint in Canada (Hey, are there any Canadian Basia fans out there? I don't recall ever hearing her while there.), and I started listening to WQCD in NYC. One day I heard "Promises" on the radio and I said to myself, Who IS that lady? I thought her voice was so unusual, distinctive and rich, and I loved the samba beat of her music. It wasn't until I heard her several more times that I found out who she was, and I was hooked for good! I was very lucky to see Basia twice within a six-month period in 1994 (my husband thought I was a fanatic, and I guess I was!), at the Garden State Arts Center in NJ with Spyro Gyra, and then on Broadway. She was great, of course, and seeing her in concert also totally hooked me on Peter White, who had just come out with "Promenade". I have since seen Peter twice in concert; my idea of a fantasy concert is a double billing with the two of them! My favorite Basia songs are From Now On, Cruising for Bruising, Baby You're Mine, Yearning and Drunk on Love. My biggest beef related to her music is that it is so infrequently played anymore on the major Smooth Jazz station in NY (WQCD CD 101.9). Oh well, I do have all her CD's, and I am (rather impatiently) waiting for her new album to come out, hoping that will renew the radio station's interest in her. Cheers to all - Mary Ann ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:04:59 -0400 (EDT) From: georgep Subject: Re: Listening to our gal... At 07:20 AM 8/25/97 -0400, you wrote: > > >On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jacli LM Primo wrote: > >> >Jeff ... do you know any radio stations that play our favorite gal?< >> >> Just wondering if anyone else in the Boston area has any good answers >> for that one. I live in Brockton and it seems like the only places I >> ever get to hear Basia are Paperama, Caldors and Bradlees! > >Jacki, >The only Boston-area jazz station I know of, the "Oasis" (whatever that >stands for), has yet to play Basia during the times I have listened, or >Peter White, for that matter. There is a station in the Hampton NH area >calling itself "The Stage" (I'm not good at album serial numbers or radio >station call-letters) that typically plays two songs by the same artist, >usually a studio cut then a live cut. I have heard Basia on this station, >but it's always the same two songs: Cruising for Bruising and Time and >Tide - both studio versions. They once played Matt Bianco's Buddy Love - >but it is long enough so that they did not play anothr MB cut... > >The Boston newspapers are'nt too particularly fond of Basia, either. After >the '94 concert at HarborLights the Globe's reviwer opened with something >like the following: "Don't tell the 3000 or so Basia fans who turned up at >HarborLights last night that she can't carry a tune in a bucket...." or >something very similar to that. Something about good music that offends >the Brahmins, I guess.... > >Phil > >Hi Phil, I live in the Boston area and perhaps I can shed some light on the reason for Basia's negative review. Boston is not known as a "great city" for music.I guess many people in the music industry feel we are in the shadow of cities like New York, and Los Angeles. There seems to be this attitude in some musical circles that "real artistry" has to be offbeat, or offend someone, or challenge the status quo so to speak. Basia does not have a political agenda, rings through her nose, dress in rags, or sing like she were in the throes of heroine withdrawl, consequently she is not considered chic or hip. Got the picture??? She is just plain talented, and that just doesn't seem to carry any weight with these self-important, psuedo-sophisticated critics. She seems to be really popular in places like Japan, where people seem to feel free to enjoy music, not worry about what kind of "artistic statement" the performer is making. It certainly isn't our "Brahmin" sensibilities that are the issue, rather it is the "anti-Brahmin" counterculture that has no use for Basia. I am a 42 year old Republican/Libertarian who voted for governor Bill Weld (a real Brahmin from an old New England Yankee family, and a Grateful Dead fan), so I guess it is okay for me to like (make that adore) Basia and her music. Sincerely, George Parigian Jr. > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:05:12 -0400 (EDT) From: georgep Subject: Re: Listening to our gal... At 09:04 PM 8/25/97 -0400, you wrote: >At 07:20 AM 8/25/97 -0400, you wrote: >> >> >>On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jacli LM Primo wrote: >> >>> >Jeff ... do you know any radio stations that play our favorite gal?< >>> >>> Just wondering if anyone else in the Boston area has any good answers >>> for that one. I live in Brockton and it seems like the only places I >>> ever get to hear Basia are Paperama, Caldors and Bradlees! >> >>Jacki, >>The only Boston-area jazz station I know of, the "Oasis" (whatever that >>stands for), has yet to play Basia during the times I have listened, or >>Peter White, for that matter. There is a station in the Hampton NH area >>calling itself "The Stage" (I'm not good at album serial numbers or radio >>station call-letters) that typically plays two songs by the same artist, >>usually a studio cut then a live cut. I have heard Basia on this station, >>but it's always the same two songs: Cruising for Bruising and Time and >>Tide - both studio versions. They once played Matt Bianco's Buddy Love - >>but it is long enough so that they did not play anothr MB cut... >> >>The Boston newspapers are'nt too particularly fond of Basia, either. After >>the '94 concert at HarborLights the Globe's reviwer opened with something >>like the following: "Don't tell the 3000 or so Basia fans who turned up at >>HarborLights last night that she can't carry a tune in a bucket...." or >>something very similar to that. Something about good music that offends >>the Brahmins, I guess.... >> >>Phil >> >>Hi Phil, > >I live in the Boston area and perhaps I can shed some light on the reason >for Basia's negative review. Boston is not known as a "great city" for >music.I guess many people in the music industry feel we are in the shadow of >cities like New York, and Los Angeles. There seems to be this attitude in >some musical circles that "real artistry" has to be offbeat, or offend >someone, or challenge the status quo so to speak. Basia does not have a >political agenda, rings through her nose, dress in rags, or sing like she >were in the throes of heroine withdrawl, consequently she is not considered >chic or hip. Got the picture??? She is just plain talented, and that just >doesn't seem to carry any weight with these self-important, >psuedo-sophisticated critics. She seems to be really popular in places like >Japan, where people seem to feel free to enjoy music, not worry about what >kind of "artistic statement" the performer is making. It certainly isn't >our "Brahmin" sensibilities that are the issue, rather it is the >"anti-Brahmin" counterculture that has no use for Basia. I am a 42 year old >Republican/Libertarian who voted for governor Bill Weld (a real Brahmin from >an old New England Yankee family, and a Grateful Dead fan), so I guess it is >okay for me to like (make that adore) Basia and her music. > >Sincerely, > >George Parigian Jr. >> > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:52:04 -0400 From: rrumsby Subject: Re: Roll Call MAPNINGER@AOL.COM wrote: > Hi All - > > My name is Mary Ann and I'm from NJ. > > My biggest beef related to her music is > that it is so infrequently played anymore on the major Smooth Jazz > station in > NY (WQCD CD 101.9). Oh well, I do have all her CD's, and I am > (rather > impatiently) waiting for her new album to come out, hoping that will > renew > the radio station's interest in her. > Hi there Mary Ann, As a fellow New Jersian (or what ever it is), as well as a CD101.9 listener. Perhaps we could email bomb them with Basia requests. (hehehe). FYI there email address is comments@tribune.com bfn BobR Paterson NJ may the swartz be with you ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:44:55 -0400 From: "Bob James" Subject: Re: Roll Call Greetings from Tampa Bay I've been a list member for a while now, just don't have much time to keep up with the postings. Like a lot of you, I fell in love with Basia after hearing Time and Tide(the single) Unfortunately, I didn't know what else I was missing until somebody brought the T & T cd in where I work. I was hooked. It didn't take long to acquire the rest of her albums. I hope 98 comes soon and that long awaited tour begins. I have never had the chance to hear her in concert. If any of you find yourselves in the Tampa Bay area, be sure to tune in to WSJT, 94.1. Basia and Peter White get plenty of airplay down here. Bob James spectech@brigadoon.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V2 #143 ***************************