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loud-fans-digest       Monday, November 12 2007       Volume 07 : Number 257



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  [loud-fans] edited post from the Andrew list           [Scout82667@aol.com]

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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:27:14 EST
From: Scout82667@aol.com
Subject: [loud-fans] edited post from the Andrew list

Tonight I will be on www.luxuriamusic.Tonight I will be on www.luxu 
show - just playing records that I like. Your welcome to tune in for  
free, or join us for the live chat.

Tomorrow, Luxuria will air my  tribute to Tom Dawes. Here is that info:

Many of you know that I hold a  very special place in my heart for the 
recordings of the Cyrkle: Tom Dawes,  Don Dannemann and Marty Fried. 
They are, in my opinion, one of the  unheralded groups of the 1960s 
with brilliant harmonies, productions and  songwriting.

Since I began my "Come To The Sunshine" radio show a year  ago, I had 
planned a special Cyrkle show, but had been holding out for the  right 
time when maybe I could involve my friend from the group, Tom Dawes.  
Unfortunately, Tom Dawes passed away a few weeks ago very 
unexpectedly.  Although I am on something of a hiatus from the show I 
knew I couldn't wait  any longer to share his music with you. 

On Monday, November 12, 2007, I  will be spinning two hours of my 
favorite Cyrkle/Tom Dawes recordings. These  will include the original 
MONO mixes of their songs (most of which are  unavailable on CD), such 
rarities as their debut single (as the Rondells) on  ABC Paramount and 
loads of musical vignettes that Tom composed post Cyrkle  in his 
jingle writing days. I think you will get a very good idea why I have  
held Tom and the Cyrkle in such high esteem.

So, join me from 4 -  6:30 PM (PST) to listen for free at 
www.luxuriamusic.www
There's no  sign up, no password. Just click on LISTEN off the main 
page and pick a  stream, any stream. 

But wait...There are 3 additional ways to  stream:

Try for higher res:
_http://www.1.http://www.1http://www.1.<Whttp://wwwh_ 
(http://www.1.fm/Stations/luxuria/Listen.aspx?pidx=0) 

or  lower res at:
_http://www.1.http://www.1http://www.1.<Whttp://wwwh_ 
(http://www.1.fm/Stations/luxuria/Listen.aspx?pidx=1) 

In  addition, iTunes software users can access Luxuria in the iTunes 
radio menu  under
2 different categories: "Eclectic" and/or "50s/60s". Simply 
click  on either tab, look for and double click "1FM".

Also, check out the  Luxuria Chat Room and chat with me LIVE during 
the show!
(but for that  you'll need a username and password)

Respectfully,

Andrew  Sandoval
www.cometothesunshiwww.co

P.S. Here is Tom's obit from  the LA Times:

Thomas W. Dawes, 64; musician with the Cyrkle, advertising  jingle 
writer

The Alka-Seltzer ad 'Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz,' for which  he wrote the 
melody, is ranked among the top 15 ad campaigns in  history.

By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer  
November 6, 2007 

Thomas W. Dawes, a rock musician whose band opened  for the Beatles on 
their final tour but who made a broader mark on pop  culture writing 
music for such well-known commercial advertising jingles as  "Plop, 
Plop, Fizz, Fizz" for Alka-Seltzer and "Our L'Eggs Fit Your Legs" for  
the hosiery maker, has died. He was 64. 

Dawes died Oct. 13 at a New  York City hospital of a stroke after 
carotid artery surgery, said his wife,  Ginny Redington Dawes.

In 1966, his band with an upbeat folk-rock sound  had a No. 2 hit with 
the Paul Simon song "Red Rubber Ball," and a name --  the Cyrkle -- 
that was supposedly suggested by John Lennon. That same year,  the 
group had its only other Top 20 hit, "Turn Down Day," which featured  
a sitar-playing Dawes.

The four band members were performing as the  Rhondells in Atlantic 
City, N.J., when they were discovered by an associate  of Beatles' 
manager Brian Epstein. Soon they were presenting their  tight-knit 
harmonies on arena-size stages at the height of Beatlemania in  the 
summer of 1966.

The three-week tour "was sort of a life  adventure," Dawes told the 
Allentown, Pa., Morning Call in 1995.  Beatles-related hysteria meant 
they "couldn't leave the hotel. . . . There  wasn't anything you could 
do but watch TV and play poker with the  Beatles."

The Cyrkle released two albums between 1966 and 1968 but never  had 
another hit single, although Dawes, who usually played bass, and  
another band member, Don Dannemann, "proved themselves quite capable" 
as  songwriters, according to the All Music Internet database.

After the  Cyrkle recorded a jingle for 7-Up's "Uncola" campaign, 
Dawes turned to  writing catchy tunes for advertising, as did 
Dannemann.

The work gave  Dawes something he craved musically -- complete 
creative control.

"He  just had a knack for it," said Redington, a musician who was a 
competing  jingle writer when she met her future husband in an ad-
agency boardroom. "It  seemed like a way to make music and be happy 
without suffering so  much."

Among the dozens of musical ditties Dawes wrote are "We're  American 
Airlines, Doing What We Do Best" and "Nothin' Beats a Great Pair of  
L'Eggs." Advertising Age placed the "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz" ad that  
featured his melody among the top 15 advertising campaigns in 
history;  the Alka-Seltzer ad ran from 1975 to 1980.

With his wife, Dawes wrote the  music for "If You Don't Look Good, We 
Don't Look Good" for Vidal Sassoon and  the "Coke Is It!" campaign 
that aired during the 1984 Olympics in Los  Angeles.

In 1990, the couple retired from jingle writing. 

"We  decided there's so much more to life than singing ketchup 
bottles," Dawes  told Reuters news service in 2006. 

Together, they wrote the book, music  and lyrics for "The Talk of the 
Town," a musical about the celebrated 1920s  literary circle known as 
the Algonquin Round Table. The show ran for nearly  two years off-
Broadway beginning in 2004 before it was presented as a  cabaret show 
at New York City's Algonquin Hotel.

Thomas Webster Dawes  was born July 25, 1943, in Albany, N.Y. 

As a young teen, Dawes played  guitar and banjo and had a folk-singing 
group in high school. 

Dawes  graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he and 
Dannemann put  together a band that played the college frat-party 
circuit. 

Soon  after being discovered, the act briefly broke up when Dannemann 
left for a  short stint in the Coast Guard. After Dawes was hired as a 
guitarist for a  Simon & Garfunkel tour, Simon offered the Cyrkle "Red 
Rubber Ball,"  which he had co-written with Bruce Woodley of the 
Seekers.

Soon after  the quartet reformed, they recorded "Red Rubber Ball" and 
were basking in  their good fortune.

"The band was just so breathless about the whole  thing, to go from a 
fairly funky bar in Atlantic City . . . to the Beatles'  tour," Dawes 
said in the 1995 Morning Call story.

In addition to his  wife of 29 years, Dawes is survived by his sister, 
Robin Ducey.

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