The Mellotron Group

Robert -
Still OT, but when I went to watch/listen to the Soft Machine version 
(thank you very much), I clicked over onto this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhOmiyifp0&feature=related 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhOmiyifp0&feature=related>
Being a Holdsworth fan, this was very cool to watch - live at Montreux, 
Allan not only sings a little (eek), but at 2:05 he's ear-tuning his SG 
with the volume down - gotta love it....
Vance

On 2/24/2012 12:43 PM, Robert wrote:
> I didn't mean to infer that the original recording of this song was 
> done by Soft Machine; it's their version that I associate the song with.
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> To the best of my knowledge, I believe it was actually 1st recorded by 
> The Wilde Flowers, the predecessor group to Soft Machine and Caravan 
> which included several members of both line ups of these subsequent 
> groups.
>
> Robert
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> *From:* Robert <rmrmax@yahoo.com>
> *To:* "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" 
> <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2012 3:23 PM
> *Subject:* [newmellotrongroup] OT: Whitney Houston - Memories
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> Gino, thanks for pointing out to us that Whitney Houston sang 
> "Memories"; I never knew that.
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> I didn't follow Whitney Houston, but I always loved Soft Machine.
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> Respectfully, I don't think Material's version with WH is all that 
> bad.  "Memories" is such a great song, it's hard to ruin it.
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> So below is Material's cover and the original Soft Machine single.
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> BTW, RIP Mr. Hugh Hopper...
>
> Robert
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3CZPNT9GSs
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69k03G21ftw&feature=related
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> *From:* gino wong <wonggster@gmail.com>
> *To:* newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2012 12:28 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Whitney
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> Sarah Vaughn she was not.  What she did was fashion, showbiz, not 
> music. Music is incidental to people in her situation.  Confluential 
> to selling shit.
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> She sang Hugh Hopper's "Memories" with Material and they had the nerve 
> to put it out as a 12"
> That was some sad shit.
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