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Re: [newmellotrongroup] My First Recording Experience - 1965

2010-01-03 by sdavmor

Tron400 wrote:
>  
> 
> A few weeks ago, I was searching around on eBay and the rest of the Web 
> to see if I could find a copy of the 45 that I recorded with my first 
> band, second incarnation. I had lost my sole copy many, many years ago 
> and was shocked to find two, apparently unplayed, DJ copies. I bought 
> them both and a Stanton USB turntable, and converted them to MP3. The 
> band was called The Last Five and the single was recorded while I was 
> still in high school, in late 1965 on the Wand label at the Scepter-Wand 
> studio in New York, under the direction of Florence Greenberg. Both 
> songs were written and sung by Basil (Bill) Matychak, who went on to 
> form Buffalongo. Members of Buffalongo, minus Bill, eventually formed 
> Orleans and King Harvest, who covered a Buffalongo song, Dancin' In The 
> Moonlight. Here be teh tunes:
> 
> Side A: http://www.leisureland.us/audio/kickingyou.mp3 
> <http://www.leisureland.us/audio/kickingyou.mp3>
> Side B: http://www.leisureland.us/audio/weatherman.mp3 
> <http://www.leisureland.us/audio/weatherman.mp3>
> 
> Bernie

[applause]

1965 was a long time ago, Bernie.  I'm impressed.
-- 
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