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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:23 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
Songwriting tragedy, more like. And wouldn't it just have to be a hit? Sorry, but that one really bites, it's like a dentist's drill, especially the vocal. But I really like "Rainy Day Feeling."
I'm just sayin'...
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:16 pm
by royclough
All valid guesses but link is a person rather than songs etc
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 3:08 am
by kenposurf
Michael Page played with Bobby Vee for a time and Bobby Vee did an Lp with The Ventures...?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:29 am
by royclough
No not Michael Page though I have no idea who he is.
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:58 am
by kenposurf
Michael Page played with The Fortunes in the Early 80's....
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:39 am
by royclough
George he still does but I have always known him as Michael Smitham. Somewhere along the line he has changed his name.
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:54 pm
by kenposurf
Roy: The Fortunes used session guys on some recordings...any chance Nokie Edwards was one....
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:18 pm
by royclough
No George but you are in the right area.
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:24 am
by shamustwin
Terry Jacks did Seasons In The Sun, and wasn't that monstrosity written by the same guy who wrote MacArthur Park? (sorry for veering).
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:20 am
by royclough
No Jerry, Jimmy Webb wrote the latter, Jacks partly rewrote Seasons In The Sun as original version was written By Jacques Brel and was called Le Moribond (The Dying Man) and had been re-written into English by Rod McKeun.
Apparently The Beach Boys recorded it on Jacks suggestion but never released it.
The Fortunes released it as a single in 68 but it did nothing.
Jacks's only other hit in UK was again a Jacques Brel song If You Go Away,Seasons though was his only US top 40 entry albeit a number 1.
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:30 am
by shamustwin
Thanks Roy. Don't know why I always get Rod McKuen and Jimmy Webb mixed up!
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:02 am
by admin
Roy: Did Bob Spalding, the fifth Venture, fill in for one of the Fortunes at one point?
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:02 pm
by royclough
Not to my knowledge but you and George are in right area, in fact I'll tell you both as it is hard I think.
Dave Carr was a member of The Fortunes until 68 played keyboards,he eventually was credited as keyboards on lots of Ventures albums though never credited as a member of the band.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:02 am
by admin
Thanks Roy. Do you know how the contact with The Ventures was made?
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:35 am
by royclough
Not really other than he probably went to the States and became a session player,he also arranged some albums for them Ventures Play The Carpenters and Ventures Play The Jim Croce Songbook, to name just two.