Monday, April 29, 2013

The argentinian singles

In 1981 Music Hall in released a single under license from Sire records to promote the album Suenos Placenteros (Pleasant Dreams) in Argentina.
The single came in a white label promo version and a stock version with Sire labels. Both have titles in spanish and was issued in company sleeves.
Today, 32 years later, it looks like the promo version is easier to find than the stock version – but often with the handwritten XX on the labels.
Here they are, the only official singles from South America:


Songs: No Te Vayas (Don't Go)/Ven Ahora (Come On Now)

Number: Sire/Music Hall 32.829
Year: 1981
Country: Argentina
Notes: Stock version


Songs: No Te Vayas (Don't Go)/Ven Ahora (Come On Now)
Number: Music Hall 32.829
Year: 1981
Country: Argentina
Notes: Promo version

Sunday, April 14, 2013

All the singles from Germany

Dee Dee Ramone lived there for 14 years as a kid. Ramones did 35 shows in the country. And since 2005 there is a Ramones museum in Berlin.
It's A Long Way Back To Germany is just one of many Ramones songs with references to Deutschland. I have been writing about some of the releases from Germany before but here is the complete list of singles:


Songs: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker/I Don't Care
Number: Philips 6078 511
Year: 1977
Country: Germany



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Songs: Rockaway Beach/Locket Love
Number: Philips 6078 517
Year: 1977
Country: Germany



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Songs: Don't Come Close/I Don't Want You
Number: Sire 15 868 AT
Year: 1978
Country: Germany



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Songs: C'mon Let's Go/Magic Power
Number: Sire 100 036-100
Year: 1978
Country: Germany



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Title: She's the one/Sheena is a punk rocker
Number: Sire/Ariola 100 394-100
Year: 1978
Country: Germany



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Title: Baby I Love You/High Risk Insurance
Number: Sire/Ariola 101 399-100
Year: 1980
Country: Germany




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Title: Do You Remember Rock'n'Roll Radio?/Rock'n'Roll High School
Number: Sire 101 871
Year: 1980
Country: Germany



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Title: I wanna live/Bye bye baby
Number: Upfront 6.14958
Year: 1987
Country: Germany 
Note: Promo only



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Songs: Pet Sematary/Don't Bust My Chops
Format: 7"
Number: Chrysalis 112 489
Year: 1989
Country: Germany



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Title: I beliebe in miracles/All screwed up
Number: Chrysalis 112792
Year: 1989
Country: Germany 
Note: Promo only



The single comes with n inlay, an infosheet.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Joey without his leather jacket

Joey and Holly at the Uncle Floyd Show in 1982.

In the middle of the song Joey hands over a bunch of beets to his duett partner, Holly Beth Vincent. She starts throwing them around while she is trying, without much success, to sing playback. Joey has left his leather jacket back home and temporarily returned to his hippie years, dressed in a pink shirt, a west and tall brown suede moccasins.
This is not the Ramones – and Johnny wasn't happy.
But it's a decent version of Sonny and Chere's classic lovesong I Got You Babe.
The performance is from the Uncle Floyd Show that aired in New York and New Jersey and the song was released as a single in 1982 under the name Holly & Joey.
During the interview in the TV-show "Uncle" Floyd Vivino asked Holly Beth Vincent "how this record came about?".
"Fuck if I know", she answered.
"Uh, Holly, you know we're on the air, right?", Floyd replied.
In 1982 the Ramones had released their sixth studio album, Pleasant Dreams. The New York Times wrote that the new album "sounds like a New York version of The Beach Boys". In many ways it was Joeys record, his favorite albums by the time was 999's Obsessed, U2's I will Follow and Phil Spector's Greatest Hits. With this in mind this duett seems quite logic.
Holly was the leadsinger of the Los Angeles based New Wave pop band Holly And The Italians who toured together with the Ramones in the US. 
The song was recorded at Manor Studios in England over christmas 1981 during the making of Hollys second album. Thomas Dolby was playing keyboards.
Later on Holly Beth Vincent had a bit more to say about the duett:
"It was a dream come true for me. I'd started out listening to a Ramones test pressing from a girlfriend of mine from high school who was working for ABC records. A couple of years later I'm singing with Joey!", she says in Everett True's book "The Story Of The Ramones".
Despite adverts in the music press with the two singers in a heart bubble the single flopped. 2012 Holly Beth Vincent sang together with Joey Ramone again – this time on Joeys posthumously released second sola album ...Ya Know? The song is the Spector sounding Party Line.

Here are the different pressings of the Holly & Joey-single that I have found. There are also a repress from 1997 on Ramo Records.
And here is the clip from Uncle Floyd Show.

Songs: I Got You Babe (Holly & Joey)/One More Dance (Holly & The Italians)
Number: Virgin VS 478
Year: 1982
Country: UK

 





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Songs: I Got You Babe (Holly & Joey)/One More Dance (Holly & The Italians)
Number: Virgin VS 1142
Year: 1982
Country: Canada
Notes: No PS, released in a Polygram company sleeve.





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Songs: I Got You Babe (Holly & Joey)/One More Dance (Holly & The Italians)
Number: Virgin VS 478
Year: 1982
Country: New Zealand




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Songs: I Got You Babe (Holly & Joey)/One More Dance (Holly & The Italians, wrong artist on label)
Number: Virgin 104103
Year: 1982
Country: France