[net.records] looking for...

chip (11/04/82)

    I've been looking for 2 albums for the last 7 years. I used to own copies,
  but they were destroyed when the house I was living in burned down in 1975.

    The first album is called "Spirit in the Dark", by Aretha Franklin. It
  won a Grammy Award in the early seventies for a song called "Don't Play
  That Song" (!!). Apparently, it has been out of print for quite some time.
  I would pay a reasonable amount of money to have this album.

    The other album is more obscure. Electronic music or jazz buffs might be
  familiar with it's artists: Leonid Hambro (sp?) & Gershan Kingsley (sp?).
  It's called "Gershwin Goes Underground" (I think). On the (pink) cover is
  a drawing of George Gershwin with an "afro" hairstyle (**cringe**). It has
  THE best version of "Rapsody in Blue"** that I've ever heard. In my opinion,
  this 10++ minute piano & synthesizer piece beats the hell out of anything
  that Wendy Carlos or Tomita has ever cranked out. None of the orchestral
  versions I've heard convey the same terrific sense of humor and excitement.
  I would be willing to pay an unreasonable amount of money to have a CLEAN
  copy of this album.

  ** This is NOT the semi-popular 1977 disco version of "Rapsody in Blue".

    I'd appreciate any information that would help me find either of these
  two albums (especially the latter). Please send mail directly to me.

					   Chip Hoover
					   ...!mcnc!chip

neiman (11/08/82)

    I've been looking for a couple of records by a group called Prelude.
The records are "How Long is Forever" and "Dutch Courage".  These were
originally released by Island records and have been out of print forever.
Has anyone ever seen them?

                                                   Dan Neiman
                                                   ittvax!neiman

tookman (04/13/83)

	A friend of mine is looking for an apparently
hard-to-find album.  The name of it is something like
"John Barleycorn Must Die" by old old Traffic (i think!)
If you know where we can get this album reply to me by
mail (or through the net).  We'd really appreciate it!!

kathy
case western reserve university--cleveland, ohio
uucp:  ...!decvax!cwruecmp!tookman

ellis (04/13/83)

    Anyone out there know where I can get any old "Music Machine" ?
    In particular the song "Talk talk". The style is best described
    as "late 60's punk".

    Another song I can't find is the Sex Pistols' take-off on their
    own song "Anarchy in the UK" where the line

		     I am an antichrist

    is replaced by

		     I am a capitalist

    It's not on any Sex Pistols' album I've found yet...

					Michael Ellis
					(415)-858-4270

tookman (04/14/83)

	I just want to thank GREG ORDY for getting me a tape
of John Barleycorn Must Die.  My friend and I are very happy
about getting it!  Thanks again, Greg....

		-kathy-

p.s. thanks, too, to Andy.