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Joe Morris
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  06:56:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Lef tbanke are playing Joes Pub in early March (5,6)

also Sundazed is putting out a new compilation of their early 2 albums (Walk away renee/Pretty ballerina, Too

rocker
Old Love

USA
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  14:22:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
found this...made top 5 in the UK!...
I always loved their 'sound'...Levi singin' it from the heart..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB4WwPVEv8c&feature=related
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lemonade kid
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USA
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  18:30:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by rocker

found this...made top 5 in the UK!...
I always loved their 'sound'...Levi singin' it from the heart..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB4WwPVEv8c&feature=related

I forgot this version.....very nice rocker!

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Joe Morris
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  19:44:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
they're doing 20 songs at the show, so it should be cool

hopefully they'll do some Steve Martin (Two by two b/w Love songs in the night
- the SM single is LB in all but name)
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lemonade kid
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USA
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  19:55:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Joe Morris

they're doing 20 songs at the show, so it should be cool

hopefully they'll do some Steve Martin (Two by two b/w Love songs in the night
- the SM single is LB in all but name)


IS Two By Two from their second album?...it is a great song.
Here it is....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuUbZiwziI

One of my favorite songs by the Banke....SomeThing On My Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VihSZuHQvDY&feature=related




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Edited by - lemonade kid on 21/01/2011 19:58:30
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mikeb
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  21:24:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by lemonade kid

quote:
Originally posted by Joe Morris

they're doing 20 songs at the show, so it should be cool

hopefully they'll do some Steve Martin (Two by two b/w Love songs in the night
- the SM single is LB in all but name)


IS Two By Two from their second album?...it is a great song.
Here it is....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuUbZiwziI



No, check the information given by roots66 which matches up with the discography and session details I have on Rhino's History of the Left Banke LP. Second LP was released November 1968.

Other side of the single was Love Songs in the Night, both sides recorded January 1971, released in March 1971 as Buddah 219, Hot Parts soundtrack released July 1972 on Kama Sutra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCTHDlJDbA

Some references say this is an Andy Warhol film, I can't find it in his filmography. It did star Ultra Violet, one of his superstars, the LP cover is here, also had a track from The Montage, the 1968 group Michael Brown produced, arranged, wrote for and played keyboards on the records, though he wasn't officially a member.
http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/43555/Original_Soundtrack-Hot_Parts-Sealed_Out-of-Print_Vinyl_Record

I had this one on a hidden gems list I sent in to my local 60's and 70's show, would have made a fine single IMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZSlF2AkrS4

Edited by - mikeb on 21/01/2011 21:26:29
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Fifth Love

USA
280 Posts

Posted - 21/01/2011 :  22:27:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Iain Matthews cut a really fine version of "She May Call You Up Tonight" with the Hi-Fi, the Seattle band he worked with back when he was still living in the U.S. northwest. A song perfectly suited to Iain's voice and style, he continued to include it in his live sets for quite some years after recording it,
as I recall. Nice stuff.
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lemonade kid
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USA
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Posted - 21/01/2011 :  22:45:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Iain does so many great covers...With Farirport, Southern Comfort or solo....always a pleasure.

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Joe Morris
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Posted - 22/01/2011 :  01:37:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
is there any tab or sheet music for that LB cover by Ian?

I've been struggling with the chords for the bridge for "She may call you up tonight" for ages! :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tbLLJ4WC0k

Matthew Sweet does a GREAT cover of it as well on a recent covers album with Susanna Hoffs
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bob f.
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USA
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Posted - 22/01/2011 :  23:30:53  Show Profile  Visit bob f.'s Homepage  Reply with Quote
Anyone have, keyboardist/singer/songwriter og Left Bank, Mike Brown's
spin -off group, "Montage"'s album, 1968, which is on Sundazed CD (which I have). It's an ambitious production, with Brown's great vocals and everything Left Banky!


...what the world needs now...

Edited by - bob f. on 22/01/2011 23:51:45
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Joe Morris
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Posted - 23/01/2011 :  00:11:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
not so good. I prefer the Beckies

theres some stuff by Steve Martin (his Two by Two b/w Love songs in the night single) thats Left Banke in all but name

your best bet is
leftbanke.nu
has cd scans
Mike Brown interviews and the like

heres a live 60s "Shadows breaking over my head" performance by the LB:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQKx47otiIE

Not sure if Mike was still in the band by then. Might have already been in Montage (a band he formed that he appears not to have been in - guess he REALLY must've hated touring!

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waxburn
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USA
735 Posts

Posted - 24/01/2011 :  00:57:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
are both martin and brown going to be part of the reuninon?

Edited by - waxburn on 24/01/2011 00:57:31
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Joe Morris
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Posted - 24/01/2011 :  05:19:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
sigh, no

although Martin and Brown seem to have been working together recently (I have a few tracks with the two on a Leftbankeisms release - I think you can download the artwork and music from
leftbanke.nu
(one of the few webpages better than even THIS website!)
I don't think Martin is singing anymore. Last I heard he had a drinking problem, and Jimmy Mcallister (RIP - he was in the Beckies)
Finn and Brown had been working with another singer

Of course Brown had released an album with his wife Yvonne Vitale with covers of Left Banke trax (She may call you up tonight) but it seems to have been withdrawn although its on the LB site, along with Mike Brown interviews

Mike Brown still seems to be doing music but it seems to be only for his own enjoyment and I don't think hes released anything for some time (not since the 90s project with his wife)

Sundazed seems to be putting out the early LB stuff to cd (WAR/PB, Too). Hopefully they'll give a miss to the wretched 70s material Strangers on a train which had no Brown involvement at all (it seems to have been done for the money by that point)

I'd be surprised if Michael doesn't turn up at the Left Banke gig as he lives near Manhattan here in New Jersey, but heaven knows if hes released anything of late. The last album I recollect him playing on is the 2nd album by the Stories (About Us)
and that wasn't a great album, aside from the
odd Michael Brown instrumental (Circles) and "baroque" break on "Nice to be"

I'm not sure that the vocal style of Ian Lloyd really meshed too well with Michaels playing
(unlike, say Steve Martins singing on the early Left Banke records, with harmonies by Tom Finn and all

The Montage album isn't too great either - the cover of "Men are building sand" on that is appalling - I don't know why that flat note was left in as it ruins the song! the Left Banke version (off their 1st album) is far superior

So, basically, his peak was in the 60s, when he was writing songs inspired by Renee Fladen (Walk away Renee, She may call you up tonight) in his late teens!

Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel of legendary band Spinal Tap) toured as a member of the LB
when they were still doing live gigs (which by report appear to have been an abject failure, often getting blown off the stage by their opening act)
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