I'm trying to confirm songwriting credits for the song "Steel Pier." It was originally done by The Impacts with Wayne Martin Brown as the composer, correct? Or was it someone else?
Thanks!
-Mike
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 05:23 PM
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 05:37 PM
The Nebulas credited it to W.M. Brown. —Danny Snyder Latest project - Now That's What I Call SURF I'm back playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta |
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 06:10 PM
And they got it from us. hahaha! http://www.satanspilgrims.com |
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 06:43 PM
Cool - thanks, guys. |
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 07:21 PM
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 07:27 PM
Here's a scheme for looking up things like this that works for a lot of songs. I'm not sure if it's universal. Go to All Music and search on the title with search type song. It returns:
The table above and the next are fairly seriously munged by cutting and pasting. The originals are fine, If you hover over the cells they expand, etc. Once you have a name, you can also search on that and click on the songs tab to see their credits:
There's also a "credits" tab, so it's all quite useful. One thing to watch out for is that these lists seem to conflate different artists by the same name, which is less of a problem if the name is fairly long or unusual. If it's Bruce Smith, watch out. The database is only as good as its input and data entry process, too, of course. And sometimes there are mysteries in the tables which may or may not resolve if pursued in this source. Sometimes composer information is also in John Blair's book. Always worth checking credits on original publications, too, of course. Last edited: Sep 09, 2008 19:26:14 |
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 08:21 PM
Yeah, we did. It was released on a split 7" single with the Italian band, I Cosmonauti. Trying to get everything finalized for the Get Hip retrospective and that was the one tune we were lacking credits on. |
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Posted on Sep 05 2008 08:59 PM
yes - we got the credits from SP - never could figure out if it was Wm (short for William) or W.M. - anyhoo, there's some vhs documentary floating around with Merrill Frankhauser hosting a cable access show in the early/mid 90s where he and various bands "play along" with classic surf songs..'cept all their instruments are unplugged and they're just miming along with them. Anyhoo, there is a brief discussion between Merril and Martin (Brown), the Impacts steel guitar player about how his (Martin's) song was being covered by bands such as The Finks at the time. tfj |
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Posted on Sep 08 2008 09:46 PM
Actually Jim, you spelled the name wrong. It's Merrell Fankhauser, and a quick search on YouTube will yield DOZENS of episodes of his show. Interesting: moderately Embarrassing: definitely This one in particular makes my skin crawl the same way that video of Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins song does. |
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Posted on Sep 08 2008 10:00 PM
I can't help but ponder what other covers Leonard was kicking around when trying to come up for material. At what point do you say, you know what, I really need to cover the The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. That was truly frightening Ryan |
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Posted on Sep 08 2008 10:18 PM
...you'll have that shit in your head for weeks. Oh man! If you thought THAT was bad, watch this!!! Sweet baby Jesus that's embarrassing. Is that surf flute I hear? |
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Posted on Sep 09 2008 01:07 AM
good lord if I had seen that we love tikis vid when I was 1st getting into Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on Sep 09 2008 01:19 AM
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Posted on Sep 09 2008 01:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEezS2hgRO4 ... and it's not even his "Wipe Out." -Warren —That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it. |
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Posted on Sep 09 2008 02:06 AM
You guys remember the 2girls1cup reaction video craze? I'm gonna start a SG101 Merrell Fankhauser reaction vid thread. What gave me the idea was the fact that I caught myself scowling. I wouldn't have noticed it except I realized my face doesn't contort anymore than it was by 3 minutes into that one Zak put up. How does that bullshit find its way on stage with Willie Nelson? |
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Posted on Sep 09 2008 02:18 AM
You made it three minutes into that one? Mister, you're a better* man than I. -Warren
That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it. |
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Posted on Sep 09 2008 02:20 AM
that stuff ( wont call it music) is sooo much worse than 2 girls and 1 cup. —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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This is kinda Off Topic, but I was just wondering about something. I was watching my SPs DVD earlier and I never noticed but on the back of the case it says (Stretch) under the title "Morpheus". I always assumed it was their song. But who's the original artist who plays this song?Please visit our friends in the surf music community:
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