Re: [bomp] Re: Cleveland Outsiders

["Stephen Molly" <wytches@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone has released a bunch of Tom King and the Starfires tracks.  I am not sure if it is on Collectables or Collectors Choice.  The title is something like "Before They Were Outsiders".  My memory is shot so don't hold me to the facts.



----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Sheppard <sirlordsoul@yahoo.com>
To: bomp@router.xnet2.com
Subject: [bomp] Re: Cleveland Outsiders
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:26:43 -0700 (PDT)

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> The Outsiders evolved from a very raw greaser band called Tom King and the Starfires. There was a whole greaser scene in Cleveland composed of bands like Bocky and the Visions, the Futuras, the Twilighters, Mickey and the Clean Cuts (I believe "Soapy" was covered by Lyres), and so on. The rival teen scene was bands like the Grasshoppers, the Motions, the Baskerville Hounds, and the Tree Stumps -- then later the Alarm Clocks, Looking Glass (not the hit one), James Gang, the Choir, Cyrus Erie, and the Society. Which is to say that I suspect the Outsiders' pop direction was more Capitol's idea than their own.
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> Anyway, the Outsiders did have a lot of very poppy records, but if you want to hear what they were capable of on the other side of the coin, check out a rare later single on Capitol called "And Now You Want My Sympathy." Heavy, gritty punk -- and great! I like the hits, but I think it's their best. It may be on that Capitol Collectors' Series CD that came out in the early '90s.
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> bomp-digest <owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:30:39 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: Brent Walker 
> Subject: [bomp] Time wouldn't let them
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> The first time I ever heard "Time Won't Let Me" on an oldies station, I thought it was a Dave Clark 5 song with horns...so that's the description I'm still sticking with. Unfortunately, it's one of those examples where a band's biggest hit is not indicative of the rest of their output. Most of the American Outsiders' other hits are some really weak-tea sub-Buckinghams blue eyed 60's power ballads--"Time Won't Let Me" is by far their best hit (I can't say best song because I haven't heard their album cuts, but I would wager that was the case).
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> Brent Walker
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