Curt Boettcher.com http://www.altuspress.com/curtb "I’d like to be recognized a little bit I guess. I guess everybody would, you know." Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:47:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Local Group in UCLA Pop Show http://www.altuspress.com/curtb/2009/04/17/new-local-group-in-ucla-pop-show/ http://www.altuspress.com/curtb/2009/04/17/new-local-group-in-ucla-pop-show/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:47:59 +0000 admin http://www.altuspress.com/curtb/?p=636 by Pete Johnson
April 25, 1967

A dull concert at UCLA was perked up Saturday night by the debut of a new local group, the Ballroom, which appeared after seemingly endless musically antique antics by the Lively Set and Tim Morgon.

The Lively Set is a gleamy-toothed hoot group whose jokes and routines date back farther than the era in which the septet might have been popular.

Audience Divided

Tim Morgon has a dramatic streak which made him, at times, amusing, but his voice is overmannered and underranged and his repertoire lackluster.

The audience was clearly divided into two camps: those who enthusiastically applauded the Livelies and Morgon and walked out on the Ballroom and those who sat stolidly through the first two acts and cheered the Ballroom.

This quartet has come up with an interesting gimmick: it records instrumental and vocal numbers in a studio then replays the stereo tapes, adding final live voices when it appears.

Group Edgy

Through this they escape the traditional flaws of pop music concerts and gain vocal flexibility and clarity. But the polish is at the expense of excitement. Despite the exquisite reproduction of the tape, one wonders why, if they are going this far in preparation, they do not also finish off the vocals in advance to insure perfection.

With the exception of one number—”Baby Please Don’t Go”—the quartet, which was obviously edgy, did not utilize its presence for visual effect. It might as well have been on television lip-synching the songs for most of the performance.

Curt Boettcher, a producer who has worked with the Association and Tommy Roe, leads the Ballroom, complemented by Jim Bell, Sandy Salisbury and Michelle O’Malley.

Its sound is an interesting overlay of complex vocals and vital arrangements using electronic music and momentarily jarring melodic shifts.

The effect is sometimes heavy and confused but generally strikingly new and good, as in “Spinning, Spinning, Spinning” and “Five O’Clock in the Morning.”
All have good voices, especially Miss O’Malley, who sang a duet with herself on “It’s a Sad Old World”.

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  1. Why Do Fools Fall in Love [stereo](Levy)
  2. Why Do Fools Fall in Love [mono](Levy)

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  1. Back on the Street Again (Hammond / English)
  2. I Just Want to Be Your Friend (Boettcher)

No Boettcher involvement; the B-side is a cover, and the A-side is erroneously credited to him.

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  1. Follow the Bouncing Ball
  2. The Legend of Frankie and Johnny (Monda)

Curt may be involved in these recordings.

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  1. Hanukkah
  2. Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby (Olsen / Zenger / Hoskins)

Curt may be involved in these recordings.

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  1. I’m a Hog for You [The Kaleidoscope] (Jerry Lieber / Mike Stoller)
  2. The Alchemysts [Blind Side]
  3. Little Orphan Annie [The Kaleidoscope] (David Lindley / Solomon Feldthouse / Maxwell Buda / Chris Darrow / John Vidican)
  4. White Heaven [Silver Current]

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  1. Brooklyn Girl
  2. Sunday Ponies

“Brooklyn Girl appeared on Yester’s Just Like the Big Time… Only Smaller album.

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  1. Give It Time
  2. Oh, Those Girls

1982—Sessions with Finyl Vinyl:

  1. Tell Me, Say It
  2. Hold
  3. Unzip My Love

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  1. Bandits
  2. James Jeans
  3. Party People
  4. Show Me, Do Me

1980-81—Sessions with The Association: While the learned Boettcher fan is aware of his production of “Walk Away Reneé” for 1983′s Rock & Roll City, he actually reunited with The Association in 1980 and produced a handful of tracks. Two sources indicate the tracks were:

  1. Disappearing
  2. You Made a Dreamer Out of Me
  3. Pegasus
  4. Backseat of Heaven

However, there’s speculation the following Association outtakes were also produced by Boettcher:

  1. Along Comes Mary (Tandyn Almer)
  2. Bird Outside the Window
  3. Carry Me Over the Water (Michael McGinnis)*
  4. Carry On
  5. Cherish (Terry Kirkman)
  6. Could It Be Love (Randy Sharp)
  7. Darling Girl
  8. Everything That Touches You (Terry Kirkman)
  9. Happy Birthday to Jules
  10. Never My Love (Donald Addrisi / Richard Addrisi)
  11. Nuke the Whales
  12. Rita’s Letter (Randy Sharp)
  13. Stringin’ a Line

1980-81—Sessions with Mike Love:

  1. Oh, Those Girls
  2. California Beach

* Denotes the best guess at the correct author credit.

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  1. Rock & Roll Star
  2. Pleasure
  3. Feel It

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