[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

re: another scoop liner notes



Hi to everyone and "Steve Giacomelli"

The following is a sample of the first couple of songs off this great =
double set...
if you want more info please feel free to email me and I'll get the rest =
out to you
on private email.....
take care
- -Maureen-



Here is dedication on Another Scoop:
"To my father Clifford Blanford Townshend who died in June 1986. A =
clarinet and=20
saxophone player admired by his comtemporaries, and loved by his family; =
"I don't
care what you call it, as long as it's real music, and as long as it =
swings."

(Love this dedication-because my father played drums during the war!!)


Songs:
you better you bet-april '80
"This is the reference mix I made straight after cutting the demo at my =
studio
in Soho."

girl in a suitcase-april '75
"One of the songssubmitted for and rejected by THE WHO BY NUMBERS. I =
suppose
this is not really a typical WHO song at all, but it is about the road, =
groupies, inflatable women, etc., most of all the rather crinkled family =
photographs we travelers all hand around.

brooklyn kids-sept '78
"I had a nasty vision one sunny afternoon- a beautiful girl walked past =
my studio window in a
white dress, behind her walked a young black kid, hip and hungry. Their =
relative states of
self-absorption produced the idea of the rape of a lonely girl by a =
lonely man.
The piano demo was enhanced by a beautiful orchestra arrangement by ted =
ashley (my
father-in-law).