Comments on: Jersey Boys Is Contagious in Vegas!

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:57:15 +0000

We have some characters like that who have run record shops in my neck of the woods, also. One was in Rochester (MI), Madonna’s hometown. This was the one where I first became aware of the Four Season’s “25th Anniversary Collection” on Rhino in 1987.

The other is a great New and Used record store called “Musical Memories” in Flint. I bought a bunch of used Four Seasons Vee Jay and Philips 45s there. I had figured out that David Geddes (“Run, Joey, Run”) was the same singer as David Idema (“House on Holly Road”). After buying both singles, the next time I came in the owner asked if I was there to buy the “House On Holly Road” album.

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:47:39 +0000

This is true: I used to shop at Rhino Records when all it was was a 20′ x 20′ record store in Westwood a few miles south of UCLA. The two guys who I’m pretty sure are now the multi-jillionaire CEO/owners used to sit around with their feet up BS’ing about music like John Cusack and Jack Black in “High Fidelity.” I must have bought half my collection of used ’60′s vinyl there, half of that for 50 cents a disc or less. They would give me stuff like used copies of the Outsiders’ “Time Won’t Let Me” album (I didn’t have the heart to tell them I already had it) and say, “Here, Stubs [not my real name - the needle has been changed to protect the record], you’re the only one who likes this crap.”

From the Wiki article on Rhino: “Rhino started as a record shop in 1973 by Richard Foos. It became a record label five years later thanks to the effort of then-store manager Harold Bronson. Their early releases were mostly novelty records (with their first single being Wild Man Fischer’s ‘Go To Rhino Records’…)” I have that record. I think it’s autographed by Wild Man Fischer, but I’m not sure. I also have what I believe is one of the first LP’s on Rhino, “Mogen David and the Winos;” I’m pretty sure either Bronson was the leader of the band. And I don’t think that Mogen David was really Michael David of Dodger productions, but who knows? And the best cut on the album was “She Got A Nose Job,” bringing us full circle back to Barbra Streisand, in Ted’s favorite game of “Six Degrees of Bob Gaudio.”

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:13:08 +0000

So that’s what Bob Gaudio and Stubbleyou were talking about when they snapped that picture, Howard, whether Barbra should make an appointment for Rhinoplasty? And following Stubbleyou’s logic, perhaps this is why FV4S compilations are on Rhino Records?

By: Howard Tucker

Howard Tucker — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:37:39 +0000

Of course, Ted, but ya gotta remember, Bob Gaudio is responsible for two life-changing events for Barbra: producing the Streisand/Diamond classic “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” and, after lengthy consultation with Stubbleyou, advising “Babs, don’t change your nose”, and the rest, as they say, is history!

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:48:28 +0000

Ted, that surely is a reference to (When-there-are-four-guys-and-you’re) Ringo’s line in “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Aw, go pick on your own nose,” uttered to Paul’s rabble-rousing grandfather.

Well isn’t it?