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- From: mangis@dip.eecs.umich.edu (John Kevin Mangis)
- Subject: Re: Different Versions of JB music
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.132610.5119@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1993Jan7.181547.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> <1993Jan08.084449.12704@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:26:10 GMT
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- scott@prodplan.Columbia.NCR.COM (Scott Bridges) writes:
- pettit@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
- >>
- >>I was listening to a local "muzak" station (it is a RADIO station, but they
- >>play muzak 'music'), and I heard the steel drum part from a song on the album
- >>"Floridays". The name of the song was "Creola". I thought, WOW! A JB song
- >>on the radio! So I listened to it. But it was a strange version. When it
- >>got to the part of the song when Jimmy begins his vocals again, the version
- >>they were playing just started the steel drum solo again. So, basically, what
- >>they played was an extended steel drum solo.
- >>
- >>When the announcer came on, he said that it was called "Creola", but he gave
- >>the artist as "The Coral Reefer Band". No mention whatsoever of JB.
- >>
- >>I'm wondering where the station got the song. Was it their own creation, or
- >>was a version of this actually released? Hmm... Any ideas, anyone?
- >>
- >>Mark Pettit
- >>
- >
- >I bought an album a few years ago by Michael Utley (keyboards) and Robert
- >Greenidge (steel drums). It is entirely instrumental, with some originals
- >and Buffett covers. I'm not sure whether Creola was on the album or not.
- >Perhaps they came out with another album. They just used their own
- >names, not a group name. Maybe they and some other coral reefers put out
- >another album. Just speculation on my part.
-
- The album you are referring to is called "Mad Music" and it came out in
- 1986. There is an excellent steel drum version of African Friend on the
- album, but no Creola. I recommend the album highly.
-
- Greenidge and Utley put out at least one other album, but I don't remember
- the name. I listened to it once and it was much different from the first
- album; more "new age" and less "Caribbean." In fact, you'll probably
- have to look in the new age section in the record store to find their
- albums.
-
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- Kevin Mangis (mangis@eecs.umich.edu)
- University of Michigan, Computer science graduate student
-
- "I'm growing older but not up..."
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