Comments on: the curse of evie sands http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:31:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ernie http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-82 Ernie Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:54:44 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-82 I love the Hollies, but Evie's version of "I Can't Let Go" is vastly superior to their version. There is no comparison in my book. I love the Hollies, but Evie’s version of “I Can’t Let Go” is vastly superior to their version. There is no comparison in my book.

]]> By: Bob Davis http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-73 Bob Davis Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:26:16 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-73 She hasn't done it lately, but when Evie was doing shows at Borders stores here in Southern Calif. around 2000-2001, she'd sometimes add "Angel of the Morning" to the play list and put about 30 years of lifetime into the song. The Cameo version is available in the Cameo-Parkway boxed set, after years of unavailability. To see a recent Evie performance, go to YouTube and look under Adam Marsland's Chaos Band at the Sugar Mill on Sept 17, 2008. She sings her own "Don't Look Back, Don't Look Down" (available on the "Long Promised Road" CD), my all-time favorite Sandsong. She hasn’t done it lately, but when Evie was doing shows at Borders stores here in Southern Calif. around 2000-2001, she’d sometimes add “Angel of the Morning” to the play list and put about 30 years of lifetime into the song. The Cameo version is available in the Cameo-Parkway boxed set, after years of unavailability.
To see a recent Evie performance, go to YouTube and look under Adam Marsland’s Chaos Band at the Sugar Mill on Sept 17, 2008. She sings her own “Don’t Look Back, Don’t Look Down” (available on the “Long Promised Road” CD), my all-time favorite Sandsong.

]]> By: William http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-72 William Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:20:30 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-72 Evie is something pretty amazing....Do you all GET her 1999 release Women In Prison.....? I mean do you really get it? In 1999 she released an album that 'calls out' for all Women in the music 'bizz'---------bizz aka prison. Evie is something pretty amazing….Do you all GET her 1999 release Women In Prison…..?
I mean do you really get it?

In 1999 she released an album that ‘calls out’ for all Women in the music ‘bizz’———bizz aka prison.

]]> By: Tom Fühl-Ray http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-70 Tom Fühl-Ray Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:24:51 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-70 I've been a fan of Evie's from the first time I heard You Brought the Woman Out of Me played on the radio. I only learned her story gradually. Besides the titles mentioned Evie also recorded the original version of Step Out of Your Mind which became a hit for the American Breed. And altho of course it wasn't written for her Evie did have a single of Until It's Time For You to Go in 1968 the earliest known recording of the song pre-dating the Neil Diamond & Elvis Presley charters by two & four years respectively. Also while there's no known connection Evie remade the Temptations' The Way You Do the Things You Do about a year before Rita Coolidge's 1977 version reached the Top 20. Of course it's a shame Evie never had a substantial hit but hey she's still out there doing it - how many of her contemporaries who had hits can say that? Having said that I have to suggest that the reason Evie's versions of I Can't Let Go & Angel of the Morning tanked is because they're quite dull: the hit versions by the Hollies & Merrilee Rush are vastly superior. And it's not true that Cameo folded just after the release of Evie's Angel of the Morning: the label released some 28 singles after Angel... at least one of which - Beg Borrow & Steal by the Ohio Express - was a Top 30 hit. In fact Cameo even released another Evie Sands single after Angel...: Billy Sunshine which reached the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. Billy Sunshine - which is a great track - is one of the last singles issued by Cameo & may well have been undermined by the label's demise: overtime Billy Sunshine's history may have become mistakenly attached to Evie's best known flop single. I’ve been a fan of Evie’s from the first time I heard You Brought the Woman Out of Me played on the radio. I only learned her story gradually. Besides the titles mentioned Evie also recorded the original version of Step Out of Your Mind which became a hit for the American Breed. And altho of course it wasn’t written for her Evie did have a single of Until It’s Time For You to Go in 1968 the earliest known recording of the song pre-dating the Neil Diamond & Elvis Presley charters by two & four years respectively. Also while there’s no known connection Evie remade the Temptations’ The Way You Do the Things You Do about a year before Rita Coolidge’s 1977 version reached the Top 20.

Of course it’s a shame Evie never had a substantial hit but hey she’s still out there doing it – how many of her contemporaries who had hits can say that?

Having said that I have to suggest that the reason Evie’s versions of I Can’t Let Go & Angel of the Morning tanked is because they’re quite dull: the hit versions by the Hollies & Merrilee Rush are vastly superior. And it’s not true that Cameo folded just after the release of Evie’s Angel of the Morning: the label released some 28 singles after Angel… at least one of which – Beg Borrow & Steal by the Ohio Express – was a Top 30 hit. In fact Cameo even released another Evie Sands single after Angel…: Billy Sunshine which reached the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. Billy Sunshine – which is a great track – is one of the last singles issued by Cameo & may well have been undermined by the label’s demise: overtime Billy Sunshine’s history may have become mistakenly attached to Evie’s best known flop single.

]]> By: Van Howell http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-69 Van Howell Sat, 31 May 2008 07:07:14 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-69 ITunes is offering "Women in Prison" — go buy it now, it'll grow on you a lot, until it's all you want to listen to. Somewhere I found her very first record online — "The Roll" recorded, believe it or not, in July 1963 — she was probably about twelve — it's mind-blowingly great too; it has that authentic original girl power thing (like the black girl groups). Somewhere I also found the information that her name was changed from Rosen, and she was from Long Island. ITunes is offering “Women in Prison” — go buy it now, it’ll grow on you a lot, until it’s all you want to listen to.
Somewhere I found her very first record online — “The Roll” recorded, believe it or not, in July 1963 — she was probably about twelve — it’s mind-blowingly great too; it has that authentic original girl power thing (like the black girl groups). Somewhere I also found the information that her name was changed from Rosen, and she was from Long Island.

]]> By: exception that proves the rule « junkfood philosophy http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-30 exception that proves the rule « junkfood philosophy Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:27:23 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-30 [...] original that my regular readers will both have seen a couple of months ago when I posted “the curse of Evie Sands.”  (Yeah, that’s right, I’m not ashamed to put up links to my own blog - I need [...] [...] original that my regular readers will both have seen a couple of months ago when I posted “the curse of Evie Sands.”  (Yeah, that’s right, I’m not ashamed to put up links to my own blog – I need [...]

]]> By: junkfoodphilosophy http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-29 junkfoodphilosophy Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:35:51 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-29 Did you find the hidden track in the next post? Did you find the hidden track in the next post?

]]> By: Roger http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-20 Roger Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:09:02 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-20 I Can't Let Go and Take Me For A Little While are two of my favourite songs ever recorded. Evie Sands is massively underrated. I Can’t Let Go and Take Me For A Little While are two of my favourite songs ever recorded. Evie Sands is massively underrated.

]]> By: junkfoodphilosophy http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-19 junkfoodphilosophy Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:08:03 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-19 aw shucks. a quick scan around google shows that there were certainly a number of singles released on Cameo/Parkway before Angel of the Morning coincided with the demise of the label. Picture Me Gone is one of those, I know the song from the Madeline Bell version - once again, it being a Chip Taylor composition I assume Evie did the original. Another Cameo single was Billie Sunshine. I have I Can't Let Go and Take Me For a Little While, on a 'best of Red Bird' compilation LP that I bought in 1980-something. The thing that reminded me of Evie was seeing a DVD that included a clip of her singing Take Me For a Little While (not the version on my blog) and soon after that I saw that the Any Way That You Want Me album was being re-issued. The Thursday night at Tiger Lounge sounds good, I've only visited their myspace, sorry to say, so I can't tell you what the vibe is like. aw shucks.
a quick scan around google shows that there were certainly a number of singles released on Cameo/Parkway before Angel of the Morning coincided with the demise of the label. Picture Me Gone is one of those, I know the song from the Madeline Bell version – once again, it being a Chip Taylor composition I assume Evie did the original. Another Cameo single was Billie Sunshine.
I have I Can’t Let Go and Take Me For a Little While, on a ‘best of Red Bird’ compilation LP that I bought in 1980-something. The thing that reminded me of Evie was seeing a DVD that included a clip of her singing Take Me For a Little While (not the version on my blog) and soon after that I saw that the Any Way That You Want Me album was being re-issued.

The Thursday night at Tiger Lounge sounds good, I’ve only visited their myspace, sorry to say, so I can’t tell you what the vibe is like.

]]> By: ally http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-18 ally Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:32:14 +0000 http://junkfoodphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-curse-of-evie-sands/#comment-18 for an oft told story it's all new to me, and you do tell it well. i've found a few odd tunes here and there i don't think are on the lps, although i've still not got estate of mind yet - off to town this week to find one. do you know anything about 'up tight' 'picture me gone' or 'the love of a boy' ? ps have you been to the thursday do at the tiger lounge? is it worth a trip? x for an oft told story it’s all new to me, and you do tell it well. i’ve found a few odd tunes here and there i don’t think are on the lps, although i’ve still not got estate of mind yet – off to town this week to find one. do you know anything about ‘up tight’ ‘picture me gone’ or ‘the love of a boy’ ?
ps have you been to the thursday do at the tiger lounge? is it worth a trip?
x

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