From olga.ruocco@which.net Tue Oct 10 10:50:02 2000
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 22:22:14 +0100
From: olga.ruocco@which.net
To: KPS <kps@kinks.org>
Subject: GLKPSA and Kwirky


Alcohol:  Ellen you must have missed some posts a few weeks ago
revealing the background to our Alcohol.  We (quite boringly) recorded
all our parts separately, in our homes in Worcester, Hampshire and
Essex, and I must have double tracked about six tracks one very sober
Sunday afternoon in various off-key voices with  very strict
instructions from Geoff Lewis not to go too over the top (as if I would!
:-) ) So I am afraid a very rabble-sounding song was put together pretty
clinically....Mind you, as we recorded this separately, I have no idea
how inebriated the Geoffs might have been at the time of their warblings
:-)

Geoff Lewis recorded it first,  Geoff Murrell's part was added, then it
was sent to me to do some Floosie singing (but I opted for "operatic"
Salvation Army Lady instead) and  extra drunken choruses.

Of course, now that I have a new pc cd player and can burn off cds once
more, Geoff M has come out of the woodwork to join me in extolling the
virtues of the cds!!!!!! :-)  Seeing as I will soon be copying the cds
to order (we are completing our latest batch), I hope this doesn't
prompt a rush of another 50 orders which I will have to complete by
myself!

Phil, what a lovely post.  Thank you.  We have enjoyed this Labour of
Love, despite our grumblings about it from time to time :-) We were so
delighted with the quality of the songs submitted to us, and I am sorry
that some people who had originally proposed to send something decided
that time was against them and dropped out.  There was a time when I was
saying to the boys ("boys"! ha! :-) ) that it looked like we would have
to produce a double album!  Gawd, think of that.......

As for royalties for Ray (no Dave songs on the albums) .....believe me
we would have no problem with that.  I did write to Ray several times
about the project so he knew what was going on. And he and Dave have
their own copies anyway....given to them by my own fair hands. Any
profits that are made (and believe me the expenses have been very high
because of the printing on the high quality artwork for the labels and
inlays) will go to the charity that John Dalton supports (for Leukaemia
Research).

It was interesting when I was compiling a track list for the GLKPSA and
Kwirky how many Kinks songs begin with the letter S.  There are 6 out
of  the 12 Spivs tracks for a start!

Olga