Talk:The J's with Jamie

Discography
Discography is a little challenging to put together because it's all out of print and because the nature of their music lends itself to limited release promotional work. ...But there's not really a need to include that sort of thing anyway. Nonetheless, here's some stuff:


 * EPs
 * Amana Side-by-Side (Amana Corporation, early 1960s, EP) - not released commercially
 * Peace on Earth and Good Will Towards Men (J. Silvia Associates?, ca. 1967, EP)
 * Singles:
 * Let's Not Be Sensible / One Little World Apart (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * Theme from "A Summer Place" / Popsicles in Paris (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * For the Last Time / Your Dog, M.O.A. (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * Laugh It Up / Nowhere to Go But Up (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * This Ole House / London (Is a Little Bit All Right) (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * Here's Love / Au Revoir (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * The Sound of Money / Momma, Momma, Momma (Columbia, early 1960s, single)
 * Yoshiko / Everybody Says Don't (Columbia, early 1960s, single)

&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 19:20, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

I am going to write a separate article on this page about their version of Theme from a Sunmer Place. Carlm0404 (talk) 03:15, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

sources to come back to

 * Cultureify
 * more wfmu
 * more wfmu
 * more wfmu
 * more wfmu

&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 21:55, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

C &rarr; Start
I noticed you downgraded the article from C to Start. It's not typically a big deal, but it's uncommon to see a new assessment overruled (granted the initial assessment was done by the article's creator). Hoping you can elaborate. If you know of other sources or ways to use the sources, I would welcome leads :) &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 01:22, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Cn
Are these cn tags about the existence/attribution of the albums or the catalog data? &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 02:02, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Mr. President
There's a blurb in the October 3, 1962 issue of Variety, 228(6) that says that their song "Laugh It Up" was written for (and presumably is the one in the credits of) Mr. President (musical), but I can't verify it anywhere else... &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 03:26, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Similarly, the song "The Sound of Money" from I Can Get It for You Wholesale... (Billboard Music Week (Archive: 1961-1962); Cincinnati Vol. 74, Iss. 17, (Apr 28, 1962): 31, 42.) &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 05:20, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

And "One Little World Apart" from Bravo Giovanni... (Billboard Music Week (Archive: 1961-1962); Cincinnati Vol. 74, Iss. 26, (Jun 30, 1962): 49-50, 56.) &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 05:28, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

And "Come on Strong" from a show by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy van Heusen (?) and "Little Me" from a Sid Caesar show. (Billboard Music Week (Archive: 1961-1962); Cincinnati Vol. 74, Iss. 52, (Dec 29, 1962): 14, 16.) &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 05:30, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

LONG MESSAGE -- Their version of "Theme from A Summer Place"
I am hereby advised that this is long out of print, further hampering me in learning of old listening experiences. Because of various details, I am guessing that this is the version I heard on radio station WDEL in Wilmington, Delaware in summer 1964, with me being interested enough to wait for it to come on, and being disappointed when summer came to a close and I didn't hear that song again including in subsequent years. Apparently I missed a half-step-up key change, but I did remember hearing the name "Jimmy and the Jays", along with introductory lyrics (discovered by me in the meantime in Cliff Richard version), no vocal harmony, key of G major (which I used for my arrangement on cmooremusic.org), filler riff containing extra flourish in its highest notes (which I used for my arrangement on cmooremusic.org), use of xylophone for that filler riff (my arrangement on cmooremusic.org used distortion-guitar waveform but I later provided 2nd version, with chorused piano, sounding like xylophone, used for this), and "summer place" sung in fadeout.

I am sending this because I got interested in this without friends or family, and this is the first version of Summer Place I remember hearing. Also, I am too young to remember the Summer Place movie when it was new. Carlm0404 (talk) 04:02, 20 January 2021 (UTC)