Does anyone on here know what the group line up of The Sandpipers were , who cut " Lonely too long " on Giant ? And any other interesting info on the group ? Many thanks ,Eddie

I always thought this record sounded like The Bachelors, Eddie.

Nice Mike Terry backing track, but shocking vocally.

I just accepted that they were the White 'easy listening' trio (Jim Brady, Mike Piano, and Richard Shoff) from LA.

If not... it sure sounds like 'em!

Sean

This is there best, far superiour to the mersy beat thing on giant

sound file to follow

Young generation - sandpipers - k

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Young generation - sandpipers - k

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So where is that from Baz? Label etc?

There were at least 3 groups named the Sandpipers, recording in the 60's.

1 The LA Male Trio (3 x M) plus later (3 x M 1 x F)

2 The S. African group (2 x M, 2 X F)

3 The Florida Trio (3 x F)

4. The 'Giant' artists?

Sorry Eddie, I guess you already know the above, which is why you asked for confirmation, but I'm now not sure. Just always thought it was the same crowd as the "Guantanamera" bunch!

Sean

So where is that from Baz? Label etc?

There were at least 3 groups named the Sandpipers, recording in the 60's.

1 The LA Male Trio (3 x M) plus later (3 x M 1 x F)

2 The S. African group (2 x M, 2 X F)

3 The Florida Trio (3 x F)

4. The 'Giant' artists?

Sorry Eddie, I guess you already know the above, which is why you asked for confirmation, but I'm now not sure. Just always thought it was the same crowd as the "Guantanamera" bunch!

Sean

I always had an inkling it was a differnt group, but listed in manships under the same as the Giant ones so sort of persumed it was the same.

Its on Kismet part of the Kama Sutra lable, not sure where its from?

Credits Wrote by Cliff Adams Arranged by Trade Martin

I always thought this record sounded like The Bachelors, Eddie.

Nice Mike Terry backing track, but shocking vocally.

I just accepted that they were the White 'easy listening' trio (Jim Brady, Mike Piano, and Richard Shoff) from LA.

If not... it sure sounds like 'em!

Sean

Yeah I think it's awful Sean , but I'm doing this Pied Piper article and thought I should mention it ,Thanks everyone so far ......... Best ,Eddie

Yeah I think it's awful Sean , but I'm doing this Pied Piper article and thought I should mention it ,Thanks everyone so far ......... Best ,Eddie

Didn't think it was your cuppa rosy mate!

Looking forward to seeing this Pied piper article you're doing though.

You've certainly been putting some work into it.

Hope someone can confirm the Sandpipers question for you.

Cheers for now.

Sean

Seen this on a link just posted up on the Hana Barbara thread... might be some of use to you... if only for elimination purposes!

https://www.spectropop.com/Sandpipers/index.htm

So where is that from Baz? Label etc?

There were at least 3 groups named the Sandpipers, recording in the 60's.

1 The LA Male Trio (3 x M) plus later (3 x M 1 x F)

2 The S. African group (2 x M, 2 X F)

3 The Florida Trio (3 x F)

4. The 'Giant' artists?

Sorry Eddie, I guess you already know the above, which is why you asked for confirmation, but I'm now not sure. Just always thought it was the same crowd as the "Guantanamera" bunch!

Sean

I always had an inkling it was a differnt group, but listed in manships under the same as the Giant ones so sort of persumed it was the same.

Its on Kismet part of the Kama Sutra lable, not sure where its from?

Credits Wrote by Cliff Adams Arranged by Trade Martin

Pretty sure the Kismet one has female member and different to the Giant group. Flip it over Baz to check.

Pretty sure the Kismet one has female member and different to the Giant group. Flip it over Baz to check.

Yeah deffo female on vocals in 'young' other side is called Ali Baba seem to remember it being quite good actually

Yeah deffo female on vocals in 'young' other side is called Ali Baba seem to remember it being quite good actually

isn't Ali Baba the top side? been long time since I had a copy....

If you think the finished versiuon of Lonely Too Long is bad listen to the unissued alt take coming up dunno where it came from, just found it on hard drive whilst browsing for Sandpipers tracks.....

Lonely Too Long - sandpipers - giant unissued alt take

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Lonely Too Long - sandpipers - giant unissued alt take

13047 refosoul

Cheers for that Chalky , that's horrible isn't it? :-) !! Best ,Eddie

Baz,

"manships under the same as the Giant ones so sort of persumed it was the same"

We DON'T list different groups with the SAME NAME separtely because the book is a PRICE GUICE not a DISCOGRAPHY. Edition FOUR is 530 pages long and darn heavy to mail.

If we started listing different bands with the same name, separately it would become more like 630 pages thick and even more costly to mail. Although we would love to list groups and artists separately we figure the Guide would outgrow itself..and become to thick to comfortably handle.

I think you'll find The Sandpipers are a Detroit group and have a tenuous connections to Rare Earth. I'm sure someone we know more andadd to that.

www.raresoulman.co.uk

Edited January 3, 200718 yr by john manship

the alt version was sold on ebay a few years back, IIRC Benji from Germany bought it. Have to say I love both versions (the alt as a pure pop disc of course, but I love the overall sound on the issued version) and I would have plumped for the alt one for my collection had it not had such bad background hiss. So sue me.

the alt version was sold on ebay a few years back, IIRC Benji from Germany bought it. Have to say I love both versions (the alt as a pure pop disc of course, but I love the overall sound on the issued version) and I would have plumped for the alt one for my collection had it not had such bad background hiss. So sue me.

Mike Terry couldn't put a foot wrong in whatever he had involvement with IMO! Agree with Martin - I've always loved it.

We DON'T list different groups with the SAME NAME separtely because the book is a PRICE GUICE not a DISCOGRAPHY. Edition FOUR is 530 pages long and darn heavy to mail.

If we started listing different bands with the same name, separately it would become more like 630 pages thick and even more costly to mail. Although we would love to list groups and artists separately we figure the Guide would outgrow itself..and become to thick to comfortably handle.

True. But it wouldn't need to be bigger, different groups could be separated like this:

Sandpipers..................(1) a nice song/another nice song

..................................(1) a very nice song/a not so nice song

..................................(2) killer tune/rare as rocking horse doo-doo

This way it would be easy to separate them. It would need more editing than the present versions though...

Edited January 3, 200718 yr by LarsC

First time I heard this was at Soul In The City when it was at the Old Blue Last in Great Eastern Street, heard so many tracks that were new to me, a total revelation.

I always like to hear this one, so if you can put it in your playbox Martin and play it for me, you would have at least one happy customer on Wednesday.

i've got several copies of this, all m with one ex, so if anyone wants one PM me with an offer