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Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 17:48:24 +0000
From: Alexis Birkill <email address>
Subject: MV690 Re: MV689 - Sampling off the CD

Incidentally, I believe (well, actually I know) that the Sound Blaster
AWE64 Gold includes a S/PDIF connector for digital input.  What facilities
it has to manipulate this input I do not know, but more details can be got
from http://www.creaf.com/sound/64-gold/ .  On a side issue, I see that on
the Specification page it states that the card is 'Year 2000 Compliant'.
Great!  Now we can listen to sound AFTER the Year 2000 as well as before
(like we couldn't with any other sound card!)

Alexis Birkill <email address>
http://www.dragonfire.net/~Alexis/

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Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 20:12:38 +0000
From: S J Birkill <email address>
Subject: MV691: Top of the Pops?

Web browsers -- just sneak a look at (before it changes):
http://www.magpiedirect.com/md/chart.asp

-- Steve

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From: "Murray Francis McGlew" <email address>
Subject: MV692 Re: MV681; MV671; MV630 - 7th album.  Magpie records.
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:55:30 +0800

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> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:18:02 +0000
> To: Midnight Voices <email address>
> From: Leslie Moss <email address>
> Subject: MV681 Re: MV671; MV630 - 7th album.  Magpie records.
> 
> At 07:52 05/02/98 +0000, you wrote:
>>From: "Murray Francis McGlew" <email address>
>>To: <email address>
>>Subject: Re: MV630 - 7th album.  Magpie records.
>>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:23:02 +0800
>>
>>Living outside the UK, I have never heard any of the songs before, but have
>>followed the discussion group with much interest.
>
> I'm fascinated to find a Voice who joined up without having heard any of the
> songs before. What drew you to PA and the website in the first place? Was it
> the lyrics?
> 
> Leslie
>
I actually read about PA in the third volume of Clive's autobiography "May
Week Was In June", which covered his Cambridge years. As a fan of Clive's
books, I was looking on the web for any info, and there was some sort of
link to the PA site, I can't remember what or where.

Another one of his books, "The Dreaming Swimmer", included a copy of the
sleeve notes from a retrospective album release in 1991. I notice this
article is also included on the cover of the current double re-release.

Apart from the entertainment value of a lot of Clive's writing, I am
indebted to him for giving me some insight into the sort of serious
literature which I have always admired in theory, but not had the
inclination (or intelligence) to read myself.

Having had the benefit of the distilled wisdom made possible by Clive's
study of some of the great writers, I am even inspired to tackle a few
heavier books myself. I just don't think I will be able to learn Russian to
do it.

Murray. 
 
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From: Cary <email address>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:06:03 +0000
Subject: MV693 Re: MV691: Top of the Pops?

> Web browsers -- just sneak a look at (before it changes):
> http://www.magpiedirect.com/md/chart.asp
> -- Steve

Wow - congratulations Steve ( and Pete of course ) - I'd love to see 
the smile on your face at the moment.

 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        
ROCK FOLLIES - The Classic 1970's TV Drama starring 
Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell and Rula Lenska. 
Online at:-  http://members.xoom.com/Follies
Pictures,sounds and much more (unofficial site)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Regards - Cary (like Mary with a 'C' for cat)

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From: Neil Lovelock <email address>
Subject: MV694 Re: MV691
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:57:00 -0500

Congratulations on the No. 1 status, let's get the next cd's released now!!!

Neil

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From: Dave Jones <email address>
Subject: MV695 RE: MV691: Top of the Pops?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:03:12 -0500

>
>Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 20:12:38 +0000
>To: Midnight Voices <email address>
>From: S J Birkill <email address>
>Subject: MV691: Top of the Pops?
>
>Web browsers -- just sneak a look at (before it changes):
>http://www.magpiedirect.com/md/chart.asp

Follow the album title link to a descriptor page, which then links
to a comments page where you can wax lyrical about the CD !
I put in a plug for the web site and the mailing list.  Let's stuff that
ballot box, folks.

Dave Jones
Voting early and often in Rochester NY.

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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:17:24 -0500
From: Frances Kemmish <email address>
Subject: MV696 Re: MV694; MV691

Midnight Voices wrote:
> 
> From: Neil Lovelock <email address>
> To: PeteAtkinMailingList <email address>
> Subject: MV691
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:57:00 -0500
> 
> Congratulations on the No. 1 status, let's get the next cd's released now!!!
> 

I went to the web-site and admired the chart position. I also left a
message asking when there would be more Pete Atkin CDs available. I
received an email from Magpie this morning saying they hope to have more
soon.

Can we believe this? Is anything in the works yet?

Fran

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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:42:48 +0000
From: S J Birkill <email address>
Subject: MV697 Re: MV695; MV691: Top of the Pops?

>From: Dave Jones <email address>
>
>I put in a plug for the web site and the mailing list.  
>

Perfect -- Bravo!

-- Steve

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From: "andy & lynn" <email address>
Subject: MV698 Re: MV688; MV682 Beware of the beautiful Changes!
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:59:26 -0000

My mistake, I was actually talking about The Faded Manson on the Hill.  I
was under the impression that someone had said it was nine straight verses
and, having thought about the song for weeks, put fingers to keyboard in
haste.  It helps to know which song someone is on about!

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:37:06 +0000
From: Christine Guilfoyle <email address>
Subject: MV699: Beautiful Changes on CD

Like any other right-thinking person, I'd obviously welcome a CD version
of 'The Beautiful Changes' from any legitimate source (so if anyone
produces one, count me in). However, I'm a little surprised by the
assumption that a commercial release wouldn't be feasible. Given the
chart-busting success (?) of the See for Miles re-release of the first
two PA albums, I'd have thought that a Julie Covington re-release would
do at least as well. After all, to the world at large, JC is still a
more familiar name than Pete, thanks to Rock Follies, Evita, et al. If
copyright tangles permitted, one option would be to release TBC as a
double CD with Julie's 2nd (AKA her 1st...) album on Virgin - which,
despite its lamentable lack of Atkin/James songs, is an excellent
record, with an eclectic selection of songs and superb production/
arrangements by Richard Thompson, the world's finest guitarist and
second best songwriter. I'd buy it, anyway.

Mike Walters

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:17:30 -0500
From: <email address> (Stuart Reeves)
Subject: MV700: Magpie

Folks:

I received the email below when I left a message on Magpies home page.

Maybe there is hope yet.

Stuart


>Reply-To: <email address>
>From: "MARK  RYE" <email address>
>To: <email address>
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:30:35 -0000
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>X-Priority: 3
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>Thank you for your comment. You are not the only to ask if there are more
>Pete Atkin re-issues in the pipeline. If it is due to popular demand than I
>am sure there will be. Watch this space!!
>Regards
>Jacqui
>
>
>MAGPIE DIRECT for Original Records by Original Artists of the 40s, 50s,
>60s, 70s & 80s
>

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:54:36 +0000
From: Gerald Smith <email address>
Subject: MV701: Magpie Chart Comments Box

Hello Folks

	Yes, it was great to see that the PA/CJ CD has achieved, quite rightly,
the number one spot in the Magpie chart.  

However, I was un peut miffed when I revisited the sight today to see that
the comments which I and a number of other voices had left, had been
removed (although they do reserve the right to do this).  In fact, Dave
Jones' is the only one remaining!!

Hey ho...

Gerry Smith

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:37:06 +0000
From: Helen Dinsdale <email address>
Subject: MV702: Magpie comment box

As advised by various MVs I visited Magpie's site and was delighted to see
Pete up there at number one in the charts. I couldn't find a comments box,
so I emailed my comments to them. Putting in a plea for a reissue of Road of
Silk, the most sublime of all records.
By the way, thank-you Steve for the CDs, they were wonderful. I haven't had
much chance to watch the video yet - moving house and working don't go
together! - but I hope to be equally impressed.
All the best,
Helen
-- 
Helen Dinsdale
<email address>

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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:18:27 +0000
From: S J Birkill <email address>
Subject: MV703: Train Blues -- Postscript from Pete

"One extremely peripheral PS to the OOHTNTB influences:  one of the train
blues rolling around my brain at the time was a particularly wonderful
piano track recorded in the 60s by Luckey (sic) Roberts, from an album he
shared with Willie The Lion Smith - Railroad Blues.    It's on CD and
massively enjoyable and unpredictable piano playing - not at all
conventional boogie-woogie from either of them (they each play solo,
separately).    LR was cited by Duke Ellington as one of his most important
influences - INFLUENCES! - for heaven's sake."

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