(Tenth in a series)After the somewhat diminished success of their second LP, ??Untitled??, it took three years to produce the next one, ??*L.P.*??. They switched labels, from Atco to the lesser-known East-West. After recording 14 songs for the new release, the “Friends” theme they’d thrown together in three days came back to haunt them when the show became a massive hit. For the full story beh...
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(First in a series)This week's discovery of a few upcoming live shows, new website and a few new tracks on MySpace has once again put The Rembrandts, probably my favorite Power Pop or pop/rock group, on my personal radar. I have been following this duo for 18 years now, and here's the video and song that started it all:My apologies - the video is not the sharpest image, but the only one availab...
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(Third in a series)*Kim Fowley* was the manager (creator? exploiter?) of the all-female group *The Runaways*, where a young *Joan Jett* got her start. But after losing his grip on them, he discovered a new group, playing around L.A., to promote - *The Quick*, a powerpop quintet which was the first band to put a young *Rembrandt*-to-be Danny Wilde on record. (Stage name? You betcha! Danny was bo...
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(Fifth in a series)After Great Buildings broke up, Danny Wilde spent the latter half of the 1980s looking for success as a solo artist. The first solo LP, entitled ??The Boyfriend??, was released in 1986.His fellow Rembrandt-to-be, guitarist extraordinaire/singer/songwriter Phil Solem, came along (from *Great Buildings*) for the ride on that first LP, providing lead guitar and background voca...
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(Eleventh in a series)One of the three non-LP tracks on the Rembrandts' ??This House Is Not A Home?? CD single was this remake of "Money (That's What I Want)". Being such big Beatle fans, I imagine that's where their inspiration came from. But a quick trawl on AllMusic.com shows no less that 256 recordings released with this song, starting with Smokey Robinson and the Miracles in 1961. It was w...
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| 4 You Are the One |
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