trying to identify a bubblegummy girl-group song

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Someone made me an iTune bubblegum compilations, but the accompanying CD cover only lists the first 25 of 31 songs. I've figured out #26 through #30, but I'm not having any luck with #31. It's a girl-group (really, the song just barely belongs on a bubblegum compilation), and the chorus is about sweet, sweet-talking Willy.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

omigod i totally know this, but sometime will remember it before me! argh! is it maybe the shirelles?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Little Willy by The Sweet

ahem, they're GUYS (in a 70s sorta way)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c6/250px-Sweet-1974.jpeg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

ps I thought the singers were girls the entire time this was on radio

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

You can't push Willy where Willy won't go.

Wise words.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I know "Little Willy" very well. As I said, these are females singing--real ones, the genetic kind. I've got three Shirelles compilations with no overlap, so I don't think it's them.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Saturday, 9 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

this is going to bug me all day

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet Talking Guy" by The Chiffons?

or maybe (longshot)

"The Boy From New York City" by the Ad Libs?

hell I don't know

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 10 July 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for trying, but no--it's not something well known like those two songs. I've tried picking out individual lines and doing lyric searches, but no luck. I'll figure it out eventually.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Sunday, 10 July 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

last effort: sweet talkin' willie - by terri nelson?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 10 July 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic! Thank you. I searched "Terri Nelson Sweet Talkin' Willie," and sure enough it turned up on an album called Super K's Bubblegum Explosion, 1968-1970. So that be the one--excellent.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Sunday, 10 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

what else is on that compilation, merritt? sounds great.

― zebedee (zebedee), Sunday, 10 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Here's a link:

― merritt ranew (merritt), Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Let's try that again (10th album down). Most of what's there is standard bubblegum fare--i.e., excellent though familiar--but, along with Terri Nelson, I've never heard of either Lt. Garcia's Magic Music Box or the JCW Rat Finks. I have some vague memory of a Rat Fink cartoon character...maybe Lt. Garcia was the Grateful Dead cutting bubblegum tracks incognito!

― merritt ranew (merritt), Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Can you do a YSI of this song, Merritt? It sounds top.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet William" by Millie Small (b-side of "My Boy Lollipop")?

oops, you already found out the answer, oh well. But this one is great!

― xhuxk, Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Ian--I would if I could. I can Frug, I can Monkey, and I can Madison, but I don't know how to YSI. E-mail me if you're on Soulseek, and maybe I can get it to you via that route.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Monday, 11 July 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

holy shit, it's the millie small record i was thinking of!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 July 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Let's try that again (10th album down).

er, thanks - but I meant: what are the other 30 tracks on the iTunes comp you mentioned in the original question? THAT one sounds great.

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Some ambiguity in your last post...anyway, I just typed up a cover/songlist, so here it is:

1. “Looky Looky,” Giorgio
2. “Patty Cake,” the Yummies
3. “Snowball,” American Machine
4. “Funny Funny,” the Sweet
5. “Boo on You,” Bazooka
6. “Sugar & Spices,” Marshmallow May
7. “Sugar Lady,” Popcorn Rebellion
8. “Hipological,” Chicago Prohibition 1931
9. “Yumberry Park,” Tricycle
10. “Can’t Make It Without You,” the Bazooka Company
11. “Embrassez-Moi,” Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus
12. “Ricky Ticky Ta Ta Ta,” Austin Roberts
13. “Whence I Make Thee Mine,” the Innocence
14. “Let Me Bring You Up,” Ron Dante
15. “Make Believe,” the Wind
16. “Hot Dog,” Ohio Express
17. “Ginger Bread Man,” Jordan Parker Revue
18. “Gingersnap,” Street People
19. “Save Your Good Lovin’ for Me,” Groovie Goolies
20. “Train on a One Track Mind,” the American Breed
21. “Dum Dum,” Carrot Tree
22. “Chicken Little,” the Fireballs
23. “Oh! Sweet Love,” Gideon
24. “Everything Is Sunshine,” the Hollies
25. “Sweet Sally Brown,” the Cheques
26. “Cinnamon,” Derek
27. “Invitation to the Ping-Pong Ball,” the Wombles
28. “Red Rover,” Tommy James & the Shondells
29. “So Good Together,” Andy Kim
30. “Searchin’ for Love,” Tidal Wave
31. “Sweet Talkin’ Willie,” Terri Nelson Group

My favourite song is Street People's "Gingersnap."

― merritt ranew (merritt), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

many thanks! lots there I vaguely know of, but have yet to hear.

anyway your posts inspired me to look up the Terri Nelson Group in the Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth book. apparently, they were originally an all-female soul group, but by the time of the K-K recording(s), it was just Terri with male backing band - probably the same bunch of anonymous session players that they always used

Terri Nelson Group, along with Lt. Garcia's Magic Music Box and JCW Rat Finks (both made up groups) were credited as contributors to the first Kasenatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus album (the fake live one).

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

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