Comments on: THE MICKIE MOST VIDEO JUKEBOX! http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-mickie-most-video-jukebox/ If Life is a Lottery - Let's All Take a Chance... But if Life is a Monkey, Let That Monkey Dance! Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Robin Miller http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-mickie-most-video-jukebox/#comment-25432 Robin Miller Fri, 15 May 2009 12:03:54 +0000 http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/?p=3690#comment-25432 Great recollections Artie. I don't think Mickie produced Kim Wilde's Kids In America though - seem to recall the label credit went to her brother Ricki (Ricky). It was released on his RAK label though. Robin. Great recollections Artie. I don’t think Mickie produced Kim Wilde’s Kids In America though – seem to recall the label credit went to her brother Ricki (Ricky).

It was released on his RAK label though.

Robin.

]]> By: David Rosner http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-mickie-most-video-jukebox/#comment-25431 David Rosner Fri, 15 May 2009 01:27:52 +0000 http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/?p=3690#comment-25431 Hi Artie - I, too, thought the world of Mickie and played new songs for him during his visits. Had a fair-sized hit with him on Herman Hermits' "This Door Swings Both Ways" (Estelle Levitt-Don Thomas) at April/Blackwood. Introduced him to Neil Diamond, and he had a big Lulu hit with Neil's "The Boat That I Row" in the U.K. The record was flipped in the U.S., but Neil didn't mind being on the B-side of "To Sir With Love". Mickie was a terrific guy, sorely missed. ---David Hi Artie – I, too, thought the world of Mickie and played new songs for him during his visits. Had a fair-sized hit with him on Herman Hermits’ “This Door Swings Both Ways” (Estelle Levitt-Don Thomas) at April/Blackwood. Introduced him to Neil Diamond, and he had a big Lulu hit with Neil’s “The Boat That I Row” in the U.K. The record was flipped in the U.S., but Neil didn’t mind being on the B-side of “To Sir With Love”. Mickie was a terrific guy, sorely missed. —David

]]> By: Colleen http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-mickie-most-video-jukebox/#comment-25430 Colleen Fri, 15 May 2009 00:14:45 +0000 http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/?p=3690#comment-25430 Artie, this is a nice tribute Stephanie Artie,
this is a nice tribute
Stephanie

]]> By: Mad Mark Wirtz http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-mickie-most-video-jukebox/#comment-25421 Mad Mark Wirtz Wed, 13 May 2009 01:08:26 +0000 http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/?p=3690#comment-25421 Mickey was indeed amazing, and a really nice and down-to earth guy (and the ONLY EMI-attached producer who did not contractually HAVE to work at Abbey Road Studios - a can of worms at that time!). Mind you, Mickey made the rest of us London producers miserable, because he had the absolute first grab/option on any new Don Kirshner/Screen Gems song/acetate that would arrive at the Screen Gems London office by pouch on Mondays (that means every new Goffin-King song etc.!!) You could hear grown men cry when Mickey would be in the studio the very next day with some of his "catches," with DJ copies out by Friday, spinning on Radio London or Radio Caroline in hourly rotation by the weekend, and high up in the charts the following week...! But, hey - those WERE the days! :) Nostalgically, Mark Wirtz Mickey was indeed amazing, and a really nice and down-to earth guy (and the ONLY EMI-attached producer who did not contractually HAVE to work at Abbey Road Studios – a can of worms at that time!).

Mind you, Mickey made the rest of us London producers miserable, because he had the absolute first grab/option on any new Don Kirshner/Screen Gems song/acetate that would arrive at the Screen Gems London office by pouch on Mondays (that means every new Goffin-King song etc.!!) You could hear grown men cry when Mickey would be in the studio the very next day with some of his “catches,” with DJ copies out by Friday, spinning on Radio London or Radio Caroline in hourly rotation by the weekend, and high up in the charts the following week…! But, hey – those WERE the days! :)

Nostalgically,

Mark Wirtz

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