From legendary producer Joe Boyd's latest newsletter -
My subsequent stop in Toronto revealed that Mary Margaret O'Hara will be re-releasing Miss America. I am very pleased about this, partly because it's a wonderful record and partly because Mary has promised to correct the cover copy that failed to credit me with co-producing most of the tracks. I had originally tried to sign Mary Margaret to Hannibal, but my proposal was trumped by one from Virgin. When Mary suggested I ought to produce it, Virgin snorted and said they wanted a proper 'commercial' production, not a 'Joe Boyd' record. They brought her and her great Canadian band to Rockville Studios in Wales and put them together with Andy Partridge of XTC, a man evidently unfamiliar with the concept of everyone playing together live in the studio. The Canadians rebelled, so they sent for me. We cut an lp's worth of tracks but my schedule and Mary's plans for finishing the record at a leisurely Ontario pace didn't gel, so it came out much later with Michael Brook credited as producer. Most of the tracks are the ones we recorded in Wales.
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Mary Margaret O'Hara
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Re: Mary Margaret O’Hara
Yeah what's Andy Partridge ever done?johnfoyle wrote:They brought her and her great Canadian band to Rockville Studios in Wales and put them together with Andy Partridge of XTC, a man evidently unfamiliar with the concept of everyone playing together live in the studio.
This guy sounds like a bit of an egomaniac.
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Agreed that hes not being very nice to Young Mr Partridge - but when youve produced the stuff that Boyd has you can probably afford to be a little snarky, as much as I love XTC, as a producer Boyd is indeed a legend.Yeah what's Andy Partridge ever done?
This guy sounds like a bit of an egomaniac.
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Re: Mary Margaret O’Hara
http://www.believermag.com/
From Believer, July/Aug.'09-
Q: You only put out one full-length studio album, in 1988.
MARY MARGARET O'HARA: I now own that album, Miss America, 'I don't have a website of my own. Someone bought my name years ago and made a website. Someone made a MySpace page but I don't have anything to do with that, either. A friend applied to iTunes for me about a year ago, but they said to try somewhere else as they had to much of a backlog at that time. I guess I should have tried somewhere else, but I've just sat on it. So would you do me a favor? Include my Hotmail address (m2oh8@hotmail.com) in the magazine , so people who may want to buy Miss America can order it directly from me. I see it for sale on the internet and I don't know where these records are coming from. That would be great. I totally understand if it's out of the question... but what was the question?
From Believer, July/Aug.'09-
Q: You only put out one full-length studio album, in 1988.
MARY MARGARET O'HARA: I now own that album, Miss America, 'I don't have a website of my own. Someone bought my name years ago and made a website. Someone made a MySpace page but I don't have anything to do with that, either. A friend applied to iTunes for me about a year ago, but they said to try somewhere else as they had to much of a backlog at that time. I guess I should have tried somewhere else, but I've just sat on it. So would you do me a favor? Include my Hotmail address (m2oh8@hotmail.com) in the magazine , so people who may want to buy Miss America can order it directly from me. I see it for sale on the internet and I don't know where these records are coming from. That would be great. I totally understand if it's out of the question... but what was the question?