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  • Who was "Melvin Schwartz" of "Baby Talk" fame

    From bobbydiskin113@gmail.com@21:1/5 to hotpl...@aol.com on Sat Dec 23 06:21:48 2017
    On Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, hotpl...@aol.com wrote:
    I've often wondered about the writer credited to the song "Baby Talk"
    recorded by the Laurels and Jan & Dean. ??? Melvin Schwartz ??

    Does anyone know anything about him ?? Was this an alias ??
    Did he ever write any other tunes ?? Steve ?? Norm ??

    Ed O.

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  • From bobbydiskin113@gmail.com@21:1/5 to hotpl...@aol.com on Sat Dec 23 06:45:18 2017
    On Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, hotpl...@aol.com wrote:
    I've often wondered about the writer credited to the song "Baby Talk"
    recorded by the Laurels and Jan & Dean. ??? Melvin Schwartz ??

    Does anyone know anything about him ?? Was this an alias ??
    Did he ever write any other tunes ?? Steve ?? Norm ??

    Ed O.
    Melvin Schwartz was an original member of the Laurels who wrote both sides of their single on Spring Records "Baby Talk" and (the great} "You Hurt Me." Jan & Dean recorded "Baby Talk after the Laurels! The Laurels were out of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
    Mel Schwartz also wrote "Submarine Race" for a 3 man group that he saw singing in the neighborhood. He gave them one member of the Laurels, Mel Maron I believe, and then the the now 4 man Visuals, out of Crown Heights - Rutland Rd. I was told, Brooklyn
    had themselves a local area hit with "Submarine Race."

    The Submarine Race fad got it's start at Plum Beach, Brooklyn (a little past Sheepshead Bay) a bit before the Visuals release. When the trend setting follower, Murray The K, scheduled a radio broadcast from Plum Beach in order to take an advantage of
    this new fad, the Belt Parkway was jammed in both directions and the broadcast had to be called off.

    Melvin Schwartz went on to work for the Board of Education.

    Bobby Diskin .........Brooklyn, N.Y.
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    On Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, hotpl...@aol.com wrote:
    I've often wondered about the writer credited to the song "Baby Talk"
    recorded by the Laurels and Jan & Dean. ??? Melvin Schwartz ??

    Does anyone know anything about him ?? Was this an alias ??
    Did he ever write any other tunes ?? Steve ?? Norm ??

    Ed O.

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    www.hotplatters.com
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  • From edwin@edfreedman.com@21:1/5 to hotpl...@aol.com on Fri May 18 06:49:13 2018
    On Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 10:00:00 AM UTC+3, hotpl...@aol.com wrote:
    I've often wondered about the writer credited to the song "Baby Talk"
    recorded by the Laurels and Jan & Dean. ??? Melvin Schwartz ??

    Does anyone know anything about him ?? Was this an alias ??
    Did he ever write any other tunes ?? Steve ?? Norm ??

    Ed O.

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    Mel was my camp counselor also. Camp Wel-Met run by the New York Jewish Federation.We were at camp when the song hit the charts.

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  • From tarzansmate30@gmail.com@21:1/5 to hotpl...@aol.com on Tue Apr 7 23:44:33 2020
    On Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, hotpl...@aol.com wrote:
    I've often wondered about the writer credited to the song "Baby Talk"
    recorded by the Laurels and Jan & Dean. ??? Melvin Schwartz ??

    Does anyone know anything about him ?? Was this an alias ??
    Did he ever write any other tunes ?? Steve ?? Norm ??

    Ed O.

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    Back in 1959 I was a camper at Camp Welmet in Narrowsburg NY. Mel Schwartz was one of the Councilors there. As with most of the other councilors he was a college student(don't know where)studying Psychology. What set him apart was the fact that he had
    written "Baby Talk". Over the years I have on occasion wondered what happened to him. Hope this info. helps

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  • From marty.nmn.alexander@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 5 13:00:06 2020
    I just stumbled across this posting. I knew Mel and in 1965 and 1966, my band recorded demos of some of his songs. I have recovered and posted on YouTube two of them. You can hear them in the video “The Quints” on my channel Martyquint.

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