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Susan wrote: "Certainly from the past - not exactly PC was he? I hope you, as an Australian, were not too offended Greg - although I suppose you couldn't have been, if you posted it!"Not offended at all Susan, it's great. Norman Gunston is a creation of a multi talented comedian-actor-musician named Garry McDonald. N. Gunston had a TV show in the '70s interviewing celebrities. His character was intentionally nerdy and often irritated the overseas celebs who didn't 'get him. It was surprising how some stars that one would think would not twig to the act would get it and play along. It was a great show. Each show Gunston would sing a song, like Helen Reddy's 'I Am Woman'.
Flame Sky: Carlos Santana and John Mclaughlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXpdg...
Stephen Stills: Go Back Home. with Eric Clapton sitting in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwRU...
Carmelita Skiffle: Mike Bloomfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd702...
The Weight: The Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3...
Rave Party: Norman Guntson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1YnU...
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Have any of my fellow Hamiltonians seen the film "Searching For Sugar Man" about Rodriguez?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE9v...
I'm about halfway through it and, so far, it's every bit as fascinating as I'd heard
I was given the soundtrack album, Nigey, and have heard great things about the film, but have yet to see it.It's on my list though.
If you are set on getting the new Dexys collection, I'd advise going for the 6-disc deluxe edition.
I saw the film when it was screened and saw 6 of the shows between the may and September 2012 tours, but I'm saving viewing for the weekend.
So far I've started listened to the audio CDs of the non-One Day I'm Going To Soar live tracks and the alternate take of The Waltz had me close to tears as did Tell Me When My Light Turns Green from one of the Duke of York shows.
It is astounding.
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Thanks David. I am set on getting it and had all but decided on the 3CD package and film separately - which is, at the time of writing, about £10 cheaper than the 6 disc package - and, unless I'm missing something, all I don't get is the remastered “One Day I’m Going To Soar” which I already have, albeit not remastered.
Have I got that right?
I didn't realise they were available separately, so you've made the right choice.I don't get the remaster, only 28 months after the original release either and i doubt I'll be able to discern any difference.
You'll love it.
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Thanks David - I know I will love it.
I've just ordered my copy of the 3CD version so I should have that in a few days. I'll get a kindly relative to get me the DVD(s) for Xmas. Huzzah.
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One of the essential 70s tunes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ZqN...
Alvin Stardust - My Coo Ca Choo
RIP Alvin
Yes, Nigeyb, of course. I was so sad to hear about that. Beatles trivia - Alvin Stardust's first wife was Iris Caldwell, sister of the late, great Rory Storm (of the Hurricanes). She dated both George and Paul before swopping Stormsville for Stardust.
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I discovered today that Alvin didn't sing on My Coo Ca Choo - it was Peter Shelley (not the fella from Buzzcocks but the one who did Love Me Love My Dog).
You see, there is usually some Beatles connection I can find ;) I am off to take my kids to a Halloween disco soon - have a great weekend everyone.
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I finally got to watch "Searching for Sugar Man"
Absolutely essential. An amazing story with much to teach us.
If you've never seen it then search it out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXew...
Nigeyb wrote: "^ Thank sGreg - great choices as ever.Have any of my fellow Hamiltonians seen the film "Searching For Sugar Man" about Rodriguez?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE9v...
I'm about halfw..."
Fabulous movie/documentary, Nigeyb. I saw the film when it was released. I've been a fan of Rodriguez since the first two albums, in the early 1970s. I still have the original vinyls! I saw Rodriguez in concert last year in Sydney.
Rodriguez was very big in Australia, especially in Sydney in the 'seventies, not on commercial radio, but through the grapevine. We heard all the tales of what could have happened to him, no one seriously believed someone who could have written those songs would have shot himself onstage. The most believable theory to me was that he dropped out of the music scene to concentrate on being a social worker.
Australia has long been onto new music from both Europe and the USA.
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I had no idea he enjoyed similar acclaim in Australia - and that he'd done gigs there.
Greg wrote: "The most believable theory to me was that he dropped out of the music scene to concentrate on being a social worker."
A reasonable theory. How surprised were you when you discovered the truth?
And, despite the latter day acclaim, he still lives in that run down house in Detroit and still does his manual work, having given most of the money from tours away to his family and friends. One of those examples of a true artist. Someone completely disinterested in material things, or recognition, and just doing what he does because it feels right.
Needless to say, since watching the film, I have embraced his music and it is extraordinary that his music didn't find an audience in the US. And, not surprising, how we became a totem for anti-apartheid campaigners and sympathisers in South Africa.
I can't wait to see the film again. Wonderful.
Nigeyb, it was the case in Australia, as with South Africa, not much was known about Rodriguez. The film was wonderful in finding out where Rodriguez lived. Since seeing the film, I think maybe the chemistry of why he didn't find success with those first albums in the U.S. was, he being Mexican in Detriot, with social commentary folk rock music in the Motown Music city. If he'd been based in San Francisco or LA or NY, who knows? The double edged sword for music fans in both the UK and the US is that both have had a consistent abundance, an embarrassment of riches, of their own music and, from my experience talking to people from both the UK and the US, I have been amazed, and I'm talking serious music fans, that hadn't heard of some artists or bands from the other country.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv5tM...
Dexys - She's Got A Wiggle
Somewhat belatedly I've stumbled on this rather splendid deadpan cover of Gloria Gaynor's I will Survive. Works for me. You?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkb-1...
Cake - I Will Survive
Having just watched the stunning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" and subsequently embraced the musical world of Rodriquez, I have to include one of his tunes. Does it get any better than "I Wonder"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6bjq...
Rodriguez - I Wonder
The sad death of Alvin Stardust has prompted a bit of an Alvin-fest and nothing matches Coo Ca Choo however this is pretty damn good too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u77pV...
Alvin Stardust - Red Dress
And finally, I am listening to a lot of 1980s synthpop at the moment and rediscovering many gems, not least the wonderful world of Fad Gadget. Here's one of his many classics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6sh...
Fad Gadget – Lady Shave
Have a great weekend Hamiltonians
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My favourite Alvin song too, Nigey, but the clip I found last week had a dodgy peroxided Yorkshire BBC DJ introducing it, so I desisted.I've only done the audio so far of my deluxe Dexys' set but
OH...
MY...
WORD...
Did you see Kevin and Big Jimmy on The One Show last night?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K5v1...
Wee Willie Harris - Rockin At The 2Is
How do I know this? Because I had the good fortune to read "The Restless Generation" by Pete Frame. You should too. Review here... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Having had time to digest the new live Dexys album "Nowhere is Home" I can confirm that it's splendid and the live version of "The Waltz" makes it worth the price of admission alone. Just as David promised. David knows. Listen to David. Remind yourself of the song's fabulousness and then go seek out the new album..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qOka...
Dexys Midnight Runners - The Waltz
A recent discussion about one hit wonders inspired me to relisten to "Brilliant Mind" by Furniture. I hadn't remembered it as anything other than inconsequential, what a delight to discover it's highly addictive and has been on heavy rotation for the last week or so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEX...
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
For one reason and another this week has been dominated by a very pleasant delve into the back catalogue of punk legends 999 and there really is so much to enjoy and they sound better than ever to my ears. Here's one of their many nuggets of solid punkypop gold...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO17u...
999 – Feelin' Alright With the Crew
And finally this week I've been getting to grips with some of the luverley 3LoopMusic reissues of The Auteurs, including "How I Loved To Learn The Bootboys" and was, yet again, struck by both the genius of Luke Haines, and the majesty of this beauty....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TxY...
The Auteurs – Some Changes
This kid comes up to me and says you gotta raise your game.
Quite.
And with those wise words, I bid you best of all possible weekends.
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Alas all youtube's are blocked pop-up. Looks like my computer is fast becoming vintage. Apparently an upgrade will give me a few more years before the computer will be incompatible with the prevailing technology.Anyway, that's a first world problem. Not to spoil the weekend.
My selection this week is:
With the sad passing of Jack Bruce
1. hckhh blues: Jack Bruce
from a 1970 album, Things We Like
2. Pete The Poet: John McLaughlin
from the 1969 album Extrapolation. This track was 'written for Pete Brown, the amazing poet from London.' I have always assumed, the same Pete Brown from Pibliokto, and who collaborated with Jack Bruce.
3. Upon The Me Oh My: Captain Beefheart
from the live London 1974
4. The Knack: John Barry
This track is to me, as quintessentially the 1960s every bit as much as Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower.
5. The 90 And The 9: Ry Cooder
Love this album, ELECTION SPECIAL
Almost forgot, a nod to David for selecting Amos Milburn a couple of week ago. I have an album called Down the Road…. The liner notes cover a fascinating period for music in the 'fifties following WWII in America. Music was upbeat and happy which reflected the post war prosperity.
Also, I've just read a wonderful children's picture book. If Dogs Run Free. A great concept, taking the Bob Dylan song 'If Dogs Run Free' a line per page with fabulous illustrations.
Cheers,
Good choices !No pressure on me on the Dexys' fron then, Nigey!
Coincidentally Brilliant Mind was played during the radio 2 drivetime show the other day, a fantastic track.
I love the imagery your selection conjures up, Greg. I've just reviewed the new Colosseum album and the lyricist for about 80% of the songs is the same Pete Brown.
http://flyinshoes.ning.com/profiles/b...
According to one of Jack's biogs I read about 8 years ago, it seems that he and Jack never really got on, despite the excellence of their collaborations.
I too will pay tribute to Jack. He was the man who first inspired me to pick up a bass, but hey, this is no time for pointing the finger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4at...
I attended Greg Trooper's short set in Dunfermline last week and he was terrific. I met him afterwards and he was a lovely man, so here's his story about a bullied and abused Texan girl's dream...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkZRC...
A good friend leaves work today. I will miss her. And yes, that IS Ronnie playing bass. His late brother was Art Wood (of the Artwoods). London in the mid-60s must have been power R&B heaven. Hey fellas have you heard the news?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8zHM...
It's pissing down outside and blowing a developing hurricane. I'm banishing it, and how better than a slice of sublime LA harmony pop? I defy you NOT to sing the backing vocal rather than the lead line!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6...
The Beatles, always The Beatles. And for Patrick Hamilton. Just after Paul discovered that that Rickenbacker could be used for more that root and fifth bass parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uUu...
Embrace the weekend, for it is always too short.
Other Luke Haines / Auteurs fan. I salute you, Sirs!
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I send some summer sunshine vibes to you all from this side of the world. Today was a sweltering hot day.Don't forget to put on your hubcap diamond star halo's this weekend and dance like an idiot around the kitchen to Little Queenie, (if you have a copy of 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!). I've been playing it all week.
Also been playing all week
this is another song on the same theme as the Jonathan Richman and Loudon Wainwright songs
1.Fight For Your Right (To Be Queer): Misstress Formika. from the '94 Wigstock The Movie Soundtrack. (A fantastic take on the Beastie Boys song.) I found the Wigstock CD in a sale bin for $2. I hope you can find this track and have a listen.
2. Chic Cheer: - Chic. also from the Wigstock album. A great funk groove.
3. I Love To Boogie: T.Rex
4. Only You Know And I Know: (live) Dave Mason
5. Chicken Shack Boogie: Amos Milburn
Dave Mason has one of the strongest and best voices in rock music. Does he get the accolades he deserves? He is in the similar category as Steve Miller. Great songwriter, great guitarist, great singer.
Dancing round the kitchen this weekend for world peace.
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I am working mine up now and, interestingly, I will be posting some Marc as I am enjoying a bit of Glam revival through some of my current reading matter.
Watch this space.
I meant to add, have you ever wished for an album collaboration between two greats, like Dave Mason and Steve Miller, or Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney, or Ry Cooder and Joe Walsh?
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#strangebuttrue
Nigeyb wrote: "^ Or even Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty all together. Imagine that Greg!"Oh yes indeed, the Wilburys. I mean two greats that you could see working well together and complimenting each other.
I didn't know that about Macca on Celery. Must be a nightmare to tune it.
Apparently, Paul was driving in the US when that exact question came up on a radio quiz show - what did he play on Vegetables? Nobody knew, so he called in and won himself :)Bob Dylan has expressed a desire to record with Paul, but I just can't see it, although I think they are both wonderful.
By the way, Nigeyb, I really want to read Handsome Brute. Maybe we can do it as a hot read if it doesn't win on BYT?
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Now then, here's my five....
Happy Friday pop pickers, here's another five tunes to kick start your weekend.
You don't need me to tell you that Talk Talk were incredible. Their stature increases with every passing year. From the sophisticated synth pop of their early work through to the experimental jazz ambience of their final two albums. It's all timeless perfection. This song signals the moment when I woke up to their genius whilst watching this very video as a student in the mid 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbZ9u...
Talk Talk - Such A Shame
My current obsession with British rock n roll continues apace. The fever started with a read of Tommy Steele's excellent autobiography, the fever took a relentless grip with Pete Frame's fascinating "The Restless Generation" and now, with the arrival of budget priced, 70 track compilation called "Tab Collars, Slim Jim Ties, Drainpipes & Winklepickers" and which is a revelation, I am frenziedly running about in this unlikely Goldmine of Groove. Here's a great example of just how wonderful so much of this music is, and talking of fevers Marty's got it bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYN04...
Marty Wilde - My Baby Is Gone (Stop The World)
I am finally getting round to reading "Children of the Revolution: The Glam Rock Story 1970-1975" by Dave Thompson. There have been two predictable outcomes: it's fascinating and inspirational; and it's sent me down all manner of glittery musical rabbit holes not least a bit of Bolan Boogie. Here's Marc, from 1970, and starting to embrace the electric boogie that would send the UK into the grip of Marc-mania, from the "T. Rex" album - still just Marc and Mickey Finn (with a bit of Visconti bass here and there), and "Is it Love?"....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFMeh...
T. Rex - Is it Love?
^ It's all there isn't it? "T. Rex" was of course the album that broke T. Rex in the UK, following on the success of the then recent single "Ride A White Swan" and its No. 1 follow-up "Hot Love"
Now then, here's a song I didn't expect to be posting however, thanks to Dave Thompson, I have been listening to a bit of David Cassidy and also The Partridge Family. How has "I Think I Love You" passed me by so far? An American number one single n all. I used to watch and enjoy the programme as a very young person but have no recollection of this song. Apparently it was only Dreamy Dave and Shirley Jones who got to sing on The Partridge Family recordings. Anyway, go with me on this, I defy you not to love this poptastic tune, and in this video you get to relive the dubious charms of the programme too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYSu...
The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
And finally, here's something to blow away the cobwebs, I was listening to a wonderful compilation of singles on Stiff Records which includes the original version of punk classic. Is this their finest moment...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCMZF...
The Members - Solitary Confinement
And on that bracing note, I bid you a wonderful weekend.
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I love Marty Wilde and all those Larry Parnes artists. I play Billy Fury a lot.
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I recently brought "The Sound Of Fury" - splendid stuff. Amazing that he wrote his own songs too. And, for the reported wildness of his stage show, he was apparently very shy offstage.
MY most vivid memory of Billy is his appearance in "That'll Be The Day" with David Essex and Ringo Starr. A film I suspect you'll be familiar with Susan.
Nigeyb wrote: "^ Wow. You're a marvel Susan. There's a very obvious need for a Larry Parnes biography. Come on authors. The public is waiting.I recently brought "The Sound Of Fury" - splendid stuff. Amazin..."
The fabulous Ron Wycherley!
I went to see That'll Be The Day and the follow-up Stardust when they went on release in the 70s. I was delighted to get them both as a double-pack DVD set for Dexmas a couple of years ago.
I'll regale you with five melodious Meisterwurks later if The Man gets off my back.
Greg - "Chawleee's good tonight, inneee?"
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Like you, I saw them in the cinema when they were released - I even read the paperback novelisation of "That'll Be The Day".
One of these days I intend to celebrate the work of Adam Faith, and in particular his turn in "Budgie". A programme that I have fond memories of and which seem to still apply if the odd glimpse of YouTube is any indication.
And, lest we forget, Budgie is a series that not only provides the talents of Adam Faith but also Iain Cuthbertson as the unforgettable Charlie Endell.
I think David Essex was a bit shell shocked - Ringo and Keith Moon together must have been quite overwhelming...
Dave Edmunds was in the cast too. As well as knowing his way around a Gibson 335 he knew his Muscadet from his Johnnie Walker from his Jack Daniels.We elected Iain Cuthbertson Rector of Aberdeen University when I was a callow first year graduate in 1975. He took a drop to celebrate and regaled a packed University Union Beer Bar with the absolutely filthy sung version of Burns's John Anderson, My Jo, the unsanitised Merry Muses of Caledonia version.
He took his role seriously and would stay in the guest room of our hall of residence on his trips to Aberdeen for meetings. Over breakfast in the dining hall, he rarely talked about acting, much more interested in getting to know what issues we wanted brought up with the authorities.
"Ahhhhhhh...Budgaaaay".
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Thanks David - fascinating anecdote
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Over the last week I've been slowly but surely working my way through the wonderful "Children of the Revolution: The Glam Rock Story 1970-1975" by Dave Thompson and enjoying many a glamtastic musical diversion as I relive one of the greatest musical eras of all time. With that in mind, my first selection comes from north London's finest and the criminally underrated Hello. Here they are bemoaning "Another School Day" (oh no)....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXFk...
Hello - Another School Day
And whilst not a glam rocker here is someone who is inextricably associated with the era in my feverish pre-teen memories, and someone who recently died, I offer you the late, lamented Lynsey De Paul and the enigmatic "Sugar Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htBfN...
Lynsey De Paul - Sugar Me
Right let's crank things up a notch with a tune I was reminded about earlier this week. Something of a proto Glam track, and one that presages Cozy Powell doing something similar over ten years later. Let there be drums...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9ok...
Sandy Nelson – Let There Be Drums
I've been listening to a lot of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers this week. Here's one of their songs, and certainly not their best, but one that I cannot get out of my head...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMvP...
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – Get Off the Phone
And finally a band I discovered through the film "Bronson" as I continue to marvel at the talents of Tom Hardy. Anyway Bronson uses a track by Glass Candy, not this one, however it inspired an inspiration into their world that continues to yield much enjoyment. Here's Warm in the Winter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akjt-...
Glass Candy – Warm in the Winter
And that, my music loving pals, is that. Have a wonderful weekend.
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I know next to nothing about this band. All I know is I bought the single when it came out (late 70s or early 80s), I cannot tell you what prompted me to do it, possibly just liked the band's name, or the cover, or heard it on John Peel, anyway I thought it was blimmin' marvellous back then, and I still do today. Again, to further compound the mystery, I cannot tell you why I started playing it again recently, however I did. And here it is for you. Please don't tell me anything about them, it might ruin the mystique....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1uzB...
Manicured Noise - Faith
Here's a band I do know quite a bit about. In the 1990s I was very keen on them and saw them live quite a few times. At the time I thought they were spiritual heirs to The Clash in terms of their energy and passion. Like some other similar bands (I'm especially thinking of the wonderful Half Man Half Biscuit) their humorous song titles and witty lyrics meant many dismissed their music as slightly novelty however like HMHB the humour was just a small element of some monumental pop songs and incisive lyrics. Here's Sheriff Fatman....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US9nV...
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Sheriff Fatman
Here's a novelty, a great song by De La Soul that's not from the first album. Strange but true. This one's even got Chaka Khan on it. It's splendid...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA_NP...
De La Soul - All Good? (Feat. Chaka Khan)
Back when I was a teenager, and having swallowed HL&S the year zero punk propaganda I would have dismissed this group as boring old hippies and dinosaurs. Ok, now I'm older and wiser, whilst they aren't The Damned, whichever way you cut it, this is a brilliant pop song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUE4...
Supertramp - It's Raining Again
And finally to get your weekend off to the best possible start here's The Cult before they went metal with the splendid Resurrection Joe....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9Xo...
The Cult - Resurrection Joe
Have a great weekend
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Let's get this weekend off to the best possible start with five songs for Friday.
A few years back I bought a rather splendid four CD anthology of Kevin Ayers called "Songs For Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980" and let me tell you it's full of top tunes. Here's "Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning)" which also features Syd Barrett. Play it twice and it will get lodged in your head for the rest of the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEuS...
Kevin Ayers - Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning)
Quite how Pablo Moses has passed me by until very recently is one of those unexplained mysteries, however better late than never. Here's "Dubbing is a Must" from his 1980 album "A Song" which I can now confirm is a roots masterpiece....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPXlq...
Pablo Moses - Dubbing Is A Must
I've been listening to a lot of Blondie this week. Here's an early punk classic, and Blondie's first UK single, released in late 1977. It didn't chart unlike virtually every other subsequent single...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhafR...
Blondie - Rip Her To Shreds
Sometimes only the Faces will do - and when it's a classic by Ronnie Lane then the song is usual in the absolutely essential category. Another one to tug at your heart strings and from the 1973 album 'Ooh La La'. Ever been glad and sorry? This one's for you....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffz0i...
Faces - Glad and Sorry
And to complete a somewhat low key, bitter sweet, melancholic five that in no way expresses how I hope the weekend will go, here's the Scottish superstars Teenage Fanclub with one of the many sublime songs from their amazing discography. It's Neil Jung...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpBl...
Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung
Here's to a rip roaring weekend.
Over and out.
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Great selection Nigeyb. My favourite from this is the Faces. Very sad to hear of the passing of Ian McLagan. He did a wonderful tribute album to Ronnie Lane called Spiritual Boy.My picks are
Big Brother and the Holding Co. - I'l Change Your Flat Tire, Merle
They wrote this in response to a Merle Haggard song putting down 'all those long haired hippies'. Does anyone know the name of the song please?
Jimmy Cliff - Viet Nam
Bob Dylan said Viet Nam is the best anti-war protest song.
The Rolling Stones - Fingerprint file
There's a great line in this song "All secrecy and no privacy."
I've been playing this during the week after reading Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. The FBI had a file on Mr. Greene.
Bessie Smith - Far Away Blues
I discovered while reading James Baldwin's The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings in an essay 'The Uses of the Blues' that Bessie Smith "died on the road on the way from one hospital to another. She was in an automobile accident and one of her arms was wrenched out of its socket; and because the hospital attendants argued whether or not they could let her in because she was coloured, she died."
Derek and the Dominos - Key to the Highway
I alway have to turn up the volume with this.
Have a great weekend.
Sorry, was e-mail hacked today and have been berating BT's appalling security all day. Is the Merle song Okie From Muskogee, Greg? Nobody knows to this day if Merle was taking the piss or not.http://youtu.be/-iYY2FQHFwE
Merle was present at Johnny Cash's first San Quentin Penitentiary gig in 58, as an inmate, and the performance is reputed to have inspired him to make music his career rather than crime.
Ah, David comes through, thanks David. The Brains-Trust on this thread is scary. I love the Merle clip, that's great. Jerry Jeff Walker did a song about manly footwear. Somewhat different to Merle's.
Happy to help, Greg. My head is full of such inconsequential nonsense. Will check out the Jerry Jeff Walker song, thanks.
The Jerry Jeff Walker song is on the album VIVA TERLINGUA. The song is 'London Homesick Blues'. The first verse goes -When you're down on your luck
And you ain't got a buck
In London you're a gonner
Even London Bridge has fallen down
And moved to Arizona now I know why
And I'd substantiate the rumor that the English sense of humor
Is dryer than the Texas sand
You can put up your Dukes
And you can bet your boots
I'm leavin' just as fast as I can….
I wonder what Merle would make of Glam Rock boots?
Jerry Jeff also wrote a response to Merle's song, called 'Up Against The Wall Red Neck'. I've got the lyrics.
That's a superb song, Greg. I listened to the live take on Spotify where there's a missed cue after the pedal steel solo which endears it to me even more. The band also does an uplifting couple of bars of funk. Marvellous, thanks.
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Let's get this weekend off to the best possible start with five songs for Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XXLQ...
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK2Ua...
The Jam - The Dreams Of Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrafP...
Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOMOU...
The Rolling Stones - Citadel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1BD...
The Rings - I Wanna Be Free
Have a good ‘un
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Counting down to 5pm with...
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Gig tonight, football tomorrow and wallowing in the glories of the deluxe 6 disc Dexys' box Nowhere Is Home. Enjoy what you do as much as I will, Hamiltonies.