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Takes me back to the nights of 'lock ins' up Nidderdale - a wonder we made it home. |
Another one hit wonder from 1965.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089zKzFAa6M The band was formed by lads serving at RAF Wittering.(At 1.00 minute in, they are posing beneath the bomb aimer's position of a Handley Page Victor B1.) Their follow up record, Don't Push Me, wasn't a hit, but I still have an original 45 rpm disc of it in my collection. My older brother was also in the RAF then, and he was on the Entertainment Committee at RAF High Wycombe when they booked this band to appear along with others such as the Barron Knights. |
Discovered and produced by Jonathon King i think.
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I've always been a fan of Ennio Morricone's music. And this lady can certainly hit the notes ..
https://youtu.be/USK1VjV-nO8 |
This lady's voice is pretty special too...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntuqTuc6HxM The song was used by Peugeot when they launched the 406 model. |
Two very well known tunes from Ronald Binge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKceP-E5xoM I grew up in the 1950's and heard this often on the BBC Light Program, in the days before we got a goggle box. Then later when hearing the midnight shipping forecast was important,..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74 |
It seems some of the modern generation take offence at whistling, but have they ever heard these masters of the art?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPoBhiMkgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ZdBVAWWNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZHook3EWl0 |
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Don't forget the most famous whistling pop record of the 1960's. (It's a naff video, but the track is original.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV6Un1PjciY I believe that the record was rushed out to market in 1967 and was really made by the Mike Sammes Singers. I first heard it on Radio London, which went off air later that same year. |
It's Christmas!!
Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas, and a happy, peaceful, and prosperous New Year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfH...qLXePI&index=3 |
Oh NO !!! …. and I thought I'd escaped that this year :eek: :yawn:
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As long as it's not Roy Wood and Wizard, I might still make it through the holiday in the Black Country without shooting somebody.
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Some folks think this a load of old disco schmaltz, but whenever I hear it, (and it doesn't get much air time these days,) it always takes me straight back to 1974. I first heard it in WABC (New York) radio station in January of that year when I was staying with a lovely young lady and her family in Noo Joysey. It made it's way to British Radio stations later that year and was popular during the Summer being heard quite often on Radio 2 (BBC). In September 1974, I secured a new job in charge of a newly built 76ft Yawl and began a voyage from Breskens that ended in Seattle the following Spring. This recording was played a lot in the tapas bars in Puerto Banus during our time there from October to December, preparing for the Atlantic crossing in January 1975, and I still have the 45 rpm disc I bought in Marbella. The lovely young ladyand I drifted apart, but the happy memories of those days will stay with me. |
This one was used by the Ford Motor Company for their TV ads for the Mercury Bobcat, a tarted up badge - engineered Pinto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs |
When it comes to music in the 70's … a decade that had to follow the genius of the 60's and stood the test … well for me … it's very hard to get past this, both lyrically and musically.
Now I know I'm an old fart/grumpy old man/uncool/behind the times/etc (delete which not applicable) … but I don't care, I haven't heard any music lately that even gets in the same league. That's my f****** opinion and I'm sticking to it. But, being the tolerant person that I've always been, I'm more than willing to listen to alternative opinions … before I shoot you. :sweat: https://youtu.be/DPL_SV3n7IU |
My Gran heard me playing "Dark Side of the Moon." She was fairly up to date back then with middle of the road stuff (but NOT Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep !) and liked most pop music. However, she definitely did not appreciate Pink Floyd. Thought they were terrible. She didn't know that the LP was by Pink Floyd, and the look on her face when I answered her question about who was playing "those nice tunes?" will remain with me.
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It's nice to hear a Christian song during this pandemic...
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I was trying to log onto this whistling tune at #90, but this had some copyright troubles, so YouTube gave me Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton at the Lincoln Center with Corinne Corina in a video from 2011, as an odd replacement. It is a strange mix: Dixieland/Ragtime/Blues/Big Band Swing. And it starts up a bit tepidly. But then at around 3:10 a Clapton solo (Clapton in a suit!) with Marsalis following at around 4:30, sets the venue on fire. I believe that even if you hate Jazz you will have both feet stomping listening to this one. It is a bit of this and that, you should not force yourself to listen to all of it. But I did, twice. And then I ordered the CD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eeb1MTkUY
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This young lady featured in a Walport film (FM) onboard Luminetta around '79 ............. sang everything from Country through Rock and even light opera.
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwsXVHQjwjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf9u99szLGM Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMNnZL-YuM |
Sadly she got Parkinson's disease early, and that was the end of her singing career. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/th...-another-voice
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Jim Eldon does 'quirky' versions of songs. I was nearly lynched in the Elecs workshop for playing his version of Bat out of Hell... I'd almost forgotten about this thread. |
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Led Zepplin best of all time. Jefferson airplane.beatles Sgt. Pepper onwards.floyd,Hendricks.anything a bit heavy,eddie
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I watched an Abba documentary about them as they are now, a couple of weeks ago on one of the Sky channels. It struck me that, unless anyone knows different(?), that they only recorded their own compositions - not doing covers of other's songs. This must be vary rare for any musical performers and quite notable. I know there was another collaborator - Stig Anderson, in addition to Benny and Bjorn, on a few songs.
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The Stones and the Beatles paid their homage to Chuck Berry, and through him to the old blues-men. I do not think they had to, and I also do not think ABBA could allow themselves to. Their roots, according to both Bjørn and Benny, lay in Nordic folk music, and this is not something that would fit into the repertoire of any modern pop or rock band. They might have tried the songs Carl Michael Bellman, but then they would have been drowned in criticism from a heap of "truly genuine interpreters." (Sweden is, sex aside, a very moral country, their liberalism rigidly set in majority rule.)
ABBA only ever recorded and released one set of cover versions: the so-called 'Folk Medley' that graced the B-side of their 'Summer Night City' single. Some ABBA covers: Super Trouper – Camera Obscura. Angel Eyes – The Czars. Dancing Queen – DALUMI. My Love, My Life – Bike. S O S – Portishead. Knowing Me, Knowing You – The Volebeats. Lay All Your Love On Me – Pale Honey. Chiquitita – First Aid Kit. (Cannot say I have heard of any of those bands,) |
Thanks Svein. Others doing covers of Abba songs have got to be on a loser as, even with Mama Mia musical, to me it just doesn't work.
The same with the Beach Boys. The only good cover version of their song "Don't Worry Baby", was done by Lorrie Morgan, but even that had the BBs backing her. On the same album and documentary, Kathy Troccoli did a cover of "I Can Hear Music", which I thought improved the original but again, backed by the BBs. All can be seen on Youtube. JJ. |
I flew out to a tanker and spent six months on the Chilean coast in '72-'73. Heard this a lot and bought it when I paid off in BA. (Went to BA when a Chilean refinery had a pause in production)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2oJRKE8Bp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKawK6PKdA and another from the same trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_24HHQ6Tmrw |
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Irish Showband "The Freshmen" were the equal of the Beach Boys in close harmonising.
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Abbaesque by Erasure wasn't bad. |
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