Music
Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night
14th September 2021 · UncategorisedThe Rolling Stones – Fool To Cry
14th September 2021 · UncategorisedThe story goes that Keith Richards once fell asleep onstage while playing this song at a Stones concert. I have no idea if it’s true but if it is, I suspect other factors apart from its opiate-friendly tempo may have been at play. (more…)
The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
10th September 2021 · UncategorisedBryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together
9th September 2021 · UncategorisedI first heard this song when Canned Heat had a hit with their 12-bar blues version called Let’s Work Together back in 1970. Six years later, along came Bryan Ferry to stamp his smooth sophisticated style all over it. (more…)
Melba Moore – This Is It
8th September 2021 · UncategorisedFull disclosure (as nobody said in the Seventies): I didn’t like disco at the time. But it was an inescapable part of my my late teens. (more…)
The Chordettes – Mr Sandman
7th September 2021 · UncategorisedThere are oldies and then there are oldies – this one is from before I was born. It’s a proper earworm, with some great lyrics, and it’s had almost 50 million views on YouTube, making it surely one of the best known oldies of all time. (more…)
Andrea True Connection – More More More
6th September 2021 · UncategorisedLooking at the singles chart, 1976 was as dire a year as there’s ever been. No wonder punk came along to blow the rubbish away. (more…)
The Johnny Otis Show – The Watts Breakaway
5th September 2021 · UncategorisedAnother lost classic from the funk vaults, The Watts Breakaway is just one of many musical achievements of Johnny Otis. The singer is Delmar ‘Mighty Mouth’ Evans and the guitarist may well by Johnny’s equally well-known son Shuggie Otis. (more…)
Cliff Nobles – Love Is All Right / The Horse
4th September 2021 · UncategorisedCliff Nobles is unique in the annals of one-hit wonders – he doesn’t appear at all on this his solitary hit. (more…)
General Crook – Gimme Some
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