Gale Garnett was a pop star, actor and author who embraced psychedelia with in the late 1960s with her band The Gentle Reign.

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Scott Weiland took a break from Stone Temple Pilots in 1998 to record a very different solo album, 12 Bar Blues, led by this song.

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The Passions had a moment in 1981, when they became one-hit wonders with I’m In Love With A German Film Star.

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Carol Cool takes Diana Ross’s disco hit Upside Down and, well, turns it inside out and reggaefies it – with an extended “disco dub” version.

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I’m only now discovering that Heart Full Of Soul, released 60 yeasrs ago when I was seven years old, was written by Graham Gouldman of 10cc.

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Mule Skinner Blues was written and first recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music, back in 1930 – and a hit for The Fendermen in 1960.

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Julie Durocher is a new name to me, and was only a child when she recorded this slice of classic country back in 1966.

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Gabriella Cilmi had an instant hit at the age of 17 with Sweet About Me after moving from Melbourne to London.

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Labi Siffre was a West London boy but paid tribute to a beauty spot in Staffordshire on his song Cannock Chase.

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Shoegaze pioneers Ride were falling apart by the time they recorded their fourth album Tarantula. But the opening tune, Black Nite Crash, was a fitting finale.

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