The Chantels broke the mould of doo-wop when they became the first million-selling all-girl group, inspiring a wave of imitators.

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Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo team up again for the third time with a new album of duets called Psychedelia In White.

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Melanie Safka took a swipe at the music biz in this song, which originally came out as the B-side of her frist hit single, Ruby Tuesday.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre could always have found a career as a Velvet Underground tribute band if things hadn’t worked out for them. Thankfully they did.

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Johnny Cash recorded this song three times, most famously at Folsom Prison. But there were three previous versions back in the 1940s.

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This deep cut from David Bowie is rather marvellous: a Velvets cover with parping sax and Bowie playing a wailing blues harmonica.

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I don’t think I’ve ever heard Camille Yarbrough’s song except in the sample so famously used by Fatboy Slim in his hit single Praise You.

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Here’s a classic from the early days of reggae, when the beats began to slow but you could still hear the influence of ska and rocksteady.

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Farewell then Eva Marie Saint, immortalised not just in celluloid On The Waterfront but in Lloyd Cole’s song a quarter of a century later.

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Larry Graham was the man who invented the “slap bass” technique. Or, as he preferred to call it: “thumpin’ and pluckin’.”

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