Back to my childhood again for Pickettywitch singing That Same Old Feeling – one of two different versions in the charts.

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This song’s lyrics could not be more pertinent today – half a century after it was recorded by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.

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This catchy slice of cheese transports me immediately back to being a small boy sitting in front of the telly in early 1970 watching Top of the Pops.

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Hayes Carll continues the rich tradition of comedy country sons with his heartbreak tale of his girl leaving him for Jesus.

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Up The Junction did not just give Squeeze a hit single: it cemented Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook as one of the greatest songwriting partnerships of all time.

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1927 had a huge hit in their native Australia with their debut single, Eighties anthem That’s When I Think Of You.

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I haven’t a clue whether this 1967 Dylan parody by The Hombres is meant to be taken seriously or not.

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I have no doubt that if I’d been born ten years earlier my favourite genre would have been freakbeat. So I would have loved The Golden Cups.

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Husband-and-wife schlager duo Cindy & Bert made arguably the best rock cover of all time with their reimagined version of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid… in German.

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Here’s another of those reggae deep cuts that passed me by at the time – and once again it’s by a female artist who flew under the radar. (more…)