Originally posted by Paul Sherratt
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If it's any consolation I don't think there is any BBC station that will ever play that Sensational Alex Salmond track, funny old world innit...but that one from PS gets my vote too. -
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Which postcard to use though, John ?
The standard issue world music forum card
Or this later edition ?
Which reminds me I'm supposed to doing something about getting some Malawi music sent up your way. ' Eck !Comment
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Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post
.....the slightly slimmed down version there Paul - an older model - I fancy she might be a bit disappointed these days.
....by the way there was a rather excellent programme of four the other night about postcards...really quite funny yet interesting.
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I think I may have seen that or something similar.
Lovely things, postcards.
Notice Martin Parr got in on the act again !
I wonder if he's a neighbour of french frank down in Bristol ... or there again it may be Bath.
He collects wallpaper too.Comment
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Mike Scott was on The Verb this week. Hope to listen to it soon. I'm not a fan of Richard Curtis. Wasn't he responsible for Wet Wet Wet doing the Troggs? He is also wrong about Everlasting Arms. It is not the Waterboys but from the solo cd Still Burning. Still, beyond the muso nitpicking, the Waterboys are very favoured here in the leafy outskirts of Croydon. Whole of the Moon is just that kind of song really, isn't it? In that rare category of classics I will never be able to find boring. It has meant different things to me at different times but it always has some meaning.
It is funny because I didn't leap around saying that the Waterboys were excellent during their grand first phase, nor perhaps more surprisingly with the second-go Bang on the Ear stuff. Still, it was there a lot in my Irish North London days, sometimes played by other groups in pubs. I always liked it a lot - it felt like home - but then moved on to something else. In the 1990s, saw them at a couple of festivals but they didn't stand out. Loved Glastonbury Song but the cd was only ok. I went back at some point - far more recently - and bought all the cds. Thought this is almost all really good.
Then it was a relatively sparsely attended performance on the main stage at Glastonbury a few years ago. They did Sustain. Now that was emotional. Yes, Mike, you have proved it now, you are our generation's Van Morrison. I'm totally convinced. Mind you, I've said the same about several others including the terrifically good Glen Hansard and in a very, very, wrong moment Brian Kennedy. Can't always be right!
I don't understand the references to any of the odd groups mentioned. Never did postcards either but I have a very big tin of cigarette cards from circa 1900-1910 that I was given via a relative by the Church Commissioners. Hopefully this helps.
Incidentally, shame about Wade Mainer. 104 is a good score though.Last edited by Guest; 17-09-11, 22:07.Comment
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Lat - Darondo is a guy who will certainly remind you of Al Green and comes from a similar time though LA I believe - worth a search on spotty or the toob I'd say.
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JC - Yes, I have to admit I hadn't heard of him. It seems pretty obvious from the references I have now found via Google that he is the genuine article. Still, it has just the hint of a made up story. This guy who made three records and then disappeared until he was found by Gilles Peterson in 2008. I had similar doubts about the reality of the Aerovons but those didn't stick like this somehow. While I take the point about Al Green and indeed Ron Isley, don't you think that there is something rather peculiarly post-Prince about him? As for the songs, "Didn't I" is surely the Delfonics "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time" with a few words changed and the sugar taken out of it. No, I'm really not sure about this at all. He could be a Tarantino character.
I liked your memories about Joan Baez on the other thread. Thank you for those. They make for interesting reading alongside your comments about "Return to Sender". I would genuinely be fascinated to know about access before Radio 1. There was rock and roll. Suddenly it was Dylan and Baez. How was it that British youngsters chose the latter so rapidly, and in large numbers, particularly given that even Radio 2 was then the Light Programme? As artists they were, well, so different at the time. Bookish almost. I have a lot of confusion about this area. I've seen, for example, the films about the first Motown tours. That was really aimed at a youth market and yet on the first trip the momentum was slow.
I guess Ready, Steady, Go was influential. I know too that Dusty helped the Motown crowd. I am told by my parents that I knew about the Animals, the Yardbirds and the Pretty Things but I have always found that very hard to believe. How exactly? I was in my first six years then. What radio station were they on? My father was very into light entertainment then as he is now, although admittedly he still followed newer developments in music. He would have been aware of Alan Price. Mum wouldn't have known much more than Ella and Frank. So was it Luxembourg? How did it happen? How, for example, did Bob and Joan "arrive" in Scotland? Lat.Last edited by Guest; 19-09-11, 01:55.Comment
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Interesting thought Lat....I thought that the record on spotty sounded pretty good and did wonder why he was unknown, but there's a few great unknowns out there, of that I'm sure.Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostComment
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>>How, for example, did Bob and Joan "arrive" in Scotland?
Like The Animals, they were on the jukebox in the Milk Bar opposite Falkland Palace !
Well that's where I first heard them anyway !
>>As for the songs, "Didn't I" is surely the Delfonics "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time" with a few words changed and the sugar taken out of it. No, I'm really not sure about this at all. He could be a Tarantino character.
Lat, for some reason, that sounds like it could be Max R talking !
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Juke Boxes, juke box jury, thank your lucky stars, Ready Steady etc - some of course will have got the music via other routes and that's how the music got in. Mick tells it better about Peerie Willie Johnson.Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post>>How, for example, did Bob and Joan "arrive" in Scotland?
Like The Animals, they were on the jukebox in the Milk Bar opposite Falkland Palace !
Well that's where I first heard them anyway !
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there were these radio stations too - some hopelessly at sea, some in small principalities....through the static, the bedclothes and the adverts for Horace Bachelor occasionally an odd piece of new music would be heard.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Oh yes, the BBC was there too - Humph played jass, Family Favourites played World Music
(shome mishtake?)...
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By way of explaining my latest entry in the chain that links the world. Aka ' The Fat Boy ' was the fab Billy.Comment
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....and as a bit of explanation for the one following Billy.Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post
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Michael Marra - Just brilliant!
Latest from Dundee broadcasting watch - A reference to Dundee today in an odd poem by Rick Wakeman on Just a Minute.
The following clips are taken from a 1964 Family Favourites featuring Jean Metcalfe -
Three Arabs at Number 18
Jean Burns Up!
The Twist is Out, Boy...
Rose Brennan "Underrated"
No. I'm none the wiser. Let the mystery be.Comment
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