Oh Boy! - the Crickets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwHrx0r0t2s Some of the happiest evenings of my younger years were spent singing songs at Reigate Rugby...
Rave On - Buddy Holly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUV-QxwlRM Back to the tragic Winter Dance Party of 1959. During the tour, Freddie Milano, one of the...
Automatically Sunshine - the Supremes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdWfO0lip4 Very, very sad yesterday to hear of the death of the wonderful Mary Wilson, one third of the...
Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGXFVOc5I8Q An excerpt from the great Dave Marsh's wonderful "The Heart of Rock and Soul": "The plane...
Come On, Let's Go - Ritchie Valens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLrnU1K2Wso On January 31st 1957, two aircraft, a Douglas DC-7B passenger plane and a US Airforce...
Not Fade Away - the Crickets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7iPbqNla6Q Sixty two years ago today, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens died in a plane...
Say Goodbye to Hollywood - Bette Midler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StGq-L7Phc Few Phil Spector produced stars went on to further success once they had left the fold of...
To Know Him is to Love Him - the Teddy Bears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFykEy_mbi0 Phil Spector's first hit was this lush, haunting number for his group, the Teddy Bears. He...
Walking in the Rain - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6vNgc6SlpA On January 16th, legendary record producer Phil Spector died of COVID related illness while...
Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry and the Pacemakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQwT3f1cds One of the songs namechecked in Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" (see last post) was "Ferry...
