

Dion Week No 3: Sandy - Dion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZY86fPcYQ Several of Dion's original hits had girl's names in their titles: "Runaround Sue", "Little...


Dion Week 2: Lovers Who Wonder - Dion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCNyPVQywA Dion and the Belmonts had their first hit in 1958 with "I Wonder Why" (see yesterday's post)...


Dion Week 1: I Wonder Why - Dion and the Belmonts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfQoNczFVY Dion was one of the American artists whose career was all but wiped out due to the "British...


I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me) - Little Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMzX72GOOEQ Today is Little Richard's birthday. Sadly we lost him in May of this year so we should...


Abraham, Martin and John - Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckwRAMMVYI In the small hours of the night when I was working on Henry Ward, I was sometimes required to...


Nightshift - the Commodores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkEDe6Ljqs While "Sweet Soul Music" listed the male royalty of soul music, the Royal Earlswood Hospital...


Otis Sleep On - Arthur Conley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXwA2Zl9s2o Many of the residents of the Royal Earlswood Hospital were aged men who'd been there for...


Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grE0lwTsSPg After a short time on Henry Ward I then began to be given other "more difficult" wards....


Shake A Tail Feather - the Blues Brothers (featuring Ray Charles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm0mmkAYwPc The youngest of Henry's residents was a guy called Alec Fitzgerald, known to one and all as...


Land of 1,000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdRH-iUhH6E When I first worked at the Royal Earlswood Hospital, I made up my mind that I would treat the...

