The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc It's curious, that while the UK had its fair share of female pop stars in the 1960's and...
Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oWXbGB-7o One day I will do a series of posts on the greatest "B sides" of singles. Marianne...
As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_phZZgkT1Jk People often think that the reason why Marianne Faithfull became a successful pop star and actress in the sixties, was because she was a girlfriend of Mick Jagger. This is not the case. The truth is that she was a folk singer performing in coffee houses around London in April 1964 when she met the Stones' manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, at what all sources call "a Rolling Stones launch party". Maybe it was a Rolling Stones lunch party:
The Weight - the Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBV0gzzI_Ug I always liked the notion that the Band deliberately chose their name to be self-effacing, as...
Rag Mama Rag - the Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJpP33F_rs In 1970, a single, "Rag Mama Rag" scraped into the UK Top Twenty for 4 weeks, peaking at...
Soul Man - Sam and Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OX2HwWy-o Nowadays, by far away Sam and Dave's best remembered song is their classic "Soul Man"....
Soothe Me - Sam and Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wN1WNlC2mE Sam and Dave were, thus far, the greatest soul duet ever. Sam Moore died on January 10th...
You were on my Mind - Crispian St. Peters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOKZleJejw I used to do one other nearly solo performance in our Reigate singing sessions if they went...
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2m--R3J6f4 For 10 years, when I was in my twenties, I played a kamikaze wing forward for Reigate Rugby...
The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbZ413-78ok In my last post I suggested that Brenton Wood's best song by far was "Gimme Little Sign"....
