Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPMoAb4y8U In 1986, I and my partner saw Jim Cartwright's first play "The Road" upstairs in the smaller...
Soul Limbo - Booker T and the M.G.'s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GdvFiE2R5I Well, we are in limbo on the American election, the result being too close to call with Trump delay tactics ongoing in case Biden wins. So, instead of the planned posts for either result, and as we are, as stated, in limbo, we need an optimistic spirit lifter from Booker T and the M.G.s and there's few better than their hit "Soul Limbo". It's not recorded how the BBC made the unlikely choice of a soul instrumental by the Stax house
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPr3yvkHYsE Election Day in America. Kemp Powers' 2013 play "One Night in Miami" imagines what may have...
This Is My Country - the Impressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQ-_mNwQJw It was difficult in the 1960's, just as it is now, for groups to bring out songs that overtly...
Harmony - Billy Bland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fClsxJOmhsk In just three day's time the presidential election takes place in the US. This is a lesser...
Good Times - Eric Burden and the Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtArnz5qt4o Of all the great British rock groups of the sixties the Animals had the most working class...
(I Wanna) Love My Life Away - Gene Pitney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD52iAFILOc It took me years to get over the fallout from Pitney's massive 1963 hit "Twenty Four Hours...
I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldcZkWLOTCI For those receiving regular posts, I apologise for the blip whereby you haven't had the last...
We've Gotta Get Out of This Place - the Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUpBSvN1a50 The third of the Brill Building sixties songwriting husband and wife partnerships was Barry...
I Can Hear Music - the Beach Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqhVI1lz3ng Ellie Greenwich died of a heart attack in August 2009. Less than 4 months later she and Barry...
