The Last Thing on my Mind - the Move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKULRzUTEU Play loud as you can, it will reward you. Canadian folksinger and writer of "Going to the...
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong - Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7lDw-FKi0 On her BBC tv show, Julie Felix was responsible for giving the first European exposure to a...
Going to the Zoo - Julie Felix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgCiE_tiyQo Sadly, I have just heard that Julie Felix died at the end of March. Many will not be old...
At the Zoo - Simon and Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKLBne1CoI The very best albums have a musical shape to them which makes them greater than the sum of...
The Little Old Lady from Pasadena - Jan and Dean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwCfUYMiX4w While the Beach Boys are normally seen as being the creators of the "California Sound", Jan...
I Live for the Sun - Vanity Fare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7wQ2Kr46E Apart from the overproduced sound of Roy Wood's Wizzard, perhaps the best UK Beach Boy progeny were the confusingly titled band, Vanity Fare. Confusingly that is, as they were named after the Thackeray novel, but with the word "Fair" spelt wrong. "Vanity Fair" itself a quote from Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", denoting the fair held at the metaphorical town of Vanity, a stop on the pilgrim's journey. By using the word "fare" they p
Out of the Blue - Tommy James and the Shondells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IRU9oegTVY While Tommy James and the Shondells were always at their best when they were doing their own...
Surfer Dan - the Turtles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirxdFcE3gw The old game of preceding your mother's maiden name with the name of your first pet to...
Surfing's Not Cool - Hot Wax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zff_-S81HZ8 When I was in my late teens come summertime I used to to hitch down to Cornwall to spend the...
Dowie Dens of Yarrow - Shelagh McDonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4V7aoAguEs Shortly after my sister's divorce she sold their large country village house and downsized to...
