Haunted Mountain - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxpJeGKL4Sg Last year Buck Meek, guitarist from Big Thief (see last post) combined with singer songwriter...
Shark Smile - Big Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1QlOfYxykI The phrase "in the old days" more and more means "in the time before the internet". Times...
Smile - Nat King Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHoohNyYkw Today is World Theatre Day, initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, the...
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me ) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAoaVU3-ve0 When an artist starts out as part of a band, and then renames the band as them AND the band,...
Sebastian - Cockney Rebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc4aRKP0TM It's curious that, arguably the best composition by Steve Harley, who died a week ago today,...
Peace Will Come (According to Plan) - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sN8OoneM5s After the success of her first US hit., the rousing "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" (...
Live Coal - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9jhhVKaAk From her 1993 album "Freedom Knows My Name" "Live Coal" we have Melanie already "raging...
Cyclone - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5j2nIloFf8 "Cyclone" was the opening track from Melanie's 1976 album "Photograph". Normally the rule for...
Beautiful People - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFhd6eggUE Back in the mid 90's, I suggested to my partners in Polar Promotions that we should book...
The Boy - the Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEFgK28xew The Shangri-Las weren't just Mary Weiss and her backing singers, they weren't just producer...