Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Week No 6: A Love She Can Count On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Zbw2Gakfg This is almost a mediocre Miracles track because, unlike the other Smokey songs featured on...
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Week No 5: I'll Try Something New
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8fs4TH9zIg Back in the Nineties, fellow arts administrator Trevor Mbatha, the Black Arts Officer (actual...
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Week No 4: I've Been Good to You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1WlhgbqG3g Smokey Robinson and the Miracles are nowadays mainly remembered for three songs in...
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Week No 3: Way Over There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIQf_iMVzU8 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles started out as just the plane old "Miracles" but right from...
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Week Number 2: What's so Good About Goodbye?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMG0k6urjeU As far as I can tell, I haven't had a "Smokey Week" before, although it feels like I have,...
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Week No 1: If You Can Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKsYw_eckCY I referenced this song in the last post and have been singing it ever since so in an attempt...
Lonely You'll Be - Johnnie Mae Matthews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_Ibx58eQQ To go back seven posts, to before we were interrupted by the sad news of Scott Walker's...
B Flat Blues - the Righteous Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vyuQ3AfVE8 When "You've lost that Lovin' Feeling" hit number one all around the world from nowhere in...
Little Latin Lupe Lu - the Righteous Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQNxze-Sdkg Also to be played loud for best affect. From the imitators to the real McCoy, only a year...
No Regrets - the Walker Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszIgThW8JA Best listened to loud for full effect. After almost a week of Scott Walker obscurist tracks, my little chillikins have been running up to me saying "Uncle Stylus, Uncle Stylus, how come everyone's going on about Scott Walker just because he's died and no-one ever listened to his records before and we never knew he existed until now? Why are people making such a fuss about him?" And these are fair questions. "Well, he is mainly fam
