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The Train from Kansas City - the Shangri-Las

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0aRVlWEuo So this time we're waiting for a train FROM Kansas - or at least our fiance is, and you see...

Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZSMUJypqw While we're calling off the train stops across America, we could do worse the pause at Kansas...

Night Train - James Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAeh40tamYc Great though Harry Watt and Basil Wright's 1936 film "Night Mail" is with its famous finale featuring the poetry of W H Auden and the music of Benjamin Britten, I've always thought that America's equivalent just edged it for brevity, packing a nation's musical and geographical heritage into one side of a 45. At the heart of my relationship with Auntie Val was her Mary Poppins-like mission to get me on the Night Sleeper from King's

The Walk - Jimmy McCracklin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krn4HEA4iV8 I would catch a bus from Upper Street down to King's Cross and then walk up Midland Road...

Some of your Lovin' - Dusty Springfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlh2QOLJopY As I grew up, Auntie Val (see last two posts) contributed a lot to my education in her...

I Heard it through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg Normally I try not to post the most famous song by any particular artist. but rather one of...

Little Red Rooster - the Rolling Stones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv1qTALRiD0 From the age of 12 onwards, at the end of the summer or Christmas holidays in Bahrain, I...

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTDWPd7RgU For maybe ten years I was in enough demand as a specialist across the generations deejay to be hired to do News Year's Eve disco's. Looking back I can't believe it took me five years of faffing around with a radio, getting Radio 4 to strike the hour of midnight, finding special leads to connect a tranny radio with my mixer before I figured that I could call midnight with my own recording of Big Ben when ever I wanted it, five to o