And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI It may be a surprise to the young people of today, but back in the 1980's the reputation of...
Rappers' Delight - Sugarhill Gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqvPJ3cbUQ In 1979 44 year old Sylvia Robinson was at a party in Harlem when she heard a young deejay...
No Good Lover - Mickey and Sylvia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDUBo1w_Rk I said we'd come back to them. One of my favourite tracks, a mile away from Love is Strange –...
Something Inside So Strong - Labi Siffre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-4Lsrx8IA I was going to follow up with another Mickey and Sylvia number but that can wait. Sometimes...
Love is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxZ8rwN8Wrk Okay, okay this is a first for me, showcasing two different versions of the same song in two...
Love is Strange - the Everly Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO7mz9pncTg I guess I'm being a little controversial here, playing this version of the classic Mickey and...
Temptation - the Everly Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TuuJ31bdM The temptation has always been to dismiss the Everly Brothers as a pair of harmonising post...
Temptation '87 - New Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bYMDeaspY not only blue eyes: "....ooh you've got green eyes ooh you've got blue eyes ooh you've got...
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crgtWomWg90 When Willie Nelson left Atlantic Records for CBS in 1972, he got a good deal, complete...
One Paper Kid - Emmylou Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjbIzDZ-gVQ The thing about Emmylou Harris that she projects a sense of purity in her music. She has maintained this without coming across as a goody-goody, somehow achieving a depth in her songs that isn't achieved by many of her contemporaries. She is so widely respected she has featured as harmony singer for many great singer songwriters including Bob Dylan and Guy Clark. And of course she was the singing partner of the now legendary Gram P
