

Rainbow - the Marmalade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeMS8SuHPs0 The first band I ever noticed was Scottish (apart from the ill fated Lulu and the Luvvers...


Electronic Renaissance - Belle and Sebastian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdMODsJn_c From one great Scottish band to another - and one very Scottish album to another. Released in...


Unguarded Moments - the Proclaimers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QO0burkehA Just to show you that the Proclaimers' album "Born Innocent" ranges across the wide spectrum...


Should Have Been Loved - the Proclaimers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmzeZBDXmA Bringing together two recent themes - great albums, and bands who are remembered for one song...


Poor Wages - Barclay James Harvest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8AZGnedUzc One of the problems of being a progressive rock band dependent on album sales in the late...


The Actor - the Moody Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-Y_cQAdq8 Back to the idea of albums. After their UK number one "Go Now" and having failed to...


Call Me - Aretha Franklin
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-1&hsimp=yhs-1&hspart=iba&p=call+me+aretha+franklin#id=2&vid=f3d5caab73fc8ffb39c61...


Angel - Aretha Franklin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJS6aF5FqrE Was going to carry on the thread, but that can wait. The news that Aretha Franklin has died...


Five Years - David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWm03wYBTbM Right from the start of their first album, "Please Please Me" it was the Beatles who had the...


Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LnYLF_E1NU One of the best things I have done as a father is, having read a rave review of Joanna...

