

Ballad of Easy Rider - the Byrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jC1lRZGTU Talking of rock songs in movie soundtracks....... the story goes that when Peter Fonda was...


Sweet Child O Mine - cast of Captain Fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdh2hot8rjU A few years ago my family and I watched the film Captain Fantastic and at the end we had an...


Lover of the Bayou - the Byrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XcA_bkt6c Back in the early seventies, every city in England had a few thousand seater plus venues with...


Russian Hill - Roger McGuinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pSdNGv16bg From one literary rhapsody to another, this comes from Roger McGuinn's finest hour after the...


A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOj3kJKy-_U Some groups record a track that is so iconic, so unique, that it is the thing they are always...


Somebody to Love - Valerie June
Just down the road about 60 km east of Bobby Bland's birthplace and just 17 days under 52 years later, Valerie June was born in Jackson...


Stormy Monday - Bobby Bland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCqEzfWrXfM If you ever wondered where the great Peter Green got his unique singing style from - just...


Turn on your Love Light - Bobby Bland
One of the best kept secrets - so far as the British are concerned - in soul music is the wonderful Bobby Bland. He died just over 5...


Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM I first played this song at a wedding last week, early doors, worried that the continuous...


Del Shannon Trilogy of Escape and Despair no 3: Stranger in Town
Really annoying - a glitch has meant that the June 11th post of Les Paul and Mary Ford resurfaced and interrupted the Del Shannon...
