

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...


I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Les Paul and Mary Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKeF0YK_Kc June 11th, my Dad's birthday, he would be 109 if he were alive today. On Friday afternoons...


Del Shannon: Trilogy of Escape and Despair no 2: Keep Searchin' (We'll follow the Sun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxcfa1mducI Charles Weedon Westover aka Charlie Johnson aka Del Shannon always seems to me like a man on...


Del Shannon : Trilogy of Escape and Despair No 1: Runaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkZV-XDqGo I know, I know I was going to give you tracks you'd never heard of. But I have to start with...


Hot Chili - Steve Miller Band
the UK's hot this week, and the Les Paul track two posts ago reminded me that Steve Miller’s Mum and Dad were good friends of Les Paul...


Side By Side - Kay Starr
This is yet another number from Capital's Great Hits of 1952, which like Mary Ford on yesterday's track, uses the new technology of...


Ooh Baby Baby - Laura Nyro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69HvmCJnmQ When Polar Promotions put on Laura Nyro at the Union Chapel in 1994, I was the one who took...

