

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...


Arthur - the Tiger Lillies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIjxaoyvVk Listen. What can you say? In England anytime, anywhere, especially in post Brexit England, if...


Badge - Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk7oWSdwVzk Back in 1969 when I was 14 in my first year at a certain boarding school in Scotland, us...


Pretty Fly - Kitty White
For the full beauty of this, take it from 24 seconds in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMF0Wc_hm4A Once upon a time there was a pretty...


Nancy and Lee Week No 7: If it's Monday Morning / Love and Other Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEV5KSBl7rs Lee Hazelwood If it's Monday morning.....which indeed it is, and I thought it would be...
