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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 her to the LBC studios to get a plug for the show. Before the interview, we prearranged with the deejay that she'd play something, so they put her in a studio room with a grand piano where she had a mic and he conducted the interview from the next room, separated from Laura by a glass screen. Me they left in the studio room with Laura. At th