How She Boogalooed It / Car Crazy Cutie- the Beach Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsL3vycdKFg The Beach Boys post Good Vibrations and Pet Sounds (1966) are often written off. This is...
Carry Me Carrie - Dr Hook and the Medicine Show
Back in '75 when I was a student in Manchester, one Saturday afternoon at around about five o'clock while we were wondering what to do...
September Fields - Frazey Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFgKbkrmIY This song by Canadian Ford really grows on you - maybe because of the Muscle Shoals southern...
Security - Etta James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puqn3egDmoQ Listen to this twice. First time listen to Etta's superb rendering of Otis Redding's classic....
These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding
A little piece of history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaO50nWnvg The legend goes that Otis was only at this recording studio as...
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx41Jpl4 This classic track says, whatever you do, you will get what you deserve - the words talk of...
King of the World - First Aid Kit
thought we should have another one by First Aid Kit, just in case people think that "Heaven Knows" was a one-off - all of their stuff is...
Heaven Knows - First Aid Kit
From one great female duo to another and from 95 to the present, the incomparable Soderberg sisters are currently cutting the mustard on...
Seether - Veruca Salt
Back in 1995 I was watching Glastonbury late at night on tv when a band I'd never seen before came on: there were four of them, but what...
A Reason for it All - Eric Bogle
It's late so we're going from an everyday tragedy in America (Back Street) to an everyday tragedy in Australia, from a sixteen year old...
