

Way Back Home - Junior Walker and the All Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alu8RcRYGjo Jazz saxophonist Wilton Felder, who may be the other saxophonist on this beside Junior, and...


Feeling Good - CoCo and the Butterfields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOC5Lpp4AgY Talking of Nina Simone (which we just about were) let's bring her closer to home to South...


People Get Ready - the Impressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04yM7-BWbg This morning the well intentioned BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme to mark the 50...


Surf's Up - the Beach Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOYQ8qfFng I thought we've done the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson from all sides so let's play the track...


Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch84fmOa414 If you ignore their naf name, this is an interesting band, another Canadian group from the...


Back in the USSR - the Beatles
Many people were influenced by the Beach Boys, copied their vocal harmony style, even hired them to do backing vocals for them. But...


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....

