sorry about it being short, if selfish buggers had uploaded the tracks it would have been plenty! lol. but theres an artist tomorrow with 11 entries, if they are all on youtube itll make up for todays.
It's been eight days since the thread's fifth anniversary, eight days in which I have been trying to make a decision whether or not to do a Fifth Anniversary Review.
Let me explain.
When the thread was one year old I made several posts that I collectively termed as Vabosity's First Anniversary Review in which I repeated some of my favourite tracks previously submitted in the first year of the thread's existence.
Two years later I made several more posts that I collectively termed as Vabosity's Third Anniversary Review in which I repeated some of my favourite tracks previously submitted in the first three years of the thread's existence.
Another two years have passed so it follows that there should be a Fifth Anniversary Review. Eight days ago I was reluctant to go ahead with such a project, but since then I have well and truly changed my mind and Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will commence today.
In Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review I will be repeating 100 tracks (one track from each of the first 100 pages). There will be four tracks per post, so that's 25 posts in total.
The chosen tracks will meet the following criteria:-
1. I must like them a great deal.
2. They must not have previously been repeated in Vabosity's First Anniversary Review.
3. They must not have previously been repeated in Vabosity's Third Anniversary Review.
4. At least one of the four tracks in each post must have been originally submitted to the thread by a poster other than myself.
The first post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in about twenty minutes.
Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review Of The Thread - Post #1.
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 1 to 4 respectively.
Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me Baby (1966) Genre: Soul Original thread page: 1 Date originally submitted: 29th May 2010. Original poster: mushymanrob Comments:
One of several sixties soul classics that failed to chart in the UK.
The Chob - We`re Pretty Quick (1966) Genre: Garage Rock Original thread page: 2 Date originally submitted: 29th May 2010. Original poster: Randy Gibbons Comments:
It’s pretty good as a matter of fact.
Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky (1966) Genre: Pop Rock Original thread page: 3 Date originally submitted: 1st June 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
This fine American band recorded some excellent singles, not least this one, so I can’t understand why Mony Mony was their only big UK hit.
Brook Benton - Hit Record (1962) Genre: Pop Original thread page: 4 Date originally submitted: 3rd June 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
The song’s lyrics are an instruction manual on how to make a hit record. The irony is that this was never a hit record.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review Of The Thread - Post #1.
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 1 to 4 respectively.
Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me Baby (1966) Genre: Soul Original thread page: 1 Date originally submitted: 29th May 2010. Original poster: mushymanrob Comments:
One of several sixties soul classics that failed to chart in the UK.
The Chob - We`re Pretty Quick (1966) Genre: Garage Rock Original thread page: 2 Date originally submitted: 29th May 2010. Original poster: Randy Gibbons Comments:
It’s pretty good as a matter of fact.
Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky (1966) Genre: Pop Rock Original thread page: 3 Date originally submitted: 1st June 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
This fine American band recorded some excellent singles, not least this one, so I can’t understand why Mony Mony was their only big UK hit.
Brook Benton - Hit Record (1962) Genre: Pop Original thread page: 4 Date originally submitted: 3rd June 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
The song’s lyrics are an instruction manual on how to make a hit record. The irony is that this was never a hit record.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review Of The Thread - Post #2.
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 5 to 8 respectively.
The Parade - Sunshine Girl (1967) Genre: Sunshine Pop Original thread page: 5 Date originally submitted: 4th June 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
Many years ago a work colleague told me that his all time favourite track was a very obscure ditty from the sixties entitled Sunshine Girl by an American group called the Parade. It certainly isn’t my favourite track of all time (far from it), but it’s pleasant enough, and well worth a listen.
Bobby Lewis - Tossin' and Turnin' (1961) Genre: Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Original thread page: 6 Date originally submitted: 10th June 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
This is a very good track indeed, but imho not a great one, so I’m a little baffled as to why it was one of the biggest selling singles of the entire decade in the USA, and I’m also a little baffled as to why it was completely ignored in the UK.
Freddie and the Dreamers - A Little You (1965) Genre: Pop Original thread page: 7 Date originally submitted: 13th June 2010. Original poster: Capablanca Comments:
Strictly speaking this is not a repeat, because when Capablanca mentioned this track in his post on Page 7 five years ago it wasn’t available on Youtube, so we couldn’t listen to it back then. In that post Capablanca opined that this was Freddie and the Dreamers’ best single. The track is now available on Youtube and having recently heard it for the very first time I tend to agree with Capablanca’s opinion. Please click on the above link, have a listen and see if you agree too.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Flames (1967) Genre: Rock Original thread page: 8 Date originally submitted: 17th June 2010. Original poster: Capablanca Comments:
Fine up tempo track by a band whose members would later become members of the Strawbs, Hudson Ford and Stretch.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review Of The Thread - Post #3.
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 9 to 12 respectively.
The Grass Roots - Let's Live For Today (1967) Genre: Pop Rock Original thread page: 9 Date originally submitted: 24th June 2010. Original poster: SilentWitness Comments:
Oh, I do like this one. I like this one a great deal. The Grass Roots were yet another one of that plethora of good American sixties bands who failed to make any impact in the UK.
The Springfields - Silver Threads And Golden Needles (1962) Genre: Country and Western Original thread page: 10 Date originally submitted: 15th July 2010. Original poster: Vabosity Comments:
The Springfields were a popular trio consisting of Dusty Springfield (before she embarked on her momentous solo career), her brother, Tom Springfield (before he became an acclaimed songwriter) and Mike Hurst (before he discovered and produced Cat Stevens). Surprisingly, this fine cover of a song first recorded in 1956 by Wanda Jackson was not a hit in the Springfields’ native UK, but it did peak at #20 in the USA, the first ever single by a British group to reach the US top twenty.
The Syndicats - Crawdaddy Simone (1965) Genre: Hard-driving British Rhythm ‘n’ Blues (aka Freakbeat) Original thread page: 11 Date originally submitted: 20th July 2010. Original poster: Randy Gibbons Comments:
Produced by Joe Meek this is a great example of Freakbeat at its very best.
Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where The Time Goes (1967) Genre: Acoustic Folk Original thread page: 12 Date originally submitted: 29th July 2010. Original poster: Disnae Comments:
A very beautiful song written and recorded by the late, great Sandy Denny, imho one of the finest female artists this country has ever produced.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
Comments
63 - youre the reason im living now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH3yWAKFVM4
63 - eighteen yellow roses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_PEU9cFzx4
63 - be mad little girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt4N2Gh5Q1s
64 - i wonder whos kissing her now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOD-2ZZP2y8
64 - milord - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsDOTv2DMfE
64 - the things in this house - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVajctf4lwY
65 - when i get home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lIA503w-FM
65 - gyp the cat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0qBeuFCtvA
65 - we didnt ask to be brought here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXPNFHk0qxk
66 - mame - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQq8s23O0Q
66 - if i were a carpenter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btWobQsGcS4
67 - the girl that stood by me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-259Wn0vMU
67 - lovin you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxTGZlGyBn8
67 - the lady came from baltimore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKln0VWS9R8
67 - at the crossroads - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n07fZBs79EE
68 - change - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBAkAORQok
69 - sugar man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMmclsqUcgA
yes i know 'if i were a carpenter' peaked at #9 , but its class imho and rare .
continued on tuesday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Darrell
63 - go home girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fx5NiGqQQ
64 - sorry - no youtube vid
65 - stupidity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK39_tZ6kYQ
66 - somewhere they cant find me - no youtube vid
66 - ive been hurt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SR0m2RUZAU
66 - big louie - no youtube vid
67 - hard lovin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6GRogRBK3w
yep i know ive been hurt was a hit in the 70's..
ha ha! id forgotten all about it!
67 - crystal ball - no youtube vid
67 - evil woman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44BohW5MNvE
67 - cupid - no youtube vid
68 - skyline pigeon - no youtube vid
69 - turn to me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqY-srdEfPU
69 - birds of a feather - no youtube vid
69 - how are you - no youtube vid
Johnny Darrell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Darrell
69 - why you been gone so long? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvnyn9Q1sEY
sorry about it being short, if selfish buggers had uploaded the tracks it would have been plenty! lol. but theres an artist tomorrow with 11 entries, if they are all on youtube itll make up for todays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Darren
60 - because theyre young - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Darren
61 - goodbye cruel world - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAhqjfMiEY
62 - her royal majesty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gksKbUp4tfE
62 - conscience - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFrh_onTtGQ
62 - marys little lamb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AiBg_iuiZw
62 - too young to go steady - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj5Q-Zz8GNc
63 - pin a medal on joey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku-A01Kvne8
63 - backstage - no youtube vid
65 - because youre mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37rgbKX1g30
66 - tom hawk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVT5ff0_-4g
67 - all - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5q6b3XdrqU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYjhG_wm_I
no info
69 - river deep mountain high - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpaVRZtk74w
Maxine Darren
no info
65 - how can i hide it from my heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmElWZNco8o
Dartells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dartells
63 - dartell stomp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TNfiECxT9k
Barry Darvell
http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/barry_darvell.htm
60 - geronimo stomp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiDWO7TBakg
Darwins Theory
no info
67 - daytime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s35Y8_z8F0
No Darnelles?
Not listed in my catalogue... You can post some if you want, but without them being listed in my book i cant see them.
Two Minor hits released in the UK, A & B side.
Come on Home
Too hurt to cry and to much in love to say goodbye
cheers... strange they are the sort of act i thought would be listed... but arent.
no info
67 - yes sir, thats my baby - no youtube vid
Dave Davani (with the d men and as dave davani four from 65))
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dave-davani-mn0000579910/biography
63 - dont fool around - no youtube vid
64 - midnight special - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ocIgmA3zw
65 - top of the pops - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EkPzLMV1QI :O
66 - tossin and turnin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmy3A__42co
66 - one track mind - no youtube vid
well that was a surprise (totp outro).
Dave and the DIamonds
no info
65 - i walk the lonely night - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVZgncpNCQ
no info
67 - what a feeling - no youtube vid
David
no info
69 - please mr postman - no youtube vid
Alan David
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_David_%28singer%29
64 - i want so much to know you - no youtube vid
65 - crazy bout my baby - no youtube vid
67 - flower power - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPgxWwFlEoY
David and the Embers
http://lordofthebootsale.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/david-embers-what-is-this-teddy-bear.html
63 - what is this - track can be heard using the link above.
not a very successful day today, but ive one artist tomorrow that should have several vids making a larger post to make up for todays meager one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Jonathan_%28band%29
65 - laughing fit to cry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8nWZd1oec
66 - michelle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0WdM0Fd6vA
66 - speak her name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfHl6_QWJNc
66 - ten storeys high - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7KDLNAZ5c
67 - shes leaving home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQokx-hgek
67 - softly whispering i love you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7qyG6uRCbQ
68 - you ought to meet my baby - no youtube vid
well i didnt know these two composed 'softly whispering i love you' .... prefer the congregations hit version though!
It's been eight days since the thread's fifth anniversary, eight days in which I have been trying to make a decision whether or not to do a Fifth Anniversary Review.
Let me explain.
When the thread was one year old I made several posts that I collectively termed as Vabosity's First Anniversary Review in which I repeated some of my favourite tracks previously submitted in the first year of the thread's existence.
Two years later I made several more posts that I collectively termed as Vabosity's Third Anniversary Review in which I repeated some of my favourite tracks previously submitted in the first three years of the thread's existence.
Another two years have passed so it follows that there should be a Fifth Anniversary Review. Eight days ago I was reluctant to go ahead with such a project, but since then I have well and truly changed my mind and Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will commence today.
In Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review I will be repeating 100 tracks (one track from each of the first 100 pages). There will be four tracks per post, so that's 25 posts in total.
The chosen tracks will meet the following criteria:-
1. I must like them a great deal.
2. They must not have previously been repeated in Vabosity's First Anniversary Review.
3. They must not have previously been repeated in Vabosity's Third Anniversary Review.
4. At least one of the four tracks in each post must have been originally submitted to the thread by a poster other than myself.
The first post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in about twenty minutes.
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 1 to 4 respectively.
Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me Baby (1966)
Genre: Soul
Original thread page: 1
Date originally submitted: 29th May 2010.
Original poster: mushymanrob
Comments:
One of several sixties soul classics that failed to chart in the UK.
The Chob - We`re Pretty Quick (1966)
Genre: Garage Rock
Original thread page: 2
Date originally submitted: 29th May 2010.
Original poster: Randy Gibbons
Comments:
It’s pretty good as a matter of fact.
Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky (1966)
Genre: Pop Rock
Original thread page: 3
Date originally submitted: 1st June 2010.
Original poster: Vabosity
Comments:
This fine American band recorded some excellent singles, not least this one, so I can’t understand why Mony Mony was their only big UK hit.
Brook Benton - Hit Record (1962)
Genre: Pop
Original thread page: 4
Date originally submitted: 3rd June 2010.
Original poster: Vabosity
Comments:
The song’s lyrics are an instruction manual on how to make a hit record. The irony is that this was never a hit record.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
nice one
no info
61 - youre driving me crazy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5OmkSoB3Ok
61 - detour - no youtube vid
68 - hector the trash collector - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfnvMdMNAs
Hutch Davie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutch_Davie
60 - sweet georgia brown - no youtube vid
62 - but i do - no youtube vid
Alun Davies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Davies_%28guitarist%29
65 - girls were made to love and kiss - no youtube vid
68 - one day soon - no youtube vid
Bob Davies
no info
63 - rock n roll show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woKaBwFAHtE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Davies
63 - country line special - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkMmp_Eb73Q
63 - preachin the blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbm6Y2czZo
Dave Davies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Davies
67 - suzannahs still alive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hKIZcxUb8
68 - lincoln county - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cCV57OpPmk
69 - hold my hand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHK9V2hYapY
continued on monday OR tuesday.
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 5 to 8 respectively.
The Parade - Sunshine Girl (1967)
Genre: Sunshine Pop
Original thread page: 5
Date originally submitted: 4th June 2010.
Original poster: Vabosity
Comments:
Many years ago a work colleague told me that his all time favourite track was a very obscure ditty from the sixties entitled Sunshine Girl by an American group called the Parade. It certainly isn’t my favourite track of all time (far from it), but it’s pleasant enough, and well worth a listen.
Bobby Lewis - Tossin' and Turnin' (1961)
Genre: Rhythm ‘n’ Blues
Original thread page: 6
Date originally submitted: 10th June 2010.
Original poster: Vabosity
Comments:
This is a very good track indeed, but imho not a great one, so I’m a little baffled as to why it was one of the biggest selling singles of the entire decade in the USA, and I’m also a little baffled as to why it was completely ignored in the UK.
Freddie and the Dreamers - A Little You (1965)
Genre: Pop
Original thread page: 7
Date originally submitted: 13th June 2010.
Original poster: Capablanca
Comments:
Strictly speaking this is not a repeat, because when Capablanca mentioned this track in his post on Page 7 five years ago it wasn’t available on Youtube, so we couldn’t listen to it back then. In that post Capablanca opined that this was Freddie and the Dreamers’ best single. The track is now available on Youtube and having recently heard it for the very first time I tend to agree with Capablanca’s opinion. Please click on the above link, have a listen and see if you agree too.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Flames (1967)
Genre: Rock
Original thread page: 8
Date originally submitted: 17th June 2010.
Original poster: Capablanca
Comments:
Fine up tempo track by a band whose members would later become members of the Strawbs, Hudson Ford and Stretch.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Davies
67 - sentimental songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMTW7HS6i8
Irving Davies and the Method Men
no info
62 - the method - no youtube vid
Marion Davies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladybirds
69 - walk out of my mind - no youtube vid
Miar Davies
no info
64 - ten good reasons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iX1FVB3wgc
64 - i hear you knocking - no youtube vid
possibly a cover of the earlier track popularised later by dave edmunds
Nicola Davies
no info unless she went on to be a childrens book author
68 - infatuation - no youtube vid
Rupert Davies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Davies
63 - smoking my pipe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVe8STc5FBU
Bette Davies and Debbie Burton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Burton
63 - whatever happened to baby jane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLYmxTb3ZsA
Four tracks originally submitted to the thread on pages 9 to 12 respectively.
The Grass Roots - Let's Live For Today (1967)
Genre: Pop Rock
Original thread page: 9
Date originally submitted: 24th June 2010.
Original poster: SilentWitness
Comments:
Oh, I do like this one. I like this one a great deal. The Grass Roots were yet another one of that plethora of good American sixties bands who failed to make any impact in the UK.
The Springfields - Silver Threads And Golden Needles (1962)
Genre: Country and Western
Original thread page: 10
Date originally submitted: 15th July 2010.
Original poster: Vabosity
Comments:
The Springfields were a popular trio consisting of Dusty Springfield (before she embarked on her momentous solo career), her brother, Tom Springfield (before he became an acclaimed songwriter) and Mike Hurst (before he discovered and produced Cat Stevens). Surprisingly, this fine cover of a song first recorded in 1956 by Wanda Jackson was not a hit in the Springfields’ native UK, but it did peak at #20 in the USA, the first ever single by a British group to reach the US top twenty.
The Syndicats - Crawdaddy Simone (1965)
Genre: Hard-driving British Rhythm ‘n’ Blues (aka Freakbeat)
Original thread page: 11
Date originally submitted: 20th July 2010.
Original poster: Randy Gibbons
Comments:
Produced by Joe Meek this is a great example of Freakbeat at its very best.
Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where The Time Goes (1967)
Genre: Acoustic Folk
Original thread page: 12
Date originally submitted: 29th July 2010.
Original poster: Disnae
Comments:
A very beautiful song written and recorded by the late, great Sandy Denny, imho one of the finest female artists this country has ever produced.
The next post in Vabosity's Fifth Anniversary Review will follow in a few days.
Billie Davis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Davis
63 - hes the one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL7TlNDAc68
63 - bedtime stories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEWstcbAjmU
64 - that boy john - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lMBnpDg-58
64 - school is over - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNpF5MxM9wc
64 - watcha gonna do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WknfGxGmfU4
65 - last one to be loved - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1Pj87X_Is
65 - no other baby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2p--muxfFY
66 - heart and soul - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnqhPGxPi24
66 - just walk in my shoes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4yuLADXmIk
67 - wasnt it you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DvlqYNtFiI
67 - angel of the morning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZqdEAPR9U
68 - want you to be my baby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bTmq72olg
69 - ill come home - no youtube vid
69 - i can remember - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27ppPEtfBk
69 - nights in white satin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi5DqcEOZ8o
some interesting covers in there.... hmmm... like 'want you to be my baby' which only reached #33 here.