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Old 05-05-2012, 09:58
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Tell me about it!

When a certain oldies radio station was called Capital Gold I used to listen to it a lot lot, because it had a very varied playlist. Now it's become Gold Radio I hardly listen at all because it seems to have a much more restricted playlist. On those rare occasions when I do I listen to Gold Radio you can bet your bottom dollar that within minutes of tuning in I'm going to be subjected to Brown Eyed Girl.
Or Band Of Gold. One band that probably wouldn't get played are Roy Wood's The Move. Their first single used (like my earlier featured group) Tchaikovsky's 1812 but weren't banned for it and got to No 2.

The Move - Night Of Fear

Essentially a brummie psych band they were also influenced by West Coast groups and songs like this and California man reflect that but as detailed in the video below they never made it in the States.

The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow

1st song played on radio 1

The Move - Flowers In The Rain

Last hit for the original line-up.

The Move - Fire Brigade
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Old 05-05-2012, 18:57
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Or Band Of Gold. One band that probably wouldn't get played are Roy Wood's The Move. Their first single used (like my earlier featured group) Tchaikovsky's 1812 but weren't banned for it and got to No 2.

The Move - Night Of Fear

Essentially a brummie psych band they were also influenced by West Coast groups and songs like this and California man reflect that but as detailed in the video below they never made it in the States.

The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow

1st song played on radio 1

The Move - Flowers In The Rain

Last hit for the original line-up.

The Move - Fire Brigade
i like the move one of my fav groups of the late 60's.
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Old 05-05-2012, 20:08
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I am a bit of a Move fan also, As with all these good groups that had a good foundation they went on to be a special Super group......
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Old 06-05-2012, 22:47
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I like several of these songs from The Move, but I like Blackberry Way best.
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Old 07-05-2012, 17:57
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Another one here who likes The Move.

At the beginning of 1970 The Move released an album containing a great Roy Wood song called "Hello Suzie". The Move didn't release this track as a single, as a few months earlier another version of the song by a different popular band had peaked at no. 4 in the charts:-

Amen Corner - Hello Suzie (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSV8xCKgbw


Amen Corner are often dismissed as a "teenybopper" band. This is really unfair as they were actually a bunch of accomplished jazz and blues musicians who were "persuaded" by their record company to transform themselves into a "teenybopper" band for commercial reasons. Fortunately, before that transformation took place they had released their first single, which was a tremendous version of an old blues. It was about as far as you could get from "teenybopper" music and yet it still managed to peak at no.12 in the charts:-

Amen Corner - Gin House Blues (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmbhRe4yfYs


Manfred Mann were another bunch of accomplished jazz and blues musicians who were "persuaded" by their record company to adopt a much "poppier" sound for commercial reasons. The band did manage to retain a vestige of their musical roots in most of the pop they recorded, and their large repertoire of hit singles is nothing for them to be ashamed of. Here are two of their tracks from 1965 that I really like:-

Manfred Mann - Come Tomorrow (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBQ_nJGXaB0

Manfred Mann - The One In The Middle (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRfoSW9HgCM
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Old 07-05-2012, 19:20
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A lot of the 60s pop groups had started off playing the blues.........

Here's what I think is the best of them

The Animals - For Miss Caulker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xJz8FkPt8

The main remarkable thing about this is that it's not a cover of an old Deep South electric blues, it was written by Eric Burdon.......
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Old 08-05-2012, 07:48
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Another one here who likes The Move.

At the beginning of 1970 The Move released an album containing a great Roy Wood song called "Hello Suzie". The Move didn't release this track as a single, as a few months earlier another version of the song by a different popular band had peaked at no. 4 in the charts:-

Amen Corner - Hello Suzie (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSV8xCKgbw


Amen Corner are often dismissed as a "teenybopper" band. This is really unfair as they were actually a bunch of accomplished jazz and blues musicians who were "persuaded" by their record company to transform themselves into a "teenybopper" band for commercial reasons. Fortunately, before that transformation took place they had released their first single, which was a tremendous version of an old blues. It was about as far as you could get from "teenybopper" music and yet it still managed to peak at no.12 in the charts:-

Amen Corner - Gin House Blues (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmbhRe4yfYs


Manfred Mann were another bunch of accomplished jazz and blues musicians who were "persuaded" by their record company to adopt a much "poppier" sound for commercial reasons. The band did manage to retain a vestige of their musical roots in most of the pop they recorded, and their large repertoire of hit singles is nothing for them to be ashamed of. Here are two of their tracks from 1965 that I really like:-

Manfred Mann - Come Tomorrow (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBQ_nJGXaB0

Manfred Mann - The One In The Middle (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRfoSW9HgCM
gin house blues was a great track

and i really love 'come tomorrow'.. just about my fav manfred mann track, but 'pretty flamingo' has really aged well! (with jack bruce on bass!)
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Old 08-05-2012, 18:38
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How about some country music

With a touch of the Mexican a fiery country western love song

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

Next a country blues song which is this former jazz vocalists's only UK hit getting to No 2 although it barely made the US top 40. Interestingly as a nod to his past the b-side is a lovely jazz cover of the Broadway standard On a Clear Day.

O.C. Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp

Bobbie Gentry's song has a power and mystery that hasn't diminished although maybe the greatest mystery is her lack of follow-up success.

Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
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Old 09-05-2012, 07:03
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How about some country music

With a touch of the Mexican a fiery country western love song

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

Next a country blues song which is this former jazz vocalists's only UK hit getting to No 2 although it barely made the US top 40. Interestingly as a nod to his past the b-side is a lovely jazz cover of the Broadway standard On a Clear Day.

O.C. Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp

Bobbie Gentry's song has a power and mystery that hasn't diminished although maybe the greatest mystery is her lack of follow-up success.

Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
never thought of 'son of hickory hollers tramp' as a country song

'ode to billy joe' though was fantastic...
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Old 09-05-2012, 07:54
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Love ode to billie joe.
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Old 09-05-2012, 12:51
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Three tracks recorded by actors.

Bernard Cribbins - My Resistance Is Low (1962)
That great British comedy actor, Bernard Cribbins, had two UK Top Ten hit singles in 1962 with the novelty songs Hole In The Ground and Right Said Fred. In the same year he recorded an album which included this fine rendition of a great old Hoagy Carmichael song.

Richard Chamberlain - They Long To Be Close To You (1963)
The Carpenters may have recorded the definitive and most successful version of this Bacharach and David song, but they were not the first act to record it. That honour goes to one of the most popular actors of the era, Richard Chamberlain. Actually, his voice is surprisingly good and this version of the song is not bad at all.

Chris Sandford - Not Too Little Not Too Much (1963)
This track is very much of its day, but it's decent enough. The actor Chris Sandford was appearing in Coronation Street (as popular then as it is now) when he recorded the track, which was probably the main reason it became a UK hit single, albeit a minor one.
I recently posted the above to the Rare 60's Classics Thread and, as I've got a bit of a penchant for novelty songs, thought that Bernard Cribbins' two Top Ten hit singles were well worth a listen, so I've submitted them to this thread.

Richard Chamberlain's most famous sixties acting role was as Dr. Kildare in the TV series of that name. Chamberlain recorded a vocal version of its theme tune which only just failed to make the UK Top Ten, so I've submitted that one too.

Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the Ground (1962)

Bernard Cribbins - Right Said Fred (1962)

Richard Chamberlain - Theme From Dr Kildare (1962)
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Old 09-05-2012, 13:36
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Bobbie Gentry's song has a power and mystery that hasn't diminished although maybe the greatest mystery is her lack of follow-up success.

Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
Never heard this one? It was a UK Number 1 I think:

I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Bobbie Gentry (1969)
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Old 09-05-2012, 15:52
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Three tracks from artists named David , two instrumentals to start with .

1 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs

2 ) Rinky Dink - Dave Baby Cortez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BMKwei453o

3 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbODL4HSGpg
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Old 11-05-2012, 07:30
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lol..it was...

didnt like it much though....
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Old 11-05-2012, 13:32
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I know that there's one or two of you out there who like nothing more than a good foreign language song, so I've painstakingly checked out the UK charts from January 1960 to December 1969 searching for any song sung in a foreign language that was a UK Top Forty hit single during that period.

I found 22 in all, including 3 or 4 songs that are bi-lingual (for want of a better term), i.e. are both in English and one other language.

I've excluded hit songs sung in Jamaican dialect (e.g. It Mek by Desmond Dekker and the Aces) because afaic they're in English, albeit incomprehensible English. Anyway, I think such songs are far better suited to a future post devoted to the popular ska and reggae tracks of the sixties.

As far as the aforementioned 22 foreign language songs are concerned, I like some a great deal and others I'm not that keen on, but I've decided to submit each and every one of them to the thread in three consecutive posts.

So, let's commence with Post 1 of 3:

Every foreign language song that was a UK Top Forty hit single in 1960, 1961 and 1962.

Jacqueline Boyer - Tom Pilibi (1960)
Language: French
UK Chart position: 33
France won the 1960 Eurovision Song Contest with this very, very quaint song. Well, they certainly don’t make ‘em like this anymore (in any language!), which is probably why this track is for me a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Bob Azzam - Mustapha (1960)
Language: I’m not quite sure!
UK Chart position: 23
This one’s a real oddity. Bob Azzam was a Lebanese singer and the song has a distinctive Eastern Mediterranean feel to it. It seems like an unlikely track to have been a hit single in the UK, but it was.

Connie Francis - Mama (1960)
Language: Italian and English
UK Chart position: 2
This song, other songs like it, or Connie’s repertoire generally, may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but no-one can deny that this woman has a fantastic voice.

Edith Piaf - Milord (1960)
Language: French
UK Chart position: 24
This was the legendary Edith Piaf’s only UK hit single. Surprisingly, her most famous song, Non Je Ne Regrette Rien, also released in 1960, did not make the charts on this side of the Channel.

Elvis Presley - Wooden Heart (1961)
Language: German and English
UK Chart position: 1
This is hardly one of my favourite Elvis tracks, but he does sing some of it in German, so here it is.

Shirley Bassey - Ave Maria (1962)
Language: Latin (I think)
UK Chart position: 31
Two versions of this hymn (?) have been UK hit singles: this one by Shirley Bassey in 1962, and a version by Lesley Garrett and Amanda Thompson which got to Number 16 in 1993.

Petula Clark - Ya Ya Twist (1962)
Language: French
UK Chart position: 14
This is the only song sung in French by Pet Clark to be a UK hit single. It also happens to be my favourite ever track by this artist.

Emilio Pericoli - Al Di Là (1962)
Language: Italian
UK Chart position: 30
The original version of this song was Italy’s entry to the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. It was sung by Betty Curtis (now there’s a good Italian name!), came fifth in the contest and was generally ignored outside Italy. One year later Emilio Pericoli’s cover version was not ignored and became a big international hit, making the Top Thirty in the UK and the Top Ten in the USA.
My post today is a slight variation on the above theme. Here are some UK hit singles sung in English by artists whose first language isn't English.

Françoise Hardy - All Over The World (1965)
Nationality: French
UK Chart position: 16
Although I like this track a great deal, I'd much rather listen to Françoise Hardy singing in French. This is in stark contrast to the British record buying public of the day, who seem to prefer her singing in English, as this was by far her biggest hit single in the UK.

Los Bravos - Black Is Black (1966)
Nationality: German (the singer) and Spanish (the rest of the band)
UK Chart position: 2
Good track, now considered a blue-eyed soul classic.

Heart - Rita Pavone (1966)
Nationality: Italian
UK Chart position: 27
I heard somewhere that this is Morrissey’s all time track favourite track. If that's true then Mozza should be complimented on his good taste, as this is an excellent track that should have been a much bigger hit.

Esther and Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockefella (1968)
Nationality: Israeli
UK Chart position: 1
As I mentioned in my Bernard Cribbins post, I've got a bit of a penchant for novelty songs, and I'm rather fond of this particular novelty song, it's a real guilty pleasure . This may have been their biggest ever hit, but novelty songs were the exception rather than the rule for Esther and Abi Ofarim, who were most certainly not a novelty act. In fact, they were actually quite a talented twosome, especially Esther, who had (and presumably still has) an exceptionally good voice.
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Old 16-05-2012, 12:07
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4 glen campbell - wichita lineman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfwcLdP5Xk
reckon the best country track ever... dunno why i like this, i just do!
I love that track!

Here's his other big hit from 1969, which is almost as good:-

Glen Campbell - Galveston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBKpvh2hZg&feature=fvst
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Old 16-05-2012, 18:18
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I don't remember Billie Davies at all...........

Just following your link led me to 'Angel of the Morning' from that German Beat Club show (thank God for the Germans - all our 60s hits are preserved on film !)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQ7n...eature=related

Blimey...........she was a beautiful girl.............
A couple more early 60's girl singers somewhat forgotten now

Allan Sharman sampled Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" to great effect in his 1963 novelty song 'Hello Muddah Hello Fuddah' but a year earlier Maureen Evans used the same classical piece for this song which came in at No 3.

Maureen Evans - Like I Do

Best known for being Prince Philip's goddaughter she may have been born in England (although this is disputed) but her Gallic looks and voice must have helped in getting her to No 13 in 1962 with this Lordan penned song

Louise Cordet - I'm Just a Baby
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Old 18-05-2012, 12:20
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I suggested the other week that I would decide my top 40 songs from the 60s on Jubilee Monday. Well, as I could listen to 15-20 per hour on Youtube I could do a top 60, or even top 100 if that doesn't feel excessive, to broaden the variety. I shall of course share the list here!
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Old 18-05-2012, 13:00
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A couple more early 60's girl singers somewhat forgotten now

Allan Sharman sampled Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" to great effect in his 1963 novelty song 'Hello Muddah Hello Fuddah' but a year earlier Maureen Evans used the same classical piece for this song which came in at No 3.

Maureen Evans - Like I Do

Best known for being Prince Philip's goddaughter she may have been born in England (although this is disputed) but her Gallic looks and voice must have helped in getting her to No 13 in 1962 with this Lordan penned song

Louise Cordet - I'm Just a Baby
Good stuff!

But what's this? Do my ears deceive me? Am I hearing a couple of female singers who are actually singing one note per syllable? So it would seem. How refreshing. Such a pity that it doesn't happen now.
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Old 18-05-2012, 18:44
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Two more then


Kathy Kirby - secret love

Susan Maughan - Bobby's Girl
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Old 18-05-2012, 22:34
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Another Kathy Kirby track - Let Me Go Lover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4CD...eature=related
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Old 19-05-2012, 01:03
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I've posted the whole show in the Golden Oldies Thread but here's one of the highlights...

A song that was Co Written by Judith Durham and of course sung by her here: Colours Of My Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My5_zSu_LQw

I'm going to add this to as I spotted it on the same page...

Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By (1965) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPPJ...eature=related
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Old 20-05-2012, 12:30
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Here are three tremendous singles, each one very different from the other two, but all in the charts in the spring of 1967 and each having a title consisting of a man's first name and last name:-

Prince Buster - Al Capone (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaDx6_-WbLs

Martha and the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmfVFJBZUBA

Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luGTe37Wysk
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Old 21-05-2012, 13:41
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be staged in Baku, Azerbaijan this coming Saturday. This annual event constantly receives a lot of harsh criticism, but I just regard it as a harmless bit of fun, so my next four posts will all have Eurovision themes, and will be as follows:-

1. Winning Eurovision songs from 1960 to 1965.
2. Winning Eurovision songs from 1966 to 1969.
3. UK Eurovision entries from 1959 to 1963.
4. UK Eurovision entries from 1964 to 1969.


Post 1 of 4: Winning Eurovision songs from 1960 to 1965.

Jacqueline Boyer - Tom Pilibi (1960)
Representing: France
Vabosity’s rating: 7/10
This very quaint song has already featured in one my Foreign Language UK Hit Singles posts, but as it’s a real guilty pleasure I have no problem submitting it again.

Jean-Claude Pascal - Nous Les Amoreux (1961)
Representing: Luxembourg
Vabosity’s rating: 4/10
I listened to this song for the very first time earlier, and thought it was nothing to write home about. Nous Les Amoreux is a gay song apparently; very daring for 1961.

Isabelle Aubret - Un Premier Amour (1962)
Representing: France
Vabosity’s rating: 6/10
I also listened to this song for the very first time earlier, and was surprised to find myself liking it a lot more than I was expecting to.

Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann - Dansevise (1963)
Representing: Denmark
Vabosity’s rating: 8/10
This is a pleasant, inoffensive little ditty with a slight jazz feel from a husband and wife duo that I find myself liking a great deal.

Gigliola Cinquetti - Non Ho L'Età (1964)
Representing: Italy
Vabosity’s rating: 10/10
This song has already featured in one my Foreign Language UK Hit Singles posts, but as I think it’s quite magnificent I have absolutely no qualms about submitting it again.

France Gall - Poupée De Cire Poupée De Son (1965)
Representing: Luxembourg
Vabosity’s rating: 9/10
The singer (France Gall) of the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest winner was French.
The composer (Serge Gainsbourg) of the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest winner was also French.
So France won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest? No, Luxembourg won it. Go figure.
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Old 21-05-2012, 18:46
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^ Nice list, really liked Poupee de cire and the other Serge/France Gall songs, shame they fell out
I suggested the other week that I would decide my top 40 songs from the 60s on Jubilee Monday. Well, as I could listen to 15-20 per hour on Youtube I could do a top 60, or even top 100 if that doesn't feel excessive, to broaden the variety. I shall of course share the list here!
some lists i found on the web:
NME's top 100 list
Pitchfork's top 200 list
Dutch Radio 2's top 100 list
and their sister station Radio 5 Nostalgia's top 1000 list
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