Caravan: A Hunting We Shall Go
The second half of which is a cover of the Softs’ Slightly All The Time. And Mike Ratledge plays on it.
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Brian Poole and the Tremeloes: Someone, Someone
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Brief encounters
IN A recent column I recalled how my parents enjoined me to follow a career in law, which I evaded by judiciously failing A-level Latin, thus ensuring a rejection from Leeds … Continue readingBrief encounters
National Health: Clocks and Clouds
Now this is one NHS I am prepared to clap for. Recorded in 1976, released 20 years later.
Gilgamesh: One end More/Phil’s Little Dance/Worlds of Zin
Canterbury tales part 2: This is from their eponymous 1975 debut album.
Matching Mole: Gloria Gloom etc
Commencing a short series of Canterbury tales, this is a weird one from French TV in 1972. Why Robert Wyatt wears a woolly mask is a mystery to me.
The Byrds: Fido
Second Byrds song about dogs. Couldn’t they thought of a better name? From 1969’s The Ballad of Easy Rider.
Sour Charity
WE moved to Lancashire from a bigger house about eight years ago, and thanks to the machinations of our unscrupulous buyers it was done in a horrible rush, about which … Continue readingSour Charity
Sandy Bull: Carmina Burana Fantasy
A philistine writes: Sandy’s version of the Old Spice advert theme.
The Colorful Quiet: I Didn’t Know
Gentle stuff from Stephen Webster’s album Sounds of the Countryside.