A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
The authorship of this instrumental is a tangled tale involving transposed labels and titles, with the result that the credit is shared between String-A-Longs members Richard Stephens and Jimmy Torres … Continue readingThe String-A-Longs: Wheels
The Texan Marmite: You might just love her. Then again . . .
Good to see the Edster back in action after a six-year hiatus running a coffee shop.
THIS week we paddle our battered time-travelling canoe into the Thames Delta of the 1960s, to visit that strange part of Essex known as Canvey Island. Although it is mainly … Continue readingThe Feelgoods Factor
Another tearjerker. This one’s from 1976.
Couldn’t resist another blast of vintage Sir Kev. This is from a couple of years before he died at the age of 60.
IN my ignorance I thought there was only one type of wasp in this country. Amazingly there are 9,000 species here, and 200,000 have been identified worldwide, with possibly another … Continue readingIn defence of wasps
Fascinating clip from the Seventies, even if the sound isn’t top-notch.
Yesterday we had the wonderful Kevin Coyne doing this song. Today we have two of the all-time great guitarists together on stage from a 1982 jam session.
Sedaka co-wrote this with regular collaborator Howard Greenfield and released it in 1962. It topped the American charts and reached No 7 in Britain. Later Sedaka recalled that the intro … Continue readingNeil Sedaka: Breaking Up is Hard to Do