A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
I AM assuming everyone knows Love me Tender which Elvis recorded in 1956, but I think Amen Corner’s is an excellent version. The seven-man band formed in Cardiff in 1966 with the … Continue readingAmen Corner: Love Me Tender
EARWORM alert! I heard this song some time in the 1980s on an Old Grey Whistle Test new year special, and it’s been on my brain ever since. Addictive and … Continue readingFish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
THERE are many groups named after foodstuffs – Cream, Hot Chocolate, Orange Juice, Bread and the Cranberries to name but five – yet I can think of only one inspired … Continue readingLemonheads you win
THIS was written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood, founding members of Traffic, and released on the band’s Mr Fantasy debut album in 1967. It was issued as a single in 1968 … Continue readingNo Face No Name No Number
I FIRST heard this decades ago as the signature tune to a BBC serial reading of Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, and I was captivated. I don’t know why it is not … Continue readingSchubert: Notturno D897
Resophonic guitar mastery recommended to me by Bill Dalton https://am-records.com/2019/03/11/bill-the-conqueror/
THE five-man Left Banke formed in New York in 1965. Their first record was Walk Away Renée, co-written by the 16-year-old keyboard player Michael Brown. Brown said the song was about Renée Fladen-Kamm, the … Continue readingThe Left Banke: Walk Away Renée
TODAY is Palm Sunday and our hymn is Ride on, Ride on in Majesty, which is about Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem to meet the barbaric fate he knew awaited him. The … Continue readingRide on, Ride on in Majesty
The Mighty Avengers formed in Coventry in 1962 and came under the management of Andrew Loog Oldham, who managed the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote the group’s … Continue readingBlue Turns to Grey
Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was born in Venice. He is thought to have written two settings of Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a set of 12 movements, the words … Continue readingVivaldi’s Gloria