A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
This is the second in the season of Beatles tracks taken from my tapes and used on the 1994 album Live at the BBC, which I wrote about here. https://am-records.com/2022/05/15/how-i-made-a-beatles-album-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/ It was broadcast … Continue readingThe Beatles: To Know Her is to Love Her
Again, no relation to the previous songs. This is a live version of the hit track from the 1992 album Grave Dancers Union.
No relation whatsoever to yesterday’s song of the same name from the Drive-By Truckers. This one was written by John Stewart and featured on Rosanne’s 1988 album King’s Record Shop. … Continue readingRosanne Cash: Runaway Train
To coincide with the publication of my article https://am-records.com/2022/05/15/how-i-made-a-beatles-album-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/ about the Beatles tapes I recorded in 1963, I thought I would do a short season of my favourite tracks from Pop Go the … Continue readingThe Beatles: Crying, Waiting, Hoping
Adam’s House Cat was formed in the late 1980s in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They went on to find fame as the Drive-By Truckers. Here’s the original Runaway Train. And here’s … Continue readingAdam’s House Cat: Runaway Train
ON the last page of the booklet within the 1994 Beatles double CD, Live at the BBC, in the smallest possible print, is this: I’ve just done a quick Google … Continue readingHow I made a Beatles album (with a little help from my friends)
OF all the beautiful birds we have, I think my favourite is the bullfinch, with the male’s bold colours and markings subtly echoed by the female. The white rump is … Continue readingWelcome back, bullfinches
The music was written by violinist Georges Boulanger with lyrics by Carlos Gomez Barrera in 1926 as Avant de mourir (Before dying). I don’t think it was recorded. The English lyrics were … Continue readingThe Platters: My Prayer
Cliff was my first love. I must have seen the film Summer Holiday, which features this song, a dozen times. It was written by Buddy Kaye and Philip Springer, and recorded on 10 … Continue readingCliff Richard and the Shadows: The Next Time
‘And the train conductor says: Take a break, driver 8.’ From the 1984 album Reckoning.