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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 19, 2021 1:33:00 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 24, 2021 0:52:37 GMT
When I was five/six years old, one of my main playmates was the kid next door, Mike. On occasion we'd meet at his house and play records from his parents' weirdly random collection. His parents were much younger than mine - kind of hippie-ish in fact - but they didn't have any hippie records, or if they did they were hiding them. The closest thing they had to that was an LP by The Guess Who, a band I liked - but it was a budget-label comp of stuff they'd recorded in the sixties, before their career took off... which I would enjoy now, but at the time it didn't impress me. Otherwise, it was mostly 45s from the '50s and early '60s - I remember "Bazoom" by The Cheers, "R-O-C-K" by Bill Haley and The Comets (I was a few years away from hearing "Rock Around The Clock" so the name meant nothing to me), and other more obscure things...
And they had "Tom Dooley" by The Kingston Trio. Mike and I may have tried that once, but it didn't take (too slow, too much talking) - but we LOVED the flipside, "Ruby Red", which was faster and had drums. But the reason we loved it was the way the lead singer sang the word "pure" in the chorus - PYOO-er. We didn't even know that he was singing the word "pure" - we really weren't paying much attention to the lyrics, as such - but we would just fall about laughing every time we heard PYOO-er. I think it was the PYOO of it. To our five-year-old mentality he might as well have been singing poo-poo.
I never forgot that (obviously), and over the years since, every now and then, the song would come back to me. It happened tonight while I was preparing dinner, and I thought - that's gotta be on YouTube, I'm gonna listen to it. First time I've heard it in a half-century. And it sounded EXACTLY as it always had in my memory, except just a tad slower, and now I noticed/understood the lyrics more.
As these kind of things go, it's not a bad record!
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Post by clive gash on Aug 26, 2021 20:21:33 GMT
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Post by clive gash on Aug 30, 2021 16:46:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2021 20:51:42 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 22, 2021 4:37:42 GMT
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 29, 2021 12:59:53 GMT
Have you seen this video of a rather emotional Serge Gainsbourg being serenaded by several dozen young boys made up to look like him singing "On est venu te dire"?
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 29, 2021 22:21:50 GMT
Something I learned today: Nancy Jeffries, former lead singer of The Insect Trust, now manages Paul McCartney's publishing company! (I knew she was a VP at Elektra Records for many years, so this revelation wasn't quite the shock that it might otherwise have been. Still, I'm tickled.)
"Our Sister The Sun" (featuring guest drummer Elvin Jones)
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 30, 2021 19:37:16 GMT
Don't meet your heroes...
Little Steven apparently was big Zappa fan, and contacted him regarding being part of his anti-apartheid Sun City project, Frank ripped him a new one. It hurt, he said.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 5, 2021 0:08:39 GMT
Pop Picker Syd digs the soul scene:
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 7, 2021 13:39:25 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 8, 2021 1:00:47 GMT
Something I learnt today: the top selling album of 1973, according to Billboard Magazine's end of year report, was...  (Gav, can you confirm/debunk?) |
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Post by clive gash on Oct 8, 2021 19:24:42 GMT
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 8, 2021 19:33:03 GMT
some WHITE socks on show. |
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Post by clive gash on Oct 8, 2021 19:47:30 GMT
Owen wearing BROWN
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