I must confess to making the mistake of prejudging this album. I was expecting the well worked out commercially successful, but often bland indie rock standard formula to be adhered in order to maximise sales. I am however delighted to hear that this album has far more interest and originality than I anticipated. Despite the vocals on many tracks sounding rather like a cross between Gene Pitney and...
My I Pod came over all non PC today. First of all it chose Gene Pitney's "24 hours from Tulsa", one of those songs I have heard countless times without really listening to the words. I was struck by the non PC quality of the story. The male protagonist thwarted in his attempts to get back to the woman he loves by the attentions of a femme fatale. But it isn't his fault. As he points out...
Faculty member Gary Rue will be joined by 14 musicians and vocalists from the school in the free concert. Rue was Pitney's music director in North America for nearly 20 years. He'll share road stories as well as arrangements from their last performance together — on Valentine's Day 2006.
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental Fah Lo Suee and I will be.... In any case, posting by moi will more than likely be sporadic for a little while. But in the meantime, here's another little fun project for us all: Most Memorable Post-Elvis Pop or Rock Song About Getting Away From It All Songs about travel, in other words, or more specifically the specific faraway places...
I received an email from Colin Bradley, in Toronto, the other day (pictured above with Paul Rodgers) Colin was a founder member of the Road Runners - a very successful local group during the early Sixties - who hailed from Middlesbrough. What I had not realised, until Colin contacted me, was just how influential some of the members later became on the the UK rock and pop scene. Two of the founder...
1960 - 1964. From the "Producers and songwriters series" from Ace. Writer and producer, of "Here comes the night" by the Them, for example. He also tried his own hand at performing, as a singer and musician, but with not much success.A CD about a producer, so we need to listen for the sound quality and arrangements, eh? Don't worry, if anything's very obvious, it's that. There are...
Arcade Fire’s partially re-recorded version of “Wake Up” pulled on all of our heartstrings recently in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer, but the song isn’t actually in the film, you see, nor is it on Karen O and the Kids’ official soundtrack. No worries, though, director Spike Jonze feels your pain: The trailer version of “Wake Up” and 19 other jams are...
Spike Jonze has a present for you. It’s a mixtape called We Love You So (which is also the name of his sweet blog ). I haven’t listened to it yet, so I can’t tell you where it falls on the quirk-o-meter, but I do know that it includes the stripped down version of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” that was playing in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer. I know I’ve...
a little behind and up above the rock and not a titter not a one I'm wasted wasted i tell you. let's see how it should be done.... gene pitney - just one smile x
Passing It On:- Today we wrap up the countdown of music I enjoyed in my youth but that you rarely hear on the radio, with my Top 10 songs: 10. What's A Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You')-Timi Yuro (1962). In the early...
James Jimenez, 35, was convicted Friday of criminal trespass for breaking into Kirsten Dunst’s New York City hotel room in 2007 and stealing $15,000 worth of handbags and electronics, reports E! News. While the misdemeanor could send Jimenez to jail for up to a year, the jury was deadlocked when it came to charges of burglary. Jarrod [...]
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Disc One: Sank 1. Sank - The Beatles 2. Sank’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Gene Pitney 3. Sank Happened - Billy Bragg 4. (There Is Always) Sank There To Remind Me – Sandie Shaw 5. He Was Really Sayin' Sank - The Velvelettes 6. When Sank is Wrong With My Baby - Sam & Dave 7. I Started Sank I Couldn't Finish - The Smiths 8. Everybody's Got Sank To Hide Except Me And My Monkey – The...
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