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Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:02 pm
Mr. K wrote:This was my very last post at our previous home:

Manfred Mann's first single was a moody instrumental which failed to chart.

Funny you should bring up Manfred Mann. Myself and my Dad were talking to a friend about the MM concert we attended back in 2012 or 2013 this weekend just gone! My Dad was let down because they didn't play "Joybringer". Laughing
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Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:17 pm
Ever have an album you have never heard, finally get to it and wonder how you lasted so long without getting it?

"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" is that album for me. I hadn't heard it until quite late last year! This is my favourite from the LP..

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Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:51 pm
BobLucas wrote:Ever have an album you have never heard, finally get to it and wonder how you lasted so long without getting it?

"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" is that album for me. I hadn't heard it until quite late last year! This is my favourite from the LP..

I remember coming home sometime in mid '68 and hearing these strings blasting out of the
bedroom window. It was the title track of Ogden's, which my brother had bought that day.

Doesn't "Rene" have a false fade? Lovely song, fantastic album.
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Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:53 am
This track popped into my head this morning.

Track: 'California Sun'---The Rivieras

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Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:56 pm
CherokeeRose wrote:This track popped into my head this morning.

Track: 'California Sun'---The Rivieras

I love that song!

Listening to one of the French radio stations back in 1968, waiting for a decent US song
through all the French shit, I kept hearing this organ-fuelled exception to the rule. All I knew
of it were the words "le château", which I assumed were the title. Oddly, French friends of
mine couldn't help me. It took more than four decades to get there, mainly by trial-and-error
googling. It is in fact called "Le bal des laze" and it's sung by French superstar Michel
Polnareff, one of the acts to open for the Boys in Paris in late 1966 (thanks be to AGD).


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Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:55 pm
One of my favourite Mamas and Papas songs at this exact moment in time..
This version is great because all the mock session stuff in the middle has been edited out.
I'd have gone a step further and edited the drums after the vocal section and had it come in when the bass starts..
Either way, lovely song.

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Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:54 pm
BobLucas wrote:One of my favourite Mamas and Papas songs at this exact moment in time..
Great vocal harmonies. One of the most distinctive bands of all time.


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Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:02 am
BobLucas wrote:I didn't know The Turtles covered this song until very recently.. I love it, particularly the bass.
Very under rated band in my opinion.

I'd always assumed this was the original. It seems The Vogues did it first:  https://secondhandsongs.com/work/3095/versions#nav-entity


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Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:44 pm
BobLucas wrote:I didn't know The Turtles covered this song until very recently.. I love it, particularly the bass.
Very under rated band in my opinion.

I have always loved The Turtles. I use to play their songs all the time, also in my first ever car I will also add, lol! My Dad spoke to Mark Volman from The Turtles some years back and he was very nice person. I do also agree on them being underrated---a great band!
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Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:53 am
I see little point in starting a Soul Topic at this early stage of the game.
Maybe something for later?----we'll see.

I remember hearing this superb Stax song on French radio back in 1967.
(Bell also did a sincere tribute to Otis shortly after the fatal plane crash.)  


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Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:00 pm
Always liked this track. The arrangements, harmonies and blend are excellent.

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Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:18 pm
I heard this gem on the TV the other day for the first time in some years! We also covered the song once at a few LK rehearsals about 8/9 years ago. Smile

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Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:35 pm
Soul singer Etta James, who died six years ago almost to the day, was best known for her
song "I'd Rather Go Blind". After hearing a lacklustre tribute version on Dutch TV today,
I feel compelled to post the version I remember best. Chicken Shack may not be a
household name but their female lead singer later joined a band that most certainly is:




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Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:55 pm
Always felt the Bonzos were far too overlooked when considering the quality of their work, in fact, I considered a thread dedicated to them.. maybe one day..
20 years later, this track would be rap.
This is also an example of a song with a tiny moment that makes the whole track for me.. in this case it's at 2:38 where the vocal in the left speaker has this delay/feedback effect applied.
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Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:22 am
BobLucas wrote:Always felt the Bonzos were far too overlooked when considering the quality of their work, in fact, I considered a thread dedicated to them.. maybe one day..
20 years later, this track would be rap.
This is also an example of a song with a tiny moment that makes the whole track for me.. in this case it's at 2:38 where the vocal in the left speaker has this delay/feedback effect applied.

Love that effect! I remember the Bonzos were held in very high esteem in certain circles
at the time but they were largely over the general public's collective head. "Canyons Of
Your Mind" has some wonderful burps towards the end but they are subtlety itself
compared to the stupendous belch Stanshall lets fly at 1:58 in this live version:




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Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:45 pm
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Love that effect! I remember the Bonzos were held in very high esteem in certain circles
at the time but they were largely over the general public's collective head. "Canyons Of
Your Mind" has some wonderful burps towards the end but they are subtlety itself
compared to the stupendous belch Stanshall lets fly at 1:58 in this live version:


The B-Side of The Urban Spaceman. Great track!

This is another favourite of mine, I love the electronic sound effects and the proto-ska sound.
They were a very clever band.. maybe a little too clever for their own good with regards to commercialism.

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Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:55 pm
I heard this classic on the radio today.

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Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:36 pm
Cool Cool Water wrote:I heard this classic on the radio today.

Oh yes. "Autumn Almanac" is the last Kinks record I really liked. I realize they'd done a hell of a lot
since then but it never interested me and still doesn't. Styles change and tastes change, I suppose.
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Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:59 pm
Mr. K wrote:Styles change and tastes change, I suppose.

The same could be said about the Beach Boys could it not? I think the Kinks got better after this, obviously my opinion only here, with the most notable one being their 1968 album: "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society". Pete Townshend said that album was their "Sgt. Pepper's" and I would agree. A genius album.

The late '70s/'80s albums they piled out I didn't like.
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Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:49 pm
Heard this today while checking something out online (something BB-related but I can't remember
what!). I was never overly fond of many things Dusty recorded----a lot of unsuitable stuff in there--
--but this was right on target (1966, natch). Just love those triplets at 2:05! R.I.P., Ms Springfield.

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Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:48 pm
A friend from the States who is a big fan of "The Ladykillers" posted this today via FB---brilliant!

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Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:01 pm
Brilliant!

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Cool Cool Water wrote:Brilliant!


Great to hear that again! The barking dog, the clarinet... sheer genius!
I believe it was their last 45 before breaking up. (And indeed it was.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universal_(Small_Faces_song)
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Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:09 pm
Mr. K wrote:Great to hear that again! The barking dog, the clarinet... sheer genius!
I believe it was their last 45 before breaking up. (And indeed it was.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universal_(Small_Faces_song)

I agree. How you hear the dogs barking mixed in with the track is great! Steve Marriott was one hell of a musician! His death in 1991 was most tragic, however.

I've been listening to this of late---just genius! His voice was an instrument he was good at, let alone his guitar playing.

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Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:42 pm
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Mr. K wrote:Great to hear that again! The barking dog, the clarinet... sheer genius!
I believe it was their last 45 before breaking up. (And indeed it was.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universal_(Small_Faces_song)

I agree. How you hear the dogs barking mixed in with the track is great! Steve Marriott was one hell of a musician! His death in 1991 was most tragic, however.

I've been listening to this of late---just genius! His voice was an instrument he was good at, let alone his guitar playing.

I never really got into Humble Pie at the time for some reason. Maybe it was because it was "The Next Band Along" from
Small Faces, who I thought were excellent. Marriott I feel is one of the few truly soulful singers to come out of the UK.
Others were Chris Farlowe (pretty well forgotten these days) and Paul Rodgers of Free. But it's a very select company...
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