tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67182732239347303362024-03-13T20:37:36.403+00:00Pick 'n' MixedPersonal Reflections on Music, Life and AllsortsBoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-21136467537083222532021-02-28T17:09:00.001+00:002021-03-01T21:55:19.891+00:00Every Elvis Presley CD 1984-2005 - Listed<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2K2i1bGUv9Y/YDvHGTMFBeI/AAAAAAAACt4/nLmGIGCVAQk0iSf-xX6EsGMGKXu2C9nzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s522/elvisuk3.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2K2i1bGUv9Y/YDvHGTMFBeI/AAAAAAAACt4/nLmGIGCVAQk0iSf-xX6EsGMGKXu2C9nzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/elvisuk3.JPG"/></a></div>
Elvis fans now have a new source of info on releases following the publication of 'Elvis UK3', a complete discography of Presley CD releases from 1983 through to 2005. The listing covers all labels not just those issued by RCA. The work has been completed by John Townson and Gordon Minto and follows their previous works on Elvis vinyl releases. Entries number 450+ and each is shown with tracklistings, composer and studio details, copies of the artwork and commentary.
Included in the listings are record label promotional releases together with compilations featuring the King's material.
Along with a great number of others I had the pleasure of supporting the detailed research, contributing to the introduction section which details RCA's move into CD manufacturing in 1983 and the release of the very first Elvis product on the medium. The story of the box set The Legend is also told in <a href="http://picknmixed.blogspot.com/p/first-elvis-cds-ever.html" target="_blank"><b>these pages</b></a>
The ultimate guide to CD releases is published via the <a href="https://www.elvisukbooks.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Elvis UK Books website</b></a> <a href="https://www.elvisukbooks.co.uk/" target="_blank"></a> currently available in digital 'flipbook' technology. Buyers will also receive a unique 23 track compilation specially commissioned by the authors.
A visit to the website shows sample pages and details for purchase etc. Highly recommended for Elvis fans.BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-35302136558048183832016-03-31T15:11:00.000+01:002020-01-23T19:17:07.393+00:00Sample from Drake's "Hotline Bling"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you like it then seek out <a href="http://www.45cat.com/record/2001545">"You're A Song I've Always Wanted To Sing"</a> by Timmy and the orginal b side of "Live Together"<a href="http://www.45cat.com/record/2027012"> "Funky me"</a></div>
</span>BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-82674545689898006032016-03-19T10:32:00.000+00:002020-01-23T19:18:36.797+00:00Lianne La Havas - Royal Albert Hall 14th March 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-9988925920187966462014-06-28T09:38:00.000+01:002020-01-23T19:19:49.020+00:00Bobby Womack - 1944 - 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bobby Womack has been part of my life since I was 13 - when I first heard "I Can Understand It". I began to search for his other work and found the goldmine of UA/Minit sides that made his name. It was only later that I found that this was his second coming. He had been on the gospel circuit since his early teens with his brothers as the Valentinos, he had written "It's All Over Now" which I knew only from the Stones' cover. He had been a protege of the great Sam Cooke. He fell from public grace upon marrying Cooke's widow but later restarted his career from the ground up with sessions on guitar and writing for the likes of Aretha, Wilson Picket, and Sly Stone etc. His live shows brought him back - with versions of standards such as "Fly Me To The Moon". That brought me up to date. I was lucky enough to see him at Hammersmith in '76 performing those great songs "Harry Hippie" a tribute to his wayward brother, "That's The Way I Feel About Cha" and "Woman's Gotta Have It". This resurrection coincided with the world taking soul for more than the 3 minute pleading singles and his "Communicaton" and "Understanding" albums are outstanding examples of the development of soul following the 60's heyday.</span></div>
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He dabbled with drugs and his addiction pulled him down with later albums producing good works but always falling short (for me) of those classics. He got it together and cut two blinding albums in "The Poet" and the "Poet 2" these again showed that he sits alongside Stevie, Marvin, even in my opinion Otis. His secret was songs - he then touched a nerve by packaging and passionate delivery. This is the essence of what soul is to me. In 1987 with "Only Survivor" album again bringing him to the fore he toured and I returned to Hammersmith to see him in his element with an audience engaged in all that had gone before and what was current. At that gig he invited Paul Young onto the stage to perform his then hit version of Hall & Oates "Everytime You Go Away" - Bobby's parts blew him off the stage as the master showed his powers, substance over form on a song that he should have recorded.</div>
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My first conversations with my wife were about music, Bobby was heavily featured on the tapes I made her and remain the soundtrack to much of my life. I return to those songs constantly.</div>
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I'm wasn't overwhelmed with the Damon Albarn sponsored Gorillaz collaboration or the "Bravest Man" album that brought him back to public consciousness - but that has more to do with what I'm comparing it with (and perhaps that era can never be repeated) but i'm grateful he was able to have that last hurrah - The great thing for me was that I finally saw my hero getting the high profile that he deserved - Glastonbury, Later with Jools, awards, press and above all deserved recognition. I saw him one last time in 2011 at the Jazz Cafe where he performed three nights in a venue holding about 400. This was just before the "Bravest Man" album surfaced and he whilst frail he could still belt out a tune. He would repeat his "old soul" set at Glastonbury in 2013 to much acclaim. He continued on the festival circuit and up until two weeks ago was still active performing at Bonnaroo.</div>
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There will be many more detailed (and better) obituaries written within the next few days. For me he has gone but I have him as a continuing companion in the sides that will stay with me always. He was known as the Preacher, The Last Soul Man and the Poet. He was all that and more to me.</div>
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</span>BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-84033566174315782652014-04-22T16:31:00.002+01:002020-01-23T19:20:37.904+00:00Digital Vs Analogue - It's A Personal Thing, Isn't It?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My listening time is now 80% on the move. my i-pod allows me to review my collection on the tube each morning and select whatever I want to hear. I know it sounds different to my vinyl or even CD copies but then Hi-Fi, docking station, computer speakers, Car systems, headphones, ear buds all add to the differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I happen to have a lot of CDs - some of which were bought as a first experience of, say, Amy Winehouse - to me CD is her natural home. Then again hearing the CD version of the Four Tops "Standing in the Shadows of Love" for the first time was a revelation as I'd always been used to the vinyl version on my mum's radiogram playing my older sisters scratched 45rpm. Which do i prefer - not sure?! Some tracks lose their "sound" if heard digitally. At the beginning of the CD era a number of classical releases had to be edited as exterior noises from the original concert halls could be heard under the new format, whereas they were previously hidden behind all that surface noise previously. But we got used to that didn't we. Radio broadcasts narrowed the sound - Berry Gordy ordered his engineers to play up the beat and the higher end percussion to meet the restrictions of radio play. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">And so the argument can rattle on...</span></div>
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-17050998781608002332013-11-30T23:38:00.002+00:002020-01-23T19:22:05.194+00:00In Appreciation of... Lisa Stansfield<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A couple of weeks back I saw Lisa Stansfield at the Indig02. I was a fan of hers from the Coldcut collaboration "People Hold On " that introduced her to the world but a series of albums that followed proved she was no part player and not only had a great set of pipes but could write nifty tune as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'd not seen her live and given the passing of time wondered how her voice would stand up and what I was going to get for my money. No worries there - all the fab songs from her heyday were there - still great tunes, still performed with a great voice (with an added new tone which enhances rather than disappoints). At an early point we got the "here's a new song..." but frankly this lady hasn't lost any of her craft. These new tunes "the conversation" and particularly for me "Stupid Heart" fitted well with her set and certainly held up (or more) with the past glories. "Stupid Heart" could be an old southern soul classic - and needs to be covered by a Mavis Staples or a rejuventaed Aretha (if only she would re-emerge).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On checking the web I found a very similar set from earlier this year at the Java Jazz festival and then coincidentally saw that she was appearing on daytime TV. I Sky+ it and found her live performance of "Heart" once again thrilling.</span></div>
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-79057090571797050952013-08-16T23:17:00.002+01:002020-01-23T19:23:21.459+00:00Howling At The Moon - Walter Yetnikoff with David Ritz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-76413635589488649712013-07-02T15:14:00.000+01:002020-01-23T19:24:35.799+00:00Glastonbury 2013<div style="text-align: center;">
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-80765241772975791562013-04-19T22:30:00.000+01:002020-01-23T19:25:21.911+00:00Record Store Day 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-33616886234705234032013-03-06T01:11:00.002+00:002020-01-23T19:28:04.958+00:00Not Abba - Dave Haslam<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No it wasn't all flares, space hoppers, afros and punks. Neither was it prog rockers , Glam and all frivolous fun. The 70's was a fab decade but one of political and social change - much of it reflected in the mass media arts of music, film and TV. This book is a year by year trawl through what happened and when. It takes me back to my formative years (I was 13 in </span><a href="http://picknmixed.blogspot.co.uk/p/1971.html"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1971</span></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) when adults seemed miserable and brow beaten by life in general - they had good cause - with the rise of UK mainland terrorism; strikes, blackouts and raging inflation. Teenagers, a second generation if you will from the Summer Of Love period (hippies behind them) saw the new world very differently. I would recommend this book to anyone but for those of you of a similar age - this and it's fiction counterpart, The Rotters Club are great reads and will take you back to a very real image of a decade of major social change in this country.</span></span></div>
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-60189820159536789372012-12-31T01:34:00.002+00:002020-01-23T19:32:42.408+00:00Marvin - Let's Get It On Era Images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a young teenager I was seen as having odd taste by my school friends as Marv was my hero and not some glammed up pop star like Bowie, Slade or Marc Bolan. Still after all these years you can see I was right! Such a cool dude.</span></div>
<br />BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-19967013476865891192012-12-31T01:17:00.004+00:002020-01-23T19:35:05.265+00:00Life Is A Rock (and The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (1974)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A real One Hit Wonder from the "band" Reunion - a group of session musicians taing advantage of some spare studio time. Here's the industry related lyrics - sing along if you can. Released by RCA in 1974.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life Is A Rock (and The Radio Rolled Me)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 9pt;">Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Life is a rock but the radio rolled me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Life is a rock but the radio rolled me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Life is a rock but the radio rolled me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Life is a rock but the radio rolled me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Denver, John and Osmond, Donny</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Life is a rock but the radio rolled me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Life is a rock but the radio rolled me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Listen--remember, they're playing our song!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Make it bad and play it funky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">(Wanna take you higher!)</span></div>
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-62089901738138829472012-10-17T05:26:00.003+01:002020-01-23T19:38:39.969+00:00Deacon Blue - Adele - Alicia Keys - Azadeh<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">L</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">ike most people my interface (oooh get me) with new music has changed. Whilst I used to be able to rely on good old Radio One to play the current stuff with the odd "exclusive" preview of a forthcoming single; now there are so many sources to my musical world that frankly I feel very disconnected to what is going on. It's odd as I seem to search out tracks my shopping experiences, form TV ads, the soundtracking to a baking competition on TV and even the odd X-Factor or Dave Arch/Strictly version. Perhaps it's good that my musical taste is no longer the domain of some radio programmer somewhere. My interests this month are of varied origin and datestamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Whilst I loved Deacon Blue, the evening was made by Azadeh's set (with band) . Strong songs, a sort of Tori come Amy with Paula Cole voice but with a unique feel for her own sound. The band arrangements built on her performance; she's clearly comfortable being out front and was gracious in the reception she got spending time signing demo's and chatting to audience members in the foyer later - her stage presence rang true, she's obviously passionate about performing her songs her way (and not some popster wannabe) only good came over in a what you see is what you get way - all to her credit. The demo CD confirmed the show was no fluke and frankly the "demo's" need no work for a release. An internet hunt finds her unsigned - which is hard to believe. Search her out - you're in for a treat.</span><br />
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-39828711280203562592012-09-12T20:39:00.003+01:002020-01-23T19:40:07.143+00:00Proud<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps too much already said about our Olympics - but all praise is good. We did a great job. Hopefully the lasting legacy from the whole summer is a belief by the British that British is good and we actually can really put on a show on a massive scale whilst the world looks on. The best quote i've read is that "..we have seen the best of ourselves.." those few words sum it up really. I'm very proudly British and a Londoner - never more so that the last few weeks</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Gene Dozier and The United Front - Give the Women What They Want</strong> - a pre-disco funk workout by someone I have never heard of since (this is from the Soul Train album on Phongram 1974) </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/boyred/gene-dozier-and-the-united">Hear It here on BoyRed's Soundcloud</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bessie Banks - Go Now</strong> - always known as an old Denny Laine era Moody Blues track in the UK here's the blinding original </span><a href="http://www.45cat.com/record/sc105"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">45Cat and Hear It Here</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Don Covay - It's Better To Have (And Don't Need)</strong> - wonderful 1974 track from Covay - shows him moving forward from his Soul Clan/Atlantic days. Hear it </span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/boyred/don-covay-its-better-to-have"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Act One - Goodbye Love (We're Through)</strong> - another band known more for their uptempo sounds - well one at least - this was the B side of "Tom The Peeper" - well worth flippin'. </span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/boyred/act-one-goodbye-love-were"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Play It Here On The Cloud</span></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.45cat.com/record/6008005"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">45Cat entry is here</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So many records and so little time....</span>BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-71912840582263665122012-09-02T15:51:00.002+01:002020-01-23T19:41:43.564+00:00Jocelyn Bown - R-U-Lonely (1988)<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is anyone else watching Sky Atlantic's series Smash!. US TV at it's best, this follows a stage show production based on the Marilyn Monroe life story. Here we see the writers (including an excellent Debra Messing); a single minded Brit director in the form of Jack Davenport (This is the best i've seen him - totally beleivable as bastard!); Angelica Houston as a recently divorced producer trying to find her business feet on her own for the first time. The stars really are Megan Hilty (Wicked on Broadway) and Katherine McPhee (apparently a runner-up in American Idol a few years ago). Hilty clearly shows her stage show experience and is mesmerising - with a powerful voice. If this ever makes it to the stage I want to hear her do it (sorry lost in the story there for a moment). McPhee is a revelation as her green newbie character gets to sing songs from the show and others whilst we see her at karaoke bars, performing at a bar mitzvah etc - she has an all round voice - I particularly like her take on Florence's "Shake It Up"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is good TV and a great Saturday night music fix rolled into one. I'm so taken I've just ordered the soundtrack. Be warned keep way from the Smash website as it will spoil the plotline, iflike me you are watching outside the US where the first season is only mid-way through.</span>BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-60347635511260862672012-06-04T17:27:00.001+01:002021-03-07T13:35:06.268+00:00Ronnie Laine - Brother, Can You Spare Me A Dime? (1975)<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aPEZtK7iAkE/T8zgicAvrWI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/nxKbJsXzTiU/s1600/ronnie-lanes-slim-chance-brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-island-t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aPEZtK7iAkE/T8zgicAvrWI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/nxKbJsXzTiU/s200/ronnie-lanes-slim-chance-brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-island-t.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ronnie Laine's take on an old song about the US depression. This was used in a 1975 David Puttnam BBC2(?) TV documentary on the subject and the track was used as the closing credits rolled. Good version of a powerful song.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial";">To hear it go to <a href="http://soundcloud.com/boyred/ronnie-laine-brother-can-you"><span style="color: #073763;">BoyRed's SoundCloud/Brother</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial";">Q. Am i right in thinking that this has also been recorded as "Buddy, Can You Spare Me A Dime?</span>BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-62876441908567088162012-05-26T19:29:00.003+01:002020-01-23T19:51:37.809+00:00The first RCA CD Catalogue - ever! (1983)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-6907496631567705262012-05-26T19:17:00.001+01:002020-01-23T19:52:25.961+00:00Marvin Gaye Live In London - 1976<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-42403939307357890012012-05-20T12:09:00.001+01:002020-01-23T19:54:35.476+00:00Donna Summer<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sad news of Donna Summer's passing. Here was a true artist that although always labelled "disco" delivered much more. Her career in the 70's will forever be associated with the dancefloor and her work with Giorgio Moroder. Together they took the US disco movement in a fresh direction with the use of electronics that until that point were the tools of experimental rock bands. Her "I Feel Love" was ground-breaking, and whilst those sounds are familiar to us all now in all genres of music it is her and Moroder's legacy. One obit this week quotes Bobby Gillespie as saying that he bought "I Feel Love" on the same day that he bought the Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen". Summer moved away from the scene by recording more mainstream songs on her albums "The Wanderer" and "She Works Hard For The Money" with great success. For me, her reinvention was complete when she recorded the self titled album produced by Quincy Jones and featuring "State Of Indepedence" "Living In America" and the jazz standard "Lush Life". Yesterday I spent a long train journey in the company of her career on my ipod. Her "On the Radio" greatest hits concentrates on her dance-floor hits but includes many lesser known tunes (here anyway) such as "I Love You" and "Sunset People" alongside her "Love To Love You, Baby" her voice and delivery are superb, she was a writer and production contributor. The "Four Season Of Love" album marked the emergence of dance as a major force outside of the 4 minute (or extended 10 minute) single. The album shows the magic between Summer and Moroder and Pete Bellote by delivering a consistent piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Much will be said this week about her, the trials with the conflict of her faith and the sexual nature of her image, her dismissal as a diva disco queen - we should value a game changing body of work, the result of the fate of the early coupling with Moroder/Bellotte and her second and third coming. Hopefully it may be a catalyst in helping Disco find it's place in serious music history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For now let's remember her as a fantastic artist.</span></div>
BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718273223934730336.post-49798207861942449312012-05-20T11:34:00.004+01:002020-01-23T19:55:26.547+00:00Westminster Record Fair 2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Attended yesterday's fair with great expectations of a good days crate digging. This VIP fair isn't as big as the Music Mania event (next one in November) but probably good for those collectors willing to pay the big ticket desirable items. I'm more of a pile it high and flog it cheap merchant as i like to sort through stuff. One man's tat is another man's treasure. So shorter day than expected, but met with the boys in doing so and swung by Fopp! on the way back. Small haul in the form of Simply Red and Sinatra CDs for my son, together with the "Wondrous Stories" prog compilation and a couple of 70's Biddu albums on vinyl (to follow up meet my current disco craving).</span>BoyRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08471155283256566561noreply@blogger.com0