General Chat

David Alexander, anyone remember him? Love Is All, and The Answer and many more.

yes \I remember David Alexander think his music was played a lot some time ago on radio Kent I do have a Cd of his but it's in the attic
Ireally liked him singing :-D

I found some of my vinyl records recently when sorting out my mum's house - what a blast from the past. Anyone remember Curved Air? They sang Backstreet Luv.....I thought that was brill at the time.

I remember the Marquee, Lynda, used to go there quite a bit when I lived & worked in London (the Wardour Street venue). I think the last time I went there I saw Martha & the Muffins (of Echo Beach fame).
http://www.themarqueeclub.net/

Karen

Last night on BBC4 there was 3 hours of Southern Rock mostly from the 70's.
I had forgotten just how many great groups there were from the US South back then
sat watching and rocking

Johnny Winter was fab - saw him live at the Albert Hall, with the Edgar Broughton Band.

Fab Fab Fab

EDIT: Captain Beefheart not Edgar Broughton - memory lapse....

Anybody remember "The Inkspots"? or John Leyton?

Oooh someone else who's heard of the Edgar Broughton Band. I saw them in Bristol and I think they were the first band I ever went to see. I would have been 15, maybe just gone 16. I thought they were fabulous.
One of my all time favourites....
Evening Over Rooftops.

The air was thick like honey
Looking from a room,
The room had open widows
To let the springtime through.......
:-)

love the Inkspots - have a CD of them - and the Mills Brothers and Al Jolson

I think Barry Ryan wrote "My Way" so there is a connction with Sinatra

David Alexander - fab songs, fab voice

anyone remember Mrs Mills and Russ Conway
honky tonk piano playing :-D

Winifred Attwell was the best on the honky tonk :-D

Deep Purple,,,Focus,,,Whitesnake,, and a bit of rock& roll....Hank Williams,,Hank Locklin,,Merle Haggard,,Charley Pride,,Waylon Jennings,,Kris Kristopherson,,,to name but a few....Had a good time on the Country Music circuit,,UK that is.....LES...

OH yes Ann forgot about Winifred :-D

edit how about liberace :-D

Out Demons Out ....

:-S :-S :-S

are you exorcising this site? :-D

Before YouTube Napster and so on there were songs that got stuck in yr head and records you bought and wished you hadn't. Time erases all sorts of tick tack from 45rpm through to left over girl friends ( and boy friends though I never had one ).

Maybe the upcoming regulations on "right to be forgotten" will erase the worst excesses of Denmark Street and the Brill Buidling but I wouldn't count on it.

So in the meantime here is the worst song ever. It was no 1 during one of the UK's rare hot summers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc

I bought that one Rollo think I preferred the "B" side Raining and Paining...or something like that :-D


Edit - Yes it was.... Good memory seeing as I hav'nt looked at my singles for about 20 years

I have a set of basement tapes with all of the Beatles B sides. Most of them are dreadful two, though a few were ok.

Flick Colby was my landlord's girlfriend for a while.

I saw Guy Mitchell at the London palladium many years ago and he was one that didn't need a microphone
one song I remember She wears red feathers and a hooly hooly skirt :-D :-D

I loved Guy Mitchell. His song "One of the Roving Kind" was banned by my parents for a while because of the subject matter!!

you can roll a silver dollar down upon the ground - Guy Mitchell

Do you know I really liked Dean Martin singing
Little old Wine drinking me

but liked all his song :-D
my dad always sang Rolla silver dollar when he came home after having a few beers :-)