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[Music] Long forgotten gems
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Came across this when on holiday with "the lads" in Spain in 1982 - did my best New Romantic dancingto it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQfC7Ow5GHo
Got off with a lovely girl from Bristol in Puppy Love disco in Alcudia to this!!! Memories...
Stunning track.
There is an amazing mashup of this with a track by Grauzone....let me hunt it down...
That didn't take long
Enjoy....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZbA7G4dDbQ
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In fairness to Grauzone, drowned out in the last post, they are deffo worth a listen. This is dead cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oAR3jpAAp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oAR3jpAAp4
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I've acually forgotten what this thread is about - posting nice music perhaps.
These Italians were lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSlEofvjf0
These Italians were lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSlEofvjf0
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Beyond the world of Echo Beach is this from 34 years ago.
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She was a ballad singer before Vinegar Joe too - singles were always being pushed (without success by ageing DJs like David Jacobs and Pete Murray. It wasn't just her vocals that were a feature of Vinegar Joe ....... great live in 1972 they were!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G51tmiwMlk
.....and Robert Palmer wasn't too chuffed because he was meant to be the main singer/attraction (so I understood at the time).......and Elkie went back to MOR.........
This had shivers up and down my spine in the late 60s....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_FIFQvEwRc
And so did this in the 80s!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOhCV6beOF4
RIP Billy MacKenzie. Voice of an angel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrPyrJ3Gamg
The original version was one of the very few singles amongst my parents' rather impoverished musical legacy which is somewhat surprising considering they were still teenagers in the 50s and still in their 20s in the 60s. As a result I'm very familiar with this single as I played it quite a lot for want of anything else to play. Because of that it's always had a strong association with my childhood. The only other single I remember is Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore." (edit: I almost forgot: and Rolf Harris's "Two Little Boys". The only album I remember was a box set by the Seekers. It didn't get any better than that. And I still cringe when I remember the time my father came home one afternoon proudly bearing a copy of Judge Dredd's cover version of "Je t'Aime" (B-side "Look a Pussy")
the first single he'd bought in nearly ten years.I didn't realise The Associates did a cover version (Kites not Look a Pussy). As you say, voice of an angel.
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This is a forgotten gem for me.
I've always had a soft spot for France Gall (French yé-yé singer and 1965 Eurovision Song Contest winner) as this single was amongst my mother's singles collection (it was basically my mother's single collection).
My affection for France Gall was reignited in more recent years when I discovered that as a still innocent and naive 20 year old she had been innocently led astray by that old reprobate Serge Gainsbourg (to whom I made an indirect reference in my previous post above) when totally oblivious to her at the time he had induced her to release one of his songs about fellatio ("Les Sucettes": she thought it was a song about lollipops despite appearing in a video with some very phallic depictions of that particular confectionery). When she learnt the truth she went into hiding for months feeling totally ashamed.
This gem is from this four track single which I often played as a child and is a song you will probably all be familiar with but not necessarily by France Gall. Her voice makes me go all gooey....
https://youtu.be/WlbZMN9bwAs
I've always had a soft spot for France Gall (French yé-yé singer and 1965 Eurovision Song Contest winner) as this single was amongst my mother's singles collection (it was basically my mother's single collection).
My affection for France Gall was reignited in more recent years when I discovered that as a still innocent and naive 20 year old she had been innocently led astray by that old reprobate Serge Gainsbourg (to whom I made an indirect reference in my previous post above) when totally oblivious to her at the time he had induced her to release one of his songs about fellatio ("Les Sucettes": she thought it was a song about lollipops despite appearing in a video with some very phallic depictions of that particular confectionery). When she learnt the truth she went into hiding for months feeling totally ashamed.
This gem is from this four track single which I often played as a child and is a song you will probably all be familiar with but not necessarily by France Gall. Her voice makes me go all gooey....
https://youtu.be/WlbZMN9bwAs
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That was produced by Denis Preston, the father of 'Tracey Spenser' of The Molesters, and various other Brighton punk/pop bands of the late 70s (e.g., Smarties) with whom I shared a flat for a brief period.
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An almost forgotten Stones album. I used to really like this track going way way back, particularly the jazz band style instrumental late in the track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yxJiuWJmE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yxJiuWJmE4
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Female singers don't come much sexier (imo). Back in the days when women embraced being feminine, without the need to be in your face and tarty in their presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLoezucIzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLoezucIzk
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Just heard this on Radio 2
Takes me back to Folkestone Beach (Shakespeare Cliffs)in 1966, discussing the chances of a channel tunnel actually happening ( which was being discussed on the news having had the green light a couple of years before) whilst listening to a small transistor radio. Simpler times, this song was then played, strange the things us oldies remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
Takes me back to Folkestone Beach (Shakespeare Cliffs)in 1966, discussing the chances of a channel tunnel actually happening ( which was being discussed on the news having had the green light a couple of years before) whilst listening to a small transistor radio. Simpler times, this song was then played, strange the things us oldies remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
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I recall being on my own with this one ....
I thought my friends liked it too , but they later said they thought I was being ironic when I used to play it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVC8Y4aJdc
Still like it.
I thought my friends liked it too , but they later said they thought I was being ironic when I used to play it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVC8Y4aJdc
Still like it.