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Post by Smurfie on Jan 12, 2019 21:06:25 GMT 1
Oh wow, that’s better than the Prince original.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 12, 2019 21:38:11 GMT 1
I raise you The Twins. Even I drew the line at this one.
I see your Twins and raise you Triplets.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jan 13, 2019 21:35:41 GMT 1
Inspired by the rubbishness that was Sophie Lawrence's tepid singing Vox ....... It's 1989 and the biggest female popstar in America is Debbie Gibson..... queue Stock Aitken & Waterman trying to get a lookalike ITV kids TV presenter to become a success in that slipstream with a cover of this Edwin Starr disco soul classic: This was nothing to do with Stock Aitken Waterman
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 14, 2019 20:27:15 GMT 1
There is a third option available to Calvin's mom: he might have been playing Love Sculpture.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2019 2:57:29 GMT 1
Tom Watt's take on Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 23, 2019 1:02:21 GMT 1
Having driven Matlock and Rotten from the Pistols, and with Vicious dead, McLaren needed to do something with the rump of the band. He came up with an astonishing idea; fly Ronnie Biggs, the escaped bit-parter in the Great Train Robbery, from Brazil, to give a rooftop concert in London as singer of the Pistols, and fly him out, before re-arrest. Obviously that was impossible, no pilot would assist a fugitive for starters.
But McLaren did indulge Biggs in his Cro-Magnon views for shock value. And McLaren, a Jew, ramped it up by stating that the bassist on this single was Martin Bormann. But they got a holibobs in Brazil out of it. A great art prank, but a desecration of the Pistols' name.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 10, 2019 22:31:41 GMT 1
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 15, 2019 21:50:29 GMT 1
Blues shouter classic, which may not look very odd, but if I tell you that the line after the title is "there's a fly on the baby's head", you will get that it is not 100% conventional.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 23, 2019 22:45:30 GMT 1
Fed up with being packaged as teen idol puppets, The Monkees gradually took over their musical careers, inputting into their third album, and writing and playing their fourth. Then they made a film about their situation that was essentially as much career suicide as the film itself tried to portray.
It did give us this magnificent slice of psychedelia, quite unlike any of their huge hit singles, but an artistic tour de force.
Goodbye, goodbye, Peter.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 7, 2019 23:50:20 GMT 1
It's bizarre enough that the Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards had a no. 1 hit with something bagpipey. It's even weirder that the Band of the Black Watch had a less substantial hit three years later with something oompa-ey.
It's the height of weirdness though that the BBWs would follow that up with their own version of...the Laurel & Hardy theme.
And it actually made the top 40.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 11, 2019 14:15:53 GMT 1
It's bizarre enough that the Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards had a no. 1 hit with something bagpipey. It's even weirder that the Band of the Black Watch had a less substantial hit three years later with something oompa-ey.
It's the height of weirdness though that the BBWs would follow that up with their own version of...the Laurel & Hardy theme.
And it actually made the top 40.
Now that YouTube views are counted by the OCC, does the fact that I just listened to that mean that it now has one six-hundredth of a sale towards next week’s charts?
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 16, 2019 17:47:44 GMT 1
A bit of the old Wolfgang Am and some classical guitar gave Argentine arranger and conductor Waldo de los Rios an unlikely to hit, and anchored a top 10 album. Wonder how Pan's People danced to this one. The orchestra was that of Manuel de Falla, who lived in Argentine exile for a few years until his death in 1946. Topped the Dutch charts for three weeks. Followed by Gilbert O'Sullivan, The Sweet, The Rolling Stones, Fame & Price Together and Dave & Ansil Collins. Variety.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 5, 2019 6:40:25 GMT 1
A very minor hit for Red "Teddy Bear" Sovine and in a similar maudlin vein. Edgar Buchanan was a character actor of long standing, best known for being Uncle Joe in the American sitcom Petticoat Junction for a decade.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 14, 2019 12:17:03 GMT 1
There is only one word to describe this, and that word is "indescribable".
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Post by Smurfie on May 6, 2019 12:56:44 GMT 1
Keren & Chelle - Sugar Daddy
Obviously this wouldn't have been bizarre in the whole SAW-soundscape of '88. But it is a little if you rewind backwards from the late 90's and realise it's "them from Alisha's Attic".
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 23:52:52 GMT 1
I remember this being heavily promoted on QVC at the time. Mungo Jerry's Ray Dorset teamed up with the QVC presenters back in 1999.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2019 10:07:29 GMT 1
Simon Groom with this unique interpretation of I Can't Help Falling In Love You performed on Blue Peter in 1992. It was released as a single.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 2, 2019 11:54:49 GMT 1
The b-side was an instrumental, "Goldie", performed by The Simon Groom Band.
Oddly (or perhaps expectedly) it was not released on a label. So self-released but he did not bother even to create a fictional entity for it. Catalogue number GROOM 1, so I presume one has to credit it to Groom Records.
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Post by justintime on Jun 18, 2019 17:11:09 GMT 1
I always found that Wash Your Face In My Sink song very odd
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 19:22:31 GMT 1
The b-side was an instrumental, "Goldie", performed by The Simon Groom Band. Oddly (or perhaps expectedly) it was not released on a label. So self-released but he did not bother even to create a fictional entity for it. Catalogue number GROOM 1, so I presume one has to credit it to Groom Records.
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