Liking that Wolves song btw, hadn't heard it before. Last minute of it is awesome.
― primate marmite (NickB), Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
I have a soft spot for "In Our Time" by Nancy Sinatra, a Lee Hazlewood composition which went to #46 in the US. Hazlewood himself also recorded a version around this time. Nancy's version has a couple of Lee's drug lyrics toned down: Lee's "smoking funny cigarettes" becomes Nancy's "smoking filtered cigarettes." Lee sings "we take trips and never leave" while Nancy sings "some take trips and never leave." Funnily enough, immediately after this single Nancy had a bigger hit with "Sugar Town," a Hazlewood composition that is a straight up ode to the joys of LSD.
― Josefa, Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link
Voting for the Temptations song, though it's basically one long "negging" session:
"A pretty face you may not possessBut what I like about you is your tenderness"
The Hollies song is irritating (though I like a lot of their stuff), and the Cream song is junk.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 19 September 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
Obvious I know, but it's got to be 96 Tears.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 19 September 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
"96 Tears" is so good y'all
xp!
― aegis philbin (crüt), Sunday, 19 September 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
"Lust for Life" by The Wolves?
It can only be a disappointment.
― Mark G, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
The Homer Banks is a straight banger.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 September 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Can we get a higher-res scan of the column? I can’t read it.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 19 September 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
Was gonna say
― Mark G, Sunday, 19 September 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
What I did was grab the image and enlarge it on my laptop
― Josefa, Sunday, 19 September 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Hmm, it should open as 1111x792, which is the original size. It opens fine on my laptop. I'll embed it here and see what happens.
https://i.imgur.com/0hAwvmT.jpeg
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Trini Lopez, as the subject of a Golden Girls joke I had to Google
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 25 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
This is not the 1966 you were looking for …Another fascinating slice of the past, warty lumps and all. A lot of records that sound trite or mannered to my ears, and not just the British contingent. Was tempted to vote for Spike Milligan in sympathy. American R&B is a cut above, with The Philly Freeze being a nice discovery. But in the end I voted for Keith and Billie’s Swingin’ Tight, which wears its US influence much more attractively than some others. I previously knew Billie Davis from a Decca Girls’ Scene compilation (the terrific Nobody’s Home to Go Home to). This isn’t quite up to that but I still enjoyed it enough to pick it over 96 Tears, which I guess is just a little overfamiliar.
― Alba, Saturday, 25 September 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
I think Nancy Sinatra is missing from both the Spotify playlist and the YouTube links, btw. Here she is on YT:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de_rtc8gbw
― Alba, Saturday, 25 September 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
THE GREATNancy Sinatra - In Our Time (yes, it vanished from UK Spotify during the past week, ta for the YT)? (Question Mark) And The Mysterians - 96 Tears (along with "Reach Out I'll Be There", the only one I've ever owned on 7", bought as a late-70s reissue following its revival by Eddie & The Hot Rods)Beverley - Happy New Year (as I suspected, this is Beverley Martyn, with a Randy Newman song, selling for around £50 on Discogs)Homer Banks - A Lot Of Love (I know this total banger from my two year stint as a Soul/Motown/Northern DJ)The Wolves - Lust For Life (also sells for around £50 on Discogs)Jimmy Holiday - Baby I Love You (the RM review pretty much nails it)
THE GOODThe Creation - Painter Man (as covered by Boney M!)The Temptations - Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (as someone said above, one long negging session, which keeps it from the Great pile)Cliff Richard - Time Drags By (way, way better than I would have expected from 1967 Cliff)The Hollies - Stop Stop StopPeter, Paul And Mary - The Other Side Of This Life Tuesday's Children - High On A Hill
THE OKPeter Fenton - Marble Breaks, Iron Bends Keith And Billie - Swingin' Tight (just a bit too derivative for the Good pile, like Sonny & Cher doing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"; Billie Davis did much better in 1968 with the absolutely FANTASTIC "I Want You To Be My Baby")Bobby Goldsboro - It Hurts Me John-John Ivan - Trouble Mountain Adam Faith - Cheryl's Going HomeTony Bennett - A Time For LoveLou Christie - If My Car Could Only Talk The Cream - Wrapping Paper (their debut release)Belfast Gypsies - Gloria's Dream (a post-Them splinter group, produced and co-written by Kim Fowley, and a shameless grab of Van Morrison's song, for which he is not credited on the label)Michael Alred - Just Around The CornerAlvin Cash And The Registers - The Philly Freeze
THE IFFYThe Four Pennies - No Sad Songs For Me (I remember their singer Lionel Morton as a Play School presenter)Elvis Presley - All That I AmDuane Eddy - Daydream Mighty Sam - Fannie MaeWishful Thinking - Step By Step
THE GARBAGERolf Harris - Hey Yew Gotta Loight Boy Trini Lopez - Pancho Lopez Spike Milligan - Purple AeroplanePat Boone - Love For Love
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 25 September 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
96 Tears
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 September 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
I found a copy of "Black Girl" by the Four Pennies, last year. If it's not quite the searing performance that Nirvana's is, it's closer than you'd expect.
― Mark G, Saturday, 25 September 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
After a nail-biting final round, I have decided to vote for Beverley Martyn's masterful "Happy New Year". It was nearly The Wolves, but the chorus very slightly lets it down.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 25 September 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Enjoyed this thorough entry on The Wolves on the Brumbeat website. Bobby Holt putting me in mind of Slade In Residence here:
In July, the Midland Beat newspaper published an enthusiastic almost full-page "MEET THE GROUP" feature on The Wolves that included detailed bios of each band member. For example, Midland Beat wrote that Bobby Holt liked; "Chinese food, chips, lying in bed, a pint of bitter, and dislikes girls with heavy make-up"
― Alba, Saturday, 25 September 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
http://www.brumbeat.net/wolves.htm
― Alba, Saturday, 25 September 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
Same here
― birdistheword, Saturday, 25 September 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
"96 Tears" has to be the favourite to win. I've played it countless times over the years, and although a little blunted by over-familiarity, it never gets old.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 26 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Ha, well, quite.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 26 September 2021 09:10 (two years ago) link
That Hollies song is kinda weird, not the song as such but the arrangement, it's based around an echoplexed banjo! The Hollies are a band I've never paid the slightest attention to, I never recognize the titles of their famous songs but as soon as I hear them I know them and I often, maybe mostly, like them.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 September 2021 09:51 (two years ago) link
I did try to vote Cliff "Times drag by" because its great, but I'd already voted Hollies. Both deserve being in the voted for section.
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 September 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
The artwork for the Beverley single includes a great Aubrey Beardsley pastiche - the epitome of 1966; so would have voted for that.
Enjoyed the look of incredulity on Ginger Baker's face that I saw on a recent BBC 4 Clapton doc when he was talking about 'Wrapping Paper".
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 26 September 2021 10:13 (two years ago) link
Here we go again, five years later:
RECORD MIRROR singles reviews, 9th October 1971
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 26 September 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
Is this an oblique TS: Jon Savage (1966) vs David Hepworth (1971)?
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 26 September 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link