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