1967 links

There is something quite special about this performance from 1967. One of the great tracks of the time that wasn't a big time hit. The girl singer with them is PP Arnold who had had her own hit a little earlier with The First Cut Is The Deepest.

This then took me to PP Arnold's hit and then Billie Davis' version of Angel Of The Morning on which Kiki Dee and PP Arnold were the backing singers.



Don't you just love music? And that was all caused by Wendy James tweeting the Small Faces in the first place.

Mark Radcliffe on The Music of The Monkees

So Much For Mary ~ Jon

A big thank you to someone who sent me this picture of not just any old disc but a Radio Station Copy! Amazing. Don' t you just love the internet! I have yet to contact them - yatrecords - and this only just scraped through the filters to reach my inbox, having no message and just the heading JON which, luckily, struck a chord for me before being whisked off into a spam folder.

I see names that could be well-known at that time in the industry but who could also be no-one in particular. C Andrews gets the credit - is this Chris Andrews? Richard Mills and Peter Eden are names I recognise from Deram days with Bill Fay.

Kenny Everett's first show on the beeb

A treat for jingle fans today as BBC Radio 2 replays The Kenny Everett Show from 11 to 1 today. Who else could get away with starting their very first BBC show with the word "oops" after a Capital Radio plug?!

All the original tracks, competitions, observations of those tiny things that people miss (like all the bums in a Four Tops record), comparison of old and new versions and odd timechecks are there and remind you of just how knowledgeable and brilliant he was.

If you missed it the Listen Again feature available on the Radio 2 site will give you another chance. Record it and you'll be able to cheer yourself up at any time. Total Recorder will do the job simply - not free now but the tiny licence fee is well worth paying.

The Kenny Everett Show was first broadcast on Radio 2 in 1981 and it is good to see its inclusion in the 40th anniversary fayre despite being 27. Lots more during the day too. The Oldies Project have stopped the Fab 40 shows but are still streaming tracks from the shows of 40 years ago on Radio London, Big L, and will be running new chart shows again in 2008.

This is their new Sunday programme:
11 AM (UK) - Back from a watery grave Two hours of songs from the Radio London playlist that did not chart on the Fab 40.
01 PM (UK) - 40 years ago
Two hours of new UK releases and hits from exactly that week, 40 years ago
Check The Playlist for both shows.

The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow

Returning to the village after a year and a half's absence may give me a chance to catch up with news on the shed front. If you'll forgive a slight change of theme, thought I'd use this site to add some items of interest on the pirate radio scene. Well, sheds are where you do things you want to without being disturbed and the one thing that I really didn't want was my parents asking whether I wanted any tea whilst I was trying to keep the transistor on the BigL station to catch the latest track or Kenny Everett jingle. So I spent a great deal of time in dad's greenhouse with the radio and what looked like homework.