Stormy Weather (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
Yesterday Simon and I ended up with an entire day in London, as grown-ups. We spent a bit of it together, but for the parts where I was solo, I made the most. Our first stop together was to Foyles . We started with a very civilised cup of coffee in Ray's Jazz Cafe (great service and comfie couches, too, I'm thrilled to report). I didn't have time to browse the books in Foyles but I did get one of these...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Originally published on 15 January 1965 It's a long, wet way from Las Vegas; but the Greasbrough social club, standing among sodden fields outside Rotherham, is indubitably something of a boisterous brother-under-the-skin to the more sophisticated Sands Hotel of Nevada. This week the club, with a membership of 2,000, earned national publicity because of an attempt to get Sammy Davis, jun., to appear...
Aiming to be a well rounded Woman (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
We got busy at Family Home evening preparing a four generation chart of our family History. This is part of Hanna and Adam's Faith in God.
Close Protection Forum and Surveill (Free subscription) | 01/02/2010
Image: http://www.wewillrememberthem.net/images/album.jpg *WE WILL REMEMBER THEM* http://www.wewillrememberthem.net On Sunday 1st November...
THE WORLD FROM HERE (Free subscription) | 01/01/2010
. THE SIXTIES - presented by Cilla Black and Tony Blackburn on Monday 28 December . . Sandie Shaw — Puppet On A String . The Move — Flowers In The Rain . The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup . Petula Clark — Downtown . Jackie Trent — Where Are You Now My Love? . The Beatles — She Loves You . Peter & Gordon — A world Without Love . Gerry & The Pacemakers...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 12/27/2009
He was born Christopher Morris in Birkenhead and modelled his singing style very much on Adam Faith , who was also emerging as a British star at the time. After learning classical guitar as a teenager he started a local instrumental trio. At the age of 19 he joined Larry Parnes' stable of acts and his follow up and only other chart entry was This Love I Have For You , which achieved a British high...
Empire Of The Kop (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
On the 4th of September 1962 the Beatles recorded a song called “How do you do it'” written by Mitch Murray & Adam Faith at Abbey Road (song below). For some reason the Fab Four did not release it as a single and George Martin decided to release the version recorded by the other scousers “Gerry [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
“--Is she old? --Ancient! 24!” “Oh, fade out.” “You jiving, deviling scum!” “Daddy-o, I’m over and out.” These are just a few of the nuggets you can hear in the classic b-movie/morality play Beat Girl (dir. Edmond T. Gréville, 1960),...
It's only rock n roll (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Track Listing 1. Have I The Right - The Honeycombs 2. Poor Me - Adam Faith 3. Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas 4. A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon 5. House Of The Rising Sun - The ANimals 6. Out Of Time - Chris Farlowe 7. I'm Alive - The Hollies 8. How Do you Do It - Gerry and the Pacemakers 9. Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw 10. I'm Into Something Good - Herman's Hermits 11. Don't...
It's only rock n roll (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Track Listing 01 - Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard 02 - Sweets For My Sweet - The Searchers 03 - Twist and Shout - Brain Poole and The Tremeloes 04 - How Do You Do It - Gerry and The Pacemakers 05 - Scarlett O'Hara - Jet Harris and Tony Meehan 06 - Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas 07 - I'm Telling You Now - Freddie and The Dreamers 08 - Hello Little Girl - The Fourmost 09 - Two Kinds Of Teardrops...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
HE WAS the Scots musical maestro whose career saw him work with stars such as Petula Clark, Adam Faith, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis Jnr.
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Mix Me A Person1:10am Monday, 09 Nov 2009 Repeat CC M A barrister's wife who is a psychiatrist by occupation decides to take on one of the cases that he has failed to win. CAST: Adam Faith, Anne Baxter DIR: Leslie Norman (1962)
Saga (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Such is the impact of the albums that Dreamboats & Petticoats has been transformed into a smash-hit West End musical starring TV heartthrob Ben Freeman, soap siren Jennifer Biddal and X Factor finalist Scott Bruton, receiving standing ovations every night at London's Savoy Theatre. The second regional tour is also well under way, filling venues across the country.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Who is he? A curly-haired English-born singer-songwriter whose singing career has spanned four decades. His first seven hit singles in the UK all reached the Top 10 - a feat first registered by his one-time manager, Adam Faith. From his first hit with The Show Must Go On in 1973 to the present day, Sayer has never been missing from the charts for longer than five successive years. In 1976, Sayer recorded...
Splinters In Time (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Got this little gem via email the other day! Once In A LifeTime featuring The Osmonds, David Essex and more! TONY DENTON PROMOTIONS PRESENTS: 'ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOUR 2010' THE OSMONDS DAVID ESSEX LEO SAYER LES MCKEOWN'S LEGENDARY BAY CITY ROLLERS Tony Denton Promotions is synonymous with tours that are unique – the Once In A LifeTime brand continues with the announcement of the 2010 Once In...
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