Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | yesterday
Watching The Who entertain at the Super Bowl might have caused a few people to remember another British group, an oddly-named bunch that had a connection — sort of — to the legendary rockers. The band’s name was Thunderclap Newman and it was assembled to give an opportunity to John ‘Speedy’ Keen, who actually did [...]
ShrinkWrapped (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
Call out the instigators Because there's something in the air We've got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right And you know that it's right We have got to get it together...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Believe it or not, pop got smarter in the noughties There is a parlour game you can play to gauge how dramatically rock and pop music has changed in the course of a decade. Imagine a music fan from the start of the decade is transported to its end, and plonked in front of the Christmas Top of the Pops: how confused would they be? In the case of the 1960s, their bafflement would be total: imagine the...
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
This week’s questions were set by the Ox-fford ‘C’. Thanks to the Plough Horntails and the Sutton Church House for their help in vetting them. The specialist rounds are: 1. Arts & Entertainment – Weather With You 2. Geography 3. Local Heroes – a different slant 4. History 5. World Heritage 6. Science – In the Kitchen 7. Sport 8. What comes next? As always, our...
Micky's Muses (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
...sang Thunderclap Newman (a cousin of Alfred E.) back in the 70's. That something was insurrection and rebellion, and it's back. The findings of Climategate; data manipulation, data concealement, climate scaremongering and anti-scientific fraud (in fact all the usual hallmarks of green political chicanery) have led to widespread public anger and an abashed guilty silence from climate alarmists
Delaware Liberal (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
I wonder how many of these great songs from 1968-69 I’ll hear tonight. With any luck, quite a few…: Wedding Bell Blues-5th Dimension Something In the Air-Thunderclap Newman Give Me Just a Little More Time-Chairmen of the Board The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down-The Band Hot Fun In the Summertime-Sly & the Family Stone Come Together-The Beatles Gimme Shelter-Rolling Stones Fortunate...
Toxic Monday Morning Office Blues, Again (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Disc One: Sank 1. Sank - The Beatles 2. Sank’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Gene Pitney 3. Sank Happened - Billy Bragg 4. (There Is Always) Sank There To Remind Me – Sandie Shaw 5. He Was Really Sayin' Sank - The Velvelettes 6. When Sank is Wrong With My Baby - Sam & Dave 7. I Started Sank I Couldn't Finish - The Smiths 8. Everybody's Got Sank To Hide Except Me And My Monkey – The...
Association of Grumpy Old Fundraisers who know stuff (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Back off holiday and had to turn the central heating on last night so it must be autumn. The association for the containment of Christmas is complaining about card catalogues going out before 1st November - they should be so lucky - I had my first offering, from the British Red Cross on 4th August followed by several others in the next couple of weeks. Is being first really the best way to gain market...
iVoryTowerz (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Anything appearing in this space this summer is certainly unexpected. But add to that a number of bands that we've never played before and you have an unexpected treat. About a third of this underground podcast touches on material never before podcast here, but our eclectic mix remains intact. On this podcast you'll find progressive, progressive metal, heavy metal, alternative, indie rock, new wave,...
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Surely the song "Something in the Air" by the group Thunderclap Newman holds some sort of record for being on the most movie and television soundtracks beginning with 1969's THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. The group, originally consisting of only three members, was handpicked by the Who's Pete Townshend as a vehicle for his friend Speedy Keen. Keyboards were done by...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
OK I'm biased cos I play the piano. So the best piano solos can range from anything by Thelonious Monk to a performance of Beethoven's Waldstein sonata by Alfred Brendel to Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert. But I've always loved the use of the piano on pop songs Leon Russell, Nicky Hopkins, Ian McClagan, Ian Stewart, even Macca's "Lady Madonna" intro, Elton's playing on "Honky Cat"....
Counterculture: Roots and History (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Today is my fortieth birthday, so by way of celebration I have posted a couple of videos. The first is "Something in the Air" by one-hit-wonders Thunderclap Newman. This was the number one single here in the UK on the day that I was born. The second video is footage of the other great event of July 16, 1969, the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
Arnie Skelton (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
Something in the air - Thunderclap Newman, 1969
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 01/24/2009
One of my all-time favorites: Something In The Air, by Thunderclap Newman. From Wikipedia : Thunderclap Newman was a late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", a 1969 UK Number One hit, remains in demand for television commercials, film soundtracks, and compilations. In 1969, Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, created the band to play songs written...
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 01/13/2009
Philly indie rock group Dr Dog recently compiled a crackling Secret Playlist for us which included props for songs by Cass McCombs, Thunderclap Newman, and the new time rag star, A.A Bundy, about whose track, Vice Rag, keyboardist Zach Miller wrote: ‘Good enough to be a classic old timey melody, except with more contemporary lyrical [...]
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