Kiss & Make Up (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
I did my second turn at the Vauxhall Griffin's Sunday Supplement last weekend. More or less, here's what I played over four and a bit hours. Charlie Brown Theme – Vince Guaraldi I Had To Tell You – 13th Floor Elevators Life On Mars – John Keating No. 1. (Lent Et Douloureux) – Isan Ocean Rain – Echo & The Bunnymen Rainy Day – Susan Christie I Can't Wait Until...
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Disco Fries, "Body Move" The Disco Fries are currently dancefloor remix monsters, making Top 40 songs palatable and bootytastic for the pulsating club masses. I really don't have much to say about "Body Move" that will shed light or...
AzBilliards (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
On September 27th and 28th The Golden Fleece in Kenmore, Washington welcomed the Northwest Women’s Pool Association and hosted its 6th tour stop of the season. The Golden Fleece with its ten 9 foot Diamond tables has a weekly 9-ball tournament on Friday at 8pm. Known for its friendly atmosphere and Diamond tables, the Golden Fleece is a favorite among serious pool players. Golden Fleece owner...
Desicritics (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I always wonder about Ranu Mukherjee. A prolific singer of the sixties and seventies, she sang in Hindi and Bangla but success eluded her Ranu is the daughter of Music Director Hemanta Mukherjee and Bela Mukherjee. Bela Mukherjee herself a great singer left her singing career after marrying Hemanta. Hemant Mukherjee gave music to this little known film of the seventies, Bees Saal Pehley where he tried...
Brand Mix (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Early edition this week because I'm off to LA for a UCLA reunion weekend to reminisce and compare. 1) Those were the days : Mary Hopkin As the helpful notes say on the video, this song, produced by Paul McCartney, was a UK hit in 1968. And, no, that wasn't the year I graduated. 2) Why Budgeting Drives Us Batty : Harvard Business Love budgeting? This took me right back to my Nestlé days: "As...
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Mary Hampton ‘Island’ Brighton-based singer Mary Hampton is among the new crop of artists taking an experimental approach to the traditional folk style. Her most recent album, My Mother’s Children, was among the top 50 albums of 2008 as voted for by Wears The Trousers readers, and her songs have been described variously as unnerving and enchanting, [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Just as a little change from the usual indie durge I happen to indulge in, I have recently looked up a few “classic” albums by artists I would not usually listen to just to get a little more grounding in this rich musical cotton field we are all toiling away in. What slightly disturbed me was how familiar some of them were and how much credit I can now give my parents for having something...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
What is it about the guineas of Africa that seems to invite dysfunctionality and scandal? asks Percy Zvomuya.
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
It's another pretty dame performing quirky piano pop but, like so many pretty dames performing quirky piano pop who have come before her, this Scottish-born, Yorkshire-bred, and now Brighton-based siren makes a beautiful and intriguing sound.And what is that sound'ADVERTISEMENTBacked by a band wielding violins, oboes and miscellaneous percussion, with Foster on guitar and bell-like soprano, it's eclectic...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Beatles Week continues with CHART ATTACK!, where Jason Hare looks at ten Beatles covers that hovered around the Billboard Top 10. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, and perhaps disturbed!
Arnie Skelton (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Those were the days - Mary Hopkin, 1968
N e e d l e p r i n t (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
International collaboration and research wins though yet again. Rosemary Huskey in Idaho has discovered not only the identity of the female Negro poet and slave who wrote the verse which Mary Hopkins stitched on her Ackworth Sampler in 1799, but an image of her also. Phillis Wheatley was named Phillis after the slave ship which took her from her home in West Africa and Wheatley after the master who...
icWales (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
More than 30 years ago, Mary Hopkin gave up her career. So why has she decided to return to making music now?
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
IT WAS the 15th Eurovision Song Contest and all eyes were on the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. Catapulted to fame on Opportunity Knocks and then to worldwide stardom with her hauntingly catchy song Those Were The Days, she was hoping - according to the gushy voiceover - that success would bang on the door once more with a number called Knock Knock (Who's There?).
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
SHE was the Sixties songbird discovered by The Beatles who couldn't stand her goody-goody image or Eurovision entry - and then disappeared. In a rare interview, Mary Hopkin reveals why she's happy to be thought of as a recluse...
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