Tracks of my years, 26/365
Arnie Skelton (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Sailor - Petula Clark, 1961
Petula Clark
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40 Years of Giving Peace a Chance...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The phrase “give peace a chance” had come spontaneously to Lennon while answering a reporters question at a “bed-in,” Lennon and Ono’s way to protest war and promote peace by staying in bed all day. They held two, week-long bed-in sessions, one in Amsterdam and one in Montreal. It was at a Montreal bed-in that the song was recorded. Those in attendance included Timothy...
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Vanessa
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Many have sung about St Tropez, from Petula Clark to Henri Salvador. Vanessa Chassaigne is adding her two cents, in the form of a great retro tune. You almost want to put on an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini when you hear it. I posted about V. before when she was performing as Louka ( here ), but she dropped that moniker. On her Myspace are more songs, and she's performing quite a...
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Diana Ross Wants Custody Of Michael Jackson's Pet Chimp Bubbles
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
NEW YORK CITY - Diana Ross, of the 60s African-American trio known as Diana Ross and The Supremes has begged Macaulay Culkin for custody of Michael Jackson's beloved chimpanzee Bubbles. Earlier reports stated that Michael Jackson had left everythi...
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God Help The Girl - s/t review
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
God Help The Girl He’s an ambitious fella, Mr Stuart Murdoch. He plans to write a screenplay for a film that he will then direct next year and with that in mind he has already written these fourteen tracks as its soundtrack. He’s cut no corners on this first step either with eighty performers involved, including a forty five piece orchestra, his Belle and Sebastian colleagues, Neil Hannon...
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GENE PITNEY'S TOPTEN WORLDWIDE HITS COLIN HOLMES EASY LISTENING SHOW JUNE 23rd.
Magic of the Musicals (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
GENE PITNEY...THE TOP TEN WORLDWIDE HITS. 1....SOMETHINGS GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART.(2 versions) 2....24 HOURS FROM TULSA. 3....I'M GONNA BE STRONG. 4....LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE. 5....TOWN WITHOUT PITY. 6....JUST ONE SMILE. 7....ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK A HEART. 8....WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. 9....BACKSTAGE. 10...NOBODY NEEDS YOUR LOVE. ALL AVAILABLE ON GENE PITNEY THE COLLECTION (2CD) OTHER TRACKS...
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Eurovision 1956: Let's put this one in its wibbly wobbly bed
Boom Bang a Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Right, I've cleared it all up about Wibbly Wobbly Man. There was a song with a wibbly wobbly connection in the running to represent the UK at the very first Eurovision (if the BBC hadn't withdrawn from the event). However,...
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Downtown I know Petula Clark did great...
Provocateur (Free subscription) | 06/21/2009
Downtown I know Petula Clark did great with this song. But even though it was almost 40 years later, it's as if the song were written for Emma Bunton. Here she is doing a solo performance of one of my favorite Spice Girl songs: The first time I saw the Spice Girls on MTV was just before they hit it big in the USA and I had never heard of them before. I knew immediately that they would be smash hits,...
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British Cinema Vol 2 (Our Girl Friday / Dentist in the Chair / The Runaway Bus / Carry on Admiral / The Time of His Life)
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Recommended VCI has assembled another round of comparatively obscure movies into an imperfect but entertaining set, a good value for the money. The too vaguely-titled British Cinema Vol 2 is a collection of five small-scale but enjoyable comedies, the kind of modest but amusing films the British did better than just about anyone from the late-1940s through the early-'60. This quintet, licensed through...
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Baby of the Year.
Flotsam (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
The nice thing about entering a weekly baby contest is that it provides handy reference points for comparison. The above two Baby of the Week pictures were taken one year apart. I have drawn up an illustrative chart of changes for your reference: OUT: IN: Oxygen tanks Fresh(ish) air Blue eyes Hazel eyes Bassinet Bed (with us) Apnea monitor Breathing Gums [...]
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The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener
Seaside Man (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The song says: "The other man's grass is always greener the sun shines brighter on the other side Some are lucky some are not But I'm so thankful for what I've got" I really like the house in the picture above though. This is the song: Life is never what it seems We're always searching in our dreams To find that little castle in the air When worry starts to cloud the mind, It's hard to leave...
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Look who beat Labour into 6th place
Edinburgh Sucks! (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
is basa real? His heros are: Sir Winston Shakespear. William Churchill. Larry Grayson, Geoff Boycott. Jimmy Clitheroe. Petula Clark. Freddie Truman. George Formby. The postman who went off with my pen. King Henry VIII of England. Florence Nightingale. The Krankies. Mother Teaser, (the nun). Rodney Bewes off, ‘The Likely Lads’. Anita Harris His website. The [...]
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Susan Boyle Boiling Mad Subdued By London Bobbies
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
LONDON - The odds-on favorite to win Britain's Got Talent 48-year-old Susan Boyle lost her temper and launched into a four-letter diatribe that makes Christian Bale's tongue-lashing tirade pale by comparison. It seems that Boyle was sitting in the...
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Susan Boyle's plain predecessor
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Susan Boyle, meet Mrs. Miller
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Rockin’ All Over the World
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
Almost everybody knows that the Beatles cut German-language versions of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You.” “Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand” and “Sie Liebt Dich” were recorded on the same day in January 1964, while the band was in Paris. At the time, record labels believed that German listeners would resist [...]
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