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Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 18 Apr 2015, 12:08
by dave brum
How about a bit of Uncle Ted to get us under way on here then:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrEZZwRzMIw

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 18 Apr 2015, 16:59
by Gill the Piano
Brummie Bryan Ferry!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 18 Apr 2015, 17:06
by dave brum
If someone were to ever release a compilation album and entitle it 'The Greatest Brummie Album In The World, Ever!' then that would be on it. And this one also, Car 67 by Driver 67 from 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dijXXGvx4

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 18 Apr 2015, 21:48
by Gill the Piano
I LOVED Car 67...I have the 45 somewhere!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 18 Apr 2015, 22:15
by dave brum
If my memory serves me well it was on the LOGO label. I heard Nicky Steele play it on BRMB and I pestered my mom to go down the record shop on the Cape to buy it for me.

The B-side was good too, 'Communications Breakdown', a fast banjo number.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 19 Apr 2015, 08:00
by dave brum
This one would have been considered as risque and very close to the imaginary mark when it was released in the early 1960s and even today it still has tones of Vaudeville bawdiness about it. Clinton Ford, Fanlight Fanny (Fosdyke maybe?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUIMU2XMY6I

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 19 Apr 2015, 12:54
by dave brum
Percy Faith died in 1976 but before his death he managed to complete a Philadelphia soul, jazz and disco album, including a disco version of the one tune we associate with him, the theme from 'A Summer Place'. Also on the album was this lovely ballad sung by Leslie Kendall, 'Maybe September' which I always loved ever since I got the album out of Ludlow Library in 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzDshUqm620

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 19 Apr 2015, 15:37
by Gill the Piano
How about 'The Ballad of Bethnal Green' by Paddy Roberts?

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 19 Apr 2015, 17:36
by dave brum
What a cracker, and 'The Ballad of Barking Creek' -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb90PbbIPSs

and another song about a genuine town in Yorkshire with a very naughty name and how it got its very naughty name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtaOZCMY5_Q

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 20 Apr 2015, 16:29
by Gill the Piano
I've got 2 books of Paddy Roberts songs if you ever want to learn any!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 20 Apr 2015, 16:50
by dave brum
Gill the Piano wrote:I've got 2 books of Paddy Roberts songs if you ever want to learn any!
Are they in English or Kryptonite?

You've certainly gotten me into him now. Was he a pianist as well as a singer??

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 20 Apr 2015, 19:58
by dave brum
I LOVED this band when I was learning Welsh - and I bought this album on cassette format. Tynal Tywyll. Y twang yw'r thang gyda'r Tynal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjN1wcRNOq8

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 21 Apr 2015, 17:00
by Gill the Piano
Music books with lyrics. I don't know anything about PR except that I like his songs!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 21 Apr 2015, 19:00
by dave brum
Someone I have heard of, Jake Thackray - Sister Josephine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE-BKrAAZGc&gl=US

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 22 Apr 2015, 16:08
by Gill the Piano
I love his dark, dark voice. But I miss some words because of his accent. He also had magnificent sideburns, better than ?Guy Martin!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 28 Sep 2016, 20:46
by dave brum
I saw this on Blue Peter in 1979 as a kid and I NEVER thought I'd ever see it again. Mike Oldfield showing Simon Groom how he reworked the famous 'Barnacle Bill' theme tune.

I only came across it because I was looking for the B-side, Mike's own composition Woodhenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4K6_8_Q0PQ

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 17:25
by Gill the Piano
Amazing what you find on YT, innit?

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 17:34
by dave brum
And yet, I cannot find Mike's Woodhenge. There is a handbell section towards the end of the piece.

Mike Oldfield doesn't have the credit he should have as a modern composer. Though he's only ever sung on the B side of 'Moonlight Shadow'.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 19:43
by Gill the Piano
It's on Amazon as a download.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 20:35
by dave brum
I never thought of iTunes.

I actually make an inaccuracy, on 'Tubular Bells' he (Mike Oldfield) makes drunken troll-like noises into the microphone in the Bootleg Chorus.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 19 Nov 2016, 16:44
by dave brum
Haven't heard this one for yonks, Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'Ferry 'Cross The Mersey', a really passionate and powerful rendition of the Gerry Marsden evergreenie that was, I believe on the B-side of 'Relax':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRcQOtjSCE

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 19 Nov 2016, 18:45
by Gill the Piano
Another new one on me - didn't know anyone except Gerry Marsden had done it!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 18:39
by dave brum
As it's so called 'Black Friday', here is an excuse to play this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUf2giI9XU

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 26 Nov 2016, 19:38
by Gill the Piano
Wasn't there a song called Blue something which was banned as it was felt it encouraged suicide? Not the New Order one!
Found it; Hungarian song called Gloomy Sunday.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 26 Nov 2016, 22:25
by dave brum
A perfect one for The Smiths/Morrissey to do a cover of..Or maybe Black Sabbath or James Taylor (has that man ever felt the emotion of joy?)

That's not the British acid jazz organist I'm talking about.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 27 Nov 2016, 18:17
by Gill the Piano
Morrisey could make the Laughing Policeman sound like Gloomy Sunday...

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 27 Nov 2016, 18:38
by dave brum
Leonard Cohen, or maybe Radiohead make the Funeral March sound not at all funerial.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 08 Dec 2016, 10:53
by dave brum
I love discovering unusual (to me, a working class so and so) Christmas music, such as Victor Hely Hutchinson's carol symphony, Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on Christmas Carols and A Ceremony of Carols. Gill, as you're a music don (unlike me, a music don't) do you know of any other Christmas. I even have a lovely Roma carol, and even a Coptic or possibly Byzantine one in Arabic, which is very much in the style of a nasheed but in an Arabic scale.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 08 Dec 2016, 18:12
by Gill the Piano
The only 'forrin' carol I like is 'Gabriel's Message'. Allegedly Basque but a Basque girl I knew denied all knowledge of it!

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 08 Dec 2016, 18:53
by dave brum
Most highly painted lady......that one?

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 22 Dec 2016, 12:27
by dave brum
A Christmas pop song we NEVER EVER hear, we should put this right straight away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGmJzzSENGg

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 22 Dec 2016, 16:50
by Gill the Piano
Yes, I love Gilbert - such good tunes and intelligent witty lyrics.

Re: Dave's Curio Corner

Posted: 08 Jan 2017, 18:11
by dave brum
Remember Anne Nightingale playing this old reggae tune in the 80s, great to hear it again. Peter King - Bad Memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lAy8eSdpI