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Peevemor said:
Superb!

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Great stuff. Was thinking great vocals and nice keyboards from the man, then he only turns up somewhere else on stage for a sax solo! Who was takin care of business on the keys in the meantime is the top quiz question of the night! :)
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Great stuff. Was thinking great vocals and nice keyboards from the man, then he only turns up somewhere else on stage for a sax solo! Who was takin care of business on the keys in the meantime is the top quiz question of the night! :)
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It's 70's secret sauce Michael McDonald
 
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Superlungs.
 
egb_hibs said:
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The 70's was the start of the dodgy versions of The Drifters.
That's track is from 1975 which is well past the 1966 cut of point.
 
egb_hibs said:
Couldn’t have told you when it came out or about the deadline for Drifters acceptability. I just like it.
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''Harlem Child' is cheese written by cheesy bland English songwriters for hire, Roger Greenaway and Tony Macaulay.
Caveat - both wrote the occasional good song but this isn't one of them.

Greenaway was even in the ball of cheese that was Brotherhood Of Man and wrote jingles for Asda, British Gas and Allied Carpets.
Any old shite for money.

The Drifters were a trademark and a brand, with an owner, rather than a band and there have probably been close to 100 members over the years, swapped in and out as members told them to ram it since the 50's. By the mid 60's they were washed up in the states and the owners moved them to England and Greenaway wrote cheese for them that was loved by British girls and bingo women that lasted from '73 until about '76. At least Johnny Moore was the singer in this version of the band so it had that going for it. Worse was to come.
The owners of The Drifters trademark are still flogging the dead horse around the world for all it's worth to this very day.
''The Drifters'' are next in Scotland on the 1st May with a bunch of nobody's playing the parts! I'm sure the latest guys are very good singers but it's just a covers band at premium prices.

All very sad for a group that once had the might and quality of Atlantic records behind them, the likes of Ben E King in the ranks and the legendary denizens of the Brill Building providing them with top notch song after top notch song.
 
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Jack K said:
''Harlem Child' is cheese written by cheesy bland English songwriters for hire, Roger Greenaway and Tony Macaulay.
Caveat - both wrote the occasional good song but this isn't one of them.

Greenway was even in the ball of cheese that was Brotherhood Of Man and wrote jingles for Asda, British Gas and Allied Carpets.
Any old shite for money.
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You’re perhaps missing the point. I like it, I don’t care who wrote it or what else they did.
 
Usual Sunday lunchtime spot at our favourite beach cafe. I like it for the consistently excellent music. They've just played the whole of the "Royal Sessions" album by Paul Rodgers. Superb.
 
I don’t know if this falls into this category, but being blind I listen extensively to audio books. Just heard a fascinating account on the promotion of the Chilean Socialist Party Leader Salvador Allende and the part played by Nixon, Kissinger in his election and assassination.

Nixon was a real f+=&£#.
 
Are this lot known in the UK? They're French (and have now disbanded) but sing mostly in English so I never gave it a second thought. I rate them FWIW.

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One of my favourite albums is Scott Walker sings Jacques Brel.

So I had a wee look aboot.

Brel wrote some brilliant brilliant tunes.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
One of my favourite albums is Scott Walker sings Jacques Brel.

So I had a wee look aboot.

Brel wrote some brilliant brilliant tunes.
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Tunes wer brill, lyrics even better (Brel).

Scott all-time fave male vocalist. Nutty as a fruitcake but fantastic passion. Esp for a Canadian (originslly)
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
For me, the best produced, fun version of this song with expert input from the song atmosphere man and soloist extraordinaire, Mick (the talented) Ronson. Miss him as much as Otis 😢

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That's a great cover, wonderfully understated.
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Tunes wer brill, lyrics even better (Brel).

Scott all-time fave male vocalist. Nutty as a fruitcake but fantastic passion. Esp for a Canadian (originslly)
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A good excuse for a classy bit of Scott ... and a bit of Bowie for good measure
What a song, vocal, arrangement and production!

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EH17 Jimmy said:
It's good to hear the original but I think Scott Walkers version has more ooomph to it.
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and it's in English.
Strangely, I got into Scott Walker in 1981 via Julian Cope who was a great fan. He put out a Scott compilation on independant Zoo Records which contained the track I posted above, along with other great tracks
 
moathibby said:
Fuck! Now I know what album I am missing!That eek a mouse one! Now when did I last have it?
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Reminds me of being at Glastonbury in 1992. Stoned out of my gourd and trying to avoid the security as I had jumped the fence. I was going past the NME stage and this song was playing. A rasta was smoking a huge spliff and nodded to me like it's all cool and I chilled the fuck out.
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
Today I have been listening to Nick Drake. Poor lovely lad

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Later this year it will be 50 years since Nick Drake died.
He would have been 75 had he survived.
His sister Gabrielle is 80. Time flies.

I remember about 1981 being in awe when I found a guy I played football with had the vinyl box set ''Fruit Tree'' which Island had compiled of the 3 Drake album releases in his lifetime and the 4 tracks he had recorded in 1974 before his death later that year.
A lovely artifact it was. The cult of Drake had begun.

Vinyl box sets of contemporary music were a rare thing back then and I had only seen two others. A fellow music geek pal had the wonderful Motown Story 5 lp boxset which he bought in '78 after we read a gushing review about it in the Rolling Stone album guide.
Fortunately he let his poor schemie pal borrow and tape it. What a musical education that provided, with it's little interviews with the artists and producers before each song, explaining the background to the recording about to play. That extra knowledge got me well ahead of the scooterboys most of whom wore Motown like an accessory. In discussions with them you would ask if they were into Motown or just Scooterboy Motown which was always good for pushing their buttons.

Great memories of simpler times.
 
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