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The Show That Time Forgot ~ Sunday 10/04/2022

FIRST HOUR

Out On The Floor (Dobie Gray)   
(1966, 1975)...   feel free to show off your fanciest footwork while enjoying this exhilarating slice of Northern soul which reached a modest # 42 in the UK, nine years after its first release

I've Been Thinking About You (Londonbeat) 
(1990)... seventeen years after his one and only solo hit Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse (1973, # 8), Jimmy Helms topped that earlier success as lead singer of Londonbeat ~ I've Been Thinking About You was by far the biggest of four Top 40 hits (# 2) ~ their only Top 10-er

Lucky Number (Lene Lovich)  
... from the first of today's featured years~ quirky new wave pop from a singer-songwriter born in the US to an English mother and a Serbian father, who moved to England when she was a teenager [W]

Cheery tunes with nonsensical titles

Who Put The Bomp (The Viscounts)
(1961) ... parodying the kind of lyrics heard in many a hit song of the late '50s and early '60s which look very strange when written down - ram-a-lama ding dong, bop she-bop-she bop etc etc. The Viscounts were a British group covering a US hit for Barry Mann - who was also the co-writer with Gerry Goffin

Do Wah Diddy Diddy (Manfred Mann) 
(1964)...  Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich - another famous US songwriting partnership - wrote this one, originally recorded in '63 by the American vocal group The Exciters. A year later it became Manfred Mann's first No.1 *  The present day line up of The Manfreds played  Stockport Plaza last night, a live date which had twice been postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Another hit from the '60s heyday of the original band is coming up later.....  [ * W]

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The Second Summer of Love (Danny Wilson) 
(1989)...  not, as everyone thought, an individual musician who had given his name to the band - a la Manfred Mann ~ Scottish trio Danny Wilson - consisting of brothers Gary and Kit Clark and Ged Grimes - did exactly the opposite. They chose a male name from the title of a 1952 Frank Sinatra film. Meet Danny Wilson was a favourite of Gary and Kit's dad.  The Second Summer was their second hit (# 23) a year after their first, Mary's Prayer eventually made the Top 3 [W]

Newsround Tameside: 43 years ago  ~ 1979

Hallelulujah (Milk and Honey featuring Gali Atari) 
... a dead cert Eurovision winner for Israel, which became an instant Top 5 hit in the UK

Stop Your Sobbing (The Pretenders) 
...covering a Ray Davies' Kinks song gave Chrissie Hynde and co their first taste of chart success

Cool For Cats (Squeeze) 
...  one of their biggest hits,  the first of two in '79  which reached # 2 on the chart and one of only a very select few on which Chris Difford sings lead vocal, rather than Glenn Tilbrook

Forever In Blue Jeans (Neil Diamond)
... with a classic misheard lyric ~ on first hearing, you could be forgiven for thinking it was about a Reverend Blue Jeans

Everybody's Happy Nowadays (Buzzcocks) 
... single recorded at Stockport's Strawberry Studios by the Bolton punk pioneers who, by this point in time,had secured their place in Manchester music history

Fire (The Pointer Sisters)
...  group who switched seamlessly from one style and genre of music to another, here with a version of the Bruce Springsteen song ~ their first appearance in the UK Top 40 (# 34). Several more hits would follow in the '80s including three Top 10-ers

Waiting For An Alibi (Thin Lizzy)
...   first single from the album, Black Rose: A Rock Legend ~  the only Lizzy LP recorded while Gary Moore was a member of the band. He left soon after it was completed [W]

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SECOND HOUR

The Mighty Quinn (Manfred Mann)                                                                                                                                                                                      (1968) ...Mike d'Abo on lead vocal, giving added zest to a Bob Dylan song which took them to top of the charts. With its infectious, sing-a-long chorus, it topped the chart and is one of the best remembered of the band's long run of hits.  Second of two today from the Manfreds (see Do Wah Diddy Diddy, first hour)

Mr Rock and Roll (Amy MacDonald) 
(2007) ... first and most successful chart single, from her debut album This Is The Life. In 2010 she was one of a number of artists who recorded with Ray Davies on his album See My Friends, duetting with Davies on one of his Kinks classics, Dead End Street [W]

Goodnight Midnight (Clodagh Rodgers)
... teaser track for our second featured year when Clodagh, having debuted with Come Back And Shake Me followed up just as successfully

Absolutely Lyricless ~ the instrumental break  
... with film connections

Murder She Said (Miss Marple theme) (Fun Boy Three)
(1983) .... side 1, track 1 on their album Waiting. Back in the '60s, the original by Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra was the theme tune of those old black and white films, with Margaret Rutherford playing the avid amateur detective Miss Marple, an elderly spinster in her trademark twinset and pearls

Clog Dance (Brighouse & Rastrick Band)          ]
(2008)... this version is from the B&R album Best of Brass. Clog Dance was originally a Top 20 hit for Violinski in 1979, but became much better known in the '90s when it was played by the 'Grimley Colliery Band' in the highly acclaimed film Brassed Off,

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Convoy (CW McCall)
(1976) ...  one of the '70s greatest country cross-overs, tapping into the citizens' band (CB) radio craze at the time ~ a No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, it also topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand and came close with a # 2 in the UK.   A spoof version Convoy GB by Laurie Lingo and The Dipsticks followed the original into our Top 5 a few weeks later.  The original provided the inspiration for the 1978 film of the same name. Played today in memory of 'CW' - real name Bill Fries - who died earlier this month, aged 93

Where The Heart Is (Prefab Sprout) 
(1997) ...   theme song of the ITV series of the same name, (think: district nurses ... paper mill ... village rugby team Skelthwaite Scorpions) which ran for ten series on Sunday evenings, filmed mainly in Slaithwaite ('Slawit') and Marsden,  just over the Pennines, near Huddersfield. More recently, the series has been repeated on ITV3.  In the year the series had its first showing, Prefab Sprout released their sixth album Andromeda Heights - from which I played one of the songs, Electric Guitars on a recent show 

Newsround pre-Tameside: 53 years ago ~ 1969

Pinball Wizard (The Who)
...  best known song from the rock opera Tommy released later the same year. The Who's brilliant original reached # 4, with Elton John's frantic re-working from the film also making the Top 10 (1976, # 7). In between, 'Who' would have expected The New Seekers to cover the song as part of a Tommy medley, also including See Me Feel Me?! (1973, # 16)

Goodbye (Mary Hopkin) 
...  written by her Apple Records mentor Paul McCartney as the follow-up to Those Were The Days, her # 1 debut the previous year    

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
... up there as one of Motown's biggest ever hits in the UK, it enjoyed a new lease of life in the '80s when it provided the soundtrack to what is still regarded as the most famous TV jeans ad of all time 

Badge (Cream) 
...  featuring George Harrison playing rhythm guitar in his signature style ~ the song which George co-wrote with Cream's Eric Clapton didn't have a title at first  Nothing in the lyrics seemed to leap out as an obvious contender.  Eric mis-read George's scribbled notes indicating the guitar instrumental 'bridge' as 'badge', causing much amusement, but proving the moment of inspiration which they had been waiting for.  After that, the title on the label just had to be ...Badge  [W]

Si Tu Dois Partir (Fairport Convention) 
... Bob Dylan song previously a hit for Manfred Mann (If You Gotta Go, Go Now) sung in French and performed in lively cajun style by the acclaimed folk rock band. Lead singer Sandy Denny went on to enjoy a successful solo career in the '70s      


  
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
... one of those rarities - a hit three times over in three different decades, sticking faithfully to the originally released recording, nothing added, nothing edited out. 1969 was when it had its first outing, reaching # 11 on the chart, returning as a reissue in 1975 (double A side listing with I Get The Sweetest Feeling) and again in 1987

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SHOW THEME:
Rhapsody In Blue (Rick Wakeman)
written by George Gershwin, arranged by Tony Visconti
from the album Rhapsodies (A&M Records, 1979)

[W]: Source: Wikipedia

Please bear in mind: it's a live show and so, occasionally I might need to change the running order, leave a song out, or play an unplanned extra song which will not be shown in this weekly music blog.

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