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Do you want to SEE James Last covering Uriah Heep?
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Remarkable! They don’t make artists like James any more. His music is going to last.
What a start to the year! What have you go in the pipeline for the other 364 days?
You are obviously a connersewer John. How about Keith Harris & Orville covering a Prince song? No wait…it’s true but sadly not on YouTube. Ditto Ronnie Hilton’s version of The Laughing Gnome. I aim to correct these glaring omissions in 2017.
Have Allan Clarke doing Born To Run by that Springstein chap instead.
@Beany – Here’s the Ronnie Hilton:
Marvellous. It is why the internet was invented.
Sadly the Bowie cover was relegated to the B-Side. The A-Side of that single was If I Were A Rich Man
I’ve got a copy of that Allan Clarke single. Released October 1975, only a couple of months after the Bruce LP appeared.
http://i.imgur.com/dNRB4EE.jpg
Paul Jones sings Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant in a bluse-y, country style
and backs it with Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
While on Punk covers, have a listen to Frazier Chorus and their version of Anarchy In The UK
I put the Paul Jones single on the Leeds Poly jukebox back in the days.
I would love to have seen Don Estelle performing this at Live Aid. David Bowie went for The Cars version instead. Tut.
I’d never heard The Ramones done in Finnish before today ……
Yksi kaksi kolme nelja!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8V_PTA4NQ
How about James Last doing “the Immigrant Song”?
someone needs to go through the entire works and extract a rocktastic compilation with “Silver Machine”, the ‘Purp, “Radar Love”, and whosoever else he covered at some point. Beany seems to be the one for this, given his “inclinations”.
You mean like this… Volume 2 coming soon.
top hole.
Is it me? I have always thought James Last the shits of the pits, no matter how much ironivision you try and see it with, no matter how good, of course, you tell yourself the musicians are and all that crap. It is beyond dire yet methinks Bean ain’t jesting and this is part of the ghastly revisiting of truth the present tries to trick us with. And they all look to pitifully terrible, even allowing for the prevailing fashions. Dickie Davies was cooler.
Wha? It’s definitely you. Everything has a place. Just don’t make me watch Simon Cowell and his X Factor circus.
Couldn’t agree more Beany.
When I form my first government, first with the cigarette & blindfold is Cowell.
David Byron of ver Heep was himself involved in whacking out cover versions pre fame for budget labels. Here’s a couple of them:
Someone has compiled four CDs of the things!
David Byron was a giant of a front man for ver ‘Heep; a 70s Tetley Bitter-man incarnate with a dress sense only surpassed by Jason King. We are all lesser men than he: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBoZp5fPOs
11:16 for a stage stunt worth a truck load of laser beams.
“70s Tetley Bitter-man incarnate” ! What a wonderful description.
@beany, as far as I know Misty Poo wasn’t an obscure Sex Pistols b-side, but having stumbled across this today I just felt I had to share…
How does one stumble upon misty poo @mikethep ? As featured in the Urban Dictionary. See also chocolate rain.
Just for you. The Goodies. Also featured on the Leeds Poly jukebox.
Was it you @Beany that put Neil Innes’ ‘What noise annoys a noisy oyster?’ on said jukebox?
1976 – 1978. Possibly. Some vagabond once broke into the jukebox once. Blood on the broken glass. No money was stolen…just a record.
Why thank you…I was having an Exotica morning on YouTube, as you do (Martin Denny, Les Baxter etc) and it popped up in the sidebar.
Never mind the Jun’gala music, what about that sleeve..?!
Yes, for a few minutes I thought it was a photo of an exotic-looking woman with three arms…
Rather enjoyed that Marty Wilson track, despite the very odd name.
I’d certainly like to hear the whole album which has never been reissued.
http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev309_martywilson_jungala/
So if you see it at a car boot sale……
Talking of dodgy album covers, Marty appears on this: The Cool Scene: Twelve new ways to fly.
I don’t think they are referring to PanAm.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Cool-Scene-Twelve-New-Ways-To-Fly/release/3135840
Blimey, that ambientexotica site is something else…
“Misty Poo is a surprisingly good tune: polyhedric, spheroidal and varied yet coherent….Wilson includes fully fleshed out Space-Age strings and a large brass section, making it one of those rare orchestral albums that feature string strata, brass layers and perpetual percussion placentas.”
Er, come again? The whole album is on YouTube, by the way @kaisfatdad.
Thanks Mike! I will definitely explore that.
And now especially for @Beany. A Soviet talent show, Come on girls, featuring some wild bongo playing. Siberia’s Got Talent!
The video does not play on my computer but is fine on my iPhone.
Those crazy 1980s eh!
From Soviet bongos to an Australian grandma playing heavy metal spoons. This is probably even Beyond Beany.
That’s not a talent. It’s just annoying.
“Oh look at me…I can hum along to a tune on the radio. Quick, give me a recording contract and a chance to appear in front of the Pope!”
Let’s get serious. Here is James Last performing Deep Purple’s Black Night.
Profoundest apologies for cluttering up your thread with spooning Outback grannies and Soviet bongo girls. I promise this will not happen again.
Maybe I can make it up to you with some Soviet era psych jazz funk?