For as long as I can remember, I’ve made radio shows, whether that was manhandling my brother’s punk records on to a C90; nervously introducing songs I’d taped off the radio on our local pirate *sorry* community station; or doing actual broadcasting on student radio or the internet station Soul 24-7.
But truth be told, I’m not especially good at serious jocking. It is genuinely difficult to turn your enthusiasm for the music into cogent chat. That’s why I remain in awe of the likes of Roger Scott, Coldcut, Rob Da Bank, Cerys Matthews, Sean Rowley, Jarvis Cocker and David Hepworth-when-he-was-on-GLR, to name a few.
For the past few months I’ve been putting together monthly playlists in Spotify that play an hour and a half’s-worth of my favourite Old. Being on the world’s favourite streamer, they have the added benefit of enabling you to instantly explore some of the musical avenues traversed; and also I don’t have project my voice over the kids playing FIFA downstairs.
Since it has been moderately indulged by my Facebook friends (21 likes, some nice threads), I’ve now decided to share the “show” more widely. Many of these songs will be familiar to you; they’ve just never been played in this order before. And if you follow, then next month there will be an equally groovy set of tunes in their place.
So, for that slot on Sunday mornings when Radio 4 broadcasts church services, or if you find it hard to work along to Mary Anne Hobbes; or just want somewhere to go when you can’t think of anything else to listen to, I’d appreciate a follow in Spotify. Besides my Facebook friends, you are literally the only people I could think of who might appreciate this endeavour. My name is Horse Von Low-esteem, I’m 51 going on 15 …
Thanks Martin. I love a good playlist so I’ll happily give this a go.
Nice to see Idris Muhammad there.
For some reason that’s the song that everyone has latched on to this month. I think it was Mark Wood of the Readers Wife’s who instigated a conversation about it on Facebook and piqued my interest. For years, I pretty much renounced most R &B-based music made music after the early 70s, but now I love a bit of disco, boogie or freestyle. In fact, I should have said: all recommendations happily accepted.
My faves are here:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/08/doug-mclures-mexican-dwarf-disco-n.html
Pleased you included the CTI album HP.
They’re both on Kudu – Creed Taylor’s label. I’m not keen on the later “more commercial” stuff – what’s uncommercial about these, anyway?
My favourite Idris Muhammad album: Power of Soul (Kudu). Great record!
My favourite CTI or Kudu album cover design: Antonio Carlos Jobim – “Wave” (the tremendous red cover with the giraffe)
What you need, MH, is a gimmicky nickname like Rick O’Shea or Vinyl Richie
DJ Forcefield Horsfield in the area..
Cheers . I’ve had every derivation of that surname since school. Forcefiekd was my first year, I think, when everyone was desperately trying to learn the rap from I Feel for You. I’ve had to learn to accept Horse, or the Horse. Particularly since it followed me from one job to another in the early 00s through no effort of my own. Anyway, enough of my gassin’. . It’s about the music, man. Glad to see a few of you indulging me in this.
Boss Hoss. Then you could use the Standells song as a theme tune.
Yes, I’ve missed a trick there.