Time for short wave radio and a rather remarkable album: I trawl the megaherz by Paddy McAloon.

In 1999 the Cars and Girls Hitmaker almost became blind due to detached retinas. During his period of ill health, […]

Never heard that, Neela, and it really is a grower.

On the subject of answering services, here are Sparks singing about a scenario we have all endured.

According to Wiki, the first roller skates appeared in 1743 in a London theatrical production.
Amusing to read that in WW2, the US Army were thing of issuing all GIs with a pair of skates.

A few years later […]

We could do a whole thread of songs about the radio. Here is a beau=ut from Hal David and Burt Bacharach.

Here is a more skanky radio hit from The Selector.

Or a more political slant . An old favourite from […]

Nice one Neela!

Not totally unconnected, here are ABC singing the praises of that most practical of inventions, the zip.

Thanks Mosely! You are really on a roll today. Yes, there are certainly hundreds of songs about phone calls.

Every country has its own phone songs. Here is the Volare Hitmaker, Domenico Modugno, in a duet with […]

Buffy Saint Marie needs a sewing machine! What a remarkable voice she has! Thus song is a killer.

“I gotta get me a sewing machine

Sew you a shirt of black

”Do not love” across the front

And all […]

Time to get clean!

There may be other songs about visiting a car wash, but Rose Royce’s is the sovereign of the suds.

I suspect there are several songs about washing machines. In the hands of Kate Bush, doing […]

Thankyou for correct me @mikethe p. You are quite right. I was thinking of Penguin and got my facts seriously wrong.

But this new information confuses me. Paperbacks had been going in some form for the best […]

The first paperbacks appeared in the 1930s. But it was 30 years before their writers were immortalised in song by the Fabs.

Now Alicia Keys sings about her typewriter.

Elvis mentions his electric typewriter in […]

When did the term skinhead come into use?

That is a fruitful line of thought. What an interesting place the Swedish healthcare sector would be if every ansesthetic nurse was also a very competent jazz musician!

Now from 1962, a sizzling classic from the Tornadoes.

The jazzers among you will doubtless want to hear a track from Per’s album.

Here is the cover art and the track listing.

Any excuse to post this wonderfully anachronistic Drake cover.

Thanks Wheaty! What a very promising YT Channel.

Come on Rigid! Get up to date! Making telephone calls on your phone?? How very quaint!

Quite incomprehensible that we have come so far and no one has mentioned Edgar Wright. He’s a director in whose films the soundtrack is often central to the action. In Baby Driver, for example, the protagonist […]

A western with a Leonard Cohen soundtrack! I suddenly remembered this 1971 Altman film

In the same year, Cat Stevens provided the songs for Hal Ashby’s cult classic Harold & Maude,

Chatham County Line are a quartet from North Carolina who have been going since 1999. In 2006 things took an odd turn for them. They became stars in Norway when they were recruited to be the backing band for the […]

Here is Jonas Fjeld with Chatham County Line from a few years bac. Very agreeable!