Ok what week is it? Week seven, week Ten? Anyway, better late than never (possibly) here are the hits and the misses of the rest of the B’s in the veritable British Book of Hit Singles. First up is a totally anonymous club banger. Anonymous as in who the hell are they? (puts on). Oh it’s this. Again, check out the bass line and the classic filter house sound. Brings to mind all those cartoon covers on the Hed Kandi compilations. Ah memories. In the comments some Crazy Covers and one quite gob-smackingly awful track from 1959.
The Listening Project Week Seven: Rounding up the B’s
by 9 Comments
Crazy Cover #1 – early 90s indierock version of Going Underground?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=oxvGMWVaezA
From The Jam tribute album Fire and Skill. This came out as a double A side with Liam Gallagher’s take on Carnation
Crazy Covers #2 – 90s R and B version of BoRap?
Jeez. My expectations were low, but reality was even worse.
And brickbats at Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens. The past is another country. One in which people went into a record store of their own volition and asked for this. There’s a tiny bit of an intro before the madness starts. Actually this is not just awful, it defies understanding just as much as Anglo-Saxon or merkins. Perhaps @deramdaze can just tell us what the hell is going on here in the late fifties. Can the C’s bring us anything so weird? let’s hope so.
Just a novelty record, nothing to see here. Things like that came along every week. Edd Byrnes was in Grease.
Not my bottle of Jamaican Stout, but surely what you’d have seen in “Happy Days,” or “Grease” 17 or 18 years later.
March 1959.
Buddy – dead.
Jerry – ostracised for marrying his cousin!
Elvis – the worst fate of the lot, joined the army.
Little Richard – found God for the first, not to be the last, time.
Chuck can’t buy a hit in the U.K., ditto, Gene, Eddie’s about the only Rock ‘n’ Roll presence in the chart.
1960 – Eddie also dead.
But … THE time to be aged about 16/17/18.
See all The Beatles, four of The Rolling Stones, Jimi, Bob etc.
If they were born at another time, even a few years either way, they’d be also-rans.
The Alan Braxe track is a tune. That’s The Jets “Crush on You” for the crate diggers.
It is a banger no doubt of that.