What are you listening to right now?
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Listening to Richard Hawley's amazing set on last night's Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2 show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffe/
Delicious version of "Hotel Room".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffe/
Delicious version of "Hotel Room".
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Hotel Room was fabulous. Great sound. Lovely thick Sheffield accent. I'm not entirely clear if Coles Corner never actually existed, or whether the place in Scarborough he said they used for the cover was an attempt to create. A 23 year old Sheffielder said he'd never heard of it, though I like to think his parents used to meet up there of a Friday night.
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As I understand it, the place exists, but Coles department store shut down some years ago. I'm not surprised that a 23-year old wouldn't think of it as Coles Corner. Apparently people still meet at that location. In fact, Hawley's playing a gig there sometime in February. For the album cover, they were forced to shoot in Scarborough, since the exterior of the old Coles building looks nothing like it once did.Otis Westinghouse wrote:Hotel Room was fabulous. Great sound. Lovely thick Sheffield accent. I'm not entirely clear if Coles Corner never actually existed, or whether the place in Scarborough he said they used for the cover was an attempt to create. A 23 year old Sheffielder said he'd never heard of it, though I like to think his parents used to meet up there of a Friday night.
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Attention looking backward
In a bowl of water wishes with a blue songbird on his
Shoulder who keeps singing over everything
Everything means nothing to me
I picked up the song and found my picture
In the paper the reflection in the water shouted
"are you men still trying to salute
People from a time when he was
Everything he's supposed to be?"
Everything means nothing to me
In a bowl of water wishes with a blue songbird on his
Shoulder who keeps singing over everything
Everything means nothing to me
I picked up the song and found my picture
In the paper the reflection in the water shouted
"are you men still trying to salute
People from a time when he was
Everything he's supposed to be?"
Everything means nothing to me
Loving this board since before When I Was Cruel.
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The kids, 5 and 7, have heard the "1" cd in the car and frequently request the "hold your hand song". last night I sat them down in front of the "First US Visit" dvd that came out on the 40th anniversary a couple years back and showed them the Beatles on the ed sullivan show takes for the first time. all my loving, she loves you, twist and shout, please please me, i wanna hold your hand , etc. it freezes monsters still and causes them to request encores.
I'm not concerned about the very poor.
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Basil Kirchin's rereleased masterpieces - scores for imaginary films from a brilliant UK record label called Trunk Records.
http://www.trunkrecords.com
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Smoke Gets In your Eyes. From a compilation of 50s number 1s, as done by The Platters. Fabulous song, but I want a more classic 30s version (not necessarily recorded then, but in the simpler style of the times, Platters sound like they're about to burst into Ferry Cross The Mersey on this). Been trying to work out how to play it on the piano with the help of an internet printout. All those 7ths and so forth (F#min 7 to B7, lovely). Can't get it right, and for some reason I just can't get my ear round one bit of the melody, too tricky for me! They don't make 'em like that any more.
Anyone got a good recording of it to recommend? WSS probably has a 10CD box set of Jerome Kern classics with the definitive version on. I have a very clear memory of Bryan Ferry doing it on TOTP in the 70s (from The Bride Stripped Bare?), and my dad came in and insisted he was murdering it. Always quite liked his mannered version.
Anyone got a good recording of it to recommend? WSS probably has a 10CD box set of Jerome Kern classics with the definitive version on. I have a very clear memory of Bryan Ferry doing it on TOTP in the 70s (from The Bride Stripped Bare?), and my dad came in and insisted he was murdering it. Always quite liked his mannered version.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
Ferrys' version is on this - I think its a wonderful version and in fact the whole album is brilliant - has "The In Crowd" and "Help Me Make It Through The Night", easily his best solo record.
A personal favourite.
A personal favourite.
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load