seems like it's quieten down enough here, so to start a new post. the issue here is how to start the thing. seeing i've already done it , it wasn't that hard. another real issue that really shits me about this blog stuff, especially this one, there was always someone using apple and chrome checking out what i just put down to the blog. i had no qualms with this at first or ever. it just went on for so long. on one hand it was good someone was showing interest in what i was doing. on the other hand it had the creepy value of making paranoia. lately whoever it was has fucked off, which is probably for the better. this was originally was just going to be a tweet, but 200 odd characters became a bit short. this top hits thing is about a record. whether it's long or a short blog , is besides the point , at least i'm doing something.
18sept2017
not the first album i owned, but the first i brought with my own bit of money. i had bought a few singles before. this has come about cause my mother moved some time ago and lot of stuff was going. i grabbed a few things from my youth left behind. the time i bought the record was 1969/70, that's nearly 50 years ago. that makes this a bit like the wonder years. it's sort of weird how i remember that record, i think the circumstances of the time make it memorable.
25sept17
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these are my photos of my album brought in 1969/70
25sept17
once again music for pleasure brings you twelve 'top hits' on a single album - the sounds of pop recreated in stereo by top-flight sudio musicians. put this record on at a party and the fun will begin - listen to it on your own an hear again the songs that hit the charts in '69.
as usual, john lennon and paul mc cartney have said 'get back' to all other songwriters, with a song that was made up on the roof of apple's savile row headquarters. their closest rival was their own 'goodbye', gave mary hopkin her follow-up to 'those were the days' and another well-deserved hit.
'love me tonight', a song composed on the continent, was given a powerful delilah-type backing and provided a sure-fire hit for tom jones, while 'ragamuffin man' marked the return to the charts, after an unusually long absence, of manfred mann. there may not be too much room for sentimantality in pop these days, but 'my sentimental friend' showed that there's always a place for the kind of sad-cheerful sound that help herman and the hermits to another huge hit. and providing a dose of old-time sentimentality was 'my way', which gave frank sinatra the chance to say that he's got no regrets.
'dick-a-dum-dum' was des o'connor's first uptempo number, a light-hearted song that sounds like a tour of swinging london. 'the windmills of your mind', the oscar-winning theme song from 'the thomas crown affair', made a quiet contrast to the rest of the charts, and a newcomer among the hits was clodagh rodgers - in the absence of beatle competition she would certainly have made the top spot with the imaginatively-produced 'come back and shake me'.
from the states came 'harlem shuffle', which introduced two more names to the hit parade, the mysterious bob and earl. it turned out that they were a soul duo who had made the record six years before and had, among other things , influenced the righteous brothers. 'galveston' gave glen campbell a big follow-up to 'wichita linesman', and another great song from across the atlantic was 'the boxer', one of paul simon's finest compositions, and a song which was thought by many to be too subtle to become a hit - events were to prove them entirely wrong.
jack rind
18oct2017
as usual, john lennon and paul mc cartney have said 'get back' to all other songwriters, with a song that was made up on the roof of apple's savile row headquarters. their closest rival was their own 'goodbye', gave mary hopkin her follow-up to 'those were the days' and another well-deserved hit.
'love me tonight', a song composed on the continent, was given a powerful delilah-type backing and provided a sure-fire hit for tom jones, while 'ragamuffin man' marked the return to the charts, after an unusually long absence, of manfred mann. there may not be too much room for sentimantality in pop these days, but 'my sentimental friend' showed that there's always a place for the kind of sad-cheerful sound that help herman and the hermits to another huge hit. and providing a dose of old-time sentimentality was 'my way', which gave frank sinatra the chance to say that he's got no regrets.
'dick-a-dum-dum' was des o'connor's first uptempo number, a light-hearted song that sounds like a tour of swinging london. 'the windmills of your mind', the oscar-winning theme song from 'the thomas crown affair', made a quiet contrast to the rest of the charts, and a newcomer among the hits was clodagh rodgers - in the absence of beatle competition she would certainly have made the top spot with the imaginatively-produced 'come back and shake me'.
from the states came 'harlem shuffle', which introduced two more names to the hit parade, the mysterious bob and earl. it turned out that they were a soul duo who had made the record six years before and had, among other things , influenced the righteous brothers. 'galveston' gave glen campbell a big follow-up to 'wichita linesman', and another great song from across the atlantic was 'the boxer', one of paul simon's finest compositions, and a song which was thought by many to be too subtle to become a hit - events were to prove them entirely wrong.
jack rind
18oct2017
21oct2017
so the story is, i was up the local paper shop, and they got a carousel rack stand of records in. at the time i liked my sentimental friend by herman's hermits. i seen this record and noticed my sentimental friend. i spent some time reading the cover. i remember waiting to hear my sentimental friend on the radio. it came on the radio at my grand mothers place. it took a while but i remember they were doing the washing out the back, still had the old washing copper, where you lit a fire under a copper tub and ringers into tubs. i asked my mother what sentimental meant, she said, you. i never ever got a proper answer, just some riddle that took me years to figure out what she meant. when i think about it now, she meant i was being sentimental and couldn't explain, how many people know what something is but can't explain it. so, if a teacher asked me what sentimental meant? i would have said, you. my sentimental friend = you my friend. it sort of works. i was nearly going to buy the single, which was at that time either 75 cents or a dollar, which was a bit of dosh. a packet of cigs is now over 20 bucks, i remember buying them for the old man at 33 cents a pack, he'd send me to the shop. i thought you get a few extra songs that were okay, i wasn't that sure. every time i went to the paper shop , i'd look to see if it was still there. come friday hit the olds for a bit of cash and bought it.
18nov2017
like them top of the pops things, not the original artists. i think i felt a bit gipt by this, still it was okay. i think now, it sort of adds to the mystery, like who is this jack rind, who done the sleeve notes. and who were the studio artists, side two was the main play, i haven't heard this album for many, many years. if i still alive in two years i'll give it a whirl. thinking back, love me tonight was okay and the boxer. i played it on that old stereo gram i've talked about in earlier blog at my grandmothers place. i remember singing along with my sentimental friend turned down and everyone in bed sleeping, over and over . would have been 11 or 12. i later did the same with teaser and the firecat album.
18nov2017
like them top of the pops things, not the original artists. i think i felt a bit gipt by this, still it was okay. i think now, it sort of adds to the mystery, like who is this jack rind, who done the sleeve notes. and who were the studio artists, side two was the main play, i haven't heard this album for many, many years. if i still alive in two years i'll give it a whirl. thinking back, love me tonight was okay and the boxer. i played it on that old stereo gram i've talked about in earlier blog at my grandmothers place. i remember singing along with my sentimental friend turned down and everyone in bed sleeping, over and over . would have been 11 or 12. i later did the same with teaser and the firecat album.
30may2018
here's photo of the paper shop were i bought the record. judging by the cars, post 68
