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That is fascinating. Do keep 'em coming.
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That is fascinating. Do keep 'em coming.
On the Left Wing
KIT NAPIER
Went to see ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition at a late night screening the Odeon in Worthing (b/w the Strawbs Brave New World) in about 1973 and people kept saying KLeith Emerson was at the back watching too .... guess that now makes sense almost 40 years later!
withdeanwombat
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There is even video footage of Norman doing this at the Goldstone Ground.
Pot noodles for everyone
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Trufflehound
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before The Who were called The Who they were called The High Numbers
before The High Numbers were called The High Numbers they were called the Who ... (I think)
And before The Who were called The Who before they were called The High Numbers before they were called The Who, they were called The Detours.
Make your ruddy minds up lads!!!
The Large One
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Mitch Mitchell, drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, had an audition with The High Numbers.
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Two more infuriating tunes played on "Gold" the last couple of mornings:
"Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley and this morning "Horse With No Name" by America.
SSM features "Spotlight On... " followed by all the then current male soul singers, presumably on the same label as Conley. Perhaps the unknown one is Lou Ross, and the funniest is Otis Redding "with his Baa-baa-baa-ba-ba-ba". That comes off an early Redding single "Sad Song". James Brown is starred as "The King of the Mojo".
Great closing trumpet ending though.
Whoever shone the spotlight it wasn't on Conley, I don't think he had another Top Ten record.
America again had only one Top Ten record , despite having a great band name, you would have thought. Some very catchy instrumental touches to this.
"Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley and this morning "Horse With No Name" by America.
SSM features "Spotlight On... " followed by all the then current male soul singers, presumably on the same label as Conley. Perhaps the unknown one is Lou Ross, and the funniest is Otis Redding "with his Baa-baa-baa-ba-ba-ba". That comes off an early Redding single "Sad Song". James Brown is starred as "The King of the Mojo".
Great closing trumpet ending though.
Whoever shone the spotlight it wasn't on Conley, I don't think he had another Top Ten record.
America again had only one Top Ten record , despite having a great band name, you would have thought. Some very catchy instrumental touches to this.
Trufflehound
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In the UK maybe. They had loads of hits in the US.
Horse With No Name was originally called The Desert Song.
It is also probably the only major international hit about riding through the American desert ever to have been written in Puddletown, Dorset (America were all sons of US military personnel and grew up in the UK).
Chas and Dave's drummer was called Mick.
He was immortalised in a B-side called, "Give it some stick, Mick!" (which I can remember from the 70s - eek!).
bhaexpress
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Simon and Garfunkel's 'Homeward Bound', was written in Widnes Station by Paul Simon when he was stranded there overnight. Having been to that station I can understand why it's such a mournful lament.
The Large One
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So unknown he didn't actually exist. It's actually 'spotlight on Lou Rawls'.
And the Otis Redding lyric is 'Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa...' etc. It's from the song 'Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)'.
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Trufflehound
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Didn't they also make a film about Widnes, starring Harrison Ford and some Amish kid?
bhaexpress
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Marvin Gaye sung about that place too.
'Can I Get To Widnes'.*
No he didn't.
Might have done if was looking for an 'A' road.
Pedant alert - it never reached Number 1. It is however, the best selling 12 inch single ever, and the more they sold, the more money the band lost due to the instrinsic individual artwork on the sleeve
cheeseroll
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I've heard this before but it just doesn't make sense that they continued to lose money. They may have made a loss on the initial sleeve pressings and then would have reverted to a simpler sleeve later on.
Nevertheless if anyone wants to purchase my original sleeve let the auction begin..
