March 1, 201411 yr An excellent cover indeed. Kirsty MacColl, of course, was a songwriter herself as was her father Ewan. The best known version of his best known song has to be Roberta Flack's version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 0jVMTydhx1Y
March 1, 201411 yr Author The song featured in Clint Eastwood's brilliant debut directorial/starring movie Play Misty For Me. The ultimate psycho bunny-boiler (Jessica Walter's fab performance) rings in to Eastwood's radio DJ asking for Johnny Mathis' Misty again and again. The best version of this song, now largely forgotten, is a country gem.. wSEg0flIqT8
March 2, 201411 yr The Ray Stevens version of Misty is certainly not forgotten by me. Anyway, from Dolly Parton it is a logical move to Hello Dolly performed here by the one and only Louis Armstrong kmfeKUNDDYs
March 2, 201411 yr Author Louis did the Bond immediately after the best Bond theme by Nancy Sinatra. Nancy's had a stunning catalogue of work with Lee Hazelwood of which this is just one spine-tingler... Some Velvet Morning Sb-SVPJM4L4
March 2, 201411 yr Nancy Sinatra was the daughter of a famous father. On the same theme, Liza Minelli was the daughter of a famous father (Vicente) and an even more famous mother (Judy Garland). I could have used that to go to Toto but instead here is Liza with a Z accompanied by the Pet Shop Boys s4hOH4YMPoE
March 3, 201411 yr Pet Shop Boys featured Neil Tennant, here's a rare non-PSB appearance for him guest-starring on this epic (and dare I say underrated?) 1992 Electronic classic. tUTJCIPsWwE
March 3, 201411 yr Ah, plenty choice from the collective back catalogue of Electronic's members...but I'll go back to one of the very earliest. Here's Electronic's Barney Sumner way back in 1979 with Joy Division and the shimmering, awe-inspiring 'Transmission'. flVEoNuEYgE
March 3, 201411 yr Another name for a transmission is a broadcast. Here's another Manchester band with a song about a broadcast, 03nFwzg7fxc
March 3, 201411 yr Author well Prince has already gone, so When Doves Cry is out (sob!), instead Doves did a marvellous Black and White Town, which reminds me of all the kids in school assembly trying to sing a reggae version of the school assemble fave, thanks to the hit chart version: Black And White by Greyhound GeQO8WkXL5I great pants
March 4, 201411 yr Adamski's dog Dis (a, erm, whippet greyhound / Jack Russell cross) used to appear in all his early videos, so watch out for Dis (with Adamski and Seal) in the classic 'Killer' Is0GfJr8p-k
March 4, 201411 yr Hmm, from Adamski to Violinski? No, let's go from Adam to All About Eve 15MY6OfPfyE
March 4, 201411 yr Does anyone know this song? It's truly beautiful, don't know much about her though... UdnQkQYT63E
March 4, 201411 yr Does anyone know this song? It's truly beautiful, don't know much about her though... UdnQkQYT63E Is this in the right thread? If so, what is the link? If not then someone can move it to its own thread. I'll be going out soon so somebody else will have to do it or it will have to wait until later.
March 4, 201411 yr From Martha's Harbour to Martha & THe Vandellas obvSFWvgBhg Martha & The Vandellas are perhaps best known for their version of "Dancing in the Street". Another contemporary band also released a version of that song, The Mamas & The Papas - _v2MwzdzFsY
March 4, 201411 yr Author the big number one version of Dancing In The Street was by 2 legends. Here's one of them doing something classic, it speaks to me, cos on Saturday, me, John was dancing to Bowie.. Oops, cancel that one, Bowie has already gone (with Queen, and I applied that rule to Prince in a duet. Doh!) so the other half of that duet is Mick Jagger Paint It Black, Rolling Stones CHGTqF8l6-U To keep the link with Brian Eno ( a fab track I don't know) Brian Jones was of course guitarist in the band at that time. Brian, meet Brian... Sorry! Edited March 5, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
March 4, 201411 yr Bowie has worked with a number of producers over the years including Brian Eno so... 31P1F1q5sGM
March 6, 201411 yr Author Eno was of course in Roxy Music, but not any of the tracks you might expect, no it's a brilliant pop single not usually thought of... arct2SuLcZs
March 6, 201411 yr Roxy Music's Eno years were certainly their best ones so I thought we'd look to their 1972 self titled effort for inspiration as it quite handily gives me the chance to point out that one of my favourite bands named themselves after track 2 of said album... and here they are with their biggest hit, the #42 SMASH from 2005: JTTwlAT_AwU
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