Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Thanks, Seraph for posting about the Seekers. Here's their amazing classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMZePE7SQk On Monday, December 30, 2013 10:46 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Judith Durham of The Seekers (Australian band) was pitch perfect with angelic, soaring voice. They don't make music like this any more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Not to mention Sandie Shaw, the barefoot wonder. Or Cilla Black! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Fifteen-year-old Lulu. A little girl with a big, big voice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYiUiWXM5M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYiUiWXM5M
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
posting about the Seekers: The Clark Kent lookalike on bass always makes me smile.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Re Not to mention Sandie Shaw, the barefoot wonder. Or Cilla Black!: Yes to both of those. Welsh lass Mary Hopkin scored big time with Those Were the Days. (Popular with American soldiers in Vietnam, I understand.) Another one I really liked was Twinkle [sic]. She penned most of her own songs unlike the other sixties girls. Her big hit was motorbike song Terry which compares favourably with Leader of the Pack. Both songs were banned by the BBC because of the death theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_J-w6RR7UQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_J-w6RR7UQ
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Twinkle was stunningly awful. What about, at the other end of the scale, Millie and her Boy Lollipop? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re Not to mention Sandie Shaw, the barefoot wonder. Or Cilla Black!: Yes to both of those. Welsh lass Mary Hopkin scored big time with Those Were the Days. (Popular with American soldiers in Vietnam, I understand.) Another one I really liked was Twinkle [sic]. She penned most of her own songs unlike the other sixties girls. Her big hit was motorbike song Terry which compares favourably with Leader of the Pack. Both songs were banned by the BBC because of the death theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_J-w6RR7UQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_J-w6RR7UQ
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Re Twinkle was stunningly awful.: Yes, she does rather divide opinion. The hip mods liked her! The production on that number rules; it demands headphones and volume. Re What about, at the other end of the scale, Millie and her Boy Lollipop?: Damn you ! I was about to post My Boy Lollipop ! The sexual insinuation completely passed me by at the time. But then so did the innuendo of Bend It by Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick Tich which has to be the filthiest song ever written. There was an alternative version of the song released in the US to suggest dance moves were being talked about but I think this one is the original. Remove children from the room before viewing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlpK0U9dhE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlpK0U9dhE
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
But returning to the theme, this is my favourite from that time. Even better that Terry by Twinkle. And there's a TM theme as Marianne Faithfull did receive her mantra from MMY himself. She later regarded him as a complete charlatan. As Tears Go By. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8JJ6du3Vio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8JJ6du3Vio
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Yeah, but Marianne Faithful was hardly an authority on TM. Too blinded by heroin, I suspect. Don't forget Kathy Kirby, the sexiest of them all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: But returning to the theme, this is my favourite from that time. Even better that Terry by Twinkle. And there's a TM theme as Marianne Faithfull did receive her mantra from MMY himself. She later regarded him as a complete charlatan. As Tears Go By. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8JJ6du3Vio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8JJ6du3Vio
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Her big hit was motorbike song Terry which compares favourably with Leader of the Pack. Both songs were banned by the BBC because of the death theme. I've always loved this one by John Leyton *because* of the death theme! http://youtu.be/7e4JXwd7XMo Wiki-god he say The song is one of the most noted of the 'death ditties' that populated the transatlantic pop charts in the early to mid-1960s. It's the only one I know. And... In 2012 the journalist Tom Ewing described the song as the weirdest and most gripping British record to hit the top yet, with Leyton's vocal clutching at your sleeve, desperate to tell a story of loss and madness. Meek turns the drums into phantom horsemen and fills the record's dark spaces with melodrama – a keening female voice on the chorus rounds the effect off.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Remember_Me#cite_note-5; Far out, man!
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Johnny Remember Me - yes. My favourite Joe Meek production (whereas Maggie Thatcher's was Telstar!). The fawning and fainting girls . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4JXwd7XMoamp;feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4JXwd7XMoamp;feature=youtu.be
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Let's not forget groovy Julie Driscoll. Probably the best cover of Donovan's Season of the Witch. Eat your heart out Austin Powers.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZPEleI-U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZPEleI-U
[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies
Judith Durham of The Seekers (Australian band) was pitch perfect with angelic, soaring voice. They don't make music like this any more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k
