Boney M – Rivers Of Babylon
Another one, If you hear it now it stays in your ears for hours. 😇
A Blast from your Pop-Music Past
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Curiously, though it was released in 1973, my magic year, I have never heard this. Lucky escape!
My Friend the Wind by Demis Roussos
No 1 for weeks in the charts
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine - released as a single October 1968.
Is there anyone who doesn't love this? As someone on this video comments - 'What makes a song over 50 years old pop into your head for no reason? Simple greatness.'
However, I didn't know anything about it at the time. We were preparing to move house in the middle of my A-level course and I had 'gone off' pop by that time. I only noticed this in 1985, the time of the Levi Jeans Laundrette advert - which just shows you that advertising can sometimes promote good music (among other things).
Is there anyone who doesn't love this? As someone on this video comments - 'What makes a song over 50 years old pop into your head for no reason? Simple greatness.'
However, I didn't know anything about it at the time. We were preparing to move house in the middle of my A-level course and I had 'gone off' pop by that time. I only noticed this in 1985, the time of the Levi Jeans Laundrette advert - which just shows you that advertising can sometimes promote good music (among other things).
Thanks for sharing, Rogerx.
These Arms of Mine
Another Otis Redding song that has such emotional appeal but I didn't notice it at the time - I think it didn't get much publicity in the UK in 1962 and was the B-side to Hey Hey Baby and only noticed and plugged some months later. Jim Stewart, the founder of Stax records, died recently and it was only reading his obituary that prompted my curiosity.
www.telegraph.co.uk
But anyway, I know now.
These Arms of Mine
Another Otis Redding song that has such emotional appeal but I didn't notice it at the time - I think it didn't get much publicity in the UK in 1962 and was the B-side to Hey Hey Baby and only noticed and plugged some months later. Jim Stewart, the founder of Stax records, died recently and it was only reading his obituary that prompted my curiosity.
Jim Stewart, co-founder with his sister Estelle Axton of Stax Records, the epicentre of Southern Soul – obituary
He launched the careers of such singers as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Eddie Floyd
But anyway, I know now.
Yep - I remember this one, and as a 1960s moralistic teenager was impressed by it, as a true statement about the human condition, though even at the time I did wonder if the song was a wee bit portentous.
The Sounds of Silence," - Simon & Garfunkel
Great blast from the past
The girls who lived in the next room to us at our residential college (part of the university) had a Simon & Garfunkel LP which included Bridge Over Troubled Water which they played over and over again. I do like this one, but one can have too much of a good thing coming through the walls.
Thanks for posting. I liked Sandie Shaw - her songs, her looks, and the fact that she seemed more honest than others in the biz. I once got her biography out of the local library. It wasn't a very good read, but I remember that she said she she hated Puppet On A String - maybe because she always had to sing it when she was on stage. I 'quite liked' it - but I preferred Long Live Love & Always Something There to Remind Me.
Puppet on a String by the artist Sandie Shaw.
She won the Eurovision song contest in 1967.
I remember she came to the town where I lived then. ( Bare feet of course)
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