This month a mishmash of shorter themes which wouldn’t have stretched to a whole show or would have made for a repetitious one.
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First off a selection of songs from the late 1970s and 80s originally recorded by men but which became hits for women.
00:00:00 Robert Hazard – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
1979 The 1983 release by Cyndi Lauper and becoming successful in 1984.
00:02:30 Racey Kitty – Smash & Grab
1979 Tony Basil had the hit in 1981. Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn of Sweet, Mud & Suzi Quatro fame amongst others.
00:04:10 The Nerves – Hangin’ On The Telephone
1976 A UK No. 5 hit for Blondie in 1978.
00:06:04 Raf – Self Control
1984 Number 1 in Raffaele Riefoli’s native Italy but Laura Branigan’s cover had most of the success elsewhere.
00:08:19 John Lind – Crazy For You
1985 A bit of a cheat as this is a demo of the song Madonna recorded for the song Vision Quest.
00:10:35 Jules Shear – If She Knew What She Wants
1985 Better known from The Bangles 1986 version. He also wrote All Through The Night with which Cyndi Lauper reached No. 5 in America.
There’s the occasional advert advert interspersed with the music throughout this compilation.
00:13:01 Bee Gees – Things Go Better with Coke
1968 A commercial don’t you know.
The odd parody. And some not so odd.
00:14:00 Matthew (As the Bee Gees) – Wave Of Mutilation
2000s From Matthew’s Celebrity Pixies Tribute
00:16:24 Chris Morris (As The Pixies) – Motherbanger
1990s
00:18:32 Kevin Ryan (As Bob Dylan) – Oh, The Thinks You Can Think
2007 From ‘Dylan Hears a Who.’ Dr Seuss in the style of mid-sixties Bob. A Cease & Desist letter from Estate of Theodor Geisel put paid to the fun.
00:20:02 Kevin Ryan (As Bob Dylan) – Green Eggs & Ham
2007 From ‘Dylan Hears a Who.’
00:21:02 The Rolling Stones – Snap Crackle Pop!
1963 Rice Krispies Commercial.
Instrument and audio equipment demonstration recordings.
00:21:27 Godley & Creme – Gizmotron
1975 The Gizmotron was a guitar attachment using motor driven rubber wheels to vibrate the strings of a guitar. It failed partly because of production problems a new version has been made since 2016.
00:23:32 yapacc – MFB Dominion Synthesizer
2010s German Mono Analogue Mono Synth.
00:25:29 Michael Rodd – I May Never
1980 Tomorrows World Tascam 4 Track Cassette Demonstration.
00:25:47 Simmons Drums – SDSV Drum Synthesizer
1982
00:27:07 Francis X And The Bushmen – Trouble at Madame Dongs
1974 Apex Aural Exciter 7” Flexi-Disc.
00:29:45 Mark Styles – Aries Music Synthesizer
1970s A modular synth of the 1970s to early 1980s available in Kit Form.
00:31:58 Rocky Mount Instruments – Mr Bach Meets Batman
1967 Demo of the US manufacturer’s first instrument The Explorer organ. Better known by their initial RMI and electric pianos much used by prog rockers.
00:33:25 Jenny Ondioline
1950s Introducing the poor man’s Ondes Martenot as popularised by Jean Jacques Perry. It actually had a wider range of sounds than the instrument it was based.
00:34:04 Maestro Electronics Theremin
1972 As designed by Bob Moog.
00:36:24 Daniel Willett – Shadowing
2022 Cherry Audio Dreamsynth computer software plugin.
00:39:33 Pathé Freres Phonograph Company
1914 From the first year of a company.
00:40:16 Audio Fidelity – Stereo
1958
A couple of songs on the hi-fi theme.
00:41:10 Flanders And Swann – At The Drop Of A Hat
1960 George Martin recording of the review first performed at the very end of 1956.
00:43:33 Spanky and Our Gang – Leopard Skin Phones
1969
00:46:07 Cream – Falstaff Beer Commercial
1968
Animal Classics.
00:47:07 Charles-Valentin Alkan – Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot
Written 1859.
00:56:22 Alfred Deller – Will You Buy A Fine Dog?
By Thomas Morley. Published 1600 in The First Book Of Ayres.
Radio – Adverts & Clips.
00:57:36 Pink Floyd – Relics Advert
1971
00:58:31 Pink Floyd – Cirrus Minor
1969 Originally from the ‘More’ Film Soundtrack.
01:02:08 Jethro Tull – Stand Up Album Advert
1969
01:02:55 Jethro Tull – Nothing Is Easy
1969 From the LP Stand Up.
01:06:29 John Lennon – KHJ Tower Records Advert
1974 KHJ being a radio station broadcasting in Los Angeles since 1922.
01:07:22 John Lennon – #9 Dream
1974 From Walls & Bridges
01:09:31 John Lennon – On NYC Radio 28th September 1974
01:10:19 Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown
1973 It actually got to 53 in America. Marc Bolan played on several ELO tracks of this period but not this one though Jeff Lynne used his Gibson Firebird for the solo.
01:12:22 Ringo Starr – Radio London Close Down Message
1967 ‘The Big L’ broadcast from a ship in the North Sea from 23rd December 1964 to 14th August 1967 until shut down by the introduction of the Marine Broadcasting (Offences) Act.
01:12:32 The Beatles – A Day In The Life
1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Last track broadcast. Paul Kaye is the final voice.
A Burst Of Bowie
01:16:53 David Bowie – Christmas Message
2013 For BBC Radio 6
01:17:22 David Bowie – The Laughing Gnome
1967 Special appearance by Gus Dudgeon as the Gnome.
One of David Bowie’s early influences, Anthony Newley.
01:20:15 Anthony Newley – That Noise
1962
01:23:20 Anthony Newley – What Of Kind Of Fool Am I
1961 The song he was taking the mickey out of in ‘That Noise’. From the musical ‘Stop the World – I Want to Get Off’ written with Leslie Bricusse.
01:25:21 Anthony Newley & Delia Derbyshire – Moogy Bloogies
1966 Unreleased until 2014.
01:28:44 Nina Simone – Feeling Good
1965 From the 1964 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd also written with Bricusse. John Coltrane recorded one of the earliest versions but this is the best known.
01:31:34 Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Cast – Oompa Loompa
1971
01:32:29 Blondie – Gold Finger
1977 Live Musikladen Bremen 11th November 1977. Lyrics by Newley, music by John Barry.
01:34:44 The Ramones – Fill My Cup
1994 One of three tracks they recorded advertising Steel Reserve Lager.
Do The Maths.
01:35:42 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Ink Mathematics
1982 From Ice Cream For Crow.
01:37:21 The Threeteens – X+Y = Z
1959
01:39:22 Max Vernon Mathews – Numerology
1961 Music From Mathmatics – Bell Telephone Labs.
01:41:45 Sun Kil Moon – Never Ending Math Equation
2005 From the Tiny Cities LP.
01:44:03 Abandoned Pools – I See The Math
2013 From Somnambulist. Tommy Walter, original bass player with The Eels who is now mainly a soundtrack composer and part time French Horn player.
01:47:19 Jimmy Pemberton – Mathematics Of Love
1958
Bombs Gone.
01:50:10 The Golden Gate Quartet – Atom And Evil
1947
01:53:24 The Pilgrim Travellers – Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
1950 Originally by ‘The Charming Bells’ a year earlier.
01:55:47 Sister Pauline Trotter – Satan Ain’t Nothing But A Bomb
1976
01:59:15 Dick Catan and the Losers – Play Out
From Sassy But Classy.