MY MUSIC.

I have just had to come back and edit this post because non of the links i posted are working (a blogger thing?) If you want to hear a song you dont recognise you can cut/copy and insert it in your search bar, Sorry.
I have just so varied a taste in Music. I like Rock, Ballads, Harmonies, Pop, Classical (a little), and Folk.
The only music i really HATE (gonna upset a few here), is ......................................OPERA, it makes me bad tempered.
So..... probably the music i listen to most are 60s and 70s but thats not to say i dont like any 80-90-2000s.
Songs include My favourite Rock track "Ike Tina Turner- "Nutbush City Limits"
Songs from, Tommy Roe, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Small Faces, Eddie Grant, Status Quo, ELO, Dr Hook, Ottis Redding, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Muse, The Proclaimers and loads of others.
Top of the groups are of course the one and only "Beatles". The way their music changed and developed over the years, the fact that today over 40 of there songs have been recorded by others is a testament to their song writing skills. There tally of 17 UK no 1 singles, also 27 in the USA+ unknown hits world wide. All these plus 60 top 100 entries and at least 20 Album hits. What you also have to take into account are the records by each individual member ie John Lennon, Paul McCartney etc, then also groups they were in Wings,Traveling Wilberry's, Band Aid etc etc. A record that no group OR individual has or can get any where near, ever.
The boys music is so varied which makes it impossible for me to pick my all time favourite. So what i will do is mention a few of my favourite tracks.
Easy listening favourites include
"I'm looking through you", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_PiVNLiuc&feature=related
"Girl". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liR9bW5hm2c&feature=related
"Something" (cant find it on you tube).
"In my life" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuXoDVPDpz0&feature=related
"This Boy" and f course loads more.
Faster or Rock tracks i like include
"She's a woman"
"Get Back"
I'm a loser"
"Got to get you into my life".
I have 30 Beatles Single records. 7 EPs, 16 LP records. 17 CDs. + Wings, Traveling Wilberry's, etc. I also have all there films, Magical Mystery tour was the worst.


This next favourite group of mine i have been to see live 3 times , once in 1970, at a Birmingham (UK) Club, Once in the Birmingham Hippodrome (1969) and once in 2007 as part of the "Solid Silver 60s show"at Barnstaple Theatre, N Devon. Each and every time they sounded as good live on stage as they did on record, this certainly wasn't the case with a lot of other performers we have seen.They had 9 UK top 20 hits including the NoI hit "Silence is golden" in 1967. Others include my own favourite "Here comes my baby"(1967), "Call me Nunber one" (1969) and "Me and my life"(1970). I have two single records (45 rpm) and two CD's. I have just taken a link from the last last you tube watch video i posted of the "Troggs" for it to come up "Not found" bug.er, bug.er, bug.er, i hope that is not the case with all the other links !!!!!!!!!!!.

Not quite such a well known medium heavy rock band were "The Troggs". They were originally from Andover (Wilts) UK. I first got into them with the hit "Wild thing" back in 1966. They had a total of 7 UK top 20 hits which included "With a girl like you" (1966) No1."Love is all around" 1967 and "Any way that you want me" 1966. A lot of music pundits cite the fact that they did not tour America until late 1968 as a reason they were not a massive hit in the States.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9DVJE_bhVU

This next Rock band was one i loved back in the 60's and still play regularly today. It is the "The Kinks". They came from Britain's capital city London and really came to fame in 1964 with "You really got me". The main and only members to stay right through their long run of successes were the Davies brothers, playing lead and rhythm guitars and main Vocals. During their careers "The Kinks" had 18 UK top 20 hits, including their 3 No Is. They were (1964) "You really got me" (1965) "Tired of waiting for you" and (1966) "Sunny afternoon".Finally disbanding through internal disagreements in the late 90s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vnfU9VGo3w&feature=related
The "Everly Brothers" below. There is quite a story to my love of this fantastically harmonising set of brothers Don (Eldest) and Phil. In around 1969-70 i bought (From a school friend) a "Chrystal Radio" (for 10/0d) 50p. These tiny little sets were about the only thing a schoolboy could, A Afford and B, get small enough to put in a bedroom (without mother knowing).The reception to say was poor, was an understatement!!!. Poor or not that was all that was available.Music in the UK was starting to really arrive to the younger generation and most teenagers were comparatively poor, by to days standards, "Jukeboxes were just appearing in Cafes. I bought this Radio for one reason only to try to listen to the UK's "Musical express" top 20. This was broadcast every Sunday night on "Radio Luxemburg"at i think 10pm until midnight.Reception was awful with fading in and out every few seconds. At the time i managed to actually get the small wire Aerial in a position to be able to hear anything i listened right through the hit parade ending with the No 1 song which was...."Cathy's Clown" by the Everly Brothers. I borrowed the money the very next day and went out and bought the 45rpm record. This was the second record i ever bought, just a fortnight before i bought "Jimmy Jones, Good Timmin". For the next few weeks i drove my family mad by playing these two records over and over again. From then on i bought the next few Everly's singles as they came out.
So my top track has to be "Cathy's Clown" followed by "Lucille","Wake up little Susie","Walk right back","Ebony Eyes" etc .In 1984 Don & Phil got back together and recorded "On the Wings of a nightingale"which i really love.
This Paul Mcartny song (written for them) is from their 1983 reunion Concert, just think in this LIVE song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRb8_4dQkBM they had hardly played together for over 20 years.

The lovely tones and harmony's of "Simon & Garfunkel" (below) are another of my easy listening favourite artists. They, as quite a few Duo's and groups were, influenced early in their careers by none other than the Everley's. The duo had quite an eventful career being at odds with each other most of the time and breaking up at least twice before their final parting in 1970 (i think), although i did say final parting they actually lined up together on stage at least 4 more times but no more recording studio work came about. A few of my favourite tracks include "Scarborough Fair", "Mrs Robinson", "Homeward Bound" and of course "Bridge over troubled Waters".I own 3 of there best CDs.
This you tube version of "Scarborough Fair" brings back happy memories of the film "The Graduate".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoGOgqs_20
I must admit to liking a bit of Reggae occasionally.starting many years ago in 1960 with "Jimmy Jones" and the song "Good timmin". Although of course Reggae just wasn't big way back then. The biggest and my all time favourite Reggae artist is "Bob Marley" (below). This artist was yet another that's career ended very early, Bob fought Cancer (starting in the foot) for several years and eventually succumbed at the age of 36 in 1981. I bought a couple of his singles (in the days of 45rpm records) and now own 3 CDs of his. My favourite few tracks are probably "Jammin", "One love", Buffalo Soldier" and "No Woman no Cry".
Listen here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5Qo4Pnc94&feature=related
Here we have late 1950s, early 1960s Crooner Michael Holliday (Below) a soft, mellow voiced singer who i rank as my top easy listening solo singer. Mike's career and life were very short, he committed suicide in 1963 aged just 39. Mike had a string of hits which included 2 UK no I's, "The Story of my life" and "Starry Eyed". He at one time had his own TV series which ran 2 seasons.
Besides his NoI's i also really like these tracks. "The fool on the Hill","Stairway of love"and "Hot Diggity". A record of Mikes that still gets regular airing on children's programmes is "The runaway train".I'm afraid that even though he was popular with every one including the Ladies Mike suffered badly with "Stage Fright" and lack of self confidence which is believed to have played a large part in his depression and eventual tragic suicide.
Listen here, LIVE. http://www.nme.com/video/id/64QCeOaNo1M/search/Michael%20Holliday


Joke of the day.

Shortly after a British Airways flight had reached its cruising altitude, the captain announced:
'Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain.

Welcome to Flight 293, non-stop from London Heathrow to Toronto . The weather ahead is good, so we should have a smooth, uneventful flight. So sit back,relax and..... OH, MY GOD !'

Silence followed!

Some moments later the captain came back on the intercom.
'Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry if I scared you . While I was talking to you, a flight attendant accidentally spilled a cup of hot coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!' An Irishman at the back shouted

'bye jezis you should see the back of mine"