One is All, All is One! Welcome to a quick fix world of one hit wonder...

One is All, All is One! Welcome to a quick fix world of one hit wonder...

31/10/2011

The Surfaris - Wipe Out (1963)








Who said surf
music is dead?

Here's an evergreen
anthem for silver
surfers everywhere!

30/10/2011

The Love Sitars - Paint It Black (1966)









Here's a swinging
piece of sitar groove
to flip your wig to!

29/10/2011

Charles Crawford - Fat 'N Funky (1973)








Here's a nice
slice of rare groove
to keep you fit, er,

28/10/2011

Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4 (1970)





From a sprawling
double album,
came a lean & mean
number with an
infectious (&
familiar?) riff...
(At least the rest
of the tune was
original)

27/10/2011

Richie Havens - Freedom (1969)





He opened
He made up a
song & called it

What more do
you need to know?

26/10/2011

Richard Berry and the Pharaohs - Louie Louie (1957)







Not only one of
the greatest songs
ever written but
one of the most
covered, ever!

25/10/2011

24/10/2011

The Doors - The Mosquito (1972)








Life after Jim?

You Betcha!

Catch it

Taste it

Read all about it!

23/10/2011

Ronnie Laws – Momma (1975)









Here's anutha
mutha 4 ya!

22/10/2011

Booty - Roy's Tune (1974)






Put four super-
heavy soul jazz
giants in a studio
& what d'ya get?




21/10/2011

Death In Vegas - All That Glitters (1996)








Auspicious if not
golden start
for genre-bending

19/10/2011

Television - Marquee Moon (Alt. version) (1977)








There's more than
one way to end a
good tune...

Try it / Watch it
Tune in

18/10/2011

Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (1972)






One giant leap
for jazz fusion c/o
Eumir Deodato

17/10/2011

Colosseum - Elegy (1969)







Lament ye not!

A classic slice
of prog rock
pop from '69



16/10/2011

David Bowie - Conversation Piece (1970)





from little known
singer-songwriter...
...circa. 1970

Find

14/10/2011

Volker Kriegel - Zoom (1971)







Sitar
Guitar
Groove?
Volker's yer man!

TUNE IN / UP


12/10/2011

Roy Harper - October the Twelfth (1966)






45 years ago
English folk rock legend,
recorded this
timely number
of an epic career

11/10/2011

Pentangle - I Got A Feeling (BBC Transcription version) (1968)






A wonderful radio
version of a top tune
from a folk/rock
(+ Miles Davis!!)


RIP 'n' RAVE


10/10/2011

09/10/2011

801 - T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows) (1976)






As true now
as the day
John Lennon
wrote it....

READ all about it

John !

08/10/2011

Sarah Vaughan - Imagine (1971)






Here's one for
John, who'd have
been 71 tomorrow.
Imagine that!


06/10/2011

Jake Holmes - Dazed And Confused (1967)





Here's an original
of a tune everyone's
heard somewhere
before...
...but who wrote it?
Look no further than

05/10/2011

Don Fardon - Indian Reservation (1970)





Not your average
pop subject matter,
but a chart booster
all the same!

03/10/2011

The Sound Stylistics - Knucklehead (2009)






Superlative funksters
not just big in Japan
the whole world's
diggin' them

The City Champs - The Safecracker (2009)






Title track from
a right little
cracker of an
elpee!

Get it while
it's hot!!

Crack UP

02/10/2011

Collage - Madrid (1973)







An all-star lounge
act for easing your
ears to, THIS, the
stand-out track is
a Hawkshaw
original that's
guaranteed to
bliss you out...

01/10/2011

Bob James - Angela (Theme From Taxi) (1978)




Keyboard maestro
Bob James touches
down with this
evergreen theme