Every night is a music night

Blistering song and performance.

Great start to a song which I always like ...

... reminiscent of the Smiths.

 

Off to the Harbour View tonight to watch some blues, it's absolutely brilliant having something like this on the doorstep.

 

If you get the chance wish Eddie ( the base player ) in the Grumpies a merry Xmas from Lav
For got to put the bands name

 

Al Harrington and Jim Macara were brilliant at the harbour view.

 

How have I just found out this was not an original REM song?

 

Had to check there. Al Green's version is actually a cover of the REM song.

I love reading about how songs came about, were constructed, recorded, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Hurts

 

Ah that makes sense

 

Thanks for the info, I will try and get there before Xmas. This SR6 area has been well served with live music over the years , nice to know it continues.

 

Last time I saw a line like that last one it was actually "Free" and cost about 2/- to see Kossof , Rodgers et al. at The Bay Hotel

 

Hard to believe those lads were only about 17.

 

I like this sort of thing too, I,m listening to R4 " Add to Playlist" this morning and it links Bob Dylan, Harry Belafonte and Lord Kitchener Its a patchy show but throws up some interesting connections and interesting in its own way. You might like it if you havent listened already .

 

Yeah, I have listened to that Add to Playlist a few times Clocky. Musical theory way beyond anything I know but clever and interesting.

 

I'm there again this Thursday to see The Grumpies

 

Dylan playing Harmonica on Harry Belafontes version of Lord Kitcheners ^Jump in the Line " was new to me and very poignant, I worked many passages to JA in the early 60,s just as the Skatalites were starting the Ska Scene in JA. (cant stand UK covers bye the way) , and Harry Belafonte was only for the tourists. Even so I had an early Harry Belafonte LP before going to JA which I kept secret talking to the hip kids in the downtown joints at that time Even so I still love Harry and his versions of Island in the Sun , Jamaica Farewell and Hill and Gully Rider etc as they remind me of the times sailing in to and from those now famous Northern Coastal Ports, in the most beautiful coastline in the world as it was then.

 

Just stumbled across Alternative Sounds of the 90s with Dermot O'Leary. Very nice selection of tracks in this episode:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00254pk


A lot of good tracks on this one too:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024m7k

 

Great story Clocky. I arrived at early 60s ska via Madness, The Specials, Two Tone, UB40, and Bob Marley in the 80s. Worked backwards from there and found that the early 60s ska has a real magic - I think, in part, due to Jamaican independence and the other social/political changes happening around then.

 

I find it amazing how many songs that we think are by the original artists are actually covers. Here’s a few examples

Originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon (who?)

John Fogerty did this one first

Most know this was done first by Gloria Jones who was driving the car that Marc Bolan was in when he had his last hit (a tree)

Otis Redding apparently

Bruce Springsteen. Ask him when he’s next at the SOL

Racey, who had a few songs in the hit parade in the 1970s wrote and performed this as Kitty