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my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 15-05-2015
MALCOLM VAUGHAN "wait for me" B/W "willingly" 1959
Welsh singer/actor who had a number of hits in the UK in the 1950s with his booming Tenor vocals....
i'd not heard of Malcolm prior to picking this one out, well, i had heard of him, just not heard his songs...
i like both sides of single, but i wouldnt say i'd go out to by a compilation off the back of it though
single peaked at unlucky #13 in the UK...
i say unlucky because it was his last charting single!
here's Malcolm's Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Vaughan
"wait for me" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfdCf-Um0K8 audio link
"willingly" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzpfYjF9G48 audio link
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 15-05-2015
and moving foreward a 20 or so years....
ANDY GIBB "dont throw it all away" B/W "one more look at the night" 1978
younger borther of Barry,Maurice and Robin....
i mean, who wouldnt like these songs, they were written by the Bee Gees, and lets face
it, these guys knew how to write solid pop songs.
single peaked at a lowly #61 in Australia
here's Andy's Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gibb
"dont throw it all away" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HsNsXkWxWU tv performance
"one more look at the night" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlIeGfMYPU4 audio link
my Dad's singles collection.... - jazzboCR - 15-05-2015
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:CARLA THOMAS "gee whiz" B/W "for you" 1960
its cool to see my dad bought a Carla Thomas single...
known as "the queen of Memphis soul", recorded on the Stax label...
if youre ever in that town, drop in to the Stax museum, its well worth it!
anyway...
Anytime I see this song linked, I grab the cans. Here's another take on a song Ms. Thomas wrote at 15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBeavxvm3A ><< There were tears all down my face...even on the the 4th hearing. Find me a more impassioned perf of this. And then there's this song by Bernadette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXldT0MySBI
Wanna see what killed doo-wop?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0BwqwbchoM << Not the same song--just sayin'...
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 15-05-2015
i loved those three lins Jazzy...thanks mate.
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 15-05-2015
DIONNE WARWICK "forever my love"-ep 1964
another four track 'ep' from Ms.Warwick, and again, nothing on Wiki to show
it was even released, let alone charted anywahere...
all covers on this one...i like two but i also dislike two this time round...
here's Dionne's Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_Warwick
"wives and lovers" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQv6WVkxA3g audio link(i dont like this song fullstop,whoever sings it!)
"forever my love" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBCglFf8q8 audio link
"unchained melody" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHShKqGRsM audio link(sorry, this song belongs to you-know-who!)
"thats not the answer" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csdU9OW6qec audio link
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 15-05-2015
another Dionne single....
DIONNE WARWICK "you can have him" B/W "dont say i didnt tell you" 1964
i love this "A" side...very upbeat and country sounding for Dionne, but she nails this one to a tee...
Elvis also recorded the "A" side in the mid 1970s, theres some bad recordings of it on the WWW,
it was released on a retrospective live set about a decade ago.
"B" side is more along the lines of what we expect from Dionne....
single peaked at #37 in the UK
no Wiki, its located in the post above this one
"you can have him" ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q98Lm9OyZ8 tv performance
"dont say i didnt tell you" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVy1sLVasY audio link
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 17-05-2015
KISS "shandi" B/W "she's so european" 1980
both myself and my day are big KISS fans, always have been, and always will be...
i love this ballad...
as usual though, im not really a Gene Simmons fan and i dont like the "B" side,
in Europe, the "B" side was released as an "A" side...
single peaked at #5 in Australia
her'es their Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band)
"shandi" ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc7ljVxCvsI video
"shes so european" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5PYzuzig4 video
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 17-05-2015
QUARTERFLASH "harden my heart" B/W "dont be lonely" 1981
a blast from the last here for me....
i dont think ive heard this "A" side since the early 1980s, and cant recall reading anything about them
since that time enither....
both sides of this single are pretty good....
single peaked at #6 here in Australia
here's their Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterflash
"harden my heart" **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeKV2UYq1Q video
"dont be lonely" **
......sorry,no links found for this one!.....
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 18-05-2015
PSEUDO ECHO "dont go" B/W "living in a dream(live)" 1985
Aussie new wave/electro-pop band from back in the day....
i never liked these guys at all and i most certainly dislike both sides of this single...
single peaked at #4 in Australia, the studio version of the "B" side also charted at #15 here
here's their Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo_Echo
"dont go" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBYa6cgHDEg video
"living in a dream(live)" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PQZ7lNfTI i cannot find a live version from the 1980's so here's the video for it
also,
they had one single which was big all over the world, a cover of the old disco thing "funky town".
this one made it to #1 in Australia,Canada and New Zealand, it also made it to #6 in the US and #8 in the UK
here's the link for that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnejLmQGYhg video
my Dad's singles collection.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-05-2015
here's one you guys probably havent heard of previously....
JOHN ROWLES "hush....not a word to mary" B/W "the night we called it a day" 1968
John is a New Zealander,
has a vocal quality similar to Tom Jones, infact it would be easy to confuse the pair of them....
love both sides of this single
single made it to #18 in the UK
here's John's Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowles
"hush....not a word to mary" ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_qQAvBIJXY audio link
"the night we called it a day" ***
.....no links available for this one!.........