https://youtu.be/Ra8rfxWfflk?feature=shared

Sort of related.

 

Two freedom fighters, the Lancaster bomber, all Brits will should know.

 

The ship is the Ross' Revenge home of Radio Caroline!!!

 

 

Is Caroline still going?

 

I remember when it first started. I was a truck driver in those days.

 

Trucks didn't have radios, or even heaters, well mine didn't, so would listen to Caroline on portable tranny. 

 

Reception was a bit patchy, but was great round East Anglia area.

 

Good times  

9 hours ago, Daffy D said:

Is Caroline still going?

 

I remember when it first started. I was a truck driver in those days.

 

Trucks didn't have radios, or even heaters, well mine didn't, so would listen to Caroline on portable tranny. 

 

Reception was a bit patchy, but was great round East Anglia area.

 

Good times  

 

Yup, still broadcasting and online of course.

 

https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

 

All 100% legal now.

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

All 100% legal now.

 

Takes all the fun out of it 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 10/22/2023 at 5:24 PM, Crossy said:

 

 

A sad loss to the industry at such an early age.

I saw the Honeycombs with Honey Lantree on drums at the California in Dunstable in 1964. Always something different with live performance.

Many People know Labi Siffre from this 1987 Hit song

 

 

 

But do you know he also had "hits" as far back as 1972

 

 

 

 

Made famous by Brook Benton, but this is the original

 

 

Classic album from Roger Waters

 

Another Cover vs Original

 

 

 

This is the Original

 

 

Sam Myers - I Got The Blues

 

Bobby "Blue" Bland - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City

 

Tracy Chapman & Eric Clapton - Give Me One Reason (1999)

 

Unfortunately passed on

 

Can't beat a bit of Glam Rock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then some stumpin' blues of Steve

 

 

I could go on, as Jools Holland channel has lots of known and unknown guests, also combined.

An amazing show from BBC2

 

 

 

OK to end rockabilly thing.

 

Not to everyone's taste

 

But do please note, this guy had something to do (as they say) with the discovery of The Beatles

 

Quote

 

in his capacity as record producer, Kaempfert played a part in the rise of the Beatles. In 1961, he hired the Beatles to back Tony Sheridan on an album called My Bonnie. Sheridan had been performing in Hamburg, and needed to recruit a band to play behind him on the proposed tracks. Kaempfert auditioned and signed the Beatles, and recorded two tracks with them during his sessions for Sheridan: "Ain't She Sweet" (sung by rhythm guitarist John Lennon) and "Cry for a Shadow" (an instrumental written by Lennon and lead guitarist George Harrison). The album and its singles, released by Polydor Records, were the Beatles' first commercially released recordings.

 

On 28 October 1961, a customer walked into the Liverpool music store owned by Brian Epstein and asked for a copy of "My Bonnie". The store did not have it, but Epstein noted the request. He was so intrigued by the idea of a Liverpool band releasing a record that he investigated. That event led to his discovery of the Beatles and, through his efforts, their signing by George Martin to Parlophone Records after Kaempfert helped them avoid any contractual claim from Polydor.

 

 

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

 

Another cover vs original

 

The Cover

 

 

 

 

Here the original

 

 

 

But they were influenced by this (the original of the original)

 

 

My Halloween song for 2023.

Marilyn Manson with a very creative cover of the Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) off of his '95 Smells Like Children album.  Not technically a Halloween song but Manson's video character rivals any ghastly Halloween creature that I can conjure in my imagination.

Great cover, though. 

 

 

Warren Zevon with Werewolves Of London off of his '78 Excitable Boy LP.
 

 

Blue Öyster Cult with (Don't Fear) The Reaper off of their '76 Agents Of Fortune album.
 

 

The Rolling Stones with Sympathy For The Devil off of their '68 Beggars Banquet album.

 

 

J.S. Bach's classic Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565.  Simply frightful!