Playlist
Helmut Zacharias – Hurdy Gurdy Man (Capitol)
Four Freshmen – Hurdy Gurdy Man (Liberty)
Enoch Light – Sunshine Superman (Project 3)
Paul Horn – Eight Miles High (RCA)
David McCallum – Turn Turn Turn (Capitol)
Brooklyn Bridge – Nights In White Satin (Buddah)
Ronnie Aldrich – Ride My See Saw (London)
Bud Shank – Cocoanut Grove (World Pacific)
Artie Schroeck Implosion – Six [...]
July 27, 2008
Categories: 45s, Easy Listening, Hammond Organ, Iron Leg Digital Trip, Kitsch, Music, Now Sound, cover versions, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 8 Comments
OG Fleetwood Mac
Listen – Fleetwood Mac – Albatross – MP3
Greetings all.
I hope the day finds you well. My brain is – as is almost always the case – battered, tattered and throwing sparks. As a result I’ve decided to pull a gem from the UK rock crates guaranteed to put even the most savage breast [...]
July 23, 2008
Categories: 45s, Culture, Funky16Corners, Music, Rock, pop, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 5 Comments
Small Faces – Steve Marriot, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan
Listen – Small Faces – All or Nothing – MP3
Greetings all.
The tune I bring you today has been a serious favorite of mine since the first time I heard it over 20 years ago.
Though I was a major Beatle-nut as a kid, it wasn’t until [...]
July 20, 2008
Categories: 45s, British Beat, Culture, Mod, Music . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 5 Comments
Sonny & Cher
Listen – Cher – There But for Fortune – MP3
Greetings all.
During the period in the 80s when I was deeply immersed in 60s sounds and iconography, there wasn’t (at least for me) a stringer symbol of the mid-60s Sunset Strip than Sonny & Cher. I still have an old postcard of the duo [...]
July 15, 2008
Categories: Music, Wall of Sound, folk rock, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Super Set
Listen – Super Set (Keith Allison, Gene Clark, Freak Scene) Side 1- MP3
Greetings all.
The “side “ I bring you today is quite literally a full side of an EP.
During a recent record show dig, while prowling through the crates of a dealer from whom I’ve been buying garage and psych for more than [...]
July 13, 2008
Categories: 45s, Culture, Music, Rock, cover versions, folk rock, garage punk, pop, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 2 Comments
The Electric Flag
Listen – The Electric Flag – Grooving Is Easy – MP3
Greetings all.
Today’s selection is a tune that I only discovered in the last year or so.
Though I was certainly aware of the Electric Flag since I was a kid, via all manner of rock lit and 99 cent cut out bin litter, the [...]
July 9, 2008
Categories: Culture, Music, Rock, pop, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 11 Comments
Peter Beckett of the Thoughts
Listen – The Thoughts – All Night Stand – MP3
Greetings all.
I hope all is well on your end, and that you’ve got room in your ears for a rare piece of UK vinyl.
A few weeks ago, when I featured the Creation’s ‘Making Time’ I mentioned that I would soon profile the [...]
July 6, 2008
Categories: 45s, British Beat, Culture, Music, cover versions, freakbeat, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 4 Comments
Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth RIP.
Playlist
Bob Seger & the Last Heard – East Side Story (Cameo)
Boo Boo & Bunky – This Old Town (Brent)
Darelycks – Bad Trip (Fine)
Lindy Blaskey & the Lavells – Let It Be (Space)
Sonics – Maintaining My Cool (Jerden) 1966
Starlites – I Can’t See You (Barclay)
Mystery Bonus Track
Kit & The Outlaws – Don’t [...]
July 1, 2008
Categories: 45s, Culture, Iron Leg Digital Trip, Music, cover versions, folk rock, garage punk, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 21 Comments