Happy Birthday, Algy !
Playlist by Algernon
Merv, Granny, Manne, Foodge and all the patrons of the Pig’s Arms send a very happy birthday wish to our tireless playlist builder, Mr Al Gernon. Happy 39th !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrJUjyDSHI
Volare – Dean Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc
Que Sera Sera – Doris Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkMVscR5YOo
It’s now or never – Elvis Presley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zTNZ_5an44
Blue Bayou – Roy Orbison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I16SwYD3kA
I have the Right – the Honeycombs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJWBpq2dCF0
Lady Godiva – Peter and Gordon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdI7GhZSQA
Hey Jude – The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MilfP2fVLhU
Banks of the Ohio – Olivia Newton John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5q1bU59Ic
Popcorn – Hot Butter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXWgC0SLCA
Can the Can – Suzi Quarto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW3HN_pvbE4
I do I do I do – ABBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxWfvkxFc0
Let’s stick together – Bryan Ferry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UaJAnnipkY
Born to be alive – Patrick Hernandez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSycAuQb4n8
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXxhp_cWmWY
I got you babe – UB40 and Chrissy Hynde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_SS-TyXhhU
La Bamba – Los Lobos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3WvI_S6-k
Venus – Bananarama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBij5GkF-s
Desire – U2
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Happy birthday Algernon. Are we 39 now or what?
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The hints in the Volare clip, Hungster. 39 and a few months.
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alge, so good of you to slip ABBA in… 🙂
Most enjoyable to listen Dean Martin to belt out Volare,and to see how narrow was Doris Day’s waist.
Nice one.
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Volare was No. 1 the day I was born andthere wasn’t much of Doris days waist as you say. Thanks
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Hey Algae! Happy birthday, by the way!
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Why thank you Asty 🙂
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Someone had to say it… I suppose I must be the most conventional of this unconventional bunch o’ piglets!
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I forgot. Happy birthday, Algy.
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Thanks shoe.
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A few of the comments ring bells. Vivienne commented on Have I the Right’ being catchy. It sure was in the context of the material on the hit parades then. I’d been thinking watching it on the opening guitars, the stridence so demanding and hypnotic. I noticed the drummer seemed to be adding a more percussive sound scape to background than communicates. 🙂
I’ve been reading up this morning on David Byrne and U2 to see if they worked together. David Byrne’s ‘Cowboy Mambo’ popped between my ears when I was watching the ‘Desire’ vid. Eye of the Tiger is a great drama. I used to have a 45rpm of Doris Day singing Oklahoma and dinkum I played it overly amazed at the quality of the recording. The effortless way Doris sailed like a miracle from note to note with such CLARITY. I hear the love and dedication and the trouble taken to reproduce the sound. That’s all I’m sayin’. Big fan. Hand movements like street cred man, don’t mess with a Day fan jus’ kiddin’ I’m cool with it
Great list Algernon. Many thanks..
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Thanks shoe, my thoughts were that Doris Day in this clip looked somewhat subservient hence the appeal to Abbott. Terrific voice though.
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I think I fell in love with Doris Day when I was about five years old! Yes, she does have a beautiful voice, perfect pitch and as you say, clarity! I think my favorite from her was ‘Now I Shout It…” from the movie, Calamity Jane… Hang on a sec… I’ll see if I can find it!
Oh, here it is… number d37 on the bar’s video-jukebox:
Only, it’s not really called, ‘Now I Shout It’… It’s really called ‘Secret Love’… but it’s the ‘Now I shout it’ bit that really gets me…
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That is beautiful, asty. (I searched it through Youtube. The link didn’t work for me here.)
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Oh well… at least you got to hear it… It’s fab in’t i’?
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It’s beautiful.
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Nice!
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No them all ! Good grief. Know them all……..
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Me too! Well… that is I know ’em all; and like most of ’em… Abba I can take or leave… Otherwise, good list, Algae!
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Well this list has to do with the day or this week in particular. All of these tunes charted at or near the top in the year of their release. ABBA was included because of their dominance as well as fitting into the narrative.
I would have chosen the Normie Rowe version of Que Sera Sera except the only decent version I could find had the soundtrack about 2 second different to the video. Both the Doris Day and Normie Rowe version were at No.1 this week though some 12 years apart. Thought the Doris Day version is something Tony Abbott might appreciate. Volare No. 1 when I was born.
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Well… I agree ABBA couldn’t be left out; as you say, they were dominant in the industry at the time…
Tony Abbott? ‘Que Sera Sera’? Chortle! Nice one!
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No them all and still like them. I have the Right by the Honeycombs was in the charts and doing very well when I arrived in London in 1970. Let’s Stick Together by Bryan Ferry was and still is terrific.
PS – why do new topics have the wrong box info to fill in. Goes back to the original land then takes you elsewhere to re-sign in basically. Odd!
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“GRRRRRRR! Cpme right back! I just can’t bear it! I got some luv and I long to share it…” Fab man… real fab; an’ the drummer wuz really gear!
BUT both you and Algae got the title wrong! It’s actually, “Have I the Right?” not “I Have the Right”, which would be rather too chauvinistic, as well as too presumptuous for a rock’n’roll luv song… Oh that ‘Merseybeat’ sound! Tek’s me raht back it doo…
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I noted the little typo there Asty. I loved the ornamental guitar playing as well as the drummer. She was going at it wasn’t she without even touching the drums.
The Bryan Ferry tune was a stand out here too I thought.
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Yes, it was Have I the Right – it was catchy though.
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Indeed.
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Very catchy…
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They were a band from London though.
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There were some pretty good pommy bands. The Who and the Rolling Stones come to mind – actually preferred them to the Beatles! Lynda Ronstadt did a great cover of Blue Bayou.
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Yeah… but they were still chasing that ‘Mersey’ sound, weren’t they?
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The Who and The Rolling Stones were both London Bands (or from the home counties), most the stones when to school in Dartford. I like the Ronstadt cover too.
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Well… unlike the Honeycombs, the Stones and the Who had long ago left the mersebeat behind; they’d been influenced by the more exotic rock’n’roll and blues that was coming from the States but only in very small doses at the time… it was hard to get American music in the UK before 1960… especially blues like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Albert Lee et al… So when the Stones and the Who got hold of ’em and really let rip it just blew the brits away! (Blew me away anyway!)
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Too true, Asty, Many like The Honeycombs had that sound but did not develop beyond that. They broke up two years after this reformed then broke up 12 months later.
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Yeah; kinda sad really. I liked the merseybeat… but like everything else, musical fashions come and go… The Honeycombs were, I suppose, really an example of that sound at its peak, but it was already getting to be old hat… soon to be relegated to the local working-mans’ clubs in the wildest northern reaches of the UK… while the trendsetters in London kept on breaking new ground… but that was fantastic too!
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Whilst here in Australia we had the industry controlling what was being listened to or available.
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