Mud

Mud (now Mud II) are an English glam rock band, formed in February 1966. Their earlier success came in a pop and then glam rock style, while later hits were influenced by 1950s rock and roll, and are best remembered for their hit singles "Tiger Feet", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974, and "Lonely This Christmas" which reached Christmas number 1 in December 1974. After signing to Rak Records and teaming up with songwriters/producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, the band had fourteen UK Top 20 hits between 1973 and 1976, including three number ones.

          6. Oh Boy

Russ Conway

60 minutes of piano  Grrrrrrrrrreat !! and with a rhythm section as well can't be bad !

Ted Heath & His Music

 Big band sounds now but this time with a Latin Beat !

           1. Tico Tico

Nina Simone

Nina in concert and as the title say its all Folksy !....and not doing the usual standard folk songs but some that are entirely different  showing another side to her talent !

1. Silver City Bound

2. When I Was A Young Girl

3. Erets Zavat Chalav

4. Lass Of The Low Country

1. The Young Knight

2. Twelfth Of Never

3. Vanetihu

4. You Can Sing a Rainbow

5. Hush Little Baby

          5. Hush Little Baby

Steve Lawrence

Not had a male vocal for a while so here's a good one !!

Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935) is an American singer and actor, best known as a member of a duo with his late wife Eydie Gormé, billed as "Steve and Eydie." The two first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gormé's retirement in 2009. Gormé died August 10, 2013.

1. You Made Me Love You

2. You Call It Madness But I Call It Love

3. Where Or When

4. The More I See You

5. Walkin' My Baby Back Home

6. I Only Have Eyes For You

1. Lazy River

2. Day In Day Out

3. Easy To Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. They Didn't Believe Me

6. Music Maestro Please

          5. Walkin' My Baby Back Home

Nancy Wilson

Just for Now is a 1967 studio album by Nancy Wilson, featuring arrangements by Billy May, Oliver Nelson, and Sid Feller. The album entered the Billboard 200 on June 3, 1967, and remained on the chart for 15 weeks, peaking at No. 40. It reached #8 on the Hot R&B LPs chart.

1. Born Free

2. That's Life

3. What Now My Love

4. Rain Sometimes

5. Alfie

6. Mercy Mercy Mercy

1. Winchester Cathedral

2. If He Waked Into My Life

3. Love Can Do Anything

4. Just For Now

5. I'll Make A Man Of The Man

          1. Born Free

Samantha Jones

We now have a singer that should have been more successful than she was she has great individual voice !.....just listen to the sound bite !!

Jean Owen (born 17 November 1943), known as Samantha Jones is a former English singer whose career spanned the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. She won three international pop music contests and charted records in the Benelux countries. Her recordings later experienced a revival on the Northern soul scene.Jean Owen started her career in 1961 as part of popular English vocal group The Vernons Girls. During her time with the group, the line-up went from sixteen members to just three girls. The Vernons Girls enjoyed a couple of top 40 hits, including "Lover Please", "Only You Can Do It," (also released by Françoise Hardy) and recorded one of the first Beatles tribute songs, "We Love The Beatles". They also opened for The Beatles several times and appeared with them in a 1964 TV special, Around The Beatles.

In 1964, with the help of producer Charles Blackwell, Owen embarked on a solo career and signed with the international record label United Artists, who gave her the stage name Samantha Jones. Her first TV performance as a solo performer was a duet with Long John Baldry on 20 November 1964, with whom she had also duetted in Around the Beatles while a member of the Vernons Girls. She released several unsuccessful 45s (amongst them "Surrounded by a Ray of Sunshine," later a staple on the Northern soul circuit). Two of Jones' songs were covered by Françoise Hardy and released on the LP known as L'Amitié.

         13. Can't Take My Eyes Of You

Edmundo Ros

Edmundo Ros OBE (7 December 1910 – 21 October 2011), born Edmund William Ross, was a Trinidadian-Venezuelan musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin American orchestra, had an extensive recording career and owned one of London's leading nightclubs.

In the 2000 New Year Honours, Ros (then aged 90), was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in ceremony at Buckingham Palace. He turned 100 on 7 December 2010.

1. Amour Amour

2. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

3. Granada

4. Frenesi

5. Green Eyes

6. Besame Mucho

7. Adios

8. Brazil

1. Tici- Tico

2. Always In My Heart

3. Maria Elena

4. Perfidia

5. Magic Is In The Moonlight

6. Baia

7. You Belong To My Heart

8. Come To The Mardi Gras

          5. Green Eyes

Lita Roza

A favourite singer of mine from my teens with some great standards !

Lilian Patricia Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart.n 1956, she married the trumpet player Ronnie Hughes. She remained a top UK recording artist during the remainder of the 1950s and was voted the 'Top British Female Singer' in the New Musical Express poll winners' charts from 1951 to 1955. Melody Maker readers also voted her their 'Top Girl Singer' in the dance band section of the poll in 1951 and 1952.

 Elton John said that "we just don't make singers like Lita Roza anymore".

1. Too Marvellous For Words

2. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

3. I Don't Want To Walk Without You

4. The Nearness Of You

5. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

6. That Old Black Magic

7. You'll Never Know

1. Hernando's Hideaway

2. Man In The Raincoat

3. Idle Gossip

4. Hey There

5. Make Yourself Comfortable

6. How Did He Look

7. Stars fell on Alabama

           6. How Did He Look

Michael Flanders & Donald Swann

Something very different now....I guess that you will have to be from England to fully appreciate this one !!

At the Drop of a Hat is a musical revue by Flanders and Swann, described by them as "an after-dinner farrago". In the show, they both sang on a nearly bare stage, accompanied by Swann on the piano. The songs were linked by contemporary social commentary, mostly by Flanders. After a long London run the show played in the US, Switzerland, and on tour in Britain.

The two-man show was performed with Flanders in a wheelchair (as a result of polio contracted in 1943) and Swann at a grand piano on an otherwise empty stage. The only other person to appear on stage was the stage manager, who brought on and handed to Flanders the "little Edwardian hat" he wore for "Madeira, M'Dear?". The show consisted of a collection of mainly humorous songs, mostly written by them, connected by topical comments. 

Each performance ended with the "Hippopotamus" song, in which the audience was encouraged to join in, followed, in Britain, by a musical rendition of the Lord Chamberlain's regulations.

1. Transport Of Delight

2. Song Of Reproduction

3. A Gnu

4. Design For Living

5. Je Suis Le Tenebreux

6. Songs For Our Times

1. A Song Of Weather

2. A Reluctant Cannibal

3. Greensleeves

4. Misalliance

5. Kokoraki-A Greek Song

6. Maderia M'Dear

7. Hippopotamus

          07. Hippopotamus

La Dolce Vita Italian Cool...VA

Yep it would be a good life if you were on the boat with Sophia !

38 tracks of songs inspired by, and sung by the Italian Cool Ones !

1. La Dolce Vita......Nino Rota

2. Piccola......Adriano Celentano

3. Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo......Sophia Loren

4. Volare ( Del Blu Dipinta Di Blu)......Domenico Modugo

5. I Love You......Frank Sinatra

6. Nessundo Al Mondo......Ennio Morricone & Helen Merrill

7. Tu Vuo Fa L'americano......RenatoCarosone

8. Marechiaro Marechiaro......Sergio Bruni

9. Mambo Italiano......Rosemary Clooney

10. Arrivederci Roma......Dean Martin

11. Domani......Julius La Rosa

12. Non Ti Scordar Di Me......Al Martino

13. Bewitched Bothered And Bewildered......Rita Hayworth

14. IL Capello......Edoardo Vamello

15. IL Ciello In Una Stanza......Mina

16. La Donna Che Vale......Alberto Lionello & Ennio Morricone

17. Torna A' Sorrento......Sergio Franchi

18. Na Voce Na Chitarra e o Poco E Lunne......Ugo Calise

19. Thinking Blues......Piero Umilani & Chet Baker

20. Comme Facette Mammeta......Sergia Franchi

21. Cio Cio Bambina......Jerry Vale

22. Stelle e Sopgni......Barbara Baldassarre & Ennio Morricone

23. I Wanna be Loved By You......Marilyn Monroe

24. La Gatta......Gino Paoli

25. Quando.......Luigi Tenco

26. Sidone......Brigitte Bardot

27. Moon River......Henry Mancini

28. Beyond The Sea......Bobby Darin

29. Gassman Blues.....Piero Umilani & Chet Baker

30. My Only Man......Piero Umilani & Hellen Merrill

31. A Vucchella...... Mario Lanza

32. Eh Cumpari......Julius La Rosa

33. Lets Do It......Jayne Mansfield

34. The Sheik Of Araby......Lou Monte

35. Guaglione......Teddy Reno

36. Un Po' Di Cielo.......Quartetto Cetra

37. La Spagnola......Gina Lollobrigida

38. Seddok l'erede Di Satana seq......Armando Trovaioli

          17. Torna a' Sorrento

           29. Gassman Blues

This Is The Moody Blues

We now have a compilation from 7 of "Moody's L/P's..perhaps a taster for those who are interested in buying the full L/P's or CD's...Its a pity that they do not tell you which track comes from which L/P's...But all of the tracks are first class and well worth a listen to if you are not familiar with them !!....every track is A1 first class its going to be a problem for me to decide which one to use as a "Sound Bite" so I'll start at the beginning !!..this one is definitely not to be missed !!

          7. In The Beginning

          8. Lovely To See You

The Best Of Ball Barber & Bilk

Thanks AJ for this one bringing together 3 of  the "Jazz" bands of the 50's...AND on a "Golden Guinea" label....when we had in England "Pound ! Shillings ! & Pence ! "..as our currency  we also had "Guinea's" which was "One Pound One Shilling" or "Twenty One Shillings" or 21/- and that is what this L/P cost !! = Today £1.10p

          5. Teddy Bears Picnic

Astrud Gilberto

Brazilian Music is the order of the day and it's lovely !

The soothing voice of "Miss Ipanema" giving some songs the bossa nova beat.! a great L/P and I wish I had bought it when it first came out !!

Astrud Gilberto (Brazilian Portuguese); born Astrud Evangelina Weinert, March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She became popular in the 1960s after her performance of the song "The Girl from Ipanema".

She sang on two tracks on the influential 1963 album Getz/Gilberto featuring João Gilberto, Stan Getz, and Antônio Carlos Jobim, despite having never sung professionally before this recording. The 1964 single version of "The Girl from Ipanema", taken from the 1963 album, omitted the Portuguese lyrics sung by João Gilberto, and established Astrud Gilberto as a Bossa Nova singer. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.

1. The Shadow Of Your Smile

2. Portuguese Washerwoman

3. Look To The Rainbow

4. Meditation

5. Non Stop To Brazil

6. Manha De Carnaval

7. Frevo

8. The Girl From Ipanema

1. Berimbau

2. It's A Lovely Day Today

3. Fly Me To The Moon

4. Felicidade

5. A Certain Sadness

6. Dreamer

7. The Telephone Song

          8. The Girl From Ipanema

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor...Lili Kraus

Sandwiched beween a Jazz Voice and a Bosa Nova Voice...we have some serious Classical Music Piano playing !!

1. Alegro..Con Brio..Largo

2. Rondo..Alegro

3. Choral Fantasy In C Minor Op 80

Lili Kraus (4 March 1905 – 6 November 1986) was a Hungarian-born pianist.

Lili Kraus was born March 4 in Budapest in 1905. Her father was from Czech Lands, and her mother from an assimilated Jewish Hungarian family.

She enrolled at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and at the age of 17 entered the Budapest Conservatory where she studied with Zoltán Kodály, and Béla Bartók. In the 1930s, she continued her studies with Severin Eisenberger, Eduard Steuermann in Vienna and Artur Schnabel in Berlin, who focused her interest in the classical tradition.Lili Kraus soon became known as a specialist in Mozart and Beethoven. 

Kitty White

 This is the second visit from this singer...so if you like your music slow and smokey then this could be for you it's a cool one !!...and it has 3 bonus tracks 

1. Visit Me

2. Summer In The City

3. My Kind Of Guy

4. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe

5. So Many Beautiful Men

6. Do It Again

7. Call Me Darling

1. Disenchanted Lady

2. Would I Love You

3. Bossa Nova All The Way

4. Say It Isn't So

5. Just In Time

6. Mood Indigo

7. Honeysuckle Rose 

8. So Many Beautiful Men

9. My Love Is A Wanderer

          4. Happiness is a thing called Joe

Smokie.

Here's one of the more melodic groups of the 70's singing some of their hits...BUT not the Swearing Version of "Living Next Door To Alice "!!!!

1. Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone
2. Something's Been Making Me Blue
3. If You Think You Know How To Love Me
4. Pass It Around
5. I'll Meet You At Midnight

1. Living Next Door To Alice
2. Changing All The Time
3. Don't Play Your Rock And Roll For Me
4. Back To Bradford
5. Wild Wild Angels

          3. If You Think You Know How To Love Me

Shirley Bassey.

A great set of songs is on this L/P by Shirley everyone a winner.....not every L/P of Shirley's boasts of every song a winner... But in my humble opinion this is one of them!!....Maybe its because most of the songs are well known and popular....that does make a difference I am sure and of course the arrangements of the songs can make it as well...Soooooooo congratulations to "Johnny Harris" for a job well done...also I suppose "Dame Shirl" had her say in it as well !!

1. Something
2. Spinning Wheel
3. Yesterday I Heard The Rain
4. The Sea And Sand
5. My Way
6. What About Today

1. You And I
2. Light My Fire
3. Easy To Be Heard
4. Life Goes On
5. What Are You doing The Rest Of Your Life
6. Yesterday When I was Young

          8. Light My Fire

Music Of The 2020's.VA

No need for the DeLorean car as this selection brings for the first time on this Blog up to date music of the 20's and there's definatley not a Flapper in sight !!

1. Tilted......Christine & The Queens

2. Falling......Trevor Daniel

3. As It Was......Harry Styles

4. Wild Thoughts......DJ Khaled feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller

5. Sicko Mode......Travis Scott feat. Drake

6. This Is America.....Childish Gambino

7. For The Night (Radio Edit)......Pop Smoke. feat Lil Baby & Dababy

8. Bam Bam......Camila Cabello. feat Ed Sheeran

9. Here.....Alessia Cara

10. Ice Cream......Black Pink And Selena Gomez

11. Blinding Lights......The Weekend

12. Wait For U......Future. feat Drake & Tems

13. King Kunta......Kendrick Lamar

14. Old Town Road.....Lil Nas X

15. No Words.....Dave.feat Mo Stack

16. Dusk Till Dawn (Radio Edit)......Zayn. feat Sia

17. Vossi Bop......Stormzy

18. No Love......Summer Walker And SZA

19. Physical......Dua Lipa

20. Need To Know......Doja Cat

21. Lucid Dreams......Juice WRLD

         1. Tilted

High Society..Film

Another Film Soundtrack supplied by John F.....Cheers John...

1. Overture

2. High Society Calypso

3. Little One

4. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

5. True Love

1. Youre Sensational

2. I Love You Samantha

3. Now You Has Jazz

4. Well Did You Evah

5. Mind If I Make Love To You

         2. High Society Calypso