Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Snooky Pryor - Boogie Twist 1963
Often the best songs are the simplest. I love this. My copy on Flyright. Snooky Pryor wiki
Illustrated Flyright discography
Probably the label I have most of in my collection it would be British blues reissue label Flyright. A large chunk of my wages went on this in the 80s.
Flyright Records is a British record label incorporated in 1970 by Mike Leadbitter, Simon Napier, and Bruce Bastin. It specializes in reissues of American blues artists, but has issued some jazz by British musicians and some American jazz discs, including Ralph Sutton and Hoagy Carmichael.[1]
The Castaways - Liar, Liar (1965)
From the movie It's a Bikini World, 1967, Saturday Night Selection
Porthtowan Cornwall in the 70s
When I was a teenager I used to go and stay at my Uncle and Aunt's place in Porthtowan Cornwall. They used to show Endless Summer (see below) in the village hall for visitors. Focus of the surfing scene was the Surf shop and the Lifesavers clubhouse on the beach. A hangout, they would have parties there and you could watch the beach with binoculars. The club had a surfboat which they used to compete with other surf clubs. One time we all went to Wales for a competition which involved various races and so forth. Also drinking was involved.
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| a postcard of Porthtowan 1971 |
The Endless Summer
The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown, 1964. Opening credits with the "Theme from Endless Summer" by the Sandals. 2:14. Courtesy of Bruce Brown Films, LLC (www.BruceBrownFilms.com)
RIDE THE WILD SURF (1964) ♦RARE♦ Theatrical Trailer
I haven't seen this but it looks fun. Below from Sirrf film
Beach Party films
[edit]An alternative type of surf movie is the "beach party film" or "surf-ploitation flick" by true surfers. These films had little to do with the authentic sport and culture of surfing, and instead represented movies that attempted to cash in on the growing popularity of surfing among youth in the early 1960s. Examples of Beach Party films include:
- Gidget (1959)
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
- Beach Party (1963)
- Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
- Surf Party (1964)
- Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
- Malibu Beach (1978)
- The Beach Girls (1982)
- Spring Break (1983)
- Hardbodies (1984)
- Back to the Beach (1987)
- Teen Beach Movie (2013)
My Mother's Day photo
. Me in a tank top being 'a right sod' at Waterloo with my little brother. My Mum was a Magistrate in Frome when I was a teenager which was difficult for me to say the least.
Starting my Ladybird books collection
About a month ago I said to Susan keep your eye out for Ladybird books as I fancy collecting them and today she saw this one - 30p. Originally published in 1958 they stayed in print for many years after. Old fashioned but fun. For Brown rats they say something like 'we can't say anything good about them they are vermin!' Good one to start with.
Lily the Pink The Scaffold 1968
Mickey Bradley played the Scaffold. Apparently there is a retrospective box set coming out. Here.
The Scaffold are a comedy, poetry and music trio from Liverpool, England, consisting of musical performer Mike McGear (real name Peter Michael McCartney, the brother of Paul McCartney), poet Roger McGough and comic entertainer John Gorman. They are perhaps most notable for their successful singles "Thank U Very Much" (1967) and the UK number 1 "Lily the Pink" (1968). Since initially disbanding in 1977, the group have occasionally re-formed for performances and projects.
I remember them from our childhood. There used to be a family radio show called something like Junior Choice and we requested this record. The BBC sent us a reel-to-reel of the dedication and song so we could listen again.
Friday, March 28, 2025
New Kogar number 100 (three hours)
Here is show #100 of Kogar’s Jungle Juice! A 3 hour action packed tribute to the great NORTON RECORDS!!! One of the most important record labels of our time! Don’t miss this tour through some of my favorite Norton Records releases! Thanks Billy Miller and Miriam Linna for rescuing all these amazing talents (and more) from the record bins of history! This show BARELY scratches the surface of what Norton offers, but it’s a great place to start for newbies or if you just want to hear some truly amazing music! This show features artists like; Bobby Fuller Four, The Medallions, Wade Curtiss, Ron Haydock, Elroy Dietzel, Link Wray, The Cosmic Rays, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Powers and the A-Bones, Jack Starr, Hasil Adkins, Stud Cole, Florian Monday, Mad Mike Monsters, The New York Dolls, The Flaming Groovies, The Wildebeests, Mark Sultan and mo’, mo’ mo’!!! Full set list over at the Boss Radio 66 Blogspot!
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Show #99 was 1st in Surf, Doo Wop, Rhythm and Blues, Rockabilly and Garage!
The Pirates - 19.02.1979 WDR Studio-L Cologne, Germany
Setlist:
01 Please Don't Touch (2'05'') 02 I Can Tell (2'10'') 03 Linda Lu (3'40'') 04 Drinkin' Wine Spodee O'Dee (3'10'') 05 Don't Munchen It (3'00'') 06 Gibson Martin Fender (3'25'') 07 Poor Boy (3'30'') 08 Tear It Up (2'30'') 09 That's The Way You Are (2'45'') 10 Voodoo (2'25'') 11 Honey Hush (2'30'') 12 You Don't Own Me (3'51'') 13 Johnny B. Goode's Good (3'45'') 14 Shakin' All Over (3'10'') 15 All In It Together (3'25'') 16 Johnny B. Goode (4'10'') 17 Lonesome Train (2'55'')
Paul McCartney - Run devil run 1999
This was a rock'n'roll album that included a show at the Cavern. Mick Green of the Pirates on guitar so that interested me. A covers album this was an original. Read about it here.
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
The legendary blues singer Muddy Waters play Got My Mojo Working with Sonny Boy Williamson on Harp and Willie Dixon on Bass
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Alvin Stardust Live - The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club 1975
Me and Susan watch the reruns of this show on Sunday night. It's great. I used to watch it back then too. This was on last episode and I thought it was good.
King Biscuit Time & Sonny Boy Williamson (1977)
@4:32 Inside the King Biscuit Time Radio Studio
@7:28 We never heard blacks on the Radio..Sonny Boy was the first one... @7:50 "Cross My Heart" by Sonny Boy Williamson @12:11 B.B. King talks about how he started his career @12:46 Early Black Radio D.J. Nat D. Williams is interviewed @14:50 They tell me you can't really sing the blues until you have a heartbreak." @15:05 Joe Willie Williams & James Cotton talk then perform in San Diego
60th anniversary - Sonny Boy Williamson photos by Chris Strachwitz
Houston Stackhouse, Sonny Boy Williamson ll and James “Peck” Curtis 1965 Helena , Arkansas. Chris Strachwitz remembers Sonny Boy where there are more photos and interviews.
Famous photo session. Sonny Boy died May 1965. Listen to them here "Recorded inside the studio of KFFA in Helena, Ark. during one of Sonny Boy's last broadcasts in 1965".
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Animals & Men - Never Bought Never Sold
This compilation came out on vinyl in 2008. Tracks are a mix of Terraplanes and Animals & Men songs. Alex chose the tracks and I chose the title which is a lyric of one of the songs on it. I think 2000 were pressed. We liked it. Discogs
Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun" on The Ed Sullivan Show
October 18, 1970
Susan had a signed Carpenters album as her Dad worked with their uncle and he gave it to them but Susan didn't like it and we sold it.
From the wiki
The song was originally in a wedding-themed television commercial for Crocker National Bank in California in early 1970, with Paul Williams on vocals.[4] Hal Riney of the San Francisco-based advertising agency Hal Riney & Partners had commissioned the song to help Crocker appeal to young people. The song played over footage of a couple getting married and just starting out. In the song, direct reference to the bank was left out, in part to make the song more marketable. The commercial turned out to be very popular, but it attracted customers in which the bank was not interested: young adult customers with no collateral for loans. The campaign was eventually suspended, and Crocker subsequently franchised it to other banks.[5]
Sonic Youth Superstar 1994
"Superstar" is a 1969 song written by Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell, that has been a hit for many artists in different genres in the years since. The best-known versions are by the Carpenters in 1971, Luther Vandross in 1983, and Sonic Youth in 1994.
Rita Coolidge came up with the song idea, based on observing the relationships of female groupies with rock stars in the late 1960s.[1]
Greatest Blues Man Ever? Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers
I don't think he is the greatest ever but I do think he is pretty good.
The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat - [LIVE 1969]
Heard on the radio yesterday. Great song.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Pirates - Live at Dingwalls 1977
By the mid-1970's 'The Pirates' were, without doubt, the most popular act on the club circuit in the UK with their reputation rapidly spreading throughout Europe and Scandinavia. However the band had first emerged in 1959 as a backing group to the late, great Johnny Kidd with whom they enjoyed a total of nine chart singles. Their re-emergence as a power rock/rhythm and blues trio took the live circuit by storm and their two Warner Brothers albums 'Out Of Their Skulls' and 'Skull Wars' received outstanding reviews. This footage captures the band delivering the goods in their natural habitat with no holds barred!
Songs featured: 1. I Can Tell 2. Gibson, Martin, Fender 3. Shakin' All Over 4. You Don't Own Me 5. Lonesome Train 6. Talking About You Recorded live at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London 1977 Mike Green - Lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals Johnny Spence - Bass guitar and vocals Frank Farley - Drums and backing vocals
ENGLAND (1930). The railway station, Radstock, 1930
epw033309 ENGLAND (1930). The railway station, Radstock, 1930 | Britain From Above
The year my Dad was born. Radstock is popular among railway enthusiasts. I ren a Facebook group called Old Radstock that has about 5k people many of them railway buffs. There is a chap making a model of the station - he gives us an update now and then.
Buddy Guy - The First Time I met the Blues 1970
His first hit. Love that guitar sound. Still with us.
Slippery Lane Bath by Susan
In 1715 Bath was planned to be the centre of the Jacobite Rebellion and many Jacobites gravitated there in preparation. George Wade and several regiments were sent to the city and arms caches were found. One in Slippery Lane. A Jacobite arsenal was established at Bath, where there were collected three pieces of cannon, with the means of casting more, as well as eleven chests of firearms, and a hogshead full of basket-hilt swords. Further arms had been ordered from France. Also 200 horses were found ready for forming cavalry.. Arrests were made and the Bath involvement ended. The troops did a parade in Bath to impress the locals and that was it for the locality.
Down Bound Train by Chuck Berry 1956
Back in the 80s I was slightly obsessed with this song. Gospel tinged. Great instrumentation.
Lew Lewis And His Band-Boogie On The Street 1976
Lew Lewis backed by a thinly disguised Dr Feelgood;[4]
Probably my first Stiff Records purchase. B-side is possibly better.
Animals & Men at the Smell L.A. 2011
I was listening to the radio last night and the guest band Charles Moothart mentioned the Smell in Los Angeles - a venue - I thought - 'we played there'. Very hip, all ages venue so no bar. Entrance was down a side street and was a place for people to urinate hence the name. They had a stage but preferred their bands to play on the floor in front at eye level. One toilet for everyone and subsequently a big queue. We went down very well. A happy memory.
Monday, March 24, 2025
Available to buy or rent
I haven't seen it but my brother enjoyed it which made me suggest it to our son.
The Zombies - Tell Her No (Shindig 1965)
Susan likes the Zombies. A big hit in the U'S. but not a hit in the U.K. Wiki
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Yo La Tengo Prisoners of Love 2005
I think YLT started about 40 years ago. This is a compilation that marks their best old ones and is subsequently a good place to start with them. They used to cover our song Evil Going On when they started. I probably already told you that.
Velvets bootlegs
I remember we had a few bootlegs of the Velvets. One was a box set but I can't find it so we must have sold it.
Velvet Underground VU 1985
Did you get this 40 years ago?
VU is an album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground, recorded in 1968 and 1969 and released sixteen years later in February 1985 by Verve Records. Some sources refer to VU as a compilation album, while music critic Robert Christgau called it an unofficial Velvets' studio album. Most avoid both of these labels, as well as other terms occasionally used when discussing the album such as archival album or collection of outtakes.
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