Ain't It Hard Electric Prunes 1966

 ''It is with heavy and electric hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, James Lowe - lead singer and founder of The Electric Prunes.

He passed away peacefully of natural causes on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, surrounded by music, our incredible mom, and the three of us - his kids: Lisa, Cameron, and Skylar.''

Charles Caldwell - Hadn't I Been Good To You 2004

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Caldwell_(bluesman)

Sonny Boy in Sweden

 

Skids Masquerade 1979 (Top of the Pops)

 Mickey Bradley played this and we enjoyed it. Didn't buy it at the time as I wasn't a fan. Apparently there is a Skids singles compilation coming out. 

JOHN'S CHILDREN - SMASHED BLOCKED - 1966

 Some British psyche

Apple Alley Frome

 There are a lot of alleyways in Frome I can think of quite a few. This Sunday is the Frome independent market which sees the town swamped by people though I have never been. Unpopular with many residents as it doesn't really have any benefits to outweigh the inconvenience. 

Baby Boy Warren Hello Stranger

 I love this. This is the session details from Blues Reccords 1943-1966 mentioned below. As you see it's in Detroit with Sonny Boy in 1953-4, Baby Boy Warren played on the King Biscuit Time radio show in Helena Arkansas. 

Toadlets ahoy

 Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK - ARG UK

Please help and share! Arguably, one of the great sights of nature is the mass movement of tiny amphibians, when baby toads (or metamorphs) leave their breeding ponds and, for a few brief hours, move as a massive group to their new terrestrial feeding grounds. Sometimes we see a few toadlets, sometimes we see many hundreds or even thousands. We are collecting sightings to try and understand what triggers this mass exodus, how long it lasts, and how important it is for the sustainability of local toad populations. This will help us to understand this vulnerable life stage a little better, and help us to provide better advice to land managers to protect them.

You can upload your sightings to our special 'Travelling Toadlets' online portal:

https://www.recordpool.org.uk/travellingtoadlets

New Kogar

 Show #107 of Kogar’s Jungle Juice STREAMS and SCREAMS your way! Don’t miss this all new episode of killer sides from the 50’s and 60’s! This show features artists like: The Thundermen, The Silvertones, The 4 Deuces, The Empires, Ruth Brown, Billy Wright, Johnny Two-Voice, Ron Haydock, Roy Orbison, Kip Tyler, Howlin’ Wolf, JB Lenore, Johnny Lance, JC Davis and the South Bay Surfers! Full set list over at the Boss Radio 66 Blogspot!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Kogar/kogars-jungle-juice-show-107/

or

https://www.bossradio66.com/.../kogars-jungle-juice-show...

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New Spotify playlist

 

Muddy Waters ~ You Can't Lose What You Never Had

 

Cornish Ice Cream

 

Wiki. I am a fan of this ice cream but it's hard to find the good stuff. Do you like it?

The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction - [Shindig!, May 20th, 1965]

 

ROLLING STONES "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on The Ed Sullivan Show

 Came out June 4 1965 - wiki, This clip is from 66. The wiki is interesting telling the story of the riff and composition of the song. 

Roger Miller Dang Me 1964

 Mum liked Roger Miller. 

Mother

 As well as Oak Apple Day today is our mother's birthday. Doreen. She came from Worcester to Midsomer Norton where they celebrate it so the significance was not lost on her. She was a keen cyclist in her youth travelling all over. Later in life she was a Justice of the Peace. She was political in her early life. 

Oak Apple Day

Today we celebrate the Restoration - wiki

Where I live Midsomer Norton has a statue of Charles II on its church tower. Apparently (pdf)

  ''It is possible that Charles II visited Welton on two occasions. During the Restoration Sir Charles Harbord, the Duchy Surveyor, lived at the Manor House, and, as we have seen, it was hear Charles heard the peal of cracked bells. Some twelve years earlier, in 1651, there was a price on Charles’s head of £1000 and he was for several weeks on the run between Worcester and the south coast. Tradition has it that he was hidden for some time at the Old Farm in Welton.''

Blues Records 1943-1966, by Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, London England: Hanover Books Ltd., 1968

A book that is worth having. My copy is well-thumbed. 

Eark Bostic Harlem Nocturne 1956

 We have a 45 of this. Great tune. Song wiki

Charles Clark Hidden Charms 1958

 The best version. Vcl. with Willie Dixon band.  Sonny Boy Williamson, hca Harold Burrage pno, Otis Rush, Louis Miles gtr Willie Dixon bass, Billie Stepney drms. Flip of Row Your Boat which is also good. 

Jimmy Lloyd Where The Rio De Rosa Flows 1957

 Classic Rockabilly as heard on the Wednesday Night Rocking Party. 

Mr. Bloe - Groovin' With Mr. Bloe (1970)

 

the oldest building in Frome

 Susan worked here part time as a teen in the attic doing the books for the Fashion Box. 

Olga Kurylenko as Etain | Centurion (2010)

 Not a brilliant movie but Olga Kurylenko was very good in it. She starred in a film about Boudicca which got slated and I haven't seen it but I will possibly see it some time as I like the character. 

Frank Sinatra sings It Was A Very Good Year (live from the 1965 TV special A Man And His Music)

 Riley and Coe played this last night and it brought back memories. Our Dad was a fan and he saw him in 53 in Bristol a poorly attended gig. 

Slade - How Does It Feel? (1975)

 Marc Riley has been talking about this. In Slade in Flame. 

Blow-Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni

 A great film I think but I am a fan Blowup - Wikipedia This was the first film I had on VHS taped off the telly - watched the Yardbirds bit so much. As I said the other day David Hemmings was the sixties.

the haunted - 1-2-5 (1966)

 A garage standard that originated  from Canada. Wiki

Frome in the Commotion Time of 1549

 

cheap street Frome part of the old part

''At Frome, payment was made for execution irons, 'wood for fire to burn the entrails', and a pan and trivet to seethe the limbs; whilst similar payments were made at Mells, Beckington, Shepton Mallet, Wells, and Glastonbury''

My sister found this great article on the events of 1549 'Commotion time': the English risings of 1549 - WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal

Frome started a wave of disturbances across Somerset and Wiltshire against enclosures - in Frome fences and hedges were torn up - some 200 rioters. I didn't know about this so thanks to Anne. 

'Waiting for the Man' performed by Doctors of Madness

 This clip from 1976 the Doctors of Madness original lineup, Richard Strange (vocals / guitar) Urban Blitz (violin) Stoner (bass guitar) Peter DiLemma (drums) performing the track 'Waiting For The Man'.

Restless Natives (1985) trailer

This Scottish comedy adventure movie is 40 years old. Music by Big Country. Wiki

 

The Standells "Zebra In The Kitchen"

 From the 1965 movie of the same name. An Ivan Tors movie.

Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well [HD] 1975

 You Wear It Well (Live in the Final concert of the Faces 1975)

13th Floor Elevators - Dr Doom 1969

 From Bull of the Woods. 

The Art of Jack Kirby

 This Facebook page has some good covers in it. 

Captain America theme song 1966

 Our Grandson is getting into Marvel. Likes Spiderman mostly I think. I wonder if he would like this?

Gene Vincent - You Are My Sunshine - HD - 1964

 

With the Shouts. I had this album with this on as a youngster. It is top hole. 

T.Rex Marc Show - Celebrate Summer 1977

 Summer is heaven in 77. 

The Bargee (1964) - Trailer

 We watched this again last night - it really is a great film. 

Hemel Pike is a canal-barge Casanova, aided and abetted by his illiterate cousin Ronnie. Hemel has a girl in every town along his route, and each one is intent on marriage. He is finally caught when one of the girls, Christine, falls pregnant.

Directed by Duncan Wood. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Starring Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith and Eric Sykes.

Love Buzz Shocking Blue 1970

 Best Dutch band ever. Learn this bass riff  players of the 4 string. 

1989: Will People BUY Movies on VHS? | Film 89 | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

 Our son sent us this. 

Bob Dylan - Isis (Live Footage - Madison Square Garden - 1975)

 Dylan's 84th birthday yesterday. 

Doctors of Madness first TV performance live on the Twiggy Show in 1975

 Susan was a big fan, seeing them live going backstage getting autographs that sort of thing. She says they were brilliant live. Had their PA draped in camo netting and used a lot of strobe. Violinist was called Urban Blitz. Enjoy!

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down

 Glorious. 

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood "Summer Wine" on The Ed Sullivan Show 1967

 

Dion (I Was) Born to Cry 1962

 Love Dion's voice. Great song too. 

Nico Sings Chelsea Girls in the Chelsea Hotel

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Nico - Strip-Tease 1962 demo (Serge Gainsbourg)

 Early vocal for Nico

Nico played the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud’s 1963 Strip-Tease (aka Sweet Skin and Lady Strip Tease). Billed as "Krista Nico", she stars as German dancer Ariane, a character described by Poitrenaud as "a stripper lost in the nocturnal world." Serge Gainsbourg, who scored Strip-Tease (and makes an uncredited appearance sharing a piano with Big Joe Turner), recorded a demo of the title song with Nico in 1962, her earliest surviving recording. Juliette Greco’s voice was used on the finished version.

Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965)

 

Instrumental - Otis Rush (1966)

 

The Wailers Hang Up 1966

 A perfect song. From the 65 album Out of Our Tree. Wiki

Jesse and Buzzy - Goin Back To Orleans 1958

 Savoy records B/W Without Your Love

Jesse Perkins (harmonica, vo) Buzzy Lubinsky (g) unknown (d)

'I Feel Like A Million' THE MOONLIGHT SIRENS (Storm Rehearsal Holloway, London) BOPFLIX sessions

 BOPFLIX session with all-women swingin' garage blues band THE MOONLIGHT SIRENS (UK) covering 'I Feel Like A Million' (written by Andy Gibson, originally performed by Mamie Bradley, recorded by Sue Records in 1957). Filmed live at Storm Rehearsal Studios, Holloway Road, London, UK (2025).

Ramones - The 1975 Sire Demos (Full Album)

 0:00 LoudMouth 2:14 53rd and 3rd 4:36 I Wanna Be Your BoyFriend 6:18 i Don’t Care 8:10 ChainSaw 10:06 You Should Never Have Opened That Door 11:49 i Can’t Be 13:45 Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue 15:25 i Don’t Wanna Be Learned/i Don’t Wanna Be Tamed 16:26 What’s Your Game 19:19 Your Gonna Kill That Girl 22:04 i Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You 23:55 Today Your Love Tomorrow The World

Read about these recordings here

The Ramones 1975 live Arturo's loft.

 Our 50 years of punk thread is now in full bloom. 1-2-3-4

Ramones photographed by Bob Gruen in 1975

 

Thee Headcoatees - Evil Thing 1992

 Just heard this for the first time. Good. 

New Playlist

The Gories - Thunderbird ESQ

 Don't know when this is from - 90s I guess. 

Jim Pepper - Newly-Weds Song 1971

 I love this. See if you do. 

Pepper's Pow Wow is the debut album led by Native American saxophonist and composer Jim Pepper recorded in 1971 and first released on Herbie Mann's Embryo label.^[1][2][3]

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