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Why Do You Bother?
Best known these days for her long running role as Audrey Roberts in the even longer-running TV soap Coronation Street, Susan Frances Nicholls (born 23 November 1943) got her first big break in the...
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Thick, Thick Thick up to Here
Credited as Freddy Davis on the disc’s label (the spelling of his Christian name appears to have been interchangeable for a number of years), Freddie ‘Parrotface’ Davies was born into a showbiz family...
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Is it My Body?
Pretty much unknown in the UK, Webster was an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 1983, until May 1987. Drawing heavily on the earlier show Diff'rent Strokes, Webster starred...
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Like a Bird
Just in case you didn't know (or you've been living under a rock for the past few months), I've written a book, and it is officially out (in the UK, at least) from today.Available from all good...
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Thisters, O Thisters
Born in December 1936, Isadore Fertel (pronounced Fur-Tell) was rapidly approaching his forties when he struck up his on-off friendship with the man who would become his mentor, champion and producer -...
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I'll Hoff and I'll Puff
Released in the US in January 1985, Night Rocker was the debut studio album by American actor and infamous burger muncher David Hasselhoff. Produced by the Grammy-nominated Joel Diamond (Gloria...
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The Food of Love
What can I tell you about Vinny Roma?Not a lot, if truth be known. I believe that he was of Italian extraction, and that he recorded his self-financed and self-pressed albums in and around Miami during...
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Sing it Again, Rock!
Rock Hudson: film actor, TV star and, sadly, the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness. But singer?Apparently so, if the album Rock, Gently is anything to go by. Subtitled Rock...
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Sing it Again, Again Rock
Now, cast your mind back to last week, when I introduced you to the horror of Rock Hudson’s lone album release Rock, Gently. As I told you at that time, Hudson and his co-conspirator Rod McKuen had...
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Meet the Kaplans
‘Three funky cats, all brothers, having just as much fun on stage as their audience,’ as the sleeve notes to their second album read. ‘What kind of sound do the Kaplans have? Three parts of harmony...
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Ooh! Ooh!
Anyone who watched Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s will recognise that as the exclamation uttered endlessly by Botch, assistant zookeeper at the Wonderland Zoo on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Help!...
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Do Us All A Favour
Everything is better when it comes with a ‘four to the floor’ beat.Or so it seemed for a short while in the early 80s, when the British charts were deluged with discs featuring a medley of hits stapled...
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Happy Father's Day
It’s Father’s Day (or very nearly), and what better way to celebrate that to enjoy the heartfelt strains of a little girl, and her love for her daddy?Wendy Sings With Mommy and Daddy was issued some...
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Dilly Dilly
Another ridiculously obscure record I know next to nothing about, but felt compared to share with you.I Won’t Say I Love You, recorded by Don and John Lampien, is a pretty standard, pretty dull country...
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Out of the Mouths of Babes
Wow! Just wow! This will split listeners: some of you will find the vocals irritating, but I have to tell you that I absolutely love this album. Welcome one and all to the world of kid-funk superstar...
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What a bunch of Mormons
Saturday's Warrior is a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-themed musical written by and serial WWR offender, the three-times married father of 10 Alexis “Lex” de Azevedo (Ric King, Mrs...
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The Horror! The Horror!
The Greek Fountains were Danny Cohen, Tommie Miceli, Don Chesson, Duke Bardwell and Cyril Vetter. Formed in 1962, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based quintet were a popular attraction, and over a five...
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Japanese Boy
I originally discovered these tracks a few years ago at the – now, sadly, no longer updated – Cartilage Consortium blog, and much of what you’re about to read has been cribbed from there. Apologies,...
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There's The Rub
This thoroughly ludicrous recording is a product of the same school that taught you that Robert ‘Jesus’ Powell’s Once Upon a Time was acceptable. Well that isn’t, and nether is this.But it is apposite:...
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The Dumber of the Beast
According to the sleeve notes, this album is ‘one of the greatest original interpretations of the new dimension of Psychedelic sound’ – it’s not though: it’s a load of old nonsense.Underground by Satan...
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