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Christmas 2012 (Part Two)
Happy almost Christmas everybody! Three slices of seasonal song-poems for you today. First up today is a re-post from 2009, as the original link is now dead and I want so much for you all to hear this...
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Christmas 2012 (Part Three)
Welcome, everyone, to the last instalment of this year’s Christmas cavalcade. Each of today’s songs comes to you courtesy of our old friend Ross Hamilton, who I can’t thank enough for sending me a copy...
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A Rose By Any Other Name
Welcome back, my friends. I trust that you all had a brilliant Christmas. Here’s a little oddity for you: a 45 released on Film City around 1964 which, unusually, is actually performed (and I use that...
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Sweet Angelina
Happy 2013 everybody! To kick off my seventh year of blogging, here’s a fun little thing I picked up recently on Ebay: Sweet Angelina by Mister “G” and the Joe Menen Trio. This 45, which appears to...
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On The Guest List
Hailing from the squalid (I promise you, no matter how much they’ve spent on the place in recent years, there’s no more apt word to describe what was, in the 1990s, the drug capitol of the west...
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God Only Knows
God Only Knows by The Beach Boys is, hands down, one of the most beautiful, sublime and perfect pop songs ever. It's one of those songs that should be on everybody's all-time favourite lists. Brian...
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Everything Else is Really Lame
One of the singularly most annoying things I've heard in years, Video Games was released in 2006 by the Black Out Band (aka the Black Out Kids). Not to be confused with the Welsh post-hardcore...
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You Went Too Far
We all know about the masses of bad Beatles’ cover versions; heck, I’ve featured a load here myself. Within moments of the Beatlesexploding onto the scene other artists were queuing up to cover the...
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Umbrellas at the Ready
In a career which spanned seven decades, Burgess Meredith played many iconic roles: he appeared in a number of seminal Twilight Zone roles, including the bookish bank teller in the brilliant first...
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80 in the 80s
A couple of early 80s oddities for you today, both from female singers in their 80s (well, almost) and both all but forgotten today.First up is an odd little slice of whimsy and nostalgia which came...
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They do Though, Don't They?
If there's one lesson that history has taught us, then surely it is that sports men and women should never, ever be allowed to set foot in a recording studio. This applies exponentially to groups of...
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Billy Joel: Rock God
Today's slice of nonsense is a piece of ear shattering, head banging heavy metal from the rock god that is Billy Joel. Yes, you read that right: Billy Joel. For before Mr Joel began his career as a...
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Mairsie and Marcy
One of the most enjoyable aspects of compiling music for this blog has been discovering (or re-discovering) music, artists or companies that are now all-but forgotten. In the song-poem field this...
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Sound of the Underground
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that (seemingly) never ends. Apologies for being missing in action last week, but we were moving house and I was without internet access for a few days. Still,...
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Easter Eggstravaganza
Happy Easter everybody. And what better way to celebrate the season than another round of creepy Christian ventriloquism? A couple of real oddities for you today courtesy of Bob Bradford and his...
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The Squire Presents
Long time WWR contributor Ross Hamilton, aka The Squire, has just posted his latest podcast - featuring yours truly prattling on about my 20 favourite bad records. The track listing (below) will be...
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A Rose by Any Other Name
The son of a famous music hall (vaudeville) comedian, Fred Emney is probably best known to people of my generation not for his countless appearances in British film comedies or for his long-running TV...
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How Long Can Disco On?
The disco craze was responsible for many, many heinous hits and easily some of the worst (and often most tenuous) novelties imaginable. But if you thought Disco Duck by Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots...
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Expressway to Hell
Happy Friday everyone. And what better way to celebrate the start of a lovely, sunny weekend than with a brace of recordings from one of my very favourite song-poem companies, Columbine?Columbine...
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Love Rush
You’ll probably know her best for her scenery-chewing star turn in Ken Russell’s film version of the Who’s Tommy, where she tries her best to look seductive whilst rolling about in a pool of champagne...
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