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I Like My Stew
A little oddity for you today from 1968, and Radio One DJ Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart, accompanied by a 40-strong choir of pre-pubescent boys and girls. Edward Stewart Mainwaring (23 April 1941 – 9 January...
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My Yummy, Yummy Love Note Tree
A couple of tracks from a wonderful and rare song-poem album that I’ve owned for a number of years but have not blogged before, the wonderfully-titled Delick Records Invites You to Pick a Delick Record...
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Close the Hearse Curtains, Please!
A record that was recently brought to my attention by blog follower Melody Loves Books, here for your enjoyment is the utterly mad May 1968 single Requiem (For a Girl Born of the Wrong Times). Requiem...
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The Now Sounds of the Rave-Ons
Full disclosure: I have written about some of the tracks on this album before, but that was back in 2010, and the links to the two tracks are long dead. Over their many years in the song-poem field,...
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In Praise of Older Women
Todd Andrews is one of my absolute favourite song-poem stylists: his thin, warbly voice is at odds with the country-western songs he regularly performed for Nashville outfit Nu-Sound Records and, as a...
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Superspiked
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you brought two titans of comedy together for a disco single? Well, wonder no more! Credited on the label to Bill Oddie And The Superspike Squad (Featuring...
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What's in a Name?
It has been several years since I last wrote about song-poem outfit Tin Pan Alley, but I don’t believe I’ve ever gone into much detail about their subsidiary labels, Pageant and TPA. First, here’s a...
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Rodd Keith Lives!
I can’t believe that it’s been two months since I last posted here but I have been finishing what will be my next book, due out next April, so hopefully you’ll forgive me. A song-poem obscurity for you...
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All You Need is a Furtive Shake
Another song-poem coupling for you today, and a pair of absolute classics of the genre from the great Gene Marshall who, of course, also worked under the names Gene Merlino and John Muir amongst...
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Oddly Shaped Balls
My command of the Welsh language is pretty much non-existent, as my many Welsh friends will attest to. But I do love Wales: I lived there for several years, have holidayed there extensively and we...
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More Oddly-Shaped Balls
Following on from my previous post, I am indebted to my friend Huw Spink, curator of the Teatles Book– a magazine about the Beatles and their love for tea. Huw saw that post and kindly sent me a copy...
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Casting Out Demons Again
It staggers me to realise that, after penning this blog for almost 17 years now, I have only featured A. A. Allen’s incredible output once, seven years ago when I posted Crying Demons (now updated), a...
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Not-So-Super Superstreaker
I’ve just returned from a short trip to Australia, having been invited to take part in the annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival, which this year was inspired, in part, by my 2017 book David Bowie Made...
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A Crafty Ladies Christmas
Oh my goodness: where do I start with this?Well, first I should thank Dick Miller, the kind donor of this disc, a seven-track EP originally issued thirty years ago this year, titled A Crafty Ladies...
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