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forty-five 45s: Record #10 : "My Sharona" by The Knack
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Sunday, 10 January 2010. Record #10 : "My Sharona" by The Knack. No topicality this time, but a link to the last record I posted, as I bought them both in the same place at the same time, as it happens. Their follow up single which was a hit in the US but not here in the uk, sadly falls into the latter category. That needn't concern us, however, for the brief span of time I am giving the band today. Sharona was only 17 when she was immortalized in the...
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forty-five 45s: Record #14 : "The Laughing Policeman" by Charles Penrose
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Friday, 26 February 2010. Record #14 : "The Laughing Policeman" by Charles Penrose. There's a few different versions there because wax cylinders had to be recorded individually back then, meaning he had to sing it again and again and again to record a large number of copies.) He was marketed as The Laughing Darkie (hey, at least they acknowledged he was black! In the age we live in of course the author is dead, pop culture is king and no excuses are n...
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forty-five 45s: January 2010
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Friday, 22 January 2010. Just a quick and shameless plug for The Shelf-Preservation Society. A blog about our kitchen activities written by myself and my long-suffering better half. It's in the links on the right, please check out the others there etc etc etc. Record #12 : "Dirty Mind" by The Pipettes. Normally I'd link to the video here, but you wouldn't thank me if I did.). Julia Clark-Lowes decided to construct a girl band (Pipettes = laboratory eq...
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forty-five 45s: December 2009
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Wednesday, 16 December 2009. Record #9: "In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager and Evans. I thought I'd have a stab at topicality with today's blog post, what with what's happening in Copenhagen, although a song covering the years 2525 to 9595 at roughly 1010 year intervals is probably a bit optimistic for the times we live in. My copy is the German issue of the single, with an amusingly awkward definitive article on the sleeve. I bou...
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forty-five 45s: November 2009
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Sunday, 29 November 2009. Record #5: My Baby's Into Witchcraft by The Yell. Expensive to have a few hundred singles pressed up, if you're working closely with your bands and they have a strong local following with a prevailing wind you should shift most of them. Thing is though, why bother? Despite this though there are dozens of labels putting out black plastic disks (they also use the itunes and whatnot of course). So why? Thursday, 19 November 2009.
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forty-five 45s: Record #15: "You Know I'm No Good" by Wanda Jackson
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Saturday, 6 March 2010. Record #15: "You Know I'm No Good" by Wanda Jackson. Wanda Jackson though is amazing - I'm a big fan. She was (indeed, remains! Wanda Jackson never recorded for Sun, but her boyfriend did. She dated Elvis around 1955-56, and he was signed to Sun until 1955. The dates don't quite marry up though, sadly from the point of view of this post, the two don't coincide. Third Man and Wanda Jackson are a good match though, that's my point.
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forty-five 45s: A Quick Plug
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Friday, 22 January 2010. Just a quick and shameless plug for The Shelf-Preservation Society. A blog about our kitchen activities written by myself and my long-suffering better half. It's in the links on the right, please check out the others there etc etc etc. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pushing Ahead of the Dame. George, John, Paul and Ringo. Wonderwall Music (Album) 1968. Make Some Thing Cool Every Day. The Shelf Preservation Society.
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forty-five 45s: Record #13 : "Eri Un'Abitudine" by John Foster
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Saturday, 6 February 2010. Record #13 : "Eri Un'Abitudine" by John Foster. An odd one, this. If you look at the picture above though, you'll see that a different song seems to be claiming to be the A-side, namely "La Marcia Dell' Amore." I've found a copy of it on Youtube (which cuts out before the end), but, confusingly, the video features a version of the sleeve which seems to relegate it to the flip. I fear I'm getting sidetracked.
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forty-five 45s: Record #12 : "Dirty Mind" by The Pipettes
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45 posts on 45 7 inch singles I've found or acquired. Friday, 22 January 2010. Record #12 : "Dirty Mind" by The Pipettes. Of course you do. I thought this was great at the time, about 2005. Bizarrely, it sounds quite dated already to my jaded ears, more of which later. First though, in case you don't know, or have forgotten (and who, indeed, can blame you), The Pipettes were a retro-with-a-knowing-wink, polka-dot clad girl group. They had a few hits and a line-up to rival The Fall in its fluidity. Put it...
