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The Oldies Music Board » Found: The Earliest Recorded UK Beatles Concert Known To Exist » April 4, 2023 12:40 pm

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Some (short) parts of the Beatles tape can be heard here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Pb1-jh9Kg

The recording is 27 minutes talking about the tape and its history and what will possibly be done with this unexpected discovery.

The Oldies Music Board » Just for the fun of it » November 25, 2021 11:08 am

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I am a Fantasy - Clodagh Rodgers 1969
Every Little Kiss - Mike Berry  1962
October 26 -  Pretty Things (or Grass, from the same album)  1970

First three I found...

The Oldies Music Board » Songs with spoken passages » March 20, 2021 5:52 pm

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Two which sprang to mind (admittedly after I checked the large selection in Songfacts) are -

The already mentioned  - Atlantis by Donovan. A bit quirky because it only has two sung lines, endlessly repeated after the introductory poem

and

China Girl - David Bowie     ... for  personal reasons and because I do like it very much!

The Oldies Music Board » Peter Jackson puts sneak preview of 'Get Back' online » December 21, 2020 5:06 am

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Full film is delayed by the pandemic but this preview (from the 56 hours they are editing) is much better, in physical quality and happiness, then I expected. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocEGvQ10OE

The Oldies Music Board » Charlie Daniels RIP » July 7, 2020 4:08 pm

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Songfacts did an interview with him in 2007 which I found to be really enjoyable. He discusses the songs mentioned in the above posts and there are links within the piece to further information on those songs.

https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/charlie-daniels

The Oldies Music Board » Demo Of First Ever Beatles Record Played On Radio Up For Auction » January 13, 2020 4:08 pm

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I  listened to Radio Luxenbourg a lot and I remember hearing the song played on the station at that time and I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it. It certainly made an impression on me.

However, I did not think much of the song and thought it had been a bit over hyped!

It took the release of their next single, 'Please Please Me' |(in the UK), to make me a fan.

 

The Oldies Music Board » September 3rd Is That Day! » September 3, 2019 4:02 pm

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..And "First of May" has the distinction of being a song set in May which mentions Christmas!...(getting a bit off topic).

The Oldies Music Board » September 3rd Is That Day! » September 3, 2019 3:40 pm

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Another date that sticks in my mind is the very first line of the Bee Gees' song, "Odessa (City on the Black Sea)", from the album "Odessa". 

Fourteenth of February, eighteen ninety-nine,
The British ship Veronica was lost without a sign.


An interesting ditty of over 7 minutes that I expected to be released as a single at the time, but I don't think it ever was in any part of the world.




 

The Oldies Music Board » I Get Around!! » September 2, 2019 3:33 pm

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Beatles - "Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC" from "Back in the USSR" should qualify since the song apparently made #19 in the UK  and #11 in Ireland when it was released as a single in 1976 for the first time (according to Wikipedia).

The Oldies Music Board » I Get Around!! » August 31, 2019 3:58 pm

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"Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell

The Oldies Music Board » Hits That Don't Mention Their Own Titles In The Lyrics » August 28, 2019 3:46 pm

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Another obvious one -
Bee Gees - "New York Mining Disaster, 1941"

The Oldies Music Board » Hits That Don't Mention Their Own Titles In The Lyrics » August 28, 2019 3:36 pm

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Beatles - "A Day in the Life"
Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"

There must be lots more...still pondering.

The Oldies Music Board » 45 » June 10, 2019 9:14 am

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The first 45 I "got" was from my pen-pal in 1965. She lived in Los Angeles and sent me the American release of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones (the UK release of that song was two months later and had a different B-side - all described in Wikipedia). In reply, I bought my first ever 45 and sent it to her - "Any Day Now" by the Alan Price Set (he formerly of the Animals - and it is a pretty good version of the classic). 

The last 45 I bought...well I had to dig that one out. It was "And the Music Plays On/ "In my Arms Again"" by Del Shannon and I found it in a London music shop, and it has the price still on it, £4. The original was released in 1974. 

In passing, my pen-pal claimed that she was living close to Jim Morrison in 1965 and had lots of stories about him, all forgotten by me, unfortunately! Just out of interest, the second record she sent was "Whittier Blvd"/"Evil Love" by The Midniters on the short lived Chattahoochee label. Google tells me that the label's biggest success was with The Murmaids in 1963. 

That took about ten minutes to write but I spent a couple of hours researching and getting sidetracked.

The Oldies Music Board » holograms galore! » April 2, 2019 3:41 pm

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Published: 2019/04/01  !!

The Oldies Music Board » Dean Ford passes » January 3, 2019 1:16 pm

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Dean Ford, former lead singer with Marmalade, passed away a few days ago.

Co-author in 1969 of one of my all-time favourites, 'Reflections of my Life'.

(Cannot post a link since this is my first post, but easily googled and his Wikipedia entry has been updated)

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