A podcast dedicated to '70s rock band Fanny who were the first all-female band signed to a major label for a multi-album deal. Distributed by Reprise Records.
Episode 41! In this episode, we wrap up our hashtag series with part two of #NickeyNotes! We read fan's emails and messages about Nickey's many talents and songs. We play the rare “No Deposit, No Return” tune from the CD version of “Fanny Hill” and then “Beside Myself” from Mothers Pride. Plus we might sneak… Read more
Episode 40! In this episode, it's a very special beginning to our hashtag of #NickeyNotes! So special that you will just have to listen to see what we're talking about! Hint: It's all about Nickey Barclay!
Episode 39! In this episode, it's Part 2 of our hashtag #AskAlice! Fanny's drummer answers fan's questions as she talks about her drumming on a variety of Fanny tunes. We play the original vocal version of “Rock Bottom Blues” which is a bonus track on the “Fanny Hill” CD, and then we play Fanny's only… Read more
Episode 38! In this episode, it's Part 1 of our hashtag #AskAlice! Fanny's drummer answers fan's questions as she talks about her drumming on a variety of Fanny tunes. We play “Seven Roads” from Fanny's first album, and “A Little While Later” from the “Charity Ball” album in full, as well as clips from other songs. … Read more
Episode 37! In this episode, we continue hashtag #JuneJams with part two of our discussion of June Millington's songs and guitar playing. We chat about the songs “Bitter Wine” from Fanny's first album, and “Hey Bulldog” & “Ain't That Peculiar” from Fanny Hill. Plus some other delicious things along the way! She gave women permission… Read more
Episode 36! In this episode, we continue to shake things up by continuing our hashtag series. This episode is #JuneJams as we cover Fanny's guitarist June Millington! We asked June what three songs she wanted to feature and she picked “Place In The Country,” “Badge,” and “It Takes a Lotta Good Lovin'”. We'll continue with… Read more
Episode 35! In this episode, we're smokin' as we return to the hashtag #JeanJeanie to finish up, for now, our look at Jean Millington's vocals and bass playing on Fanny's songs. The songs we chat about this time are “You're the One” (Charity Ball), “What Kind of Lover” (Charity Ball) and “Shade Me” (Fanny). Alice,… Read more
Episode 34! In this episode, we take a small break from our #JeanJeannie episodes and bring you a special podcast covering the most recent showing of the “Fanny: The Right To Rock” documentary at the Los Angeles Orpheum theater. Alice and Kristen went to the event where a reunited Fanny (minus Nickey) performed and was… Read more
Episode 33! In this episode, we take a different approach as we focus on bass player Jean Millington's songs and vocals. Jean picked out “Cat Fever”, “Place In The Country”, and “Changing Horses” as the songs she'd like to talk about. We're going to do another episode dedicated to Jean so use the hashtag #JeanJeanie… Read more
Episode 32! In this episode, we explore June Millington's “Thinking of You” and Nickey Barclay's “A Little While Later” both are from Fanny's second album “Charity Ball”. Alice also shares a bit more from her journal! Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by guitarist June Millington and road manager Jim Segrave via prerecorded interviews.
Episode 31! In this episode, we explore the two songs Fanny recorded with Barbra Streisand for her “Barbra Joan Streisand” album in 1971. We listen to two tracks that Fanny recorded live with Streisand in the studio, “Where You Lead” and “Space Captain”. Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by Jean and June Millington via… Read more
Episode 30! In this episode, which is our final episode focusing on the documentary film “Fanny: The Right To Rock” by Bobbi Jo Hart, we get to listen to Alice and Kristen's tales of being at the film's premiere in San Francisco. We also listen to “Summer Song” from “Mothers Pride” because, you know, it's Summer!
Episode 29! In this episode Alice and Kristen are on the road to the premiere of the Fanny documentary “Fanny: The Right To Rock” so we are doing something a little different for this podcast! Have a listen to see what surprises we have in store for you all!
Episode 28! In this episode we travel back in time to May and June of 1973 when Fanny was on tour in the UK in support of their fourth album “Mothers Pride.” Alice shares some stories of the tour, plus Kristen tells us how her father, Fanny's manager, was able to acquire the funds to take… Read more
Episode 27! We celebrate the podcast's first anniversary with a look back on our first year with reflections from each of Alice, Kristen, and Byron, along with a lot of great Fanny song clips! If we weren't able to give you a shout out on our one year Fannyversary podcast, we wanted to acknowledge you here.… Read more
Episode 26! Kicking off the new documentary “Fanny: The Right To Rock,” we are joined by the film's director Bobbi Jo Hart as she chats about her inspiration for making the film and her motivations for creating the film in the first place. Plus we listen to a couple of Bobbi Jo's favorite Fanny tunes,… Read more
Episode 25! Closing out April 2021 with recollections on how Nickey Barclay joined the band. With that, we'll listen and discuss two of Nickey's songs in this episode. First up is the rip-roaring rocker from Fanny's first album, “Changing Horses” with lead vocals by Jean. Then Nickey switches gears for the quasi-funky ballad “A Person… Read more
In episode 24 we delve deeper into the history of Fanny being signed by producer Richard Perry, and we discuss two great Fanny covers, the rare recording of “Nowhere To Run” and from the first album, “It Takes a Lot of Good Lovin'”. Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by Jean and June Millington, and… Read more
In episode 23 we dive into “Back In My Arms” which is a bonus track on the Real Gone Music CD release of “Mothers Pride” and then we rock ‘n' roll to Nickey's “Cat Fever” from the “Charity Ball” album. Along the way, drummer Alice de Buhr shares some early stories of Fanny being signed… Read more
Episode 22 is a special episode dedicated to June Millington's socially conscious and touching song “You've Got A Home” from “Fanny Hill” as well as we briefly discuss June's recently disclosed health issue. Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by Jean and June Millington via pre-recorded interviews. From UFO Nigel Langridge: As for the beautiful… Read more
It's time to shake things up! This time Alice talks about the beginnings of Fanny and the very first recording done with producer Richard Perry. Then we dig into “Come and Hold Me” and “Bitter Wine” both off Fanny's eponymous album. Pay attention class, there might be a quiz! Hosts Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined… Read more
It's Interview Time! This week we have our first interview! Linda Wolf, friend and photographer for the band back in 1969/1970 joins us with some fantastic insights to the early days of Fanny and life at Fanny Hill. We feature Fanny's version of “Badge” at Linda's request! Hosts Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by… Read more
It's Top Secret time! This week we take on some of the rumors and stories surrounding the band and put them to rest once and for all. Plus we chat about songs “Candlelighter Man” and “What Kind of Lover” from Fanny's first album and “Charity Ball” respectively. Hosts Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by… Read more
Switching gears a bit for this episode, we talk about the songs “Regular Guy” and “I'm Satisfied” and how they potentially match up with the upcoming inauguration of our new President and Vice-President. Both songs are from “Mothers Pride” and were written by Nickey Barclay. Hosts Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined by Jean and… Read more
Happy New Year from all of us here at the Get Behind Fanny podcast! The first episode of 2021! We take on the new year with two songs from Fanny's fourth album, “Mothers Pride.” First up is the blues romp “Polecat Blues” which is driven by June's wry lyric and producer Todd Rundgren's imaginative production. Then it's… Read more
Happy Holidays from all of us here at the Get Behind Fanny podcast! The final episode of 2020! We reflect back on 2020 as well as look forward to 2021 with two great Fanny tunes. First up is the haunting “Last Night I Had A Dream” and then we dive deeper into Nickey's “The First Time” from… Read more
Kicking off December with the Birthday Bakery for our fans born in the final month of the calendar! From there we jump into the last June and Nickey collaboration tune, “Feelings” from Mothers Pride, and then we kick it up a notch to talk about Alice's first lead vocal on “Rock Bottom Blues” from Fanny… Read more
In episode 14, Alice, Kristen, and Byron chat about two more songs. From Fanny's third album, “Fanny Hill”, we go over June's “Sound and the Fury” then jump back to the first album to discuss Nickey's “Take a Message to the Captain”. They are joined by Jean and June Millington as usual in pre-recorded interviews.… Read more
Episode 13 focuses on “Knock On My Door” a Nickey penned tune sung by Jean, and by request from Mia, we're talking about “Shade Me” from the first album. Alice, Kristen, and Byron are joined as usual by June and Jean Millington. We celebrate some October birthdays in the Birthday Bakery segment as well as… Read more
We're calling Episode 12 the “Go Vote” podcast! Alice, Byron, and Kristen discuss 6 Fanny song lyrics that are relevant and timely to the 2020 U.S. election – “Think About the Children,” “I Just Realized,” “Cat Fever,” “Changing Horses,” “Conversation With a Cop,” and “Blind Alley.” Joined again by Jean and June, this is our… Read more
Episode 11 starts off with us chatting about a couple of Fanny songs that were recently covered. Speaking of cover songs, we chat about Fanny's cover of the Buffalo Springfield/Stephen Stills song “Special Care.” Before that though, we talk about the Nickey penned tune “Solid Gold” which is sung infamously by Alice herself, and the… Read more
We kick off our 10th episode with a funny fan comment then dive into “You're the One” and “Place in the Country” both from the “Charity Ball” album. Then we announce our second podcast contest! Join in on the conversation and leave a comment below. We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions for the… Read more
Welcome to Episode 9! This time we chat about the songs “All Mine” from “Mothers Pride” and “Soul Child” from “Charity Ball” with insights from Alice, Jean, and June. Plus, we feature some of the bloopers from the recording of the podcast. We hope you enjoy them! We're adding more hashtags so you may ask… Read more
Welcome to Episode 8! This time we chat about the songs “Summer Song” and “I Need You Need Me” with insights from Alice, Jean, and June. Plus, we feature some of the bloopers from the recording of the podcast. We hope you enjoy them! We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions for the… Read more
Welcome to Episode 7! This time we chat about two songs from the Beat-Club YouTube video performances, “Blind Alley” and “Ain't That Peculiar” with insights from Alice, Jean, and June. We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions for the entire band. For Alice it's #AskAlice, for June it's #JuneJams, for Jean it's #JeanJeanie,… Read more
This time Alice, Kristen, and Byron, with June and Jean Millington, discuss the YouTube video of Fanny playing live on French TV, and Nickey's “Conversation with a Cop” from the first album. Listen to see who wins a copy of the “Fanny: Live in 1972” CD. We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions… Read more
This time Alice, Kristen, and Byron discuss “Borrowed Time” and “Charity Ball” as these songs are used for the podcast introduction and ending. You'll never listen to “Charity Ball” the same after this podcast! Also, Alice answers a fan question about who she was first star-struck by. And our first CONTEST! Listen to see how you can… Read more
This time Alice, Kristen, and Byron discuss “I Just Realized” and “It Takes A Lot of Good Lovin'” as well as hear from June and Jean answering some fan questions. We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions for the entire band. For Alice it's #AskAlice, for June it's #JuneJams, for Jean it's #JeanJeanie, and… Read more
This time Alice, Kristen, and Byron discuss “Hey Bulldog” and “Badge” as well as getting comments from June and Jean Millington too. We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions for June and Jean Millington. For June it's #JuneJams, and for Jean it's #JeanJeanie. Use them on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and we'll track… Read more
Alice, Kristen, and Byron return for more facts about Fanny and their music. This time Alice answers questions from social media from the #AskAlice hashtag, then we listen to snippets from “Seven Roads” and “Changing Horses” from Fanny first album. We're adding more hashtags so you may ask questions for June and Jean Millington. For… Read more
Welcome to the premiere episode of “Get Behind Fanny”! The podcast features drummer Alice de Buhr, Fanny historian Dr. Kristen Hillaire Glasgow, and fan Byron Wilkins. In this episode we start the feature of “Ask Alice” where Alice answers questions from social media. Find Fanny's first album on vinyl at Real Gone Music where you… Read more
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