Podcast appearances and mentions of Petula Clark

Helen and Gavin chat about Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster, Becoming Led Zeppelin, Materialists, and The Life of Chuck, and it's Week 7 of the list of Grammy Record of the Year Winners from 1965, which will be picked from Hello, Dolly by Louis Armstrong, I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles, Downtown by Petula Clark, The Girl from Ipanema by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, and People by Barbra Streisand.

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Truth behind the Crime: Wendy Savino Special guest Frank and Maria DeGennaroWendy Savino is a remarkable woman whose life encompasses both a harrowing encounter with a notorious serial killer and a rich history in the performing arts. ⸻

durée : 00:05:25 - C'est une chanson - par : Frédéric Pommier - Jusqu'au 25 juin, elle joue son spectacle "La Nuit je mens" à la Comédie de Paris, spectacle qu'elle donnera cet automne en tournée. Au micro de Frédéric Pommier, l'humoriste Morgane Cadignan témoigne de son affection pour un titre sorti en France en 1963 : "La nuit n'en finit plus" de Petula Clark.

Petula Clark knows a place (which might include a cellarful of noise), while the Yardbirds ask for your Love (although Eric doesn't want it, so runs away, the Ian Campbell folk group ask us if the times are actually changing, while we meet a new singer in a cloth cap that plays acoustic guitar and harmonica (and nom he's not Bob Dylan). Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!

NEW EPISODE! Alan and Dave have no problem with Petula Clark...but this cover version of Clark's signature song is enough to make one quit listening to music for good.

This week's show, after a 1977 Avengers assertion: brand new Roach Squad, Bob Mould, New Model Army, Jesse Welles, Close Lobsters, John Davis, Peter Baldrachi, and Springhouse reissue; plus The Beatles, Petula Clark, Bert Jansch, Big Youth, James Brown...

Extrait : « … ses parents l'inscrivent à un programme de la BBC dans lequel des enfants de tous âges viennent enregistrer des chansons destinées aux soldats engagés contre l'Allemagne. Le jour de l'enregistrement, l'émission est retardée à cause d'un raid aérien, et pendant les bombardements, la mini Petula se porte volontaire pour distraire les autres gamins effrayés, en livrant une performance improvisée qui marque les esprits des producteurs de l'émission. Elle est engagée et enchaîne alors près de 500 apparitions à la radio, destinées à divertir et à remonter le moral des troupes, puis elle parcourt l'Angleterre avec une autre enfant chanteuse, Julie Andrews, future Mary Poppins … »Pour commenter les épisodes, tu peux le faire sur ton appli de podcasts habituelle, c'est toujours bon pour l'audience. Mais également sur le site web dédié, il y a une section Le Bar, ouverte 24/24, pour causer du podcast ou de musique en général, je t'y attends avec impatience. Enfin, si tu souhaites me soumettre une chanson, c'est aussi sur le site web que ça se passe. Pour soutenir Good Morning Music et Gros Naze :1. Abonne-toi2. Laisse-moi un avis et 5 étoiles sur Apple Podcasts, ou Spotify et Podcast Addict3. Partage ton épisode préféré à 3 personnes autour de toi. Ou 3.000 si tu connais plein de monde.Good Morning Music Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

One FM presenter Josh Revens and Steve Dowers present 'Whatever Happened To?' This week's topic is the singer Petula Clark. This program originally aired on Monday the 10th of March, 2025. Contact the station on admin@fm985.com.au or (+613) 58313131 The ONE FM 98.5 Community Radio podcast page operates under the license of Goulburn Valley Community Radio Inc. (ONE FM) Number 1385226/1. PRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association Limited and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) that covers Simulcasting and Online content including podcasts with musical content, that we pay every year. This licence number is 1385226/1.

durée : 00:12:09 - " Curiosity, Genius, and the search for Petula Clark " : Stravinsky / Kelly-Marie Murphy - Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Cette pièce a été commandée par l'Orchestre symphonique de Toronto. Il s'agit d'une œuvre en un seul mouvement pour orchestre écrite pour célébrer le 85e anniversaire de Glenn Gould et le 70e anniversaire de sa première prestation avec le Toronto Symphony Orchestra. (Harmonia Mundi 2025)

durée : 00:12:09 - " Curiosity, Genius, and the search for Petula Clark " : Stravinsky / Kelly-Marie Murphy - Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Cette pièce a été commandée par l'Orchestre symphonique de Toronto. Il s'agit d'une œuvre en un seul mouvement pour orchestre écrite pour célébrer le 85e anniversaire de Glenn Gould et le 70e anniversaire de sa première prestation avec le Toronto Symphony Orchestra. (Harmonia Mundi 2025)

durée : 00:12:09 - " Curiosity, Genius, and the search for Petula Clark " : Stravinsky / Kelly-Marie Murphy - Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Cette pièce a été commandée par l'Orchestre symphonique de Toronto. Il s'agit d'une œuvre en un seul mouvement pour orchestre écrite pour célébrer le 85e anniversaire de Glenn Gould et le 70e anniversaire de sa première prestation avec le Toronto Symphony Orchestra. (Harmonia Mundi 2025)

Benvenuti in un lungo, estenuante e sorprendente cinema realizzato da un artista sognatore e spesso segnato dalla sfortuna ma che non si è mai arreso. Stavolta è il turno di Francis Ford Coppola. Dopo aver girato già due film, Coppola si ritrova dietro la macchina da presa per dirigere un musical con protagonisti Fred Astaire e Petula Clark! Senza alcun tipo di pressione (sono sarcastico ovviamente), Coppola dirige "Sulle ali dell'arcobaleno" e il resto è storia.

Marissa Spencer delivers the latest entertainment news on: - The birth of Skai Jackson's first born - Bill Murray's interview at Sundance Film Festival - Downtown singer, Petula Clark teases a London show

The Beatles, Elton John, Andrews Sisters, the Chordettes, Petula Clark, Doobie Brothers, Imperio Argentina, Juanito Segarra, Mochi, Karina, Mocedades, Pérez Prado, los Sirex, Triana y Lole y Manuel.

Aitana, este viernes en 'Anda Ya'. 'Betty Black', el teórico cierre de la trilogía musical de Beyoncé. Las novedades de Mad Cool y el cartel de Concert Music Festival 2025. En LOS40 Classic: Un inglés en Nueva York regaló a Petula Clark su mayor éxito, 'Downtown'.

Send us a textReflecting on a January 1980 incident that sent shockwaves through the music world, we unravel how Paul McCartney's legal troubles in Japan influenced the dissolution of Wings and the cancelling of planned touring. We explore the inspiring tale of Norman Harris, whose serendipitous path from struggling musician to successful guitar dealer exemplifies the unpredictable nature of the music industry. The heartbeat of soul music briefly faltered with the passing of Sam Moore in January 2025, but his legacy with Sam and Dave resounds louder than ever. We celebrate the duo's timeless hits like "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Soul Man." We take a closer look at Petula Clark's infectious anthem "Downtown." From humorous escapades in a 'Seinfeld' episode, to the introduction of a character on 'Lost,' to the profound impact of the 2020 Nashville bombing, we touch on diverse stories that highlight music's evolving landscape. We dive into the groundbreaking fusion of rock and rap by Run DMC with "King of Rock," and look deeper into songs that guitarist Eddie Martinez played on. This episode offers a nostalgic yet fresh look at how pivotal moments and pioneering sounds have forever shaped the music world.

Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode of Bob Barry's Unearthed Interviews. It's more music and memories with singer and actress Petula Clark. And I emphasize actress because I saw Petula star, in London, as Norma Desmond in a performance of “Sunset Boulevard.” She was magnificent. You all know her from her timeless hits, most written by British composer Tony Hatch. Her first number one song was inspired by the energy and excitement on the streets of New York. “My Love” was another song written by Hatch for Clark. It relates a deep, personal expression of love and promising devotion and shows an emotional side to the singer. “I Know a Place” was recorded in London, where most of her hits were made. Hatch used a catchy piano riff and brass section which made it lively and upbeat. Her music conveyed a carefree feeling and a celebration of life. Petula Clark's career spanned generations. She is an artist from the golden age of pop to Broadway, television, and beyond, making her a beloved figure in entertainment. It was early in the morning in Las Vegas and I was as surprised as she was when she answered the phone.

Viajamos 60 años atrás en el tiempo en busca de singles que alcanzaron su puesto más alto en el Billboard Hot 100 en enero de 1965.(Foto del podcast por R. McPhedran; Petula Clark con el disco de oro por “Downtown”, 1965)Playlist;(sintonía) LEE MORGAN “The sidewinder part 1” (top 81)PETULA CLARK “Downtown” (top 1)SHIRLEY ELLIS “The name game” (top 3)MARTHA and THE VANDELLAS “Wild one” (top 3)THE MARVELETTES “Too many fish in the sea” (top 25)MARVIN GAYE “How sweet it is to be loved by you” (top 6)MARY WELLS “Use your head” (top 34)THE LARKS “The jerk” (top 7)THE CONTOURS “Can you jerk like me” (top 47)JAMES BROWN and THE FAMOUS FLAMES “Have mercy baby” (top 92)BROOK BENTON “Do it right” (top 67)JOE TEX “Hold what you got” (top 5)THE IMPRESSIONS “Amen” (top 7)RAY CHARLES “Makin’ whoope” (top 46)WILLIE MITCHELL “Percolatin’” (top 85)CANDY and THE KISSES “The 81” (top 51)THE EXCITERS “I want you to be my boy” (top 98)CHAD and JEREMY “Willow weep for me” (top 15)Escuchar audio

We are here with actor, singer, and entertainer Roslyn Kind. You Might Know Her From: The Look of Love/The Island, 3 From Brooklyn, The Nanny, I'm Going to Be Famous, Ladies of the House, Gimme a Break, and her over 50-year illustrious recording career. We talked to Roslyn about signing to RCA Records as just a 17-year-old girl, lampooning her famous sister Barbra Streisand in an iconic episode of The Nanny, and her latest projects that retells two of her signature songs into a short film. Roslyn also gave us the goods on blood harmony with her mother and Babs, her British invasion influences, the challenge of making “People” hers in her Broadway debut, and set the record on her theatrical credits because you know You Might Know Her is always going to dig some old shet up. This was just a beautiful Roslyn Kind-shaped bow to close out 2024, our year of Barbra, after reading her 900-page magnum opus. Rozzie, we love you.  Patreon: www.patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom Follow us on social media: @youmightknowherfrom || @damianbellino || @rodemanne Slide moment in “So Long Dearie” with “Don't try to stop me, Horace. PLEASE” The Look of Love/The Island Tracie Thoms is a mutual friend with Sargon Yoseph Signed to RCA at 17 and first album is Give Me You Roslyn loved Motown and the English Invasion (Shirley Bassey, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithful) “Fool on the Hill” guested on 1969 Charles Azenvour special with Dusty Springfield Played the same stage as Louis Prima “Meadowlark” from The Baker's Wife “Mamaloshen” by Mandy Patinkin Joel Grey's father, Mickey Katz Blood Harmony is when siblings/relatives blend together seamlessly 3 From Brooklyn Review in Times Ferguson the Tailor at the Beverly Hills Playhouse Was NOT in the Bill Finnn Elegies, she sang the song “I Don't Know How to Help You” from Elegies for Punks Angels and Raging Queens  Played Ellie Greenwich Leader of the Pack in Calgary, CA at Stage West with Andrew Stevens Episode of “The Nanny” s4, ep10 Musical special, “Ladies of the Nightclub” never got released Brooks Arthur was in studio doing Happily Ever After and You'll Never Know   Was Elliot Gould's guest on his 1975 episode of SNL Peter Chase helped Roslyn pick her SNL dress Tamara de Lempicka painting in her Zoom background was Barbra's and  Bette describing as working with Shelley Long as “pretty rough” Roslyn was too ethnic to play the Shelley Long role in the pilot, “Ghost of a Chance” of so she got the best girlfriend role instead Ladies of the House with Donna Mills, Pam Grier and Florence Henderson NYC dance class with Luigi had Richard Chamberlain, Bernadette Peters, Loni Ackerman Interviewed by Skip E. Lowe, who was famously lampooned by Martin Short as Jiminy Glick 5 episodes of Gimme a Break: (s3 ep8, 22; s5 ep 12, 22; s6 ep 9) Jennifer Hudson maybe sang every time she went on set for Respect Tyne Daly's “Rose's Turn” On Broadway (almost replaced with Michele Lee or Lainie Kazan) Anne: Judy Garland's “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” but also “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” Damian: Ronnette's “Sleigh Ride” Phil Spector Christmas Album Lempicka was filmed for Lincoln Center  archive but Tammy Faye did not Here's Love is the musical based on Miracle on 34th Street

More of the British charts for November 1964. Our first month in the history of the show without a Beatles song in either the British or American charts. It will be all the way to *next month* for us to Feel Fine again. Still some quality music as Petula Clark takes us Downtown, the Stones tell us about their Little Red Rooster and the Yardbirds talk about their little schoolgirl. Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr

British rock and pop in the 1960s became a force to be reckoned with. There were famous bands like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and artists like Lulu and Petula Clark. Why did this explosion of new pop music happen in Britain in that decade? Skidmore College Professor Emeritus Gordon Ross Thompson has written on just that subject!

National clean your fridge day. Entertainment from 2012. Zeb Pike 1st sees Pikes Peak, 1st Catholic college, 1st Wendy's resteraunt, Most expensive painting in history. Todays birthdays - William Herschel, Ed Asner, Joseph Wapner, Clyde McPhatter, Petula Clark, Sam Waterston, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Beverly D'Angelo, Chad Kroeger. Roy Clark died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard     http://defleppard.com/COTF (cleaning out the fridge) - Dickie AlanOne more night - Maroon 5We are never ever getiing bach together - Taylor SwiftBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent    http://50cent.com/People Court TV themeMoney Honey - Clyde McPhatter & the DriftersDowntown - Petula ClarkDancing Queen - ABBAHow you remind me - NickelbackHoneymoon feelin' - Roy ClarkExut - It's not love - Dokken      http://dokken.net/Follow Jeff Stampka on facebook, linkedin and cooolmedia.com

Disney Chorus and Orchestra [00:20] "Little April Shower" Walter Disney's Story of Bambi Disneyland ST 3903 1960 Plip plop plip. You may recall from the last episode we heard a track from Stay Awake. On that album, "Little April Shower" is performed by Natalie Merchant, Michael Stipe, and the Roches (https://youtu.be/7ObPekx0h0M?si=BWAulm8X4hnsji14). Thelonius Monk [03:35] "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" Straight No Chaser Columbia CS 2651 1967 Monk takes a fine run at this standard originally recorded by Cab Calloway. Helped out here by Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Larry Gales on bass, and Ben Riley on drums. Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein [11:14] "The Upside Down" Stranger Things - Volume One (A Netflix Series) Lakeshore Records 2016 Ah, the first season (https://youtu.be/b9EkMc79ZSU?si=8SqvgKenleN2NEJ0) was pretty near perfect. Had to go with the iconic title track. Frank Sinatra with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra [12:21] "Call Me" Strangers in the Night Reprise Records FS 1017 1966 Oddly enough, Frank has not one but two (2!) Petula Clark covers on this album including this one. I much prefer the brassy sassy production of Petula's version (https://youtu.be/M_mkSWxN2xk?si=gya-HwLlYCWK093i). Less Art [16:22] "Diana the Huntress" Strangled Light Gilead Media RELIC88 2017 Featuring members of Kowloon Walled City and Thrice. Igor Stravinsky and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra [19:34] "Firebird Ballet Suite (1945): Introduction - Prelude and Dance of the Firebird - Variations" Stravinsky Conducts Firebird Suite/Petrushka Suite Columbia Masterworks MS 7011 1967 This is the 1945 arrangement of The Firebird Suite. Roxy Music [22:44] "Over You" Street Life - 20 Great Hits EG EGTV 1 1986 A single orignally from Roxy Music's Flesh and Blood (https://youtu.be/3TL-Bc1giO8?si=FaZvmtDfdg2K-5uF). Evidently recorded as a way to tes tout Phil Manzanera's recently constructed studio. Made it as high as number 80 on the Hot 100. Death Valley Girls [26:07] "Electric High" Street Venom Suicide Squeeze SSQ181 2021 (originally recorded and released in 2014) Closing track to Death Valley Girl's debut studio album. Psych rock excellence (https://youtu.be/AO8z3AwIIaw?si=JCyzx7zyGK17UD5K). Salem 66 [31:08] "Seven Steps Down" 1984 Great Plains [mm:ss] "When Do You Say Hello" 1983 Strum and Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 Captured Tracks CT-302 2020 If you love jangle, you'll love Strum and Thrum. 28 tracks of jingle jangle goodness. An exceptional compilation that includes a 80 page booklet that dives into the scene. Yo La Tengo [36:39] "My Heart's Not In It" Stuff Like That There Matador OLE-1079-1 2015 It's hard to choose just once song from this album, but the opening track does a great job getting the listener in the mood for the album. It's a lovely rendition of the Gerry Goffin/Russ Titelman single recorded by Darlene McCrea (https://youtu.be/CuetP9wAHnY?si=o9YtuELwMU3C6S0v). New Order [39:25] "Sub-Culture" Sub-Culture Factory fac 133 1985 A remix by John Robie of the band's third single from Low-life (https://youtu.be/Uetuplhan_U?si=Or8I0F30teDUWLOh). The flip side is, of course, Dub-Culture. Ahmed Ben Ali [47:53] "Subhana" Subhana Habibi Funk HABIBI022 2023 That's right... reggae by way of Libya. Evidently reggae arrived right around peak Bob Marley and the Wailers and it took off from there. Barren Harvest [52:46] "Claw and Feather" Subtle Cruelties Handmade Birds HB-071 2014 Some dark and lovely ambient folk metal from Portland featuring Jessica Way of Worm Ourobouros. Nancy Sinatra [58:33] "Sugar Town" Sugar Reprise Records RS-6239 1967 A Lee Hazlewood number (naturally) that he says is an allusion to LSD sugar cubes. Featuring Wrecking Crew members including the great Carol Kaye, Glen Campbell, and Hal Blaine. Music behind the DJ: "These Boots Were Made for Walking" by Les Brown and his Orchestra

Daniel Popp présente l'intégrale en 13 CD de son père André Popp et le duo toulousain Tropic Hotel se rêve en pop love tropicale à Rio. André Popp (1924-2014) serait le chaînon manquant entre Olivier Messiaen et la variété, c'est ce que nous explique son fils Daniel Popp, à l'occasion de la sortie de l'intégrale instrumentale de son père, soit 293 titres, 13 CD, entre 1955 et 1976. Note d'intention Daniel Popp (son fils)Réunir pour la première fois dans une intégrale, tous les albums d'André Popp de 1955 à 1976, jamais ou si peu publiés en CD, permet de voir à quel point la musique instrumentale est un élément essentiel de son œuvre de compositeur, arrangeur, chef d'orchestre. Un volant peu connu tant les arrangements qu'il a écrits pour les plus grands, ses chansons à succès qui ont fait le tour du monde, couvrant plusieurs générations, jusqu'à aujourd'hui, ou la série des « Piccolo, Saxo et Cie » ont voilé quelque peu son travail en tant que chef d'orchestre. Car outre le côté avant-gardiste des explorations sonores d'« Elsa Popping et sa Musique Sidérante » qui lui auront collé une image d'« amuseur », ou les musiques qui ont alimenté nombre de génériques de séries d'animation (Colargol, Babar...), et d'une myriade d'émissions de radio ou de télévision (« Les Maîtres du Mystère », « La Tête et les Jambes » entre autres…) et de bandes originales (« Tintin »…), André Popp, album après album, n'aura cessé de creuser un sillon musical qui n'appartient qu'à lui. Souvent nourri d'œuvres composées pour la radio qui fut son conservatoire, dont le bonus inédit, exceptionnel, du CD 13, offre un concert radiophonique dirigé par Popp, lui-même, revisité dans un esprit jazz coloré de joyeuses dissonances. Cette publication en révèle enfin la mesure, l'incroyable variété : une véritable malle aux trésors prenant figure d'œuvre regorgeant d'audace, de malice, de folle créativité musicale, entrecoupée de périodes plus sages, mais toujours élégantes et inventives, dont il est passionnant de constater l'évolution sur une vingtaine d'années.  Biographie André PoppLa passion absolue de la musique résume la vie et la carrière d'André Popp. Parfait autodidacte ou presque, génial créateur, il est resté dans l'ombre malgré une œuvre très riche, jalonnée par des tubes internationaux sur fond d'explorations musicales en tous genres. Dès cinq ans, en 1929, il apprend le piano en Vendée, là où réside sa famille. Mais la musique se révèle vraiment à lui, pendant la guerre, quand il remplace l'abbé mobilisé qui tenait l'harmonium dans la chapelle de son pensionnat. Le jeune André joue de l'instrument à tous les offices avec un grand bonheur. Déjà, plutôt que les grands classiques, il préfère écouter Stravinsky ou Messiaen. À la même période, sa première rencontre importante fut Jean Broussolle, futur ‘Compagnon de la chanson' avec lequel il écrit ses premières chansons. C'est encore avec Broussolle, qu'il ose « monter » à Paris à la Libération en 1944, venant de sa Vendée natale. Là, il travaillera comme pianiste dans divers cabarets ou encore au célèbre Théâtre des Trois Baudets à partir de 1949. Sur tous les fronts en 1953, il devient le musicien/producteur de la grande émission du samedi soir sur Paris Inter : « La bride sur le cou ». Véritable laboratoire et conservatoire pour André Popp qui affirmait y avoir fait ses classes d'orchestration, de composition, de direction d'orchestre !  En 1956, Jacques Canetti engage André Popp chez Philips et sa filiale Fontana comme chef d'orchestre et arrangeur. Chez Fontana, sous la direction artistique de Boris Vian, André Popp enregistre en 1956 son premier album instrumental Musiques en tous genres, suivi un an plus tard de Elsa Popping, un album 30 cm réunissant des classiques connus : polkas, java et autres, avec des arrangements avant-gardistes et de nombreux trucages jamais réalisés en studio. Parmi les accompagnements d'artistes chez Philips/Fontana, on découvre ses arrangements ciselés sur mesure pour Jacques Brel avec ‘Quand on a que l'amour', son premier succès, Juliette Gréco et ‘Il n'y a plus d'après', Mouloudji, Zizi Jeanmaire et tellement d'autres, tant son originalité lui vaut de faire partie des arrangeurs « à la mode » ! Puis viendront une kyrielle de chansons dont il écrit les musiques gravées dans toutes les mémoires : les célébrissimes ‘Lavandières du Portugal' en 1955 avec Jacqueline François, ‘La complainte du téléphone' ou ‘De Pantin à Pékin' pour Juliette Gréco, ‘Tom Pillibi', chanté par Jacqueline Boyer, Grand prix de l'Eurovision en 1960, ‘Le chant de Mallory' avec Rachel, quatrième de cette même Eurovision en 1964, ‘Le lit de Lola', ‘Manchester et Liverpool' et ‘Mon amour, mon ami', pour Marie Laforêt. Son plus grand succès comme compositeur restera ‘Love Is Blue' (‘L'amour est bleu') dont le chef d'orchestre Paul Mauriat fera un succès mondial en 1968 et vendra trente millions de disques. ‘La solitude c'est après' pour Claude François, ‘L'amour c'est comme les bateaux' pour Sylvie Vartan ou un autre tube planétaire ‘Song for Anna' joué au départ par Herb Ohta, un guitariste Hawaïen, sont d'autres belles réalisations à l'actif d'André Popp qui a aussi offert des chansons à Petula Clark, Brigitte Bardot, France Gall, Régine, Françoise Hardy, Nana Mouskouri, Nicole Croisille ou encore à la toute jeune Céline Dion à ses débuts.  Mais le chef d'œuvre d'André Popp restera à tout jamais « Piccolo, saxo et compagnie », seule œuvre symphonique éducative destinée à la jeunesse, jouée de l'Australie à la Colombie en passant par l'Allemagne, la France… Peu présent dans le monde du cinéma, André Popp composera néanmoins quelques musiques de film, dont « Tintin et le mystère de la toison d'or ». Le théâtre lui ouvrira ses portes grâce à ses orchestrations célèbres d'Irma la douce jouée encore à Broadway le jour de sa mort, ou par ses musiques composées pour nombre de pièces d'André Barsac au Théâtre de l'Atelier. Depuis une décennie, André Popp était heureux d'avoir trouvé en Fred Pallem et son orchestre de jazz « Le Sacre du Tympan », le prolongateur de son œuvre. Fred Pallem qui ne se lasse pas de répéter qu'André Popp symbolise encore aujourd'hui le chaînon manquant entre Olivier Messiaen et la musique de variété.Extrait de « Les Arrangeurs de la Chanson Française : 200 Rencontres » Par Serge ELHAÏK (2017) Éditions Textuel.Titres d'André Popp joués dans l'émission :Les Papillons, Les Lavandières du Portugal, 20 que da ?, Le chant de Mallaury par Tabuley Rochereau (extrait), Manchester & Liverpool demo par David Bowie (extrait), Love is Blue par George Benson et La Polka du Roi.► Coffret 13 CD André Popp L'intégrale instrumentale (1955-1976) (Universal 2024).Facebook - Site - Deezer - YouTube.En 2025 ! Le 8 Mars 2025, concert exceptionnel de Fred Pallem et le Sacre du Tympan Big Band « 100 ans de Popp et de jazz » dans le cadre du centenaire du compositeur André Popp, Radio France, Studio 104. Puis nous recevons Tropic Hotel  pour la sortie de l'album Tum Tum Bossa. Un travail d'adaptation en français de poésies brésiliennes issues de la bossa nova des années 60 (Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Lyra, Adoniran Barbosa…) au plus proche du sens et de la sonorité d'origine : Tropic Hotel, c'est un homme (Frédéric Jean, ex-Hyperclean) et une femme (Sandra Campas) qui jouent et chantent face à face le discours amoureux. Partis de la forme brute de la bossa, le Tropic Hotel n'hésite pas à s'aventurer sur les sentiers électriques de la pop exotica et nous entrainent dans un véritable « road movie musical. » Ce sont des histoires d'amour. D'abord celle de Sandra et Frédéric.En 2014, alors élève au Conservatoire de Jazz de Montauban, Sandra rencontre Frédéric. Le week-end, ils se retrouvent dans une petite cabane perdue au fond des bois pour jouer de la bossa nova nus. S'inspirant des surréalistes, ils s'essaient à des adaptations à partir de jeux littéraires. Sandra chante en brésilien et Frédéric interprète ce qu'il entend en français. Ils appellent cela des « bossas sourdes ». Fin 2016, Sandra se lance dans des adaptations, au plus proche du sens et de la sonorité d'origine. Il apparaît évident que c'est ce qui restitue le mieux la poésie crue de ces textes brésiliens des années 60. Au printemps 2017, ils décident alors de les partager sur scène. Frédéric fait quelques propositions d'arrangements plus électriques et peu à peu se dessine le répertoire, nouvel havre pour ces poèmes d'amour. On laisse la cabane pour le Tropic Hotel.  Titres interprétés au grand studio- Je ne suis plus toi et moi (voce e eu) Live RFI- Viens, extrait de l'album voir le clip- Petite Valse Live RFI.Line Up : Sandra Campas, chant, Frédéric Jean, guitare.Son : Benoît Letirant.► Album Tum Tum Bossa (Velvetica Music 2024).- Site - Facebook - Instagram - Spotify.

Daniel Popp présente l'intégrale en 13 CD de son père André Popp et le duo toulousain Tropic Hotel se rêve en pop love tropicale à Rio. André Popp (1924-2014) serait le chaînon manquant entre Olivier Messiaen et la variété, c'est ce que nous explique son fils Daniel Popp, à l'occasion de la sortie de l'intégrale instrumentale de son père, soit 293 titres, 13 CD, entre 1955 et 1976. Note d'intention Daniel Popp (son fils)Réunir pour la première fois dans une intégrale, tous les albums d'André Popp de 1955 à 1976, jamais ou si peu publiés en CD, permet de voir à quel point la musique instrumentale est un élément essentiel de son œuvre de compositeur, arrangeur, chef d'orchestre. Un volant peu connu tant les arrangements qu'il a écrits pour les plus grands, ses chansons à succès qui ont fait le tour du monde, couvrant plusieurs générations, jusqu'à aujourd'hui, ou la série des « Piccolo, Saxo et Cie » ont voilé quelque peu son travail en tant que chef d'orchestre. Car outre le côté avant-gardiste des explorations sonores d'« Elsa Popping et sa Musique Sidérante » qui lui auront collé une image d'« amuseur », ou les musiques qui ont alimenté nombre de génériques de séries d'animation (Colargol, Babar...), et d'une myriade d'émissions de radio ou de télévision (« Les Maîtres du Mystère », « La Tête et les Jambes » entre autres…) et de bandes originales (« Tintin »…), André Popp, album après album, n'aura cessé de creuser un sillon musical qui n'appartient qu'à lui. Souvent nourri d'œuvres composées pour la radio qui fut son conservatoire, dont le bonus inédit, exceptionnel, du CD 13, offre un concert radiophonique dirigé par Popp, lui-même, revisité dans un esprit jazz coloré de joyeuses dissonances. Cette publication en révèle enfin la mesure, l'incroyable variété : une véritable malle aux trésors prenant figure d'œuvre regorgeant d'audace, de malice, de folle créativité musicale, entrecoupée de périodes plus sages, mais toujours élégantes et inventives, dont il est passionnant de constater l'évolution sur une vingtaine d'années.  Biographie André PoppLa passion absolue de la musique résume la vie et la carrière d'André Popp. Parfait autodidacte ou presque, génial créateur, il est resté dans l'ombre malgré une œuvre très riche, jalonnée par des tubes internationaux sur fond d'explorations musicales en tous genres. Dès cinq ans, en 1929, il apprend le piano en Vendée, là où réside sa famille. Mais la musique se révèle vraiment à lui, pendant la guerre, quand il remplace l'abbé mobilisé qui tenait l'harmonium dans la chapelle de son pensionnat. Le jeune André joue de l'instrument à tous les offices avec un grand bonheur. Déjà, plutôt que les grands classiques, il préfère écouter Stravinsky ou Messiaen. À la même période, sa première rencontre importante fut Jean Broussolle, futur ‘Compagnon de la chanson' avec lequel il écrit ses premières chansons. C'est encore avec Broussolle, qu'il ose « monter » à Paris à la Libération en 1944, venant de sa Vendée natale. Là, il travaillera comme pianiste dans divers cabarets ou encore au célèbre Théâtre des Trois Baudets à partir de 1949. Sur tous les fronts en 1953, il devient le musicien/producteur de la grande émission du samedi soir sur Paris Inter : « La bride sur le cou ». Véritable laboratoire et conservatoire pour André Popp qui affirmait y avoir fait ses classes d'orchestration, de composition, de direction d'orchestre !  En 1956, Jacques Canetti engage André Popp chez Philips et sa filiale Fontana comme chef d'orchestre et arrangeur. Chez Fontana, sous la direction artistique de Boris Vian, André Popp enregistre en 1956 son premier album instrumental Musiques en tous genres, suivi un an plus tard de Elsa Popping, un album 30 cm réunissant des classiques connus : polkas, java et autres, avec des arrangements avant-gardistes et de nombreux trucages jamais réalisés en studio. Parmi les accompagnements d'artistes chez Philips/Fontana, on découvre ses arrangements ciselés sur mesure pour Jacques Brel avec ‘Quand on a que l'amour', son premier succès, Juliette Gréco et ‘Il n'y a plus d'après', Mouloudji, Zizi Jeanmaire et tellement d'autres, tant son originalité lui vaut de faire partie des arrangeurs « à la mode » ! Puis viendront une kyrielle de chansons dont il écrit les musiques gravées dans toutes les mémoires : les célébrissimes ‘Lavandières du Portugal' en 1955 avec Jacqueline François, ‘La complainte du téléphone' ou ‘De Pantin à Pékin' pour Juliette Gréco, ‘Tom Pillibi', chanté par Jacqueline Boyer, Grand prix de l'Eurovision en 1960, ‘Le chant de Mallory' avec Rachel, quatrième de cette même Eurovision en 1964, ‘Le lit de Lola', ‘Manchester et Liverpool' et ‘Mon amour, mon ami', pour Marie Laforêt. Son plus grand succès comme compositeur restera ‘Love Is Blue' (‘L'amour est bleu') dont le chef d'orchestre Paul Mauriat fera un succès mondial en 1968 et vendra trente millions de disques. ‘La solitude c'est après' pour Claude François, ‘L'amour c'est comme les bateaux' pour Sylvie Vartan ou un autre tube planétaire ‘Song for Anna' joué au départ par Herb Ohta, un guitariste Hawaïen, sont d'autres belles réalisations à l'actif d'André Popp qui a aussi offert des chansons à Petula Clark, Brigitte Bardot, France Gall, Régine, Françoise Hardy, Nana Mouskouri, Nicole Croisille ou encore à la toute jeune Céline Dion à ses débuts.  Mais le chef d'œuvre d'André Popp restera à tout jamais « Piccolo, saxo et compagnie », seule œuvre symphonique éducative destinée à la jeunesse, jouée de l'Australie à la Colombie en passant par l'Allemagne, la France… Peu présent dans le monde du cinéma, André Popp composera néanmoins quelques musiques de film, dont « Tintin et le mystère de la toison d'or ». Le théâtre lui ouvrira ses portes grâce à ses orchestrations célèbres d'Irma la douce jouée encore à Broadway le jour de sa mort, ou par ses musiques composées pour nombre de pièces d'André Barsac au Théâtre de l'Atelier. Depuis une décennie, André Popp était heureux d'avoir trouvé en Fred Pallem et son orchestre de jazz « Le Sacre du Tympan », le prolongateur de son œuvre. Fred Pallem qui ne se lasse pas de répéter qu'André Popp symbolise encore aujourd'hui le chaînon manquant entre Olivier Messiaen et la musique de variété.Extrait de « Les Arrangeurs de la Chanson Française : 200 Rencontres » Par Serge ELHAÏK (2017) Éditions Textuel.Titres d'André Popp joués dans l'émission :Les Papillons, Les Lavandières du Portugal, 20 que da ?, Le chant de Mallaury par Tabuley Rochereau (extrait), Manchester & Liverpool demo par David Bowie (extrait), Love is Blue par George Benson et La Polka du Roi.► Coffret 13 CD André Popp L'intégrale instrumentale (1955-1976) (Universal 2024).Facebook - Site - Deezer - YouTube.En 2025 ! Le 8 Mars 2025, concert exceptionnel de Fred Pallem et le Sacre du Tympan Big Band « 100 ans de Popp et de jazz » dans le cadre du centenaire du compositeur André Popp, Radio France, Studio 104. Puis nous recevons Tropic Hotel  pour la sortie de l'album Tum Tum Bossa. Un travail d'adaptation en français de poésies brésiliennes issues de la bossa nova des années 60 (Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Lyra, Adoniran Barbosa…) au plus proche du sens et de la sonorité d'origine : Tropic Hotel, c'est un homme (Frédéric Jean, ex-Hyperclean) et une femme (Sandra Campas) qui jouent et chantent face à face le discours amoureux. Partis de la forme brute de la bossa, le Tropic Hotel n'hésite pas à s'aventurer sur les sentiers électriques de la pop exotica et nous entrainent dans un véritable « road movie musical. » Ce sont des histoires d'amour. D'abord celle de Sandra et Frédéric.En 2014, alors élève au Conservatoire de Jazz de Montauban, Sandra rencontre Frédéric. Le week-end, ils se retrouvent dans une petite cabane perdue au fond des bois pour jouer de la bossa nova nus. S'inspirant des surréalistes, ils s'essaient à des adaptations à partir de jeux littéraires. Sandra chante en brésilien et Frédéric interprète ce qu'il entend en français. Ils appellent cela des « bossas sourdes ». Fin 2016, Sandra se lance dans des adaptations, au plus proche du sens et de la sonorité d'origine. Il apparaît évident que c'est ce qui restitue le mieux la poésie crue de ces textes brésiliens des années 60. Au printemps 2017, ils décident alors de les partager sur scène. Frédéric fait quelques propositions d'arrangements plus électriques et peu à peu se dessine le répertoire, nouvel havre pour ces poèmes d'amour. On laisse la cabane pour le Tropic Hotel.  Titres interprétés au grand studio- Je ne suis plus toi et moi (voce e eu) Live RFI- Viens, extrait de l'album voir le clip- Petite Valse Live RFI.Line Up : Sandra Campas, chant, Frédéric Jean, guitare.Son : Benoît Letirant.► Album Tum Tum Bossa (Velvetica Music 2024).- Site - Facebook - Instagram - Spotify.

Our very, very special guest today is the great Kevin Harrington, who most Beatles fans will recognize as the “redhead on the roof” in the Let It Be and Get Back films. At the time, Kevin was only 18 years old(!) but had been working for the Beatles, in some capacity, for years, first as an errand boy at NEMS and then as an assistant to Brian Epstein. He worked alongside Mal Evans as the Beatles' “roadie,” as he's billed in the Let It Be credits. After the Beatles broke up, Kevin stayed closely in the fold, even living at Friar Park with George and Patti during the recording of All Things Must Pass. Then, he finally struck out on his own in the ‘70s and beyond and was a roadie with some of the biggest names in music, including Wishbone Ash, Motorhead, Petula Clark, Ted Nugent, Tina Turner and more. To learn more about Kevin's time with NEMS and the Beatles, check out his memoir, Who's The Redhead on the Roof? --------------------- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter/X for photos, videos, and more from this episode & past episodes — we're @bcthebeatles everywhere. Follow BC the Beatles on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you're listening now. Buy us a coffee! www.ko-fi.com/bcthebeatles Contact us at bcthebeatles@gmail.com.

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In this episode, the gals chat all about what their walk out songs would be! From Joan Jet & Petula Clark to baked gnocchi & good bread, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. Question for Next Episode: What is YOUR third place? And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Spring 2024 class calendar is open for registration on their website www.rootsknitting.com! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

Here's a Santa's bag full of potential purchases for the show tune fan in your life (like you!). Selections from cast albums to Merrily We Roll Along, Harmony, Sweeney Todd, plus performances by Petula Clark, Julie Benko and more.

In Part 1 of this week's episode, Patrick and Tommie pay tribute to a dog loyal til his owner's end and beyond, meet the Rajapalayam, wish a Happy Birthday to Petula Clark, review three Broadway shows that opened on this day in history, take a bite out of National Bundt Day, look at the Supreme Court's new code of ethics, and discuss the fascism of Donald Trump and the cult of personality formerly known as the Republican Party. (Part 2 of this episode will be released on Wednesday, November 22.)

National clean your fridge day. Entertainment from 1970. Zeb Pike 1st sees Pikes Peak, 1st Catholic college, 1st Wendy's resteraunt, Most expensive painting in history. Todays birthdays - William Herschel, Ed Asner, Joseph Wapner, Clyde McPhatter, Petula Clark, Sam Waterston, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Beverly D'Angelo, Chad Kroeger. Roy Clark died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/COTF (cleaning out the fridge) - Dickie AlanI'll be there - The Jackson 5Fifteen years ago - Conway TwittyBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/People Court TV themeMoney Honey - Clyde McPhatter & the DriftersDowntown - Petula ClarkDancing Queen - ABBAHow you remind me - NickelbackHoneymoon feelin' - Roy ClarkExut - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/https://coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/

Close your eyes and imagine exiting your front door. Within moments, everything necessary for your life is a few blocks away, except perhaps your job. Groceries, coffee, toiletries, your bank—if you're still a physical bank-type person—auto shop, all within walking distance. You never have to commute too far to live your life. Sounds like quite a dystopian hellscape, doesn't it?  Believe it or not, that's yet another conspiracy theory that emerged earlier this year, because the ability to access things you need is apparently a Deep State plot. Derek is joined by “The War on Cars” co-host, Doug Gordon, to discuss how this conspiracy started and why smart urban planning is a boon for society. First, we discuss Jane Jacobs, the Scranton, Pennsylvania-born journalist and theorist who brought her civic activism to Toronto in 1968, with Matthew coloring in how her legacy has fared during the rise of the Ford family. Corrections: In his unbridled enthusiasm for the topic and the memories it churned up, Matthew messed up THREE things—the Escalade is a Cadillac, not a Ford, “Downtown” was sung by Petula Clark, not Peggy Lee, and Bill Davis was a Progressive Conservative Premier, not a Liberal! Apologies. Show Notes The Woman Who Saved New York City from Superhighway Hell | Vanity Fair  ‘The streets belong to the people': Why a premier killed the Spadina Expressway | TVO Today  ​Ford family is building a political dynasty  ​​Video shows Councillor Doug Ford handing out $20 bills at TCHC building  Where the Spadina Expressway Didn't Stop | The Local Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode puts Glen and Petula together for a pair of albums that include many songs originally made famous by other singers and cover a wide range of popular music styles.

Andy sings Petula Clark's "Downtown", Taylor Swift is dating a jock, Panera Bread gets more shade, and a woman loses her mind while listening to Doja Cat's song "Demons". On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers a special Andy-themed Chart Chat segment all about different artists named Andy who have hit the Hot 100 over the years. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Randy Edelman, Renowned Film Score Composer & Songwriter About Harvey's guest: Today's guest,  Randy Edelman, is a renowned, multi-award winning composer, musician, producer and singer-songwriter, whose body of work is truly monumental.   As a solo artist, he's recorded 16 albums and had numerous hit singles including “Uptown Up-tempo Woman”, “Concrete and Clay” and “Nobody Made Me”.   But most of his classic songs became huge hits for some of the greatest music stars of all time.  Everyone from Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Shirley Bassey, to Petula Clark, the 5th Dimension, and Kool and the Gang, have recorded his songs.   Some of his biggest hits include “Weekend in New England” by Barry Manilow, “I Can't Make Music” by The Carpenters, “Isn't it a Shame” by Patti LaBelle, “Down in the Everglades” by Willy Nelson, “If Love is Real” by Olivia Newton-John, “Blue Street” by Blood, Sweat and Tears, “The Laughter and the Tears” by Dionne Warwick, and of course, “Sunny Days”, recorded by his mega-talented wife, Jackie DeShannon.    And if that weren't enough, our guest is also one of the most highly acclaimed composers for movies and television, having written over 100 soundtracks for movies, including “My Cousin Vinny”, “The Mask”, “Ghostbusters 2”, “Twins”, “Kindergarten Cop”, “Six Days Seven Nights”, “Dragonheart”, “Beethoven”,  “Anaconda”, “Diabolique”, “Gettysburg”, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, and “Last of the Mohicans”.  Some of the TV shows and series he's scored include “MacGyver”, “Backdraft 2” for Netflix, and “Citizen X” for HBO. And believe me, I'm just scratching the surface of this man's compositions.   He's received some of the most prestigious awards including an Emmy Award, 13 BMI Awards including their highest honor, the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement, the Composer and Lyricist's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.  In addition, he received nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a BAFTA  Award for “Last of the Mohicans”, and nominations for the Saturn Science Fiction Award for “Dragonheart”, and a Gold Spirit Best Comedy Award nomination for “Leap Year”.   His live show entitled “A Life in 80 Minutes” played to sold out audiences and got rave reviews.   He's written a musical entitled “Short Cut” about the construction of the Panama Canal.  And he has a new album coming out, entitled “Can't Be Killed By Any Conventional Means”.  AND his brand new single entitled “Everything is Possible”, on which he collaborated with legendary rapper Grandmaster Melle Mel, is now available for streaming. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To see more about Randy Edelman, go to:https://www.randyedelman.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPOMaKamdeM6_yfNYIO4yghttps://open.spotify.com/artist/3shMd6Vll0mOcviQ3hrk8m?autoplay=truehttps://music.apple.com/ca/artist/randy-edelman/3297021 #RandyEdelman   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Today's episode is first and foremost a tribute to a forgotten African American trailblazer, the pop singer Henry Wright, born in 1933, who, in the late fifties, claimed Italy as his adoptive country after touring there as a vocal soloist with Lionel Hampton. With a voice as suave and seductive as any of the great crooners of the 1950s and 1960s, Henry Wright first came to international prominence as the voice on the record to which Sophia Loren performed her legendary striptease in the 1962 film Ieri, oggi, domani [Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow]. He went on to make a great impact on Italian pop music throughout the 1960s. Your fearless podcaster discovered this fascinating singer almost by accident sometime in the past year and he (that is, I) have been collecting his rare and valuable recordings which I am thrilled to share with my listening public. Many of these songs exist in earlier versions, either from the Great American Songbook, from Italian films, from early American singers of R&B, from Italian pop stars of the 1950s, even from Viennese operetta! So I had the idea of playing those original versions alongside Henry Wright's recordings. Thus you will encounter singers like Ricky Nelson, Peggy Lee, Tony Dallara, Peter Alexander, Mina, Petula Clark, Vittorio de Sica (who in his acting days was an Italian matinee idol!) and even opera legends Miguel Fleta and Richard Tauber. It's a fascinating episode (if I do say so myself!) and I am thrilled beyond words to introduce the seductive, charming, compelling Henry Wright to my listeners. The episode begins with memorial tributes to recently departed pop music greats Tony Bennett and Sinéad O'Connor. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

Para el verano de 1962 la fiebre del Twist está completamente desatada. No solo surgen decenas de bailes paralelos, como el Pony, el Watusi o el Jerk, que intentaban clonar el éxito del Twist, sino que prácticamente todos los artistas del momento, vinculados o no al rocknroll, hacen alguna canción con referencias al baile más famoso de su tiempo.Playlist; (sintonía) THE VENTURES “The twist” (1962)FATS DOMINO “Dance with Mr Domino” (junio 1962)PROFESSOR LONGHAIR “Whole lotta twistin’” (1962)RAY ANTHONY and HIS BOOKENDS “Night train twist” (enero 1962)COUNT BASIE and HIS ORCHESTRA “The Basie twist” (1962)HENRY MANCINI and HIS ORCHESTRA “Tooty twist” (marzo 1962)PÉREZ PRADO and HIS ORCHESTRA “Venezuela Twist” (1962)FRANK SINATRA “Everybody’s twistin’” (marzo 1962)RAY BENNETT “Twistin’ to the blues” (noviembre 1962)SPEEDY WEST “Tulsa Twist” (1962)JOE HOUSTON “Crazy Twist” (1962)PETULA CLARK “Ya Ya Twist” (junio 1962)MINA “Ecclise Twist” (abril 1962)MIKE RIOS “Twist de Saint Tropez” (1962)DUO DINAMICO “Bailando Twist” (1962)SANDY NELSON “Twisted” (1962)DUANE EDDY “Twistin’ and Twangin’” (1962)STEVE DOUGLAS and THE REBEL ROUSERS “Surfer’s Twist” (1962)THE DOVELLS “Bristol Twistin’ Annie” (noviembre 1962)HANK BALLARD and THE MIDNIGHTERS “The Twist” (diciembre 1958) Escuchar audio

Petula Sally Olwen Clark is a British singer, actress and composer whose career spanned more than seven decades.

Carve about three hours for Pete to quiz Ben about English songstress Petula Clark, her relationship with other Muppet guests, and his research on her chart-topping status. Ben takes Pete to task about his dislike of apparent cue-card use and presents his own "Pet" theories about Ms Clark's lip-synched performance.  

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with David Friedman, Composer, Musical Director, Author, “The Thought Exchange” About Harvey's guest: Today's guest, David Friedman, is a film and theatre composer, songwriter, conductor, author and teacher whose list of accomplishments is truly staggering.   After spending several years conducting musicals on Broadway including “Grease”, “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and “Song and Dance”, he went to Hollywood, where he was the Conductor and Vocal Arranger on many Disney classic films including “Beauty & The Beast”, “Aladdin”, “Pocahontas” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”.    He wrote music and lyrics for Disney's “Aladdin and the King of Thieves”, and he spent 13 years as Music Supervisor and Vocal Arranger of “Beauty & The Beast” on Broadway.    His off-Broadway hit, “Desperate Measures” won the 2018 Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle and Off Broadway Alliance Awards.  He's also co-written many other highly acclaimed shows, including “Scandalous”, “Chasing Nicolette, which won the Barrymore Award for best score, “Nellie Bly”, and “Money Talks”, as well as his beloved Christmas Oratorio, “King Island Christmas”, which has had over 50 productions around the world, and which won a Frederick Loewe Award and Dramatists Guild Award.  And his show entitled, “Listen to my Heart: The Songs of David Friedman”, has also been performed throughout America and globally.   He's written numerous classic hit songs, including “Help is on the Way”, “My Simple Christmas Wish” and “Let the Music Play”, all of which have won MAC Awards for Song of the Year.  His multi-platinum-selling songs have been performed by everyone from Diana Ross, Barry Manilow and Petula Clark, to Allison Krauss, Laura Branigan, Lainie Kazan – and of course, the magnificent, late, great Nancy LaMott, for whom our guest produced ALL of her albums and DVDs.   For 10 years he appeared on the Today Show every month, performing his songs live with some of Broadway's brightest stars.  His songs have been used to raise money for charitable organizations, for children's hospitals, Breast Cancer Awareness, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.    He's released 2 CD's, entitled “A Different Light” and “Let Me Fly”, in which he sings his own songs.   In 1997 he received a Backstage Bistro Award for Composer of the Year AND a Johnny Mercer Award for Songwriter of the Year.  And in 2012 he received a Special Lifetime Achievement Award at the MAC Awards.    And if ALL OF THAT weren't enough, he's become renowned for his work in metaphysics and human potential exploration, with his #1 best selling book entitled, “The Thought Exchange: Overcoming Our Resistance to Living a Sensational Life”.  A new 20th anniversary edition of the book was just released.   The book formed the basis for a critically acclaimed documentary film directed by Usher Morgan, called “The Thought Exchange”.  Since then, our guest has written 4 more books, entitled, “The Healing Power of Negative Thoughts and Uncomfortable Sensations”, “It's all Inside”, “We Can Be Kind – Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time”, and “Help is on the Way”.  And he has TWO more books on the way. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To see more about David Friedman, go to:http://thethoughtexchange.com/https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtexchangehttps://twitter.com/ThoughtExchnge#DavidFriedman  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

From October 25, 2017: Iconic songstress Petula Clark was a guest on the show to talk about her new album, Living For Today, and an upcoming local show at the Arcadia Theater in St. Charles, Illinois.  ABOUT PETULA CLARKPetula Clark was born in Epsom, England, but her love of music began at a very early age in her mother's land of Wales. She was already a star in the U.K. by the age of 9, singing for the troops stationed in England during World War II.Many years later, when, after marrying French PR man Claude Wolff, she moved to France. Almost without trying, she soon became a star in that country, and across Europe, also recording in French, Italian, German and Spanish, finding time to produce two delightful daughters, Barbara and Kate (and later a splendid son, Patrick).While still living in Paris, English songwriter Tony Hatch presented her with his new composition: Downtown. The recording was made in London and was destined to become a worldwide hit, leading to a string of top ten records (including I Know A Place, My Love, A Sign Of The Times, Don't Sleep In The Subway, etc.), winning her 2 Grammy awards, and taking Petula's career to international level. She has been living in Geneva, Switzerland for many years, where she met up with Charlie Chaplin who wrote one of her major hits This Is My Song.She has performed in her own TV shows in the U.K., the U.S.A. and France. She has starred in movies (including Finian's Rainbow with Fred Astaire, Goodbye Mr. Chips with Peter O'Toole), theater in London's West End and on Broadway.  

In their second London live recording, Jonny and Richard talk about a military plant hire company, Jay Leno's draughty car port, American model years, judging a supercar competition, turning off hotel air conditioning, and ask if any villages actually welcome careful drivers. Plus, a Simply Norfolk shop, the decor in coastal rental properties, dad-style urinal leaning, Jonny's brush with American police, active aero policy when parked, tiller steering, getting a podcast word into the dictionary, Susie Dent in a De Tomaso, killing off one car, missing Rover, pub Ubers coming true, confessions of a Scooterman, Barry Dakar, finding a famous explorer lost in a park, Top Gear field racing with a hangover, and unnecessarily brutal American driveways. Also, Richard confuses Petula Clark with Lulu.patreon.com/smithandsniff Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TVC 610.3: From August 2016: Emmy Award winning director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, The T.A.M.I. Show) with the back story of "The Touch," the seminal moment of the April 1968 special Petula, starring Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte, in which Clark reached out and touched Belafonte on the arm while they performed the song "On the Path of Glory." Coming on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, Clark's unrehearsed, impromptu gesture caused an uproar behind the scenes among network executives and the show's sponsors over whether that shot should be edited out of the special before it aired on NBC. Harry Belafonte passed away last Tuesday, Apr. 25 at the age of ninety-six. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about Althea McNish, the Trinidadian artist who designed fabric for Queen Elizabeth II. Former Vogue editor Suzy Menkes on the success of the fashion celebration, the Met Gala. The Guatemalan Bishop, Juan Gerardi, killed in his home, after presenting the conclusions of a major investigation into abuses committed during the country's civil war. We remember Harry Belafonte, with a look back at his historic duet with Petula Clark. Plus the fight by the BBC to televise Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. Contributors: Rose Sinclair, Lecturer in textile design at Goldsmiths, University of London. Gavin Douglas, Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in fashion design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Suzy Menkes, former Vogue International Editor. Ronalth Ochaeta, former head of the Catholic Church's human rights office in Guatemala. Steve Binder, TV producer. Lady Jane Rayne Lacey, a lady in waiting at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. (Photo: Althea McNish Credit: Getty Images)

Episode 141, in which your psychic friend and faithful deejay, Frozen Lazuras, spins some tasty treats (of the sonic variety) from Corvair, Shin Otowa, Petula Clark, Jarboe, The Plastic Cloud, Julian Cope, and many more.Giving you what the algorithms won't since 2020.

For nearly 50 years, Jim Anderson has set the standard for acoustic audio engineering and production, capturing pristine, high definition stereo and surround sound recordings that have garnered thirteen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, two Peabodys, and a pair of Emmy nominations among countless other accolades.  Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Anderson attended Duquesne University on a musical performance scholarship, and it was there that his passion for sound and technology first collided in the music school's on-campus recording studio.  After graduation, he took work at the local public radio station, WDUQ-FM, and one year later, he made the leap to NPR in Washington, DC, where he engineered broadcast sessions for everything from news and documentaries to performances by jazz icons, classical orchestras, folk singers, and contemporary composers.  In 1980, Anderson moved to New York to launch his career as a freelance engineer and producer, and over the next several decades, he would go on to record studio albums, live concerts, and film scores across a diverse array of genres with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, Arturo Sandoval, Petula Clark, Patricia Barber, John Zorn, and hundreds more.  In 2003, he became a professor at the prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. In 2008, he was elected President of the Audio Engineering Society.  Today, Anderson and his wife/production partner Ulrike Schwarz are widely hailed as industry leaders operating at the cutting edge of the immersive audio field, and their world-class recordings are regular fixtures at the Grammy Awards and on critics' annual Best Of lists. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: Recording with limitations How to handle high stakes pressure when you're working with the best of the best Helping artists achieve their vision for their albums Adapting to new recording environments Adding reverb to your mixes Using pink noise to calibrate your reverb levels How to create and use Impulse Responses Tips for starting your day with a fresh perspective How to record piano, horns, upright bass, and jazz drums Being intentional with mic placement and selection Using mics to create depth How the impedance of your DI can drastically change the sound quality To learn more about Jim Anderson, visit: http://andersonaudiony.com/ To learn more tips on how to improve your mixes, visit https://masteryourmix.com/ Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/ Get your copy of the #1 Amazon bestselling book, The Mixing Mindset – The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/ Join the FREE MasterYourMix Facebook community: https://links.masteryourmix.com/community To make sure that you don't miss an episode, make sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or on Android. Have your questions answered on the show. Send them to questions@masteryourmix.com Thanks for listening! Please leave a rating and review on iTunes!

Petula Clark's 90th birthday serves as a perfect motivation for a look at her career devotion to the music of Broadway. Selections from Finian's Rainbow, Sunset Blyd, The Sound of Music, and many more.

Episode 159 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Itchycoo Park” by the Small Faces, and their transition from Mod to psychedelia. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-five-minute bonus episode available, on "The First Cut is the Deepest" by P.P. Arnold. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As so many of the episodes recently have had no Mixcloud due to the number of songs by one artist, I've decided to start splitting the mixes of the recordings excerpted in the podcasts into two parts. Here's part one and part two. I've used quite a few books in this episode. The Small Faces & Other Stories by Uli Twelker and Roland Schmit is definitely a fan-work with all that that implies, but has some useful quotes. Two books claim to be the authorised biography of Steve Marriott, and I've referred to both -- All Too Beautiful by Paolo Hewitt and John Hellier, and All Or Nothing by Simon Spence. Spence also wrote an excellent book on Immediate Records, which I referred to. Kenney Jones and Ian McLagan both wrote very readable autobiographies. I've also used Andrew Loog Oldham's autobiography Stoned, co-written by Spence, though be warned that it casually uses slurs. P.P. Arnold's autobiography is a sometimes distressing read covering her whole life, including her time at Immediate. There are many, many, collections of the Small Faces' work, ranging from cheap budget CDs full of outtakes to hundred-pound-plus box sets, also full of outtakes. This three-CD budget collection contains all the essential tracks, and is endorsed by Kenney Jones, the band's one surviving member. And if you're intrigued by the section on Immediate Records, this two-CD set contains a good selection of their releases. ERRATUM-ISH: I say Jimmy Winston was “a couple” of years older than the rest of the band. This does not mean exactly two, but is used in the vague vernacular sense equivalent to “a few”. Different sources I've seen put Winston as either two or four years older than his bandmates, though two seems to be the most commonly cited figure. Transcript For once there is little to warn about in this episode, but it does contain some mild discussions of organised crime, arson, and mental illness, and a quoted joke about capital punishment in questionable taste which may upset some. One name that came up time and again when we looked at the very early years of British rock and roll was Lionel Bart. If you don't remember the name, he was a left-wing Bohemian songwriter who lived in a communal house-share which at various times was also inhabited by people like Shirley Eaton, the woman who is painted gold at the beginning of Goldfinger, Mike Pratt, the star of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), and Davey Graham, the most influential and innovative British guitarist of the fifties and early sixties. Bart and Pratt had co-written most of the hits of Britain's first real rock and roll star, Tommy Steele: [Excerpt: Tommy Steele, "Rock with the Caveman"] and then Bart had gone solo as a writer, and written hits like "Living Doll" for Britain's *biggest* rock and roll star, Cliff Richard: [Excerpt: Cliff Richard, "Living Doll"] But Bart's biggest contribution to rock music turned out not to be the songs he wrote for rock and roll stars, and not even his talent-spotting -- it was Bart who got Steele signed by Larry Parnes, and he also pointed Parnes in the direction of another of his biggest stars, Marty Wilde -- but the opportunity he gave to a lot of child stars in a very non-rock context. Bart's musical Oliver!, inspired by the novel Oliver Twist, was the biggest sensation on the West End stage in the early 1960s, breaking records for the longest-running musical, and also transferred to Broadway and later became an extremely successful film. As it happened, while Oliver! was extraordinarily lucrative, Bart didn't see much of the money from it -- he sold the rights to it, and his other musicals, to the comedian Max Bygraves in the mid-sixties for a tiny sum in order to finance a couple of other musicals, which then flopped horribly and bankrupted him. But by that time Oliver! had already been the first big break for three people who went on to major careers in music -- all of them playing the same role. Because many of the major roles in Oliver! were for young boys, the cast had to change frequently -- child labour laws meant that multiple kids had to play the same role in different performances, and people quickly grew out of the roles as teenagerhood hit. We've already heard about the career of one of the people who played the Artful Dodger in the original West End production -- Davy Jones, who transferred in the role to Broadway in 1963, and who we'll be seeing again in a few episodes' time -- and it's very likely that another of the people who played the Artful Dodger in that production, a young lad called Philip Collins, will be coming into the story in a few years' time. But the first of the artists to use the Artful Dodger as a springboard to a music career was the one who appeared in the role on the original cast album of 1960, though there's very little in that recording to suggest the sound of his later records: [Excerpt: Steve Marriott, "Consider Yourself"] Steve Marriott is the second little Stevie we've looked at in recent episodes to have been born prematurely. In his case, he was born a month premature, and jaundiced, and had to spend the first month of his life in hospital, the first few days of which were spent unsure if he was going to survive. Thankfully he did, but he was a bit of a sickly child as a result, and remained stick-thin and short into adulthood -- he never grew to be taller than five foot five. Young Steve loved music, and especially the music of Buddy Holly. He also loved skiffle, and managed to find out where Lonnie Donegan lived. He went round and knocked on Donegan's door, but was very disappointed to discover that his idol was just a normal man, with his hair uncombed and a shirt stained with egg yolk. He started playing the ukulele when he was ten, and graduated to guitar when he was twelve, forming a band which performed under a variety of different names. When on stage with them, he would go by the stage name Buddy Marriott, and would wear a pair of horn-rimmed glasses to look more like Buddy Holly. When he was twelve, his mother took him to an audition for Oliver! The show had been running for three months at the time, and was likely to run longer, and child labour laws meant that they had to have replacements for some of the cast -- every three months, any performing child had to have at least ten days off. At his audition, Steve played his guitar and sang "Who's Sorry Now?", the recent Connie Francis hit: [Excerpt: Connie Francis, "Who's Sorry Now?"] And then, ignoring the rule that performers could only do one song, immediately launched into Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy!" [Excerpt: Buddy Holly, "Oh Boy!"] His musical ability and attitude impressed the show's producers, and he was given a job which suited him perfectly -- rather than being cast in a single role, he would be swapped around, playing different small parts, in the chorus, and occasionally taking the larger role of the Artful Dodger. Steve Marriott was never able to do the same thing over and over, and got bored very quickly, but because he was moving between roles, he was able to keep interested in his performances for almost a year, and he was good enough that it was him chosen to sing the Dodger's role on the cast album when that was recorded: [Excerpt: Steve Marriott and Joyce Blair, "I'd Do Anything"] And he enjoyed performance enough that his parents pushed him to become an actor -- though there were other reasons for that, too. He was never the best-behaved child in the world, nor the most attentive student, and things came to a head when, shortly after leaving the Oliver! cast, he got so bored of his art classes he devised a plan to get out of them forever. Every art class, for several weeks, he'd sit in a different desk at the back of the classroom and stuff torn-up bits of paper under the floorboards. After a couple of months of this he then dropped a lit match in, which set fire to the paper and ended up burning down half the school. His schoolfriend Ken Hawes talked about it many decades later, saying "I suppose in a way I was impressed about how he had meticulously planned the whole thing months in advance, the sheer dogged determination to see it through. He could quite easily have been caught and would have had to face the consequences. There was no danger in anybody getting hurt because we were at the back of the room. We had to be at the back otherwise somebody would have noticed what he was doing. There was no malice against other pupils, he just wanted to burn the damn school down." Nobody could prove it was him who had done it, though his parents at least had a pretty good idea who it was, but it was clear that even when the school was rebuilt it wasn't a good idea to send him back there, so they sent him to the Italia Conti Drama School; the same school that Anthony Newley and Petula Clark, among many others, had attended. Marriott's parents couldn't afford the school's fees, but Marriott was so talented that the school waived the fees -- they said they'd get him work, and take a cut of his wages in lieu of the fees. And over the next few years they did get him a lot of work. Much of that work was for TV shows, which like almost all TV of the time no longer exist -- he was in an episode of the Sid James sitcom Citizen James, an episode of Mr. Pastry's Progress, an episode of the police drama Dixon of Dock Green, and an episode of a series based on the Just William books, none of which survive. He also did a voiceover for a carpet cleaner ad, appeared on the radio soap opera Mrs Dale's Diary playing a pop star, and had a regular spot reading listeners' letters out for the agony aunt Marje Proops on her radio show. Almost all of this early acting work wa s utterly ephemeral, but there are a handful of his performances that do survive, mostly in films. He has a small role in the comedy film Heavens Above!, a mistaken-identity comedy in which a radical left-wing priest played by Peter Sellers is given a parish intended for a more conservative priest of the same name, and upsets the well-off people of the parish by taking in a large family of travellers and appointing a Black man as his churchwarden. The film has some dated attitudes, in the way that things that were trying to be progressive and antiracist sixty years ago invariably do, but has a sparkling cast, with Sellers, Eric Sykes, William Hartnell, Brock Peters, Roy Kinnear, Irene Handl, and many more extremely recognisable faces from the period: [Excerpt: Heavens Above!] Marriott apparently enjoyed working on the film immensely, as he was a fan of the Goon Show, which Sellers had starred in and which Sykes had co-written several episodes of. There are reports of Marriott and Sellers jamming together on banjos during breaks in filming, though these are probably *slightly* inaccurate -- Sellers played the banjolele, a banjo-style instrument which is played like a ukulele. As Marriott had started on ukulele before switching to guitar, it was probably these they were playing, rather than banjoes. He also appeared in a more substantial role in a film called Live It Up!, a pop exploitation film starring David Hemmings in which he appears as a member of a pop group. Oddly, Marriott plays a drummer, even though he wasn't a drummer, while two people who *would* find fame as drummers, Mitch Mitchell and Dave Clark, appear in smaller, non-drumming, roles. He doesn't perform on the soundtrack, which is produced by Joe Meek and features Sounds Incorporated, The Outlaws, and Gene Vincent, but he does mime playing behind Heinz Burt, the former bass player of the Tornadoes who was then trying for solo stardom at Meek's instigation: [Excerpt: Heinz Burt, "Don't You Understand"] That film was successful enough that two years later, in 1965 Marriott came back for a sequel, Be My Guest, with The Niteshades, the Nashville Teens, and Jerry Lee Lewis, this time with music produced by Shel Talmy rather than Meek. But that was something of a one-off. After making Live It Up!, Marriott had largely retired from acting, because he was trying to become a pop star. The break finally came when he got an audition at the National Theatre, for a job touring with Laurence Olivier for a year. He came home and told his parents he hadn't got the job, but then a week later they were bemused by a phone call asking why Steve hadn't turned up for rehearsals. He *had* got the job, but he'd decided he couldn't face a year of doing the same thing over and over, and had pretended he hadn't. By this time he'd already released his first record. The work on Oliver! had got him a contract with Decca Records, and he'd recorded a Buddy Holly knock-off, "Give Her My Regards", written for him by Kenny Lynch, the actor, pop star, and all-round entertainer: [Excerpt: Steve Marriott, "Give Her My Regards"] That record wasn't a hit, but Marriott wasn't put off. He formed a band who were at first called the Moonlights, and then the Frantiks, and they got a management deal with Tony Calder, Andrew Oldham's junior partner in his management company. Calder got former Shadow Tony Meehan to produce a demo for the group, a version of Cliff Richard's hit "Move It", which was shopped round the record labels with no success (and which sadly appears no longer to survive). The group also did some recordings with Joe Meek, which also don't circulate, but which may exist in the famous "Teachest Tapes" which are slowly being prepared for archival releases. The group changed their name to the Moments, and added in the guitarist John Weider, who was one of those people who seem to have been in every band ever either just before or just after they became famous -- at various times he was in Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Family, Eric Burdon and the Animals, and the band that became Crabby Appleton, but never in their most successful lineups. They continued recording unsuccessful demos, of which a small number have turned up: [Excerpt: Steve Marriott and the Moments, "Good Morning Blues"] One of their demo sessions was produced by Andrew Oldham, and while that session didn't lead to a release, it did lead to Oldham booking Marriott as a session harmonica player for one of his "Andrew Oldham Orchestra" sessions, to play on a track titled "365 Rolling Stones (One For Every Day of the Year)": [Excerpt: The Andrew Oldham Orchestra, "365 Rolling Stones (One For Every Day of the Year)"] Oldham also produced a session for what was meant to be Marriott's second solo single on Decca, a cover version of the Rolling Stones' "Tell Me", which was actually scheduled for release but pulled at the last minute. Like many of Marriott's recordings from this period, if it exists, it doesn't seem to circulate publicly. But despite their lack of recording success, the Moments did manage to have a surprising level of success on the live circuit. Because they were signed to Calder and Oldham's management company, they got a contract with the Arthur Howes booking agency, which got them support slots on package tours with Billy J Kramer, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Kinks, and other major acts, and the band members were earning about thirty pounds a week each -- a very, very good living for the time. They even had a fanzine devoted to them, written by a fan named Stuart Tuck. But as they weren't making records, the band's lineup started changing, with members coming and going. They did manage to get one record released -- a soundalike version of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me", recorded for a budget label who rushed it out, hoping to get it picked up in the US and for it to be the hit version there: [Excerpt: The Moments, "You Really Got Me"] But the month after that was released, Marriott was sacked from the band, apparently in part because the band were starting to get billed as Steve Marriott and the Moments rather than just The Moments, and the rest of them didn't want to be anyone's backing band. He got a job at a music shop while looking around for other bands to perform with. At one point around this time he was going to form a duo with a friend of his, Davy Jones -- not the one who had also appeared in Oliver!, but another singer of the same name. This one sang with a blues band called the Mannish Boys, and both men were well known on the Mod scene in London. Marriott's idea was that they call themselves David and Goliath, with Jones being David, and Marriott being Goliath because he was only five foot five. That could have been a great band, but it never got past the idea stage. Marriott had become friendly with another part-time musician and shop worker called Ronnie Lane, who was in a band called the Outcasts who played the same circuit as the Moments: [Excerpt: The Outcasts, "Before You Accuse Me"] Lane worked in a sound equipment shop and Marriott in a musical instrument shop, and both were customers of the other as well as friends -- at least until Marriott came into the shop where Lane worked and tried to persuade him to let Marriott have a free PA system. Lane pretended to go along with it as a joke, and got sacked. Lane had then gone to the shop where Marriott worked in the hope that Marriott would give him a good deal on a guitar because he'd been sacked because of Marriott. Instead, Marriott persuaded him that he should switch to bass, on the grounds that everyone was playing guitar since the Beatles had come along, but a bass player would always be able to find work. Lane bought the bass. Shortly after that, Marriott came to an Outcasts gig in a pub, and was asked to sit in. He enjoyed playing with Lane and the group's drummer Kenney Jones, but got so drunk he smashed up the pub's piano while playing a Jerry Lee Lewis song. The resulting fallout led to the group being barred from the pub and splitting up, so Marriott, Lane, and Jones decided to form their own group. They got in another guitarist Marriott knew, a man named Jimmy Winston who was a couple of years older than them, and who had two advantages -- he was a known Face on the mod scene, with a higher status than any of the other three, and his brother owned a van and would drive the group and their equipment for ten percent of their earnings. There was a slight problem in that Winston was also as good on guitar as Marriott and looked like he might want to be the star, but Marriott neutralised that threat -- he moved Winston over to keyboards. The fact that Winston couldn't play keyboards didn't matter -- he could be taught a couple of riffs and licks, and he was sure to pick up the rest. And this way the group had the same lineup as one of Marriott's current favourites, Booker T and the MGs. While he was still a Buddy Holly fan, he was now, like the rest of the Mods, an R&B obsessive. Marriott wasn't entirely sure that this new group would be the one that would make him a star though, and was still looking for other alternatives in case it didn't play out. He auditioned for another band, the Lower Third, which counted Stuart Tuck, the writer of the Moments fanzine, among its members. But he was unsuccessful in the audition -- instead his friend Davy Jones, the one who he'd been thinking of forming a duo with, got the job: [Excerpt: Davy Jones and the Lower Third, "You've Got a Habit of Leaving"] A few months after that, Davy Jones and the Lower Third changed their name to David Bowie and the Lower Third, and we'll be picking up that story in a little over a year from now... Marriott, Lane, Jones, and Winston kept rehearsing and pulled together a five-song set, which was just about long enough to play a few shows, if they extended the songs with long jamming instrumental sections. The opening song for these early sets was one which, when they recorded it, would be credited to Marriott and Lane -- the two had struck up a writing partnership and agreed to a Lennon/McCartney style credit split, though in these early days Marriott was doing far more of the writing than Lane was. But "You Need Loving" was... heavily inspired... by "You Need Love", a song Willie Dixon had written for Muddy Waters: [Excerpt: Muddy Waters, "You Need Love"] It's not precisely the same song, but you can definitely hear the influence in the Marriott/Lane song: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "You Need Loving"] They did make some changes though, notably to the end of the song: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "You Need Loving"] You will be unsurprised to learn that Robert Plant was a fan of Steve Marriott. The new group were initially without a name, until after one of their first gigs, Winston's girlfriend, who hadn't met the other three before, said "You've all got such small faces!" The name stuck, because it had a double meaning -- as we've seen in the episode on "My Generation", "Face" was Mod slang for someone who was cool and respected on the Mod scene, but also, with the exception of Winston, who was average size, the other three members of the group were very short -- the tallest of the three was Ronnie Lane, who was five foot six. One thing I should note about the group's name, by the way -- on all the labels of their records in the UK while they were together, they were credited as "Small Faces", with no "The" in front, but all the band members referred to the group in interviews as "The Small Faces", and they've been credited that way on some reissues and foreign-market records. The group's official website is thesmallfaces.com but all the posts on the website refer to them as "Small Faces" with no "the". The use  of the word "the" or not at the start of a group's name at this time was something of a shibboleth -- for example both The Buffalo Springfield and The Pink Floyd dropped theirs after their early records -- and its status in this case is a strange one. I'll be referring to the group throughout as "The Small Faces" rather than "Small Faces" because the former is easier to say, but both seem accurate. After a few pub gigs in London, they got some bookings in the North of England, where they got a mixed reception -- they went down well at Peter Stringfellow's Mojo Club in Sheffield, where Joe Cocker was a regular performer, less well at a working-man's club, and reports differ about their performance at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester, though one thing everyone is agreed on is that while they were performing, some Mancunians borrowed their van and used it to rob a clothing warehouse, and gave the band members some very nice leather coats as a reward for their loan of the van. It was only on the group's return to London that they really started to gel as a unit. In particular, Kenney Jones had up to that point been a very stiff, precise, drummer, but he suddenly loosened up and, in Steve Marriott's tasteless phrase, "Every number swung like Hanratty" (James Hanratty was one of the last people in Britain to be executed by hanging). Shortly after that, Don Arden's secretary -- whose name I haven't been able to find in any of the sources I've used for this episode, sadly, came into the club where they were rehearsing, the Starlight Rooms, to pass a message from Arden to an associate of his who owned the club. The secretary had seen Marriott perform before -- he would occasionally get up on stage at the Starlight Rooms to duet with Elkie Brooks, who was a regular performer there, and she'd seen him do that -- but was newly impressed by his group, and passed word on to her boss that this was a group he should investigate. Arden is someone who we'll be looking at a lot in future episodes, but the important thing to note right now is that he was a failed entertainer who had moved into management and promotion, first with American acts like Gene Vincent, and then with British acts like the Nashville Teens, who had had hits with tracks like "Tobacco Road": [Excerpt: The Nashville Teens, "Tobacco Road"] Arden was also something of a gangster -- as many people in the music industry were at the time, but he was worse than most of his contemporaries, and delighted in his nickname "the Al Capone of pop". The group had a few managers looking to sign them, but Arden convinced them with his offer. They would get a percentage of their earnings -- though they never actually received that percentage -- twenty pounds a week in wages, and, the most tempting part of it all, they would get expense accounts at all the Carnaby St boutiques and could go there whenever they wanted and get whatever they wanted. They signed with Arden, which all of them except Marriott would later regret, because Arden's financial exploitation meant that it would be decades before they saw any money from their hits, and indeed both Marriott and Lane would be dead before they started getting royalties from their old records. Marriott, on the other hand, had enough experience of the industry to credit Arden with the group getting anywhere at all, and said later "Look, you go into it with your eyes open and as far as I was concerned it was better than living on brown sauce rolls. At least we had twenty quid a week guaranteed." Arden got the group signed to Decca, with Dick Rowe signing them to the same kind of production deal that Andrew Oldham had pioneered with the Stones, so that Arden would own the rights to their recordings. At this point the group still only knew a handful of songs, but Rowe was signing almost everyone with a guitar at this point, putting out a record or two and letting them sink or swim. He had already been firmly labelled as "the man who turned down the Beatles", and was now of the opinion that it was better to give everyone a chance than to make that kind of expensive mistake again. By this point Marriott and Lane were starting to write songs together -- though at this point it was still mostly Marriott writing, and people would ask him why he was giving Lane half the credit, and he'd reply "Without Ronnie's help keeping me awake and being there I wouldn't do half of it. He keeps me going." -- but for their first single Arden was unsure that they were up to the task of writing a hit. The group had been performing a version of Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", a song which Burke always claimed to have written alone, but which is credited to him, Jerry Wexler, and Bert Berns (and has Bern's fingerprints, at least, on it to my ears): [Excerpt: Solomon Burke, "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"] Arden got some professional writers to write new lyrics and vocal melody to their arrangement of the song -- the people he hired were Brian Potter, who would later go on to co-write "Rhinestone Cowboy", and Ian Samwell, the former member of Cliff Richard's Drifters who had written many of Richard's early hits, including "Move It", and was now working for Arden. The group went into the studio and recorded the song, titled "Whatcha Gonna Do About It?": [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Whatcha Gonna Do About It?"] That version, though was deemed too raucous, and they had to go back into the studio to cut a new version, which came out as their first single: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Whatcha Gonna Do About It?"] At first the single didn't do much on the charts, but then Arden got to work with teams of people buying copies from chart return shops, bribing DJs on pirate radio stations to play it, and bribing the person who compiled the charts for the NME. Eventually it made number fourteen, at which point it became a genuinely popular hit. But with that popularity came problems. In particular, Steve Marriott was starting to get seriously annoyed by Jimmy Winston. As the group started to get TV appearances, Winston started to act like he should be the centre of attention. Every time Marriott took a solo in front of TV cameras, Winston would start making stupid gestures, pulling faces, anything to make sure the cameras focussed on him rather than on Marriott. Which wouldn't have been too bad had Winston been a great musician, but he was still not very good on the keyboards, and unlike the others didn't seem particularly interested in trying. He seemed to want to be a star, rather than a musician. The group's next planned single was a Marriott and Lane song, "I've Got Mine". To promote it, the group mimed to it in a film, Dateline Diamonds, a combination pop film and crime caper not a million miles away from the ones that Marriott had appeared in a few years earlier. They also contributed three other songs to the film's soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film's release was delayed, and the film had been the big promotional push that Arden had planned for the single, and without that it didn't chart at all. By the time the single came out, though, Winston was no longer in the group. There are many, many different stories as to why he was kicked out. Depending on who you ask, it was because he was trying to take the spotlight away from Marriott, because he wasn't a good enough keyboard player, because he was taller than the others and looked out of place, or because he asked Don Arden where the money was. It was probably a combination of all of these, but fundamentally what it came to was that Winston just didn't fit into the group. Winston would, in later years, say that him confronting Arden was the only reason for his dismissal, saying that Arden had manipulated the others to get him out of the way, but that seems unlikely on the face of it. When Arden sacked him, he kept Winston on as a client and built another band around him, Jimmy Winston and the Reflections, and got them signed to Decca too, releasing a Kenny Lynch song, "Sorry She's Mine", to no success: [Excerpt: Jimmy Winston and the Reflections, "Sorry She's Mine"] Another version of that song would later be included on the first Small Faces album. Winston would then form another band, Winston's Fumbs, who would also release one single, before he went into acting instead. His most notable credit was as a rebel in the 1972 Doctor Who story Day of the Daleks, and he later retired from showbusiness to run a business renting out sound equipment, and died in 2020. The group hired his replacement without ever having met him or heard him play. Ian McLagan had started out as the rhythm guitarist in a Shadows soundalike band called the Cherokees, but the group had become R&B fans and renamed themselves the Muleskinners, and then after hearing "Green Onions", McLagan had switched to playing Hammond organ. The Muleskinners had played the same R&B circuit as dozens of other bands we've looked at, and had similar experiences, including backing visiting blues stars like Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, and Howlin' Wolf. Their one single had been a cover version of "Back Door Man", a song Willie Dixon had written for Wolf: [Excerpt: The Muleskinners, "Back Door Man"] The Muleskinners had split up as most of the group had day jobs, and McLagan had gone on to join a group called Boz and the Boz People, who were becoming popular on the live circuit, and who also toured backing Kenny Lynch while McLagan was in the band. Boz and the Boz People would release several singles in 1966, like their version of the theme for the film "Carry on Screaming", released just as by "Boz": [Excerpt: Boz, "Carry on Screaming"] By that time, McLagan had left the group -- Boz Burrell later went on to join King Crimson and Bad Company. McLagan left the Boz People in something of a strop, and was complaining to a friend the night he left the group that he didn't have any work lined up. The friend joked that he should join the Small Faces, because he looked like them, and McLagan got annoyed that his friend wasn't taking him seriously -- he'd love to be in the Small Faces, but they *had* a keyboard player. The next day he got a phone call from Don Arden asking him to come to his office. He was being hired to join a hit pop group who needed a new keyboard player. McLagan at first wasn't allowed to tell anyone what band he was joining -- in part because Arden's secretary was dating Winston, and Winston hadn't yet been informed he was fired, and Arden didn't want word leaking out until it had been sorted. But he'd been chosen purely on the basis of an article in a music magazine which had praised his playing with the Boz People, and without the band knowing him or his playing. As soon as they met, though, he immediately fit in in a way Winston never had. He looked the part, right down to his height -- he said later "Ronnie Lane and I were the giants in the band at 5 ft 6 ins, and Kenney Jones and Steve Marriott were the really teeny tiny chaps at 5 ft 5 1/2 ins" -- and he was a great player, and shared a sense of humour with them. McLagan had told Arden he'd been earning twenty pounds a week with the Boz People -- he'd actually been on five -- and so Arden agreed to give him thirty pounds a week during his probationary month, which was more than the twenty the rest of the band were getting. As soon as his probationary period was over, McLagan insisted on getting a pay cut so he'd be on the same wages as the rest of the group. Soon Marriott, Lane, and McLagan were all living in a house rented for them by Arden -- Jones decided to stay living with his parents -- and were in the studio recording their next single. Arden was convinced that the mistake with "I've Got Mine" had been allowing the group to record an original, and again called in a team of professional songwriters. Arden brought in Mort Shuman, who had recently ended his writing partnership with Doc Pomus and struck out on his own, after co-writing songs like "Save the Last Dance for Me", "Sweets For My Sweet", and "Viva Las Vegas" together, and Kenny Lynch, and the two of them wrote "Sha-La-La-La-Lee", and Lynch added backing vocals to the record: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Sha-La-La-La-Lee"] None of the group were happy with the record, but it became a big hit, reaching number three in the charts. Suddenly the group had a huge fanbase of screaming teenage girls, which embarrassed them terribly, as they thought of themselves as serious heavy R&B musicians, and the rest of their career would largely be spent vacillating between trying to appeal to their teenybopper fanbase and trying to escape from it to fit their own self-image. They followed "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" with "Hey Girl", a Marriott/Lane song, but one written to order -- they were under strict instructions from Arden that if they wanted to have the A-side of a single, they had to write something as commercial as "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" had been, and they managed to come up with a second top-ten hit. Two hit singles in a row was enough to make an album viable, and the group went into the studio and quickly cut an album, which had their first two hits on it -- "Hey Girl" wasn't included, and nor was the flop "I've Got Mine" -- plus a bunch of semi-originals like "You Need Loving", a couple of Kenny Lynch songs, and a cover version of Sam Cooke's "Shake". The album went to number three on the album charts, with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the number one and two spots, and it was at this point that Arden's rivals really started taking interest. But that interest was quelled for the moment when, after Robert Stigwood enquired about managing the band, Arden went round to Stigwood's office with four goons and held him upside down over a balcony, threatening to drop him off if he ever messed with any of Arden's acts again. But the group were still being influenced by other managers. In particular, Brian Epstein came round to the group's shared house, with Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues, and brought them some slices of orange -- which they discovered, after eating them, had been dosed with LSD. By all accounts, Marriott's first trip was a bad one, but the group soon became regular consumers of the drug, and it influenced the heavier direction they took on their next single, "All or Nothing". "All or Nothing" was inspired both by Marriott's breakup with his girlfriend of the time, and his delight at the fact that Jenny Rylance, a woman he was attracted to, had split up with her then-boyfriend Rod Stewart. Rylance and Stewart later reconciled, but would break up again and Rylance would become Marriott's first wife in 1968: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "All or Nothing"] "All or Nothing" became the group's first and only number one record -- and according to the version of the charts used on Top of the Pops, it was a joint number one with the Beatles' double A-side of "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby", both selling exactly as well as each other. But this success caused the group's parents to start to wonder why their kids -- none of whom were yet twenty-one, the legal age of majority at the time -- were not rich. While the group were on tour, their parents came as a group to visit Arden and ask him where the money was, and why their kids were only getting paid twenty pounds a week when their group was getting a thousand pounds a night. Arden tried to convince the parents that he had been paying the group properly, but that they had spent their money on heroin -- which was very far from the truth, the band were only using soft drugs at the time. This put a huge strain on the group's relationship with Arden, and it wasn't the only thing Arden did that upset them. They had been spending a lot of time in the studio working on new material, and Arden was convinced that they were spending too much time recording, and that they were just faffing around and not producing anything of substance. They dropped off a tape to show him that they had been working -- and the next thing they knew, Arden had put out one of the tracks from that tape, "My Mind's Eye", which had only been intended as a demo, as a single: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "My Mind's Eye"] That it went to number four on the charts didn't make up for the fact that the first the band heard of the record coming out at all was when they heard it on the radio. They needed rid of Arden. Luckily for them, Arden wasn't keen on continuing to work with them either. They were unreliable and flakey, and he also needed cash quick to fund his other ventures, and he agreed to sell on their management and recording contracts. Depending on which version of the story you believe, he may have sold them on to an agent called Harold Davison, who then sold them on to Andrew Oldham and Tony Calder, but according to Oldham what happened is that in December 1966 Arden demanded the highest advance in British history -- twenty-five thousand pounds -- directly from Oldham. In cash. In a brown paper bag. The reason Oldham and Calder were interested was that in July 1965 they'd started up their own record label, Immediate Records, which had been announced by Oldham in his column in Disc and Music Echo, in which he'd said "On many occasions I have run down the large record companies over issues such as pirate stations, their promotion, and their tastes. And many readers have written in and said that if I was so disturbed by the state of the existing record companies why didn't I do something about it.  I have! On the twentieth of this month the first of three records released by my own company, Immediate Records, is to be launched." That first batch of three records contained one big hit, "Hang on Sloopy" by the McCoys, which Immediate licensed from Bert Berns' new record label BANG in the US: [Excerpt: The McCoys, "Hang on Sloopy"] The two other initial singles featured the talents of Immediate's new in-house producer, a session player who had previously been known as "Little Jimmy" to distinguish him from "Big" Jim Sullivan, the other most in-demand session guitarist, but who was now just known as Jimmy Page. The first was a version of Pete Seeger's "The Bells of Rhymney", which Page produced and played guitar on, for a group called The Fifth Avenue: [Excerpt: The Fifth Avenue, "The Bells of Rhymney"] And the second was a Gordon Lightfoot song performed by a girlfriend of Brian Jones', Nico. The details as to who was involved in the track have varied -- at different times the production has been credited to Jones, Page, and Oldham -- but it seems to be the case that both Jones and Page play on the track, as did session bass player John Paul Jones: [Excerpt: Nico, "I'm Not Sayin'"] While "Hang on Sloopy" was a big hit, the other two singles were flops, and The Fifth Avenue split up, while Nico used the publicity she'd got as an entree into Andy Warhol's Factory, and we'll be hearing more about how that went in a future episode. Oldham and Calder were trying to follow the model of the Brill Building, of Phil Spector, and of big US independents like Motown and Stax. They wanted to be a one-stop shop where they'd produce the records, manage the artists, and own the publishing -- and they also licensed the publishing for the Beach Boys' songs for a couple of years, and started publicising their records over here in a big way, to exploit the publishing royalties, and that was a major factor in turning the Beach Boys from minor novelties to major stars in the UK. Most of Immediate's records were produced by Jimmy Page, but other people got to have a go as well. Giorgio Gomelsky and Shel Talmy both produced tracks for the label, as did a teenage singer then known as Paul Raven, who would later become notorious under his later stage-name Gary Glitter. But while many of these records were excellent -- and Immediate deserves to be talked about in the same terms as Motown or Stax when it comes to the quality of the singles it released, though not in terms of commercial success -- the only ones to do well on the charts in the first few months of the label's existence were "Hang on Sloopy" and an EP by Chris Farlowe. It was Farlowe who provided Immediate Records with its first home-grown number one, a version of the Rolling Stones' "Out of Time" produced by Mick Jagger, though according to Arthur Greenslade, the arranger on that and many other Immediate tracks, Jagger had given up on getting a decent performance out of Farlowe and Oldham ended up producing the vocals. Greenslade later said "Andrew must have worked hard in there, Chris Farlowe couldn't sing his way out of a paper bag. I'm sure Andrew must have done it, where you get an artist singing and you can do a sentence at a time, stitching it all together. He must have done it in pieces." But however hard it was to make, "Out of Time" was a success: [Excerpt: Chris Farlowe, "Out of Time"] Or at least, it was a success in the UK. It did also make the top forty in the US for a week, but then it hit a snag -- it had charted without having been released in the US at all, or even being sent as a promo to DJs. Oldham's new business manager Allen Klein had been asked to work his magic on the US charts, but the people he'd bribed to hype the record into the charts had got the release date wrong and done it too early. When the record *did* come out over there, no radio station would play it in case it looked like they were complicit in the scam. But still, a UK number one wasn't too shabby, and so Immediate Records was back on track, and Oldham wanted to shore things up by bringing in some more proven hit-makers. Immediate signed the Small Faces, and even started paying them royalties -- though that wouldn't last long, as Immediate went bankrupt in 1970 and its successors in interest stopped paying out. The first work the group did for the label was actually for a Chris Farlowe single. Lane and Marriott gave him their song "My Way of Giving", and played on the session along with Farlowe's backing band the Thunderbirds. Mick Jagger is the credited producer, but by all accounts Marriott and Lane did most of the work: [Excerpt: Chris Farlowe, "My Way of Giving"] Sadly, that didn't make the top forty. After working on that, they started on their first single recorded at Immediate. But because of contractual entanglements, "I Can't Make It" was recorded at Immediate but released by Decca. Because the band weren't particularly keen on promoting something on their old label, and the record was briefly banned by the BBC for being too sexual, it only made number twenty-six on the charts. Around this time, Marriott had become friendly with another band, who had named themselves The Little People in homage to the Small Faces, and particularly with their drummer Jerry Shirley. Marriott got them signed to Immediate, and produced and played on their first single, a version of his song "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?": [Excerpt: The Apostolic Intervention, "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?"] When they signed to Immediate, The Little People had to change their name, and Marriott suggested they call themselves The Nice, a phrase he liked. Oldham thought that was a stupid name, and gave the group the much more sensible name The Apostolic Intervention. And then a few weeks later he signed another group and changed *their* name to The Nice. "The Nice" was also a phrase used in the Small Faces' first single for Immediate proper. "Here Come the Nice" was inspired by a routine by the hipster comedian Lord Buckley, "The Nazz", which also gave a name to Todd Rundgren's band and inspired a line in David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust": [Excerpt: Lord Buckley, "The Nazz"] "Here Come the Nice" was very blatantly about a drug dealer, and somehow managed to reach number twelve despite that: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Here Come the Nice"] It also had another obstacle that stopped it doing as well as it might. A week before it came out, Decca released a single, "Patterns", from material they had in the vault. And in June 1967, two Small Faces albums came out. One of them was a collection from Decca of outtakes and demos, plus their non-album hit singles, titled From The Beginning, while the other was their first album on Immediate, which was titled Small Faces -- just like their first Decca album had been. To make matters worse, From The Beginning contained the group's demos of "My Way of Giving" and "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?", while the group's first Immediate album contained a new recording of  "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?", and a version of "My Way of Giving" with the same backing track but a different vocal take from the one on the Decca collection. From this point on, the group's catalogue would be a complete mess, with an endless stream of compilations coming out, both from Decca and, after the group split, from Immediate, mixing tracks intended for release with demos and jam sessions with no regard for either their artistic intent or for what fans might want. Both albums charted, with Small Faces reaching number twelve and From The Beginning reaching number sixteen, neither doing as well as their first album had, despite the Immediate album, especially, being a much better record. This was partly because the Marriott/Lane partnership was becoming far more equal. Kenney Jones later said "During the Decca period most of the self-penned stuff was 99% Steve. It wasn't until Immediate that Ronnie became more involved. The first Immediate album is made up of 50% Steve's songs and 50% of Ronnie's. They didn't collaborate as much as people thought. In fact, when they did, they often ended up arguing and fighting." It's hard to know who did what on each song credited to the pair, but if we assume that each song's principal writer also sang lead -- we know that's not always the case, but it's a reasonable working assumption -- then Jones' fifty-fifty estimate seems about right. Of the fourteen songs on the album, McLagan sings one, which is also his own composition, "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire". There's one instrumental, six with Marriott on solo lead vocals, four with Lane on solo lead vocals, and two duets, one with Lane as the main vocalist and one with Marriott. The fact that there was now a second songwriter taking an equal role in the band meant that they could now do an entire album of originals. It also meant that their next Marriott/Lane single was mostly a Lane song. "Itchycoo Park" started with a verse lyric from Lane -- "Over bridge of sighs/To rest my eyes in shades of green/Under dreaming spires/To Itchycoo Park, that's where I've been". The inspiration apparently came from Lane reading about the dreaming spires of Oxford, and contrasting it with the places he used to play as a child, full of stinging nettles. For a verse melody, they repeated a trick they'd used before -- the melody of "My Mind's Eye" had been borrowed in part from the Christmas carol "Gloria in Excelsis Deo", and here they took inspiration from the old hymn "God Be in My Head": [Excerpt: The Choir of King's College Cambridge, "God Be in My Head"] As Marriott told the story: "We were in Ireland and speeding our brains out writing this song. Ronnie had the first verse already written down but he had no melody line, so what we did was stick the verse to the melody line of 'God Be In My Head' with a few chord variations. We were going towards Dublin airport and I thought of the middle eight... We wrote the second verse collectively, and the chorus speaks for itself." [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Itchycoo Park"] Marriott took the lead vocal, even though it was mostly Lane's song, but Marriott did contribute to the writing, coming up with the middle eight. Lane didn't seem hugely impressed with Marriott's contribution, and later said "It wasn't me that came up with 'I feel inclined to blow my mind, get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun/They all come out to groove about, be nice and have fun in the sun'. That wasn't me, but the more poetic stuff was." But that part became the most memorable part of the record, not so much because of the writing or performance but because of the production. It was one of the first singles released using a phasing effect, developed by George Chkiantz (and I apologise if I'm pronouncing that name wrong), who was the assistant engineer for Glyn Johns on the album. I say it was one of the first, because at the time there was not a clear distinction between the techniques now known as phasing, flanging, and artificial double tracking, all of which have now diverged, but all of which initially came from the idea of shifting two copies of a recording slightly out of synch with each other. The phasing on "Itchycoo Park" , though, was far more extreme and used to far different effect than that on, say, Revolver: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Itchycoo Park"] It was effective enough that Jimi Hendrix, who was at the time working on Axis: Bold as Love, requested that Chkiantz come in and show his engineer how to get the same effect, which was then used on huge chunks of Hendrix's album. The BBC banned the record, because even the organisation which had missed that the Nice who "is always there when I need some speed" was a drug dealer was a little suspicious about whether "we'll get high" and "we'll touch the sky" might be drug references. The band claimed to be horrified at the thought, and explained that they were talking about swings. It's a song about a park, so if you play on the swings, you go high. What else could it mean? [Excerpt: The Small Faces, “Itchycoo Park”] No drug references there, I'm sure you'll agree. The song made number three, but the group ran into more difficulties with the BBC after an appearance on Top of the Pops. Marriott disliked the show's producer, and the way that he would go up to every act and pretend to think they had done a very good job, no matter what he actually thought, which Marriott thought of as hypocrisy rather than as politeness and professionalism. Marriott discovered that the producer was leaving the show, and so in the bar afterwards told him exactly what he thought of him, calling him a "two-faced", and then a four-letter word beginning with c which is generally considered the most offensive swear word there is. Unfortunately for Marriott, he'd been misinformed, the producer wasn't leaving the show, and the group were barred from it for a while. "Itchycoo Park" also made the top twenty in the US, thanks to a new distribution deal Immediate had, and plans were made for the group to tour America, but those plans had to be scrapped when Ian McLagan was arrested for possession of hashish, and instead the group toured France, with support from a group called the Herd: [Excerpt: The Herd, "From the Underworld"] Marriott became very friendly with the Herd's guitarist, Peter Frampton, and sympathised with Frampton's predicament when in the next year he was voted "face of '68" and developed a similar teenage following to the one the Small Faces had. The group's last single of 1967 was one of their best. "Tin Soldier" was inspired by the Hans Andersen story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, and was originally written for the singer P.P. Arnold, who Marriott was briefly dating around this time. But Arnold was *so* impressed with the song that Marriott decided to keep it for his own group, and Arnold was left just doing backing vocals on the track: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Tin Soldier"] It's hard to show the appeal of "Tin Soldier" in a short clip like those I use on this show, because so much of it is based on the use of dynamics, and the way the track rises and falls, but it's an extremely powerful track, and made the top ten. But it was after that that the band started falling apart, and also after that that they made the work generally considered their greatest album. As "Itchycoo Park" had made number one in Australia, the group were sent over there on tour to promote it, as support act for the Who. But the group hadn't been playing live much recently, and found it difficult to replicate their records on stage, as they were now so reliant on studio effects like phasing. The Australian audiences were uniformly hostile, and the contrast with the Who, who were at their peak as a live act at this point, couldn't have been greater. Marriott decided he had a solution. The band needed to get better live, so why not get Peter Frampton in as a fifth member? He was great on guitar and had stage presence, obviously that would fix their problems. But the other band members absolutely refused to get Frampton in. Marriott's confidence as a stage performer took a knock from which it never really recovered, and increasingly the band became a studio-only one. But the tour also put strain on the most important partnership in the band. Marriott and Lane had been the closest of friends and collaborators, but on the tour, both found a very different member of the Who to pal around with. Marriott became close to Keith Moon, and the two would get drunk and trash hotel rooms together. Lane, meanwhile, became very friendly with Pete Townshend, who introduced him to the work of the guru Meher Baba, who Townshend followed. Lane, too, became a follower, and the two would talk about religion and spirituality while their bandmates were destroying things. An attempt was made to heal the growing rifts though. Marriott, Lane, and McLagan all moved in together again like old times, but this time in a cottage -- something that became so common for bands around this time that the phrase "getting our heads together in the country" became a cliche in the music press. They started working on material for their new album. One of the tracks that they were working on was written by Marriott, and was inspired by how, before moving in to the country cottage, his neighbours had constantly complained about the volume of his music -- he'd been particularly annoyed that the pop singer Cilla Black, who lived in the same building and who he'd assumed would understand the pop star lifestyle, had complained more than anyone. It had started as as fairly serious blues song, but then Marriott had been confronted by the members of the group The Hollies, who wanted to know why Marriott always sang in a pseudo-American accent. Wasn't his own accent good enough? Was there something wrong with being from the East End of London? Well, no, Marriott decided, there wasn't, and so he decided to sing it in a Cockney accent. And so the song started to change, going from being an R&B song to being the kind of thing Cockneys could sing round a piano in a pub: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "Lazy Sunday"] Marriott intended the song just as an album track for the album they were working on, but Andrew Oldham insisted on releasing it as a single, much to the band's disgust, and it went to number two on the charts, and along with "Itchycoo Park" meant that the group were now typecast as making playful, light-hearted music. The album they were working on, Ogden's Nut-Gone Flake, was eventually as known for its marketing as its music. In the Small Faces' long tradition of twisted religious references, like their songs based on hymns and their song "Here Come the Nice", which had taken inspiration from a routine about Jesus and made it about a drug dealer, the print ads for the album read: Small Faces Which were in the studios Hallowed be thy name Thy music come Thy songs be sung On this album as they came from your heads We give you this day our daily bread Give us thy album in a round cover as we give thee 37/9d Lead us into the record stores And deliver us Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake For nice is the music The sleeve and the story For ever and ever, Immediate The reason the ad mentioned a round cover is that the original pressings of the album were released in a circular cover, made to look like a tobacco tin, with the name of the brand of tobacco changed from Ogden's Nut-Brown Flake to Ogden's Nut-Gone Flake, a reference to how after smoking enough dope your nut, or head, would be gone. This made more sense to British listeners than to Americans, because not only was the slang on the label British, and not only was it a reference to a British tobacco brand, but American and British dope-smoking habits are very different. In America a joint is generally made by taking the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant -- or "weed" -- and rolling them in a cigarette paper and smoking them. In the UK and much of Europe, though, the preferred form of cannabis is the resin, hashish, which is crumbled onto tobacco in a cigarette paper and smoked that way, so having rolling or pipe tobacco was a necessity for dope smokers in the UK in a way it wasn't in the US. Side one of Ogden's was made up of normal songs, but the second side mixed songs and narrative. Originally the group wanted to get Spike Milligan to do the narration, but when Milligan backed out they chose Professor Stanley Unwin, a comedian who was known for speaking in his own almost-English language, Unwinese: [Excerpt: Stanley Unwin, "The Populode of the Musicolly"] They gave Unwin a script, telling the story that linked side two of the album, in which Happiness Stan is shocked to discover that half the moon has disappeared and goes on a quest to find the missing half, aided by a giant fly who lets him sit on his back after Stan shares his shepherd's pie with the hungry fly. After a long quest they end up at the cave of Mad John the Hermit, who points out to them that nobody had stolen half the moon at all -- they'd been travelling so long that it was a full moon again, and everything was OK. Unwin took that script, and reworked it into Unwinese, and also added in a lot of the slang he heard the group use, like "cool it" and "what's been your hang-up?": [Excerpt: The Small Faces and Professor Stanley Unwin, "Mad John"] The album went to number one, and the group were justifiably proud, but it only exacerbated the problems with their live show. Other than an appearance on the TV show Colour Me Pop, where they were joined by Stanley Unwin to perform the whole of side two of the album with live vocals but miming to instrumental backing tracks, they only performed two songs from the album live, "Rollin' Over" and "Song of a Baker", otherwise sticking to the same live show Marriott was already embarrassed by. Marriott later said "We had spent an entire year in the studios, which was why our stage presentation had not been improved since the previous year. Meanwhile our recording experience had developed in leaps and bounds. We were all keenly interested in the technical possibilities, in the art of recording. We let down a lot of people who wanted to hear Ogden's played live. We were still sort of rough and ready, and in the end the audience became uninterested as far as our stage show was concerned. It was our own fault, because we would have sussed it all out if we had only used our brains. We could have taken Stanley Unwin on tour with us, maybe a string section as well, and it would have been okay. But we didn't do it, we stuck to the concept that had been successful for a long time, which is always the kiss of death." The group's next single would be the last released while they were together. Marriott regarded "The Universal" as possibly the best thing he'd written, and recorded it quickly when inspiration struck. The finished single is actually a home recording of Marriott in his garden, including the sounds of a dog barking and his wife coming home with the shopping, onto which the band later overdubbed percussion, horns, and electric guitars: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "The Universal"] Incidentally, it seems that the dog barking on that track may also be the dog barking on “Seamus” by Pink Floyd. "The Universal" confused listeners, and only made number sixteen on the charts, crushing Marriott, who thought it was the best thing he'd done. But the band were starting to splinter. McLagan isn't on "The Universal", having quit the band before it was recorded after a falling-out with Marriott. He rejoined, but discovered that in the meantime Marriott had brought in session player Nicky Hopkins to work on some tracks, which devastated him. Marriott became increasingly unconfident in his own writing, and the writing dried up. The group did start work on some new material, some of which, like "The Autumn Stone", is genuinely lovely: [Excerpt: The Small Faces, "The Autumn Stone"] But by the time that was released, the group had already split up. The last recording they did together was as a backing group for Johnny Hallyday, the French rock star. A year earlier Hallyday had recorded a version of "My Way of Giving", under the title "Je N'Ai Jamais Rien Demandé": [Excerpt: Johnny Hallyday, "Je N'Ai Jamais Rien Demandé"] Now he got in touch with Glyn Johns to see if the Small Faces had any other material for him, and if they'd maybe back him on a few tracks on a new album. Johns and the Small Faces flew to France... as did Peter Frampton, who Marriott was still pushing to get into the band. They recorded three tracks for the album, with Frampton on extra guitar: [Excerpt: Johnny Hallyday, "Reclamation"] These tracks left Marriott more certain than ever that Frampton should be in the band, and the other three members even more certain that he shouldn't. Frampton joined the band on stage at a few shows on their next few gigs, but he was putting together his own band with Jerry Shirley from Apostolic Intervention. On New Year's Eve 1968, Marriott finally had enough. He stormed off stage mid-set, and quit the group. He phoned up Peter Frampton, who was hanging out with Glyn Johns listening to an album Johns had just produced by some of the session players who'd worked for Immediate. Side one had just finished when Marriott phoned. Could he join Frampton's new band? Frampton said of course he could, then put the phone down and listened to side two of Led Zeppelin's first record. The band Marriott and Frampton formed was called Humble Pie, and they were soon releasing stuff on Immediate. According to Oldham, "Tony Calder said to me one day 'Pick a straw'. Then he explained we had a choice. We could either go with the three Faces -- Kenney, Ronnie, and Mac -- wherever they were going to go with their lives, or we could follow Stevie. I didn't regard it as a choice. Neither did Tony. Marriott was our man". Marriott certainly seemed to agree that he was the real talent in the group. He and Lane had fairly recently bought some property together -- two houses on the same piece of land -- and with the group splitting up, Lane moved away and wanted to sell his share in the property to Marriott. Marriott wrote to him saying "You'll get nothing. This was bought with money from hits that I wrote, not that we wrote," and enclosing a PRS statement showing how much each Marriott/Lane

1968 was a year of disappointments for the Monkees.  During this year their television series was cancelled, their first motion picture effort failed at the box office, and band member Peter Tork would leave the group at the end of the year.  Despite all this they would still find success in their fifth studio album, The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees.  This album would chart at number 3 in the United States and would sell over a million copies.Members Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork had gained artistic control and the right to play their own instruments by 1967, and all band members were credited as producers for the songs on this album.  However, much of the music on this album was created by members going their own separate ways and working with session musicians to create the tracks, with few collaborative efforts represented on the album.  Nevertheless, the album shows a diverse range of styles from broadway pop, to country & western, to psychedelia.  Songs from Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith are represented on the album, and only Peter Tork is excluded.  Tork would contribute piano work to the song “Daydream Believer,” but little else on the album.Friend of the show Mike Fernandez brings us this album in Wayne's absence.  Daydream BelieverJohn Stewart of the Kingston Trio wrote this song, and it was originally performed by the Monkees with Davy Jones singing lead.  It hit number 1 on the US charts.  The original lyrics were “and now you know how funky I can be,” but “funky” was changed to “happy” due to concerns that funky might have drug or other unsavory references.Auntie's Municipal Court Mickey Dolenz sings lead on this track composed by  Michael Nesmith and Keith Allison.  We feel it has a “jangle pop country feel.”  The title doesn't appear in the lyrics, and writer Michael Nesmith has no recollection why it was named as it was.  It was not the only song whose title was not referenced in the song.  Valleri  Tommy  Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote this song with Davy Jones on lead.  It reached number 3 on the US charts and would be the last top 10 showing for the Monkees.  Guitar work is done by Louie Shelton, a session guitarist with the Wrecking Crew.Zor and Zam Bill and John Chadwick penned this track, sung by Mickey Dolenz.  It is an unusual anti-war song in the Monkee's catalogue.  The lyrics describe preparation for a war between two kingdoms, but no one shows up when the war is supposed to happen.  This psychedelic track closes the album. ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Main theme from the television series “The Andy Griffith Show”This long running series on the life and time of Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina ended its run in this month.  STAFF PICKS:Kiss Me Goodbye by Petula ClarkBrian's leads off the staff picks with a Les Reed and Barry Mason composition.  This song would reach number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and would be the last time Petula Clark reached into the top 30 on that chart.  Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) by The First Edition Bruce brings us a psychedelic rock song recorded by the First Edition as their second single, and the first to feature Kenny Rogers on lead vocals.  It peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Charts and was Rogers' first top 10 hit.  The solo is played by Glen Campbell with heavy compression and tremolo to get the psychedelic feel.  The lyrics are a warning about the dangers of LSD.Lady Madonna by the Beatles Rob's staff pick is a well-known tune.  This was written by Paul McCartney, and marked a change into a more rock sound from the psychedelic sound they had previously explored.  It talks about a working class mother who has something to do every day of the week.  A Beautiful Morning by the RascalsMike features a very optimistic tune from a prolific group.  This easy breezy song was written by Rascals members Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati, Jr. in Honolulu, Hawaii, where beautiful mornings are a common occurrence. INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:2001:  A Space Odyssey (Also Sprach Zarathustra by Ricard Strauss)Stanley Kubrick would make this Richard Strauss theme famous in his epic science fiction movie based on the Arthur C. Clarke book. The film as released this month in 1968....and we couldn't pronounce it either!!