The Gypsy Faerie Queen - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwbCZ5mDZWM Marianne Faithfull's 1978 album "Broken English" (see last post) included three tracks co-written by her and on her next album after that all 9 tracks bar one were co-written by her. Thereafter Faithfull's next thirteen studio albums consisted mainly of tracks in which she was cowriter, providing the words with others composing the music, with the exception of four LPs deliberately dedicated to recording covers: "Rich Kid Blues", "
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc It's curious, that while the UK had its fair share of female pop stars in the 1960's and...
Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oWXbGB-7o One day I will do a series of posts on the greatest "B sides" of singles. Marianne...
As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_phZZgkT1Jk People often think that the reason why Marianne Faithfull became a successful pop star and...
The Weight - the Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBV0gzzI_Ug I always liked the notion that the Band deliberately chose their name to be self-effacing, as...
Rag Mama Rag - the Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJpP33F_rs In 1970, a single, "Rag Mama Rag" scraped into the UK Top Twenty for 4 weeks, peaking at...
Soul Man - Sam and Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OX2HwWy-o Nowadays, by far away Sam and Dave's best remembered song is their classic "Soul Man"....
Soothe Me - Sam and Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wN1WNlC2mE Sam and Dave were, thus far, the greatest soul duet ever. Sam Moore died on January 10th...
You were on my Mind - Crispian St. Peters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOKZleJejw I used to do one other nearly solo performance in our Reigate singing sessions if they went...
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2m--R3J6f4 For 10 years, when I was in my twenties, I played a kamikaze wing forward for Reigate Rugby...
