Dance to the Music - Sly and the Family Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2PNlhvy8E In the summer of '68, when I was thirteen, "Dance to the Music" hit the charts. Even in those heady days when the UK charts were a melting pot of all kinds of music - the number one was Tommy James and the Shondells' "Mony Mony", and rock, pop, folk/ ska/rock, surf music, soul, crooners and even a precursor to hip hop all featured in an eclectic Top Twenty that included the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the Small Faces, the Kinks, th
Hang On Sloopy - the McCoys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuw8GJbqx94 Next up on the eternal escalator is Rick Derringer who died on May 25th 2025. Derringer, originally Rick Zehringer, became one of those rock "Zelig"'s, popping up here and there over the years, playing lead guitar on occasional Steely Dan, Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler tracks, producing albums by Nils Lofgren, backing Cindi Lauper on tour, and hanging out at the heavier end of the heavy metal pool hall as part of Johnny Winter And and,
