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From "The T.Rex Wax Co. Singles 1972-77"
Starting off today with a classic single from T Rex from late 1972, which I recall from youth club discos at the time...
Wizzard - Ball Park Incident - 3:42
From "Wizzard Singles 1972-1975"
...and followed by another great slice of pop from the 1950's pop adapting pen of Roy Wood...
Alice Cooper - Slick Black Limousine - 4:28
From "The Alice Cooper Group Singles 1970-1973"
...and a rarity from the original Alice Cooper Group, Bruce-Buxton-Cooper-Dunaway-Smith, this song was given away free on an NME flexi-disc in early 1973 to publicise the imminent release of "Billion Dollar Babies". Each of these first three tracks is taken from collections compiled this week of A and B sides of 1970's singles by some of my favourites...
John Cale - (I Keep A) Close Watch - 2:31
From "Fragments Of A Rainy Season"
...while this was listened to whilst adding music to the iPod touch for the Exec Producer's well-earned upcoming holiday trip to the Balearics. A beautiful song from the Welshman in the Velvet Underground...
Witxes - The Reason (Avant Take) - 4:53
From "Sequence 1"
Next up is some tasty ambience from Mr Witxes, whose set I much enjoyed during my trip to London back in April...
Steeleye Span - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - 1:32
From "Now We Are Six"
I'm not a fan of Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span but I did tape a few of their albums back in the mid seventies and, a few years ago, when I was replicating my initial music collection by way of downloading MP3s, this made its way back - and I thought it a suitable introduction to the music of...
Gary Glitter - Do You Want To Touch Me (Oh Yeah) - 3:19
From "Gary Glitter Singles 1972-1975"
...Gary Glitter. It's a conundrum as to whether someone's music is tainted by what they've done in their personal life but, for my sins, I continue to enjoy the early singles of the platform booted deviant...
Anonymous - Mass of Tournai - Kyrie - 2:35
From "The Mass of Tournai - St Luke Passion"
A track from one of this week's acquisitions, a disc featuring some of the oldest remaining examples of polyphonic music...
Return To Forever - Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy - 3:32
From "Return To The Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology"
...followed by some cracking jazz from the one of the triumvirate of jazz fusion (along with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report)...
Deep Purple - Fireball - 3:22
From "24 Carat Purple"
Back to 1970's singles with a superb slice of lyrical nonsense set to a rockin' beat from The Purps...
Paul McCartney & Wings - Helen Wheels - 3:47
From "Paul McCartney & Wings Singles 1972-1979"
...and a 1973 single from this week's compiled Wings selection. I took it to 1979 but really ought to have stopped in 1976...
Cheryl Cole - Girl In The Mirror - 3:31
From "A Million Lights"
Cheryl Cole has a new single out this week - this isn't it. But it's still pretty good - in my Girls Aloud biased opinion of course...
David Bowie - Round and Round - 2:44
From "David Bowie Singles 1972-1974"
"Round and Round" was the B Side of "Drive In Saturday", the latter written by Bowie for Mott the Hoople as a follow up to "All the Young Dudes", which Mott rejected, only for Mr B to take it into the top ten - with this Chuck Berry number in support...
The Velvets - That Lucky Old Sun - 2:36
From "London American Doo Wop 1959-61"
Not the Velvet underground but Doo Wop specialists from the late 50's. One of those numbers that pops up on shuffleplay and immediately selects itself fro inclusion here...
Udo Lindenberg - Ich Zieh Meinen Hut - 3:57
From "Stark Wie Zwei"
Opening track from German superstar Udo Lindenberg's "comeback" album from a few years ago now. Hopefully, even if you don't understand German, this'll sound good to your ears...
Sammartini - Sammartini: Sinfonia D-Dur Jc14 - 5:59
From "Lumieres Vol 09: De La Sinfonia À La Sinfonie"
A project I'm swithering over at the moment is a big classical compilation charting the history of the symphony and Mr Sammartini was one of the first composers to present music in a "symphonic" style...
Lund Quartet - Lonn - 5:40
From "Lund Quartet"
Tinkling piano opens this cheeky violin based wee track from the Lund Quartet, whose album I took a chance on in 2013 on a visit to the bargain basement of the Soho Record and Tape Exchange in Old London Town...
Roxy Music - The Pride and the Pain - 4:13
From "Roxy Music Singles 1972 - 1976"
Two Roxy rarities are up next, this, the "B" side of "Pyjamarama" from 1973...
Roxy Music - Sultanesque - 5:20
From "Roxy Music Singles 1972 - 1976"
...and this, the flip of "Love is the Drug" from late '75 - both now only available on the "Complete Studio Recordings" multi disc set...
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way - 3:44
From "Rumours"
A track request by the Exec Producer for her own holiday playlist...
King Crimson - A Scarcity Of Miracles - 7:27
From "A Scarcity Of Miracles"
This week, the new seven man King Crimson announced their tour dates - none in the UK or Europe as yet but we'll see. This is not technically King Crimson but it's close enough for jazz, as they say...
The Eagles - One Of These Nights - 4:52
From "One Of These Nights"
Another request from the Exec Producer for her holiday iPod and, like the Fleetwood Mac track earlier, it's difficult to deny the excellence whether you're a fan or not...
Gentle Giant - On Reflection - 5:43
From "I Lost My Head"
A superb example of the vocal interplay which was so much of a feature of the style of these prog rock stalwarts - not to mention the complete and utter skill overload involved when they then move to instruments. Just brilliant...
Gurdjieff - Gurdjieff: Chant From A Holy Book - 5:13
From "Gurdjieff; Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns & Dances"
Another purchase this week - from Barter Books in Alnwick - an ECM disc of (mainly) music by Robert Fripp's fave, Mr Gurdjieff - beautiful...
James Blood Ulmer - Dance In The Dark-Music Is My Life - 5:33
From "Music Speaks Louder Than Words"
I have this under jazz but, really, unlike much of JBU's output, this is more like funky dance music - get in the groove indeed...
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Wandelbar - 5:49
From "Selected Studies Vol. 1"
Calming things down for the final run in is this soundscape from half of Cluster and, surprisingly, the Commotion's Lloyd Cole - without any sixth form poetry anywhere to be heard...
Mathilde Santing - Close Watch - 2:53
From "Ballads"
Another version of John Cale's song featured at the start of the podcast - this comes from Dutch singer Mathilde Santing - of whom I've been a fan since discovering her 10" debut album in Amsterdam in 1981...
Mott The Hoople - (Do You Remember) The Saturday Gigs - 4:21
From "The Columbia Singles 1972-1974"
The last of the 70's singles tracks this week comes from the first of the collections I compiled. Mott the Hoople's final track - which tells the story of the band from inception to end - you can hear them singing "goodbye" over the fade out...
Alice Cooper - Alma Mater - 4:27
From "School's Out"
Anne asked me to add some Alice Cooper ballads to her iPod and this is one by the original band. Perhaps not in the vein of "Only Women Bleed" but still great stuff. Reminded me of what a great album "School's Out" is...
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Vendome - 3:57
From "Vendome EP"
And we round things off with this week's CBQ track - in keeping with much of the theme this week, it's a "rare" track from a single - the "single mix" of the seven minute track of which a different version appears on "Starlightnight". this was released as a single in 2011 - over a year before the LP...
That's it - thanks for listening, hope you enjoy the music and will come back next week for more...
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