Dusty Springfield Spooky

Dusty Springfield singing Spooky.

The Boat That Rocked the World 3

The soundtrack excellent, the film OK.
These last three have been pure indulgence - lazy for me as well

"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" Performed by Procol Harum

"These Arms of Mine" Performed by Otis Redding

"Cleo's Mood" Performed by Jr. Walker & The All Stars


"The Happening" Performed by The Supremes

"She'd Rather Be With Me" Performed by The Turtles

"98.6" Performed by The Bystanders

"Sunny Afternoon" Performed by The Kinks


"Father and Son" Performed by Cat Stevens
,

"Nights In White Satin" Performed by The Moody Blues

"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" Performed by Dusty Springfield


"Stay with Me, Baby" Performed by Lorraine Ellison

"Hang On Sloopy" Performed by The McCoys


"This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)" Performed by The Isley Brothers

"Let's Dance" Performed by David Bowie


"So Long, Marianne" Written, Composed and Performed by Leonard Cohen
(1967)


"Let's Spend The Night Together" Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

"To Sir With Love" Sung by Lulu (1967)

"All over the world" Written, Composed and Performed by Françoise Hardy (1965)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" Written by Pete Townshend Performed by The Who


The Boat That Rocked [DVD] [2009]

Breaking up can be cathartic...?

Jealous Guy - John Lennon

an apology to Yoko - half-way between shame and 'take me as I am defiance'

Blue Monday - New Order
dumped girl is constantly saying how you should feel


Crying - Roy Orbison


The One I Love - REM


I Just Don't Know What to do with Myself - Dusty Springfield
' If your new love ever lets you down' she cries agonised by hope, and you know its never going to happen.


Say You Will - Kayne West
knocked sideways by the death of his mother and the split from his fiancee - a 'humble' Kanye

White Soul

There is a certain degree of musical snobbery when the topic of 'blue-eyed soul' comes up. Well I have blue eyes and am white and I enjoy all sorts of music. I don't like the idea of ghettozisation of music - surely its about creativity not race, colour etc. I include a list of my favourite artists often labelled as such.

Dusty Springfield - this performance spot on - so are lots of Black versions as well but so is this!

Van Morrison
Elkie Brooks - I first saw her in her Vinegar Joe days.
Steve Marriott
Average White Band - Scottish soul at its best. I remember seeing them 35ish years ago at 3.00am having breathed in substances - (only ever done that 3 or 4 times by the way) - brilliant

Steve Winwood
George Michael

I melt everytime I hear this

Anastacia Heavy on the Heart
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Bonnie Raitt
Duffy
Adele
Sharleen Spiteri - love her

Paul Weller
Lisa Stansfield - she comes from 'round the corner'

100 Greatest Romantic Albums of All Time 21-30

As I go through this list of 100 Greatest Romantic Albums of All Time, it becomes clear to me that this are not in order of popularity, but more or less just in the order that they came to mind. Because if they were in order of how much I like them, Coltrane, Billie Holiday, and Frank Sinatra would be higher on the list.


21. k.d. lang - Ingenue

22. Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie

23. Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

24. John Coltrane - Blue Trane

25. Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

26. Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers

27. Air - Moon Safari

28. Bread - Lost Without Your Love

29. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis

30. Josh Groban - Closer

45 Years of listening

I have been listening and watching music for nearly 45 years. I think the present must be the best time to be a music lover. There is so much good live music at the moment in varied genres. Technology and fast Broadband means that I can look at past and present masterly performances - I use iLike, LastFM, MySpace, Genius on iTunes I know in the US you have Pandora but in the UK I have great hopes for Spotify. I just love these 'push and shove' technologies that take you along to people that you might not have considered in the past.

In my first foray on this Blog I thought I'd share with you the women I'm enjoying at the moment, I know some of these great artists go over several decades. Its just who I associate with a particular decade

1950's Dinah Washington and Ella

1960's Nina Simone and Etta James

1970's Dusty Springfield,

Carole King and Judy Collins (with Leonard)


1980's Blondie


and Marianne Faithful


1990's Alicia Keyes, Joss Stone, India.Arie, Anastacia,


2000s Dianna Krall, Nelly Furtado, Adele and Duffy

My memory goes and I rushed this - but there are so many!

Dusty Springfield: Spooky

Dusty Springfield singing Spooky.