A Music Thread

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Eclection and 'Please MK II' which features Dorris Henderson on vocal duties. Song originally by American Kaleidoscope, this group was a multi-national outfit based in the U.K. :

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I wonder if Tarantino has discovered this yet. Hope not. Clear Light and 'She's Ready To Be Free', the B-side to 'Black Rose'.

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Groovy baby. Simon Stokes & The Nighthawks, 'Voodoo Woman' :

Totally wired!

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Not blue, just lonesome for some love again. 'Spider' John Koerner & Willie Murphy:

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It's a bit of an Elektra-fying start to Sunday. The Elektra label was responsible for some quirky and scorchio albums, and some poptastically groovy album covers.

Diane Hildebrand, 'And It Was Good':

Harpsichord ? Dunno, but I'm trying to think of who she reminds me of. She co-wrote the theme for 'The Flying Nun'- t.v. trivia fact for old folks like me.

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Most of all will be quite familiar with Lou Reed's 'Transformer' album- a seminal vinyl artefact of the early 70s. It was preceded, at least in the U.S. , by another 'Transformer'- this time by David Stoughton. It was quite ahead of its time- 1968- and probably not everyone's cup of echidna juice today.

'The Anecdote Of Horatio And Julie':

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Last Vertigo label release - Affinity and 'Night Flight'. Lead singer Linda Hoyle went on to releasean immensely collectable solo album :

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Irish folk with Irish folk. Dr Strangely Strange (name inspired by Marvel's 'Dr Strange', natch) :

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From Iglesias to Stewart. Late 60s Rod Stewart from 'An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down' which also features 'Dirty Old Town' and 'Handbags & Gladrags' and a well-dodgy cover...

The opened out sleeve includes two more children...

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Apologies to anyone who hasn't see the film of 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' but this version of 'La Mer' occurs at the end when pigeons come home to roost.... Julio Iglesias!!! You could have knocked me down wiv' a fevver....

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A couple of film related tracks. Pierre Akendengue appears on the soundtrack to 'The Last Days Of Chez Nous' with 'Nw'alewana' but this ain't that, alas.

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Another from the Vertigo label. Fairfield Parlour (once known as Kaleidoscope) released 'From Home To Home' in 1970. The original album sells for in excess of £120 in minty fresh condition. This is 'Emily' which has a kind of Sarstedt quality in the lyrics if not the music. Quite haunting in an English pastoral melancholic way...

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Some Olde Englysshe Folke.

Magna Carta, formed in York, released this in 1970 on the collectable Vertigo label:

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Eric Andersen recorded on the Vanguard label. 'Close the Door Lightly When You Go'

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Cymande bring you 'The Message' :