A Music Thread

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David McAlmont channels his inner Bassey. Rather well, too....

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Shirley Bassey channels her inner Shirley Bassey, with the help of the Manic Street Preachers (she was actually raised in nearby Splott, but that's rather less mellifluous).

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Lisa channels her inner Bassey covering Cole Porter. A mighty fine version....

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Up to Lexington, 125, so sick and dirty, more dead than alive....

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What a handsome young chap Lou Reed was...

'Ocean' from the re-release of 'Loaded':

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The Small Faces, an ocean away, got high in Itchycoo Park...

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A Texan psychedelic jugband. Oh yes. The 13th Floor Elevators took you higher...

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Mmm, Slowwhand sure might like this version... Elkie's band prior to Vinegar Joe was DaDa, quite a groundbreaking outfit in its own (shortlived) way...

This could be the last time....

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A young (baby-faced) Robert Palmer (pre- snowy mountains and wine lakes) with Elkie Brooks in Vinegar Joe. Possibly one for Slowwhand, I think.

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Ah um.

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Alma Cogan went to a Gypsy woman...

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Does anyone have a votive bust of Helen Shapiro ?

You just don't know.

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The U.K. seems to have produced some great vocalists from its relatively small Jewish community. Elkie Brooks (Bookbinder) is a notable one... and this is the 'Sunshine After The Rain'....

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This the rain after the sunshine. And the morning had seemed so bright and full of promise.