1962. Such a great tune (by brother Nat) - with great lyrics (Curtis Lewis) sung by Nancy and with the classic Cannonball lead break and the band that swung like heaven …
https://youtu.be/y-KSencYaMU?si=r3qgYv_x5dsRuqYs
Even Keith Jarret can’t compete with one of my favourite bands …
Amid last week’s Lily-Allen-level of marketing campaign for Departures, I was asked if I’d read much Julian Barnes.
Not really, I thought. Flaubert’s Parrot sketch, and 10 1/2 Chapters … oh, and Metroland.
In fact I could see the Metroland cover in my head - but remembered nothing of it. So I went to the obvious places, in search. Nothing.
Anyway, yesterday, as I began preparations for the impending decorators, I found the Barnes door open - but Metroland had bolted.
Funny stuff, memory.
Redacted CVs …
Having left the Grateful Dead, Radu Lupu went on to play with the Band …
RE: https://toot.community/@OhBlimey/115819506482371087
A comic episode, in which we meet the statue of a town burgher. Appalled by the passing 150 years, he recalls the indignities of being cleaned .. and is horrified by more recent ‘civic art’ …
Over the shoulders of folk who sit below (eating burgers and dropping litter) he has read of statues being daubed and cast into harbours.
Sadly, my first choice would have been Timothy West.
I have this idea for a TV series … about where we inadvertently end up spending eternity …
Steve Cropper dies … my homage to him and the MGs …Midnight Hour (Dock of the Bay, backwards) on
#SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/RSEGckM31DB1aUdgFj
Midnight Hour
Listen to Midnight Hour by OhBlimey #np on #SoundCloud
Make way … looks like the little books of lockdown are finally headed up the stairs!
Reminded of John Mortimer’s story of the judge sentencing the alcoholic shop lifter.
“And i am being lenient, but you must not have another drink; not even the teeniest dry sherry before supper”
Michael Magras