Juke Jules SUBS 8th Jun 2020 | | CD AlbumJohn Langstaff - Songs For Singing Children | John and one of his young collaborators, sing Over In The Meadow, one of the more reflective songs
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Juke Jules SUBS 4th Jun 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumIke White - Changin' Times | Title track
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Juke Jules SUBS 4th Jun 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumBob Dylan - Slow Train Coming | The title track is worth hearing for the BGVs alone, thanks to Carolyn Dennis, Helena Springs and Regina Havis
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Juke Jules SUBS 1st Jun 2020 | | CD SingleZucchero And Vanessa Carlton (Featuring Haylie Ecker) - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime | Wonderful emotional cover of the Korgis track
The backing tracks are the same on both sides
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Juke Jules SUBS 29th May 2020 | | 78 RPMThe Hallé Orchestra - "From The New World" Symphony, Op 95 No 5 | I've got a copy so it can't be rare :-)
Don't play it unless you have a decent lightweight moving coil pickup with a diamond stylus, in which case you can play it as much as you like without damage (to the record that is, the stylus will wear though)
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Juke Jules SUBS 18th May 2020 | | CD AlbumBaxter Dury - Len Parrot's Memorial Lift | Oscar Brown
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Juke Jules SUBS 10th May 2020 | | CD AlbumLou Fellingham - Promised Land | Title track
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Juke Jules SUBS 7th May 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumFaust - The Faust Tapes | Virgin's first release. AIUI both untitled sides were made up of individual tracks
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Juke Jules SUBS 7th May 2020 | | CD AlbumFat Cat - Champagne Rush | Good rockin' track, great singer
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Juke Jules SUBS 5th May 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - Ready, Steady | Reissued on See For Miles in 1987
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Juke Jules SUBS 5th May 2020 | | CD AlbumFairport Convention - 1st | Spot the difference..?
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Juke Jules SUBS 1st May 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumKing Creosote And Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine | Anderson and Hopkins spoke about the album in an interview with drownedinsound.com
Presumably Lisa Lindley-Jones is the vocalist on this one-off track that brought Anderson a lot of attention for the track Your Young Voice
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Juke Jules SUBS 1st May 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - !Wild! Stereo Drums | ReviewDevised more as a Stereo demonstration record, the music is what it claims - perhaps "wide ranging" is a slight overstatement. The drums are augmented by percussion instruments including bongos, Chinese cymbal tree, timbales, claves, scraper, cymbals, marimba, cow bell, celestatemple blocks and tambourine
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Juke Jules SUBS 5th Apr 2020 | | BookHelen Reddington - The Lost Women Of Rock Music: (Studies In Popular Music) | Reddington sings and plays bass as Helen McCookerybook and makes records with Helen And The Horns
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Juke Jules SUBS 30th Mar 2020 | | CD Album[no artist listed] - Little Blessings | ReviewThe tracks are all popular hymn tunes set as instrumentals in a suitably soporific style by Steve Wingfield using keyboards for piano, xylophone and other instrumental parts, with plenty of tinkling cascades of bells.
Close on two hours in total. Very soothing for adults too.
Are they on YouTube? Yes and no, there are several Fisher Price lullaby videos, none with hymns but otherwise in exactly this style, with the same instrumentation, presumably also by Wingfield. This one is a single non-tune which repeats for two hours.
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Juke Jules SUBS 14th Mar 2020 | | 78 RPMMargaret Whiting - (Disc Jockey Interview) Good Morning Mr. Echo / Good Morning, Mr. Echo | The commercial release of Good Morning, Mr. Echo was on Capitol 1702 and it's interesting to hear a bit of studio talk-back on the video there.
Bill Putnam was a ground-breaking audio engineer and here demonstrates his pioneering use of reverb which he achieved by working in his bathroom. The eponymous echo presumably used tape editing techniques.
From Wikipedia:
"Milton Tasker "Bill" Putnam (February 20, 1920 – April 13, 1989) was an American audio engineer, songwriter, producer, studio designer and businessman, who has been described as "the father of modern recording".
I'd love to hear the interview with him about his techniques but it's not yet on YouTube
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Juke Jules SUBS 7th Mar 2020 | | CD AlbumVarious Artists - John Carter | The folder insert has notes on all the tracks, couched in the style of a Shakespeare drama production. John Carter/Shakespeare produced the CD, and all the tracks are basically him singing
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Juke Jules SUBS 7th Mar 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Rockin' Berries - In Town | Fine cover of the Tokens hit for the title track
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Juke Jules SUBS 7th Mar 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Rockin' Berries - In Town | Funny How Love Can Be was written by Carter and Lewis for the The Rockin' Berries and they recorded it just before The Ivy League but didn't release it on a 45, the League had the hit with it. Should have been a hit for The Rockin' Berries too
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Juke Jules SUBS 5th Mar 2020 | | 78 RPMApril Stevens - Don't Do It / The Sweetest Day | [YouTube Video]
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Juke Jules SUBS 4th Mar 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumColette Renard - Chansons Gaillardes De La Vieille France | "Parental Advisory" - La Puce is a song about a flea, which apparently is rather bawdy
One of her 52 albums!
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Juke Jules SUBS 3rd Mar 2020 | | 78 RPMGracie Fields - Count Your Blessings / If I Can Help Somebody | If I Can Help Somebody seems to have some history: we find an earlier release by Turner Layton, but I wonder where the text came from. Did Alma Bazel Androzzo write tune plus lyrics, or did he set a famous text to music? This song has been quite widely recorded and the text was used in the concluding text of a sermon given by Martin Luther King which was subsequently quoted in the eulogy at his funeral in 1968.
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Juke Jules SUBS 1st Mar 2020 | | CD AlbumTanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart | [YouTube Video]
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Juke Jules SUBS 1st Mar 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumKlaus Renft-Combo - Renft | 'Als ich wie ein Vogel war' seems to be typical of their work at the time, longing for the Freedom of the birds. The band was summoned to play before the cultural committee who decided which bands should have a licence to play in the DDR but their work was too subversive to get past the Stazi, particularly the works of Kurt Demmler, and they were informed there was no problem with their licence, just that the band no longer existed. After the opening of the Brandenburg Gate the band re-formed and became popular in the unified Germany
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Juke Jules SUBS 1st Mar 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumKurt Demmler - Jeder Mensch Kann Jeden Lieben | "Everyone can love everyone" seems to be a simple love song about human kindness, with references to the Creator. To profess religious beliefs was a precarious thing to do in the DDR at the time and Demmler later found himself in trouble with the Stazi
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Juke Jules SUBS 27th Feb 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumTony Bennett - The Movie Song Album | [YouTube Video]
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Juke Jules SUBS 27th Feb 2020 | | CinemaA Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019) | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was the TV series on which the film was based, as shown in your link
For the film starring Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys, see A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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Juke Jules SUBS 27th Feb 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumLenny Dee - Golden Organ Favorites | [YouTube Video]
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Juke Jules SUBS 23rd Feb 2020 | | Vinyl AlbumMister Rogers - Won't You Be My Neighbor? | A lot is about growing up:
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Juke Jules SUBS 23rd Feb 2020 | | CinemaA Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019) | True story of the journalist who interviewed Mister Rogers about his "Beautiful Neighborhood" TV Series
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