Paul Goldstein1 27th Dec 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumBobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe | This was a reasonable debut album with standouts. The only problem which could be a bit monotonous is that too many tracks on it sounded a bit like the single Ode To Billie Joe. Yet it topped the American album charts, displacing The Beatles' SGT. Pepper, and at a time when Bobbie was new to the scene, whereas The Beatles already had number one singles and album galore, and continued to do so, and when SGT Pepper was still the most popular thing at the time.
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Paul Goldstein1 24th Jul 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumJohn Mayall With Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers | A rare occasion of an album crashing into the British album charts way into the Top 10 without a hit single to accompany it, when this was at a time when albums still usually only sold on the back of hit singles. It was the following year when Psychedelia exploded that this started to change.
This was John's second album, but the first yet only to feature new guitarist Eric Clapton, who added that thick new undercoat to the group's sound, and even sing lead on one track, his first version of Robert Johnson's Rambling On M y Mind, which he re-recorded solo years later.
This album proved even more that Britain had well and truly become this second major ground for creativity.
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Paul Goldstein1 24th Jul 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumJohn Mayall With Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers | I thought it was only in the UK this stereo version was not issued in the UK.
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Paul Goldstein1 1st Aug 2023 | | Vinyl AlbumDavid McWilliams - Days Of Pearly Spencer | In reply to Henry Bell, This rare track will be out on his forthcoming 2cd set with his complete sixties recordings on the Cherry Red label.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/david-mcwilliams-reaching-for-the-sun-the-major-minor-anthology-1967-1969-2cd-digipak/
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Paul Goldstein1 16th Jun 2023 | | Vinyl AlbumImpressions - The Never Ending Impressions | Apart from the four standards that were just throwaway, it was a great album, and an unusual album for early 1964, especially as it was recorded December 1963.
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