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Gone but not forgotten?
Posted by Twangothan on 13 January 2008 - 4:38pm.
I remember a song they used to play on GLR in the 80s which was basically a list of past heros - vaguely Celticy themed - with the hook "Gone but not forgotten". It was sort of spoken rather than sung. I always wondered who it is. Waterboys? It's not the Van the Man one about John Donne though. Any ideas?
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I believe...
...that little ditty was by the band enigmatically called A House and was titled Endless Art. They had a few other tracks that got regular airplay on GLR (now BBC London) in the days when it was interested in playing music of a fairly adventurous nature (days long gone largely it seems). I know nothing else about the band but some of their stuff is on iTunes, including said Endless Art, so that's my tuppence worth.
Z
its on youtube of course
Thanks!
Thanks! Terrific! off to iTunes!
I was directed here from another strand...
Re. A House- you need to find 'I am the Greatest'. It's beautiful. I just happened to mention them in relation to Rob's strand on albums you feel only you listen to. It's a mighty small world and Word makes it smaller still. Enjoy the album, if you can find it.
GLR & Mr. Hepworth
Yes GLR was great back in the day. Not least DH's "2 Hours of Bloody good records" - I clearly remember the first time a hear "Bayou teche" by Sonny Landreth - surely one of THE great opening guitar riffs - and am I imagining this - wasn't Iris DeMent on in session? Or was that another prog?
Weirdly though I Googled "GLR Brian" trying to remember the name of the phone in talk show host I liked (Brian Hayes of course)and came across this weird posting - Hepworth and M15? Most odd.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.aubergine/browse_thread/thread/15...
Oh please God
That follows me around everywhere.
What?
A bloke in a trench coat and a fedora, affecting to read a newspaper with a spy hole cut in it?
That doesn't
make any sense whatsoever. What on earth is the guy on about?
GLR
was a damn good station in those days... I've lost touch with it now. Bob Harris, Johnnie Walker, Charlie Gillett, David Hepworth, Peter Curran, Chris Evans before egomania took over, Gary Crowley...
Name that Tune
Can I play too?
It's 1987 or 1988, and I'm working at the Record & Tape exchange. Someone plays a compilation tape that includes of version of Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves done in a British folk stylee. Female singer, from memory it's a bit Pentangle-ish. I never heard it again.
Any suggestions?
It's on youtube of course
Possibly?
As someone once asked on Radio London, how many pop songs are there with that gypsy feel? I think Kate Bush was in there with Babushka, but forgot the rest.
Obscure Gypsy Pop
A great, if ludicrous, lost single from 1984 - I don't think it was even a hit.
Mika...
should cover that. Just his kind of thing. I liked the guitar player with a Jimmy Page fixation...
Some lucky heather sir?
Great, but I still prefer her brother Mink. Mary Hopkins' "Those Were The Days" fits the genre, as well. Shame Ronnie Lane never did one. He had the caravan and all.