Entertainment For Lively Minds
Swinging Sixties on Sky Anytime
Posted by Paul Wad on 23 September 2010 - 11:25pm.
Any sixties fans with Sky HD should check out Sky Anytime, as there are a couple of gems on there at the moment. Two shows presented by Kent "hello, grapple fans" Walton, Fluff Freeman and Brian Matthew, featuring performances by the likes of The Hollies, The Animals and The Tornados. The links with the deejays are excruciating at times, but you don't often get to see The Swinging Blue Jeans singing the fab "You're No Good" on telly.
Okay, you have to put up with the awful "Shout" by Lulu, but it's on Sky Anytime, so you can fast forward.
I've got to say though, I thought I had a pretty good knowledge of sixties music, but I'd never heard of The Wackers or The Cockneys.
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Oi !
Shout, Lulu : awful ? No ! Goodness me, no. The Isley Brothers are better, obviously, but still...
The first time for McFly on this site, surely...
Seconded
Shout is a top tune.
And for that matter, so are Little Eva's The Locomotion and Shirley Ellis' The Clapping Song.
Where would we be without girl pop?
What could possibly be wrong with "Shout"?
It will be starting parties all over the world this weekend as every weekend. Nothing wrong with it at all.
Sorry, you can't convince me!
I just have the hear the "we...eh...eh..eh..eh...eh...ll" bit and I'm diving for the off button. I love sixties girl band music as much as the next man, but there's something about that song that send shivers down my spine.
In fact, when instructing our wedding DJ what music to play I asked for anything girlie band, like the Shirelles, Velvelettes, Chiffons, etc, but the FPO warned him that under no circumstances, and no matter how many people asked for it, he mustn't play Lulu's Shout, unless he wanted to see the groom heading for the exit. I'm sure we all have one song that we hate and yet everybody else loves. My missus can't stand Tainted Love for example.
That's put an idea in my head though - rubbish wedding DJ anecdotes. I could tell the story of the guy who looked like Jimmy Savile, wearing a tassled stars and stripes t-shirt who played the following dance floor clearing trio - "The Frog Princess by The Divine Comedy", followed by "Take Five" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet and finished off with "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. Great tunes all, but during a wedding disco??
Paul
you WILL come round. If you don't I am going to do you a special mix of Shout that loops the "we-e-e-e-e-e-ll" line in perpetuity.
Wedding DJ:
I have no rubbish DJ anecdotes, but at my own wedding I cheekily managed to slip Ernie K Doe's "Mother In Law" onto the playlist ("Satan should be her name, to be they're about the same... mother in law!").