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Just been listening to Handel - Music For The Royal Fireworks. Splendid stuff,

Wuthering Heights-Kate Bush

http://youtu.be/-1pMMIe4hb4
It's My Life-Talk Talk http://youtu.be/5ixRWvrkUHo
Hunting High And Low-A-Ha http://youtu.be/s6VaeFCxta8
You Keep Me Hangin' On-Kim Wilde http://youtu.be/BNyRU0fKHAY

Tell It To My Heart-Taylor Dayne http://youtu.be/Ud6sU3AclT4
My Old Mans A Dustman-Lonnie Donegan http://youtu.be/sleSYZy-2GI
My Boomerang Won't Come Back-Charlie Drake http://youtu.be/_prtbj4MtDU
The Laughing Policeman-Charles Penrose http://youtu.be/hI1nPd7hezM
We Are The Diddymen-Ken Dodd http://youtu.be/JGor7ZyCawI
Welcome Home-Peters & Lee http://youtu.be/Ww4v2cP-MDo

Never Knew Your Name- Madness

http://youtu.be/y87J7u65R6c

Paul Kossoff - 14 September 1950-19 March 1976

Free - Wishing Well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Een8dDpF6g

And 50 years ago today, this became Britain's biggest selling single -

The Beatles - She Loves You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF-7VMMihA

Both great songs.

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ September 14 2013, 6:44 PM BST

Both great songs.

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I agree.

Morten Harket is 54 today -

A-ha - Take On Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

And Israel "Cachao" Lopez was born on September 14, 1918. He died in 2008.

Cachao y Su Combo - Descarga Cubana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ip9pLj2FM

Three more to go.

Fred "Sonic" Smith was born on 14 September 1949. A member of the groundbreaking MC5, Rolling Stone magazine has ranked him number 93 in its list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The band often opened shows for Patti Smith who he later married. Their son is married to former White Stripe, Meg White. Sonic Youth took its name from Smith's nickname. Fred died from a heart attack at the age of 45 in 1994.

The Beginnings of the MC5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvJA4T9J068

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo35O1AJOfg

Yma Sumac first appeared on radio in 1942. Born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, in Peru, it was rumoured that she was really a Brooklyn housewife named Amy Camus. The latter was her adopted stage name spelt backwards. The exotic Yma, who is mentioned in Vanessa Paradis' "Joe Le Taxi" had a vocal range of slightly over four octaves. She would have been 91 yesterday had she not died in 2008.

Yma Sumac -

Latin - Gopher Mambo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JWxNqyIRtk

Rock - Medicine Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78HgBKQ1y0I

Techno - Mambo Confusion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yafRSXElD-M

Rawhide by Scott Walker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2AJ34xKp8

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ September 14 2013, 8:16 PM BST

Rawhide by Scott Walker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2AJ34xKp8

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It's not his birthday, though, is it.

Your song by Simple Minds is one of my favourites. What a great album.* I like the Midnight Oil track too. Only saw each live once. The Minds at a stadium thing and the Oil in a smaller venue. Vegetarian Pete Garrett ripped a leather jacket off a punter and gave him quite a lecture. I have also listened to the two tracks by Sisters of Mercy you posted and The Cult. They certainly bring back memories of North Yorkshire. Saw the Sisters with reggae band Black Slate in freshers' week and never drank Merrydown cider again.

We've had Amy Camus. Stand by for.......well, no, I'm going to keep you in suspense!

(Have you noticed how they cut it with the volume strangely low? I've always wondered if it was intended.)

Amy Winehouse - 14 September 1983 - 23 July 2011

The early 2000s saw the re-emergence of pop celebrity. This time it was huge. Distinct from rock's broad heritage, it has always been despised by the purists. And its current popularity can be denounced on the grounds that the appeal of the performers won't last.

Only time will tell whether any will be on the radio two decades from now. Few of them appear to have the potential for development. But from the moment she walked onto a stage, Amy Jade Winehouse was different. Not only was she was original, attractive, exciting and bright but she was musical too.

I don't know how many hours of work she put in to learning classic jazz stylings. No one else would have known where to start. All those echoes of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan, slightly overdone in the enthusiasm of youth. The latter was an especially serious point.

It showed there was room for improvement in a woman who was already streets ahead. Later, she'd be more measured and could achieve almost anything. Sadly it wasn't to be but she was able to bring true voice back into the mainstream. That legacy will increasingly be felt when the industry changes.

Don't Go To Strangers - with Paul Weller - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4ytI0ZgHc

Tears Dry On Their Own - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdbDYahiCQ (on vivo)

Body and Soul - with Tony Bennett - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OFMkCeP6ok

Love Is A Losing Game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMO5Ko_77Hk (on vevo)

Monkey Man - with Derek Nash - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ZHd5ZACWM

Devil In Disguise by The Flying Burrito Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BITiY8M_oDo

The National - I Need My Girl (great live version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEPs3r1yMk

Their last album, "Trouble Will Find Me", is definitely one of my top albums of 2013.