Clare Torrey - Heaven In The Sky - ONLY GOOD SONG

So we’ll start the day and the weekend with this really odd curio from Only Good Song. This is one of those artists that did a perfectly good job as backing singer and in commercial work, advertising and so on but didn’t make it on their own merits for some reason. There but for fortune go Kiki Dee and the like all the one hit wonders and back up singers Tin Pan Alley was full of them with really very good voices but as Only Good Song suggests here,  they made it no further:

Clare H. Torry is a British singer, well-known for improvising and performing the wordless vocals on the song "The Great Gig in the Sky" on Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

01. Intro- British Caledonian

02. Midnight Train

03. The Music Attracts Me

04. Love For Living (Backed By Man)

05. Carry On Singing My Song

06. Theme From Film 'Oce'

07. Heaven In The Sky

08. Love For Sale

09. I Always Seem To Wind Up Loving You

10. Love Is Like A Butterfly (from butterflies)

11. Warming And True

12. I Know What I Like Best

13. Knock Knock Who's There

14. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat

15. My Boyfriend's Back

16. One Way Street

17. Well Done

18. It's All Over

Clare Torrey - Only Good Song

It is worth checking out especially for Brits who wondered who sang the Theme music to Butterflies the TV comedy

Steve Marriott, Small Faces, Humble Pie – Afterglow! - Free CD MOJO Magazine (only good song)

This is an odd little curio and features the April issue free CD from MOJO magazine. . . my advice would be to go out and buy the latest issue if you are keen. Back issues still available. 

 It is a great magazine and worth subscribing to but if you want a taste of this one there's this:

AFTERGLOW! Rare Live Steve Marriott - MOJO - Only Good Song

Steve Marriott -  Small Faces, Humble Pie – Afterglow (Rare! Live! Unreleased!) - 2021

Free CD with MOJO magazine April 2021 surveying the music of Steve Marriott.

01. Steve Marriott – Get Down To It

02. Billy Nicholls – Girl From New York

03. The Moments – Blue Morning

04. Steve Marriott's Deluxe Band – Wossname (Previously Unreleased)

05. Small Faces – All Or Nothing (Live)

06. Steve Marriott And The Official Receivers – Five Long Years (Live)

07. Humble Pie – Cold Lady

08. Small Faces – Jenny's Song (Take 1)

09. Steve Marriott – You Spent It

10. Steve Marriott – Imaginary Love (Alternative Version)

11. Steve Marriott Featuring Toby Marriott – Toe Rag

12. Stephen Marriott – Consider Yourself

13. Steve Marriott With The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Soldier

14. Humble Pie – Poor Man's Rich Man

15. Steve Marriott – Teenage Anxiety (Previously Unreleased)

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MOJO April 2021

John Lennon - The ULTIMATE COLLECTION - Plastic Ono Band

            Then there's a review of John Lennon's 'Plastic Ono Band' 8 disc anniversary deluxe set edition and this is really worth the read too.

John Lennon PLASTIC ONO BAND - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION - Onlygoodsong

Again a great review and really interesting notes about the legendary break up of the Beatles  . . . . . even tho' most of us seemed only to buy McCartney earlier that April!!?['McCartney' came out in April and charted no.1 in the US and no 2 in the U.K.] Lennon’s album came out some eight months later in Dec and only made it to no. 8 in the U.K. no. 6 in the US. Lennon said to be annoyed that George’s ‘All Things Must Pass’ coming out in November the month before and being his third solo effort in actual fact (Wonderwall and Electronic Music coming out much earlier) 

"God" was perhaps the most challenging track to many, though I took Working Class Hero personally and it annoyed me intensely wrestling as I was with my Sociology lecturer telling me quite how middle-class my family were and that my working class roots came to naught and Lennon's 'And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see' rankled something HARD! Was he singing about me? 'Peasant was I? Well he could take a running jump as far as I could muster the venom to engender so I disliked the album and still am not keen and prefer 'Imagine the year after  . . . . . . . . . The Janov therapy thrust in our faces was a shock I guess but quickly despised and dismissed as he failed to complete his program much to Janov’s continued concern feeling John needed at least another full year to complete the complex nature of his abandonment issues and resolve his anger but John’s green card issues meant his visa required his return to the UK