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Showing posts with label Robert Palmer - Johnny and Mary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Palmer - Johnny and Mary. Show all posts

Friday, August 30, 2024

Classic Pop songs revisited and Singles bought when they came out! | ROBERT PALMER : Johnny & Mary

 



now we have had this before ( I don’t care - still a favourite 80s hit) and think I got it from the bargain ex-jukebox bins
Its a stone classic



Saturday, April 06, 2024

Looking for Clues in the work of Robert Palmer! | WILLIN’ : Robert Palmer


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Anyone else surprised by this Lowell George cover?




from Robert Palmer . . . . . funk meister! Johnny and Mary was about as prosaic as he got wasn’t it!I mean Addicted to Love? Simply Irresistable !?

suppose there was the cross over from Vinegar Joe with Elkie Brooks and her hubby but please they wouldn’t have covered Weed, Whites and Wine? Would they? Well he would as his first solo album was heavily influenced by the music of Little Feat and the funk fusion of the Meters, who acted as the backing band along with producer/guitarist Lowell George for his album!!!! WEIRD!

Looking For Clues. . . . yeah right!

Saturday, January 20, 2024

ROBERT PALMER (19 Jan 1949 – 26 Sep 2003) | Johnny and Mary

Remembering English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer ROBERT PALMER (19 Jan 1949 – 26 Sep 2003)
The career of blue-eyed soul singer Robert Palmer was a study in style versus substance. While the performer's earliest work won praise for its skillful assimilation of rock, R&B, and reggae sounds, his records typically sold poorly, and he achieved his greatest notoriety as an impeccably dressed lounge lizard. 
By the mid-'80s, however, Palmer became a star, although his popularity owed less to the strength of his material than to his infamous music videos: taking their cue from the singer's suave presence, Palmer's clips established him as a dapper, suit-and-tie lady's man who performed his songs backed by a band comprised of leggy models, much to the delight of viewers who made him one of MTV's biggest success stories.

 another in the occasional series of singles bought when they came out (this another ex-jukebox bargain bin find)


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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Singles bought when they came out series :: Robert Palmer - Johnny and Mary (Live @ Bälinge Byfest '80)

 Robert Palmer - Johnny and Mary (single edit ) Official video


Live at Bälinge Byfest 1980


Think this one was another from the ex-jukebox bargain bins and paid pence for it and still love this song . . . . . . .