I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Alice Loftus - To Love Somebody (BeeGees), Over The Phone, Divine | O MY SOUL



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my version of ‘To Love Somebody’ <3 

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I know you don’t have to work that hard - on your plate I’m just a bleeding heart - waiting to be devoured 


Here Alice posts three songs today and all worth a close listen - I LIKE her! 
HERBERG DE KELDER cross posted and they didn't work for me so here 
they are direct from O My Soul

John Prine - All The Best Texas Connection 1992

The algorithms threw this up at me . . . . . .nowt wrong with that!

John Prine - All The Best!

But as is my won’t here’s the full Youtube version

John Prine - All the Best Texas Connection 1992
John Prine - vocals, guitar
Phil Parlapiano - keyboards, accordian,
     guitar, mandolin, bass, vocals
Bill Bonk - bass, guitar, harmonica, mandolin,
     keyboards, vocals
Duane Jarvis - guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals

Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band w/ Johnny Winter - 1969-12-11 - Boston, MA | Heavybootz

 Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band w/ Johnny Winter - 1969-12-11 - Boston, MA


Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band w/ Johnny Winter
Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA
1969-12-11 (early show)

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mp3 @ 320 [122 mb]
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artwork included
"One Hot Winter Night" [Gardener Remaster]

01 Raise Your Hand
02 Hey Bo Diddley
03 Kozmic Blues
04 Port Arthur Blues*
05 Help Me Baby*
06 Maybe
07 Try
08 Piece of My Heart

tt: 51:37


* featuring Johnny Winter



EURYTHMICS - LOVE IS A STRANGER (various versions 1983 - 2023)

Another oddity this morning is that loads of Flickennabok algorithms conspired to send me several versions of this classic Eurythmics ‘ Love is a Stranger ‘ (1983) 

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2.
Love Is A Stranger - Live On The Peace Tour

so we best have it from YouTube eh?


Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Love Is a Stranger (Peacetour Live)

Isn’t Annie amazing? What a theatrical chameleon as well as a great beauty she has the voice of Scotland and one of the greatest voices in contemporary music (IMHO)


Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics 1983 live Synth Britannia


Eurythmics - Love is a stranger | Revival tour in Rome 1989



 Annie Lennox (feat. Brandi Carlile) | Love Is a Stranger (Eurythmics) | 
Hollywood Bowl, October 14, 2023

Poet of The Day: LEONARD COHEN

 Now we may have had this before but it cropped up this morning and always makes me smile. All the sardonic humour is there but was this pre-singing Lennie!?


Visiting Hours (I call it!)

Filmed before his rise to fame, directors Donald Brittain & Don Owen invited the world to meet the witty, coffee-fueled poet from Montreal in LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... MR. LEONARD COHEN


BIRTHDAYS: Route Books and Don’s Tunes remind us that it is Nick Cave’s birthday (69)

 Happy birthday to Nick Cave, born in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia on this day in 1957. As he kissed her goodbye, he said, 'All beauty must die.


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Happy 69th birthday to Nick Cave! 

"To write a song requires a reckoning. We roll up our sleeves and through rigorous application encounter the disastrous and mortifying condition of our interior selves. We exert poetic order upon the turmoil and chaos. We hew and hone and bring structure to the stricken heart; we codify our weary souls, giving form to the blues.

I must say that the blues informs everything. The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body."

Photo: Anton Corbijn


Nick and Kylie . . . .

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (Glastonbury 2013)

again just from remembering that I collect versions of the song ‘Staggerlee’ I brought this to mind largely because of his extraordinary interactions with his audience!

David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (Official Video) [HD]

 

David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (Official Video) [HD]

This was posted and not shared (its the Official Video FFS!?) but it came up in my Flakkenabok algorithms so here it is from YouTube

Mirco Russo Bowie-ism who say:


"Bowie wrote Absolute Beginners in the summer of 1985 for the film by Julien Temple. In reality, it wasn't even supposed to exist. The guitarist Kevin Armstrong had been called to Abbey Road without knowing who he would be playing for: they had just been told to show up with a guitar, which a certain "Mr. X" would arrive with. The "Mr. X" was Bowie, there to record the demo of That's Motivation for the film's soundtrack — at the same time when, by the way, Labyrinth was being filmed by Jim Henson. The work on that track proceeded so quickly that there was no time left in the studio. In that half hour, the framework of what would become one of his most beloved songs took shape.
Then came a deeply bowian request: they needed "a female voice that played like that of a shop assistant." It wasn't a provocation, nor a joke. Armstrong immediately thought of his sister Janet, who worked in a shop in London, and proposed it: it would be her first and only professional experience in a recording studio.
Bowie accepted without hesitation. It was precisely Janet Armstrong's voice that intertwined with his in the record, with a delicacy almost imperceptible. The success came almost naturally. The song broke through.
When the video came out, I remember that day well.
I entered a shop with the money in my pocket and left with that record in my arm, as if I had just made a small pact with myself.
I remember the cover in my hands on the motorbike. I remember the impatience of getting home and putting the vinyl on the table. But above all, I remember that rare feeling, at that age: the awareness of having made a choice that truly belonged to me, from beginning to end.
Every time I listen to Absolute Beginners, I go back a little. To that boy who was changing without realizing it. To that moment when music stopped being just something you listen to and became something that accompanies you. Something that helps you build yourself.
Perhaps this is the deepest meaning of the song. Stay beginners. In love, in friendship, in life. Continue to look at what we know with eyes still capable of being amazed. Because there are things that time does not consume. A love, a song, a memory. We are the ones who return from them with different eyes, carrying with us the mistakes, the years. Perhaps this is why certain songs never grow old. We grow old, while they continue to wait for us at the same point, faithful and silent, ready to remember who we were and all that, in the meantime, we have lost and saved."


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The Band [on Letterman] Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen) 1994

 

The Band [on Letterman] Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen) 1994

Garth Rick and Levon reconvened long enough to do an album and guessed on Letterman to promote it

again the Band Facebook page floated a clip (sic!?) of this so here ’tis in it full glory
Sorely missed!

My Album of The Month : THEA GILMORE : Can You Hear The Ghosts Sing

 


So my signed copy of Thea’s fine FINE album arrived
It is totally fab and something of a revelation in that I don’t think I was expecting the band to be so good and tight, she with her guitar and singing is enough for me but heck these guys are TIGHT!
Beautiful production and played daily so far

Now I am guess it is sold out now and was a limited edition but if you check her social media there’ll be loads out there for you to enjoy

Thea on YouTube

Taster HIT: 
This Girl is Taking Bets - TURN IT RIGHT UP
This is TUESDAY’s Song of The Day

Eels - An Ordinary Man

I think this was thrown up by my TV . . . . . .hadn’t listened to any Eels for a while so it was timely! 

Eels - An Ordinary Man

I’m just an ordinary man . . .ain’t no use talking to me, just the same as talking to you!