Kelly has a serious side too, you maybe could tell, and this one moved me
She says:
I originally made this video back in May of this year but reposting it today after reading some of the comments on my daily post about aging souls still feeling young. This is one of my favorites that I’ve made and thought I would reshare for any of my followers who may have not seen it. The comments I received on this video when I originally posted it were incredible and moving ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I had been meaning to say something about the iconographic Brigitte Bardot who has died aged 91 and whose funeral was this week and for quite some time before I wanted to out down what I had thought about her but never really got around to it as she meant nothing to me and now she has passed it doesn’t sit well to speak ill of the dead. But to paraphrase Bette Davis in the death of Joan Crawford “one should not speak ill of the dead only good. Crawford is dead!
Good!”
Racist, ant-feminist, anti- trans and still married at the time of her death to Jean Marie Le Pen’ Machiavellian spin doctor and darling of the fascist right Bernard d’Ormale.
Suffice to say I just didn’t ‘get’ her! Not sure the British ever did. She seemed like some exotic creature from another planet as indeed France might just as well have been. She always seemed inherently ‘other'
At 16 (1950) she made the cover of Elle magazine and several times afterward. Serially promiscuous from the age of 15 when she seems to have been groomed by film director Roger Vadim (she claimed lovers in the hundreds!) her parents did indeed step in and told the couple they had to wait until she was 18 (sic), married three times in her twenties, it seems she was abused early on (horsewhipping a parenting technique from her mother!) but made much of her sexuality as being some kind of stand against the world and from this hugely dysfunctional family background she had seemingly no maternal instinct whatsoever and indeed seems to have become a largely wholly dysfunctional adult preferring animals to people which has always been a bad sign in terms of social adjustment and psychological personal development. She never appeared to know how many animals she actually owned! Not just domesticated farm rescues but had no idea how many pet cats or dogs she actually housed!
Ultimately extremely right wing (friend to the Le Pen family!) and increasingly intolerant of race, immigration and homosexuality she seemed to have always been out of step with the zeitgeist no matter what the image may have implied. At once only mere surface image and little to no substance politically, ideologically or indeed intellectually
Anti-feminist (anti-me-too movement “hypocrites”, deeply racist (five convictions for incitement to racial hatred), the LGBTQ community anathema to her raging incontinent heterosexuality where her sole ‘gift’ seems to have been a desire to divest herself of her garments at any and every given opportunity, sued by her son and his father (on the publication of her autobiography where she said she would have ‘rather have given birth to a puppy’ - likening the foetus to a cancerous tumour - sic), and after affairs with hundreds by her own calculations, her fourth and final marriage in 1992 was to Bernard d’Ormale, an adviser to National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. They were married at the time of her death.
Paul says: I've overhauling the albums I'm posting of the Small Faces performing for the BBC. Previously, I'd posted two albums, but I've found enough material for three. Here's the third and final album in this overhaul.
"Colour Me Pop" was the BBC's first serious attempt to make a TV show for rock concerts. About 50 episodes were aired in 1968 and 1969. This should be an incredible treasure trove of music, since most of the musical acts involved were never properly filmed, and many don't even have any decent live recordings. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the episodes were lost, since the BBC didn't bother keeping copies. Only about five full episodes have survived. Luckily for us, one of those is the Small Faces episode. That makes up the bulk of this album.
In case you're curious, you can see the list of "Colour Me Pop" episodes here. (It pains me to think of all the great music that was lost!)
At the time of this concert, the Small Faces had just released "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake," their most acclaimed studio album. Their "Colour Me Pop" episode almost entirely consisted of songs from this album. Unfortunately, it seems all the songs in it consisted of live vocals sung to the record versions. But I still think it's worthy due to those vocals, especially given the paucity of live recordings by this band. Also, the live vocals include the banter between songs by comedian Stanley Unwin, who talked in kind of a strange version of English that he invented. I suspect this is probably the only time the band performed these songs with him, as I highly doubt he went on tour with them.
The "Colour Me Pop" episode makes up tracks three through 17. I've added three more songs for two reasons. One, the album is rather short, and those give it a more reasonable length. But also, different versions of these songs were included on "Volume 2." I figure it's better to put them here, so one doesn't have two versions of the same song on one album. Unfortunately, these songs were also only live vocals added to the studio versions! So every single song on the album is like that.
Two of these three extra songs were from BBC TV shows. But the third, "Itchycoo Park," comes from a French TV show. The bonus track, "(If You Think You're) Groovy," also comes from that same French show. The reason it's a bonus track is because the lead vocals were by soul singer P.P. Arnold. However, the song was actually written by Small Faces lead vocalist Steve Marriott, who was romantically involved with Arnold around this time. And all the singing and playing was done by the Small Faces, other than Arnold's lead vocals. So it still is very relevant to this band, enough to justify bonus track status, at least.
Everything here is unreleased, I believe. The sound quality is excellent. The vocals were low for the two French TV show ones, but I fixed that using the MVSEP program.
This album is 34 minutes long.
01 Tin Soldier [Live Vocals Only] 02 Itchycoo Park [Live Vocals Only] 03 Song of a Baker [Live Vocals Only] 04 talk 05 Happiness Stan [Live Vocals Only] 06 talk 07 Rollin' Over [Live Vocals Only] 08 talk 09 The Hungry Intruder [Live Vocals Only] 10 talk 11 The Journey [Live Vocals Only] 12 talk 13 Mad John [Live Vocals Only] 14 talk 15 Happy Days Toy Town [Live Vocals Only] 16 talk 17 Happy Days Toy Town [Reprise] [Live Vocals Only] 18 The Universal [Live Vocals Only]
[If You Think You're] Groovy [Live Vocals Only] [Edit] (P. P. Arnold & the Small Faces)
Small Faces - "Song Of A Baker" - BBC Colour Me Pop ~ 1968
These Immortal SoulsStep Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits
These Immortal Souls - You Can’t Unring A Bell
[Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits, 1995]
Line-up: Rowland S. Howard (vocals, guitars), Genevieve McGuckin (piano, vox continental organ), Harry Howard (bass), Spencer P. Jones (electric guitar), Craig Williamson (drums).
Never the biggest fan but I grant you he has a place in the pantheon of riff kings I guess . . . once the third album came out I gave up . . . . . I have said though the effect the first album had on me when we ALL bought it when it came out . . . I hadn’t heard anything like it, with guitar drums or those soaring vocals which sounded like music from another realm to me
The work we shared recently with the Black Crowe’s shows he is one style heavy blues interpreter I suppose but not in Robert’s league in terms of spreading his talents wider . . . . . . . IMHO
I’ve got a bird that whistles, I’ve got a bird that sings . . . . . .
Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me Beat Club (March 27, 1969).
