Song of The Day | Sarah Jane - Listen People [Graham Gouldman] | Guess I’m Dumb

Sarah Jane - Listen People (1966)

"Sarah Jane released just one single, this hushed, haunting baroque take on a song written by Graham Gouldman (10CC, and many hits of the 60s).” Guess I’m Dumb 

Everybody’s got to lose somebody sometime

‘Black Night’ - Green on Red (1982) | GUESS I’M DUMB

Green on Red - Black Night (1982)

"The word menacing comes to mind while listening to Green on Red’s 1982 mini-LP - earlier on in their career, they were much darker and eerie.  “ Guess I’m Dumb

I saw children in the air 

Colin Blunstone - I Won’t Let You Down | Guess I’m Dumb

Colin Blunstone - I Won’t Let You Down (1971)

"One of the wonderful demos recorded for Colin Blunstone’s debut solo LP One Year."

What this Weekend needs is some Afro 70! | Afro 70 Band - ‘Weekend' (1972) | Guess I’m Dumb

Afro 70 Band - Week End (1972)

Clearly the “weekend” is a universal experience. Wonderful guitar music from Tanzanian legend Patrick Balisidya and his Afro 70 Band.

Tindersticks - Marbles | Guess I’m Dumb

• Track Name

  Marbles

• Artist

  Tindersticks

guessimdumb:

Tindersticks - Marbles (1993)

"I’ve probably posted this song at least once but it randomly came up while I was driving yesterday, and I was transported.

You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps
Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally

This makes three times, actually.” Guess Im Dumb

Sounds of the past | The Louvin Bros - Must You Throw Dirt In My Face - (Guess I’m Dumb) vs The Delmore Brothers ( + Wayne Raney) Red Ball To Natchez

 I always placed the Louvin Brothers behind The Delmore Brothers (especially with Wayne Raney!) but they are worth a listen always. I liked this one from later in 1962 . . . . . 

The Louvin Brothers - Must You Throw Dirt In My Face (1962)

Their last hit single before they broke up. 

Why must you come back now and haunt me?

The Louvin Bros - Must You Throw Dirt In My Face - Guess I’m Dumb

Why do I prefer the Delmore Brothers and Wayne Raney?

This . . . . from earlier in the late forties!

Red Ball To Natchez!

Wayne RANEY and The Delmore Brothers 

Raney was born on a farm with a foot deformity and could not do heavy labor. After learning to play harmonica at an early age, he moved to Piedras Negras, Mexico at age 13, where he played on radio station XEPN. He met Lonnie Glosson, his longtime musical associate, in 1936, and together they found work on radio in Little Rock in 1938. Later the pair worked for WCKY out of Cincinnati and played on syndicated radio. They also established a harmonica mail order business which ended up being enormously successful; they sold millions of harmonicas and played a major role in turning the harmonica into a widely popular instrument. Raney played with the Delmore Brothers in the years after World War II, then launched a solo career in 1948; his first two singles, "Lost John Boogie" and "Jack and Jill Boogie", both reached the Top 15 of the U.S. country charts. His 1949 single, "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me", was a #1 country hit and also hit the Top 40 of the pop charts. Raney played the Grand Ole Opry in 1953 and also worked on the California Hayride and the WWVA Jamboree. Late in the 1950s he worked as a DJ, record producer, and label owner, starting Rimrock Records. He wrote the Christian revival song "We Need a Whole Lot More of Jesus (And a Lot Less Rock and Roll)" which has been covered by numerous artists in a variety of styles: People!, The Greenbriar Boys and Linda Rondstadt, to name but three. He recorded country music into the early 1960s, including for his own label, and ceased the mail-order business in 1960. After returning to Arkansas, he recorded a gospel album called Don't Try to Be What You Ain't. Eventually he went into semi-retirement, running his own chicken farm and performing only occasionally in the late 1960s and 1970s. While he appeared sporadically on Hee Haw in the 1970s, he lost his voice in the 1980s and ceased performing; in 1990 he published an autobiography entitled Life Has Not Been a Bed of Roses. He died of cancer in 1993.

 

FRANÇOISE HARDY : IL VOYAGE 1969 | Guess I’m Dumb/disquenfrance

• Track Name

  il voyage

• Artist

  françoise hardy

disquenfrance:

françoise hardy - il voyage

Même un mauvais titre de celle là reste au dessus de la mêlée. Ou alors c’est carrément de l’aveuglement de ma part,mais concédez, il est difficile de ne pas l’être.

Françoise Hardy - Il Voyage (1969)

Françoise Hardy’s discography is sometimes difficult to figure out - this wonderful song is hidden on an EP released shortly before she left Disque Vogue label.

Et ni vu ni connu il disparaît, il n'est plus là

We haven’t really looked at this lassie much either . . . . I had been trying to find a quote of hers about beauty where somewhat disingenuously I felt she had stated that it is all illusion created by the record company, the designers and the A&R people . . . . . .check her out she is of course STUNNING!

Freddie McKay - When I Am Grey (1971) | Guess I’m Dumb

Freddie McKay - When I Am Grey (1971)

Guess I’m says: "Sadly reggae singer Freddie McKay never got old and grey, dying of a heart attack at age 39. Still, he left behind some great tracks, including this one, recorded with Coxsone Dodd at Studio One. It’s got such a cool sound."

not wrong this is great! 

Boys Will Be Boys! Row in a Trenchtown! \ Lee Scratch Perry vs Joe Gibbs |thanks to Guess I’m Dumb

Lee (King) Perry! - People Funny Boy

People Grudgeful

Sir Gibbs 

Sir Gibbs - People Grudgeful (1968)

Producer Joe Gibbs' answer song to Lee Perry's People Funny Boy. It's probably the Pioneers actually singing, though it has been long rumored to be the Ethiopians.

You can walk and talk But me no care at all

guessimdumb

#Sir Gibbs#People Grudgeful#Joe Gibbs#People Funny Boy#Lee Scratch Perry

Pearl Harbor and The Explosions : You Got It!/ Up and Over | Guess I’m Dumb (mostly!)

 Guess I’m Dumb posted this and their notes are below and like them I really enjoyed this track but here is an accompanying one as well. . . . . . really worth checking out marriage to Paul Simenon notwithstanding!

San Francisco New wave band Pearl Harbor and the Explosions got a lot of attention for a bit, but when singer Pearl E. Gates moved to the UK and married Paul Simonon, the band imploded.  Honestly, I wasn’t particularly impressed with the band, but I did really like this song, which is more power pop than anything.

#Pearl Harbor and the Explosions#You Got It (Release It)#Pearl E.Gates#Pearl Harbor & the Explosions #UpandOver

R.I.P Karl Wallinger [66] - World Party | Guess I’m Dumb

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World Party - Ship of Fools (live) (1996)

R.I.P. Karl Wallinger

Karl Wallinger interview and article - Strange Brew Magazine

Robyn Hitchcock - Round Song (2003) | GUESS I’M DUMB

 

Robyn Hitchcock - Round Song (2003)

"This one must’ve slipped past me when it was released back in 2003. “ 

I remember all too suddenly

Doesn’t seem to want to play on any media tho’ can’t see why here try this

https://youtu.be/XIqLHwlNykI?si=RNdD2gSka1g86rwo

Thanks as ever to Guess I’m Dumb

Song (and Artist) of the Day Kevin Ayers - Thank You Very Much | Guess I’m Dumb!

Kevin Ayers - Thank You Very Much (1992)

Originally recorded in 1974 as the b-side of After the Show, this wonderful version was rerecorded in 1992 for Still Life With Guitar. While the original was very spare, this adds some tasteful and minimal instrumentation.

And the taste of your kiss
I remember and miss
But at least now I know
What it’s like to have kissed you

A favourite song (and album) and with always a sneaky regard for Kevin for all that troubled time so long ago it seems now and the naughty boy of intellectual pop with the richest baritone is always worth a reminder ( ask John Cale for whom the opening line at least is pertinent of his legendary ‘Guts’ about whom it is written!)

 

Donovan : TURQUOISE | Guess I'm Dumb

• Track Name

  Turquoise 

• Artist

  Donovan

Donovan - Turquoise (1965)

"Perfect music for a Sunday morning."

With my eyes and ears and heart strained to the full 

Dude, it’s Thursday?!! Perfick for them ‘uns too!

Song for a Sunday : From 'Once Upon a Dream' by the Rascals : SATTVA (1968) | GUESS I’M DUMB

The Rascals - Sattva (1968)

If Once Upon a Dream was supposed to be the Rascals’ Sgt Pepper’s, then Sattva is Within Without You. Although George’s song never broke into a wonderful soul section in the middle of his tune. Kind of reminds me of Traffic’s fist LP. Very cool stuff, and the Rascals were actually playing the sitar, tamboura and tabla.

All the colours melting softly at my feet

Far from “dumb" they have found another extraordinary gem from The Rascals no less. I had always thought them somewhat straight until John Northcote (yes that John Northcote! he KNEW his music second to none!) turned me onto the more adult experimental work but must have missed this one!

Staggering stuff and as ‘Guess' points out they were actually playing the instruments here!

 

Sounds of The Day : The Wedding Present - Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm (1988)| Guess I’m Dumb

The Wedding Present - Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm (1988)

What about those secret smiles that you were giving to him?

Singles of The Day :: JOE TEX - YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT BABY! (1966) | Guess I’m Dumb

You Better Believe It BabyJoe Tex

Joe Tex - You Better Believe It Baby (1966)

Yes, that opening guitar part does sound like Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman. Nonetheless, the rest of the song is some greasy southern R&B.

n if’n the link don’t work . . . . why paste your own . . .so I did! check that opening riff . . . . . 

More Sounds of the Day | DUCK’S DELUXE ‘Love’s Melody’ (1974) | GUESS I’M DUMB

Ducks Deluxe - Love’s Melody (1974)

Exquisite power pop from a band known more as a pub rock band. Songwriter Andy McMaster and bass player Nick Garvey left to form the Motors. Also, the Searchers had something of a hit with this same tune in 1980. 

I bought the Motors first album and the single Dancing; The Night Away but missed The Ducks!

link not working try here . . . . . 

THE MOTORS : DANCIN’ THE NIGHT AWAY

single (pic sleeve!) bought when it came out!

Shane MacGowan and The Popes with Sinead O’Connor | plus some classic MacGowan . . . . . .

JUST BECAUSE . . . 

Rest easy now you two

R.I.P  SHANE MacGOWAN 

Shane and Sinead - ‘Haunted'  (Song from Sid & Nancy) written by Shane

(Thanks to the always brilliant International Times)

and this from the always fascinating Guess I’m Dumb!

• Track Name

  Sally Maclennane

• Album

  Rum Sodomy & the Lash

• Artist

  The Pogues

GUESS I’M DUMB

Sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey ‘cause I’m going far away
I’d like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane

R.I.P. Shane

Shane MacGowan by Andrew Catlin.

Dirty Old Town

Rainy Night In Soho

Some folks on Facebook and elsewhere asked me why I favoured the work of Shane wasn’t he just a punk drunk ex-pat Irishman!!? did you say that of Brendan Behan? Welshman Dylan Thomas? The answer is no he was a poet . . . . . . . .

I’ve been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I’ve cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways

We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms

I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song?
To all those little girls and boys

Sometimes I’d wake up in the morning
The ginger lady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I’d hear you talking in my head

I’m not singing for the future
I’m not dreaming of the past
I’m not talking of the first times
I never think about the last

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there’s a light I hold before me
You’re the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

A Rainy Night in Soho

Shane MacGowan