DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS on the YOUNG ONES 'Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)’ | For Helen O’Hara ‘Whats She Like’ a memoir | ROUTE BOOKS

 DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS on the YOUNG ONES 

Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)

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Dexys Midnight Runners perform ‘Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)’ on The Young Ones. Read all about it (and Jocky Wilson* ) in 'Whats She Like' A memoir by Helen O'Hara. Pre-order here: http://www.route-online.com/all-books/whats-she-like.html

* and explaining who Jocky Wilson was . . . . . . he was a rather unprepossessing darts player from the North of England! Hence the joke of getting confused between Jackie Wilson and Jocky!

Go on turn it up anyway!

I always wanted to know where such an exotic excitingly named place as TUCUMCARI was . . . . .

THE AMERICAN DREAM

And I guess I knew it was on Route 66 but I had rose tinted spectacles when first hearing about the music and places of the USA. I still had them when first visiting places like San Francisco and finally New York that came as a revelation and were truly great . . . no need to make it great again Lil Donny Drumpf! 

Now in my head it all looks like this

ROUTE 66

I guess it may not be like this now ( or certainly parts may have improved but this depressed me no end!)

no credit given! If you know otherwise please let me know and I will post the source and photographer

again think I found it and its from

Dead Motels USA

Linda about sums up what I thought about Tucumcari!

Written by the legend that was Lowell George 

you just know if you gave me weed, whites and wine . . . . . 

I might just make it there

The Notting Hillbillies - Newcastle UK - "SWAN HUNTER"- Benefit Concert 1993 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP | XRay

The Notting Hillbillies - 1993-07-06, Newcastle - "SWAN HUNTER”

- Benefit Concert

 

Xray says:

"The Notting Hillbillies - 1993-07-06, Newcastle - "SWAN HUNTER"- 

Benefit concert, limited edition - STUNNING SOUNDBOARD!!- 

with "So Far Away" calypso version! City Hall, Newcastle UK 

1993-07-06  

(Swan Hunter Shipbuilding Benefit Concert).

• 01.  Intro    
• 02.  Calling Elvis      
• 03.  So Far Away (Calypso Version !!)      
• 04.  Your Own Sweet Way    
• 05.  Run Me Down    
• 06.  Why Worry (known by the Notting Hillbillies as "Why Bother")    
• 07.  Railroad Worksong    
• 08.  Feel Like Going Home    
• 09.  Setting Me Up      
• 10.  Outro 
• (total time: 42 minutes)

The Notting Hillbillies:

• Mark Knopfler: guitars and vocals
• Brendan Crocker: guitars and vocals 
• Steve Phillips:  guitars and vocals
• Alan Clark : piano and keyboards (ex Dire Straits member )
• Marcus Cliffe : bass
• Ed Bicknell : drums

This is the Swan Hunter Benefit concert in Newcastle 1993. 

Taken from the original silver pressed bootleg "Swan Hunter". 

Excellent calypso version of "So Far Away", very unique! 

The sound is perfect and the performance is top quality. 

Alan Clark on keyboards instead of Guy Fletcher. 

A must for all........... Highly recommended!"

Delaney and Bonnie on Tour (with Friends) - Only You Know and I Know | jt1674

 A favourite Dave Mason song . . . . . 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/785242057502588928/only-you-know-and-i-know

Abandoned Playboy ‘mansion’ USA

 

I double checked but could find no credit* for these which were posted on a site that I found and they seemed to sum up what I thought about the current state of play in my friendly  Merkins homeland!!

Abandoned playboy mansion from 1972.

The 5,600 sq.ft. Tiki Palace - in Chattanooga, Tennessee

* if you know who these are by or where they were first posted then please let me know and I would be happy to post (or reluctantly remove) it has been removed from the Reddit page where I found it!

UPDATE : Found it from Abandoned South East

who says: You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. If you would like to receive the Abandoned Southeast blog in your email, you can sign up on the main page. For more amazing, abandoned places check out my photography books available through Amazon and Arcadia Publishing.

and on someone’s Instagram page going by :

historyphotographed

Tour the World via the Hotel Stationery Bob Dylan Wrote Songs On PART TWO | RAY PADGETT Flaggin' Down The Double Es

Tour the World via the Hotel Stationery Bob Dylan Wrote Songs On — Continued

Part 2: The Rest of the World

RAY PADGETT

JUN 03, 2025

 Sociedad Bilbaina gentlemen’s club for Rolling Stone promoting Tempest

Today, the second part of our World Tour of all the locations where Bob Dylan wrote songs on hotel stationery. This part travels outside North America, to songs written in hotels in the UK, Europe, and beyond.

(If you missed part one, I would definitely start there. It explains the premise—which probably does require some explanation.)

Onward in our journey…

Stop 6: London, England
Hotel: The May Fair
Song: “It Ain’t Me, Babe”

This is the only version I can find showing the flipside as well; ignore the unrelated ticket stub. via Flickr

When was he there?

We leave North America for our first visit overseas, and the second-earliest lyrics we will see, after last entry’s “Chimes of Freedom.” Unlike many of these hotels, the May Fair looms large in Dylan lore. He most famously stayed there in 1966, giving a press conference and doing a photoshoot in one of its rooms. Many well-known Dylan photos come from that May Fair stay. How well-known? I can think of six Dylan books that use May Fair 1966 photos on the cover:

 

But that Mayfair Hotel stay won’t come until 1966, a few years after “It Ain’t Me Babe.” He first stayed at the May Fair in 1962, when he was put up there by the BBC while in town to film Madhouse on Castle St. He wasn’t there long though—the hotel kicked him out. From The Guardian:

[Albert] Grossman was already in London, along with the singer Odetta, and saw Dylan put up in the raffish Mayfair Hotel near Berkeley Square.… Dylan moved from the Mayfair after complaints about his strumming his guitar in the lobby and according to Phillip Saville, “he was also having problems with his smoking habit and the management of the hotel sort of lent on his manager, Grossman, and indeed Bob, and asked if he would refrain from that kind of smoking.”

Bob didn’t hold it against them, apparently. This “It Ain’t Me Babe” draft comes from a visit in between those two, in Spring 1964, when he was in town for his performance at the Royal Festival Hall (a show I wrote about here). In fact, he first performed “It Ain’t Me, Babe” live at that very show—right after he’d been writing it at the hotel!

From the Sociedad Bilbaina not far from his hotel a Gentleman Only Club though guess you don’t refuse Bob!

Read on here . . . .  

It Ain't Me, Babe (Live at Royal Festival Hall, London, UK - May 1964)