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Comments Off on The Who (and Others) Sell Out – Instrument Ads
Whilst we’re no spring chickens here at VoEA we are struggling to recall the favourite pop groups of our collective youth advertising the instruments they used to play, but back in the Swinging Sixties it seems this was a fairly common occurrence.Here...
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Comments Off on Blast-off Girls, Colonel Sanders and The Faded Blue
Here we have a surreal clip of KFC main man Colonel Sanders getting down to the sounds of garage band The Faded Blue in the 1967 film The Blast-off Girls. The film was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis who was best known for creating the “Splatter...
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Comments Off on Jackie Wilson – Mr Excitement
Jackie Wilson’s life seemed to be bound up in equal measures of great success and deep, personal tragedy – even after his death he was initially buried in an unmarked grave and despite a successful career was some $300,000 in debt. Here we take a look...
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Comments Off on Soundhog – Musical Composition, Reappropriation and Reproduction
Following on from yesterday’s ‘Home Taping Didn’t Kill Music’ post and our mention of the legendary EMI Soundhog cassettes we were reminded of the work of one-time mash-upper (is that the correct term for someone who makes mash-ups?),...
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Comments Off on Home Taping Didn’t Kill Music – Cassette Covers
OK. Hands up – who here remembers taping music off the radio back in the day? We admit we were guilty but we contest the charge that we killed music. We lay that one at Simon Cowell’s door. ...
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Comments Off on Christmas Done Got Funky
It’s that time of year again. Noddy Holder is sitting at home watching the royalty cheques come flying through the letter box. Wizzard are still wishing it could be Christmas everyday. And the winner from the singing show is hoping for their first...
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Comments Off on Soul to Soul Concert in Ghana 1971
In March 1971 a large contingent of some of the biggest soul, R&B and jazz stars of the day travelled from the States to Ghana to play a one-off 14 hour concert. This was captured on film and subsequently released as Soul to Soul; a 1971 documentary...
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Comments Off on Just How Did The Stone Roses Get Their Name?
We’ve been big fans of The Stone Roses since the release of their eponymous debut album way back when and with their forthcoming reunion coming up this seems particularly apposite. We had always worked on the assumption (as we believe most fans had)...
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Paul Nicholas Run Shaker Life
Paul Nicholas, for those of us old enough to recall his most successful TV role, is best remembered as Vince Pinner, the ‘lovable rough diamond’ in John Sullivan’s pre-Only Fools & Horses sitcom Just Good Friends. He’s enjoyed a...
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Comments Off on Vintage Recording Studio Gear
We’re not going to pretend we know much about Vintage recording studio gear – because we don’t. We just like these Sixties and Seventies magazine adverts for the images and designs, the cool fonts and the bizarre slogans like “The...
