Glenn Evans

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12 Mar

"The Preacher", a track from the 2016 LP and CD, "You Twisted My Mind". youtu.be/Cld6LtuSDpw?...

Ray Anthony....a 4 track EP from a more elegant age.

English opera was not particularly popular in Edwardian England when Ralph Vaughan Williams first conceived the idea of 'Hugh The Drover' and the composer did not rush to complete the work; it was not performed professionally for the first time until 1924.

It premiered at Her Majesty's Theatre with Tudor Davies as Hugh and Mary Lewis as Mary. The libretto was written by Harold Child. This recording is from the 1970s and features Sheila Armstrong and Robert Tear in the lead roles.

People sometimes ask me why I took up the drums; the answer is that I had aspirations when I was young - I thought that, one day, with a lot of work and some luck, this just might be me.............

A few minutes ago I posted a very tasteless joke about elephants. This joke included the F-word. This is not a word to be used in polite society and I now realise that some people may have found this offensive and I would now like to sincerely apologise to any cunt who was upset by this.

Q. Where does an elephant keep his sex organs? A. In his foot. Because if he steps on you, you're fucked! Boom boom! I got a million of 'em.

An Englishman decides to have his wife killed - as you do - so he contacts a hit-man. "How much?" "Well guv'nor, we've got a special on this week. I can do the job for a pound"

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So he sneaks up behind her and strangles her to death. Unfortunately, just as he's finishing her off, the store manager comes round the corner so Arthur thinks 'better not leave any witnesses' - so he strangles the store manager too.

Unfortunately, at that moment, three off duty policemen come into the aisle, see Arthur standing over the two corpses and arrest him on the spot. The next day, the headline in the paper reads: "ARTIE CHOKES .. TWO FOR A POUND AT SAINSBURY'S"

An Englishman decides to have his wife killed - as you do - so he contacts a hit-man. "How much?" "Well guv'nor, we've got a special on this week. I can do the job for a pound"

"Excellent. She shops at Sainsbury's every Wednesday morning. Here's her description. You can knock her off then". So, the following Wednesday, the hit-man - whose name is Arthur - goes down to Sainsbury's and, sure enough, there she is, in the pet food aisle.

George Wright lugs his huge organ down to the sands and, with a bevy of beauties behind him, belts out the classics from 'South Pacific'. Go George.

Hori Brennan founded the Ngararanui Maori Cultural Group in Rotorua in July 1972 and this album of Maori songs was released on the iconic NZ Viking label in 1973. Ngararanui is a sub-tribe of the Arawa Confederation and its village is situated on the western shores of Lake Rotorua.

The tribal village is known as Waiteti and the tribe claim direct descent from legendary lovers Hinemoa and Tutanekei.

After his success with Page One records in the 1960s - the label that launched the Troggs - producer Larry Page launched the successor, Penny Farthing Records. Their biggest success came from Dutch super pop group Shocking Blue but they diversified into pop and easy listening as well.

This album, 'Sleepy Shores', comes from orchestra leader Johnny Pearson. Pearson had a huge hit with the title track in 1973 - prior to that he had been a prime mover, with John Schroeder, in launching Sounds Orchestral and their 'Cast Your Fate To The Wind'.

In the 1970s Pearson became leader of the Top Of The Pops studio orchestra.

Many and varied were the excesses attributed to 1970s disco music but none was greater than the remarkable Eine Kleine Disco Band who set the sounds of Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven and others to a disco pop beat with no regard at all for the sensitivities and sensibilities of classical music.

As if that wasn't enough, the Eine Kleine Disco Band then released their masterpiece on garish red vinyl - so dust off your powdered wig and hose, get down and boogie! Rock me Amadeus!

In "Old Dogs And Children And Watermelon Wine", Tom T Hall sings "the man who ran the bar was watching Ironsides on TV" and it has always slightly bugged me that he says "Ironsides" instead of "Ironside"

First rule of drumming: ALWAYS HAVE SPARE STICKS WITHIN ARM'S REACH. I once dropped a stick during a drum solo at a festival gig in front of a few thousand people. Grabbed another, carried on, didn't miss a beat and...I don't THINK anyone noticed 😃 Musicians: What's been your worst stage mishap?

Watching "Life On Mars" and "Live And Let Die' came on Sam's radio and as soon as McCartney sang "When you were you were young and your heart was an open book you used to say live and let live".. .. and Mrs Vinylsol and I both immediately went "You know you did, you know you did, you know you did!"

"Relaxing With Perry Como". But she's relaxing by herself - Perry must have popped out to get some more drinks. Black label Australian mono original.

An original 1970 Australian pressing of a classic blues/rock rarity, the first album from the Detroit quartet who hit the big-time with a powerful hard hitting remake of 'House Of The RIsing Sun'.

Decca released hundreds of albums in their 'World Of' series and although they were of varying quality the three 'World Of Blues Power' records were amongst their finest. This is volume three, the hardest to find.

It features classic tracks from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Peter Green, Eric Clapton, Keef Hartley, Savoy Brown, Champion Jack Dupree with Mickey Baker, Ten Years After, Homesick James, Robert Nighthawk and Eddie Boyd. This is a red label original.

Elvis Costello's powerful, melodic and angry second album, 1978, his first with the Attractions. An Australian original with inner sleeve and the addition of the non-LP classic 'Watching The Detectives'. Elvis is King!!

In 1968 English bluesman John Mayall released two albums of performances taken from sixty hours of 1967 Bluesbreakers club recordings. The lineup of the Bluesbreakers at was Mayall with Mick Taylor (guitar), Keith Tillman (bass), Keef Hartley (drums) and Chris Mercer & Dick Heckstall-Smith (sax).

Taylor had replaced Peter Green and was about to join the Rolling Stones while Hartley left to form the Keef Hartley Band. This album is Volume 2 and is an original Australian red label stereo pressing in flipback sleeve.

After a hard day's work nothing hits the spot like putting on your best bikini and popping yourself down into a nice warm popcorn bath - preferably in front of a giant synthesizer. Another 1974 electro/pop classic by the Fantastic Pikes (who, no doubt, didn't do stadium tours).

Allison Durbin's "I Have Loved Me A Man" LP, 1968, renamed (after her followup single) and packaged by the Australian World Record Club with the artwork changed - they reduced the number of colours to save money. Backing played by the Quincy Conserve, produced by Howard Gable

The Latin Souls' very soulful, funky and groovy 1968 classic "Tiger Boo-Ga-Loo". This is the rarely seen 1970 Australian MCA pressing.

"Surely this film doesn't have a soundtrack album?" "Yes it does.....and don't call me Shirley"

Making a living in music is virtually impossible so, in 1992, I did the next best thing. I opened a record store. Over the next 25 years I bought and sold a lot of LPs, heard some fantastic music and made some good friends. I closed it in 2019.

"Welcome to my lair, Mister Bond"

My lovely 1970s Premier.

I've been working hard ALL DAY on songs for the new album. Well, all afternoon anyway. Well, from 3 till 5:30 anyway. With a half hour tea break. And a whisky.

Bikinis and synthesizers....an unbeatable combination from the delightfully named Fantastic Pikes; volume two of their presentation of cherry pop hits of the seventies.

A suitably groovy cover for Bill Ramal and his Teen Swingers as they play Young America's Soundtrack Favourites.

The sweeping desert theme from 'Lawrence Of Arabia', by Maurice Jarre, one of the most recognizable pieces of film music ever written. This is an original mono pressing of Jarre's score from the classic David Lean movie. Jarre later scored the equally famous 'Dr Zhivago', again for Lean.

Australia's cultural attache, Sir Les Patterson, charged with presenting the very best face of Australian culture to the rest of the world - a task he performs with dignity, style, elegance and only minor spillage.

In 'The Man Who Fell To Earth', made in 1976, David Bowie plays an alien who comes to earth & makes a fortune by patenting a revolutionary new film technique that enables you to take photographs and see the prints WITHOUT HAVING TO SEND THEM AWAY TO BE DEVELOPED! Amazing. That'll never happen 😃

Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes You closed your cover before striking Father had the ship fitter blues Loving you has made me bananas

Caramba! It's time to party! It's time to dance! It's time to samba! An Italian Baby Records pressing from Los Joao. Disco down!

Jenny Morris shot to fame as a member of the Crocodiles, with the classic hit 'Tears' and, by the mid-80s, had launched a successful solo career in Australia. In between times, she played in the Sydney-based synth-pop group QED - this is the very rare CD issue of their 1984 album 'Animal Magic'.

Spanish/American bandleader Xavier Cugat; terrific rhythms from the master bandleader in a beautifully designed 10inch album.

The Moody Blues were - as their name implies - originally one of the hundreds of blues based beat bands thrown up by Britain in the early 1960s but, after one hit with 'Go Now' and one largely uninspired album, singer Denny Laine - later of Wings - left and the group appeared a little rudderless.

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...to be shown off to full effect on the label's new Deram label. This story has since been disputed but whether true or not, the Moody Blues decided to plow their own furrow anyway, recording, a loosely structured concept that had been part of their stage show.

The recordings featured songs by the band along with orchestral interludes created by Peter Knight and is considered to be one of the first progressive concept albums. Released in November 1967, it set the path for the band's subsequent career and featured Hayward's iconic "Nights In White Satin".